Free Download Melissa M. Lee Desfor, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State"
English | ISBN: 150174836X | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship―which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures―overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state.

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Free Download James Martel, "Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat"
English | 2007 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0231139845 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader.

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Free Download Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity Under Soviet Communism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHG3KJDW | 2023 | 10 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Mark Harrison
Narrator: Michael Page

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Free Download The Platonian Leviathan By Leon Harold Craig
2010 | 704 Pages | ISBN: 1442641061 | PDF | 3 MB

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Ariel Ron, "Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic "
English | ISBN: 1421439328 | 2020 | 324 pages | PDF | 7 MB
How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.

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Darko Suvin, "In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1434445194 | PDF | pages: 364 | 1.7 mb
In eleven incisive, biting essays, Marxist philosopher Darko Suvin suggests that "capitalism (and all of us in Leviathan's belly) stands today in the presence of Yeats's rough beast advancing toward Bethlehem, that finance capitalism is not simply a stage but a recurrent 'Autumn' signal of transition from one world regime of accumulation and domination to another; it signals the destruction of the old regime and creation of a 'new' one." And to bolster his argument, Suvin points to the economic and social chaos creeping and growing through western society, bank failures, riots, unrest, loss of private capital, loss of middle-class jobs, increase in drug and alcohol abuse, proliferation of guns and other weapons in society, failure of our school systems, inability of police to provide security, and political revolution in less-developed states. The author stresses the need to provide "universal guaranteed income sufficient to modestly live on for all adults working 35 hours a week, and a stress on [providing decent] education and health." And to fund these simple measures: "Just pay trillions to people instead of banks and the military." Suvin's intelligent analysis and commentary will open many eyes that have been prejudiced against socialist thought by the rise of right-wing politicians, and demonstrate quite clearly to the modern reader that there IS another perspective worth considering.

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English | ASIN: B0BLTVR3DC | 2022 | 8 hours and 16 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 236 MB
" . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer." At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry.

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English | ASIN: B0BBSR6VYN | 2022 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 276 MB
The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt.

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Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 by Luigi Marco Bassani
English | March 27, 2021 | ASIN: B0918PPYF1, ISBN: 1733407510 | True MOBI | 421 pages | 0.8 MB
As a distinguished historian of political thought at the University of Milan, Italy, Professor Marco Bassani brings a cosmopolitan perspective to the study of American political thought unencumbered by such self-congratulatory myths as "American exceptionalism." He views America as an extension of European civilization. Having unleashed the modern state upon the world, Europeans now had the problem of how to control its inherent disposition to centralize power. In this they failed.

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Yochai Benkler, "The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0385525761 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.8 mb
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car's business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower than ever before, there are no limits to what we can achieve by working together.

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