Adam Fforde, "The Limits of National Liberation: Problems of Economic Management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statist"
English | ISBN: 1032153458 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 321 KB
This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war. It chronicles the impact of war and Socialist Construction upon an extremely poor area left undeveloped by French colonial exploitation. The analysis focuses on the severe restraints that faced socio-economic development in North Vietnam, and the adverse effects of forced development based upon neo-Stalinist institutional models. Deep problems were encountered in attempting to implement Socialist Construction in the North, and wartime aid from fraternal Socialist countries masked the fundamental economic imbalances created by the development effort. After national reunification in 1975 the structural difficulties of the Northern economy and the shortcomings of its economic management system crushed the expectations of rapid peacetime development and led to the economic crisis of the late 1970s.
Shawn C. Fraistat, "The Liberalism of Care: Community, Philosophy, and Ethics"
English | ISBN: 022674535X | 2021 | 290 pages | EPUB | 695 KB
Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest in a decaying sense of collective political responsibility for citizens' well-being and for the most vulnerable members of our communities. Political scientist Shawn C. Fraistat argues that we have lost the political language of care, which, prior the nineteenth century, was commonly used to express these dimensions of political life.
Lydia Schumacher, "The Legacy of Early Franciscan Thought "
English | ISBN: 3110682419 | 2021 | 370 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Begründet von Michael Schmaus +, Werner Dettloff + und Richard Heinzmann
Jonathan Maitland, "The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson"
English | ISBN: 1913630765 | 2020 | 64 pages | EPUB | 535 KB
It was the dinner that changed history: the night in February 2016 when Boris Johnson decided to vote 'leave' and a nation's future was sealed. Guests included the spirits of Prime Ministers past, including Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and Tony Blair as well as fellow MP Michael Gove, the journalist Sarah Vine, Marina Wheeler and Evgeny Lebedev.
Heiko Karl Ital, "The Kosovo War: A Strategy of Transformative Realism"
English | ISBN: 334731333X | 2021 | 518 pages | EPUB | 431 KB
Kosovo is a political entity where different interests of key European actors meet. There is not one common interest of the European Union or of NATO, but a multitude of interests of its key member states involved in the process of nation-building and since 2008, to come up with a new expression, nation parenting in Kosovo. Realism is used as an analytical tool to investigate the Europeanization of Kosovo, as well as relevant patterns of power and influence with Germany at the center. Its explanatory power is being compared to contending theories dealing with the European Union's development. Given that realism is a suitable tool for analyzing the Europeanization of Kosovo, the author assumes that EU member states, including Germany, are mainly guided by security and power considerations in their approach regarding Kosovo.
The Kolbrin Bible By Janice Manning
2006 | 855 Pages | ISBN: 1597720054 | PDF | 4 MB
In their day, Phoenician traders operated the most advanced fleets ofocean-going vessels in all the world. Before their fall to the Roman Empire,their principal trade routes stretched throughout the Mediterranean area, outalong the shores of Western Europe and up as far North as Britain.Of note to this body of work is that the Phoenicians imported papyrusfrom Egypt and sold it abroad along with ancient wisdom texts. In doing so,they distributed the earliest known variant of The Kolbrin Bible, called TheGreat Book, to their various ports of call.The Great Book was originally penned in Hieratic by Egyptianacademicians after the Exodus of the Jews (ca 1500 BCE). Its original 21volumes were later translated using the 22-letter Phoenician alphabet (whichlater spawned the Greek, Roman and English alphabets of today).The only known copy of The Great Book to survive the millennia was theone exported to Britain by the Phoenicians in the 1st century BCE.Regrettably, much of it was destroyed when the Glastonbury Abbey was setablaze in 1184 CE. The attack on the Abbey was ordered by English KingHenry II, after he accused the Abbey priests of being mystical heretics.Fearing for their lives, the Celtic priests of the Abbey fled into hidingwith what remained of The Great Book. There, they transcribed the survivingPhoenician translations to bronze sheets and and stored them in copper-cladwooden boxes. This effort became known as The Bronzebook.In the 18th century CE The Bronzebook was merged with a Celticwisdom text called the Coelbook to become The Kolbrin Bible.
The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church By Michael Allen
2022 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0567699374 | PDF | 2 MB
The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.
Andrew Holleran, "The Kingdom of Sand: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 125086903X, 0374600961 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.43 MB
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds, "The K-12 Implosion
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1594036888 | 48 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been putting ever-growing amounts of money into its K-12 education system, while getting steadily poorer results. Now parents are losing faith in public schools, new alternatives are appearing, and change is on the way. The K-12 Implosion provides a succinct description of what's wrong, and where the solutions are likely to appear, along with advice for parents, educators, and taxpayers.
Mary Hilson, "The International Co-operative Alliance and the consumer co-operative movement in northern Europe, c. 1860-1939"
English | ISBN: 1526100800 | 2018 | 208 pages | EPUB | 544 KB
The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period. The fundamental question explored in the book concerns the meaning of co-operation. Was it a social movement or an economic enterprise? Did it aspire to challenge capitalism or to reform it? Did it contain at its heart a political vision for the transformation of society or was it simply a practical guide for organising a business? Hilson argues that it was both, but that an examination of the debates over the different meanings of co-operation can also illuminate broader questions about the emergence of consumer interests in the first half of the twentieth century, especially in a transnational context.