Free Download Robert Mcnamara, "The 1964 Election and Its Aftermath: from In Retrospect"
English | 2017 | ASIN: B0738LVCFL | EPUB | pages: 33 | 2.6 mb
"Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Free Download Regional Development and Its Spatial Structure by Dadao Lu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 357 Pages | ISBN : 9819976820 | 38.8 MB
This book describes the progress and prominent theories of regional development research in the past decades, especially in the past decade, discusses the industrial structure, spatial structure, resources, and environment, as well as a series of practical issues, and reveals the general characteristics of spatial structure evolution in the process of regional development. The research on the issues of regional development has become the frontier of relevant disciplines since the 1950s, and much progress has been made in the process of solving practical problems in social and economic development. This book provides an in-depth and systematic demonstration of the "point-axis system" theory of regional exploitation and development as well as the T-shaped structure of China's regional economic action in theory and practice and discusses the impact of location differential rent, restricted accessibility, technological innovation, etc., on regional development theoretically. This book is used as a reference for planning, scientific research, and teaching personnel in territorial expansion, regional economy, human geography, etc.

Free Download Prospects for Soil Regeneration and Its Impact on Environmental Protection by Sesan Abiodun Aransiola, Babafemi Raphael Babaniyi, Adejoke Blessing Aransiola, Naga Raju Maddela
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 396 Pages | ISBN : 3031532694 | 25.3 MB
Soil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air. It is home to more than one trillion species of microorganisms. Soil also plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. Because plants absorb carbon from the atmosphere, convert it to plant tissue, and return it to the soil as plant residue, soils globally act as the world's largest sink of active carbon. Soil has role to play in food production and safety. Soil contamination undermined by modern agricultural practices that deplete soil carbon stocks. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have been raising recorded temperatures since the Industrial Revolution. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries have almost doubled in the last 50 years and will increase by 30% by 2050 given the current trend. The primacy of arresting climate change is nowhere more evident than the adoption of 195 countries of the first legally binding global climate deal at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. With atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reaching 400 parts per million in 2016, soils can be an ally in bringing the CO2 level down to a sustainable level if protected for regeneration. Soil protection and regeneration is a technique that involves the conservative rehabilitation of soil ecosystem and farmland. This technique focuses on top soil regeneration, improving the water cycle, supporting biosequestration, enhancing ecosystem services, increasing biodiversity, strengthening the vitality and health of farm soil, and increasing resilience to climate change and landscape. Environmental protection not only improves soil health, productivity, and resilience to weather extremes, raising farm yields and income while strengthening regional food security in the face of a changing climate, but can also form part of a region's broader climate strategy. This book is timely as more studies and reviews need to be reported about regenerating global polluted soil and the impacts on the environment, the benefit of both biotic and abiotic structure, thereby creating more awareness of environmental protection and sustainability. Thus, this book presents a vista to research on regeneration of lost resources in the soil and its impacts on the environment.

Free Download Gordon E Mingay, "Parliamentary Enclosure in England: An Introduction to its Causes, Incidence and Impact, 1750-1850"
English | ISBN: 1138158631 | 2016 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 8 MB
Enclosure transformed the old open fields and common lands of England to create the modern rural landscape. It changed forever the life of many villages, but provided food for a rapidly rising population. Its methods and consequences were controversial - many rural poor lost their access to land - and the subject is still a cause of dispute. Gordon Mingay's authoritative survey guides the reader through the complexities of the topic. He describes the processes by which land was reorganised and analyses the impact of enclosure regionally. Throughout he stresses the extent of local variation which make the subject so complex.

Free Download Nineveh and Its Remains: The Gripping Journals of the Man Who Discovered the Buried Assyrian Cities by Austen Henry Layard
English | February 1, 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01LR7TOSI | 521 pages | PDF | 4.23 Mb
In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh. Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of its time and was an important religious center around 3000 BC. Commerce and religion thrived in the city, which was decorated with ornate stone carvings and reliefs and boasted well-defended walls and an aqueduct. However, the city was sacked in 612 BC, and its citizens were either deported or murdered. From that time forward, the city remained unoccupied, until Layard's excavation in the mid-1800s brought its treasures back into the world.

Free Download Stavroula Constantinou, "Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products "
English | ISBN: 9004392173 | 2020 | 408 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume represents the first discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles treating hagiographical rewriting from various angles. The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts from late antiquity to late Byzantium.

Free Download R. Krishnaswamy, "Liberalism and its Encounters in India "
English | ISBN: 1032101954 | 2023 | 158 pages | EPUB, PDF | 838 KB + 4 MB
This book explores the future of liberalism in India. It moves away from traditional approaches and draws upon resources from other disciplines - those subjects which some might think don't strictly fall under political science or theory - like anthropology, literature, philosophy ― to critically engage with the condition of late capitalist modernity in India.

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English | ISBN: 9004442596 | 2021 | 279 pages | PDF | 9 MB
"[...], Davidson's and Oosterwijk's volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition."

Free Download Hydrology and Its Discontents: Contemplations on the Innate Paradoxes of Water Research by John T. Van Stan II , Jack Simmons
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 169 Pages | ISBN : 3031497678 | 10.7 MB
This book examines the intricate web linking water science and society using diverse philosophical lenses. Highlighting the tensions within the threads of this web, we spotlight major conceptual tightropes that water researchers tread daily. To effectively navigate these delicate threads, a 'healthy' tension in the encompassing web is necessary. Drawing inspiration from Freud's examination of tensions in "Society and Its Discontents," we illuminate the tension-filled paradoxes inherent to water science, emphasizing the challenges in keeping these paradoxical threads taut enough to ensure a navigable and sustainable bond with society.

Free Download William Bradford, Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, "History of the Mayflower Voyage and the Destiny of Its Passengers: Including Mayflower Ship's Log, History of Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing"
English | 2018 | ASIN: B079R9PPZM | EPUB | pages: 882 | 2.9 mb
The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. There were 102 passengers. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Compact was an event which established a rudimentary form of democracy, with each member contributing to the welfare of the community.