, "Critical Thinking: A Practical Guide to Solving Problems and Making the Right Decisions at Work and in Everyday Life. Think Critically, Develop Effective Communication, Improve Your Listening Skills"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1914040082 | ASIN: B08W3PZ6FQ, B08PJM35P6 | EPUB | pages: 102 | 0.1 mb
Do you have difficulty solving conflicts and problems at work and in your daily life? Do you find it difficult to interact with people in professional and personal settings?

Tom Daems, "Criminology and Democratic Politics "
English | ISBN: 0367421178 | 2020 | 300 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make sense of the uses, non-uses, and abuses of criminology? Such questions are far from new, but in recent times they have moved to the centre of debate in criminology in different parts of the world.

Core Java for the Impatient, 3rd Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9780138051846 | 576 Pages | PDF EPUB | 38 MB
Modern Java introduces major enhancements that impact the core Java technologies and APIs at the heart of the Java platform. Many old Java idioms are no longer needed and new features such as modularization make you far more effective. However, navigating these changes can be challenging. Core Java for the Impatient, Third Edition, is a complete yet concise guide that includes all the latest changes through Java 17. Written by Cay S. Horstmann-primary author of the classic two-volume Core Java-this indispensable tutorial offers a faster, easier pathway for learning modern Java.

Euel W. Elliott, "Controversies In Political Economy"
English | ISBN: 0367163055 | 2020 | 236 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book addresses a number of controversies in political economy of political support in three Anglo-American polities―Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. It addresses a range of theoretical issues concerning which variables properly belong in political economy models.

Elizabeth Metcalfe, "Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action: Patterns, Trends and Understandings "
English | ISBN: 1447324838 | 2018 | 280 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
There are great expectations of voluntary action in contemporary Britain but limited in-depth insight into the level, distribution and understanding of what constitutes voluntary activity. Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this book charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals' accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourses. Addressing fundamental questions such as whether the public are cynical about or receptive to calls for greater voluntary action, the book considers whether respective government expectations of volunteering can really be fulfilled. Is Britain really a "shared society", or a "big society", and what is the scope for expansion of voluntary effort? This pioneering study combines rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, and data from many longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys. Part of the Third Sector Research Series, this book is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Andrzej Szeptycki, "Contemporary Relations between Poland and Ukraine: The "Strategic Partnership" and the Limits Thereof "
English | ISBN: 3631792972 | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 14 MB
The book analyses contemporary relations between two biggest states in East-Central Europe: Poland and Ukraine. This topic is of interest for three reasons: difficult history of the two countries, different models of development adopted after the end of communism and the common challenge of aggressive Russian policy. The timeframe of the work is from 1989-2018, with an emphasis on the period after 2014, when the Russian-Ukrainian war began. The book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the history and determinants of Polish-Ukrainian relations. The second one presents political, economic, social and military relations between the two states. The last part focuses on more specific issues such as historical memory, the Polish-Ukrainian border and relations with the EU.

Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes By Pamela Elizabeth Clark, Chuck Clark (auth.)
2013 | 116 Pages | ISBN: 1461477611 | PDF | 10 MB
Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and thus allow spatial and dynamic relationships to be observed in a new way useful to understanding these processes. CSNB mapping presents a new approach to visualization that produces maps markedly different from those produced by conventional cartographic methods. In this approach, any body can be represented by a 3D coordinate system. For a regular body, with its surface relatively smooth on the scale of its size, locations of features can be represented by definite geographic grid (latitude and longitude) and elevation, or deviation from the triaxial ellipsoid defined surface. A continuous surface on this body can be segmented, its distinctive regional terranes enclosed, and their inter-relationships defined, by using selected morphologically identifiable relief features (e.g., continental divides, plate boundaries, river or current systems). In this way, regions of distinction on a large, essentially spherical body can be mapped as two-dimensional 'facets' with their boundaries representing regional to global-scale asymmetries (e.g., continental crust, continental and oceanic crust on the Earth, farside original thicker crust and nearside thinner impact punctuated crust on the Moon). In an analogous manner, an irregular object such as an asteroid, with a surface that is rough on the scale of its size, would be logically segmented along edges of its impact-generated faces. Bounded faces are imagined with hinges at occasional points along boundaries, resulting in a foldable 'shape model.' Thus, bounded faces grow organically out of the most compelling natural features. Obvious boundaries control the map's extremities, and peripheral regions are not dismembered or grossly distorted as in conventional map projections. 2D maps and 3D models grow out of an object's most obvious face or terrane 'edges,' instead of arbitrarily by imposing a regular grid system or using regularly shaped facets to represent an irregular surface.

Dianne Ramdeholl, "Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education: Counternarratives for Racial Justice"
English | ISBN: 0367699826 | 2022 | 134 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people's words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles.

Toshiaki Tachibanaki, "Confronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences, and Reform"
English | ISBN: 0262201585 | 2005 | 247 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Contrary to general belief, and to Japan's own self-image, inequality of income and wealth distribution in Japan has grown in the past two decades. In this well-written and accessible book, Toshiaki Tachibanaki analyzes the movement toward more income inequality in Japan and offers policy recommendations to counter the trend. Tachibanaki, Japan's leading expert on income distribution, draws on new statistical data covering wealth, inheritance, farm and business holdings, salary, and other relevant factors, to demonstrate that Japan can no longer be thought of as a "90 percent middle-class society."

Tony Benn, "Conflicts of Interest: Diaries, 1977-80"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0099898705 | ASIN: B00AWPV9JE | EPUB | pages: 675 | 3.4 mb
In this, the fourth volume of Tony Benn's diaries, the Labour Government continues its fight for survival. Important developments are occurring both at home and internationally. In Britain, Benn as Secretary of State for Energy is directly involved with Windscale and decisions about nuclear power and oil policy. Abroad, the Government is concerned with Carter's reappraisal of American foreign policy, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and problems of EEC membership.