Michael L. Wehmeyer, "The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications for Understanding Disability"
English | ISBN: 1793634653 | 2022 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International Classification of Function (ICF), that emphasized that disability could only be understood in the context of interactions among health, environmental factors, and personal factors and by examining the impact of such factors on a person's activities and participation. The ICF identified personal factors as among the elements of a social-ecological model of disability but did not provide an extensive taxonomy of what constitutes such factors.

The Philosophy Of Marx By Etienne Balibar, Chris Turner
2014 | 139 Pages | ISBN: 1781681538 | EPUB | 2 MB
In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessibleintroduction to Marx and his key followers, complete withpedagogical information for the student to make the most challengingareas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areasof Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoreticalcontext-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology,humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and thestate-The Philosophy of Marx is a gateway into the thought of one ofhistory's great minds.

The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Allen Lane
English | November 10, 2020 | ISBN: 0241242185 | 241 pages | PDF | 7.64 Mb
'Sheds light on one of humanity's most distinctive traits, celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight.' - Steven Pinker

The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford Handbooks) by Paul Gootenberg
English | ISBN: 0190842644 | 720 pages | EPUB | March 11, 2022 | 1.78 Mb
Drugs and their illicit use have long fascinated writers and the public at large. Informed by new interdisciplinary perspectives, a growing number of academically trained historians are now approaching drugs as a wide-open topic for serious research. This Handbook of Global Drug History is the first major attempt by historians of drugs to take stock of the recent progress and directions of this field, utilizing both a global scope and long-term historical perspective. Thirty-five original essays simultaneously survey what is known historically about drugs across the world (in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa) as well as illustrating their historical interconnections.

The New Neapolitan Cinema By Alex Marlow-Mann
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0748640665 | PDF | 2 MB
Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples became a thriving centre for film production.In this first study in English of one of the most vital and stimulating currents in contemporary European Cinema, Alex Marlow-Mann provides a detailed, multi-faceted and provocative study of this distinct regional tradition. In tracing the movement's relationship with the popular musical melodramas previously produced in Naples, he reveals how contemporary Neapolitan filmmakers have interrogated, subverted and reconfigured cinematic convention as part of a through-going re-examination of Neapolitan identity.

The Networking Playbook: Transform Your Social Capital into Professional Career Success by Darryl Howes
English | March 11th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637421893 | 146 pages | True EPUB | 2.46 MB
Is your career headed where it needs to go? Don't sit back and wait for things to happen! Design your career and deliver your life!

The NFT Equation: How To Navigate & Profit in The NFT Space as A Beginner, Investor, Or Artist by Jared T. Ross
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TZ6MPWN | 162 pages | EPUB | 2.17 Mb
One of the most expensive decisions you could make this decade is ignoring NFTs & the Metaverse. Keep reading to make sure you don't make that mistake!

The Mystic Hand: How Central Banks Shaped the 21st Century Global Economy by Johan Van Overtveldt
English | March 8th, 2022 | ISBN: 1572843063 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.53 MB
It's hardly an exaggeration to claim that over the last few decades, central bankers have achieved unprecedented status. Especially since the global financial crisis of 2008, the world holds its breath whenever they announce new policy interventions. Given the opaque nature of the money supply, in the eyes of most citizens, the "mystic hand" of central bankers is felt everywhere. Never before have central bank policies been so decisive, not only for financial markets but also for national economies and public welfare in general.

Jeremy Dibble, "The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos"
English | ISBN: 1783275774 | 2021 | 564 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Frederick Delius' (1862-1934) music has proved impervious to analytical definition. Delius's approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts are all highly individual, not to say eccentric in their deliberate aim to avoid conformity. Rarely does Delius follow a conventional line, and though one can readily point to important influences, the larger Gestalt of each work has a syntax and coherence for which conventional analytical methods are mostly inadequate. Delius's musical style has also defied one of the most essential critical tools of his musical epoque - that of national identity. His style bears no relation either to the Victorian or Edwardian aesthetic of British music spearheaded by Parry, Stanford and Elgar before the First World War, nor to the more overtly nationalist, folk-song-orientated pastoralism of post-war Britain in such composers as Vaughan Williams and Holst. In contrast, Delius acknowledged himself a 'stateless' individual and considered that his music refused to belong to any national school or movement.

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World By Ken Alder
2002 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 074321675X | EPUB | 7 MB
"The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone." -- The Measure of All Things Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator, a standard that has since swept the planet. The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time. Yet when Ken Alder located the long-lost correspondence between the two men, along with their mission logbooks, he stumbled upon a two-hundred-year-old secret, and a drama worthy of the great French playwrights. The meter, it turns out, is in error. One of the two astronomers, Pierre-François-André Méchain, made contradictory measurements from Barcelona and, in a panic, covered up the discrepancy. The guilty knowledge of his misdeed drove him to the brink of madness, and ultimately to his death. Only then -- after the meter had already been publicly announced -- did his partner, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre, discover the truth and face a fateful choice: what matters more, the truth or the appearance of the truth? To tell the story, Alder has not only worked in archives throughout Europe and America, but also bicycled the entire route traveled by Delambre and Méchain. Both a novelist and a prizewinning historian of science and the French Revolution, Alder summons all his skills to tell how the French Revolution mixed violent passion with the coldest sanity to produce our modern world. It was a time when scientists believed they could redefine the foundations of space and time, creating a thirty-day month, a ten-day week, and a ten-hour day. History, they declared, was to begin anew. But in the end, it was science that was forever changed. The measurements brought back by Delambre and Méchain not only made science into a global enterprise and made possible our global economy, but also revolutionized our understanding of error. Where Méchain conceived of error as a personal failure, his successors learned to tame it. This, then, is a story of two men, a secret, and a timeless human dilemma: is it permissible to perpetuate a small lie in the service of a larger truth? "Precision is a quest on which travelers, as Zeno foretold, journey halfway to their destination, and then halfway again and again and again, never reaching finality." In The Measure of All Things Ken Alder describes a quest that succeeded even as it failed. It is a story for all people, for all time.