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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World




Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World (Expertise: Research and Applications Series) by Robert R. Hoffman, Paul Ward, Paul J. Feltovich, Lia DiBello, Stephen M. Fiore, Dee H. Andrews


2013 | ISBN: 184872652X, 1848726511 | English | 272 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 1 MB + 1 MB




Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training could be established that could accelerate the achievement of high levels of proficiency. This book discusses the construct of ‘accelerated learning.’ It includes a review of the research literature on learning acquisition and retention, focus on establishing what works, and why. This includes several demonstrations of accelerated learning, with specific ideas, plans and roadmaps for doing so. The impetus for the book was a tasking from the Defense Science and Technology Advisory Group, which is the top level Science and Technology policy-making panel in the Department of Defense. However, the book uses both military and non-military exemplar case studies.




It is likely that methods for acceleration will leverage technologies and capabilities including virtual training, cross-training, training across strategic and tactical levels, and training for resilience and adaptivity.




This volume provides a wealth of information and guidance for those interested in the concept or phenomenon of "accelerating learning"― in education, training, psychology, academia in general, government, military, or industry.








Egon Schiele (World of Art)




Egon Schiele (World of Art)


Thames and Hudson | 1981 | ISBN: 0500201838 | English | 220 pages | PDF | 33.3 MB




Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during the last years of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family, hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay. He was only twenty-eight when he died, yet he left behind him a body of work that sustains a huge public reputation–and a myth. This book sets out to examine both.









Sunday, September 27, 2015

Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World (repost)




Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World by Beth Fisher-Yoshida Ph.D., Kathy D. Geller Ph.D.


English | 2009 | ISBN: 0814410391 | 224 pages | PDF | 0,8 MB

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Shakespeare"s World of Words




Shakespeare"s World of Words (Arden Shakespeare Library) by Paul Yachnin


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1472515293 | pages | PDF | 4 MB




Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself?




The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies. Each chapter in the volume begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. The chapters capture well the richness of Shakespeare"s world of words by including discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare"s metrics. An Afterword outlines a number of other important languages in Shakespeare, including those of law, news, and natural philosophy.












Friday, September 25, 2015

Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context




Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context by Paul S. Fiddes


English | 2013 | ISBN: 0199644101, 0198709757 | 448 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB




This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the "wisdom literature" in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria. Here, special attention is given to the biblical books of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. The second conversation-partners are philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Julia Kristeva, Paul Ricoeur and Hannah Arendt. In the late-modern period there has been a reaction against an inherited conception of the conscious and rational self as mastering and even subjugating the world around, and there has been an attempt to overcome the consequent split between the subject and objects of observation.




Paul S. Fiddes enters into dialogue with these late-modern concerns about the relation between the self and the world, proposing that the wisdom which is indicated by the ancient Hebraic concept of ḥokmah integrates a "practical wisdom" of handling daily experience with the kind of wisdom which is "attunement" to the world and ultimately to God as creator and sustainer of all. Fiddes brings detailed exegesis of texts from the ancient wisdom literature into interaction with an account of the subject in late-modern thought, in order to form a theology in which seeing the world is knowing a God whose transcendent reality is always immanent in the signs and bodies of the world. He thus argues that participation in a triune, relational God shapes a wisdom that addresses problems of a dominating self, and opens the human person to others.







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Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food




Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food by Sonia Faruqi


2015 | ISBN: 1605987980 | English | 336 pages | EPUB | 1 MB




Born out of a global expedition fearlessly undertaken by a young woman, Project Animal Farm offers a riveting and revealing look at what truly happens behind farm doors.




Sonia Faruqi, an Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of a dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that would ultimately wind all the way around the world. Instead of turning away from the animal cruelty she came to witness, Sonia made the most courageous decision of her life: a commitment to change things.




Driven by impulsive will and searing passion, Sonia left behind everything she knew and loved to search the planet for solutions to benefit animals, human health, and the environment. Over the course of living with farmers, hitchhiking with strangers, and risking her life, she developed surprising insights and solutions―both about the food industry and herself.




