Negotiating in the Press: American Journalism and Diplomacy, 1918-1919 (Media & Public Affairs Ser.) Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | ISBN: 0807135151 | edition 2010 | PDF | 313 pages | 1,3 mb Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasize the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describes the press’s newfound power in the war’s aftermath–that seminal moment when journalists discovered their ability to help broker peace talks.

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Planting A Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, And Manufacturers In The Southern Interior, 1790-1860 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | ISBN: 0807131075 | edition 2005 | PDF | 262 pages | 4,9 mb In Planting a Capitalist South, Tom Downey effectively challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South.

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Keys to Educational Psychology By Irma Eloff, Liesel Ebersohn Publisher: University of Cape Town Press 2004-06-25 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 1919713441 | PDF | 28 MB If you are curious about Educational Psychology, this book is for you.

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Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies By Paul Cartledge, Fiona Rose Greenland, Oliver Stone Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0299232840 | PDF | 1 MB

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Global Teams: How Top Multinationals Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork Publisher: Davies-Black | ISBN: 0891061576 | edition 2001 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,7 mb Just like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. In every corner of the world, organizations are calling upon people to communicate and cooperate across different cultures, to manage widely dispersed work groups and corporate subsidiaries, and to hurdle multiple time zones. From Singapore to Zurich, Sao Paulo to Detroit, Michael Marquardt and Lisa Horvath have culled the best practices and lessons learned from such global leaders as Glaxo-Wellcome, General Motors University, Marriott, and Colgate-Palmolive to show how any organization can create and sustain teams that will work well across the boundaries and barriers of diversity and distance.

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Global Teams: How Top Multinationals Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork Publisher: Davies-Black | ISBN: 0891061576 | edition 2001 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,7 mb Just like the companies in which they function, teams are going global. In every corner of the world, organizations are calling upon people to communicate and cooperate across different cultures, to manage widely dispersed work groups and corporate subsidiaries, and to hurdle multiple time zones

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The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press | ISBN: 080186755X | edition 2002 | PDF | 217 pages | 14,1 mb In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way into the plots of English novels

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Michael E. Latham, “Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era” Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2000 | ISBN 0807825336 | PDF | 152 pages | 18.2 MB Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration.

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Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu Publisher: University of Hawaii Press | ISBN: 0824814959 | edition 1993 | CHM | 263 pages | 10,1 mb The author first proves that the work wasn’t of the age of Krishna Deva Raya but was written much later. Then he dissects it piece by piece to reveal the times of the original author and his motivations

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