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 Jarod Roll, "Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950" English | ISBN: 1469656299 | 2020 | 360 pages | EPUB | 4 MB White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal.
 Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690) (Later Medieval Europe) edited by Jelle Haemers, Mario Damen, Alastair J. Mann English | August 30, 2018 | ISBN: 9004352414 | True PDF | 332 pages | 8.4 MB Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690), a scholarly collection on representation in medieval and early modern Europe, opens up the field of institutional and parliamentary history to new paradigms of representation across a wide geography and chronology - as testified by the volume's studies on assemblies ranging from Burgundy and Brabant to Ireland and Italy.  Jianxin Yu, "Plants and Palynomorphs around the Permian-Triassic Boundary of South China " English | ISBN: 9811914915 | 2022 | 268 pages | PDF | 9 MB This book documents timely and systematically marvelous fossils (plants and sporopollen) related to the biggest mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic transition. Numerous beautiful pictures and comprehensive records on the plants of this unique and critical interval of geohistory are presented in this book. It greatly contributes to understanding of the Permian-Triassic plant diversity and evolution. For geologists, it is important to understand the Permian-Triassic crisis, and for students, it is attractive to learn about the plants' response to palaeoclimatic changes.  Paul Lowe, "Photography and Bearing Witness in the Balkan Conflict, 1988-2015 " English | ISBN: 1474243754 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 10 MB The Third Balkan War marked a key turning point in the history of photojournalism. Photographers on the ground were faced with complex ethical, conceptual and technological challenges, while the financial and distribution models used by media corporations were changing radically. Combining case studies with theoretical and philosophical insights, Photography and Bearing Witness in the Balkan Conflict, 1988-2015 explores the role of photography in representing conflict and genocide, both during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia.  Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory: From Kant to Deleuze By Claire Colebrook 2005 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0748622276 | PDF | 1 MB A critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory. Exploring the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, this book raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? Key Features * Original contribution to ethical and critical theory. * Situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background, and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment. * Offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-metaphysical or post-human culture. First published in hardback as Ethics and Representation: From Kant to Post-Structuralism  Philosophical Hermeneutics and Islamic Thought By Sylvain Camilleri (editor), Selami Varlik (editor) 2022 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 3030927539 | PDF | 3 MB This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. It features essays that examine why and how current Muslim thinkers refer to Continental philosophy. The contributors put the universality of the hermeneutic order to the test with three different approaches. The first looks at exegetical aspects. It addresses contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged critically or not with main representatives or key concepts of philosophical hermeneutics. The second presents an interpretative analysis. The essays here present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith as well as legal, spiritual, and philosophical corpuses from the Islamicate world. The third looks at different political and critical issues. The clear and sound reference to religion of Islamic thought makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. Is it true, as some contend, that philosophical hermeneutics can help interpret Islamic thought anew? This book reveals how the two philosophies are likely to expand each other's horizons and influence each other's conceptual frameworks. It features revised papers from an International Conference.  Pharaoh's Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors edited by Richard H. Wilkinson, Pearce Paul Creasman English | July 3, 2017 | ISBN: 0190229071, 0197601847 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 23.97 MB The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world.  Philip H. Sheridan, "Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan" English | ISBN: 177426241X | 2021 | 395 pages | EPUB | 4 MB General Philip Henry Sheridan was born on March 6, 1831 in Albany, New York. He is known for his services during the American Civil War, Indian Wars and later as the highest ranking general in the United States Army. After graduating from West Point Military Academy, Sheridan saw action during the early stages of the Civil War and went on to make an impressive service record in the western theaters against Confederate forces, where he gained the attention of General Ulysses S. Grant.
 Prithviraj Guha, "Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development: Insights for Policy-Making in India " English | ISBN: 9811641803 | 2022 | 450 pages | PDF | 8 MB This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies. Recognizing the existence of manifold challenges in achieving and sustaining economic development, it is divided into four sections―(i) The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade, Structural Transition and the Environment, (ii) Health and Standard of Living, (iii) Education, Human Capital and Evolution of the Employment Quality in India, and (iv) Banking and Credit: Access, Efficiency and Stability. The book brings together a right mix of senior and young economists who use cutting edge econometric techniques and/ or revisit a perennial question with much sharper focus and tools to unravel insights that are important and will inform tomorrow's theorisation and policy making. The volume looks at important questions like spatial concentration of low infant and child health outcomes, trade liberalisation and export quality, intergenerational occupational mobility, multidimensional poverty incidence in rural India, robustness of the banking sector, to name a few. To do so, the contributions use novel and esoteric methods like machine learning, spatial econometrics, system GMM, quintile regression and counterfactual decomposition (QRCD), and so on. The rich collection holds importance for researchers and policy makers alike, and also for practitioners working in different developmental sectors..
 George Rawlinso, "Persian Empire: Illustrated Edition: Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, The Great Emperors" English | ISBN: 8027331781 | 2019 | 172 pages | EPUB | 4 MB The First Persian Empire was a country of the Achaemenid dynasty, based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was larger than any previous empire in history. This book describes conquests of the greatest Persian emperors, Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I and the expansion of their country. Contents: Extent of the Empire. Climate and Productions. Character, Manners and Customs. Language and Writing. Architecture and Other Arts. Religion. Chronology and History. |
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