Ko-lin Chin, "The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade"
English | ISBN: 080147521X | 2009 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias. Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China.

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
by Cochrane, John;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691242240 | 585 pages | True PDF | 12.71 MB

The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate By Clara Shih
2010 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0137085125 | PDF | 9 MB
Clara s book is a fun read and can be useful to anyone who wants to learn more about this powerful new era we re in of social business. " Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos NEW Best Practices and Techniques for Growing Your Business with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn! Completely Updated! Five new chapters: planning/metrics, customer service, and much more New and revamped case studies New guest contributions from world-class experts, such as Charlene Li New, instantly actionable To Do lists after every chapter New Facebook discussion threads and much more! Whatever your business or organizational goals, this book will help you use social networking to achieve them. Renowned social networking innovator Clara Shih brings together powerful new insights, best practices, and easy-to-use To Do lists packed with proven solutions from real-world case studies. Writing for entrepreneurs and business professionals across marketing, sales, service, product development, and recruiting, Shih demonstrates how to move from tactical, reactive use of social networks toward strategic, proactive approaches and how to accurately measure success. This edition adds extensive new coverage, including hands-on techniques for hypertargeting, engaging customers through Twitter and LinkedIn, leveraging changing social norms, and much more. You ll also find more than three dozen guest contributions from world-class experts such as author Don Tapscott and Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Piskorski, as well as a brand-new chapter on customer service and support, today s fastest-growing area of business social networking. Shih has even added new chapters focused on advice for small businesses, healthcare and education organizations, nonprofits, and political campaigns making this the "one "indispensable social networking guide for "every "organization!

Robyn Horner, "The Experience of God: A Phenomenology of Revelation"
English | ISBN: 1009100432 | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 1097 KB
Belief and credal commitment sometimes seem to make less and less sense in the West. A kind of 'cultural amnesia' has taken hold, where formal religious adherence begins to seem almost unthinkable. This is especially so for the idea of divine revelation. Robyn Horner argues this means we need to re-evaluate how theology proceeds, focusing not so much on beliefs but on experience. Exploring ways in which the experiential might open human beings up to divine possibility, the author turns to phenomenology (especially in the French philosophical tradition) because it seeks to examine unrestrictedly what is given through involved encounter. Bringing phenomenology and poststructuralism together, Horner develops the idea of revelation as an 'event' wherein God interrupts and exceeds human experience, affecting and transforming it. This striking concept, named but largely unexplored by theology, articulates a notion of supernatural revelation which now starts to appear both coherent and plausible.

The Everything Aquarium Book: All You Need to Build the Acquarium of Your Dreams By Frank Indiviglio
2006 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1593377150 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Everything Aquarium Book is your key to attaining and maintaining the perfect fish tank for the perfect fish! Marine expert Frank Indiviglio takes you through all the steps to having your own personal aquarium, right in your own home! Highlights include: different types of water and the fish that can live in them; proper fish selection; marine plants; understanding fish behavior; and more! The Everything Aquarium Book is a must-have for anyone looking to adopt some scaly friends! Complete with color photographs depicting fish and their needed environments, this definitive guide is perfect for a fish novice looking to become an a-fish-ionado!

The Crimes of the Economy: A Criminological Analysis of Economic Thought By Vincenzo Ruggiero
2013 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415824109 | PDF | 2 MB
Economists have often paid visits to the field of criminology, examining the rational logic of offending. When economists examine criminal activity, they imply that offenders should be treated like any other social actor making rational choices.In The Crimes of the Economy, Vincenzo Ruggiero turns the tables by examining a variety of economic schools of thought from a criminological perspective. Each one of these schools, he argues, justifies or even encourages harm produced by economic initiative. He investigates - among others - John Locke's notion of private property, Mercantilism, the Physiocrats and Malthus, and the arguments of Adam Smith, Marshall, Keynes and neoliberalism. In each of these, the author identifies the potential justification of different forms of 'crimes of the economy' and victimisation.This book re-examines the history of economic thought, assessing it as the history of a discipline which, while attempting to gain scientific status, in reality seeks to make the social harm caused by economics acceptable. The book will be interesting and relevant to students and scholars of social theory, criminology, economics, philosophy and politics.

Stephanie Arnold, "The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0073514268 | PDF | pages: 541 | 100.3 mb
Focusing on the collaborative process, The Creative Spirit 6e introduces students to theatre through the plays themselves and the playwrights, directors, actors, and designers who combine their talents to create the theatre event. The Creative Spirit provides a rich context for each play included, with a discussion of the playwright's biography and sources, historical and cultural timelines, and a case study of a particular production of the play so that students can experience theatre from the inside. All of the materials for a complete course are presented together in one volume.

Wright Thompson, "The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 014313387X | EPUB | pages: 400 | 1.6 mb
The instantNew York Times bestseller!

The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting By Sarah Veblen
2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1589236084 | PDF | 44 MB
The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting is the ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns. No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body. The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. The result: patterns that fit perfectly!With The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting, you'll learn:The importance of a fitting axis and how to use it during a fittingHow to recognize fitting issues, such as drag lines and foldsHow to manipulate fabric to solve common and unusual fitting problemsHow to transfer the fitting changes to your pattern easilyBasic pattern-making skills to ensure accurate alterationsSee the fitting process from start to finish on basic garments, fitted on real people. Then follow fitting solutions on different body types.Hundreds of large color photos illustrate the techniques and concepts in simple step-by-step instructions. With these lessons, you willget the perfectfit forany body.

Elizabeth Bacon Custer, "The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: Reconstructed From Her Diaries and Notes"
English | ISBN: 0292722508 | | 205 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
In her first year of marriage (1864-1865) to General George Armstrong Custer, Libbie Custer witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Her experiences of danger, hardship, and excitement made ideal material for a book, one that she worked on for years in later life but ultimately never published.