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 Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 (British Studies Series) By Murray G. H. Pittock 1997 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 0312165765 | PDF | 11 MB This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it demonstrates how fragile the supposed political consensus of the eighteenth century was. To read it is to revaluate our understanding of the culture of England in relation to other societies of these islands.  Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009199331 | 245 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how they are formed, transformed and supported by the construction of new social structures. The empirical evidence comes from contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for so-called unicorn companies, and the rise of Bitcoin. The result is a theory that shows how value is invented by value entrepreneurs in pursuit of their interests and thus provides a new basis for criticising the role of value in the commodity economy and the finance sector.  Introduction To Western Master Painters And Their Works by Kevn Todd English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B96D5HYQ | 264 pages | EPUB | 6.27 Mb The successive emergence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the second half of the 19th century was a major change in the history of Western art and was of epoch-making importance. This book mainly introduces the important painters of the major schools of Western art in the second half of the 19th century, such as Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Degas, Sisley and Renoir of Impressionism, Cйzanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh of Post-Impressionism, Redon and Munch of Symbolism. Through the introduction of their lives and major works, readers can get a general understanding of the Western art history of this period. At the same time, the book is equipped with a large number of rich pictures of famous paintings, so that readers can easily appreciate the artistic charm of famous paintings.  Savyasaachi, "Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India " English | ISBN: 0367734648 | 2020 | 234 pages | EPUB | 561 KB This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts ― of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality is to be constructed and provides a fresh perspective.  Paul Brannigan, Ian Winwood, "Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0306821885 | EPUB | pages: 289 | 3.2 mb Into the Black begins on the eve of the release of Metallica's massive breakthrough with the eponymous LP that became known as "The Black Album." Suddenly, at the dawn of the '90s, Metallica was no longer the biggest thrash metal band in the world-they were the biggest rock band in the world, period.  Joyce Hocker, "Interpersonal Conflict Ed 11" English | ISBN: 1260836959 | 2021 | 416 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB Interpersonal Conflict 11e examines the central issues that inform conflict and, in turn, make readers' personal and professional lives challenging and fascinating. With new cases and applications that reflect cultural changes that shape the ways people move through conflict, this new edition invites readers to reflect on, and better understand, conflict as it pertains to the unique vantage points of their lived experience.
 Ian J. Stewart, "International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-Proliferation: The Collective Action Problem " English | ISBN: 1032046872 | 2021 | 274 pages | EPUB | 845 KB This book examines the evolution of international nuclear non-proliferation trade controls over time.
 Chester A. Crocker, "International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict: The Changing Context of Peacemaking " English | ISBN: 1138704954 | 2018 | 220 pages | EPUB | 426 KB This collection of essays situates the study and practice of international mediation and peaceful settlement of disputes within a changing global context.
 Zwelethu Jolobe, "International Mediation in the South African Transition: Brokering Power in Intractable Conflicts " English | ISBN: 1138496804 | 2019 | 154 pages | EPUB | 435 KB This book challenges the conventional understanding of South Africa's transition to democracy as a home-grown process through a comparative analysis of Commonwealth and United Nations mediation attempts.  Christine Chinkin, "International Law and New Wars" English | ISBN: 1107171210 | 2017 | 608 pages | PDF | 2 MB International Law and New Wars examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. International law, largely constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rests to a great extent on the outmoded concept of war drawn from European experience - inter-state clashes involving battles between regular and identifiable armed forces. The book shows how different approaches are associated with different interpretations of international law, and, in some cases, this has dangerously weakened the legal restraints on war established after 1945. It puts forward a practical case for what it defines as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law. |
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