Lively and heartfelt, Sonia takes readers on an unforgettable adventure from top-secret egg warehouses in Canada to dairy feedlots in the United States, from farm offices in Mexico to lush pastures in Belize, from flocks of village chickens in Indonesia to factory farms in Malaysia.




Revelatory in scope, Project Animal Farm illuminates a hidden world that plays a part in all of our lives.








Thursday, September 24, 2015

Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World




Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World by Hazel Rose Markus, Alana Conner


2013 | ISBN: 1594630984, 0142180939 | English | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB




"Clash! explains some of the most bedeviling cultural divides in our workplaces and communities. It"s mandatory reading for teachers, managers, and parents who want to raise their kids to succeed in a multicultural world." – Chip Heath, coauthor of Decisive and Switch




As the world gets smaller, people from different backgrounds are colliding like never before. Leading cultural psychologists Hazel Markus and Alana Conner reveal how a single culture clash – the clash of independence and interdependence – ignites both global hostilities and daily tensions between regions, races, genders, classes, religions, and organizations. Markus and Conner then show how we can leverage both independence and interdependence to mend the rifts in our communities, workplaces, and schools.




Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.








Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire




The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire


Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 1781688745 | 2015 | 624 pages | 0.5 MB / 0.8 MB




When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national policies, human rights violations, covert operations and cover-ups.




The WikiLeaks Files is the first volume that uses experts to collate the most important cables and shows their historic importance. The book explores in a series of chapters covering the major regions of the world how the US Empire has imposed its will. It reveals how the US imposes its agenda on the world: a new form of imperialism that uses a variety of tactics from torture and military action, to trade deals and “soft power,” in order to expand its influence. It shows the details of the close relationship between government and big business in promoting US goods around the world.




The WikiLeaks Files is the most comprehensive analysis of US State department cables to date. The introduction by Julian Assange—for the first time—exposes the on-going debates on freedom of information, international surveillance and justice.




Regional expert contributors include Dan Beeton, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Busch, Peter Certo, Conn Hallinan, Sarah Harrison, Richard Heydarian, Dahr Jamail, Jake Johnston, Alexander Main, Robert Naiman, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Linda Pearson, Gareth Porter, Tim Shorrock, Russ Wellen, and Stephen Zunes.



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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece




The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece


Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (1 ch) | Duration: 08:36:43 | ISBN-10: 1433204991 | 2007 | 236 MB

Genre: History






The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since. A society of warrior-heroes, they were living exemplars of self-sacrifice, community endeavor, and achievement against all odds, qualities that today signify the ultimate in heroism. Scholars even believe that Thomas More had Sparta specifically in mind when he coined the term "Utopia."




Paul Cartledge, widely considered the world"s leading expert on Sparta, engagingly examines the rise and fall of this singular society. In a narrative that resounds with the battle cries of the ancient Greeks, he takes a compelling look at the many illustrious Spartan figures from the worlds of history and legend, including Lycurgus, Lysander, King Leonidas, and Helen of Troy and Sparta.



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Monday, September 21, 2015

The Undiscovered Self: Answers to Questions Raised by the Present World Crisis




C.G. Jung, "The Undiscovered Self: Answers to Questions Raised by the Present World Crisis"


English | ISBN: 0415278392, 0415278384 | 2002 | 96 pages | PDF | 1 MB




In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility and freedom in the context of today"s mass society, and argues that individuals must organize themselves as effectively as the organized mass if they are to resist joining it. To help them achieve this he sets out his influential programme for achieving self-understanding and self-realization. The Undiscovered Self is a book that will awaken many individuals to the new life of the self that Jung visualized.




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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World




Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World by Amitava Kumar


2015 | ISBN: 0822359111, 0822359308 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB




To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar"s observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title essay is Kumar"s account of his visit to a member of an ultra-right Hindu organization who put him on a hit-list. In these and other essays, Kumar tells a broader story of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence, all the while demonstrating how he practices being a writer in the world.








Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics




Edward Keene, "Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics"


English | 2002 | ISBN: 0521810310, 0521008018 | 180 pages | PDF | 0.9 MB






It is commonly argued that the international system is currently in a state of upheaval, as state sovereignty is challenged by a variety of forces. Keene"s book questions this assumption, arguing that sovereignty has never existed globally in any case, and suggesting that it has applied only to Western states. International relations elsewhere have been characterized by the norms of colonialism, rather than international law. The book examines the conduct of the British and Dutch empires, and how the traditions of colonialism have been challenged in the modern world.












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Franz Liszt and His World (repost)




Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley, "Franz Liszt and His World"


ISBN: 0691129010, 0691129029 | 2006 | EPUB/MOBI | 608 pages | 8 MB/6 MB


No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbe, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the possibilities of church music and the oratorio, and transmitted the foundations of modern pianism.




The essays brought together in Franz Liszt and His World advance our understanding of the composer with fresh perspectives and an emphasis on historical contexts. Rainer Kleinertz examines Wagner"s enthusiasm for Liszt"s symphonic poem Orpheus; Christopher Gibbs discusses Liszt"s pathbreaking Viennese concerts of 1838; Dana Gooley assesses Liszt against the backdrop of antivirtuosity polemics; Ryan Minor investigates two cantatas written in honor of Beethoven; Anna Celenza offers new insights about Liszt"s experience of Italy; Susan Youens shows how Liszt"s songs engage with the modernity of Heinrich Heine"s poems; James Deaville looks at how publishers sustained Liszt"s popularity; and Leon Botstein explores Liszt"s role in the transformation of nineteenth-century preoccupations regarding religion, the nation, and art.




Franz Liszt and His World also includes key biographical and critical documents from Liszt"s lifetime, which open new windows on how Liszt was viewed by his contemporaries and how he wished to be viewed by posterity. Introductions to and commentaries on these documents are provided by Peter Bloom, Jose Bowen, James Deaville, Allan Keiler, Rainer Kleinertz, Ralph Locke, Rena Charnin Mueller, and Benjamin Walton.














Friday, September 18, 2015

The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II [Audiobook]




The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II [Audiobook] by Bill Sloan


English | November 2, 2007 | ASIN: B000Z7FH3S, ISBN: 1433204398 | MP3@64 kbps | 14 hrs 7 mins | 399 MB

Narrator: Robertson Dean | Genre: Nonfiction/History




Respected historian Bill Sloan tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, through the eyes of the men in battle.




Using the same grunt"s-eye-view narrative style of Sloan"s acclaimed Brotherhood of Heroes, The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the largest land-sea-air battle ever waged by the United States, a battle whose staggering casualties and take-no-prisoners ferocity led Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. From April through June 1945, more than 250,000 American and Japanese lives were lost, including those of nearly 150,000 civilians who either committed suicide or were caught in the crossfire. This book tells a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death.








The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (Repost)




Angus Maddison, "The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective"


2001 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 9264186085 | PDF | 2,2 mb




Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000. In this period, world population rose 22-fold, while per capita gross domestic product increased 13-fold and world GDP nearly 300-fold. The biggest gains occurred in the wealthy regions of today (Western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan). The gap between the world leader, the United States and the poorest region, Africa, is now 20 to 1. In the year 1000, today"s wealthiest countries were poorer than Asia and Africa. The book has several objectives. The first is a pioneering effort to quantify the economic performance of nations over the very long term. The second is to identify the forces which explain the success of the wealthy countries and explore the obstacles, which hindered advance in regions which lagged behind. The third is to scrutinize the interaction between the rich and the rest to assess the degree to which this relationship was exploitative. This monumental reference is a "must" for scholars of economics and economic history, and casual readers will also find much of interest. The book is a sequel to the author"s Monitoring the World Economy: 1820 -1992 (OECD,1995), and his 1998 Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run (OECD, 1998).



