5 Politics, Sociology eBooks

The Middle Road: American Politics, 1945 to 2000 by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
Sustainability and Energy Management: Innovative and Responsible Business Practices for Sustainable Energy Strategies of Enterprises in Relation with CSR
A Guidebook for Today's Asian Investor: The Common Sense Guide to Preserving Wealth in a Turbulent World by Bruce VonCannon
Applied Modelling and Computing in Social Science

The Middle Road: American Politics, 1945 to 2000 by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
English | November 23rd, 2012 | ASIN: B00AY6NER6, ISBN: 0761413189 | 95 Pages | EPUB | 9.94 MB
History is dramatic – and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. The Middle Road: American Politics discusses the politics in the United States from 1945 through 2000. The authors examine the effects of McCarthyism, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Watergate scandal, and the presidencies of Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. The text is enhanced with maps, photographs, political cartoons, and other historically significant images.

Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
English | February 1, 2013 | ISBN: 1848135688, 184813567X | PDF | 224 pages | 3.7 MB
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship between the social movements and governments in these countries and do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality?
These are the bold and critical questions that Latin America's Turbulent Transitions explores. The authors provocatively argue that although US hegemony in the region is on the wane, the traditional socialist project is also declining and something new is emerging. Going beyond simple conceptions of 'the left', the book reveals the true underpinnings of this powerful, transformative, and yet also complicated and contradictory process.

Sustainability and Energy Management: Innovative and Responsible Business Practices for Sustainable Energy Strategies of Enterprises in Relation with CSR
English | Dec 2017 | ISBN-10: 3658202211 | 269 pages | PDF | 12.07 mb

A Guidebook for Today's Asian Investor: The Common Sense Guide to Preserving Wealth in a Turbulent World by Bruce VonCannon
English | 17 Dec. 2017 | ISBN: 981105830X | 116 Pages | EPUB | 2.78 MB
This book is the first to directly address Asia's new rich with an easy-to-follow guide to investment and the world of global finance. There are currently approximately 15 million high net worth households in the world today, a number that is growing by 900,000 new millionaires in the world each year. Many of the Asian new rich, however, lack even basic information about investment strategies and how to put their wealth to work. With rich experience in the private sector, Bruce Von Cannon makes it seem easy in this enjoyable and readable new book.

Applied Modelling and Computing in Social Science
English | 2015 | ISBN: 3631663668 | 130 Pages | PDF | 1.54 MB
In social science outstanding results are yielded by advanced simulation methods, based on state of the art software technologies and an appropriate combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. This book presents examples of successful applications of modelling and computing in social science: business and logistic process simulation and optimization, deeper knowledge extractions from big data, better understanding and predicting of social behaviour and modelling health and environment changes.Janez Povh is Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia. His work is focused on mathematical basics for data technologies and applications of advanced data technologies in big data analysis.