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 The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development By Hannah Dyer 2020 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 1978803990 | PDF | 3 MB 2020Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children's art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood's cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer's analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children's drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.
 The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeares History Plays By Urszula Kizelbach 2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 9042038837 | PDF | 8 MB Early modern kings adopted a new style of government, Realpolitik, as spelled out in Machiavelli's writings. Tudor monarchs, well aware of their questionable right to the throne, posed as great dissimulators, similarly to the modern prince who "must learn from the fox and the lion". This book paints a portrait of a successful politician according to early modern standards. Kingship is no longer understood as a divinely ordained institution, but is defined as goal-oriented policy-making, relying on conscious acting and the theatrical display of power. The volume offers an intriguing discussion on kingship in pragmatic terms, as the strategic face-saving behaviour of Shakespeare's kings. It also demonstrates how an efficient or inefficient management of the king's political face could decide his success or failure as a monarch, and how the Renaissance world of Shakespeare's history plays is combined with modern theories of communication, politeness and face.  The Planet's Most Spiritual Places by Croft, Malcolm; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0711282137 | 455 pages | True EPUB | 27.32 MB  The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman English | July 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1787630544 | 263 pages | PDF | 3.22 Mb A philosophical and medical journey through the experience of pain, used as a prism to marvel at biology, psychology and what it means to be human.  The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions English | 2021 | ISBN: 0190695854 | 247 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes? Although most regime change interventions have neither furthered US national security nor improved the fate of targeted states, the US has turned to this foreign policy instrument in at least sixteen cases from 1906 to 2011.  The Open World, Hackbacks and Global Justice English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811981310 | 507 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB 1. Introduction.- Part I. Open World Skepticism and Attainable Ends.- 2. The Open World Ethos.- 3. Skepticism, Self-Defense/Help and Global Justice.- 4. Capabilities, Entitlements and VRN.- 5. Aggravating Factors, Freedom and Retaliation.- Part II. Domestic and International Hack-Backs.- 6. Surveillance and Disruption.- 7. Exceeding Authorized Access Under the CFAA .- 8. Amplifying American Power in Cyberspace.- 9. Capabilities, Populism and Presidential Leadership.
 The Old Days are Back : Chair Yoga Exercises for Seniors Over 60 to Improve Stability and Posture by HNM Books English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQYG9Y8V | 122 pages | EPUB | 5.60 Mb Have you been avoiding physical exercise because it is too hard or risky for you?  Abbey Singh, "The Modern Singhs: The true story of a marriage of two cultures" English | ISBN: 1775542319 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB | 18 MB Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell.  The Last Patrol By Harry Holmes 2001 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 1557504784 | PDF | 47 MB During World War II, the submarine service of the U.S. Navy suffered the highest percentage of losses of any branch of the American armed forces, with almost one in five vessels failing to return. Despite these heavy losses, however, submarines accounted for more than fifty-five percent of Japanese shipping losses. This book, first published in 1994 in hardcover, chronicles the careers of all fifty-two U.S. submarines lost during the war--their successes, failures, and fates. With some thirty photographs and a wealth of first-hand material, it offers a compelling look at a legendary fleet.  Bruce Mannheim, "The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion" English | 1991 | ISBN: 0292746636, 029272926X | PDF | pages: 347 | 34.2 mb The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently known about the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing new insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguistic change. |
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