Mark L. Knapp, Anita L. Vangelisti, John P. Caughlin, "Interpersonal Communication & Human Relationships"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0205006086 | PDF | pages: 465 | 3.7 mb
Illustrates communication's role in human relationships

Aurora González-Vidal, "Internet of Things: 5th The Global IoT Summit, GIoTS 2022, Dublin, Ireland, June 20-23, 2022, Revised Selected Papers "
English | ISBN: 3031209354 | 2022 | 437 pages | PDF | 50 MB
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 5th The Global IoT Summit, GIoTS 2022, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in June 20-23, 2022.

, "Internet of Things - ICIOT 2022: 7th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2"
English | ISBN: 3031235819 | 2023 | 148 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2022, held in Honolulu, USA, as part of SCF 2022, during December 10-14, 2022.

Emeka Duruigbo, "International Law and Development in the Global South"
English | ISBN: 303113740X | 2023 | 444 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book provides contributions in international law, development, and international relations from a cross section of jurists and scholars including a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a former Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The project, conceived as a festschrift in honor of Professor Christian Okeke, aims to amplify the voices and perspectives that are not often accorded the limelight in international legal discourse. Additionally, the contributors discuss such relevant issues as frozen conflicts in Eastern Europe, counter-terrorism and cyber-security in Central Asia, and judicial contrivance in African countries. Bridging the gap between political science and legal scholarship, the book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the emergence of an international rule of law and development. It also provides much needed empirical research on the implications of multi-level governance and global legal pluralism for the rule of law beyond the nation state. This book will be highly relevant to scholars, academics, researchers, and students in the fields of international relations, law, and development.

Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China By Eli Friedman
2014 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0801452694 | PDF | 3 MB
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor direction. In explaining this, Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an "insurgency trap" of its own devising and is thus unable to tame expansive worker unrest. Labor conflict in the process of capitalist industrialization is certainly not unique to China and indeed has appeared in a wide array of countries around the world. What is distinct in China, however, is the combination of postsocialist politics with rapid capitalist development. Other countries undergoing capitalist industrialization have incorporated relatively independent unions to tame labor conflict and channel insurgent workers into legal and rationalized modes of contention. In contrast, the Chinese state only allows for one union federation, the All China Federation of Trade Unions, over which it maintains tight control. Official unions have been unable to win recognition from workers, and wildcat strikes and other forms of disruption continue to be the most effective means for addressing workplace grievances. In support of this argument, Friedman offers evidence from Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, where unions are experimenting with new initiatives, leadership models, and organizational forms.

Reingard Spannring, "Institutions and Organizations as Learning Environments for Participation and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, Obst"
English | ISBN: 303117948X | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually and empirically analyses the potential of democratic participation within various institutions. The contributions range from early childhood institutions, schools, youth programs, workplaces, and vocational education to cultural organizations and nursing homes for the elderly. The book thereby provides a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary knowledge base to inspire future research and practical efforts to promote democratic participation within and across institutions around the world.

Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul By John Freely
2001 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0140270566 | PDF | 9 MB
This volume takes us behind the doors of Topkapi Sarayi and the other palaces of the Ottoman sultans who for more than six centuries ruled one of the world's most powerful empires. The heart of the palace was the Harem, the women's quarters, ruled by the Valide, or Queen Mother. Here the Sultan took his ease surrounded by his wives and concubines with their guardian black eunuchs, amused by his favourite pages, dwarfs and mutes, his younger brothers either slaughtered upon his accession or confined to the prison of the Cage. Earlier sultans like Mehmet the Conqueror and Suleyman the Magnificent lied in Topkapi Sarayi only between their campaigns of conquest, but their weak and dissolute successors such as Selim the Sot and Ibrahim the Mad spent their reigns entirely in the Harem, where some of them died of over-indulgence or were brutally murdered. such were the private lives of the Ottoman sultans in the pleasure dome known as the House of Felicity.

Maria Taylor, "Injustice: Hidden in plain sight the war on Australian nature kangaroo, koala, emu... hunted, sold, homeless"
English | ISBN: 0645099333 | 2021 | 412 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
What happened to the globally-beloved kangaroo, koala and other Australian indigenous animals under the beliefs and traditions of colonialism? How did their fate during 200 years of nation building become a fugitive drama of dispossession and disrespect - and what is today's little-known and blood-stained legacy in a world rapidly losing its biodiversity?

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2023
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031257510 | 335 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
This open access book provides an extensive overview of the usage of information and communication technologies in the tourism and hospitality industry.It presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)'s 30th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER2023 conference. The enclosed papers cover various topics within the field, including augmented and virtual reality, website development, social media use, e-learning, big data, analytics and recommendation systems.

, "Indigenous Churches: Anthropology of Christianity in Lowland South America "
English | ISBN: 3031144937 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations.