Chonky Amigurumi: How to Crochet Amazing Critters & Creatures with Chunky Yarn by Sarah Csiacsek
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0744059208 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 153.38 MB
Your new friends are cute, huggable-and chonky!
Vaclav Smil, "China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563240416, 0873328191 | PDF | pages: 280 | 21.0 mb
In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society, all seen through the critical environmental constraints and impacts.
Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda in Africa By Dawn Nagar
2021 | 598 Pages | ISBN: 3030835227 | PDF | 7 MB
This book concerns the United Nations' peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests. Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africa's 55 states and the African Union's three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty.This book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which resonates to scholarsof international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics.
Daisaku Higashi, "Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor"
English | 2015 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1138850403, 1138239852 | PDF | 11,0 mb
Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners.
Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009273124 | 242 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Caste, Knowledge, and Power investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuing of these oppressive practices. The author situates the domination and subordination in the domain of knowledge production in India not just in the emergence of colonial modernity but in the formation of colonial-Brahminical modernity. It engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial-Brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual hierarchy) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge.
Cast Iron Skillet One-Pan Meals: 75 Family-Friendly Recipes for Everyday Dinners by Jackie Freeman
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1632174200 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 76.64 MB
Whip up 75 delicious, complete one-dish meals to make in your cast iron skillet.
Ellen Johnston McHenry, "Carbon Chemistry"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0982537727 | PDF | pages: 176 | 53.4 mb
Carbon Chemistry is an introduction to organic chemistry and biochemistry for ages 9-14. It is intended as a follow-up to "The Elements" by the same author, but can be used separately if the student has some basic knowledge of chemistry and the Periodic Table. The first section is a student booklet of eleven chapters, covering topics such as the carbon atom, hydrocarbons, alkanes and alkenes, functional groups, soaps, plastics, rubber, nylon, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, DNA and the carbon cycle. Despite the "heavy" nature of the topics, the text is light, easy-to-read and even humorous in many places. Some written activities and review questions are provided at the end of each chapter. The second section is a teacher's guide that provides additional activities including games, songs, recipes, experiments, skits, and crafts.
Njeri Githire, "Cannibal Writes: Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0252038789 | PDF | pages: 257 | 2.0 mb
Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination.
Camera Guide: Learn What Your Digital Camera Has to Offer by George Stone
English | September 22, 2017 | ISBN: 1976453437 | 66 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Do you want to get the most of your camera? Do you want to create fantastic shots with it and put it on your Instagram? Do you want to become a full-fledged photographer, someday? Do you want to take amazing scenery shots that are postcard perfect?
Camera Guide: A Beginners Guide to Digital Photography by George Stone
English | October 6, 2017 | ISBN: 1978024002 | 56 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb
Are you interested in photography? Have you recently purchased a digital camera and want to get the most out of it? You probably need help and this new book provides you with everything you need to know to get started taking fantastic photographs, almost at once; photos so good, your friends will be wondering if you've taken a professional course. Inside the pages you'll not just find the basic principles of photography, but also in-depth explanations on things like: