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Free Download Michel Beuret, "China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1568584261, 1568586140 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 2.9 mb
China has now taken Great Britain’s place as Africa’s third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent that has been largely ignored by Western companies or nations.

Free Download State Failure, Power Expansion, and Balance of Power in the Middle East: The Struggle Over Failed States by Aso M. Ali
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 3031446321 | 5 MB
This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus connecting the theoretical concepts of statehood, state failure, and revisionist and pro-status quo interventionist behavior. Through a detailed comparative analysis of five case studies of failed states occurring in the region during 1960-2010s -Yemen (1962-1970), Lebanon (1975-1989), Iraq (2003-2020), Yemen (2004-2020), and Syria (2011-2020) – the author employs the conceptual theory of balance of power to analyze the behavior of six regional powers in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Israel, Syria (pre-2011), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey toward each one of those cases. The book proposes that when states become failed states, regional powers with revisionist strategies expand into them, which in turn induce status quo regional powers to react by imposing balancing action, and that this power struggle turns failed states into battlegrounds for regional power (im)balances. This book offers empirical and theoretical insights into regional politics of the Middle East over the past six decades, contributes to international policy and security studies scholarship from a Middle East regional perspective, and draws attention to the importance of analyzing the destabilizing and historical consequences of state failures for contemporary contexts.

Free Download Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education: Building and Supporting Pro-Diversity Spaces by Rachel Chapman
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 200 Pages | ISBN : 3031467973 | 4.5 MB
This book explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how early childhood educators’ views on children’s gender identity influence their practice in Australia. The author utilizes feminist post-structuralism, queer theory and performativity as theoretical approaches, and feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when such environments are socially and politically contentious. It then identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while considering how to disrupt normative notions of gender and promote the deployment of discursive agency.

Free Download Bamboo Expansion: Processes, Impacts, and Management by Ling Zhang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 205 Pages | ISBN : 9819941121 | 9.5 MB
This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world. Although not conceptually plant invasions, bamboo expansion has been considered an "invasion" based on its characteristics and the impacts it caused on adjacent ecosystems it expanded into, including altered element cycling, transformed soil microbial community compositions, decreased biodiversity, fluctuated primary productions, etc. However, the processes and impacts during or after complete expansion and the underlying mechanisms of successful expansion, are still unclear. The ecological effects of bamboo expansion are not given full consideration and are not thoroughly understood.

Free Download Prof Gordon Belot, "Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant"
English | ISBN: 019286646X | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics. The appearance of the cosmological constant in the equations of general relativity allows one to model universes in which space has an inherent tendency towards expansion. This constant, introduced by Einstein but subsequently abandoned by him, returned to centre stage with the discovery of the accelerating expansion. This pedagogically-oriented essay begins with a study of the most basic and elegant relativistic world that involves a positive cosmological constant, de Sitter spacetime. It then turns to the relatives of de Sitter spacetime that dominate modern relativistic cosmology. Some of the topics considered include: the nature of time and simultaneity in de Sitter worlds; the sense in which de Sitter spacetime is a powerful dynamical attractor; the limited extent to which observation can give us information about the topology of space in a world undergoing accelerated expansion; and cosmologists’ favourite sceptical worry about the reliability of evidence and the possibility of knowledge, the problem of Boltzmann brains.

Free Download UVI Falcon Expansion Organic Pads v1.0.0 | 900 Mb
A beautifully crafted and expressive collection of sounds designed by John van der Lugt with the needs of modern production in mind, Organic Pads is a one-stop shop exploring the arena of sustained and evolving sounds within Falcon. Featuring 100 hand-crafted patches arranged in 4 categories including Light, Dark, Mystical, and Nature, Organic Pads gives you a diverse and wide-ranging palette of styles to explore.

Free Download UVI Falcon Expansion Modular Noise v1.0.0 | 200 Mb
Explore the amalgamation of software semi-modular and hardware modular with 100 Falcon presets covering Bass, Arps, Sequences, Drums and more. A torrid exploration of charactered sound design, Modular Noise delivers a diverse and inspiring range of patches ready to take your productions into new sonic territory with the uncompromising sound of analog filters, plasma distortion, wavefolders, and Falcon’s own deep toolbox of oscillators, effects, modulators, and scripts.

Free Download Expansion Warriors Meditation Classes
Published 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 7.70 GB | Duration: 5h 58m
Guided meditations and tools for personal transformation

Free Download UVI Falcon Expansion Voklm v1.0.3 | 504.1 Mb
Ethereal Voices Expand Falcon with 127 evolving and evocative organic sounds Tweak and perform on-the-fly with macro controls Deep editing capabilities of Falcon allow limitless customization

Free Download UVI Falcon Expansion SubCulture Orchestral v1.0.0 | 544.1 Mb
Experimental Dark Orchestral Arts Expand Falcon with 120 dark cinematic orchestral sounds Tweak and perform on-the-fly with Macro controls Deep editing capabilities of Falcon allow limitless customization