Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice By Colin Gray
2006 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0415386357 | PDF | 3 MB
This book comprises a selection of Prof. Gray's more important contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years. The essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today and the future. Each essay in the book is really about strategy in the modern world, and reflects the many dimensions of that complex subject. The book, by its nature, covers a wide range of subjects and historical events, but there are certain enduring issues covered throughout the book. These common, underlying themes can be summarized as follows: - Being strategic - concerned with the consequences of actions; - A respect for Clausewitz's theory of war; - History-dependent; - The importance of geography; - Being critical of enthusiasm for technology over human factors
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
By Nina Penner
English | 2020 | ISBN : 0253049970 | 312 pages | EPUB | 21.23 MB
Paul B. Armstrong, "Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative"
English | ISBN: 1421437740, 1421437759 | 2020 | EPUB | 272 pages | 666 KB
How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.
Vladimir Tismaneanu, "Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0520237471 | PDF | pages: 412 | 7.7 mb
Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party's history. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century.
Tim Short, "Simulation Theory: A psychological and philosophical consideration"
English | 2015 | pages: 191 | ISBN: 1138816051 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Theory of Mind (ToM) is the term used for our ability to predict and explain the behaviour of ourselves and others. Accounts of this theory have so far fallen into two competing types: Simulation Theory and 'Theory Theory'. In contrast with Theory Theory, Simulation Theory argues that we predict behaviour not by employing a model of people, but by replicating others' thoughts and feelings. This book presents a novel defence of Simulation Theory, reviewing the major challenges against it and positing the theory as the most effective method for exploring how we know each other and ourselves.
Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology By Gregory F. Barz, Timothy J. Cooley
2008 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 0195324951 | PDF | 3 MB
Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. The focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching has traditionally centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures, rather than on the personal world of understanding, experience, knowing, and doing fieldwork. Shadows in the Field deliberately shifts the focus of ethnomusicology and of ethnography in general from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork). The ''new fieldwork'' moves beyond mere data collection and has become a defining characteristic of ethnomusicology that engages the scholar in meaningful human contexts. In this new edition of Shadows in the Field, renowned ethnomusicologists explore the roles they themselves act out while performing fieldwork and pose significant questions for the field: What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? Where does fieldwork of ''the past'' fit into these theories? And above all, what do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? The second edition of Shadows in the Field includes updates of all existing chapters, a new preface by Bruno Nettl, and seven new chapters addressing critical issues and concerns that have become increasingly relevant since the first edition.
Laura Berman, "Secrets Of The Sexually Satisfied Woman: Ten Keys to Unlocking Ultimate Pleasure"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0786887982, 0786869194 | 260 pages | EPUB | 0.523 MB
The nation's leading experts on women's sexual health offer up the secrets to female sexual satisfaction using data culled from their groundbreaking new survey
Riccardo Viale, "Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality "
English | ISBN: 1138999385 | 2020 | 680 pages | PDF | 166 MB
Herbert Simon's renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences which prevent people from thinking or behaving according to formal rationality. Simon's theory has been expanded in numerous directions and taken up by various disciplines with an interest in how humans think and behave. This includes philosophy, psychology, neurocognitive sciences, economics, political science, sociology, management, and organization studies.
Rivera Pasta Recipes: It will be very tasty! by Brendan Rivera
English | May 12, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B088JXC1WZ | 66 pages | PDF | 4.19 Mb
Pasta for you!
Susan Stefan, "Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws: Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0199981191 | PDF | pages: 581 | 6.4 mb
When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people, in some circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed two separate and distinct tracks: laws aimed at preventing suicide and, increasingly, laws aimed at facilitating it.