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 Rajat Kanta Ray, "The Felt Community: Commonality and Mentality before the Emergence of Indian Nationalism" English | 2003 | ISBN: 0195658639 | PDF | pages: 596 | 137.6 mb This study of the pre-history of Indian nationalism examines a relatively unexplored field of study in Indian history. It uses a novel perspective, at least in Indian historiography: the study of emotions, feelings, and sentiments as bonds in the construction of a 'felt community' before the  James R. Hagerty, "The Fateful History of Fannie Mae: New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall" English | ISBN: 1609497694 | 2012 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4 MB In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more accessible, the agency was born of the Great Depression and a government desperate to revive housing construction. It was a minor detail of the New Deal, barely recorded by the newspapers of the day. Over the next seventy years, Fannie Mae evolved into one of the largest financial companies in the world, owned by private shareholders but with its nearly $1 trillion of debt effectively guaranteed by the government. Almost from the beginning, critics repeatedly warned that Fannie was an accident waiting to happen. Then, in 2008, the housing market collapsed. Amid a wave of foreclosures, the company's capital began to run out, and the U.S. Treasury seized control. From the New Deal to the administration of President Obama, author James R. Hagerty explains this fascinating but little-understood saga. Based on his reporting for the Wall Street Journal, personal research and interviews with executives, regulators and congressional leaders, Hagerty charts the course of Fannie Mae. With The Fateful History of Fannie Mae, he explains the politics, economics and human frailties behind seven decades of missed opportunities to prevent a financial disaster.
 The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 A New Approach to Applying Marxs Value Theory and Its Implications for Socialist Strategy By Peter Jones 2021 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 9004325336 | PDF | 3 MB In The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession of 2007\-2009, Peter Jones develops a new interpretation of Marxs theories of value and finance, and shows how this can explain the causes of the Great Recession in the US.  The Experience of Neoliberal Education By Bonnie Urciuoli (editor) 2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1785338633 | PDF | 4 MB The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified "experiences" have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience.  The Everyday Witch's Coven: Rituals and Magic for Two or More by Deborah Blake English | January 8th, 2023 | ISBN: 0738771597 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.79 MB Practical Spells, Rituals, and Advice for Modern and Eclectic Covens
 The Essential Tequila & Mezcal Companion by Tess Rose Lampert English | 2023 | ISBN: 1454945400 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 41.32 MB
 The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British "New Wave" in Science Fiction By Colin Greenland 2013 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0415519942 | PDF | 102 MB When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as 'New Wave' science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses developments in stylistic theory and practice.Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973. Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical response to the crisis of modern fiction. The essential paradox of the writing lay in its fascination with the concept of 'entropy' - the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder. Entropy provides the key to both the anarchic vitality of the magazine and to its neglect by critics and academics, as well as its connection with other cultural experiments of the 1960s. The Fiction of the New Worlds writers was not concerned with far future and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of the modern world.Detailed attention is given to each of the three main contributors to the New Worlds magazine - Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard. Moorcock himself is more commonly judged by his commercial fantasy novels than by the magazine he supported with them, but here at last the balance is redressed: New Worlds emerges as nothing less than a focus and a metaphor for many of the transformations of English and American literature in the past two decades.  Lawrence Perlman, "The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (Studia Judaica) " English | ISBN: 3110441888 | 2016 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946). When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake. Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.  The Dialectic of Capital (2 Vols.): A Study of the Inner Logic of Capitalism By Thomas T. Sekine 2020 | 870 Pages | ISBN: 9004384812 | PDF | 6 MB This book endeavours to show what capitalism logically is all about. Too much has been talked about without its real identity exposed, or even meant to be exposed.  Heli Askola, "The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship " English | ISBN: 110714079X | 2016 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB The Demographic Transformations of Citizenship examines how attempts by contemporary states to govern demographic anxieties are shaping ideas about citizenship both as a boundary-maintaining mechanism and as an ideal of equal membership. These anxieties, while most often centred upon immigration, also stem from other demographic changes unfolding in contemporary states - most notably, the long-standing trend towards lower birth rates and consequent population ageing. With attention to such topics as control over borders, national identity, gender roles, family life and changing stages of life, Askola examines the impact of demographic changes, including but not limited to immigration. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including law, demography, and sociology, this book discusses how efforts to manage demographic anxieties are profoundly altering ideas about citizenship and belonging. |
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