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English | 2012 | ISBN: 1409442276, 1138279102 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 1.2 mb
This unique book explores the problems of the national crisis management system in Russia, a country undergoing political, social and economic transition and one which is also prone to natural and man-made disasters. In detailing policy, institutional and legal issues and illustrating a number of case studies, the authors offer new ways of resolving the effects of disasters as well as increasing resilience by improving our understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities. In the book six chapters offer case studies of various types of disaster written in a unique collaboration between Russian scientists, Russian policy makers and Swedish scholars. Other chapters relate the role of mass media in Russian society and policy development. Taken together the book details changes in a crisis management system, policy and approach in a country that has undergone rapid fundamental political economic and social change.
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Free Download Judy Shuttleworth, "Creating a Shared Moral Community "
English | ISBN: 0367529823 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK.
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Free Download Dragoljub Marjanovic, "Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 946298039X | 2017 | 250 pages | PDF | 1438 KB
The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century. This book offers a close look at that volume and its manner of representing the historical role of Byzantine emperors and ecclesiology, with particular attention to the use of images, an issue of central importance amid the period's first outburst of iconoclasm. When seen through this lens, the Short History
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1492098647 | 330 Pages | EPUB (True) | 5 MB
The low cost of getting started with cloud services can easily evolve into a significant expense down the road. That's challenging for teams developing data pipelines, particularly when rapid changes in technology and workload require a constant cycle of redesign. How do you deliver scalable, highly available products while keeping costs in check?
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Free Download Constanze Schulte, "Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0199276722 | PDF | pages: 363 | 3.5 mb
This book examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ's judgments and interim measures from the Court's creation in 1945 until the present day. ICJ judgments and provisional measures from the Corfu Channel case in the late 1940s to the Arrest Warrant Case decided in 2002 are examined, with particular focus on state practice.
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English | ISBN: 1032100915 | 2023 | 180 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In the early Middle Ages (ninth to eleventh centuries), Italy became the target of Muslim campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruled her for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During that period, however, Christians and Muslims did not always fight each other. Indeed, sometimes they traded with the 'other' and visited the lands of the 'other'.
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Free Download Kenneth R. Ross, "Christianity in North America "
English | ISBN: 1399507435 | 2023 | 512 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Building on the success of EUP's highly acclaimed Atlas of Global Christianity, this volume is the seventh in a series of reference works that takes the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail. It focuses on Christianity in North America, covering every country and offering both reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by locally based scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyzes key themes, and examines current trends. As a comprehensive account of the presence of Christianity in every part of North America, this volume will become a standard work of reference in its field.
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English | ISBN: 1032063998 | 2023 | 136 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book explores central philosophical questions in Christian theology and doctrine through the perspectives of three of the most influential Christian thinkers: St. Augustine, St. Anselm, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
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English | 1999 | ISBN: 0801488796, 0801436761 | PDF | pages: 314 | 21.3 mb
Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on themselves to become "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Convinced that salvation came only with the literal excision of the instruments of sin, they were known as Skoptsy (the self-castrated). Their community thrived well into the twentieth century, when it was destroyed in the Stalinist Terror.
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English | 2007 | ISBN: 0495118907 | PDF | pages: 292 | 11.5 mb
This comprehensive lab manual will help students learn to effectively use the technology tools available to them. Written specifically to correlate with the popular Mathematica software, each lab contains clearly explained exercises and a variety of labs and projects to accompany the text.
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