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Free Download Anuradha Kataria, "Democracy on Trial, All Rise!"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0875868126, 087586810X | PDF | pages: 207 | 2.5 mb
The book challenges "Democracy" as the right political system in the developing world with a view to finding transient models that should work in reality, and not just in theory. At the same time, it provides pointers for strengthening democracy in the developed world. The book highlights the widening gap between democracy as a theory and its practice. Based on an empirical research, and a willingness to go where the evidence leads, it challenges the world to acknowledge democracy’s failure in the developing world.

Free Download The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions, UK Edition by Marek Kowalkiewicz
English | March 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1529242460 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.03 MB
Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It’s here and it’s growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recently begun to ‘escape’ our understanding. When algorithms perform certain tasks, they’re not just as good as us, they’re becoming infinitely better, and, at the same time, massively more surprising. We are so impressed by what they can do that we give them a lot of agency. But because they are so hard to comprehend, this leads to all kinds of unintended consequences.

Free Download John Peter Kenney, "On God, The Soul, Evil and the Rise of Christianity "
English | ISBN: 1501313991 | 2018 | 146 pages | PDF | 1451 KB
Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine’s importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian thinker but as a philosophical, spiritual, literary and intellectual icon of the West.

Free Download David S. New, "Holy War: The Rise of Militant Christian, Jewish and Islamic Fundamentalism"
English | ISBN: 0786413360 | 2002 | 243 pages | EPUB | 671 KB
Temple Mount is believed by some Jews to be the locus of their ancient Temple. Known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary), this site is home to two mosques, one of which is the third most holy shrine in all of Islam. Jewish fundamentalists want to destroy the mosques on Temple Mount and rebuild the Temple. Christian apocalypticists are financing and supporting their efforts. If the mosques are destroyed, Islamic fundamentalists have vowed to destroy Israel, resulting in the possibility of nuclear war.

Free Download Michael S. Kearney, "Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks and Solutions"
English | 2012 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0784412006 | PDF | 4,0 mb
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks, and Solutions analyzes the challenges posed by rising sea levels and climate change. Scientists estimate that global sea levels could rise by as much as 20 feet in this century, directly affecting about 100 million people worldwide. Although the problems stemming from higher sea levels are formidable, immediate actions can be identified and executed to lessen the impact of rising waters on coastal infrastructure and communities. Using a risk analysis and management framework, each chapter in this volume focuses on a facet of sea level rise, examining its associated risks and assessing its socioeconomic impact. From this information, appropriate long-term measures and mitigation strategies can be developed. Chapters consider such questions as: How can we model the impact of rising sea levels and increasingly intense tropical storms on coastal infrastructure? What strategies can be phased in to improve new construction? How can existing infrastructure best be targeted for retrofitting? How can risk models be designed to accommodate regional socioeconomic considerations? Engineers, scientists, and policymakers concerned with planning, design, and construction of coastal infrastructure will find this compact assessment useful, relevant, and thought-provoking.

Free Download Robert Booth, "Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City"
English | ISBN: 0312540388 | 2011 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Most readers know Salem only for the city’s notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America’s first millionaire (still one of history’s 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the country’s richest city. Westward expansion and the industrial revolution would eventually erode Salem’s political importance, but it was a shocking murder and the scandal that followed which led at last to its fall from national prominence.

Free Download Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4LNXTG | 2024 | 14 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 412 MB
Author: Harald Jähner
Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson
The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil. Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.

Free Download To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CS3SF9SC | 2024 | 16 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 472 MB
Author: Sean McMeekin
Narrator: Robert Fass
From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have proliferated across the globe. In To Overthrow the World, Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes. Tracing Communism’s ascent from theory to practice, McMeekin ranges from Karl Marx’s writings to the rise and fall of the USSR under Stalin to Mao’s rise to power in China to the acceleration of Communist or Communist-inspired policies around the world in the twenty-first century. McMeekin argues, however, that despite the endurance of Communism, it remains deeply unpopular as a political form. Where it has arisen, it has always arisen by force. Blending historical narrative with cutting-edge scholarship, To Overthrow the World revolutionizes our understanding of the evolution of Communism-an idea that seemingly cannot die.

Free Download The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind (Audiobook)
English | November 10, 2006 | ASIN: B000KLO76W | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 31m | 314 MB
Authors: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid | Narrator: Simon Vance
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was its birthplace.
It was here mankind first discovered that the earth was not flat, originated atomic theory, invented geometry, systematized grammar, translated the Old Testament into Greek, built the steam engine, and passed their discoveries on to future generations via the written word. Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Jewish scholars, Greek philosophers, and devout early Christians all play a part in the rise and fall of the city that stood "at the conjunction of the whole world". Sparkling with fresh insights into science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, edifying delight.

Free Download No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America’s Model City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDM9RGX6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Paul Bleakley
Narrator: Joe Barrett
With Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked. This is the untold story of New Haven’s illegal past. One of America’s most historic and enduring cities, New Haven has wrangled with a perpetual identity struggle, torn between worlds that occasionally converged in chaos and violence. In the 1930s, Connecticut became a region where Mafia families like the Genoveses, Gambinos, Colombos, and Patriarcas shared turf-working together with enough profits to go around or descending into open war to rival that experienced in any major city. Central to this conflict were three men who were, at different times, cautious allies or sworn nemeses. Representing the Genoveses, Midge Renault reigned supreme thanks to his reputation for wanton violence. Meanwhile, Colombo capo Ralph "Whitey" Tropiano maintained a lower profile, which belied his reputation as a vicious killer. But it was his lieutenant, Billy "The Wild Guy" Grasso, who ultimately rose to the top after joining the New England Patriarca Family, enjoying a short rule that ended with a murder Description that left him on the wrong end of a bullet.