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 The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by Seven Stories Press English | October 4, 2016 | ISBN: 1609807758 | 272 pages | EPUB | 25 Mb A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts-an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s investigative reporting forRolling Stoneand BBC television plus new reporting by Palast for the new edition-a portion of which will be a Rolling Stone cover story, covered in major progressive media outlets which will include radio, television, and webcasts, and featured on listservs from important civil rights and activist organisations-The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Banditswill be the most important book published this year-one that could save the election.  The BeeFiddle Beginner Mass Program: A 12-Week Bodybuilding Gym Training Plan for Beginners to Build Muscle Time-Efficiently and Effectively by Andy Taumann English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VPCD1V7 | 77 pages | EPUB | 0.12 Mb Gym Bodybuilding Program for Beginners  The Arch of Titus From Jerusalem to Rome ― and Back by Steven Fine and Yeshiva University English | Apr 21, 2021 | ISBN: 9004447784 | 224 pages | PDF | 174 MB The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome―and Back explores the shifting meanings and significance of the Arch of Titus from the Jewish War of 66-74 CE to the present―for Romans, Christians and especially for Jews.  The Ancient Olympic Games: The History and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Most Famous Sports Event by Charles River Editors English | March 13, 2014 | ISBN: 1497325862 | 50 pages | EPUB | 1.00 Mb *Includes pictures.  Thatcher's Theatre: British Theatre and Drama in the Eighties By D. Keith Peacock 1999 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0313299013 | PDF | 14 MB The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become possible to disentangle fact from fantasy concerning her effect on the British theatre. During her administration, there was a significant cultural shift which affected drama in Britain. While some critics have argued that the theatre was simply affected by financial cutbacks in arts subsidies, this volume challenges that view. While it looks at the economic influence of Thatcher's policies, it also examines how her ideology shaped theatrical and dramatic discourse. It begins by defining Thatcherism and illustrating its cultural influence. It then examines the consequences of Thatcherite policies through the agency of the Arts Council of Great Britain.Having established this political and cultural environment, the book considers in detail the effect of Thatcher's administration on the subject-matter and dramatic and theatrical discourse of left-wing drama and on the subsidized political theatre companies which proliferated during the 1970s. Attention is then given to the development of constituency theatres, such as Women's and Black Theatre, which assumed an oppositional cultural stance and, in some cases, attempted to develop characteristic theatrical and dramatic discourses. The penultimate chapter deals with the effect of Thatcherite economic policy and ideology on new writing and performance, while the final chapter draws conclusions and suggests that the cultural shift perpetrated by the Thatcher regime has altered the status of subsidized theatre from an agency of cultural, spiritual, social, or psychological welfare to an entertainment industry which is viewed as largely irrelevant to the workings of society.  TOP INVENTIONS FOR THE 2020'S Book 1, 2, 3 Bundle : Smart Devices, Robots, Travel Vehicles (Top Inventions for 2020's) by Edward Kane English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08CCGFGJ2 | 215 pages | MOBI | 4.40 Mb The 2020's will go down in history as the decade of accelerating breakthrough innovations, fascinating inventions and life-changing technologies. My book "Top Inventions for the 2020's" is a guide to the best new innovations in three primary industries: Future Travel Vehicles, Smart Devices and Robots.  Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture By Lewis A. Erenberg 1998 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0226215164 | PDF | 14 MB During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since."Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."-Publishers Weekly"[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."-Tony Russell, Times Literary Supplement  Strategies of North and South: A Comparative Analysis of the Union and Confederate Campaigns by Gerald L. Earley 2021 | ISBN: 1476685665 | English | 310 pages | PDF | 21.5 MB Since the Antebellum days there has been a tendency to view the South as martially superior to the North. In the years leading up to the Civil War, Southern elites viewed Confederate soldiers as gallant cavaliers, their Northern enemies as mere brutish inductees. An effort to give an unbiased appraisal, this book investigates the validity of this perception, examining the reasoning behind the belief in Southern military supremacy, why the South expected to win, and offering an cultural comparison of the antebellum North and South. The author evaluates command leadership, battle efficiency, variables affecting the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and which side faced the more difficult path to victory and demonstrated superior strategy.  Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 By David Wondrich 2003 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 155652496X | PDF | 14 MB The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music-how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers-and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean musics; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors.  Emily F. Henderson, "Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research: Conceptual Debates and Methodological Considerations " English | ISBN: 1138294772 | 2018 | 268 pages | PDF | 3 MB Bridging a gap between higher education research and women's and gender studies, this volume explores the conceptual underpinnings and methodological implications involved in researching different concepts commonly associated with gender, including queer, trans*, women, men, feminisms, intersectionality, alongside discussions about the term gender itself. Drawing on a range of empirical experiences and methodological frameworks, chapter authors consider the ethical, political, theoretical, and practical questions that arise when conducting gender-related research in college and university contexts. This book is a foundation for understanding the complexities of gender, as well as a site for envisioning new futures for educators and researchers in this emerging global discipline. |
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