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Free Download Peter C. Cairo, "Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts"
English | 2002 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 078795618X | PDF | 2,0 mb
Written by David Dotlich and Peter Cairo- two of the country’s top executive coaches and educators- Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The book describes the truth about being a real leader in a business environment turned upside down by e-commerce, diversity, security concerns, globalization, and matrix structures. Drawing on personal experience working with successful leaders in top-tier companies throughout the world, Dotlich and Cairo identify a style of leadership used by those who succeed in complicated business and people situations, a style that maximizes a leader’s strengths and acknowledges weaknesses.

Free Download The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are (Audiobook)
English | November 16, 2021 | ASIN: B09DLCHVD6 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 54m | 506 MB
Author: David Henkin | Narrator: Pete Cross
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world.
With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources – including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries – David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the 19th century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns have insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work: It’s a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.

Free Download Philip Ball, "Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People"
English | ISBN: 1847921523 | 2011 | 384 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Can we make a human being?

Free Download The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 10th Anniversary Edition by Elizabeth Kolbert
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1250887313 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 17.7 MB
The 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Free Download Sharman Apt Russell, "Hunger: An Unnatural History"
English | 2006 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0465071651, 0465071635 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that transcends nature to shape the very of fabric of societies. In a fascinating survey of centuries of thought on hunger’s unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these remarkable cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today. Written with consummate skill, a compassionate heart, and stocked with facts, figures, and fascinating lore, Hunger is an inspiring window on history and the human spirit.

Free Download Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth by Mark Roeder
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1628724358 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 2.0 MB
Unnatural Selection is the first book to examine the rise of the "technocentric being"-or geek-who personifies a distinct new phase in human evolution.

Free Download Rebecca Frost, "The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Descriptions"
English | ISBN: 179364621X | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Descriptions examines over thirty of King’s works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the chronology of the Description and then assigning them a function. Death is horrific and perhaps the only universal horror because it comes to us all. Stephen King, known as the Master of Horror, rarely writes without including death in his works. However, he keeps death from being repetitious or fully expected because of the ways in which he plays with the subject, maintaining what he himself has called a childlike approach to death. Although character deaths are a constant, the narrative function of those deaths changes depending on their placement within the Description.

Free Download Roger Davidson, "Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900"
English | ISBN: 147444119X | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland. Case studies of sex-related offences, including abortion, bestiality, brothel-keeping, child sexual assault, and wilful HIV transmission, reveal how far the legal process both reflected and reinforced contemporary moral panics and how far it was shaped by the interplay between law officers and forensic experts, by the prejudices of the local community and civic leaders, and by Scotland’s distinctive legal and moral identity. The law in practice is seen to have sustained important norms of sexual behaviour and masculinity along with an enduring double moral standard with respect to female sexuality. This volume thus affords a remarkable new perspective on the sexual behaviours and ideologies of Scottish society across the twentieth century and into the new millennium.