Mireia las Heras Maestro, Nuria Chinchilla Albiol, Marc Grau Grau, "The New Ideal Worker: Organizations Between Work-Life Balance, Gender and Leadership"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030124762 | PDF | pages: 270 | 4.7 mb
Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are "ideal workers". However, this assumption has negative consequences for employees, their families and, more interestingly, for their organizations. This book provides a wealth of empirical evidence from around the globe, as well as innovative conceptual frameworks, to help practitioners and researchers alike to go beyond the classic notion of the "ideal worker" and to rethink what companies actually need from their employees. As it demonstrates, doing so will be beneficial for countless men and women, and for society at large.
Robert Wald Sussman, "The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 067466003X | PDF | pages: 385 | 1.4 mb
Biological races do not exist―and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today.
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: a requiem for the office by Gideon Haigh
English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 1913348709 | 144 pages | EPUB | 1.18 MB
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?
The Modern Art of Figure Drawing - And Pinups: Merging Digital and Traditional Techinques Together in Sketching, Drawing & Painting the Figure by Derek K Matters
English | February 4, 2016 | ISBN: 1523885211 | 70 pages | PDF | 8.33 Mb
The Art of Figure Drawing & Pin-ups The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. See a series of mixed digital and traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. With more than 150 original drawings including sketches and step by step visual breakdowns of his process, this book is sure to spark the creative process of both beginners, professionals and casual art admirers.
Carys Davies, "The Mission House"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1982144831 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1.55 MB
Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life in the UK, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a former British hill station in South India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and by the familiarity of everything the British have left behind, he finds solace in life's simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing.
Jennifer Howd, "The Mindfulness Diaries: How I Survived My First Nine-Day Silent Meditation Retreat"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0991252306 | 136 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB
Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for two and a half years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent meditation retreat. In this debut memoir in "The Mindfulness Diaries" series, she chronicles the humorous-and often harrowing-adventures of the dueling inner voices that emerge in the silence: one intent on focusing on the seemingly negative aspects of her experiences, and the other on helping her see the positivity that can come from them. Illuminating for those who are new to mindfulness and resonant for those with established practices, The Mindfulness Diaries: How I Survived My First Nine-Day Silent Meditation Retreat is a vulnerable, touching, playful peek behind the curtain into the mind of a woman learning how to befriend herself.
Brynn McDowell, "The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy: Fresh, Vibrant Recipes for Better Health"
English | ISBN: 1645670740 | 2020 | EPUB | 192 pages | 214 MB
Healthy Eating Is Simple with This Delicious, Modern Approach to the World's Best Diet
The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival by Steven Rinella
English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 0593129695 | 464 pages | EPUB | 46.35 MB
An indispensable guide to surviving everything from an extended wilderness exploration to a day-long boat trip, with hard-earned advice from the host of the show MeatEater as seen on Netflix
The Mauna Loa: The Largest Volcano in the United States (Natural Wonders) by Christine Webster
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1590361628 | 32 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Discusses Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on earth, located on the island of Hawaii.
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Penguin Modern Classics) by Penguin Classics
English | July 25, 2019 | ISBN: 0241399203 | 416 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon Schama