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Free Download James Filler, "Substance Ontology and the Crisis of Reason"
English | ISBN: 3031754115 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB | 435 KB
In this book, James Filler traces the history of Being, understood as substance, from Parmenides through the Scholastics and ending with Descartes, in whom this understanding reaches a crisis. He further shows how this understanding inherently leads to serious ontological problems which are unresolvable within a substance ontological approach. It is this substance understanding which has dominated, but this view-with its emphasis on distinctness, independence, and separateness-will create insurmountable problems which ultimately lead to a crisis of thought after Descartes. The book examines this substance understanding, how it has historically shaped the understanding of Being, and how this understanding ultimately becomes ontologically and epistemologically destructive.

Free Download Substance Ontology and the Crisis of Reason
by James Filler
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031754115 | 171 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB

Free Download Reimagining Europe: Thinking in Crisis
by Georgios Tsagdis, Rozemund Ulje
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1438499795 | 328 Pages | PDF | 3.67 MB

Free Download Amy Fried, "Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation and the Making of Public Opinion Professions"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415891426 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.5 mb
In midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election―and of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling and pollsters were forced to defend their craft, the quantitative analysis of public sentiment.

Free Download James Goodman, "Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138951153, 0415628350 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 1.0 mb
Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises – social, ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations, and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs. Elite strategies, framed as crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects. Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management in the face of crisis, taking crisis and unanticipated consequences as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and losers from crisis, and investigates the movement-management nexus as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader contexts.

Free Download Robert Kimball, "Crisis and Compromise"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1632994143 | EPUB | pages: 262 | 0.5 mb
1963, a year suffused with unrest and nationwide demands for change, was a turbulent period in our nation’s history. It was a time of freedom rides, sit-ins, demonstrations, and protests, all leading to the momentous August 28th March on Washington, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, and, ultimately, passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which delivered a historic, legislative blow to discrimination and inequality.

Free Download Robert Accinelli, "Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0807822590 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 1.0 mb
This analytical study examines in comprehensive detail the making of the American military and political commitment to Taiwan during the first half of the 1950s. Starting with President Truman’s declaration in January 1950 that the United States would not militarily assist Taiwan’s Nationalist Chinese government, Robert Accinelli shows why Washington subsequently reversed this position and ultimately chose to embrace Taiwan as a highly valued ally. Accinelli analyzes this critical reversal within the context of shifting international circumstances and domestic developments such as McCarthyism and the Truman-MacArthur controversy. In addition to describing the growth of a close but uneasy relationship between the United States and the Nationalist regime, he focuses on the importance of the Taiwan issue in America’s relations with the People’s Republic of China and Great Britain. He concludes his study with an analysis of the 1954-55 confrontation between the United States and China over Quemoy and Matsu and other Nationalist-held offshore islands. According to Accinelli, neither the Korean War nor the Indochina War divided the United States and China more fundamentally during this period than did the issue of U.S.-Taiwanese relations.

Free Download Forrest E. Morgan, "Crisis Stability and Long-Range Strike: A Comparative Analysis of Fighters, Bombers, and Missiles"
English | ISBN: 0833078453 | 2013 | 178 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
To effectively manage an international crisis, the United States must balance its threats with restraint. It must posture forces in ways that deter aggression without implying that an attack is imminent, while limiting its own vulnerability to surprise attack. A RAND study sought to identify which long-range strike assets-strike fighters, bombers, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles-offer capabilities most conducive to stabilizing such crises.

Free Download Coping with Crisis: Proven Strategies for Inner Strength & Well-Being by Robin Inwald
English | May 15, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C35L7VTB | 112 pages | EPUB | 1.67 Mb
Words, Strategies, and Habits a Stressed or Traumatized Person Needs to Remember.

Free Download Boards Under Crisis: Decision-Making in the Age of Uncertainty and Fear
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031695976 | 218 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Crises, in the past, have been cyclical events in economic history. However, we are currently experiencing an acceleration of these cycles with shorter time span in-between major events. In a period of 20 years, from 2001 to 2021, we have lived three global major crisis events: The Twin Tower Attack on September 11th, 2001, the Financial Crash in 2008, and the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020.