Ron Larson, "Precalculus, 8th Edition"
English | ISBN: 1439045771 | 2010 | 1040 pages | PDF | 46 MB
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Praying Body and Soul : Methods and Practices of Anthony De Mello By Anthony de Mello; Gabriel Galache
1997 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0824516737 | PDF | 13 MB
Never before published in English, this is a step-by-step exercise book integrating the Christian tradition of contemplation and the Eastern wisdom of meditation. Fr. de Mello's stories and spiritual guidance are provocative, filled with humor, and grounded in everyday experiences.
Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language By Uwe Poerksen
2004 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 0271024925 | PDF | 3 MB
Development. "Project." "Strategy." "Problem." These may seem like harmless words, but are they? German writer and linguist Uwe Poerksen calls these words "plastic words" because of their malleability and the uncanny way they are used to fit every circumstance. Like plastic Lego blocks, they are combinable and interchangeable. In the mouths of experts politicians, professors, corporate officials, and planners they are used over and over again to explain and justify plans and projects. In the 1940s Harry S. Truman made "underdevelopment" a keystone in U.S. foreign policy, and today the "developed" nations are dedicated to helping their "underdeveloped" neighbors. But who benefits from "development"? Who benefited from the housing "projects" of the 1960s and 1970s? And who among us does not worry when our leaders tell us they have a "strategy" for solving society's "problems"?According to Poerksen, plastic words began as scientific words with specialized meanings. Many had been imported from the vernacular languages to the sciences, but he finds that in recent decades they have migrated back into the vernacular stripped of their specialized meanings. They have international currency and appear repeatedly in political speeches, government reports, and academic conferences. They invade the media and even private conversation. They displace more precise words with words that sound scientific but actually blur meaning and disable common language.Poerksen traces the history of plastic words, establishes criteria for identifying them, and provides a tragicomic critique of the society that relies on them. He shows that when plastic words infiltrate a field of reality, they reorder it in their own image hence their threat. They are building blocks for new models of reality that may seem utopian but that impoverish the world.Plastic Wordsis a translation of the remarkably successful book first published in Germany in 1988. For the English-language edition, Poerksen has added a new preface, explaining the origin of the book and addressing the spirited public debate it has spawned. Bold and provocative,Plastic Wordsis social and linguistic criticism in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell."
Planning Your Escape: Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar by L.E. Hall
English | August 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 1982140348 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 5.85 MB
Never get stuck inside an escape room again, with this strategy guidebook to beating your favorite immersive interactive game-from a well-known game designer and puzzle enthusiast
Jose P. Peixoto, "Physics of Climate"
English | ISBN: 0883187124 | | 520 pages | PDF | 44 MB
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Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority by Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude
English | Sep 24, 2021 | ISBN: 0367476614 | 200 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the realms of finance, urban policies, automobile safety, environmental risk, agriculture, and food in western democracies. It renews understanding of the power of big business, focusing on how the study of temporalities, of multi-sited influence and of sociotechnical tools is crucial to an analysis of the evolution of corporate authority.
John Maltby, "Personality, Individual Differences & Intelligence"
English | ISBN: 0131297600 | 2007 | 661 pages | PDF | 24 MB
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Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World: 1500-1800 By Nelly Hanna
2014 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 9774166647 | PDF | 7 MB
Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modern world history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America and Asia, the formation of trading companies, and scientific discoveries. Recent scholarship has challenged this approach on account of its Eurocentric bias, on both the theoretical and empirical levels. Studies on India and southeast Asia, for example, reject the models of these regions as places without history, as stagnant and in decline, and as awakening only with the emergence of colonialism when they became the recipients of European culture and technology.So far, Egypt and the rest of the Ottoman world have been left out of these approaches. Nelly Hanna fills this gap by showing that there were worldwide trends that touched Egypt, India, southeast Asia, and Europe. In all these areas, for example, there were linguistic shifts that brought the written language closer to the spoken word. She also demonstrates that technology and know-how, far from being centered only in Europe, flowed in different directions: in the eighteenth century, French entrepreneurs were trying to imitate the techniques of bleaching and dyeing of cloth that they found in Egypt and other Ottoman localities.Based on a series of lectures given at the Middle East Center at Harvard, this groundbreaking book will be of interest to all those looking for a different perspective on the history of south-north relations.
Alyce Howell, "Osho Zen Tarot Card Book: A Complete Guide for Tarot Reading"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1726758702 | 186 pages | EPUB / AZW3 | 5.5 MB
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Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
English | August 3, 2021 | ISBN: 014313700X, 0300262280 | EPUB | 384 pages | 4.8 MB
An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein