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 The Lives of Stone Tools: Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers By Kathryn Weedman Arthur 2018 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0816537135 | PDF | 7 MB The Lives of Stone Toolsgives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. For the Gamo, their stone tools are alive, and their work in flintknapping is interwoven with status, skill, and the life histories of their stone tools.Anthropologist Kathryn Weedman Arthur offers insights from her more than twenty years working with the Gamo. She deftly addresses historical and present-day experiences and practices, privileging the Gamo's perspectives. Providing a rich, detailed look into the world of lithic technology, Arthur urges us to follow her into a world that recognizes Indigenous theories of material culture as valid alternatives to academic theories. In so doing, she subverts long-held Western perspectives concerning gender, skill, and lifeless status of inorganic matter.The book offers the perspectives that, contrary to long-held Western views, stone tools are living beings with a life course, and lithic technology is a reproductive process that should ideally include both male and female participation. Only individuals of particular lineages knowledgeable in the lives of stones may work with stone technology. Knappers acquire skill and status through incremental guided instruction corresponding to their own phases of maturation. The tools' lives parallel those of their knappers from birth (procurement), circumcision (knapping), maturation (use), seclusion (storage), and death (discardment).Given current expectations that the Gamo's lithic technology may disappear with the next generation,The Lives of Stone Toolsis a work of vital importance and possibly one of the last contemporaneous books about a population that engages with the craft daily.  The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion : Essential Writings by John A. Stempien, John Linstrom English | 2019 | ISBN: 1501740237 | 320 Pages | ePUB | 3.5 MB  Jonathan Dimbleby, "The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0316640182, 1526701839 | 576 pages | EPUB | 6.6 MB 1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China.  Mary Catherine Mueller, "The Holocaust Short Story" English | ISBN: 0367339196 | 2019 | 140 pages | PDF | 8 MB The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how the explosiveness of the moment captured in each short story is more immediate and more intense, and therefore recreates horrifying emotional reactions for the reader. The main themes confronted in the book deal with the collapse of human relationships, the collapse of the home, and the dying of time in the monotony and angst of surrounding death chambers. The book thoroughly introduces the genres of both the short story and Holocaust writing, explaining the key features and theories in the area. Each chapter then looks at the stories in detail, including work by Ida Fink, Tadeusz Borowski, Rokhl Korn, Frume Halpern, and Cynthia Ozick. This book is essential reading for anyone working on Holocaust literature, trauma studies, Jewish studies, Jewish literature, and the short story genre.
 John P. Kotter, "The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations" English | ISBN: 1578512549 | 2002 | 190 pages | PDF | 721 KB Why is organizational change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization-you need to change people's behavior. And that is never easy.
 The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi By Roger Jahnke 2002 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0809295288 | PDF | 29 MB Qi is the Chinese concept for life force or energy. Qigong is an ancient practice for harnessing Qi and increasing one's vitality (Tai Chi is one of the best-known forms of Qigong). This book explains the concept behind Qigong and describes how to incorporate it into your daily life in order to awaken your life force and experience better health. The author reveals how Qigong can help you improve your health, stress management, longevity, peak performance, wellness and attainment of inner peace.  The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund By William H. Tucker 2002 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0252027620 | PDF | 7 MB The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper, is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in supporting research that seeks to prove the genetic and intellectual inferiority of blacks while denying its ties to any political agenda.This powerful and provocative volume proves that the Pioneer Fund has indeed been the primary source for scientific racism. Revealing a lengthy history of concerted and clandestine activities and interests, The Funding of Scientific Racism examines for the first time archival correspondence that incriminates the fund's major players, including Draper, acting president Harry F. Weyher, and others.Divulging evidence of the Pioneer Fund's political motivations, William H. Tucker links Draper to a Klansman's crusade to repatriate blacks in the 1930s. Subsequent directors and grantees are implicated in their support of campaigns organized in the 1960s to reverse the Brown decision, prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act, and implement a system of racially segregated private schools.Tucker shows that these and other projects have been officially sponsored by the Pioneer Fund or surreptitiously supervised by its directors. This evidence