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 Dipankar Sinha, "The Social Sciences in a Global Age: Decoding Knowledge Politics" English | ISBN: 0367567083 | 2020 | 198 pages | PDF | 2 MB The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science stream and focuses on its ir/relevance in our times in the background of changing state-market dialectics. It specifically scrutinises knowledge politics of the global times to reveal how the neoliberal project aligns and fuses steep economic 'conditionalities' with professional cultural parameters of higher academia to constrain autonomy and weaken radical expressions in social science pedagogy and research. Asserting that the humanistic core of social sciences has the potential to resist acts of reducing knowledge to a monochromatic form, the book argues that the social science stream can challenge and resist such hegemonic ambitions. It also identifies and analyses the contradictions, dilemmas, predicaments and false steps of social scientists, and avoids a reductive approach based on the 'west versus non-west' binary.
 The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution By Bruce D. Jones, David Steven 2014 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 081572604X | PDF | 3 MB The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy. First, we saw explosive growth in demand from Asia's rising powers, which fueled fears about scarcity and conflict. But we've also seen an American revolution in technology and markets, resulting in a dramatic increase in sup-ply. This is strengthening America's hand in the world -but it's not without complications. There are major security consequences of these shifts. Among the most consequential are China and India, Asia's emerging giants, which are increasingly exposed to political risks associated with energy risks, as well as the energy flows, pivoting to Asia. Meanwhile the great powers struggle to balance their need for fossil fuels with a mounting effort to tackle climate change. The top powers, and the United States above all, face a stra-tegic choice: whether to use energy as a weapon of geopolitics, or as a tool of a stable order.CONTENTS Introduction1. The President and the King -Key Messages of the Book2. The Energy Revolutions -A PrimerGeopolitics in Flux -The Players3. Choices -Scenarios, and the Choice the Powers Confront4. Rough Seas Ahead -The Great Powers' Search for Energy SecurityGlobalization and Complexity -The Problems5. Transition in the Gulf6. The Turbulent Middle7. Fragile States8. The Russian Problem9. Connections -from Pipelines to PoliticsGovernance -The Partners10. An Emerging System of Global Energy Governance11. Leadership Choices
 The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age By Neil Campbell 2008 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0803215398 | PDF | 3 MB Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West, as this book tells us, a constantly moving, mutating idea within a complex global culture? And what, precisely (or better yet, imprecisely) does it mean?Using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the rhizome, Neil Campbell shows how the West (or west-ness) continually breaks away from a mainstream notion of American "rootedness" and renews and transforms itself in various cultural forms. A region long traversed by various transient peoples (from tribes and conquerors to immigrants, traders, and trappers), the West reflects a mythic quest for settlement, permanence, and synthesis-even notions of a national or global identity-at odds with its rootless history, culture, and nature. Crossing the concept of "roots" with "routes," this book shows how notions of the West-in representations ranging from literature and film to photography, music, and architectural theory-give expression to ideas about identity, nationhood, and belonging in a world increasingly defined by movement across time and borders. The Rhizomatic West offers a new vision of the American West as a hybrid, performative space, a staging place for myriad intersecting and constantly changing identities.  The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003 (Military, War, and Society in Modern American History) English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108838243 | 283 Pages | PDF | 2 MB  The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988 By Jerry White 2009 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 1554581788 | PDF | 3 MB The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988, examines the way in which media experiments in Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Irish-Gaelic-speaking communities of Ireland use film, video, and television to advocate for marginalized communities and often for "smaller languages." The Radio Eye is not, however, a set of isolated case studies. Author Jerry White illustrates the degree to which these experiments are interconnected, sometimes implicitly but more often quite explicitly. Media makers in the North Atlantic during the period 1958-1988 were very aware of each other's cultures and aspirations, and, by structuring the book in two interlocking parts, White illustrates the degree to which a common project emerged during those three decades. The book is bound together by White's belief that these experiments are following in the idealism of Soviet silent filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who wrote about his notion of "the Radio Eye." White also puts these experiments in the context of work by the Cuban filmmaker and theorist Julio García Espinosa and his notion of "imperfect cinema," Jürgen Habermas and his notions of the "public sphere," and Édourard Glissant's ideas about "créolité" as the defining aspect of modern culture. This is a genuinely internationalist moment, and these experiments are in conversation with a wide array of thought across a number of languages.  The Psychology of Cardiovascular Illness by Mark P. Blanchard English | ISBN: 0367646382, 0367646404 | 196 pages | EPUB | 18 Mar. 2022 | 2 Mb This important book shows those working with clinical populations how to develop an understanding of the psychology of patients with cardiovascular problems to support appropriate medical care. An understanding of the psychological underpinnings of physical illness can alter the way clinicians conceptualize their patients and the communities they serve. Based on the latest research, this book offers suggestions about how to approach cardiovascular disease holistically in multidisciplinary medical settings with competence and professionalism in mind.  Christopher L. Robinson, "The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction, Ethics " English | ISBN: 3030828263 | 2021 | 155 pages | PDF | 2 MB The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin's fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of making sense of the "science" of science fiction. The authors of this collection provide up-to-date discussions of well-known works as well as more experimental writings. Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy, as well as specialists of science and technology studies, philosophy of science, ethics, gender studies, indigenous studies and posthumanism.  Helis Sikk, "The Legacies of Matthew Shepard: Twenty Years Later " English | ISBN: 036714929X | 2019 | 142 pages | PDF | 1352 KB This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally beaten and left tied to a fence on a chill Wyoming night in October 1998. Found the next morning by two cyclists, he was transported to a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado where he died five days later. His murder was one of the most publicized and for some, most vividly remembered, instances of hate crime related violence based on sexual orientation.  The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader by Kogan Page English | October 27, 2020 | ISBN: 1789666686 | 328 pages | EPUB | 1.82 Mb WINNER:CMI Management Book of the Year 2013 - New Manager Category (previous edition)
 Laura Mason, "The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals" English | ISBN: 0300259557 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic's defeat |
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