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Free Download Alan Siaroff, "Comparing Political Regimes: A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition"
English | ISBN: 1487507771 | 2022 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the world’s 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyzes and classifies countries in terms of economic development, political evolution, and state strength, ultimately outlining and contrasting the aspects of four regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-open autocracies, and closed autocracies.

Free Download Comparing Pathways of Desistance: An International Perspective
by Ruwani Fernando
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032427019 | 251 Pages | True PDF | 17.6 MB

Free Download What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?: Comparing Conceptual Worlds of the Bible and Evolution by Dru Johnson
English | December 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1514003619 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 5.59 MB
Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become prominent insights of the biologist Charles Darwin interlaced with the Bible’s one-of-a-kind origin story. Key Description markers come to the surface again and again, driving the history of Israel and the Jesus movement forward to its cosmic completion.

Free Download On Music, Money and Markets: Comparing the Finances of Great Composers
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031432258 | 467 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
Did you know that Bach invested in mines? That Rossini improved his income by running casinos in the opera houses which on weekends performed his operas? Or that Puccini composed shorter arias to make them fit the length of gramophone disks as they reported him huge revenues? Or who was, in financial terms, the most successful classical composer in history? This book -the first of its kind- studies and compares the finances of twenty classical composers in their historical and economical context. Each chapter details and quantifies the sources of income of these musicians (wages, royalties, subsidies, percentages over the number of performances, arrangements, investments in the musical sector, etc), thus allowing to estimate the income they obtained due to their artistic – primarily compositional, but also related- activities. In addition, it also estimates the composer’s expenditures, thus drawing a relatively complete image of their personal finances. This not only allows to conclude to create a ranking of composers according to their economic success, but -more importantly- for the first time gives an accurate image of the financial situation of a broad set of composers. This allows to correct many false believes while also giving new insights on the relation between economics and music history.

Free Download David S. Powers, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies"
English | ISBN: 1501772384 | 2023 | 330 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, the co-editors invited a team of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine Muslim societies in comparative and interconnected ways. The result is a book that showcases ethics, education, architecture, the arts, modernization, political resistance, marriage, divorce, and death rituals.

Free Download Basil Dufallo, "Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy"
English | ISBN: 0472133403 | 2023 | 394 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, and the Hellenic culture of the Etruscans. Perhaps "everybody knows" that Rome adapted Greek culture in a steadily more "sophisticated" way as its prosperity and might increased. This volume, however, argues that the assumption of smooth continuity, let alone steady "improvement," in any aspect of Roman Hellenism can blind us to important aspects of what Roman Hellenism really is and how it functions in a given context.

Free Download Comparing Network Governance in England and China
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031449029 | 327 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China. Adopting a political ethnographic approach, it assesses whether networked forms of governance are used in provision of care for the elderly and those with learning disabilities in the two countries. It also examines several concepts from network governance theory – including interdependence and resource exchange, trust and reciprocity, and diplomatic skills – in the context of English and Chinese local state engagement with NGOs providing and managing care. Perhaps surprisingly, the book argues that there are more similarities than differences in network governance practices in England and China. It will appeal to all those interested in network governance theory, public administration and comparative politics.

Free Download Polar Cousins
by Leuprecht, Christian;Causey, Douglas;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1773853880 | 282 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.55 MB

Free Download From SAFe to Spotify
by Portman, Michael S.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3384034368 | 186 pages | True EPUB | 6.3 MB

Free Download Brian K. Morley, "Mapping Apologetics: Comparing Contemporary Approaches"
English | 2015 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0830840672 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
Everyone believes something. But how and why do people believe? What counts as evidence? How much can be assumed or believed by faith alone? When it comes to religious faith, the questions become at once more difficult and more important. Over the centuries, Christians have offered different approaches to explaining or defending the Christian faith, a discipline known as apologetics. But it has not always been clear how different apologetic methods work, or what each approach has to offer. In this comprehensive survey, Brian Morley provides an overview of Christian apologetic approaches and how they differ. He explores the historical and philosophical underpinnings of key figures and major schools of thought, from the presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til to the evidentialism of Gary Habermas. Moving beyond theory, Morley also covers apologetic application, demonstrating how each view works out in practical terms. This guide covers the complexities of apologetics in a way that is accessible to the nonspecialist. Even-handed and respectful of each apologist and their contribution, this book provides the reader with a formidable array of defenses for the faith.