Strategies of Care: Changing Elderly Care in Italy and the Netherlands by Barbara Da Roit
English | 2010 | ISBN: 9089642242 | PDF | 217 pages | 3,4 MB
In Strategies of Care, Barbara Da Roit traces the changes in the elderly care systems of Italy and the Netherlands since the early 1990s, drawing attention to the advantages and disadvantages of these two very different models.

Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Processes in Time by James K. Lindsey
English | 2004 | ISSN: 0521837413 | 338 pages | PDF | 3,1 MB
This introduction to ways of modelling a wide variety of phenomena that occur over time is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of statistical ideas. J.K. Lindsey concentrates on tractable models involving simple processes for which explicit probability models, hence likelihood functions, can be specified.

Florian Schneider, "Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle"
English | ISBN: 9087283245 | 2020 | 266 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The People's Republic of China began the 21st century with a new-and-improved public relations approach that was meant to counter anxieties about China's role in the world while simultaneously showcasing its leadership's policies to a domestic audience. Crucial to this communication strategy have been networked spectacles: elaborate mass events, designed to reconfigure organizations, ideas, and relations between people. In Staging China, Florian Schneider analyzes large-scale projects like the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai Expo to show how such spectacles became part of the ruling party's governance toolkit under Hu Jintao's leadershi, and how their legacy informs politics and political communication in China to this day.

Sovereign Wealth Funds, Local Content Policies and CSR: Developments in the Extractives Sector by Eduardo G. Pereira
English | PDF | 2021 | 653 Pages | ISBN : 3030560910 | 9.5 MB
This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

Social Security for Everyone: 2021-2022 Edition by Carl W. Battle
English | January 26th, 2021 | ISBN: 1621537811 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 31.97 MB
All the essential information everyone should know about social security, from maximizing benefits to planning and budgeting for a healthy, happy retirement.

Ben Montgomery, "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South"
English | ISBN: 0316535540 | 2021 | EPUB | 304 pages | 18 MB
The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. "Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness."(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )

John Roberts, "Shankly: My Story"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B00550MVKC | 216 pages | EPUB / MOBI | 1.32 MB
'It is scandalous and outrageous that I should haveto write these things about the club I helped to build into what it is today, because if the situation had been reversed I would have invited people to games. It was never my intention to have a complete break with Liverpool, but at the same time I wasn't going to put my nose in where it wasn't wanted. Maybe I was an embarrassment to some people . . .' - Bill Shankly

David Konstan, "Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres "
English | ISBN: 0691033412 | 1994 | 270 pages | PDF | 4 MB
"In the Greek romances," writes David Konstan, "sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male." Exploring how erotic love is represented in ancient amatory literature, Konstan points to the symmetry in the passion of the hero and heroine as a unique feature of the Greek novel: they fall mutually in love, they are of approximately the same age and social class, and their reciprocal attachment ends in marriage. He shows how the Descriptions of the novels are perfectly adapted to expressing this symmetry and how, because of their structure, they differ from classical epic, elegy, comedy, tragedy, and other genres, including modern novels ranging from Sidney to Harlequin romances.

James C. Scott, "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed "
English | ISBN: 0300246757 | 2020 | 464 pages | PDF | 72 MB
"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."-John Gray, New York Times Book Review