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 Kevin Cook, "Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias" English | ISBN: 125084052X | 2023 | EPUB | 288 pages | 19 MB A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias  Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0861543750 | 229 pages | PDF (Converted) | 3.12 Mb In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.  Minna Valjakka, Meiqin Wang , et al., "Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface " English | ISBN: 9462982236 | 2018 | 324 pages | PDF | 5 MB This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems associated with it. Through a wide range of illuminating case studies, the authors demonstrate how innovative artistic and creative practices initiated by various stakeholders not only raise critical awareness on socio-political issues of Chinese urbanization but also actively reshape the urban living spaces. The formation of new collaborations, agencies, aesthetics and cultural production sites facilitate diverse forms of cultural activism as they challenge the dominant ways of interpreting social changes and encourage civic participation in the production of alternative meanings in and of the city. Their significance lies in their potential to question current values and power structures as well as to foster new subjectivities for disparate individuals and social groups.  Stephanie Hartle, "Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World" English | ISBN: 1350265071 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 180 MB The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same time, a growing number of artists employ creative strategies to critique the establishment, act in resistance, and demand change. Visual activism of this kind is not new, but it is rapidly evolving.  Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett English | January 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1760761990 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.20 MB Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this groundbreaking work, Lisa Hannett lifts the veil on the untold stories of wives and mothers, girls and slaves, widows and witches who sailed, settled, suffered, survived - and thrived - in a society that largely catered to and memorialised men. Hannett presents the everyday experiences of a compelling cast of women, all of whom are resourceful and petty, hopeful and jealous, and as fabulous and flawed as we are today. Lisa Hannett is an award-winning Canadian-Australian writer and academic.  Steve Carp, "Vegas Born: The Remarkable Story of The Golden Knights" English | ISBN: 1644382008 | 2018 | 284 pages | EPUB | 344 KB Never in the history of modern major league professional sports has a team captured the world's imagination like the Vegas Golden Knights did in 2017-18.  Mark Navin, "Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care" English | ISBN: 1138790656 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children, even though popular anti-vaccine myths - e.g. 'vaccines cause autism' - have been debunked. This book explains the epistemic and moral failures that lead some parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. First, some parents have good reasons not to defer to the expertise of physicians, and to rely instead upon their own judgments about how to care for their children. Unfortunately, epistemic self-reliance systematically distorts beliefs in areas of inquiry in which expertise is required (like vaccine immunology). Second, vaccine refusers and mainstream medical authorities are often committed to different values surrounding health and safety. For example, while vaccine advocates stress that vaccines have low rates of serious complications, vaccine refusers often resist vaccination because it is 'unnatural' and because they view vaccine-preventable diseases as a 'natural' part of childhood. Finally, parents who refuse vaccines rightly resist the utilitarian moral arguments - 'for the greater good' - that vaccine advocates sometimes make. Unfortunately, vaccine refusers also sometimes embrace a pernicious hyper-individualism that sanctions free-riding on herd immunity and that cultivates indifference to the interpersonal and social harms that unvaccinated persons may cause.  Elie Honig, "Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It" English | ISBN: 0063241501 | 2023 | EPUB | 304 pages | 876 KB A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ'  Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits by Alexis James English | July 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1801501416 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 6.8 MB Unsung offers a fascinating and illuminating insight behind the scenes of professional sports, meeting the unheralded heroes without whom this industry would not be what it is today.  Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789-1941 (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas)) By David C. Hendrickson 2009 | 494 Pages | ISBN: 0700616322 | PDF | 14 MB Most overviews of American history depict an isolationist country finally dragged kicking and screaming onto the world stage by the attack on Pearl Harbor. David Hendrickson shows that Americans instead conducted often-raucous debates over international relations in the long epoch customarily seen as isolationist-debates that form the ideological origins of today's foreign policy arguments. Union, Nation, or Empire is a sequel to Hendrickson's acclaimed Peace Pact, in which he identified a "unionist paradigm" that defined America's political understanding in 1787. His new book examines how that paradigm was transformed under the impact of the great wars that followed. Through skillfully drawn portraits of American statesmen, from Hamilton and Jefferson to Wilson and the two Roosevelts, Hendrickson reveals "union, nation, and empire" as fundamental categories of political discourse that have shaped our engagement with the world since 1776. Hendrickson argues that the ongoing debate over union, nation, and empire in American history encompasses and illuminates the great questions of international relations-such as whether democracies are as prone to war as monarchies, whether trade promotes peace, or whether empire is compatible with free institutions. Setting these debates in the context of historical events, from the birth of our federal government to America's entry into World War II, he shows the significance of the federal union in our history and demonstrates that internationalism has deep roots in America's past. His assessment of the unionist tradition, in counterpoint to rival ideologies of nationalism and imperialism, includes new insights into the causes of the Civil War and shows how after that conflict the building blocks of the original paradigm were reconstructed to shape the internationalist persuasion in the twentieth century. Deftly combining intellectual, constitutional, and diplomatic history, this gracefully written work revives the compelling rhetoric of yesterday's statesmen to offer readers a lucid narrative of American international thought. It challenges accepted interpretations of our role in the world as it restores the federal union to its proper place in the understanding of American statecraft. |
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