Italian Phrasebook for Adult Beginners: Common Italian Words & Phrases For Everyday Conversation and Travel by Explore To Win
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6CBX8TC | 220 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb
Is it possible to learn a language as complex as Italian when you're an adult?

Chad C. Serena, "It Takes More than a Network: The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation"
English | ISBN: 0804789037 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 401 KB
It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is that the Iraqi insurgency failed to achieve longer-term organizational goals because many of its organizational strengths were also its organizational weaknesses: these characteristics abetted and then corrupted the Iraqi insurgency's ability to adapt. The book further compares the organizational adaptation of the Iraqi insurgency with the organizational adaptation of the Afghan insurgency. This is done to refine the findings of the Iraq case and to present a more robust analysis of the adaptive cycles of two large and diverse covert networked insurgencies. The book finds that the Afghan insurgency, although still ongoing, has adapted more successfully than the Iraqi insurgency because it has been better able to leverage the strengths and counter the weaknesses of its chosen organizational form.

Ronnie Olesker, "Israel's Securitization Dilemma: BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State "
English | ISBN: 0367551675 | 2021 | 152 pages | EPUB | 582 KB
This book examines how the Zionist movement, and later the state of Israel, have dealt with various longstanding efforts to delegitimize Israel's standing in the international community, including by the Arab League Boycott, the United Nations, and the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Raphael D. Marcus, "Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire"
English | ISBN: 1626166102 | 2018 | 320 pages | EPUB | 762 KB
The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He critically evaluates events including Israel's long counterguerrilla campaign throughout the 1990s, the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the 2006 summer war, and concludes with an assessment of current tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon related to the Syrian civil war.

Samantha May, "Islamic Charity: How Charitable Giving Became Seen as a Threat to National Security"
English | ISBN: 1786999447 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 492 KB
Since 9/11 and the global War on Terror, practitioners of Islam in Europe and beyond have been scrutinised and surveyed under suspicion of disloyalty and as potential disrupters of national social cohesion. Seemingly benign, altruistic practices, such as charity, are viewed as potential threats to national security and have increasingly become subject to counter-terrorism policies. This work seeks to critically assess the assumptions behind the lesser-known financial War on Terror, through exploration of the effects of current policies on Muslim charitable practices in the UK. The consequences of current policies are multi-faceted - from the stigmatization and suspicion of Muslim charities and communities, individual loss of status and financial standing, to a decrease of living standards and/or loss of lives.

M. Hakan Yavuz, "Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey: Making and Re-making the AKP "
English | ISBN: 0367405342 | 2019 | 200 pages | EPUB | 948 KB
Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey explores the role of religion (Sunni, Hanefi Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP).

Yitzhak Reiter, "Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount "
English | ISBN: 0367470357 | 2020 | 132 pages | EPUB | 818 KB
This study presents the first comprehensive survey of the abundant early Islamic sources that recognize the historical Jewish bond to the Temple Mount (Masjid al-Aqsa) and Jerusalem. Analyzing these sources in light of the views of contemporary Muslim religious scholars, thinkers and writers, who - in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict - deny any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and promote the argument that no Jewish Temple ever stood on the Temple Mount.

Daniel Peterson, "Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia: The Trial of Ahok "
English | ISBN: 0367435330 | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 582 KB
Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia's liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment.

Thomas E. Patterson, "Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?"
English | 2020 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 1658728637 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? explores five traps that the Republican Party has set for itself and endanger its future. The traps vary in lethality but, together, they could cripple the party for a generation or more. One trap is its steady movement to the right, which has distanced the party from the moderate voters who hold the balance of power in a two-party system. A second trap is demographic change. Younger adults and minorities vote heavily Democratic, and their numbers increase with each passing election. The older white voters that are the GOP's base of support are shrinking in number. Within two decades, based on demographic change alone, the GOP faces the prospect of being a second-rate party. Right-wing media are the Republicans' third trap. A powerful force within the party, they have tied the GOP to policy positions and versions of reality that are blunting its ability to govern and impeding its efforts to attract new sources of support. A fourth trap is the large tax cuts that the GOP has three times handed to the wealthy. The rich have reaped a windfall but at a high cost to the GOP. It has soiled its image as the party of the middle class and created a split between its working-class supporters and its marketplace conservatives. The fifth trap is the GOP's disregard for democratic norms and institutions, including its effort through voter ID laws to suppress the vote of minorities and lower-income Americans. In the process, it has made lasting enemies and created instruments of power that can be used against it. That Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election says more about the Republican Party than it does about Trump. In the whole of American history, there is only one major party - today's GOP - that would have nominated a Trump-like candidate for president. And he has deepened each of the Republican Party's traps. If the GOP were to become a second-rate party, Trump will have accelerated its downfall rather than being the cause of it. Before he came on the scene, the GOP was already a conservative party in name only. It had become a reactionary party out of step with what America is becoming. Republicans have traded the party's future for yesterday's America.The GOP needs to restore its conservative heritage if it is to remain a competitive party. Our democracy requires a healthy and competitive two-party system and would not benefit from a greatly diminished Republican Party, nor can it flourish from the reactionary course that the GOP has been pursuing.

Christopher Ward, Mike Myers, "Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic: The Nation's Music Station"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0345810341 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 108.5 mb
"A fascinating, moving recollection that celebrates one of the great achievements in Canadian television." Elaine Lui, author ofListen to the Squawking Chicken