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Free Download Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability
by Matthew Archer
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1479822000 | 252 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 13.3/1.2 MB

Free Download The Limits: A Novel by Nell Freudenberger
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 059344888X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 5.6 MB
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year

Free Download Michael Giudice, "Social Construction of Law: Potential and Limits "
English | ISBN: 1839103213 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This illuminating book explores the theme of social constructionism in legal theory. It questions just how much freedom and power social groups really have to construct and reconstruct law. Michael Giudice takes a nuanced approach to analyse what is true and what is false in the view that law is socially constructed. He draws on accounts of European Union law as well as Indigenous legal orders in North America to demonstrate the contingency of particular concepts of law. Utilising evidence from a range of social and natural sciences, he also considers how law may have a naturally necessary core. The book concludes that while law would not exist without beliefs, intentions, and practices, it must always exist as a social rule, declaration, or directive; much, but not all, of law is socially constructed. This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of law and philosophy as well as researchers interested in the intersections between analytical legal theory, socio-legal studies, and empirical legal studies.

Free Download Raymond Williams Now: Knowledge, Limits and the Future By Jeff Wallace
1998 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0333627644 | PDF | 12 MB
The work of Raymond Williams continues to exercise a powerful hold over the minds of contemporary cultural analysts and social commentators. This collection responds to the challenge of Williams’s thinking in discussions of topics of current interest and concern. The essays embrace a widely-divergent field of enquiry, from the study of language, dramaturgical theory, the theory of human needs and approaches to sociology, cultural studies and television, to issues of history, temporality and the future in relation to modernity and the postmodern.

Free Download Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art (Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University) edited by Maria Alessia Rossi, Pamela A. Patton
English | October 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0271094974 | True EPUB/PDF | 264 pages | 47.9/148 MB
Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or cultural parameters that both direct and protect their scholarship? Beginning with Thelma K. Thomas and Alicia Walker’s acute assessment of the need for a "medieval art history for now," the essays in Out of Bounds ask what happens when the study of medieval art disregards boundaries that it once obeyed.

Free Download Jordan Butcher, "Navigating Term Limits: The Careers of State Legislators"
English | ISBN: 3031394224 | 2023 | 279 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book considers whether term limits help curb careerism in the US state legislatures. Term limits are popular among the public and have been overwhelmingly successful once on the ballot. Despite this, very little is known about the long-term effects of these institutional rules. If term limits were sold to the public to remove entrenched incumbents from office, how do they alter the careers of legislators and what are the implications? Butcher suggests that term limits do not end careers but instead, lawmakers have become more creative in their pursuits. She finds that the presence of term limits has created a new career system unique to those states that have limits. In each chapter, there is a quantitative analysis, followed by qualitative interviews to better understand the underlying motivations of members.

Free Download Civil War wests : testing the limits of the United States By Arenson, Adam; Graybill, Andrew R
2015 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 0520283783 | PDF | 4 MB
"This volume unifies the concerns of Civil War and western history, revealing how Confederate secession created new and shifting borderlands. In the West, both Civil War battlefields and Civil War politics engaged a wider range of ethnic and racial distinctions, raising questions that would arise only later in places farther east. Likewise, the histories of occupation, reincorporation, and expanded citizenship during Reconstruction in the South have ignored the connections to previous as well as subsequent efforts in the West. The stories contained in this volume complicate our understanding of the paths from slavery to freedom for white as well as non-white Americans. By placing the histories of the American West and the Civil War and Reconstruction into one sustained conversation, this volume expands the limits of both by emphasizing how struggles over land, labor, sovereignty, and citizenship shaped the U.S. nation-state in this tumultuous era. This volume highlights significant moments and common concerns of this continuous conflict, as it stretched across the continent and throughout the nineteenth century"–Provided by ✅Publisher.

Free Download Gauri Shankar Gupta, "Limits of Consumption"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1910553948 | EPUB | pages: 252 | 1.6 mb
Degradation of the environment and climate change are the most important challenges facing humanity. For thousands of years humanity lived inharmonious relationship with nature. The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with the environment. Following the Second World War, massive urbanisation (from 30% of global population in 1950 to 56% in 2016), manifold increase in global GDP (from $5.7 trillion in 1950 to $110trillion in 2016), unprecedented growth in population (from 2.6 billion in 1950 to 7.4billion in 2016) and rising energy consumption, have resulted in a quantum leap to human induced activities, particularly since 1950. Today, we are in the midst of a rapid transition to a world where human populations are more crowded, more connected and more consuming, simultaneously co-habiting with unparalleled levels of poverty and hunger. With rapidly increasing consumption, the carrying capacity of the Earth has come under tremendous pressure. Large-scale mining, massive industrialisation, intensive commercial agriculture and destruction of forests have given rise to unprecedented pollution of air, rivers, lakes and oceans, desertification and acidification of soil, decline in bio-diversity, contamination of groundwater aquifers, rise in temperatures and erratic weather patterns. Soil-loss rate exceeds soil-formation rate at least by tenfold. Per capita availability of fresh water has declined by about 70% since 1950 while consumption is up by about 9 times. Air pollution has emerged as the most serious health hazard resulting in over seven million deaths per year. Anthropogenic greenhouse gases are resulting in global warming and climate change, threatening the life support system on planet earth. Despite the plethora of international negotiations, declarations and treaties since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the ground realities continue to deteriorate. The governments, NGOs and environmental experts have successfully converted a simple subject into a most complex matrix. Transition towards sustainability remains a distant dream. Under these circumstances, it would be worthwhile to look at the wisdom of our ancestors who lived in harmony with nature for thousands of years. Based on comprehensive research, this book attempts to bring out the ground realities and the wisdom of our ancestors in a concise and coherent manner to mitigate this serious threat to humanity.

Free Download The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons by Scott Douglas Sagan
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0691032211 | 308 Pages | PDF | 16.6 MB
Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies.

Free Download Howard Hughes, "Outer Limits: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 178076166X, 1780761651 | PDF | pages: 321 | 317.3 mb
HOWARD HUGHES’S NEW FILMGOERS’ GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AVATAR AND BEYOND, AND COVERS OVER 250 MORE Outer Limits explores science-fiction cinema through 26 great films, from the silent classic Metropolis to today. It reviews the galaxy of stars and directors who have created some of the most popular films of all time, including George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’ films, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Minority Report, James Cameron’s ‘Terminator’ films and Ridley Scott’s milestones Alien and Blade Runner. It also discusses everything from A-listers 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, to Japanese monster movies, 1950s B-movies, creature features and cult favourites, depicting time travel, distant planets or alien invasions. Films featured include The War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Tarantula, Godzilla, The Thing, Forbidden Planet, Barbarella, Galaxy Quest, Mad Max 2, Back to the Future, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Star Trek, Apollo 13, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Matrix, and many, many more.