Brian Clancy, "Investigating Intimate Discourse "
English | ISBN: 0415706335 | 2015 | 194 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Intimate discourse - that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings - lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt, "Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems"
English | ISBN: 0262046008 | 2021 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 19 MB
A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.
Riikka Kuusisto, "International Relations Narratives: Descriptionting World Politics "
English | ISBN: 0367027992 | 2019 | 160 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents an innovative approach to research in International Relations by examining 12 theoretical contributions to the field as competing narrative bids. It demonstrates the pervasive nature of storytelling and considers narratives as a means of causal explanation in the human sciences.
Thomas Estes, Susan Mintz, "Instruction: A Models Approach, 7th Edition"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0134046889 | 312 pages | PDF | 5.4 MB
Draws readers into a broad range of theoretical perspectives on learning theories applied to education with an engaging, conversational writing style, numerous classroom examples, and up-to-date research citing
Brianne Donaldson, "Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0520380568 | 2021 | 294 pages | PDF | 16 MB
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org.
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar (Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics) by Michael Mccarthy
2020 | ISBN: 0367198363, 0367198355 | English | 190 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of 'correctness' to show how grammar changes over time thereby exposing the social and historical forces that mould and change usage. The questions that this book grapples with are:
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, "Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan"
English | ISBN: 1107534585 | 2018 | 363 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and deliberative. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and observations from dozens of villages across Afghanistan, and statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili demonstrates that such authority enhances citizen support for democracy, enabling the rule of law by providing citizens with a bulwark of defence against predatory state officials. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it shows that 'traditional' order does not impede the development of the state because even the most independent-minded communities see a need for a central government - but question its effectiveness when it attempts to rule them directly and without substantive consultation.
Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean "
English | ISBN: 1108489729 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 6 MB
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Leeward Islands, where British, Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Swedish colonies both competed and cooperated with one another. By exploring the transnational networks involved in trade, slavery, smuggling, privateering, and marronage, he offers a new account of the age of revolutions in the Caribbean, emphasizing the border-crossing nature of life in the region. By approaching major shifts in politics, economy, and law from the bottom-up, a new story of early nineteenth-century globalization emerges - one that emphasizes regional integration and a multiplicity of intersecting networks.
In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth By Dani Rodrik
2003 | 520 Pages | ISBN: 0691092699 | PDF | 3 MB
The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the most important growth puzzles of our time. How did China grow so rapidly despite the absence of full-fledged private property rights? What happened in India after the early 1980s to more than double its growth rate? How did Botswana and Mauritius avoid the problems that other countries in sub--Saharan Africa succumbed to? How did Indonesia manage to grow over three decades despite weak institutions and distorted microeconomic policies and why did it suffer such a collapse after 1997?What emerges from this collective effort is a deeper understanding of the centrality of institutions. Economies that have performed well over the long term owe their success not to geography or trade, but to institutions that have generated market-oriented incentives, protected property rights, and enabled stability. However, these narratives warn against a cookie-cutter approach to institution building.The contributors are Daron Acemoglu, Maite Careaga, Gregory Clark, J. Bradford DeLong, Georges de Menil, William Easterly, Ricardo Hausmann, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, Ian W. McLean, Lant Pritchett, Yingyi Qian, James A. Robinson, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian, Alan M. Taylor, Jonathan Temple, Barry R. Weingast, Susan Wolcott, and Diego Zavaleta.
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist by Patrick Nathan
English | August 17th, 2021 | ISBN: 1640094539 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.98 MB
Susan Sontag meets Hanif Adburraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism