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My name is William Robert (Tosh) Plumlee, but over the years and across many sensitive operations (as we call them) for the US military, CIA and other departments of the Federal government, I' ve be……続きを見る

Combining the latest thinking about mixed methods research designs with practical, step-by-step guidance, the Fourth Edition of ***Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research***now covers seven ……続きを見る

For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The prehistoric inhabitants created monuments which are unmatched anywhere in Europe, and the medieval period saw the ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, this book tells the story of the Mosaic Templars of America (MTA), a famous Black fraternal organization that was founded by John E. Bush and Ches……続きを見る

The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Earl……続きを見る

Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the failures of publ……続きを見る

BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is n……続きを見る

Prepare-se para atravessar as fronteiras da tecnologia e do pensamento crítico com este guia indispensável sobre Inteligência Artificial. Muito além dos clichês e das promessas fáceis, este livro re……続きを見る

Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health careーwhile essential to human survivalーwere deemed outside of the h……続きを見る

Scamming costs the worldwide economy billions each year. Worse, it hits ordinary people where it hurts the most: whether the life-savings of the vulnerable elderly taken over the phone, young people……続きを見る

We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, with the world facing a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of empire, and countless other……続きを見る

This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights……続きを見る

Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El proyecto de creación de ePubs ……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life ……続きを見る

A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is packed with thought……続きを見る

俄烏戰爭加劇了世界重回強權對抗的世界 ◎頂尖東歐史權威、哈佛烏克蘭中心主任繼《再造失去的王國》之後最新力作 ◎2018年他曾預言俄烏終需一戰！ ◎2022年開戰後，對戰爭背後國際政治角力提出的深刻洞見 ◎繁體中文版……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat the……続きを見る

In "Anarchism and Socialism," Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov meticulously dissects the philosophical foundations and political implications of anarchism in contrast to socialism. Written during a p……続きを見る

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth cen……続きを見る

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT 'The best account of the ongoing conflict ー its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at……続きを見る

A comprehensive introduction to film music, this book provides a concise and illuminating summary of the process of film scoring, as well as a succinct overview of the rich history of contemporary f……続きを見る

This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. A……続きを見る

Ukraine is embroiled in a bloody civil war. Both sides stand accused of collaborating with fascists, of committing war crimes, of serving foreign interests. This proxy-war between Russia and the Wes……続きを見る

A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy “[Kaplan] has emerged not only……続きを見る

The riveting story of a KGB assassin whose defection and trial at the height of the Cold War shocked the world. **“Gripping.” ー**GQ In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to W……続きを見る

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and ……続きを見る

Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution ……続きを見る

關於中歐能源合作平台 (ECECP) "中欧能源合作平台于 2019 年 5 月 15 日启动，旨在支持落实《关于落实中欧能源合作的联合声明》中的举措。中欧能源合作平台的目标是遵循欧盟能源绿色新政，欧盟联盟、《全欧洲人共……続きを見る