A. A. Long, "Greek Models of Mind and Self"
English | 2015 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 067472903X | PDF | 1,2 mb
This lively book offers a wide-ranging study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood from Homer through Descriptioninus. A. A. Long anchors his discussion in questions of recurrent and universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long asks when and how these questions emerged in ancient Greece, and shows that Greek thinkers' modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by, such as the rule of reason or enslavement to passion. He also interrogates the less familiar Greek notion of the intellect's divinity, and asks what that might mean for us.

Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the Wto: The Protection of Legitimate Expectations, Good Faith Interpretation and Fair Dispute Settlement By Marion Panizzon
2006 | 434 Pages | ISBN: 1841136204 | PDF | 2 MB
What does the concept of good faith express? This book is the first to discuss what good faith means in international trade law. As a reference guide for scholars and practitioners it analyses the case law of WTO dispute settlement practice. The book describes how, why and when the concept of good faith links the WTO Agreements with other public international norms. The concept of good faith appears frequently in treaties and customary rules, but is most often considered a general principle of law. WTO law uses the corrolaries of pacta sunt servanda, the prohibition of abus de droit and the protection of legitimate expectation alongside the principle of good faith. An analysis of GATT 1947 and WTO case law reveals that the function of good faith varies. The Panel reports and the Appellate Body decisions make different use of it. The Appellate Body is prepared to apply the principle to WTO provisions only, while Panels use it more freely and substantively; that is, they apply good faith to fill lacunae in any of the WTO covered agreements. Also, adjudicators use the principle differently, depending on whether it relates to the agreements covered by the WTO or the procedural law of WTO dispute settlement. As it applies to the former, good faith is used to strike a balance between, on the one hand, the obligation to liberalise trade, and on the other hand, the right to invoke an exception to trade liberalisation for the protection of the environment, culture, public morals, human life or health. In this way, good faith safeguards the gains of multilateral trade liberalisation against unlawful interests such as disguised protectionism. The book also introduces the novel field of WTO procedural law governing trade dispute litigation. In the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), good faith appears in the standard of review, rules of evidence and fact-finding, standing, duty of prior consultation, right of establishment of a panel, ex officio investigations, withdrawal of notices of appeal, and the raising of objections. In all these areas it ensures that the rules of dispute resolution are not abused. The Appellate Body has even gone so far as to derive a new standard from the principle of good faith that demands that disputes are settled fairly, promptly and effectively. Insights into good faith in WTO law are not only important for trade law professionals. Current applications and future operations of the principle are likely to be of strategic value for answering the increasingly pressing question of how WTO law and other international agreements ought to be reconciled.

Masoud Kalali, "GlassFish Security: Secure your GlassFish installation, Web applications, EJB applications, application client module, and Web Services using Java EE and GlassFish security measures"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1847199380 | 296 pages | PDF | 4,9 MB
Security was, is, and will be one of the most important aspects of Enterprise Applications and one of the most challenging areas for architects, developers, and administrators. It is mandatory for Java EE application developers to secure their enterprise applications using Glassfish security features.

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt
English | December 8th, 2020 | ISBN: 006298764X | 256 pages | EPUB | 1.66 MB
"One of the year's must-reads." -ELLE

German Agriculture in Transition?: Society, Policies and Environment in a Changing Europe by Geoff A. Wilson and Olivia J. Wilson
English | August 18, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0333717953 | 356 pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it. The authors investigate the effect of reunification on German policy today, and ask whether she has acted as leader, partner or obstructor in the formation of policy.

Geological Structures : A Practical Introduction
by John Waldron, Morgan Snyder
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1551954427 | 225 Pages | ePUB | 32 MB

Najeeb M.A. Rasul, Ian C.F. Stewart, "Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319994077 | PDF | pages: 788 | 81.2 mb
This book gathers invited contributions from active researchers to provide an up-to-date overview of the geological setting of the Red Sea. It discusses aspects ranging from historical information to modern research in the Red Sea, and presents findings from rapidly advancing, emerging fields. This semi-enclosed young ocean basin provides a unique opportunity to study the development of passive continental margins in order to examine the current status of that region. In addition to studies on the Sea itself, it includes those from related fields on the littoral zone. The book is of interest to geoscientists and non-specialists alike.

