Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions) by Hans Martin Krämer, Julian Strube
2020 | ISBN: 1438480415 | English | 486 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 5 MB/6 MB
Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.

Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl, Sebastiaan Rothmann Sr., "Theoretical Approaches to Multi-Cultural Positive Psychological Interventions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030205827 | PDF | pages: 549 | 8.5 mb
This volume provides theoretical perspectives on and approaches to the development or enhancement of positive psychological capacities within various multi-cultural professional and organizational contexts. Specifically, it presents theoretical frameworks for the identification, development and optimization of positive psychological capacities through a contemporary, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary lens. In recent years, the applicability of positive psychological intervention (PPI) techniques has transposed the boundaries of clinical practice into a wide array of complementary domains such as law, education, business and even design sciences such as architecture. These interventions target the enhancement of positive psychological capacities (e.g. strength-identification and use; high-performance learning; appreciative design; job-crafting) in order to not only improve individual functioning, well-being and the treatment of various forms of psychopathology but also to enhance team functioning/performance, organizational growth and community development. Despite its importance, very little research has been done on the design of PPIs applicable to multi-cultural contexts. The contributions to this volume provide insights into this hitherto neglected area of research.

Nicole Pyland, "The Unexpected Dream "
English | ISBN: 1949308464 | 2020 | 236 pages | MOBI | 496 KB
Sports Series Book #3. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.

Sinja Hantscher, "The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century: An Organizational Analysis"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030196887 | PDF | pages: 230 | 3.3 mb
This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its approach to environmentally displaced persons. The author examines the UNHCR on the basis of expert interviews and content analysis in order to highlight why and how the organization is addressing the issue. The analysis draws on organizational as well as security theory, offering readers a better understanding of the connection between the two. The book appeals to scholars in the fields of migration and organizational studies, as well as policymakers and professionals working in international organizations.

The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War by Michael S. Sherry
2020 | ISBN: 1469660709 | English | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on crime" had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost-to those arrested, imprisoned, or killed and to the social fabric of the nation-and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. Stoked by "forever war," the punitive turn endured even as it met fiercer resistance.

Georgie Newbery, "The Flower Farmer's Year: How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0857842331 | PDF | pages: 393 | 14.9 mb
The Flower Farmer's Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut flowers, Georgie Newbery will take you through everything from planning your garden to budgeting and marketing. With plenty of stories about mistakes she's made along the way, this book is a practical manual that teaches how to get involved in local, sustainable flower production for the home or commercially.

The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject by Jamie Aroosi
2018 | ISBN: 0812250702 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Although Karl Marx and Søren Kierkegaard are both major figures in nineteenth-century Western thought, they are rarely considered in the same conversation. Marx is the great radical economic theorist, the prophet of communist revolution who famously claimed religion was the "opiate of the masses." Kierkegaard is the renowned defender of Christian piety, a forerunner of existentialism, and a critic of mass politics who challenged us to become "the single individual." But by drawing out important themes bequeathed them by their shared predecessor G. W. F. Hegel, Jamie Aroosi shows how they were engaged in parallel projects of making sense of the modern, "dialectical" self, as it realizes itself through a process of social, economic, political, and religious emancipation.

The Description to Hack America How Putin s Cyberspies
English | January 8, 2019 | ISBN: 9781510723337 | 242 pages | AZW3 | 1.57 MB
The Description to Hack America reads like a spy thriller, but it's all too real. -US Daily Review

John Shepherd, "The Complete Guide to Sports Training"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00UFPPE92 | EPUB | pages: 203 | 9.6 mb
The Complete Guide to Sports Training is the definitive practical resource for anyone wishing to improve their performance and for coaches looking to get the best out of their athletes. It demystifies sports science and provides athletes and coaches with the basic building blocks they need to maximise performance. Starting with the basics and progressing to the specific elements all athletes need - speed, endurance and power - this invaluable handbook explains the theory in simple, easy-to-understand terms before discussing the most effective training methods and techniques, as well as giving guidance on developing a training plan, sports psychology and training younger and older athletes. This is the first time such a wealth of sports science knowledge has been available in one book and written in such an accessible style, and should become the sports training handbook for athletes, coaches and sports science students.

Robert Greenberg, "The Bounds of Freedom: Kant's Causal Theory of Action"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 3110494663 | PDF | pages: 147 | 1.1 mb
This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant's àtemporal conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant's primary conception of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice's causal theory of perception and on P. F. Strawson's modification of the theory. The monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant's maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can only be its logical determination.　 Kant's àtemporal conception of the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant's own complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict, Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant's àtemporal conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but only in an anodyne form.　 Both camps, however, make the aforementioned assumption that Kant's maxim of an action is a causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the assumption, belongs to neither camp.