Andrew Kleine, "City on the Line: How Baltimore Transformed Its Budget to Beat the Great Recession and Deliver Outcomes"
English | ISBN: 1538121883 | 2018 | 292 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job - deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars - hasn't changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore's radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools, safer streets, and stronger neighborhoods-during one of the most tumultuous decades in the city's history. Elected officials, executives, and citizens alike will be equipped to transform budgets in their city, state, or any other mission-driven organization.

Natasha Hurley, "Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1517900352 | PDF | pages: 340 | 6.4 mb
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives

Srila Roy, "Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India "
English | ISBN: 1478018887 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India's liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and NGOs signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles for women's rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activist and NGO work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women's empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism, Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped contemporary queer and nonqueer neoliberal feminisms. The interplay between historic techniques of activist governance and queer feminist governmentality's focus on changing the self offers a new way of knowing feminism-both as always already co-opted and as a transformative force in the world.

Erica Gibson, "Ceramic Makers' Marks (Guides to Historical Artifacts)"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1598741896, 1598741888 | PDF | pages: 148 | 81.6 mb
Erica Gibson's comprehensive guide provides a much-needed catalogue of ceramic makers' marks of British, French, German, and American origin found in North American archaeological sites. Consisting of nearly 350 marks from 112 different manufacturers from the mid-19th through early 20th century, this catalog provides full information on both the history of the mark and its variants, as well as details about the manufacturer. A set of indexes allow for searches by manufacturer, location, mark elements, and common words used. This guide will be of interest not only to historical archaeologists, but material culture specialists, collectors, museum professionals, students, art historians, and others interested in ceramics.

Censuses and Census Takers: A Global History by Gunnar Thorvaldsen
English | 2017 | ISBN: 113855328X, 0367348934 | 340 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population. There is a focus on the efforts and destinies of census takers and the development of methods used to collect information into the census questionnaires. The book highlights international cooperation in census taking, as well as how computerized access to census data facilitates genealogical studies and statistical research on both historical and contemporary societies. It deals with such questions as "Why did the French and British gentry block efforts at census taking in the 18th century?"; "What role did German censuses play during Holocaust?"; Why were the Soviet census directors executed as part of the Moscow processes?"; "Why did US states sue the Census Bureau in the 1970s?"; "How do wars and revolutions affect census taking?". The text ends by discussing whether the days of the population census as we know it are numbered, since countries exceedingly construct censuses by combining information from population registers rather than with questionnaires.

Cast Iron Recipe Book: The Cast Iron Cookbook for Beginners by Nancy Silverman
English | May 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1096512548 | 85 pages | EPUB | 2.90 Mb
If you currently own a cast iron skillet but have no clue on how to use it, then stop right here and get this cookbook!

Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania By Irina Georgescu
2020 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0711241821 | EPUB | 32 MB
The first book to celebrate the culturally diverse and delicious cuisine of Romania. A true fusion of East and West, where traditional recipes are given a truly modern twist.Romania is a true cultural melting pot, its character rooted in many traditions from Greek, Turkish, and Slavic in the south and east, to Austrian, Hungarian, and Saxon in the north and west.Carpathia, the first book from food writer Irina Georgescu, aims to introduce readers to Romania's unique, bold and delicious cuisine. Bringing the country to life with stunning photography and recipes, it will take the reader on a culinary journey to the very heart of the Balkans, exploring Romania's history, traditions, and food, one mouth-watering recipe at a time.From chargrilled eggplants, polenta fritters, and butter bean hummus, to tangy bor?, stuffed breads, and Viennese-style layer cakes, this book is a true celebration of a country that's never afraid to mix things up!

Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19: Acute and Long-Term Impacts by Maciej Banach
English | PDF | 2022 | 434 Pages | ISBN : 3031154770 | 15.2 MB
This book is the first comprehensive approach on COVID-19 cardiac complications, both during the acute phase as well as in the long-COVID period. It provides an up-to-date and highly illustrated summary of the biology of SARS-CoV-2, the course of COVID-19, risk factors that worsen the disease in COVID-19 patients, clinical features of COVID-19 patients, COVID-19 cardiological complications, treatment, and prevention methods, and long-term cardiological aspects of COVID-19.

Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19: Acute and Long-Term Impacts by Maciej Banach
English | EPUB | 2022 | 434 Pages | ISBN : 3031154770 | 30 MB
This book is the first comprehensive approach on COVID-19 cardiac complications, both during the acute phase as well as in the long-COVID period. It provides an up-to-date and highly illustrated summary of the biology of SARS-CoV-2, the course of COVID-19, risk factors that worsen the disease in COVID-19 patients, clinical features of COVID-19 patients, COVID-19 cardiological complications, treatment, and prevention methods, and long-term cardiological aspects of COVID-19.

Anthony Giddens, "Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber"
English | 1973 | ISBN: 0521097851, 0521082935 | PDF | pages: 278 | 19.2 mb
Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors, and discusses misconceptions of some conventional views on the subject.