Karen Smith, "Group Politics in UN Multilateralism "
English | ISBN: 9004384391 | 2020 | 342 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Group Politics in UN Multilateralism provides a new perspective on diplomacy and negotiation. UN multilateralism is shaped by long-standing group dynamics as well as shifting, ad-hoc groupings. These intergroup dynamics are key to understanding diplomatic practice at the UN.

Great Family Days In: Over 75 Ideas for Rainy Days, School Holidays and Everything in Between by Claire Balkind
English | October 15, 2020 | ISBN: 1529055520 | EPUB | 224 pages | 44.9 MB
Wet weekend? Home for half-term? Great Family Days In has got you covered with over 75 tried and tested activities that make the most of spending quality time together.

Iberê Kuntz, "Gravitational Theories Beyond General Relativity"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030211967 | PDF | pages: 88 | 1.6 mb
Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open. The purpose of this thesis is to explore quantum gravity and its phenomenological consequences for dark matter, gravitational waves and inflation. A new formalism to classify gravitational theories based on their degrees of freedom is introduced and, in light of this classification, it is argued that dark matter is no different from modified gravity. Gravitational waves are shown to be damped due to quantum degrees of freedom. The consequences for gravitational wave events are also discussed. The non-minimal coupling of the Higgs boson to gravity is studied in connection with Starobinsky inflation and its implications for the vacuum instability problem is analyzed.

Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel By Rev. Peter Laarman
2006 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0807077216 | PDF | 1 MB
In the 2004 election, 80 percent of those who claimed В"moral values” was the most important issue affecting their vote cast their ballots for Bush, as did 63 percent of frequent churchgoers. Since then, the Religious Right has continued to cement an association between В"Christian” and В"moral” values and conservative policies. Getting On Message challenges this association from the very heart of the Christian tradition. These readable and incisive essays use biblical framing to discern the personal and social ethics that truly embody Christian values in the contemporary world. В* Marilynne Robinson discusses the link between personal holiness and a generous spirit В* Garret Keizer looks at the growing wealth/class divide from a Christian perspective В* Rev. Heidi Neumark examines hospitality as a core Christian value В* Rev. Chloe Breyer explores a justice criterion for women’s decisions on abortion В* Rev. Bill Sinkford asks what really constitutes a God-approved marriage and family Getting On Message is a book for clergy, for politically active people of faith, and for progressive organizers and strategists who want to learn how to talk to religious believers about the values they share. Rev. Peter Laarman is executive director of Progressive Christians Uniting, codirector of the Center for Prophetic Renewal in Los Angeles, and a board member of Faith Voices for the Common Good. Before moving to California, Laarman served as senior minister of New York’s historic Judson Memorial Church. He worked for twenty years as a strategist and communications specialist in the labor movement prior to training for the ministry.

Dan Pedoe, "Geometry: A Comprehensive Course"
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0486658120 | 464 pages | DJVU | 7.5 MB
"A lucid and masterly survey." - Mathematics Gazette

Geographies of Global Change By R. J. Johnston, Peter J. Taylor, Michael Watts
2002 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0631193278 | PDF | 51 MB
The second edition of this popular collection presents 28 specially commissioned essays by leading geographers from across the world, addressing questions about how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. The volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local. For the updated edition several new topics have been added in order to keep the text contemporary. New material has been incorporated on economic changes relating to world trade and labor, on political changes in the post-Cold War era and geopolitics, on social and cultural changes relating to children, race, consumption, and cyberspace, and on changes in environmental governance. In addition, the editors have written a new essay to introduce the volume that provides a distinctive geographical take on globalization. Existing chapters have been revised or rewritten as necessary.

Gatsby: The Definitive Guide
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9781492087496 | 62 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Get the definitive guide on Gatsby, the jаvascript framework for building blazing-fast websites and applications. Used by Nike, Costa Coffee, and other companies worldwide, Gatsby is emerging as one of the key technologies in the Jamstack (jаvascript, APIs, and markup) ecosystem. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to architect, build, and deploy Gatsby sites independently or with CMSs, commerce systems, and other data sources.

J.L. Jain, "Fundamentals of Biochemistry"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 8121924537 | 1264 pages | PDF | 21,4 MB
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Thomas C Patterson, "From Acorns to Warehouses: Historical Political Economy of Southern California's Inland Empire"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1629580392 | PDF | pages: 284 | 2.4 mb
Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth trajectory of California's socio-economic history, he is able to connect landscape, resources, wealth, labor, and inequality using a Marxian framework for many key periods of the region's history. In moving between large scale historical changes, regional adaptations and resistance to those changes, and a framework that places those responses in theoretical context, Patterson's work allows the reader to see how inland Southern California developed into the warehouse empire of the 21st century and its prospects for the future.

Forgotten Legacy: William McKinley, George Henry White, and the Struggle for Black Equality by Benjamin R. Justesen
English | December 16, 2020 | ISBN: 0807173851 | EPUB | 368 pages | 2.6 MB
In Forgotten Legacy, Benjamin R. Justesen reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley's presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans, including their appointment to significant roles in the federal government and the safeguarding of their rights as U.S. citizens. During the first two years of his administration, McKinley named nearly as many African Americans to federal office as all his predecessors combined. He also acted on many fronts to stiffen federal penalties for participation in lynch mobs and to support measures promoting racial tolerance. Indeed, Justesen's work suggests that McKinley might well be considered the first "civil rights president," especially when compared to his next five successors in office. Nonetheless, historians have long minimized, trivialized, or overlooked McKinley's cooperative relationships with prominent African American leaders, including George Henry White, the nation's only black congressman between 1897 and 1901.