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Autocracy and Health Governance in Russia
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031057880 | 389 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients' needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal - and many Russians take such claims at face value - but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players' mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putin's leadership.

Phyllis S. Kosminsky, John R. Jordan, "Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications"
English | 2016 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 041585721X | PDF | 3,9 mb
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies and thanatology, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how and why people grieve and how we can help the bereaved. In its pages, clinicians and students will gain a new understanding of the etiology of complicated grief and its treatment and will become better equipped to formulate accurate and specific case conceptualization and treatment plans. The authors also illustrate the ways in which the therapeutic relationship is a crucially important―though largely unrecognized―element in grief therapy, and offer guidelines for an attachment informed view of the therapeutic relationship that can serve as the foundation of all grief therapy.

John M. Findlay, Bruce W. Hevly, "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 029599097X, 0295996978 | 384 pages | EPUB | 7.2 MB
Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine

Applied Psychology Readings: Selected Papers from the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology 2021
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811950857 | 328 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2021 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP) organised and facilitated by East Asia Research in Singapore. The selection of papers addresses the latest innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges encountered in the field, and poses practical solutions within the field of applied psychology. The theme for 2021 is psychological well-being, and so the collection covers aspects of clinical and non-clinical psychological well-being in different arenas, from education to the workplace. Following a rigorous peer-review process led by the School of Psychology at the University of Derby, this collection is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and practitioners looking to keep themselves up-to-date with recent research in the field. The book is of interest to educators and practitioners in applied psychology focused on well-being.

Applied Orbit Perturbation and Maintenance By Chao, Chia-Chun
2005 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 1884989179 | PDF | 13 MB
Although a good number of texts on the principles and applications of astrodynamics have been published, a book is needed to summarize the perturbation theories and control, or station keeping, algorithms for understanding the dynamics, stability, and maintenance of those orbits. This book was written to meet that need. It summarizes, in appropriate technical and mathematical detail, perturbation theories and station keeping algorithms for various types of mission orbits and constellations. Space mission designers/analysts and systems engineers will put this book to great use. - Data and information appearing in this book are for informational purposes only. AIAA and the author are not responsible for any injury or damage resulting from use or reliance, nor do AIAA and the author warrant that use or reliance will be free from privately owned rights

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
English | February 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1328974626 | 327 pages | PDF | 3.92 Mb
"Epic and engrossing." -The New York Times Book Review

Bhavani Thuraisingham, Satyen Abrol, Raymond Heatherly, "Analyzing and Securing Social Networks"
English | 2020 | pages: 586 | ISBN: 0367658542, 148224327X | PDF | 20,7 mb
Analyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data mining technologies for analyzing these networks and extracting useful information such as location, demographics, and sentiments of the participants of the network, and (ii) security and privacy technologies that ensure the privacy of the participants of the network as well as provide controlled access to the information posted and exchanged by the participants.

Robert S. Jordan, "An Unsung Soldier: The Life of Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 161251278X | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.2 mb
Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster was one of the leading soldier-scholars of his time. He stood as a key figure among the dominant American military and political personalities during the Cold War. Goodpaster served Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in establishing the international military component of NATO and then served as Staff Secretary and Defense Liaison Officer in the Eisenhower White House. He achieved the highest international military command assignment possible when, after serving in Vietnam as Deputy Commander, he was appointed NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He was called out of retirement to restore the integrity of West Point after a major ethical crisis. Upon his final retirement and for over a quarter-century thereafter, he was actively involved in both the formal and informal world of Washington policy-making, making his mark repeatedly as a respected participant.

An Unrecognized Ally: The Transition of the U.S.-Taiwan Military Relations Since 1979 by Tony C.K. To
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TZZ78D8 | 155 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb
The relations between the United States and Taiwan is a rare, if not only, relations in the history of international relations. Taiwan, is a de facto military ally of the United States. However, the United States doesn't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state. How come the United States would build up military alliance with a government she even recognizes as a state? And how is it possible the United States selling billions of dollar worth weapons to this "non-state actor"? Furthermore, the relations between the United States and Taiwan was never pure economical, but based in a morale support with realpolitik interest of the U.S.