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 The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper English | February 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1800810911, 1800810938 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 4.13 MB This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions, and their arrays of skulls and skeletons.  Johnson, Philip, Mark, "The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0316126438 | EPUB | pages: 528 | 131.9 mb A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson - a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award.  Karl Hack, "The Malayan Emergency " English | ISBN: 1107439485 | 2021 | 530 pages | PDF | 8 MB The Malayan Emergency of 1948-1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival material from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack offers a comprehensive, multi-perspective account of the Malayan Emergency and its impact on Malaysia. He sheds new light on questions about terror and violence against civilians, how insurgency and decolonisation interacted and how revolution was defeated. He considers how government policies such as pressurising villagers, resettlement and winning 'hearts and minds' can be judged from the perspective of insurgents and civilians. This timely book is the first truly multi-perspective and in-depth study of anti-colonial resistance and counterinsurgency in the Malayan Emergency.  The Little Book of NegotiationThe Little Book of Negotiation by Forsyth, Patrick; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1800313756 | 119 pages | True EPUB | 5.93 MB  The Lion King - Super Easy Songbook by Elton John, Tim Rice English | September 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1540065847 | EPUB | 9.51 Mb (Super Easy Songbook). It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns. This edition includes 9 songs from the 2019 edition of The Lion King : Be Prepared (2019) * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Circle of Life * Hakuna Matata * He Lives in You * I Just Can't Wait to Be King * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Never Too Late * Spirit. Also includes adorable photos from the movie and playing tips.
 Afonso Seixas-Nunes, "The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Humanitarian Law Perspective" English | ISBN: 1316514838 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legality of the use of autonomous weapons systems under international law. It examines different arguments presented by States, roboticists and scholars to demonstrate the challenges such systems will create for the laws of war. This study examines how technology of warfare seeks to increase the dissociation of risk and communication between weapons and their human operators. Furthermore, it explains how algorithms might give rise to 'errors' on the battlefield that cannot be directly attributed to human operators. Against this backdrop, Dr Seixas-Nunes examines three distinct legal frameworks: the distinction between the legality of weapons and the laws of targeting; different mechanisms of individual accountability and the importance of recovering the category of 'dolus eventualis' for programmers and technicians and, finally, State responsibility for violations of the laws of war caused by weapons' software errors.  The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent By Walter Laqueur 2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0312368704 | PDF | 60 MB * In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents * Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless* According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks What happens when a falling birthrate collides with uncontrolled immigration?The Last Days of Europe explores how a massive influx from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East has loaded Europe with a burgeoning population of immigrants, many of whom have no wish to be integrated into European societies but make full use of the host nations' generous free social services. One of the master historians of twentieth-century Europe, Walter Laqueur is renowned for his "gold standard" studies of fascism, terrorism, and anti-Semitism. Here he describes how unplanned immigration policies and indifference coinciding with internal political and social crises have led to a continent-wide identity crisis. "Self-ghettoization" by immigrant groups has caused serious social and political divisions and intense resentment and xenophobia among native Europeans. Worse, widespread educational failure resulting in massive youth unemployment and religious or ideological disdain for the host country have bred extremist violence, as seen in the London and Madrid bombings and the Paris riots. Laqueur urges European policy makers to maintain strict controls with regard to the abuse of democratic freedoms by preachers of hate and to promote education, productive work, and integration among the new immigrants. Written with deep concern and cool analysis by a European-born historian with a gift for explaining complex subjects, this lucid, unflinching analysis will be a must-read for anyone interested in international politics and the so-called clash of civilizations.  The Land of Broken Crystals: (And The Girl Who Knew Too Much) by Jane Celia Hatch English | January 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 1634244095 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 1.37 MB Jane' s exceptional psychic abilities made her the target of MK Ultra mind control systems beginning in the early 1960' s. Integral to breaking the mind and spirit of children- as a precursor to suicide or trafficking- is removing the loving mother from the family.
 The jаvascript Workshop: Learn to develop interactive web applications with clean and maintainable jаvascript code English | 2020 | ISBN: 1838641912 | 804 Pages | EPUB (True) | 25 MB  The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 By Masayo Umezawa Duus 1999 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 0520204840 | PDF | 18 MB In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific," with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in the context of immigration history as well as diplomatic history, Duus argues that the clash between the immigrant Japanese workers and the Hawaiian oligarchs deepened the mutual suspicion between the Japanese and United States governments. Eventually, she demonstrates, this suspicion led to the passage of the so-called Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924, an event that cast a long shadow into the future.Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic conclusions will have broad implications for further research in Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history. |
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