Bryan R. Early, "Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail"
English | ISBN: 0804792739 | 2015 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are imposed. The costs of these failed sanctions policies can be significant for the states that impose them, their targets, and the other countries they affect. Explaining economic sanctions' high failure rate therefore constitutes a vital endeavor for academics and policy-makers alike. Busted Sanctions seeks to provide this explanation, and reveals that the primary cause of this failure is third-party spoilers, or sanctions busters, who undercut sanctioning efforts by providing their targets with extensive foreign aid or sanctions-busting trade. In quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing over 60 years of U.S. economic sanctions, Bryan Early reveals that both types of third-party sanctions busters have played a major role in undermining U.S. economic sanctions. Surprisingly, his analysis also reveals that the United States' closest allies are often its sanctions' worst enemies. The book offers the first comprehensive explanation for why different types of sanctions busting occur and reveals the devastating effects it has on economic sanctions' chances of success.

Building a Culture of Conscious Leadership
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032224878 | 191 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
A significant driver of disengagement amongst employees is a lack of psychological safety generated from weak and underdeveloped intra- and interpersonal skills on the part of managers. Addressing the issue head on, this book enables leaders to lead with conscious awareness to build and sustain psychologically safe cultures through which team members may positively engage with work in a far more meaningful and purposeful way.

Ziemia została opanowana przez mutujących obcych, którzy zagrażają życiu ostatnich ocalałych ludzi. Tylko Projekt Phoenix, tajna organizacja skupiająca najtęższe umysły i najodważniejszych żołnierzy na świecie, może odeprzeć atak najeźdźców i zapobiec zagładzie. Twoim zadaniem jest objąć dowodzenie nad tą organizacją: prowadzić badania, opracowywać nowe technologie i techniki, eksplorować zniszczony świat, zarządzać zasobami i toczyć trudne bitwy.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton, "Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0767909135, 0385503385 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.4 mb
A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.

Jack Andraka, Matthew Lysiak, "Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0062369652, 1922247928 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 3.9 mb
Featured in the 2018 movie Science Fair!

Dick Camp, "Boots on the Ground: The Fight to Liberate Afghanistan from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, 2001-2002"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0760341117 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 39.3 mb
Boots on the Ground is a narrative account of the American war to free Afghanistan from al Qaeda and the Taliban. Author Dick Camp uses extensive firsthand accounts that bring the text alive. Camp's exciting narrative covers the origins of American combat involvement in the country as well as the post-9/11 campaigns that initially brought victory over al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. In an incisive epilogue, he describes how we let victory in Afghanistan slip away to fight a war in Iraq.

Blended Learning: Engaging Students in the New Normal Era: 15th International Conference, ICBL 2022, Hong Kong, China, July 19-22, 2022, Proceedings by Richard Chen Li
English | EPUB | 2022 | 382 Pages | ISBN : 3031089383 | 31.9 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2022, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2022.

Big Data Smack: How To Choose The Correct Technology: Scala/spark, Mesos, Akka,cassandra & Kafka In Every Layer by Clint Lambert
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B65J5HQV | 275 pages | EPUB | 25 Mb
This book is about how to incorporate full-stack open source big data architecture and just how to choose the appropriate technology- Scala/Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and also Kafka- in every layer. Large information style is coming to be a demand for several ventures. Until now, nonetheless, the emphasis has actually mainly gotten on collecting, accumulating, as well as crunching huge datasets in a timely fashion. In most cases now, companies need greater than one paradigm to execute effective evaluations.

William Walker, "Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1501117912, 1501117890 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 21.2 mb
A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever-World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive-and the shocking American cover-up at its heart.

Bench Joinery Level 2 Construction Award and NVQ: Diploma and NVQ by Martin Burdfield
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0340983337 | 307 pages | PDF | 138 MB
Written to the very latest VRQ and NVQ schemes, this new full-colour resource combines an engaging visual style with the highest level of factual accuracy and theoretical rigour. This textbook is one that students will find easy to read and lecturers can trust.