Renovators Incorporated Bloodsuckers At The Door

Author : H.W. Coward,Grant E. Bucosky
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682900048

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Renovators Incorporated: Bloodsuckers at the Door by H.W. Coward,Grant E. Bucosky Pdf

After his introduction to the renovation business, Rick Dammas tries to take control of his destiny. He enjoys the benefits of fast money, and gets caught up in the thrill of the sale. In such a cutthroat business Dammas is determined to stay on top by any means possible. His devious dealings cause mayhem and nightmares for all who come into contact with him, whether worker or client. His priorities in life are food, money and horse racing, each ultimately bringing him crashing to the ground. Carefully woven into this story is a glimpse into the renovation business showing what happens when unqualified tradesmen and unscrupulous salespeople join forces to do inadequate work, for maximum profit. This insight, and Rick’s wheeling and dealing with other people’s lives and money make RENOVATORS INCORPORATED / Bloodsuckers at the Door a compelling read.

Author : Ray Bert Westerfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business
ISBN : MINN:31951001580023A

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Middlemen in English Business by Ray Bert Westerfield Pdf

Author : Pieter de la Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1746
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0114482789

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The True Interest and Political Maxims, of the Republic of Holland by Pieter de la Court Pdf

Author : Taylor B. Seybolt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Altruism
ISBN : 9780199252435

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Humanitarian Military Intervention by Taylor B. Seybolt Pdf

Military intervention in a conflict without a reasonable prospect of success is unjustifiable, especially when it is done in the name of humanity. Couched in the debate on the responsibility to protect civilians from violence and drawing on traditional 'just war' principles, the centralpremise of this book is that humanitarian military intervention can be justified as a policy option only if decision makers can be reasonably sure that intervention will do more good than harm. This book asks, 'Have past humanitarian military interventions been successful?' It defines success as saving lives and sets out a methodology for estimating the number of lives saved by a particular military intervention. Analysis of 17 military operations in six conflict areas that were thedefining cases of the 1990s-northern Iraq after the Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo and East Timor-shows that the majority were successful by this measure. In every conflict studied, however, some military interventions succeeded while others failed, raising the question, 'Why have some past interventions been more successful than others?' This book argues that the central factors determining whether a humanitarian intervention succeeds are theobjectives of the intervention and the military strategy employed by the intervening states. Four types of humanitarian military intervention are offered: helping to deliver emergency aid, protecting aid operations, saving the victims of violence and defeating the perpetrators of violence. Thefocus on strategy within these four types allows an exploration of the political and military dimensions of humanitarian intervention and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each of the four types.Humanitarian military intervention is controversial. Scepticism is always in order about the need to use military force because the consequences can be so dire. Yet it has become equally controversial not to intervene when a government subjects its citizens to massive violation of their basic humanrights. This book recognizes the limits of humanitarian intervention but does not shy away from suggesting how military force can save lives in extreme circumstances.

Author : Oni Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735993808

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Aggretsuko Work Rage Balance by Oni Press Pdf

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906924270

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The End and the Beginning by Hermynia Zur Mühlen Pdf

First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Rajkumari Chandra Kalindi Roy
Publisher : IWGIA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 8790730291

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Land Rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh by Rajkumari Chandra Kalindi Roy Pdf

Little is know about the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (CHT), an area of approximately 5,089 square miles in southeastern Bangladesh. It is inhabited by indigenous peoples, including the Bawm, Sak, Chakma, Khumi Khyang, Marma, Mru, Lushai, Uchay (also called Mrung, Brong, Hill Tripura), Pankho, Tanchangya and Tripura (Tipra), numbering over half a million. Originally inhabited exclusively by indigenous peoples, the Hill Tracts has been impacted by national projects and programs with dire consequences. This book describes the struggle of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region to regain control over their ancestral land and resource rights. From sovereign nations to the limited autonomy of today, the report details the legal basis of the land rights of the indigenous peoples and the different tools employed by successive administrations to exploit their resources and divest them of their ancestral lands and territories. The book argues that development programs need to be implemented in a culturally appropriate manner to be truly sustainable, and with the consent and participation of the peoples concerned. Otherwise, they only serve to push an already vulnerable people into greater impoverishment and hardship. The devastation wrought by large-scale dams and forestry policies cloaked as development programs is succinctly described in this report, as is the population transfer and militarization. The interaction of all these factors in the process of assimilation and integration is the background for this book, analyzed within the perspective of indigenous and national law, and complemented by international legal approaches. The book concludes with an updateon the developments since the signing of the Peace Accord between the Government of Bangladesh and the Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS) on December 2, 1997.

Author : S. Magala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230236691

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The Management of Meaning in Organizations by S. Magala Pdf

Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

Author : Melody Graulich,Paul Crumbley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062554715

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Search for a Common Language by Melody Graulich,Paul Crumbley Pdf

A stellar group of writers, scientists, and educators illuminate the intersections between environmental science, creative writing, and education, considering ways to strengthen communication between differing fields with common interests. The contributing authors include Ken Brewer, Dan Flores, Hartmut Grassl, Carolyn Tanner Irish, Ted Kerasote, William Kittredge, Ellen Meloy, Louis Owens, Jennifer Price, Robert Michael Pyle, Kent C. Ryden, Annick Smith, Craig B. Stanford, Susan J. Tweit, and Keith Wilson.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002608754

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Academy, with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781604867824

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Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem Pdf

Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem’s book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with “formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.” “I realise,” writes Vaneigem in his introduction, “that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.” Vaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, “Reversal of Perspective,” he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation. For “To desire a different life is already that life in the making.” And “fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.” The present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of The Revolution of Everyday Life has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem’s classic work is to be followed by The Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death (2003) and The Inhumanity of Religion (2000).

Author : Ryan R. Gladwin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412163

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Streams of Latin American Protestant Theology by Ryan R. Gladwin Pdf

Ryan R. Gladwin provides a cogent introduction to Latin American Protestant Theology (LAPT) for students and scholars alike. The text offers a lucid analysis of the landscape of LAPT through an in-depth historical-theological engagement of the three dominant theological streams (Liberal, Evangelical, and Pentecostal) and how these streams understand themselves through the primary lens of ‘mission.’

Author : Pierre Bayle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1708
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0023452550

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A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV, 23 by Pierre Bayle Pdf

Author : Merrill R. Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111833484

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In Search of Stupidity by Merrill R. Chapman Pdf

Describes influential business philosophies and marketing ideas from the past twenty years and examines why they did not work.

Author : Lukas Ley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452962894

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Building on Borrowed Time by Lukas Ley Pdf

A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming–driven existential challenge. In addition to antiflooding infrastructure breaking down, vast areas of cities like Semarang and Jakarta are rapidly sinking, affecting the very foundations of urban life: toxic water oozes through the floors of houses, bridges are submerged, traffic is interrupted. As Lukas Ley shows, the residents of Semarang are constantly engaged in maintaining their homes and streets, trying to live through a slow-motion disaster shaped by the interacting temporalities of infrastructural failure, ecological deterioration, and urban development. He casts this predicament through the temporal lens of a “meantime,” a managerial response that means a constant enduring of the present rather than progress toward a better future—a “chronic present.” Building on Borrowed Time takes us to a place where a flood crisis has already arrived—where everyday residents are not waiting for the effects of climate change but are in fact already living with it—and shows that life in coastal Southeast Asia is defined not by the temporality of climate science but by the lived experience of tidal flooding.