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 Fabio Lanza, "Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing" English | 2010 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0231152388 | PDF | 7,4 mb On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese student protest, Fabio Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth movement, along with its rearticulation in subsequent protest. He ultimately explores the political category of the "student" and its making in the twentieth century.  Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (LSE International Studies) by Ayşe Zarakol English | March 3, 2022 | ISBN: 110883860X, 1108971679 | 330 pages | PDF | 4 MB How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending - the Rise of the West and the decline of the East - into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particular history and sociopolitical dynamics, not defined only by encounters with European colonialism? How would our understanding of sovereignty, as well as our theories about the causes of the decline of Great Powers and international orders, change as a result? For the first time, Before the West offers a grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by normatively and institutionally overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts and debates of international relations, such as order and decline.  George B. Kirsch, "Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime during the Civil War" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0691130434, 0691057338 | PDF | pages: 164 | 6.4 mb During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian-and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism.  Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy (Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice, and Violence) by Ray Acheson Program Director Women's International League for Peace and Freedom English | Jun 25, 2021 | ISBN: 1786614898 | 438 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, this book narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and developments in feminist disarmament activism. Acheson explains the process through which diplomats, activists, and nuclear survivors worked together to elevate the horrific humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons, develop new international law categorically prohibiting the bomb, challenge the nuclear orthodoxy, and strengthen norms for disarmament and peace. Told from the perspective of a queer feminist antimilitarist organizer who was involved from the start of the process through to the treaty's adoption, the book utilizes interviews with dozens of participants, as well as critical theoretical perspectives about transnational advocacy networks, discourse change, and intersectional feminist action. It is meant to provide useful insights for anyone trying to make change amidst structures of power and politics.  "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films By Stephane Dunn 2008 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 025203340X | PDF | 2 MB This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. The terms "baad bitches" and "sassy supermamas" signal the reversal of this positioning with the emergence of supermama heroines in the few black action films in the early 1970s that featured self-assured, empowered, and tough (or "baad") black women as protagonists: Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, and Foxy Brown.Dunn offers close examination of a distinct moment in the history of African American representation in popular cinema, tracing its emergence out of a radical political era, influenced especially by the Black Power movement and feminism. "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas also engages blaxploitation's impact and lingering aura in contemporary hip-hop culture as suggested by its disturbing gender politics and the "baad bitch daughters" of Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones, rappers Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown.
 Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap: How to plan ahead and prevent legal andfamily issues by Brian Herd English | 2021 | ISBN: 1922488011 | 305 pages | EPUB | 0.71 Mb Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents.  Atom Egoyan's 'The Adjuster' By Tom McSorley 2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1442641169 | PDF | 2 MB One of Canada's pre-eminent auteur filmmakers, Atom Egoyan has been celebrated internationally, earning multiple awards from the prestigious Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and an Academy Award nomination. One of his most accomplished and controversial early works, The Adjuster, is a dark drama about the complex and intense relationship between an insurance adjuster and his clients.In this accessible analysis, Tom McSorley traces the genesis, production, and reception of Egoyan's fourth feature film, from its Cannes Film Festival premiere to its North American commercial release. The book locates The Adjuster in the larger context of Canadian cinema history's peculiar and often troubled evolution, and offers a provocative interpretation of the film's unique analysis of the malaise of materialism in North American culture. Richly illustrated and featuring new interview material with Egoyan himself, this study in the Canadian Cinema series offers an insightful review of one of Atom Egoyan's most searching, unsettling films.  Christian Smith, "Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver" English | 2018 | pages: 169 | ISBN: 0190880929 | PDF | 1,1 mb In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologists have become increasingly vociferous and confident in their claims: that a morality requiring benevolence towards all and universal human rights need not be grounded in religion; that modern  Another War Against The Jews: Zelenskyy Family in The Holocaust Again?: The Russia Ukraine War, What Putin Wants And How President Zelenskyy Have Fought Back In Defense of the Soviet Ukraine by Zac W. Billy English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VHZWBPB | EPUB | 0.13 Mb This is actually another war against the Jews in the Soviet Ukraine. The untold story of the Russia-Ukraine war which originally emitted in mid-2014 and immediately progressed to a long impasse, with ordinary shelling and conflicts happening along the bleeding edge that isolates Russian and Ukrainian controlled line districts in the east. Russia began its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since then, more than a hundred civilians have been killed and tens of thousands of Ukrainians have fled to neighboring nations including Poland, a NATO country where the U.S. armies are getting ready to offer help.
 Angels and Entrepreneurs: A Lifestyle Formula for Starting Your Own Business and Riding the Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurship by Bob Schlegel English | March 8th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637581513 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 17.29 MB Wall Street Journal bestseller! |
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