Richard Olaniyan, "Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa: Focus on West Africa"
English | ISBN: 1032013141 | 2021 | 114 pages | EPUB | 499 KB
This book examines the nexus between political borders, pastoral nomadism, and human security in Africa. It uses a host of applied interdisciplinary insights to analyse social, political, and cultural processes, circumstances, and consequences to showcase the human security crisis in the context of climate change, inter-group relations, leadership strategies, institutions, and governance within the region.

Marianne Riddervold, "Transatlantic Relations in Times of Uncertainty: Crises and EU-US Relations "
English | ISBN: 0367187272 | 2019 | 152 pages | EPUB | 766 KB
Ties between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) rival those between any other pair of international actors. After all, no other regions of the world are as closely connected in economics, security and politics as Europe and the US. This comprehensive volume makes conceptual progress and empirical contributions in accounting for how EU-US relations have been impacted by a context of multiple EU crises alongside a parallel change in US policies. The authors find strong evidence to suggest that the transatlantic relationship is weakening. This is partly a consequence of the EU's internal policies, as it becomes more unified and autonomous of the US in some areas, while fragmenting in others. Most importantly, it is a consequence of the two actors' increasingly diverging perspectives and positions on international issues, institutions, norms and indeed the value of the transatlantic relationship. Although the long-term effects remain to be seen, it is likely that the cracks in the foundation of transatlantic relations will continue into the present and foreseeable future.

MISTRA, "Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance"
English | ISBN: 0639923836 | 2019 | 402 pages | EPUB | 703 KB
Post-1994, South Africa's traditional leaders have fought for recognition, and positioned themselves as major players in the South African political landscape. Yet their role in a democracy is contested, with leaders often accused of abusing power, disregarding human rights, expropriating resources and promoting tribalism. Some argue that democracy and traditional leadership are irredeemably opposed and cannot co-exist. Meanwhile, shifts in the political economy of the former bantustans − the introduction of platinum mining in particular − have attracted new interests and conflicts to these areas, with chiefs often designated as custodians of community interests.

Jessica L. Goldberg, "Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and their Business World "
English | ISBN: 1107005477 | 2012 | 450 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and sheds new light on debates about the institutional framework for later European dominance. Commercial letters, business accounts and courtroom testimony bring to life how these medieval traders used personal gossip and legal mechanisms to manage far-flung agents, switched business strategies to manage political risks and asserted different parts of their fluid identities to gain advantage in the multicultural medieval trading world. This book paints a vivid picture of the everyday life of Jewish merchants in Islamic societies and adds new depth to debates about medieval trading institutions with unique quantitative analyses and innovative approaches.

Arun Mohanty, "Tracing Indo-Russian Diplomatic History"
English | ISBN: 0367418843 | 2019 | 308 pages | EPUB | 790 KB
The India-Russia relationship has been through a number of phases since its formal establishment in April 1947. Prime Minister Nehru's strategic vision led him to seek diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union (USSR) even before India attained Independence. The enthusiastic Soviet response launched a relationship which has had some unique features in the past seventy-two years.

Anita Bernstein, "Torts Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 1531005004 | 2018 | 230 pages | AZW3 | 380 KB
Every tort claim for relief, and every affirmative tort defense, has a set of required elements. It is the student's task to learn these elements and to develop an understanding about how to apply them to real and hypothetical fact patterns. Questions & Answers: Torts can help with this task. The book includes 202 questions organized by topic. The multiple-choice questions require students to pick the best of a list, the worst of a list, or the story that illustrates a point of doctrine most effectively. The short answers require analysis of scenarios and communication of discrete points. The Practice Final Exam and Essay Issue-Spotter Questions contain an additional 54 questions.

Richard Earl, "Topology: A Very Short Introduction"
English | 2020 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 0198832680 | EPUB | 4,4 mb
How is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot knotted? What makes the Möbius strip one-sided? These are questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties preserved by twisting or stretching objects. In the 20th century topology became as broad and fundamental as algebra and geometry, with important implications for science, especially physics.

Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI: Theory, Applications, and Software by Ingrid Hotz
English | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 372 Pages | ISBN : 3030834999 | 107.4 MB
This book is a result of a workshop, the 8th of the successful TopoInVis workshop series, held in 2019 in Nyköping, Sweden. The workshop regularly gathers some of the world's leading experts in this field. Thereby, it provides a forum for discussions on the latest advances in the field with a focus on finding practical solutions to open problems in topological data analysis for visualization.

Smita A. Rahman, "Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency "
English | ISBN: 1138782726 | 2014 | 144 pages | EPUB | 475 KB
In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential. This book aims to unsettle the dominant framework by putting time itself, and the experience of time in everyday life, at the center of its critical analysis.

Jett James Pruitt, "Through the Eyes of a Young American: A Teenager's Perspective on Government, Politics and Solving Our Country's Biggest"
English | ISBN: 0996565299 | 2020 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1039 KB
2020 is the year of fear, civil unrest, and political divide. Many Americans feel forced to choose between Conservative and Progressive party lines. But do they have another choice?