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 Kirk Savage, "Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition Ed 2" English | ISBN: 0691183155 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 14 MB A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy  E. Digby Baltzell, "Sporting Gentlemen" English | ISBN: 1412851807 | 2013 | 468 pages | PDF | 13 MB Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements. This commercial world is far removed from the origins of the sport. Before 1968―when Wimbledon invited professional players to compete for the first time―tennis was part of a sportsmanship tradition that emphasized character over money. It produced well-rounded gentlemen who expressed a code of honor, not commerce.  Specialized Knowledge Mediation: Ontological & Metaphorical Modelling English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030951030 | 474 Pages | PDF EPUB | 22 MB This book provides an integrated approach to cognitive-linguistic mediation, with aims toward the efficiency of knowledge transfer and acquisition. Problems are approached through the prism of cognitive modelling, and mapped to such fields as intercultural and interdisciplinary communication, and second language teaching. The novelty lies in the synergies between linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, culture, and industry. These fields come together through ontological and metaphorical modelling and the attempts to automate such.
 Rachel F. Seidman, "Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women's Movement" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1469653087, 1469653079 | PDF | pages: 265 | 3.3 mb From the Women's Marches to the MeToo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century. But how does a new generation of activists understand the work of the movement today? How are their strategies and goals unfolding? What worries feminist leaders most, and what are their hopes for the future? In Speaking of Feminism, Rachel F. Seidman presents insights from twenty-five feminist activists from around the United States, ranging in age from twenty to fifty. Allowing their voices to take center stage through the use of in-depth oral history interviews, Seidman places their narratives in historical context and argues that they help explain how recent new forms of activism developed and flourished so quickly. These individuals' compelling life stories reveal their hard work to build flexible networks, bridge past and present, and forge global connections. This book offers essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary American women's movement in all its diversity.
 Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English " English | ISBN: 1316510794 | 2022 | 274 pages | PDF | 4 MB Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. They made an unexpected journey to Latin America. The cohort of authors that moved between these regions include Latin-American Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz; Booker Prize notables Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Mohammed Hanif, and Mohsin Hamid. In their explorations of this new geographic connection, Roanne Kantor claims that they formed the vanguard of a new, multilingual world literary order. Their encounters with Latin America fundamentally shaped the way in which literature written in English from South Asia exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s, enabling its global visibility.  Ronald Ruzicka George Hatke, "South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity" English | ISBN: 1527564568 | 2021 | 497 pages | PDF | 46 MB South Arabia is one of the least known parts of the Near East. It is primarily due to its remoteness, coupled with the difficulty of access, that South Arabia remains so under-explored. In pre-Islamic times, however, it was well-connected to the rest of the world. Due to its location at the crossroads of caravan and maritime routes, pre-Islamic South Arabia linked the Near East with Africa and the Mediterranean with India. The region is unique in that it has a written history extending as far back as the early first millennium BCEa far longer history than that of any other part of the Arabian Peninsula. The papers collected in this volume make a number of important contributions to the study of the history and languages of ancient South Arabia, as well as the history of South Arabian studies, and will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
 Sound and Sense: Music and Musical Metaphor in the Thought and Writing of Goethe and his Age By J.M. Tudor 2011 | 515 Pages | ISBN: 3034302371 | PDF | 4 MB This study focuses on beliefs about music current in eighteenth-century Germany. Of particular interest are the conceptual metaphors through which major writers (Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Klopstock) used music as analogy and medium for perceptions of the world in their writing. The book surveys traditional metaphors (music as harmony/disharmony, music as like/unlike language, music as structured by mathematical proportion or by rhythm) inherited from Greek and French thought and looks at ways in which these writers also assimilated and developed contemporary ideas (especially from Leibniz, the French Rationalists, Rameau and Rousseau). German writers of this epoch had a remarkably rich and varied range of ideas of music at their disposal, some of which could also be realised in multi-media genres. With the help of modern theory from several fields, the study aims to show how they deployed these resources in ways both like and unlike the practice of Romantic writers with whom they overlapped at the end of the century.  Soldier: Respect Is Earned by HarperCollins English | May 4, 2021 | ISBN: 0008418152 | 152 pages | PDF | 1.00 Mb With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.
 Societies from Ancient America: Historical Facts and Discoveries about the Aztec and Inca People by Kelly Mass English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09FZTTW64 | 103 pages | EPUB | 0.17 Mb This is a 2-book combo. These are the titles:
 Alberto Gabriele, "Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century: A Century after the Bolshevik Revolution " English | ISBN: 1032212209 | 2022 | 374 pages | PDF | 16 MB Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced with a key existential challenge. This book proposes an alternative path to overcoming the worldwide crisis of globalized capitalism. It offers a novel, balanced and historically rooted interpretation of the successes and failures of socialist economic construction throughout the last century. |
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