Ibrahim Natil, "Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations: Political, Social and Financial Shifts "
English | ISBN: 0367512580 | 2020 | 170 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
This book provides an insight into the historical changes and present-day circumstances that have influenced, and continue to influence, the development and future of civil society.

Richard Gillespie, "Barcelona, the Left and the Independence Movement in Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1857439627 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 274 KB
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en Comú, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen, addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the environment for those who live in the Catalan capital.

Tanja Dramac Jiries, "Balkan Fighters in the Syrian War "
English | ISBN: 0367633795 | 2021 | 184 pages | EPUB | 786 KB
This book analyses the process of the recruitment of foreign fighters from the Western Balkans, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, to Syria and Iraq from 2012 to 2015.

W.K. Stratton, "Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1400051118 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.6 mb
It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it's finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football game. And in the football-obsessed state that is Texas, no single game resonates more.

David McGrane, "Back to Blakeney: The Revitalization of the Democratic State"
English | ISBN: 0889776822 | 2019 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1035 KB
A collection of essays reflecting on the legacy of Saskatchewan social justice-driven politician Allan Blakeney

Harry C. Boyte, "Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment"
English | ISBN: 0826522173 | 2018 | 200 pages | EPUB | 971 KB
In the face of authoritarian, divisive trends and multiplying crises, when politics-as-usual is stymied, Awakening Democracy through Public Work shows it is possible to build foundations for a democratic awakening grounded in deep American traditions of a citizen-centered commonwealth.

Dong Wang, "Avoiding the 'Thucydides Trap' "
English | ISBN: 0815383096 | 2020 | 174 pages | EPUB | 787 KB
As the relationship between China and the United States becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, leaders in Beijing and Washington are struggling to establish a solid common foundation on which to expand and deepen bilateral relations.

Automatic Nonuniform Random Variate Generation by Wolfgang Hörmann, Josef Leydold, Gerhard Derflinger
English | PDF | 2004 | 439 Pages | ISBN : 3540406522 | 39.1 MB
Non-uniform random variate generation is an established research area in the intersection of mathematics, statistics and computer science. Although random variate generation with popular standard distributions have become part of every course on discrete event simulation and on Monte Carlo methods, the recent concept of universal (also called automatic or black-box) random variate generation can only be found dispersed in literature.

Bernard S. Morris, "Authority and Control in International Communism: 1917-1967"
English | ISBN: 113851912X | 2017 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1005 KB
Contrary to the American public image of international communism as monolithic, the history of communism has been one of increasingly frequent deviation and dissension - punctuated by a process of defection and expulsion of individuals and entire national parties. In examining the fragmentation of communism as a movement, Bernard S. Morris focuses on the breakdown of its structure of authority as exercised through the organs of control. He analyzes factors contributing to the initial cohesion and later disintegration of the communist movement.The author demonstrates how the artificial attempt to maintain the Marxian vision of world revolution through the agency of the Soviet system faltered and ultimately failed. He shows how tensions between communist doctrine and foreign policy, coupled with the unexpected viability of the capitalist system in the West, accelerated pluralism within the communist movement. This led to Yugoslavia's assertion of independence, the rise of polycentrism in the post-Stalinist era, and the Russo-Chinese split. As we have seen, it ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.Morris contends that the collapse of international communist unity underscores the inexorable hold of nationalism on human loyalties. He points out that American policy's obsession with international communism frustrated the development of a realistic policy toward radical nationalist movements which, because they were identified with communism, became equally suspect. Written by an experienced scholar and political analyst, this highly informative work skillfully balances a chronological account with a searching examination of the evolution and gradual disintegration of the dream of world revolution.

Authoritative Democracies: Need or capitalistic greed?
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811920605 | 396 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead. It asks if some degree of authoritarianism is the need of the hour to address potentially existential issues facing the human race. Readers are encouraged to analyse the state of democracy in their own countries and verify if it meets their expectations, or if it is just a myth or an imposter, or a necessary but imperfect compulsion in the absence of a perfect alternative. The book presents a commentary on the state of democracy in some of the world's leading democracies. It aims to challenge the human mind, which seems to be getting accustomed to not having to think, thanks to a constant bombardment of information-real and fake and in-between-that it receives through social and print media, which is freely accessible through smartphone to which it has become addicted. It discusses how the drivers of capitalism - through their business-like connections with powerful and influential politicians and celebrities-could be cleverly manipulating the gullible human mind and exploiting the system to their own material benefit.