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Free Download Klaus Mathis, Deborah Shannon, "Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law"
English | 2009 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 1402097972, 9048182034 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth.

Free Download Isobel Kuhn, "By Searching: My Journey Through Doubt Into Faith"
English | 1959 | ISBN: 0802400531 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.2 mb
Isobel Miller gave up God for worldly pursuits. But as graduation approached and her engagement was broken, she questioned that decision. "If You will prove to me that You are, and if You will give me peace, I will give You my whole life." God heard Isobel’s prayers and responded. He reached out to her, ending years of searching, and building her up for decades of fruitful missionary service with her husband, John Kuhn, in China.

Free Download Kent Annan, "After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 145961593X | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.2 mb
In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering-from the epic to the everyday-as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent’s book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news. Friends trapped under the rubble of buildings. Friends sprinting across the city looking for family. Churches-including one Kent often attended-turned to rubble. Suddenly Kent and his friends were part of an uncomfortable fellowship: people whose faith is shaken by crisis. Taking courage from the psalmists of old and the company of his grieving neighbors, Kent has found that there is solidarity in suffering. Others have followed life to the edge of meaning and have heard God even there, calling for honest faith. Are there questions or realities your faith can’t handle? Kent wrote: After Shock; to help you find out.

Free Download Marilyn B. Ogilvie, "Searching the Stars: The Story of Caroline Herschel"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0752442775 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.6 mb
Caroline Herschel is best known as the less significant sister of the astronomer William Herschel. Yet the romantic notion of her tirelessly working for her brother while he made his studies of the heavens, documenting his discoveries so he could achieve greatness in the scientific world, couldn’t be further from the truth. When Caroline wasn’t working as her brother’s assistant, she was sweeping the stars with her own small telescope given to her by William. Not only did she unearth three important nebulae, but she discovered no fewer than eight comets in her own right. When William became Astronomer Royal to King George III in 1782, Caroline too received an annual salary, making her the first ever woman to work as a professional scientist.William was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1781 after discovering the planet Uranus. It wasn’t until 1828, but the Society would eventually reward Caroline too, with its Gold Medal. This award would not be awarded to another woman until 1996. This fascinating new biography of one of our most outstanding scientists reveals the hardships experienced by a woman pursuing a male profession. Yet how did this unattractive, diminutive woman gain the respect of her professional colleagues, her country, and even her king? As Marilyn B. Ogilive investigates this extraordinary life, the determination, humility, and passion of one unremarkable woman come to light.

Free Download Michele Monserrati, "Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s Fascination with Japanese Culture "
English | ISBN: 1789621070 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.

Free Download Derek Wood – Project cancelled: A searching criticism of the abandonment of Britain’s advanced aircraft projects
Macdonald and Jane’s | 1975 | ISBN: 0356081095 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 148.98 MB
A good introduction to the rarer and less known aspects of British aviation. What could have been had the right choices been made, but never was.

Free Download Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Gary Klein
English | January 1, 2009 | ISBN: 0262013398, 0262516721 | True PDF | 337 pages | 1.6 MB
An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble-and why experience can’t be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods

Free Download Patent Searching Made Easy: How to doPatent Searches Onlineand in theLibrary by David Hitchcock
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1413329691 | 233 pages | PDF | 34 Mb
Understand the patentability of your invention and avoid expensive patent-searching fees with this step-by-step guide. With Patent Searching Made Easy, you can:

Free Download Back to Bangka: Searching for the truth about a wartime massacre by Georgina Banks
English | October 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1761341138 | 368 pages | PDF | 5.96 Mb
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘ Bud’ , killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘ Bud’ Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt.

Free Download Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (Audiobook)
English | December 04, 2020 | ASIN: B08PNYFG18 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 17m | 337 MB
Author: Gary A. Klein | Narrator: Douglas James
An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision-making can get us into trouble – and why experience can’t be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.
In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines – gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in practice, we make some of our best decisions by adapting to circumstances rather than blindly following procedures.