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The Meaning of the Second World War [Repost]




The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel


English | 3 May 2011 | ISBN: 1844674797, 1844674800 | 212 Pages | PDF | 5 MB




The very scale of the 1939 45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony.










Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Cable: Wire to the New World (repost)




Gillian Cookson, "The Cable: Wire to the New World"


2012 | ISBN: 0752487868 | 168 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 11 MB




In the rapidly changing world of the 1850s and 1860s, no endeavour had such far-reaching consequences as the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable. The Cable tells the extraordinary story of an adventure which would transform forever the way in which the world communicated. Overcoming natural forces in the name of human progress and technology, the cable revolutionised our understanding of electricity, and created a new global trade in finance and news. Gillian Cookson is an industrial historian specialising in the origins of engineering. She is research fellow at Durham University.









Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World (repost)




Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World by Ben Ramalingam


English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199578028, 0198728247 | 480 Pages | PDF | 3,4 MB




It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system – of which every country in the world is a part – is in need of drastic overhaul. There are conflicting opinions as to what should be done. Some call for dramatic increases to achieve longstanding promises. Others bang the drum for cutting it altogether, and suggest putting the fate of poor and vulnerable people in the hands of markets or business. A few argue that what is needed is creative, innovative transformation. The arguments in Aid on the Edge of Chaos are firmly in the third of these categories.




In this ground-breaking book, Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear, mechanistic models and assumptions that foreign aid is built on are more at home in early twentieth century industry than in the dynamic, complex world we face today.




The reality is that economies and societies are less like machines and more like ecosystems. Aid on the Edge of Chaos explores how thinkers and practitioners in economics, business, and public policy have started to embrace new, ecologically literate approaches to thinking and acting, informed by the ideas of complex adaptive systems research. It showcases insights, experiences, and dramatic results of a growing network of practitioners, researchers, and policy makers who are applying a complexity-informed approach to aid challenges.




From transforming approaches to child malnutrition, to rethinking process of macroeconomic growth, from rural Vietnam to urban Columbia, Aid on the Edge of Chaos shows how embracing the ideas of complex systems thinking can help make foreign aid more relevant, more appropriate, more innovative, and more catalytic. It argues that taking on these ideas will be a vital part of the transformation of aid, from a post-WW2 mechanism of resource transfer, to a truly innovative and dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.












Monday, September 14, 2015

The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World




The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World By Anthony Amore M.


2015 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1137279877 | EPUB | 1 MB








Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate. The Art of the Con tells the stories of some of history"s most notorious yet untold cons. They involve stolen art hidden for decades; elaborate ruses that involve the Nazis and allegedly plundered art; the theft of a conceptual prototype from a well-known artist by his assistant to be used later to create copies; the use of online and television auction sites to scam buyers out of millions; and other confidence scams incredible not only for their boldness but more so because they actually worked. Using interviews and newly released court documents, The Art of the Con will also take the reader into the investigations that led to the capture of the con men, who oftentimes return back to the world of crime. For some, it"s an irresistible urge because their innocent dupes all share something in common: they want to believe.







Sunday, September 13, 2015

Learning from the World: New Ideas to Redevelop America




Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah, "Learning from the World: New Ideas to Redevelop America"


2013 | ISBN-10: 1137372125 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB




What can America learn from countries as faraway and diverse as Bhutan, Chile, Denmark, Nigeria and South Korea? Quite a lot, as it turns out. At a time of fundamental changes in global powers, the country that undisputedly ruled the latter half of the 20th century is no longer firmly in the lead. In the search for new ideas to redevelop America, co-editors Joe Colombano and Aniket Sha point to what has happened outside the borders of the United States. By relying on a wealth of cross-country and multi-disciplinary contributions from an impressive number of world-renown experts, the editors provide a systematic review of successful policies undertaken overseas, discuss their relevance to the US, and offer them as contributions to the national debate on the future of the American economy. What they find is a rich set of policy recipes—from maintaining fiscal discipline and fostering growth, to reviving competitiveness to ensuring equity and basic human decency.