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English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367616416 | 243 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.2 MB
Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and other explosive questions-lodged by ideologues on the left and the right-and offers readers a well researched defense of science and a polemic addressed to its detractors.
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Free Download Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, "Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries"
English | ISBN: 1612498329 | 2023 | 230 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights, and accumulation. This more robust methodology leads to a comprehensive, well-balanced lens to perceive agrarian transition in developing countries. It argues that the existing process of accumulation has resulted in nonsustainable agriculture because of market failures―the result of asymmetries of power, diseconomies of scale, and unstable property rights. The book covers the historical shifts in land relations, productivity, and class relations that have led to present-day challenges in sustainability. The result is arrested productivity growth. Agrarian transition should be understood in the context of the wider economic development in society, including how political settlement and primitive accumulation inhibited the kind of property rights that encourage growth.
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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367017695, 0367167565 | EPUB | pages: 348 | 1.4 mb
The report of the National Coal Policy Project is entitled Where We Agree to focus attention on the broad areas of agreement reached by the project participants. This one-year project brought together leading individuals from environmental and industry groups to seek consensus on important national policy issues related to the use of coal in
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Free Download When a Teen Chooses You: Practical Advice for Any Adult By Joseph Moore
2012 | 101 Pages | ISBN: 1616362413 | EPUB | 1 MB
This revised and updated edition contains practical information for those undertaking the responsibility of spiritual guidance for a teenager. Providing an understanding of what makes a teenager "tick," this book will give you the skills and confidence to persuasively talk about such delicate issues as prayer, morality, sin, and guilt. Whether you are preparing for a role as confirmation sponsor or simply seeking to inspire and understand the teens in your life, this book is an indispensable resource.This revised edition offers fresh solutions to current issues for teens and the adults they confide in. This practical information takes into account the needs of teens as they sort out the conflicts in their lives.
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English | ISBN: 1789209080 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own.
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Free Download When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives by Heather Mac Donald
English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1956007164 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 0.9 MB
Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too.
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English | ISBN: 135005108X | 2018 | 208 pages | PDF | 1446 KB
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives?
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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032396008 | 459 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
The philosopher Spinoza once asserted that no one knows what a body can do, conceiving an intrinsic bodily power with unknown limits. Similarly, we can ask ourselves about Artificial Intelligence (AI): To what extent is the development of intelligence limited by its technical and material substrate? In other words, what can AI do? The answer is analogous to Spinoza's: Nobody knows the limit of AI.
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English | ISBN: 9004506837 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 37 MB
An insight into the production aspects of paper in Western Europe.
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Free Download Water: Basic Science
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819915406 | 604 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 97 MB
This book highlights the fundamentals for understanding the essential problems and latest progresses in basic water science. Water is the most abundant, fundamental and important matter in nature. Arguably it is also the material that human beings study the most but misunderstand the most. Compared with the environmental science and engineering research activities on water resources, water pollution and water usage closely related to social problems at the macro level, basic scientific research on water at the molecular level has just emerged, the impact of which is not fully recognized yet. This book is devoted to introducing some important advances in the field of basic water science in past decades, with a particular emphasis on recent results on water and the interactions between water and solid surfaces at the molecular level. Starting from introducing concepts and popular theoretical and experimental methods for basic water research, this book mainly focuses on the atomic composition, electronic structure, and physicochemical properties of water molecules, water clusters and water layers (including surface water layers and water surface layers), rules for water adsorption on metals, oxides, and other typical solid surfaces such as salt, as well as the microscopic processes and mechanisms of water diffusion, wetting, decomposition and phase transformations under a variety of conditions. It is a good reference book for students and researchers in water-related science.
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