Andrew Talle Beyond Bach Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century University of Illinois Press
pdf | 3.62 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 025208389X | Author: Andrew Talle | Year: 2017

Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking (Love of Wisdom Library) By Alan W. Watts; Mark Watts
1998 | 109 Pages | ISBN: 0804830584 | PDF | 6 MB
"Although his famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." This volume in the "Love of Wisdom" library focuses on the more playful and artistic aspects of Taoism. Essays include "Being in the Way", "The Philosophy of Tao", and "Landscape, Soundscape" Alan Watts' lectures always drew a large audience of diverse interests, and these Taoist explorations of the "nature of nature" should introduce a new generation to Watt's thought.

Darrell Young, "Beyond Point-and-Shoot: Learning to Use a Digital SLR or Interchangeable-Lens Camera"
English | ISBN: 1933952954 | 2012 | 140 pages | PDF | 9 MB
There are two types of new photographers: those satisfied with their low-cost point-and-shoot cameras, and those more enthusiastic photographers who recognize the limitations of low-cost equipment and want to improve their pictures. No longer satisfied with simple snapshots, the enthusiast moves up to a more complex digital camera-one with interchangeable lenses and manual controls-to satisfy their artistic urge.

Close Relations: Family, Kinship, and Beyond (Crossroads of Knowledge)
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811607915 | 230 Pages | PDF EPUB | 2 MB
This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounded by boundaries that both constrain and enable their practical, symbolical and legal formation. Carefully contextualising close relations in relation to different national contexts, but also in relation to gender, sexuality, race, religion and dis/ability, the volume points to the importance of and variations in how close relations are lived, understood and negotiated.

The Bubble and Beyond - Fictitious capital, debt deflation and global crisis By Michael Hudson
2012 | 637 Pages | ISBN: 3981484207 | PDF | 5 MB
THE BUBBLE AND BEYOND describes how the expansive forces of industrial capitalism have been subverted by today's predatory finance capitalism. How did it all happen and how will it affect us? The answer is a laundry list of issues: What is inflated debt? Debt deflation? Globalization? Privatization of public assets? The mortgage crisis? Bailouts? Fraud? Casino Capitalism? Junk economics and voodoo mathematics? Monopoly power? Austerity? Unemployment? What is the rentier class? Balance of payments? De-Dollarization? Political ideologies? Partisanship? Two separate economies? Is government regulation always wrong? What is the best tax policy? Why the 1% versus the 99%? Economics has become very confusing and difficult to understand (and out of reach for most of us) because about 20 different geo-political issues impact economic health and growth worldwide, and few are studied in the classroom or given space in the press. There is a way out of the labyrinth, however, as Professor Hudson demonstrates across 20 readable chapters (see Table of Contents at http://michael-hudson.com). THE BUBBLE AND BEYOND is a compendium and brief history of economic thought and why it matters not only to Americans, but to people everywhere. You will find yourself referring to it again and again as a fount of information, much of which has been out of favor for decades and/or suppressed by financial interests. Professor Hudson provides chapter and verse, names names, and explains the mistakes and outright fraud that have often been committed in the name of political ideology, by both the right and the left. You will encounter all of the heroes and miscreants of economics, industry, and politics from the Bible and Babylon to present day banksters, misguided FED policy-makers, and captains of the finance/insurance/real estate (FIRE) sector and the military-industrial complex. In one chapter after another, Hudson tells who did what and to whom - and who wins and who loses. He amply shows why the world is in such a financial mess - and what can be done about it. PROFESSOR HUDSON'S most controversial claim is that "Debts that can't be paid, won't be." The question he poses is whether debt non-payment will lead to worldwide foreclosures - including sell-offs of public domain assets by debt-strapped local and national governments (exactly what some of the 1% would like - a newly-poor feudalistic society with the 1% collecting all the "fees") - or whether the debts will be written down in line with the ability to pay, as has been done by corporations via Chapter 11 bankruptcies and reorganizations throughout a more enlightened modern economic history. In Professor Hudson's bold view, debt write-downs versus privatization and sell-offs of public domain assets are the economic issues that will dominate politics over the next generation. ILLUSTRATED with 2 dozen charts and exhibits that make it plain where money goes versus where it might go - and ought to go. (Pull-quote lists for the press in the eBook edition.)

Thord Daniel Hedengren, "Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1118600754 | PDF | pages: 370 | 16.2 mb
The ultimate guide to using WordPress to make your life easier

English | ASIN: B088TWJXC2 | 2020 | 7 hours and 6 minutes |MP3|M4B | 195 MB
Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump's destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. This reaction is contributing to political polarization and unwittingly serving to strengthen Trump's hand as he sows divisiveness and hatred. In Beyond Contempt , Erica Etelson shows us how to communicate respectfully, passionately, and effectively across the political divide without soft-pedaling our beliefs.
Using Powerful Non-Defensive Communication skill sets, we can express ourselves in ways that inspire open-minded consideration instead of triggering defensive reaction. Providing detailed instruction and dozens of examples of how to discuss hot button topics, Beyond Contempt is a must-have guide to productive dialogue that can defuse hostility, build trust, and open hearts and minds in unexpected ways.

Innovations in Social Finance: Transitioning Beyond Economic Value
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030725340 | 432 Pages | PDF EPUB | 14 MB
Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance has attracted the attention of governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products, tools, and processes) in social finance, present a series of case studies related to the development, deployment, and scaling of social finance innovations, offer an understanding of how non-economic externalities are being incorporated, managed, and assessed in recent innovations, reveal the disruptive potential of social finance innovations by analyzing how they are redefining mainstream finance, analyze the scales - of operation and impact - of different innovations, and explore the complex relationship between social finance and social innovation. Featuring contributions from both the research and practitioner community as well as policy actors, the book provides more than a snapshot of the current social finance field by specifically highlighting the major challenges and difficulties that require the urgent attention of policymakers and social entrepreneurs.

Beyond Cutting by V Clifford | 283.84 KB
English | 221 Pages

Title: Beyond Cutting: A Viv Fraser Mystery (The Viv Fraser Mysteries Book 1)
Author: Clifford, V.
Year: 2014

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