From Catastrophe to Power: The Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel By Idith Zertal
1998 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 0520215788 | PDF | 3 MB
In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after World War II. Events that captured the attention of the world, such as the Exodus affair in the summer 1947, are seen here in a strikingly new light. At the center of Zertal's book is the Mossad, a small, unorthodox Zionist organization whose mission beginning in 1938 was to bring Jews to Palestine in order to subvert the British quotas on Jewish immigration. From Catastrophe to Power scrutinizes the Mossad's mode of operation, its ideology and politics, its structure and history, and its collective human profile as never before. Zertal's moving story sweeps across four continents and encompasses a range of political cultures and international forces. But underneath this story another darker and more complex Description unfolds: the special encounter between the Zionist revolutionary collective and the mass of Jewish remnant after the Holocaust. According to Zertal, this psychologically painful yet politically powerful encounter was the Zionists' most effective weapon in their struggle for a sovereign Jewish state. Drawing on primary archival documents and new readings of canonical texts of the period, she analyzes this encounter from all anglespolitical, social, cultural, and psychological. The outcome is a gripping and troubling human story of a crucial period in Jewish and Israeli history, one that also provides a key to understanding the fundamental tensions between Israel and the Jewish communities and Israel and the world today.

Ms Lekha Kumar, Dr Anjali Kaushik, "Fresh Fingerprints: Cases of Innovations in Public Service Delivery"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1259061280 | PDF | pages: 257 | 6.4 mb
"While the challenges faced in public service delivery are well known, the solutions are not. Innovation and technology have risen to become the fortified spine of the system, with their span and scope widening with each sunset. Such is the power of technology combined with the spark of ideation that the world has become the world we see today from the primeval basics. Fresh Fingerprints acknowledges and documents the innovative initiatives undertaken by the Indian Government, both state and central, leveraging the platform of e-Governance. The 14 projects in the book are the handpicked choices made after a review of almost 1000 e-Governance initiatives from diverse sectors that include education, health, agriculture, tax administration, to name a few. This book analyzes the projects and explores the challenges faced in governance. It demystifies the process of innovation-driven transformations by emphasizing critical dilemmas and opportunities, using real-life examples. Its insightful analyses of the use of strategic innovations in resolving these conflicts, helps formulate a strong and pragmatic approach for ushering transformations in the delivery of public services. It offers authentic data and facts not easily available in the public domain. The unique features the book offers are: * 14 case studies of recognized innovative projects of the Indian Government in a variety of sectors. * Experiences shared directly by the project champions, supported by authentic data not easily available. * Documentation of the inventive spirit of the Government, in its efforts to improve delivery of public services. * Keen and incisive review by experts in the e-Governance domain. A compelling read for policy makers, public administrators, practitioners, social entrepreneurs, academicians and scholars, this book would also be of great value to the e-Governance community at large which believes in the transformative potential of emerging technologies."

Christopher Yeomans, "Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199794529 | PDF | pages: 292 | 1.7 mb
There are many insightful discussions of Hegel's practical philosophy that emphasize the uniqueness of his expressivist and social theory of agency, but few recognize that these two aspects of Hegel's theory of the will are insufficient to avoid the traditional problem of free will. In fact, the problem can easily be shown to recur in the very language used to express why Hegel's theory is a theory of freedom at all. In part, this lack of recognition results from the fact that there has not yet been a study of Hegel's theory of the will that has formulated the problem against the background of the contemporary literature on free will, where basic concerns about the explicability of action loom large. By using the continuity between the contemporary concerns and those of Hegel's predecessors (particularly Kant), Yeomans shows the necessity of reference to the Logic in order to supplement Hegel's own practical philosophy and the scholarship based on it. In addition to adding significantly to our understanding of Hegel's theory of agency and recapturing its significance with respect to continuing modern reflection on free will, this study also shows that Hegel's Logic can do some real philosophical work on a specific problem.