Alexander C.T. Geppert, "Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War "
English | ISBN: 1349958506 | 2021 | 469 pages | EPUB, PDF | 61 MB + 12 MB
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Migration, Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in Transition by Roli Misra
2020 | ISBN: 9381345473, 9381345546 | English | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Bringing together essays on India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Europe, Migration, Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in Transition offers valuable insights on women's migration and demonstrates how tremendous political upheavals―the partition of India, the creation of Burma or the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia―bring about new geography, demography and economies that are conducive to people's displacement. Immigrants face racial-ethnic stratification, location segregation in ghettoes or camps and difficulties to access economic opportunities, leading usually to downward assimilation. Emphasizing intersectionality between gender and migration, the book highlights women's experiences holistically and also shows how migration is closely aligned to trafficking.
Microbial Safety of Minimally Processed Foods By Vijay K. Juneja, John S. Novak, Gerald M. Sapers
2003 | 357 Pages | ISBN: 1587160412 | PDF | 5 MB
While minimally processed foods satisfy the increasing market demands for foods with fewer preservatives, higher nutritive value, and fresh sensory attributes, there is a greater risk of diseases if they are improperly handled. Microbial Safety of Minimally Processed Foods explores innovative preventative solutions to food-borne diseases from the perspectives of the producer, the handler, the consumer, the food preparer, as well as the food inspector, and researcher.This book provides you with the latest research and insight into assuring the microbial safety of red meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, and bakery products that receive less than stringent sterilizing preparation. It explores and describes the methods used for pathogen detection along with strategies for preventing future pathogen occurrences in the minimally processed foods. The book also provides in-depth evaluations of HACCP regulations and risk assessments of those minimally processed foods. Designed to stimulate the development of increasingly safer foods, Microbial Safety of Minimally Processed Foods details state-of-the-art technologies that have the potential to enhance microbiological safety of minimally processed foods without sacrificing their natural, untreated visual appearance and sensory properties.
Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stake Holders By Michael A. Hitt, Jeffrey S. Harrison, R. Duane Ireland
2001 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 0195112857 | PDF | 14 MB
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend of ''blockbuster'' mergers over the past several years. Once a phenomenon seen primarily in the United States, mergers and acquisitions are increasingly being pursued across national boundaries. In short, acquisition strategies are among the most important corporate-level strategies in the new millennium. The need for clear, complete, and up-to-date guide to successful mergers and acquisitions had never been greater. This book more than fills that need. Looking at successful--and unsuccessful--mergers and acquisitions in a number of different industries, Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value explains how to conduct an acquisition and how to avoid pitfalls that have doomed many such ventures. The authors take the reader step-by-step through the process, starting with the elements of a successful merger, due diligence to ensure that the target firm is sound and fits well with the acquiring firm, and how mergers and acquisitions are financed. They move on to explore how firms find partners/targets for acquisitions that have complementary resources and how to find partners with which integration and synergy can be achieved. Finally, they discuss the potential hazards found in M&A's and how to avoid them, how to conduct successful cross-border acquisitions, and how to ensure that ethical principles aren't breached during the process. Based on 15 years of research, this essential guide goes beyond specific case studies to cover all aspects of these ventures, making it required reading for all managers seeking to build a successful strategy.
Nexhmedin Morina, Angela Nickerson, "Mental Health of Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations: Theory, Research and Clinical Practice"
English | 2018 | pages: 395 | ISBN: 3319970453 | PDF | 5,1 mb
This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV). There are currently hundreds of millions of individuals affected by war and conflict across the globe, and over 68 million people who are forcibly displaced. The field of refugee and post-conflict mental health is growing exponentially, as researchers investigate the factors that impact on psychological disorders in these populations, and design and evaluate new treatments to reduce psychological distress. This volume will be a substantial contribution to the literature on mental health in refugee and post-conflict populations, as it details the state of the evidence regarding the mental health of war survivors living in areas of former conflict as well as refugees and asylum-seekers.
Men to Avoid in Art and Life
By Nicole Tersigni
English | 2020 | ASIN : B08DDKN671 | 86 pages | EPUB | 18.2 MB
Meditation Beginner's Guide Learn Simple yet Powerful Techniques For Inner Peace, Well-Being & Me...
Meditation: Beginner's Guide: Learn Simple yet Powerful Techniques: For Inner Peace, Well-Being & Mental Clarity by Shining Universe Energy
English | May 12, 2017 | ISBN: 1365926699 | 64 pages | PDF | 0.82 Mb
New and Improved - 2nd Edition Align your INNER SELF and harness the UNLIMITED POWER of the conscious and the subconscious mind. Learn one of the world's oldest techniques FOR INNER PEACE, WELL-BEING AND MENTAL CLARITY. A COMPLETE BEGINNERS GUIDE - this book is the perfect start for a newbie into the world of MEDITATION. Written in very simple and easy to understand language, this book will tell you: The History and Background of Meditation Why Meditation is so important even today Different techniques of Meditation Benefits of Meditation With so much chaos and confusion in the world today, Meditation is perhaps an answer and can bring in some sanity. Get this Book NOW and start meditating today!
Media and Health By Professsor Clive Seale
2002 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 0761947299 | PDF | 2 MB
Text demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and how they are not neutral. Brings together the fields of media studies with sociology of health and illness. Discussions include: Media Health and Everyday Life and The Forms of Media Health. Includes references and index. Hardcover, softcover listed in approval week 2003-13.
Neil Safier, "Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America"
English | ISBN: 0226733556, 0226733629 | 2008 | EPUB | 387 pages | 15 MB
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.