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Free Download Jamil Salmi, "The Challenge of Establishing World Class Universities"
English | 2009 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 0821378651 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the need to establish one or more world-class universities that can compete effectively with the best of the best around the world. Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education institutions and the power of international and domestic university rankings, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally competitive universities and explores the challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of particular interest to policy makers, university leaders, researchers, and development practitioners.

Free Download Donald Collingwood – The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
Leo Cooper | 1998 | ISBN: 0850526159 | English | 250 pages | PDF | 73.09 MB
An Operational History of the American-Built Destroyer Escorts Serving Under the White Ensign from 1943-46.

Free Download Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice"
English | ISBN: 1108842100 | 2024 | 600 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang’an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Iceland and Florence; sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan, Istanbul, and Geneva; eighteenth-century Edo, Paris, and Philadelphia; nineteenth-century Cairo, London, and Manila; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, Bombay, Buenos Aires, and Berlin, and twentieth-century Sydney, Toronto, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.

Free Download Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 2, Systems of Thought and Belief"
English | ISBN: 1108842097 | 2024 | 448 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Volume II focuses on systems of thought and belief in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary approaches. Comprising eighteen chapters, this volume opens with a chapter on the evolutionary legacy and then delves into the sexualities of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome, continuing with pre-modern South Asia, China, and Japan, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Chapters include an examination of sexuality in the religious traditions of Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and also look at more recent approaches, including scientific sex, sexuality in socialism and Marxism, and the intersections between sexuality, feminism, and post-colonialism.

Free Download Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1, General Overviews"
English | ISBN: 1108842089 | 2024 | 558 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women’s history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, family and marriage, the intersections of sexuality with race and class, male and female homoerotic relations, trans and gender variant sexuality, the sale of sex, sexual violence, sexual science, sexuality and emotion, erotic art and literature, and the material culture of sexuality.

Free Download Lori Ostlund, "The Bigness of the World"
English | 2009 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 082033409X | PDF | 1,3 mb
In Lori Ostlund’s debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind.

Free Download The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon By Anthony Summers
2001 | 656 Pages | ISBN: 0140260781 | EPUB | 3 MB
Anthony Summers’ biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue and power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. New evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, was at times mentally unstable, and was abusive to his wife Pat. Summers discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixon’s role in the Descriptions to topple Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in l968, and his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced fifty years of American history, in ways still reverberating today.

Free Download Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World By John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen D. Burd
2011 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 1111534152 | PDF | 41 MB
Now readers can develop the solid conceptual, technical and managerial foundations needed for effective systems analysis design and implementation as well as the project management skills for systems development with SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD, 6E. This popular text teaches both the traditional (structured) and the object-oriented (OO) approach to systems analysis and design. This book focuses on content that’s most important to know with an emphasis on use case driven techniques for systems analysis and design. This edition introduces most recent developments and tools, with expanded coverage of project management for adaptive projects and content reflecting Microsoft Project 2010. A new continuing case study and "Best Practices" feature provide even more opportunities for readers to apply the skills learned.

Free Download Spain’s road to empire: the making of a world power, 1492-1763 By Henry Kamen
2009 | 656 Pages | ISBN: 0140285288 | EPUB | 13 MB
From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain’s rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and Dutch traders. At the height of its power, the Spanish Empire was a global enterprise in which non-Spaniards – Portuguese, Basque, Aztec, Genoese, Chinese, Flemish, West African, Incan, and Neapolitan – played an essential role.Challenging, persuasive, and unique in its thesis, Henry Kamen’s Empire explores Spain’s complex impact on world history with admirable clarity and intelligence.

Free Download Soviet Schooling in the Second World War By John Dunstan
1997 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0333570375 | PDF | 13 MB
This is the first western book on the subject of wartime Soviet schooling. Its theme is set against the background of Soviet educational history and the events preceding and characterising the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. It considers how the war affected the already problematic organisation of schools and their formal curriculum content, and examines their enhanced role as socialising agents. It will appeal to historians, educationists and all interested in the impact of war on civilian populations.