José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal, "The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0190889764, 0190889772 | PDF | pages: 241 | 2.9 mb
Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial overhead.

Mark Tushnet, Mark A. Graber, Sanford Levinson, "The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0190245751, 0190654538 | PDF | pages: 1338 | 5.3 mb
The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution offers a comprehensive overview and introduction to the U.S. Constitution from the perspectives of history, political science, law, rights, and constitutional themes, while focusing on its development, structures, rights, and role in the U.S.

Jeffrey N. Gordon, Wolf-Georg Ringe, "The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0198743688, 0198743696 | PDF | pages: 1491 | 6.2 mb
Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of legal research in this field.

Sally Blundell, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade: New Edition "
English | ISBN: 1780261330 | 2013 | 144 pages | EPUB | 905 KB
An in-depth look at two decades of a global movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the free market, and a critical analysis of the state of fair trade today. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.

Lisa Ze Winters, "The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic"
English | 2016 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 0820348961, 0820353841 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.

Hyacinthe Destivelle O.P., Michael Plekon, Vitaly Permiakov, "The Moscow Council (1917-1918): The Creation of the Conciliar Institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0268063397 | PDF | pages: 466 | 2.2 mb
By the early twentieth century, a genuine renaissance of religious thought and a desire for ecclesial reform were emerging in the Russian Orthodox Church. With the end of tsarist rule and widespread dissatisfaction with government control of all aspects of church life, conditions were ripe for the Moscow Council of 1917-1918 to come into being.

Samuel Salzborn, "The Modern State and Its Enemies: Democracy, Nationalism and Antisemitism"
English | 2020 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 1785272209 | PDF | 3,8 mb
The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty. The modern state as a nation-state is thus based on the relationship between its territory, its people and its sovereign authority. As a result, nationalism and minorities policy are issues that are key to the state's self-conception. But historically, these have also been repeatedly used as weapons against the state, manifesting in separatism, irredentism and antidemocratic agitation. Both antisemitism and right-wing extremism have always stood in opposition to the democratic state and continue to do so. Antisemitism in particular is antithetical to modernity as it fundamentally rejects equality and individual liberty. This book presents its arguments in theoretical, historical and sociological terms, with a particular focus on examples from the German context.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), "The Military Balance 2018"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1857439554 | PDF | pages: 517 | 15.5 mb
The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A-Z entries list each country's military organisation, personnel numbers, equipment inventories, and relevant economic and demographic data. Regional and select country analyses cover the major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics. The opening graphics section displays notable defence statistics, while additional data sets detail selected arms orders and military exercises, as well as comparative defence expenditure and personnel numbers. The Military Balance is an indispensable handbook for anyone conducting serious analysis of security policy and military affairs. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, founded in 1958, is an independent centre for research, analysis and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military dimension.

The Mathematics of Time: Essays on Dynamical Systems, Economic Processes, and Related Topics by Steve Smale
English | PDF | 1980 | 154 Pages | ISBN : 0387905197 | 20.9 MB
Introduction to conjugacy problems for difieomorphisms. This is a survey article on the area of global analysis defined by differentiable dynamical systems or equivalently the action (differentiable) of a Lie group G on a manifold M. An action is a homomorphism G-Diff(M) such that the induced map GXM-M is differentiable. Here Diff(M) is the group of all diffeomorphisms of M and a diffeomorphism is a differentiable map with a differentiable inverse. Everything will be discussed here from the C«> or C" point of view. All manifolds maps, etc. will be differentiable (Cr, 1;;:; r ~ 00) unless stated otherwise.

Evie Vane, "The Little Guide to Getting Tied Up: Tips for Rope Bondage Bottoms"
English | ISBN: 1500771686 | 2014 | 112 pages | EPUB | 1331 KB
This and Evie Vane's award-winning book *Better Bondage for Every Body* (

https://www.amazon.com/dp/153315211X

) are the only two books on getting tied up, from bedroom play to advanced suspensions. You'll learn all about finding the right rope partner, types of rope scenes, avoiding injuries, pain processing, and the 7 Helpful Skills of Rope Bottoming, including Mindfulness, Being Prepared, and Communicating With Your Rope Top. You'll also learn how to evaluate a suspension hardpoint for safety and much more!Sprinkled throughout are photos plus true stories of scenes that went wrong and scenes that went right. You'll also find a list of valuable rope bottoming resources.If you're interested in rope bondage of any kind, whether in the bedroom, at a BDSM club or dungeon, or even in front of an audience, this guide is a must-read.