Ed. Grant, Jon E., "Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder"
English | ISBN: 1615372245 | 2019 | 275 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is the only book of its kind: a comprehensive, authoritative work designed to be invaluable to clinicians, researchers, and people struggling with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and those who care about them. Unlike existing texts, which focus on only one or a few aspects of OCPD, this book offers a systematic exploration, with chapters on every facet of the disorder from leading experts on scientific techniques, including brain imaging, cognitive testing, and biological markers. OCPD and obsessive-compulsive disorder differ in symptoms and core components but may have a similar presentation, making differential diagnosis challenging. In addition, OCPD may overlap in some particulars or co-occur with other disorders, including hoarding disorder, eating disorders, and impulse control and addictive disorders. Accordingly, the authors offer detailed information to help the reader disentangle and identify these syndromes so that the proper treatment intervention can be initiated. In addition to thorough coverage of OCPD in its pathological form, the book also addresses how OCPD can be adaptive and even useful in some contexts. Each chapter features case examples that make it easy for the reader whether clinician or layperson to understand and contextualize the information, rendering Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder a uniquely useful addition to the psychiatric literature.

Bill Simmons, "Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1933060050, 1933060727 | 468 pages | PDF | 56.9 MB
ESPN's beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now."The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more 1918 chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life - that's 80 years, followed by death without seeing the Red Sox win a Series."

No Man's Land: the untold story of automation and QF72 by ABC Books
English | June 25, 2019 | ISBN: 0733339743 | 336 pages | PDF | 18 Mb
A gripping account of how a major air disaster was averted, by the captain and former Top Gun pilot

kwame-nkrumah, "Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Imperialism"
English | 1987 | ISBN: 090178723X | 280 pages | PDF (scan) | 13.51 MB
This is the book which, when first published in 1965, caused such an uproar in the US State Department that a sharp note of protest was sent to Kwame Nkrumah and the $25million of American "aid" to Ghana was promptly cancelled.

Timothy Grose, "Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity"
English | ISBN: 9888528092 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This is the first book-length study of graduates from the Xinjiang Class, a program that funds senior high school-aged students from Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uyghur, to attend a four-year course in predominately Han-populated cities in eastern and coastal China. Based on longitudinal field research, Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity offers a detailed picture of the multilayered identities of contemporary Uyghur youth and an assessment of the effectiveness of this program in meeting its political goals. The experiences of Xinjiang Class graduates reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese Zhonghua minzu identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a nonstate-defined Uyghur identity. Timothy Grose also argues that the impositions of Chinese Mandarin and secular Chinese Communist Party (CCP) values over ethnic minority languages and religion, and physically displacing young Uyghurs from their neighbourhood and cultural environment do not lead to ethnic assimilation, as the CCP apparently expects. Despite pressure from state authorities to urge Xinjiang Class graduates to return after their formal education, the majority of the graduates choose to remain in inner China or to use their Xinjiang Class education as a springboard to seek global citizenship based upon membership in a transnational Islamic community. For those who return to Xinjiang, contrary to the political goal of the program, few intend to serve the CCP, their country, or even their hometown. Instead, their homecomings are marred by disappointment, frustration, and discontent.

Stephan Malinowski, "Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance"
English | ISBN: 0198842554 | 2021 | 496 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is rarely, if ever, investigated in any real detail. Nazis and Nobles now fills this gap, providing the first systematic investigation of the role played by the nobility in German political life between Germany's defeat in the First World War in 1918 and the consolidation of Nazi power in the 1930s.

Myths of the Greeks and Romans By Michael Grant
1995 | 498 Pages | ISBN: 0452011620 | PDF | 15 MB
This work provides an analysis of the influence of the classic myth on the study and execution of artistic and scientific endeavours throughout the ages. The book summarizes all the myths and legends of the lesser Gods and heroes, and traces their origins in historical fact or religious myth. It also shows how myths have continued to evolve throughout the ages.

Myths and Realities of Executive Pay By Ira Kay, Steven Van Putten
2007 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0521871956 | PDF | 6 MB
This book answers the question 'Are CEOs overpaid?' with a resounding 'No.' Defying dogma and business myths, it documents the realities of executive pay in the United States and the forces that have shaped pay in recent years. The authors, both expert consultants on the subject, investigate the extent to which pay is related to corporate performance and provide clear guidance for an approach that drives business success and shareholder value. Based on extensive research and decades of direct experience in working with thousands of companies, the book provides provocative insights for executives, analysts, government officials, and shareholders.

Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery By Batya Gur
2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0060852941 | PDF | 2 MB
When a woman's body is discovered in the wardrobe warehouses of Israel Television, Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon embarks on a tangled and bloody trail of detection through the corridors and studios of Israel's official television station, and through the fears, loves, and contradictions of the people who work there. It is an eye-opening journey that brings into question the very ideals upon which OhayonвЂ"and indeed the entire nationвЂ"was raised, ideals that may have led to terrible crimes.

Multi-level Governance By Ian Bache, Matthew Flinders
2004 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0199259259 | PDF | 2 MB
This unique collection brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to assess and critique the key concept of multi-level governance. This is a concept which has been widely adopted to explain the changing nature of domestic and international politics ever since its early application to the EU.