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 Catarina Kinnvall, "The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West" English | ISBN: 0199747547 | 2011 | 240 pages | PDF | 1198 KB In an increasingly globalized world, there are new economic, strategic, cultural, and political forces at work. The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West explores how these shifts and shocks have influenced the way in which Muslim minorities in western countries form their identities as political actors. Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking uncover three identity strategies adopted by Muslims in the West: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. Six western countries - Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - serve as places for exploration of the emergence of these Muslim political identities. These countries are discussed in light of their colonial histories, patterns of immigration, and citizenship regimes.
 The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich by Fritz Trümpi, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg English | November 7, 2016 | ISBN: 022625139X, 022676026X | True EPUB | 344 pages | 2.9 MB This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trümpi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in the larger political constellation.  Jean-Paul Brodeur, "The Policing Web " English | ISBN: 0199740593 | 2010 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB Nearly all research devoted to policing focuses on public uniformed police and their legal use of force. An overwhelming amount of this work draws on evidence from Anglo-American police forces. These twin emphases have led to a limited view. Agencies such as criminal investigation units, intelligence services, private security companies, and military policing organizations have almost entirely escaped scholarly attention.
 The Poetics of Sight (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) By John Harvey 2015 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 3034307233 | PDF | 14 MB «Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind's eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize the process of visualization. The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex sight within the metaphors of Shakespeare, Pope and Dickens; and within the visual metaphors of Picasso, Magritte and Bacon. This book explores the difference between the great and the failed works of the supreme poet-painter, William Blake, and tracks the migrations of the Satiric muse between verbal mockery and scabrous images in Persius, Pope, Gillray and Gogol. It records the rise, and partial decline, of the vividly «seen» novel in Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Proust and Hardy. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which in the twentieth century acquired overarching importance: in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes, in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida. The book closes with a far-reaching definition of visual metaphor and with the great visual metaphor of the human body.
 Filip Bondy, "The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476777187, 1476777179 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 37.0 mb The New York Times bestseller-"a rollicking account" (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history's most absurd and entertaining controversies.  The Parmenidean Ascent by Michael Della Rocca English | July 3, 2020 | ISBN: 0197510949 | True EPUB | 346 pages | 0.3 MB For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible. In The Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca aims to revive this controversial approach on rationalist grounds. He not only defends the attribution of such an extreme monism to the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, but also embraces this extreme monism in its own right and expands these monistic results to many of the most crucial areas of philosophy, including being, action, knowledge, meaning, truth, and metaphysical explanation. On Della Rocca's account, there is no differentiated being, no differentiated action, knowledge, or meaning; rather all is being, just as all is action, all is knowledge, all is meaning.  The Origins of the First World War 4th Edition English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003306733 | 405 pages | True PDF | 4.73 MB This thoroughly revised edition has been updated to incorporate recent case studies, biographies, syntheses, journal articles and scholarly conferences that appeared in conjunction with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014.
 John M. Elliott - The Official Monogram U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Aircraft Color Guide, Vol 2: 1940-1949 Monogram Aviation Publications | 1989 | ISBN: 0914144324 | English | 194 pages | PDF | 36.91 MB In this second volume of a four-volume set, Mr. Elliott continues his presentation of the US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft colors and markings during the decade of the 1940s. From the opening of the decade with its still colorful approach to aircraft recognition, to the close of the 40s with its more somber wartime color schemes, the author brings to the reader fresh information, photographs and illustrations. The various combatants in this world-wide struggle sought paint and protection solutions which would prolong the combat life of their aircraft while at the same time also sought to devise markings by which friendly forces could be recognized form those of the enemy.The US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft of the period certainly reflected these goals. Complex, yet effective approaches to the problem have been set forth by the author who meticulously documents each change in painting and aircraft marking, giving us new insight into this fascinating period of aircraft history. 324 photographs, 57 colour photos, 21 colour artwork and 48 unit insignia, 28 paint chips.
 John M. Elliott - The Official Monogram U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Aircraft Color Guide, Vol 1: 1911-1939 Monogram Aviation Publications | 1987 | ISBN: 0914144316 | English | 195 pages | PDF | 109.9 MB In this first volume of a four-volume set, the author brings to the stage a great deal of new information, photographs and striking graphics which amplify the exceedingly colorful period of American naval aviation from 1911 to 1939. The author has uncovered many obscure directives and regulations which shed new light on US Naval and Marine Corps aircraft colors and insignia. Yet, he has successfully brought together this myriad of technical material into an easy to follow presentation culminating in this volume. 284 photographs, 11 color photographs, 21 color illustrations, 48 color unit insignia, 16 paint chips.  Joel Anderson, "The Nuts and Bolts of Erecting a Contracting Empire: Your Complete Guide for Building Success in the Construction, Contracting, and Tradesman Industries" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0692126716 | ASIN: B07D62N6HT | EPUB | pages: 148 | 1.2 mb Are you ready to take your business to the next level? |
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