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 Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and Democratic Media Transition in the Western Balkans By Kristina Irion (editor), Tarik Jusić (editor) 2018 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 9633862590 | PDF | 6 MB This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tent to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors.  Mathematics Lessons to Look Forward to!; 20 Favourite Activities and Themes for Teaching Ages 9 to 16 by Jim Noble English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032210494 | 222 pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB  Charles Fayerweather Esq. et al., "Massachusetts Nonprofit Organizations" English | 2016 | pages: 1552 | ISBN: 1575899965 | PDF | 22,3 mb Massachusetts Nonprofit Organizations offers practical insights on the numerous legal and operational issues affecting nonprofits today. Features include an overview of federal and state compliance issues ranging from formation, registration and organizational considerations to operational, tax and financial reporting strategies. Lawyers who advise nonprofits on organization, operations, board liability, political activity, tax exemptions, and accounting issues find this book indispensable to their practices.  Man-Made Women: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031193806 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB This book presents a unique, feminist approach to 'sex' dolls and 'sex' robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women's centred critique.  Jayanta Ghosal, "Mamata: Beyond 2021" English | ISBN: 9354894933 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 353 KB In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the Description. How did this happen? Like Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata who was surrounded from all sides, the BJP endeavoured to besiege the Bengal CM and her party with 'weapons' such as the machinery of the central government, the Election Commission, central paramilitary forces, investigative agencies, the state governor, parliamentarians, financial clout, and most importantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's undivided attention. Unlike Abhimanyu, though, Mamata Banerjee knew her way out. The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors. He found a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity, which Mamata was able to exploit. An 'overdose' of central intervention, ranging from paramilitary forces to intelligence agencies to target key TMC leaders, added to the BJP's disconnect with voters. Increasingly, the state felt the divide between New Delhi and Bengal grow. The book details how Mamata was successfully able to portray herself as the 'daughter of Bengal' who worked tirelessly for the state's poor and disadvantaged. With the state election under her belt, what would be Mamata's path to the general elections of 2024?  Making Money By Photography: How To Make Money Online As A Beginner by Sol Marbry English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09LXL1WBF | 120 pages | EPUB | 0.47 Mb Are you a passionate shutterbug who is wondering how to earn money from photography?
 MCA Microsoft 365 Certified Associate Modern Desktop Administrator Complete Study Guide with 900 Practice Test Questions by Panek, William; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119984645 | 971 pages | True PDF EPUB | 102.93 MB  Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031146441 | 247 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left's need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organisation beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy and feminist and Marxist economics.  Love Song for the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of Comedy By Gene Fendt 2007 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0813214858 | PDF | 2 MB Love Song for the Life of the Mind develops the view of comedy that, the author argues, would have been set out in Aristotle's missing second book of Poetics. As such it is both a philosophical and a historical argument about Aristotle; and the theory of comedy it elucidates is meant to be trans-historically and trans-culturally accurate. After a preface that sets out the primacy and centrality of mimesis for both individual and societal development, the argument about the dramatic arts begins from a crux in Aristotle's extant analysis of tragedy where he seems to contradict himself on the kind of Description that is the best for tragedy. Gene Fendt argues, against a variety of formalist and intellectualist interpretations, that the only way out of the problem is through reference to the final cause of tragedy as a catharsis of pity and fear. This fundamental tenet of Aristotle's theory of tragedy, the author maintains, is the first clue to understanding comedy, which also must be defined not formally but in reference to its final cause. Fendt argues that the final cause of comedy must be a catharsis of eros and sympathy. In the course of his argument he shows how that catharsis is made available to the excessive, the deficient, and the virtuous members of the audience in Aristophanes' Acharnians, Shakespeare's As You Like It and Stoppard's Arcadia.The book closes by exploring how this Aristotelian argument might underlie the Symposium's claim that the fine artist of tragedy should also create fine comedy. The book will appeal both to those interested in Aristotle and those interested in dramatic theory and criticism.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Gene Fendt, professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, is author of several books including Is Hamlet a Religious Drama?: An Essay on a Question in Kierkegaard, Platonic Errors: Plato, A Kind of Poet, Works of Love?: Reflections on Works of Love, and For What May I Hope? Thinking with Kant and Kierkegaard.PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Fendt's book is impressive and will appeal to scholars with an interest in Aristotle or in aesthetics and literary criticism. Certainly, it is not an introductory-level book. Summing up: Recommended." ― M.W. Sontag, Choice"  Laura Truax, Amalya Campbell, "Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the Real World" English | 2017 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0802874479 | EPUB | 0,2 mb Displays the amazing power of generosity to transform people and communities |
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