Ehsan M. Ahrari, "The Islamic Challenge and the United States: Global Security in an Age of Uncertainty"
English | ISBN: 0773548165 | 2017 | 393 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, "The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength"
English | ISBN: 1576755770 | 2009 | 192 pages | PDF | 1040 KB
In our extroverted business culture, introverts can feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood. But being an introvert doesn't mean you can't be a great leader. Citing examples of highly successful leaders like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Kahnweiler shows that introverts can build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.

The Internet of Things (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge), Revised and Updated Edition by Samuel Greengard
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 0262542625 | 296 pages | True EPUB | 0.62 MB
A guided tour of the rapidly evolving networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work.

The Huge Book of Dog Breed Quizzes by Jane Gooden
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09B5K34F2 | 210 pages | EPUB | 0.22 Mb
Dogs are Special Friends

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World By Michael Marmot
2015 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1632860783 | EPUB | 3 MB
In this groundbreaking book, Michael Marmot, president of the World Medical Association, reveals social injustice to be the greatest threat to global healthIn Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the world.In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her fertile years of a maternal-related cause; in Italy, the figure is one in 17,100; but in the United States, which spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, it is one in 1,800. Why?Dramatic differences in health are not a simple matter of rich and poor; poverty alone doesn't drive ill health, but inequality does. Indeed, suicide, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes, for example, are all linked to social disadvantage. In every country, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage and shorter lives. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals, the better their health. These health inequalities defy the usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasized access to technical solutions and changes in the behavior of individuals, but these methods only go so far. What really makes a difference is creating the conditions for people to have control over their lives, to have the power to live as they want. Empowerment is the key to reducing health inequality and thereby improving the health of everyone. Marmot emphasizes that the rate of illness of a society as a whole determines how well it functions; the greater the health inequity, the greater the dysfunction.Marmot underscores that we have the tools and resources materially to improve levels of health for individuals and societies around the world, and that to not do so would be a form of injustice. Citing powerful examples and startling statistics ("young men in the U.S. have less chance of surviving to sixty than young men in forty-nine other countries"), The Health Gap presents compelling evidence for a radical change in the way we think about health and indeed society, and inspires us to address the societal imbalances in power, money, and resources that work against health equity.

The Gran Sasso Raid: The History of the Nazi Operation to Rescue Benito Mussolini from Captivity during World War II by Charles River Editors
English | July 2, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098LXT2W5 | 50 pages | EPUB | 1.02 Mb
*Includes pictures

J. Richard Smith - The Focke-Wulf Fw 200
Profile Publications | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | 16 pages | PDF | 20.11 MB
Aircraft Profile Number 99

The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914 By Alfred Kelly
2011 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 0807896977 | PDF | 2 MB
In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success. Setting his analysis against the background of popular science, Kelly follows popular Darwinism as it permeated education, religion, politics, and social thought in Germany. He explains how the popularizers changed Darwin's thought in subtle ways and how these changes colored their perceptions of Darwinism. Among the first purveyors of mass culture, the Germans provide valuable clues as to how seminal ideas move through a society.Originally published in 1981.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Martha Smithey, "The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide: A Crying Baby and the Inability to Escape"
English | ISBN: 1787433285 | 2020 | 144 pages | PDF | 1313 KB
Almost every story of maternal infanticide starts with 'the baby wouldn't stop crying'. But the story is more than just bad or mentally ill mothers who lethally assault their baby. The story is about how hard it is to be a good mother in a society where women are expected to raise their children in their spare time and with their spare change. This expectation is grounded in a modern mothering ideology of unclear, overwhelming gender socialized expectations of what good mothers are supposed to be and do and assumes mothers have access to the economic and support resources necessary for this monumental job. The struggle of being a 'good mother' is common to all mothers and requires much more time and resources than most mothers have available to them. In today's society, almost all mothers must have a paying job just to make ends meet. Their job takes up most of their day and leaves little time for the demands of parenting. Gender segregated jobs and economic inequality of women leave mothers with pay checks that are insufficient for homecare, childcare, and healthcare and leaves them eking out basic goods such as food, diapers, and medicine. And they are powerless to change their situation. For some mothers, like the ones discussed in this book, the struggle overwhelms them and they commit a terrible, heavily-regretted act that costs them their child's life, their family, their freedom, and their piece of mind for the rest of their lives.

The Creative Brief Blueprint: Crafting Strategy That Generates More Effective Advertising by Kevin McTigue, Derek Rucker
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1098390458, 1098380754 | 150 pages | True EPUB | 4.25 MB
As the world of marketing communications has become more tactically complex, the strategy behind the work has suffered. Most ads aren't good. They don't achieve the results that the company desires. They end up costing precious time and money. Neither you nor the target like to look at them either. Humanity has been creating marketing communications for over 8000 years. You would think people would be good at this by now.