Dreams of a Lifetime
by Karen A. Cerulo;Janet M. Ruane;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0691229090 | 281 pages | True PDF EPUB | 15.13 MB
Brian P. Levack, "Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America"
English | ISBN: 0192847406 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period. Demonstrating broad chronological and thematic range, the historian Brian P. Levack explains that trust in public institutions is more tenuous and difficult to restore once it has been betrayed than trust in one's family, friends, and neighbors, because the vast majority of the populace do not personally know the officials who run large national institutions. Institutional distrust shaped the political, legal, economic, and religious history of England, Scotland, and the British colonies in America. It provided a theoretical and rhetorical foundation for the two English revolutions of the seventeenth century and the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century. It also inspired reforms of criminal procedure, changes
Mark DeYmaz, "Disruption: Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community"
English | ISBN: 071808909X | 2017 | 224 pages | EPUB | 913 KB
Current church planting, growth, and development strategies cannot be sustained.
Discrete Quantum Walks on Graphs and Digraphs
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009261681 | 151 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Discrete quantum walks are quantum analogues of classical random walks. They are an important tool in quantum computing and a number of algorithms can be viewed as discrete quantum walks, in particular Grover's search algorithm. These walks are constructed on an underlying graph, and so there is a relation between properties of walks and properties of the graph. This book studies the mathematical problems that arise from this connection, and the different classes of walks that arise. Written at a level suitable for graduate students in mathematics, the only prerequisites are linear algebra and basic graph theory; no prior knowledge of physics is required. The text serves as an introduction to this important and rapidly developing area for mathematicians and as a detailed reference for computer scientists and physicists working on quantum information theory.
Thibaut Raboin, "Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK: Constructing a queer haven"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0719099633 | PDF | pages: 177 | 2.8 mb
This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.
Disaster Risk by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Christopher Gomez
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1138204331, 113820434X | 606 pages | PDF | 143 MB
The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/science. It will also be of relevance to students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical science disciplines, including public health and public policy, sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.
Digitalisation, Sustainability, and the Banking and Capital Markets Union:
Thoughts on Current Issues of EU Financial Regulation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031170768 | 601 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Design Better and Build Your Brand in Canva
by Goodsell, Laura;Friston, Janine;Palfreyman, Heather;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1800569335 | 299 pages | True PDF | 25.04 MB
Depression Is Contagious: How the Most Common Mood Disorder Is Spreading Around the World and How to Stop It By Michael D. Yapko
2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1416590749 | EPUB | 2 MB
Depression is the world's most common mood disorder, and it is spreading like a viral contagion. You can't catch depression in the same way you catch a cold, but the latest research provides overwhelming support that moods spread through social conditions, defining depression as more a social problem than a medical illness. Our social lives directly shape our brain chemistry and powerfully affect the way we think and feel-and our brains can change for the better with healthy social circumstances as much as they can change with medication. Drugs may address some of depression's symptoms, but Dr. Yapko convincingly argues that we need to treat depression at its root, by building social skills and improving relationships, in order to halt the spread of this debilitating disorder. Filled with practical exercises and illustrative examples, his groundbreaking plan guides readers to identify key social patterns that reinforce depression so they can learn the skills to overcome depression and even prevent new episodes from occurring.Provocative and controversial as well as prescriptive and hopeful, Depression Is Contagious investigates the social phenomenon of depression's epidemic-like spread while offering a more realistic road to recovery.
Democracy and Famine By Olivier Rubin
2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415598222 | PDF | 3 MB
Famine is the most extreme manifestation of the existence of poverty, inequality and political apathy. Whereas poverty, hunger and diseases are not easily eradicated in the world today, famines are often perceived to be relatively simple to avert. However, the political incentives to prevent famines are not always present. Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen, whose influential hypothesis that democratic institutions together with a free press provide effective protection from famine, Democracy and Famine is a study combining qualitative and quantitative evidence, analysing the effect of democracy on famine prevention. The book's overall framework moves from placing political systems at the heart of famine protection to look at the political processes involved. Using a case study based approach drawing on famines from India, Malawi and Niger; Democracy and Famine will be of interest to scholars and students of democracy, comparative politics and international relations.