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 Michael C. Desch, "Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0801888018 | 412 pages | True PDF | 10.5 MB Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other non-representative governments.  Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media by David Taras and Richard Davis English | Dec 9, 2019 | ISBN: 1138609854, 1138609889 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media examines how political leaders have adapted to the challenges of social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and memes, among other means of persuasion. Established political leaders now use social media to grab headlines, respond to opponents, fundraise, contact voters directly, and organize their election campaigns. Leaders of protest movements have used social media to organize and galvanize grassroots support and to popularize new narratives: narratives that challenge and sometimes overturn conventional thinking. Yet each social media platform provides different affordances and different attributes, and each is used differently by political leaders.
 Potassic Igneous Rocks and Associated Gold-Copper Mineralization, 4th Edition by Daniel Müller English | EPUB | 2019 | 311 Pages | ISBN : 331992978X | 12 MB This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes, and investigates the different tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and classification of these rocks and elucidate the geochemical differences between barren and mineralized potassic igneous complexes.  Suvadip Sinha, "Postcolonial Animalities " English | ISBN: 036723629X | 2019 | 242 pages | PDF | 6 MB Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is to decolonize existing conceptualizations of the human-animal relationship, and to consider the material representation of animals within the realm of colonial and postcolonial cultural production from the perspective of ethical alterity and alternative narratives of anticolonial and postcolonial politics. The volume also explores entanglements of race and species in colonial and neocolonial frameworks without transforming such inquiries into a zero-sum game that privileges one category over another. The essays in the volume, focusing on multiple geographical locations ranging from South Asia, Southeast Asia, post-Ottoman Turkey, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa and Palestine/Israel, historicizes and understands multispecies, interspecies and transspecies encounters, affiliations and connections in and through their localized dimensions, and studies human-animal encounters in their varied and complex affective relationalities. Through such inquiries, the volume considers how modes of representing animals, including located forms of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, help us think-with and be-with different animals.  Scharada Dubey, "Portraits From Ayodhya: Living India's Contradictions" English | 2012 | ISBN: 9381626219 | 276 pages | EPUB | 1 MB Almost two decades after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Scharada Dubey, an Ayodhya resident, studies the barricaded Ram Janmabhoomi site, travels through temple alleyways, visits the residents, ordinary and prominent, of a town that has known no peace. What follows is Portraits of Ayodhya - a startling compilation of oral history, a mighty jigsaw puzzle of voices from across the town. In this book of narrative non-fiction, we meet Ayodhya denizens with varying pasts, residents from all walks of life - from the allegedly omnipotent Mahant Gyandas, head of the Hanuman Garhi temple, to the unassuming Ram Sharan Das, occupied in cleaning gutters, and the gentle musician, Gauri Shankar Das. Even as we witness two sides to every story, we spot a thread binding all the major figures: a love for Ayodhya, a longing for quiet, a struggle for a sense of belonging. If the present is no more than the collective swell of everyday voices, if places are defined by people, Portraits of Ayodhya is testament to this belief. Unflinchingly honest and sincere, this is a book that presents an Ayodhya never seen before.
 Robert Michels, Eden Paul, Seymour Martin Lipset, "Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy" English | 2016 | ISBN: 168422022X, 0342771884 | 380 pages | EPUB | 0.75 MB 2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work, first published in German in 1911 introduced the concept of iron law of oligarchy. It is considered one of the classics of social sciences, in particular sociology and political science. This work analyzes the power structures of organizations such as political parties and trade unions. Michels' main argument is that all organizations, even those in theory most egalitarian and most committed to democracy - like socialist political parties - are in fact oligarchical, and dominated by a small group of leadership. The book also provides a first systematic analysis of how a radical political party loses its radical goals under the dynamics of electoral participation. The origins of moderation theory can be found in this analysis.  Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis By Lucia Pradella, Thomas Marois 2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0745334695 | PDF | 4 MB The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and intensified social polarization. Amid increasing social resistance and opposition, however, neoliberalism prevails globally. Within political economic debates, however, radical alternatives are rarely debated or are reduced to new Keynesian and new developmental agendas, which fail to address existing class divisions and imperialist relations of domination. This unique collection of essays polarizes the debate between radical and reformist alternatives by exploring head-on the antagonistic structure of capitalist development in Latin America, Southern Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East. The contributors ground the question of alternatives in an international, non-Eurocentric and avowedly Marxian analysis of the capitalist system and its crises. The collection's approach is also distinctive in arguing that social and labour movements are core determinants of development outcomes and progressive change.This new generation of scholars has written accessible yet theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters elaborating radically different worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism, and beyond capitalism. The intent is to provoke critical reflection and positive action towards substantive change.  A.S. King, "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0375865861 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.4 mb Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.  Alfred Richardson, Ken King, "Plants of Deep South Texas: A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1603441441 | PDF | pages: 470 | 48.9 mb A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering SpeciesCovering the almost three million acres of southernmost Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, this user-friendly guide is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas.
 Plant Based Cookbook: Simple & Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes To Give Your Taste Buds A Treat by Ashley Colman English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TWXC6D8 | 920 pages | EPUB | 1.29 Mb 800Quick & EasyPlant Based Recipes for Simple & Satisfying Meals! |
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