Cassini Sai Kwan Chu, "Compensated Dating: Buying and Selling Sex in Cyberspace"
English | 2018 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 9811069735 | PDF | 2,6 mb
This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex exchange between consenting females from their mid-teens through the late 20s and males from their early 20s to mid-adulthood. Informed by the transformation of intimacy, the breakdown of institutional constraints, the emergence of a new female sexual autonomy and the advancement of information technology, this book moves beyond stereotypes of sex work to look at the complexities of compensated dating. The phenomenon of compensated dating is distinctive from most other sex trades in that it involves intense emotional interactions and often extends beyond the commercial boundary. Given the dynamic, flexible and ambiguous nature of compensated dating, it has become more of a space for sexual explorations and less of a rigid model of commercial sex, at least in the eye of the participants. This book walks through how men become involved in compensated dating and also sheds lights on how gender relations are negotiated, with important implications on what it means to be a man and a woman in contemporary Hong Kong society. It also speaks to the broader transformations of some of the key social structures and elements, particularly gender and sexualities, in the era of late modernity.

Roman David, "Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic "
English | ISBN: 0812250141 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Communists and Their Victims, Roman David identifies and examines four classes of justice measures-retributive, reparatory, revelatory, and reconciliatory-to discover which, if any, rectified the legacy of human rights abuses committed during the communist era in the Czech Republic. Conducting interviews, focus groups, and nationwide surveys between 1999 and 2015, David looks at the impact of financial compensation and truth-sharing on victims' healing and examines the role of retribution in the behavior and attitudes of communists and their families. Emphasizing the narratives of former political prisoners, secret collaborators, and former Communist Party members, David tests the potential of justice measures to contribute to a shared sense of justice and their ability to overcome the class structure and ideological divides of a formerly communist regime.

Communication Engineering: Engineering Handbook by Ravi Kumar
English | June 12, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07T1BVTMR | 309 pages | PDF | 7.38 Mb
Communication Engineering

Athena Du Pre, "Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 0190275685 | 2016 | 426 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Now in its fifth edition, Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives continues to live up to its long-standing reputation as the most dynamic and current exploration of health communication on the market. The book offers rich, current research and in-depth analysis of the cultural, social, and organizational issues that influence health communication and health advocacy.

Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia by Free Press
English | January 27, 2004 | ISBN: 0743260910 | 336 pages | PDF | 2.20 Mb
An account of the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia draws on internal agency documents, interviews with key participants, and technical details to explain how and why the catastrophe occurred.

Collins Quiz Night by Collins Puzzles
English | December 1, 2018 | ISBN: 0008290288 | 512 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 5.97 Mb
Q: What's inside this bumper quiz book?A: More than 500 brand new quizzes and 10,000 questions.

Raghu B. Korrapati, Ch. Divakar, G. Lavanya Devi, "Cognitive Science and Health Bioinformatics: Advances and Applications"
English | 2018 | pages: 125 | ISBN: 981106654X | PDF | 3,8 mb
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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment) by Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
2021 | ISBN: 0367528967 | English | 246 pages | PDF | 14.4 MB
Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday.

Spencer Piston, "Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1108426980, 1108447120 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2.8 MB
This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard conceptions of the American public as anti-government, individualistic, and racially prejudiced. Bringing class attitudes into the analysis, Spencer Piston demonstrates through rigorous empirical analysis that sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich explain American support for downwardly redistributive programs - not only those that benefit the middle class, but also those that explicitly target the poor. The book captures an important and neglected component of citizen attitudes toward a host of major public policies and candidate evaluations. It also explains why government does so little to combat economic inequality; in key instances, political elites downplay class considerations, deactivating sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich.

Cities on Rails: The Redevelopment of Railway Stations and their Surroundings By Luca Bertolini, Tejo Spit
1998 | 247 Pages | ISBN: 0419227601 | PDF | 17 MB
The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Featuring the most successful and interesting projects in the area of development and planning, this book will assist planners and urban designers in understanding the specific and complex nature of station locations. Cities on Rails harnesses and expands the current body of knowledge and presents guiding principles and conditions for successful implementation of station development.