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Free Download Medical Product Regulatory Affairs
by Tobin, John J.;Walsh, Gary;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3527333266 | 333 pages | True PDF EPUB | 24.26 MB
Hands-on guide through the jungle of medical regulatory affairs for every professional involved in bringing new products to market

Free Download Katrin Auel, Tapio Raunio, "Parliamentary Communication in EU Affairs: Connecting with the Electorate?"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 041581538X, 0367739356 | EPUB | pages: 158 | 1.1 mb
Over the last twenty years, the role of national parliaments in EU affairs has gained considerable academic attention. Much of the literature, however, has focused on parliamentary scrutiny and control in EU affairs. What tends to be generally overlooked is that the parliamentary communication function is at least as important in EU politics as the control function. Democratic legitimacy depends on a vibrant public debate on political solutions and alternatives to allow citizens to make informed political (electoral) choices and to exercise democratic control. Within the EU, it is precisely the opacity of policy-making processes and the lack of public discourse that have been defined as core problems of democratic legitimacy. Here, parliaments have the potential to provide an ideal arena for the deliberation of important European issues and thus to help overcome the much-lamented distance between European policy processes and the citizens. Yet, despite parliaments’ central relevance for the legitimacy of European politics, the parliamentary communication function remains so far under researched. The volume aims at filling this gap by providing both qualitative and quantitative comparative data on various communication efforts by national parliaments.

Free Download Nick Dyrenfurth, "A Powerful Influence on Australian Affairs: A New History of the AWU"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0522872069 | EPUB | pages: 246 | 4.7 mb
Nick Dyrenfurth finds in the rich and turbulent history of the Australian Workers Union a record of our country’s frailties and strengths, its hardships and triumphs, its meanness and generosity. This lively and accessible history of Australia’s most famous union is essential reading for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped the nation over the last 130 years, as well as in the ideals and traditions that continue to cast their spell over its political and industrial affairs.

Free Download On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing By James V. Schall
2001 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 1882926633 | EPUB | 1 MB
To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are "unserious." But this fundamental truth is exactly what James Schall, following Plato, has to teach us in this wise and witty book. Schall cites Charlie Brown, Aristotle, and Samuel Johnson with the same sobriety-the sobriety that sees the truth in what is delightful and even amusing. Schall contends that singing, dancing, playing, contemplating, and other "useless" human activities are not merely forms of escape from more important things-politics, work, social activism, etc.-but an indication of the freedom in and for which men and women were created.Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian concerns. Though he does not deny the importance of those necessary and prosaic activities that take up the bulk of our daily lives, Schall puts these pursuits in perspective by asking, what do we do when everything we have to do is done? Defending the importance of simply wasting time, losing ourselves in play, and Chesterton’s claim that "a thing worth doing is worth doing badly," Schall contends that the joy that accompanies leisure, festivity, and conviviality gives us a glimpse of the eternal. Such activities also enable us to get beyond ourselves – indeed call us beyond ourselves – and are therefore essential if we are to rightly order our worldly concerns. For as Schall reminds us, neither man nor his projects are the highest things in the universe, and it is only by understanding this fact that man can attain to his true dignity. Citing Aristotle, Samuel Johnson, Charlie Brown, and New Yorker cartoons with equal sobriety, Schall unfolds a defense of both Being and being, of the radi