The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem by Niko Kolodny
English | February 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0674248155 | True PDF | 496 pages | 5.4 MB
A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.

Donald Kagan, "The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (A New History of the Peloponnesian War)"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0801499402, 0801413672 | PDF | pages: 395 | 12.9 mb
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.

The Paradox of Water: The Science and Policy of Safe Drinking Water by Bhawani Venkataraman
English | January 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0520343433, 0520343441 | True EPUB/PDF | 238 pages | 9.97/9.6 MB
Water is a molecular marvel. Its seemingly simple formula-H2O-dictates the properties that make water both essential for life and easily contaminated. Herein lies the paradox of water: we cannot live without it, but it is easily rendered "unsafe." The Paradox of Water explores the intersection of the scientific, social, and policy implications around access to safe drinking water. Drinking water is the smallest fraction of water used by a nation. Yet, the quality of this fraction is what dictates whether a community is healthy, educated, and economically sustained.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 331974318X | 1625 Pages | PDF (True) | 23 MB
This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.

Donald Kagan, "The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (A New History of the Peloponnesian War)"
English | 1989 | ISBN: 0801495563, 0801405017 | PDF | pages: 439 | 59.9 mb
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided?

Paolo Barnard, Steven Quay, "The Origin of the Virus: The hidden truths behind the microbe that killed millions of people"
English | ISBN: 1854571060 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 0,3 MB
The Origin of the Virus is the first book to concentrate on the two most pressing issues the community of nations has had to contend with since the end of the two World Wars: where did the gravest global health crisis in one hundred years came from? And why did China withhold information that could have spared the lives of untold numbers the world over? In the book an award winning journalist teams up with two scientists of unquestioned international repute to examine the evidence. This book is a shocking account of the extreme experiments, of the cover-ups and of the collusions that led to the outbreak of the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish influenza and broadens the censure to include the American and British scientists who thwarted a proper investigation of the origin of COVID-19. The Origin of the Virus was written by award winning Italian journalist (Paolo Barnard) and two eminent scientist/doctors: from the USA, Dr. Steve Quay, and from the United Kingdom, Professor Angus Dalgleish. Despite its impeccable scientific grounding the book is both a readable and gripping account that for the first time allows the public to partake in what lies at the heart of the most deadly virus in modern times.

The Opportunity Index
by Lewis, Gavin;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119840767 | 254 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.09 MB

Ladislaus Boros, "The Mystery of Death: Awakening to Eternal Life"
English | ISBN: 1948626152 | 2020 | 300 pages | EPUB | 720 KB
What precisely happens at the time of death is a question that theologians have struggled over for centuries but have never answered satisfactorily. The response to this question that Ladislaus Boros gives in his monumental synthesis, The Mystery of Death, is that in death we meet Christ fully for the first time and in doing so attain to full consciousness and freedom. It is therefore only in the moment of death than humans are able to elect for or against their eternal salvation. In other words, death is a kind of judgment day, but it is we ourselves who pass judgment on ourselves.

Lloyd Laing, "The Mote of Mark: A Dark Age Hillfort in South-West Scotland "
English | ISBN: 1842172174 | 2006 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises a central hollow between two raised areas of rock and was formerly defended by a stone and timber rampart enclosing one third of an acre. The Mote of Mark appears to have first attracted the attention of antiquaries in the late eighteenth century, and first assumed national importance with Alexander Curle's major work in 1913. After the interruption of the First World War, the site was left largely alone until it was re-excavated in the 1970s. These excavations, in 1973 and '79 were designed to answer three specific questions: How many phases of activity are represented in the structural history of the defences? How many phases of activity are represented by the evidence for Early Medieval metalworking and occupation? And, how does the evidence of occupation within the defences relate to the structural history of the defences? This book presents the results of the excavations and their interpretation within the framework of these questions.

The Monetary Turning Point: From Bank Money to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031239563 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The monetary system is at a turning point. The question is no longer if, but how soon countries will roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This book discusses the recomposition of the money supply from the present bank money regime to a monetary system determined by CBDC. As the book sets out, the future of money is going to be digital and sovereign. Nonetheless, the relationship between the various types of money is competitive rather than being the peaceful coexistence that was officially envisaged. CBDC competes with the incumbent bank money as well as with private cryptocurrencies that are challenging both central-bank money as well as bank money. For technological and political reasons, bank money will not be able to emulate the superior properties of sovereign digital tokens. Uncovered and unwarranted cryptocurrencies, too, will not stand the competition in the long run. The shifts in the monetary system are changing the role of central banks in the interplay of monetary, fiscal and private-creditary functions and open up improved options for monetary policy. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers in monetary and financial economics, and digital currencies.