Thich Nhat Hanh, "Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life"
English | ISBN: 0553351397 | | 134 pages | EPUB | 103 KB
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment.
Raphaël Kies, "Is Europe Listening to Us?: Successes and Failures of EU Citizen Consultations"
English | ISBN: 1409454355 | 2013 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
How can the European Union engage and connect with the people it aims to represent? What initiatives and schemes have been used to engage EU citizens? To what extent can such procedures be considered a move forward towards a more participative and democratic Europe? This collection of internationally recognised specialists in European integration and innovative democratic practices seek to answer these key questions, explore European citizens' thoughts and opinions about the EU and evaluate the governing elite's attempts to engage with the public. It offers critical analysis of EU justifications and strategies for implementing Deliberative Citizens Involvement Projects and focuses on some of the major participative experiences trialled and implemented by EU institutions. By comparing these different attempts to increase and bolster the participation of EU citizens and evaluating their impact the book offers valuable and original material on the civic involvement of EU citizens and the legitimacy of the EU decision making process.
Chris Hedges, "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress"
English | ISBN: 156858640X | 2011 | 368 pages | EPUB | 447 KB
Drawing on two decades of experience as a war correspondent and based on his numerous columns for Truthdig, Chris Hedges presents The World As It Is, a panorama of the American empire at home and abroad, from the coarsening effect of America's War on Terror to the front lines in the Middle East and South Asia and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Robert Perez, "Is My Machine OK?: A Field Guide to Assessing Process Machinery"
English | 2011 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0831134402 | PDF | 15,6 mb
Are you responsible for your plant's industrial machines?Is My Machine OK?is a compact and handy reference on the potential risks of machine failure and safe machinery operation. AuthorsRobert PerezandAndre Conkey,aided by several contributors, provide 225 pages in this hardcover guide. It foms a solid basis for reliable and safe machine operations. The authors employ their extensive background to combine the most commonly used assessment tools in a single source.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1509953183 | 199 pages | True PDF EPUB | 13.65 MB
What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well as the regulatory options available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital advancements.
From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming consequences for everyone's lives, reshaping the labour market and straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement.
Kirk W. Johnson, "To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 147671049X, 1476710481 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 2.5 mb
The "searing" (The New Yorker), "must read" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of "one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq" (Dexter Filkins).
Rogers M. Smith, "That Is Not Who We Are!: Populism and Peoplehood "
English | ISBN: 0300229399 | 2020 | 176 pages | PDF | 807 KB
How can liberals offer "stories of peoplehood" that can compete with illiberal populist and nationalist stories?
Domingo Martinez, "My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir"
English | ISBN: 149300140X | 2014 | 320 pages | EPUB | 746 KB
With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiancé Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. He now chronicles this painful episode in his life, with flashbacks to their tenuous romantic relationship, and how her accident and subsequent coma ultimately causes him to unravel emotionally. This pivotal moment, which began with an alarming call in the middle of the night, parallels another gut-wrenching experience from the past when his youngest brother's life hangs in the balance. Martinez once again brilliantly examines the complicated connections between family, friends, and loved ones. Feeling estranged from his family in Texas over the years, isolated and alone in Seattle, he turns to writing as a therapeutic tool. The underlying themes of addiction and recovery and their powerful impact on family dynamics also emerge within the narrative, as he struggles with his inner demons. These two traumatic life events actually bring Martinez closer to the family that he has in many ways spend years trying to deny, strengthening their bonds and healing old wounds. When Martinez falls apart completely, he finds his family, his redemption, and a new beginning with the love of his life, who encourages him to write his way out of the pain in order to save his own life.
Olivier Roy, Cynthia Schoch, "Is Europe Christian?"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0190099933 | PDF | pages: 193 | 1.8 mb
As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism and immigration, Olivier Roy interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe?
Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes by James Agee
English | October 1, 2005 | ISBN: 0823224929 | True EPUB/PDF | 64 pages | 1.7/0.4 MB
For the first time in book form―a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.