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 Jeremy Brown, "City Versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide" English | 2014 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1107424542, 1107024048 | PDF | 1,7 mb The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country, usually to the disadvantage of villagers. Through archival sources, personal diaries, untapped government dossiers, and interviews with people from cities and villages in northern China, the book recounts their personal experiences, showing how they retaliated against the daily restrictions imposed on their activities while traversing between the city and the countryside. Vivid and harrowing accounts of forced and illicit migration, the staggering inequity of the Great Leap Famine, and political exile and deportation during the Cultural Revolution reveal how Chinese people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers against villagers.
 City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America By Daniel J. Walkowitz 2010 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0814794696 | PDF | 9 MB This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps.In City Folk, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the 'old left.' He situates folk dancing within surprisingly diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society.Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the history of folk dance to social and international political influences in America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of dance communities, City Folk allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, City Folk injects the riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America.  Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us by Jon Alexander, Ariane Conrad English | March 17th, 2022 | ISBN: 191245484X | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.33 MB Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselvesand shows us what we must do to survive and thrive - asindividuals, as organisations, as nations, even as a species.  Church's Thesis After 70 Years By Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski, Robert Janusz (eds.) 2006 | 551 Pages | ISBN: 3938793090 | PDF | 3 MB Church's Thesis (CT) was first published by Alonzo Church in 1935. CT is a proposition that identifies two notions: an intuitive notion of a effectively computable function defined in natural numbers with the notion of a recursive function. Despite of the many efforts of prominent scientists, Church's Thesis has never been falsified. There exists a vast literature concerning the thesis. The aim of the book is to provide one volume summary of the state of research on Church's Thesis. These include the following: different formulations of CT, CT and intuitionism, CT and intensional mathematics, CT and physics, the epistemic status of CT, CT and philosophy of mind, provability of CT and CT and functional programming.  Chinese Soft Power (Elements in Global China) by Maria Repnikova English | Mar 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1108792685 | 75 pages | PDF | 5 MB This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power. Maria Repnikova's analysis introduces the Chinese theorization of the idea of soft power, as well as its practical implementation across global contexts. The key channels or mechanisms of China's soft power examined include Confucius Institutes, international communication, education and training exchanges, and public diplomacy spectacles. The discussion concludes with suggestions for new directions for the field, drawing on the author's research on Chinese soft power in Africa.  Paolo Urio, "China Reclaims World Power Status: Putting an end to the world America made " English | ISBN: 113804086X | 2018 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB Using both Chinese and Western theoretical approaches, this book analyses the strategies implemented by China for reclaiming power in the international domain. Examining domestic measures taken by China to assure its economic and social development, it also considers the strengths and weaknesses of its major international opponent, the US, and analyses their competing approaches to developing power resources and leadership dominance. It studies the foreign policies of both China and the US, first by going back to the historical origins of their ideological foundations and secondly by analysing their power building from the nineteenth century to the Trump and Xi Jinping presidencies. Finally, this book focuses on the One Belt One Road Initiative as China's response to putting an end to the 'world America made' and debates the question of whether China will emerge as a new capitalist country embedded in the liberal capitalist world system, or as an authoritarian state with a socialist market economy, able to change the rules of the international order.  Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics ― and How to Cure It by Richard L. Hasen English | March 8, 2022 | ISBN: 0300259379 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy  Richard Cust, "Charles I: A political life" English | 2005 | pages: 520 | ISBN: 0582070341, 1405859032 | PDF | 33,4 mb "This is an outstanding piece of work: not only the best life of the king yet produced, but also the most subtle and balanced synthesis of current research on the politics and religion of the reign currently in print." - BBC History Magazine  Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder By Marion Schmid, Herbert Gehr, Juliane Lorenz 2000 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1557833591 | EPUB | 4 MB (Applause Books). Rainer Werner Fassbiner left behind a literary and cinematic legacy which holds a unique place in the history of European film and in the culture of the twentieth century. It evolved as the expression of an era, between 1966 and 1982, in a country which was then another Germany and which no longer exists.  Change Your Life in the Light of Consciousness by Dr Leona Nasser English | February 26, 2021 | ISBN: 152890754X | 206 pages | EPUB | 0.82 Mb As I was doing a research about consciousness before writing this book, I found some talk about the science behind consciousness. While others highlight the spiritual aspect of consciousness, I decided to write a book that transforms this topic into a practical way of leading a successful life. Accordingly, I combined both the scientific emergence of consciousness reflecting on neurology of the brain and perception with the spiritual transcendence that accompanies rising into higher levels of consciousness. The book can improve the life of any person who is able to read mindfully and is willing to free his/her soul from fear, understanding the limitations and perceiving the world from a different perspective. Being self conscious, a person acts by free will and can reach spiritual enlightenment that could change his/her destiny. |
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