demonstrates that any results of genuine, scientific value produced with the fund's support have been a salutary, if incidental, consequence of its actual purpose: to provide ammunition for what has essentially been a lobbying campaign to prevent the full participation of blacks in society and the polity."New evidence about the use and abuse of science in support of bigotryEstablished in 1937 by wealthy businessman Wickliffe Draper, the nonprofit Pioneer Fund has long been accused of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression by supporting research that seeks to establish the genetic and intellectual inferiority of blacks.Although the Pioneer Fund denies its ties to any political agenda, this powerful and provocative volume reveals the truth behind their long history of clandestine activities. The Funding of Scientific Racism examines for the first time archival correspondence that incriminates the fund's major players, revealing links to a Klansman's crusade to repatriate blacks, as well as efforts to reverse the Brown decision, prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act, and implement a system of racially segregated private schools."In telling this story, Tucker both shows that classic scientific racist theories continued to influence American life long after their heyday in the decade after World War I and reveals that purveyors of those theories found allies among mainstream political leaders as well as so-called extremists. . . . Readers with slight interest in Draper, Weyher, and the Pioneer Fund can nonetheless learn much about what Tucker calls a distinct 'political subsulture' of pseudo-scientific racism."--Journal of Southern History"Until his death in 1972, Draper provided millions of dollars, both through the fund and independently of it, for 'scientific' studies of race and for campaigns against racial mixing. William H. Tucker's book is the first comprehensive history of those efforts. . . . The author of the award-winning The Science and Politics of Racial Research (1994), Tucker has sought to get around the fact that the records of the Pioneer Fund are closed by piecing together much of its story from the archives of various people involved in its projects. The effort, supplemented by research in a number of primary and secondary sources, including newsletters, tracts, and books produced by Draper's protégés, has paid off handsomely, yielding a plausible account of a socially dark and intellectually perverse fragment of American conservatism."--Journal of American History"[Eugenics issues] take on a dramatic character when viewed in the light of William Tucker's interesting and important book. This is an extremely detailed and thoroughly researched book. . . . It makes for fascinating reading."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"The Funding of Scientific Racism is compelling and readable. Tucker demolishes the threadbare defenses the Pioneer Fund and its supporters have concocted over the last two decades."--Barry Mehler, founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic RacismWilliam H. Tucker is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology and the award-winning The Science and Politics of Racial Research."  Tim Parks, "The Fighter: Literary Essays" English | 2007 | ISBN: 1846551048, 0099513323 | 304 pages | EPUB | 0.37 MB One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, "Adultery and Other Diversions" and "Hell and Back". This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, were characterized by intense intimacy and ferocious conflict. Elsewhere there are literary essays on tension and conflict in the work of Beckett and Hardy, Bernhard and Dostoevsky, amongst others. Parks is also known for his acerbic chronicles of Italian life and here are essays on Mussolini, Macchiavelli and the Medici. Besides discussing questions of history, politics and literature, "The Fighter" also takes on the serious issue of World Cup football. Above all, these are essays whose ideas and themes call to each other in the most unexpected and ironic ways. From the wide variety of subjects emerges a consistent and convincing picture of a world that forever resists the writer's embattled attempts to wrap it up in language. Muscular and energetic, "The Fighter" is a wonderful display of engagement and judgement.
 The Ethical Investor's Handbook : How to Grow Your Money Without Wrecking the Earth by Morten Strange  Dershowitz, "The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity " English | ISBN: 3161598601 | 2021 | 188 pages | PDF | 8 MB It is often presumed that biblical redaction was invariably done using scribal methods, meaning that when editors sought to modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the process of rewriting them upon new scrolls. There is, however, substantial evidence pointing to an alternative scenario: Various sections of the Hebrew Bible appear to have been created through a process of material redaction. In some cases, ancient editors simply appended new sheets to existing scrolls. Other times, they literally cut and pasted their sources, carving out patches of text from multiple manuscripts and then gluing them together like a collage. Idan Dershowitz shows how this surprising technique left behind telltale traces in the biblical text - especially when the editors made mistakes - allowing us to reconstruct their modus operandi. Material evidence from the ancient Near East and elsewhere further supports his hypothesis. |
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