The Big Book of Barbecue: Discover Delicious Barbecue Recipes That Taste Absolutely Divine!
by Valeria Ray
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08PS7Y5LR | 69 Pages | EPUB | 16 MB

Maram Masarwi, "The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 3030180867 | 2019 | 171 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society. It seeks to explore the boundaries of the discourse of bereavement and commemoration in that society through the interactive relations between religion, nationality and gender, and the ways these influence the shaping of the mourning process for Palestinian parents who have lost their children in the second (al-Aqsa) Intifada. Over the course of the book's five chapters, Maram Masarwi scrutinizes how these components have shaped the differences in behavior between bereaved fathers and bereaved mothers: what characterizes these differences, how they are expressed, and how they have managed to shape the characteristics of the experience of Palestinian bereavement.

Martha Brill Olcott, "Tajikistan's Difficult Development Path"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0870033034 | PDF | pages: 467 | 8.2 mb

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Lawrence P. Markowitz, "State Erosion: Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0801451876 | PDF | pages: 215 | 2.0 mb
State failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics―Tajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five-year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses in post-Soviet Eurasia―to advance a theory of state failure focused on unlootable resources, rent seeking, and unruly elites.In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries with low capital mobility―where resources cannot be extracted, concealed, or transported to market without state intervention―local elites may control resources, but they depend on patrons to convert their resources into rents. Markowitz argues that different rent-seeking opportunities either promote the cooptation of local elites to the regime or incite competition over rents, which in turn lead to either cohesion or fragmentation. Markowitz distinguishes between weak states and failed states, challenges the assumption that state failure in a country begins at the center and radiates outward, and expands the "resource curse" argument to include cash crop economies, where mechanisms of state failure differ from those involved in fossil fuels and minerals. Broadening his argument to weak states in the Middle East (Syria and Lebanon) and Africa (Zimbabwe and Somalia), Markowitz shows how the distinct patterns of state failure in weak states with immobile capital can inform our understanding of regime change, ethnic violence, and security sector reform.

Susu Liu, "Social Support Networks, Coping and Positive Aging Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly in Hong Kong"
English | ISBN: 9811337829 | 2019 | 205 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 12 MB
The dramatically increasing aging population of Hong Kong has elicited new risks and opportunities to facilitate a positive life for older adults. This book offers a holistic review of gerontological theories and literature, and constructs a conceptual framework of social support networks, coping and positive aging. In light of the implications of the convoy model of social support to depict an indigenous landscape of positive aging in Hong Kong, this is one of the very few empirical studies that adopts both quantitative research and qualitative research. The research consisted of a pilot study of in-depth interviews with 16 older Hong Kong Chinese and a main study surveying 393 older members of District Elderly Community Center. The results of the study indicate that family and peer support constitute the mainstay of support networks of the elderly, and that family and peer support are associated with positive aging. Moreover, the study shows that it is the depth of emotional closeness, namely, close interaction and intimacy with social partners that makes the greatest contribution to positive aging. Additionally, problem coping and emotion coping are found to mediate the relationship between social support networks and positive aging. There is potential in bringing more domestic helpers into elderly care and improving the service quality such that the goal of Aging in Place can be promoted in Hong Kong. Intended for researchers in social work, gerontology and positive psychology, it is also essential reading for graduates and social work professionals interested in this area. This book makes a valuable contribution to social gerontological research among Hong Kong older adults and the promotion of wellbeing in the elderly via the construct of positive aging in the culture of Chinese society.

Eric C. Schneider, "Smack: Heroin and the American City"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 081222180X | PDF | pages: 276 | 14.2 mb
Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award for 2008 from the Urban History Association

Simply Seafood: Delicious Seafood Recipes by BookSumo Press
English | August 5, 2016 | ISBN: 1536917109 | 74 pages | PDF | 0.82 Mb
All Seafood. All the Time. Welcome to Simply Seafood.

Simple coding by The Open University
English | December 12, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B082Y6FY6H | 32 pages | PDF | 0.29 Mb
Have you ever wanted to try out simple coding? Want to understand the basics of what it entails? This course introduces you to the skills, concepts and jargon of coding.

David Hulme, "Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0745686060 | PDF | pages: 64 | 0.7 mb
In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.

Allen J. Coombes, Rob Hume, George C. McGavin, Chris Gibson, Neil Fletcher, "RSPB Wildlife of Britain"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1405329327 | PDF | pages: 514 | 165.2 mb

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