The Power of Comparison: A manual for better living by Robert Prior
English | September 15, 2019 | ISBN: 1916230806 | 232 pages | EPUB | 0.95 Mb
We're all products of our comparisons. What we think of ourselves, the way we feel and how we behave are affected by the comparisons we make. The comparison-generating properties of social media mean this is more relevant than ever before. Our comparisons also influence the everyday decisions we reach, often to our disadvantage. From eating to investing, driving to buying and working to dating, we can use them far better than we do. In "The Power of Comparison" you'll learn how to tackle the mental health problems comparisons can cause as well as ways to turn them to your psychological, physical and financial advantage. It's a manual for better living in this exciting, yet challenging, new era.

The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
English | May 16, 2017 | ISBN: 0143110292 | 208 pages | EPUB | 13 Mb
A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

Jenny Strauss Clay, "The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns"
English | 2006 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 1853996920 | PDF | 8,5 mb
Jenny Strauss Clay provides a systematic & convincing reading of the four Homeric hymns as a group, & in relation to the epics of Homer & the 'Theogony' of Hesiod. She reveals unexpected subtleties & coherence, & also shows how the hymns work in combination to provide an over-arching Greek worldview.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 2: From Wilson to Obama by Steven F. Hayward
English | January 9, 2017 | ISBN: 1621575799 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.2 MB
"Steven Hayward thinks presidents should be graded on their loyalty to their oath of office. Why, it's just crazy enough to work!"

The Political Philosophy of Fénelon by Ryan Patrick Hanley
English | February 28, 2020 | ISBN: 0190079630 | True EPUB | 324 pages | 1.3 MB
Fénelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. Despite his influence there has been to date no interpretive monograph in English devoted specifically to his thought. Ryan Patrick Hanley aims to correct this oversight, providing the first book-length interpretative study of Fénelon's writings to appear in English.

Simon Chesterman, David M. Malone, Santiago Villalpando, "The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties"
English | 2019 | pages: 737 | ISBN: 0190947845 | PDF | 4,2 mb
The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not what it has achieved (improvements in health and economic development, for example) or avoided (global war, say, or the use of weapons of mass destruction). It is, instead, the process through which the UN has transformed the structure of international law to expand the range and depth of subjects covered by treaties. This handbook offers the first sustained analysis of the UN as a forum in which and an institution through which treaties are negotiated and implemented. Chapters are written by authors from different fields, including academics and practitioners; lawyers and specialists from other social sciences (international relations, history, and science); professionals with an established reputation in the field; younger researchers and diplomats involved in the negotiation of multilateral treaties; and scholars with a broader view on the issues

Michael L. Morgan, "The Oxford Handbook of Levinas"
English | 2019 | pages: 881 | ISBN: 0190455934 | PDF | 119,7 mb
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes-the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others-speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida. And there are essays on how his thinking has been appropriated in moral and political thought, psychology, film criticism, and more, and on the relation between his thinking and religious themes and traditions. Finally, several essays deal

Bret W. Davis, "The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy"
English | 2019 | pages: 841 | ISBN: 0199945721, 0197650589 | PDF | 26,7 mb
Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is a foundation-laying reference work that covers, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topic in a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance.

The Oxford Companion to the Brontës: Anniversary Edition (Oxford Companions) by Christine Alexander, Margaret Smith
English | July 1, 2018 | ISBN: 0198819951 | True EPUB | 640 pages | 6.1 MB
This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontes commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell.

The Other Doolittle Raid: The Genesis of a World War II Bomber Group by Edward Clendenin
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07PPQ3VXH | 1292 pages | MOBI | 30 Mb
In 2001, Tombstone Pictures released the movie Pearl Harbor. Following the Japanese attack on the military installations on Oahu, the movie depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with his military and civilian advisors. Near the end of the meeting, Roosevelt demands that the United States bomb Japan.