Transformational Architecture: Reshaping Our Lives as Narrative By Ron Martoia
2008 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0310287693 | PDF | 3 MB
Author Ron Martoia is one of today's keenest Christian observers and thinkers. And in his latest book he explains why evangelism is more difficult now than ever before: postmodern society has lost its overarching stories. People today are disillusioned, disenfranchised, and less open to the biggest 'story' of all: the message of God's redeeming grace.

Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context By Ylva Hernlund, Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan
2007 | 387 Pages | ISBN: 0813540259 | PDF | 6 MB
Female ''circumcision'' or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, ''Transcultural Bodies'' provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. The contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.

David M. Levy, "Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School"
English | ISBN: 1108428975 | 2020 | 308 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Virginia School's economics of natural equals makes consent critical for policy. Democracy is understood as government by discussion, not majority rule. The claim of efficiency unsupported by consent, as common in orthodox economics, appeals to social hierarchy. Politics becomes an act of exchange among equals where the economist is only entitled to offer advice to citizens, not to dictators. The foundation of natural equality and consent explains the common themes of James Buchanan and John Rawls as well as Ronald Coase and the Fabian socialists. What orthodox economics treats as efficient racial discrimination violates the fair chance entitlement to which people consent in a market economy. The importance of replication stressed by Gordon Tullock, developing themes from Karl Popper, is another expression of natural equality since the foresight of replication induces care into research. The publication of previously unpublished correspondence and documentation allows the reader to judge recent controversy.

George Cawkwell, "Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War"
English | ISBN: 0415165520 | | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Understanding the history of Athens in the all important years of the second half of the fifth century B.C. is largely dependent on the work of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account as infallible.

The ultimate book of fruits & vegetables By Donna Vermillion Giampa
1995 | 44 Pages | ISBN: 0881957453 | DJVU | 12 MB
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The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (Culture Of The Land) by Vandana Shiva
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0813166543 | 266 pages | PDF | 6.74 Mb
The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement―unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

The Unofficial Traeger Grill Smoker Cookbook: Complete How-To Cookbook for Your Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill, Ultimate Guide for Smoking Meat, Fish, Veggies and Etc.
By Daniel Murray
English | ASIN: B08NHQ1FQ4 | 2020 | 90 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 46.4 MB

The Ultimate Albanian Cookbook: 111 Dishes From Albania To Cook Right Now
By Slavka Bodic
English | ASIN: B08NHGDTS2 | 2020 | 137 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 9.7 MB

The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World - And How to Reach Them By Lisa Witter, Lisa Chen, Gary Hirshberg
2008 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 1576754723 | PDF | 2 MB
The secret to changing the world is hidden in plain sight--in fact, it's half the population. Women vote more, volunteer more, and give to more charities than men do. They control over half of the total wealth in America. Corporations have long recognized the growing power of woman and have been targeting them for years. The She Spot is a practical and provocative primer showing how nonprofits and social change organizations can do it too. Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen reveal surprising insights into women's real social priorities (for example, in one poll only 7% of women identified ''protecting reproductive choice,'' supposedly the women's issue, as a top priority for Congress). They describe four core principles--care, control, connect, and cultivate--for designing messages that will resonate with women of all ages and backgrounds. And using case histories from companies like Home Depot, T-Mobile and Kellogg's as well as nonprofits like MoveOn.org, The American Lung Association and The Environmental Defense Fund, they explain precisely how to put these four principles into practice. This book makes the case that simply painting your marketing campaign ''pink'' and calling it a day will miss the mark with most women. Witter and Chen show that you can expand your outreach to connect with women in addition to men--think both/and, not either/or. You'll raise more money and recruit more supporters for your cause. In the end, those who hit the ''She Spot'' claim the power to create a better, brighter world for all of us.

The Sense and Sensibility: Screenplay & Diaries : Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film By Emma Thompson, Clive Coote, Lindsay Doran
1995 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 1557042608 | PDF | 6 MB
This engaging and beautiful book includes the complete Academy Award-winning script and Thompson's own diaries detailing the production of the film, reviewed by Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic as ''vivid, funny, and gamy.'' 88 photos including 36 in color.