Ghulam Habib, "Mysterious Seyyid and his Students: Inspirational stories for those who wish to taste righteousness"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1733028404 | PDF | pages: 136 | 1.9 mb
Mysterious Seyyid and his Students is a collection of inspirational stories for character building and ethical guidance of young readers. The main theme of these stories is to present human role models that perform righteous deeds solely for the worship and pleasure of God.

Michelle Mone, "My Fight to the Top"
English | 2016 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1910536660 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
The perfect blend of business and drama, My Fight to the Top is a unique, heart-rending autobiography that has mass appeal, whether the reader wants to learn how to get ahead in business, or simply learn how to keep it together through life's challenges. From the rough East End of Glasgow, Michelle Mone overcame the physical violence of school bullies, the emotional trauma of financial difficulties at home, and the tragic paralysis of her father, to become one of the UK's most respected entrepreneurial women. From the simple experience of wearing an uncomfortable bra, Michelle created the Ultimo brand, now worth £50m. However, the road has been far from smooth, and the pressure of trying to build a business and be a good mother brought her marriage-and her health-to the edge. But with steely determination she fought back, striving to make Ultimo a genuine success story.

Scott A. Wilson, "Music at the Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream"
English | ISBN: 0786494506 | 2015 | 276 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Washington, D.C., and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists discussed include Coil, Laibach, Whitehouse, Insane Clown Posse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Turisas, Tyr, GG Allin and many others.

William Weber, "Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure of Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna Between 1830 and 1848"
English | 2003 | pages: 213 | ISBN: 0754635635 | PDF | 1,4 mb
First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently become accepted as central to the discipline of musicology. Moreover, the major themes of the book are ones which scholars today continue to grapple with: the nature of the middle class(es) and their role in cultural definition; the concept of taste publics distinct from social status; and the establishment of the musical canon. This classic text is reissued here in Ashgate's Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain series, though of course the book ranges beyond its study of London to discuss in detail the contrasting concert life of Paris and Vienna. This edition features a substantial new preface which takes into account the significant work that has been done in this field since the book first appeared, and provides a unique opportunity to assess the impact the book has had on our thinking about the European middle class and its role in musical life.

Multilevel Regulation of Military and Security Contractors: The Interplay between International, European and Domestic Norms (Studies in International Law) By Christine Bakker (editor), Mirko Sossai (editor)
2012 | 664 Pages | ISBN: 1849462488 | PDF | 3 MB
The outsourcing of military and security services is the object of intense legal debate. States employ private military and security companies (PMSCs) to perform functions previously exercised by regular armed forces, and increasingly international organisations, NGOs and business corporations do the same to provide security, particularly in crisis situations. Much of the public attention on PMSCs has been in response to incidents in which PMSC employees have been accused of violating international humanitarian law. Therefore initiatives have been launched to introduce uniform international standards amidst what is currently very uneven national regulation. This book analyses and discusses the interplay between international, European, and domestic regulatory measures in the field of PMSCs. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the existing domestic legislation in EU Member States and relevant Third States, and identifies implications for future international regulation. The book also addresses the crucial questions whether and how the EU can potentially play a more active future role in the regulation of PMSCs to ensure compliance with human rights and international humanitarian law.

Moult and Ageing of European Passerines, 2nd Edition by Lukas Jenni, Raffael Winkler
English | March 17, 2020 | ISBN: 1472941519 | True EPUB/PDF | 336 pages | 354/196 MB
A brand-new, completely revised second edition of Jenni and Winkler's classic guide, updated and improved for the next generation of ringers and professional ornithologists.

Linda L. Layne, "Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America"
English | 2002 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0415911486, 0415911494 | PDF | 14,5 mb
"Motherhood Lost is a beautiful and passionate book. In this insightful ethnographic investigation, Linda Layne weaves together the intersecting religious, biomedical, consumerist and familial practices that surround and construct pregnancy loss in contemporary America. This moving book enables us to understand the cultural construction of silence and forgetting that has too long accompanied the grief of miscarriage and stillbirth, beckoning us to recognize and remake a world in which women's losses can be remembered." - Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America and Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda
by Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9814968331 | 373 pages | True PDF | 19.08 MB

Monumental Fragments: Places of Philosophy in the Age of Dispersion (Transmission) By George Vassilacopoulos
2013 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 0980305292 | PDF | 1 MB
At one and the same time the poet in me sinks and the rebel in me flies. The rebel encounters himself in the poet in whom the vision is drowned. The poet encounters himself in the rebel and becomes philosopher, the bearer of the vision of vision. Being this tension the ego falls in love with both. Fragments are the forgotten whispers of such falling.

Money and Thoughtlessness: A Genealogy and Defense of the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031222601 | 342 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
In this book, Justin Pack proposes a genealogy of the traditional suspicion of money and merchants. This genealogy is framed both by how money itself has changed and how different traditions responded to money. Money and merchants became heavily debated concerns in the Axial Age, which coincided with the spread of coinage. A deep suspicion of money and merchants was particularly notable in the Greek, Confucian and Christian traditions, and continued into the Middle Ages. These traditions wrestled with a new dialectic of purity that also appears with the widespread use of money. How were these concerns dealt with politically, socially and philosophically? How did they change over time? How did medieval Europe deal with money and how did this inform modern governmentality? To answer these questions, Pack turns to Hanna Arendt's work. Arendt argues that one of the outstanding characteristics of our time is thoughtlessness. This thoughtlessness is related to how modern life, especially under neoliberalism, is increasingly structured by abstract systems, abstract calculative rationality, abstract relations, and the profit motive. Money both drives and embodies this machinery.The hyper-complex abstract systems of modernity discourage, to use Arendtian terms, "thinking" (wonder, questioning everything) in favor of "cognition" (problem solving). Too often the result is thoughtless cognition-the ability to make things more productive and efficient paired with the incapacity to question and challenge the implications and morality of these systems.