Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031179811 | 125 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
Our digital existence is hurried and fast. We are tied to the present, or perhaps we are not present enough: immersed in digital social media and processes by artificial intelligence, we are hardly present to ourselves and to others, and feel alienated from nature. We are also made to fear climate change and the end of humanity. How can we live a good life and give meaning to our lives under these conditions? How can and should we co-exist today?
Meadow Shadowhawk, "Detox Your Place: Room by Room Remedies for Nontoxic Living "
English | ISBN: 1621061493 | 2020 | 191 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Looking to detox your home without the use of harsh chemicals, overly processed cleaning products, or by any other questionable means? Meadow Shadowhawk will help you through the process, with well-researched advice about topics like making your own cleaning products, selecting paint, choosing a vacuum cleaner, and even replacing furniture and insulation. Includes recipes for creating your own versions of everyday items, tips on what to buy (and what to avoid!), and what the facts are about various things. This book is a guide to overhauling your home to make it safer and more comfortable for yourself, your family, and your pets. Here's to living a happier, healthier life!
Vu Hong Lien, Peter Sharrock, "Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam"
English | 2015 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 1780233647 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Outside of its war with the United States, Vietnam's past has often been neglected and understudied. Whether as an aspiring subordinate or a rebel province, Vietnam has been viewed by most historians in relation to its larger neighbor to the north, China. Seeking to reshape these accounts, Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger chronicles the vast sweep of Vietnam's tumultuous history, from the Bronze Age to the present day, in order to lay out the first English-language account of the full story of the Vietnamese people.
Default Nudges: From People's Experiences to Policymaking Implications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031215575 | 123 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
All over the world, private and public institutions have been attracted to "nudges," understood as interventions that preserve freedom of choice, but that steer people in particular directions. The most effective nudges are often "defaults," which establish what happens if people do nothing. For example, automatic enrollment in savings plans is a default nudge, as is automatic enrollment in green energy.
Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses: Stories and Strategies for Success
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031110153 | 494 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10.4 MB
This book identifies and challenges assumptions about the doctorate and the discourses associated with it. The editors and contributors subvert and transform the de facto assumptions that frame the ways in which 'the doctorate' is spoken and written, and thus underpin approaches to planning, conducting and evaluating doctoral research. Giving voice to doctoral students and supervisors, the book opens a pathway for their own stories: why students entered doctoral study, the understandings and experiences they gleaned from it, and the implications for their own character. The book questions what kinds of discourses help to construct contemporary doctoral research, and how these might be de- and reconstructed, and asks what doctoral study might look like in the future. Academics, students and practitioners alike will find an avenue into rigorous research design from reflective and insightful scholars who provide a voice for doctoral strategies for success.
Death Determination by Neurologic Criteria: Areas of Consensus and Controversy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031159462 | 914 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18.4 MB
This book presents principal controversies over the determination of death by neurologic criteria ("brain death"). The editors and authors are exceedingly well-versed in this subject and are on the forefront of the current debates. The content is divided in the following disciplinary: philosophical (conceptual), medical, scientific, legal, religious, and ethical/social. Many of the topics feature pro-con debates, allowing readers to consider the merits of the arguments and decide their own position. The work is targeted to clinicians and nurses who treat critically ill and dying patients, organ donation personnel, ethicists and philosophers who write on end-of-life issues, and lawyers and legislative/public policy professionals who draft laws on death determination. It identifies and debates the essential controversies currently raging in academic and public policy circles over the medical adequacy, scientific validity, and conceptual coherence of death determination by neurologic criteria. Whether a professional or a student, the reader will be given a comprehensive course in the most pressing controversies and areas of consensus in the determination of death by neurologic criteria.
Lucinao Wernicke, "Dark Goals: How History's Worst Tyrants Have Used and Abused the Game of Soccer"
English | ISBN: 1989555845 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB | 379 KB
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Evita and Juan Peron, Augusto Pinochet, and Pablo Escobar
Sheila Weller, "Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip"
English | ISBN: 0312283016 | 2004 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father.
Lindsey Bowden, "Damn Fine Cherry Pie: And Other Recipes from TV's Twin Peaks"
English | 2016 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0062495550 | EPUB | 19,6 mb
A damn fine collection of seventy-five mouthwatering recipes, inspired by iconic scenes and characters from David Lynch's groundbreaking cult classic series Twin Peaks-returning to television in 2017 with eighteen new episodes on Showtime.
Cricket in the First World War
by John Broom;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1526780135 | 249 pages | True PDF EPUB | 62.9 MB