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 Russell Foster, "Mapping European Empire: Tabulae imperii Europaei " English | ISBN: 1138819212 | 2015 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Empire and maps are mutually reliant phenomena and traceable to the dawn of civilisation. Furthermore, maps retain a supremely authoritative status as unquestioned reflections of reality. In today's image-saturated world, their influence is more powerful now than at any other time in history.  Bruce L.R. Smith, "Lincoln Gordon: Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy " English | ISBN: 0813156556 | 2015 | 536 pages | EPUB | 3 MB After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's administration; for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy; and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of state. Gordon also served as the United States ambassador to Brazil under both Kennedy and Johnson. Outside the political sphere, he devoted his considerable talents to academia as a professor at Harvard University, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution, and as president at Johns Hopkins University.  Thomas A. Birkland, "Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change after Catastrophic Events " English | ISBN: 158901121X | 2006 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?" Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the "lessons of September 11" and the "lessons of Hurricane Katrina." Certainly, these unexpected events heightened awareness about problems that might have contributed to or worsened the disasters, particularly about gaps in preparation. Inquiries and investigations are made that claim that "lessons" were "learned" from a disaster, leading us to assume that we will be more ready the next time a similar threat looms, and that our government will put in place measures to protect us.  Kant Dictionary by Morris Stockhammer English | July 5, 2022 (1972) | ISBN: 1504076338, 0806529733, ASIN: B0B1M5R5H1 | True EPUB | 290 pages | 2.3 MB An accessible A-to-Z reference guide to the complex works of the eighteenth-century philosopher.  Maria Rieder, "Irish Traveller Language: An Ethnographic and Folk-Linguistic Exploration " English | ISBN: 3319767135 | 2018 | 285 pages | AZW3 | 564 KB This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant, and Cant as 'identity'. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.  Intellectuals in Politics and Academia: Culture in the Age of Hype English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031076451 | 264 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby's seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term "public intellectual" and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism.  Aron Raymond, "In Defense of Decadent Europe" English | ISBN: 1138525863 | 2018 | 297 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empirical comparison between liberal democracies and collectivist regimes of the East; and, above all, the exploration of what might be termed the "problem" of democracy the tendency of democratic regimes to undermine themselves unless checked in their most extreme tendencies.
 Yongtian Wang, "Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications: 17th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2022, Beijing, China, April 23-24, 2022," English | ISBN: 9811950954 | 2022 | 357 pages | PDF | 46 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 23-24, 2022.  Hybrid Healthcare by Mussaad Al-Razouki English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031048350 | 451 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB  Heinrich Mann-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 3476058077 | 568 Pages | PDF | 7 MB Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) gehört zu den prägenden Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk umspannt ästhetisch die Epochen vom Fin de Siècle über den Expressionismus bis zur Klassischen Moderne, politisch Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik und antifaschistisches Exil. Gerade in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren ist er ein vielbeachteter Essayist und Publizist, der - als überzeugter Europäer und ‚Republikaner' - die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen seiner Zeit kritisch begleitet. Auch literarisch zeichnet er mit „Der Untertan" ein Psychogramm des deutschen Spießers oder mit „Professor Unrat" ein satirisches Sozialporträt falscher Doppelmoral. Daneben steht noch ein anderer Heinrich Mann: der Ästhet und experimentierfreudige Dichter, der Zeichner, der Liebhaber moderner Medien. Das Handbuch mit seinen rund 90 Beiträgen nimmt Manns facettenreiches, faszinierendes Gesamtwerk in den Blick, summiert die Forschung und bietet neue Perspektiven auf einen großen Autor. |
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