The naked diplomat: understanding power and politics in the digital age By Tom Fletcher
2016 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0008127565 | PDF | 2 MB
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy.Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around the global order is fragile, and the checks and balances created over centuries to protect liberty are being tested, maybe to destruction. Tom Fletcher, the youngest senior British ambassador for two hundred years, considers how we - as governments, businesses, individuals - can survive and thrive in the twenty first century. And how we can ensure that technology can make it easier of citizens truly to take back control.
The gluten-free bread machine cookbook: 175 recipes for splendid breads and delicious dishes to make with them By Jane Bonacci, Shannon Kinsella
2017 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1558327967 | EPUB | 1 MB
Now you can enjoy gluten-free bread at home every day easily, affordably, and deliciously.The Gluten-Free Bread Machine Cookbook takes the expense, frustration, and difficulty out of baking gluten-free bread. Regardless of what bread machine you own, Jane Bonacci and Shannon Kinsella's new cookbook will make gluten-free bread an everyday enjoyment.Whether you're obsessed with sourdough, love holiday breads, or are interested in gluten-free pizza dough, focaccia, and more - this book covers it all, including helpful explanations, tips and tricks, and a wide range of bread machine brands and models. It'll even let you know when to use that "gluten-free" setting on your bread maker and when it's better to just avoid it.
The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 059308683X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 4.58 MB
A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research
The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming (Ultimate History of Video Games) by Steven L. Kent
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1984825437 | 592 pages | True EPUB | 28.25 MB
The definitive behind-the-scenes history of video games' explosion into the twenty-first century and the war for industry power
The Trauma Graphic Novel By Andrés Romero-Jódar
2017 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 1315296594 | PDF | 2 MB
The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new subgenre: the trauma graphic novel. This book seeks to analyze this trend through the consideration of five influential graphic novels in English. Works by Paul Hornschemeier, Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons will be considered as illustrative examples of the representation of individual, collective, and political traumas. This book provides a link between the contemporary criticism of Trauma Studies and the increasingly important world of comic books and graphic novels.
The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1250246962 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 8.19 MB
Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For going viral? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netflix series, or even relationship?
The Soviet Century By Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott (editor)
2016 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1784780669 | EPUB | 1 MB
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fallOne hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Party system and the powerful Soviet bureaucracy.Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ by Reinhard Friedl
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1250274869 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 4.11 MB
In the tradition of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Reinhard Friedl's The Source of All Things is a heart surgeon's personal investigation of the human heart, moving from his riveting clinical experiences to a more poetic understanding of its workings.
Gustavo Gorriti, "The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0807846767, 0807823732 | 318 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde's reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized insurgency forced itself upon an unwilling society just after the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime.
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography By Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells
2015 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1107699096 | PDF | 3 MB
This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are expressed on such matters as Shakespeare's wealth, his family and personal relationships, and his social status. Written by a distinguished team, including some of the foremost biographers, writers and Shakespeare scholars of today, this enthralling volume forms an original contribution to Shakespearian biography and Elizabethan and Jacobean social history. It will interest anyone looking to learn something new about the dramatist and the times in which he lived. A supplementary website offers imagined first-person audio accounts from the featured subjects.