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 Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash Against the Dollar by Daniel McDowell English | August 18, 2020 | ISBN: 0197679870, 0197679889 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.7 MB The US dollar is the world's indispensable currency. The dollar's preeminent status gives the United States enormous coercive powers which it flexes in the form of financial sanctions to punish its adversaries. Over the last twenty years, Washington has relied on financial sanctions with greater and greater frequency. Bucking the Buck argues that the more the United States wields the dollar as a weapon of foreign policy, the more its adversaries will move their international economic activities into other currencies to avoid Washington's coercive reach. Through a combination of case studies and statistical analysis, the book establishes a relationship between US financial sanctions and the rise of "anti-dollar" policies, which are designed to reduce an economy's reliance on the US currency. Though some anti-dollar policies fail to achieve this goal, McDowell's analysis indicates that in many cases they are successful. Patterns of "de-dollarization" following sanctions are clear. In some cases, the anticipation of future sanctions may provoke similar policy measures.  John Strachan, "British Satire, 1785-1840 " English | ISBN: 185196729X | 2003 | 2184 pages | PDF | 58 MB This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.  Colin Turpin, Adam Tomkins, "British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials, 7th Edition" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0521185114 | 910 pages | MOBI | 3.7 MB This marketing-leading textbook retains the engaging and scholarly approach of previous editions, while bringing the landscape of public law completely up-to-date. With text and materials integrated throughout and an accompanying author blogspot, this textbook is, quite simply, required reading for all students of public law.  Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022 edited by Tim Benson English | 27 Oct. 2022 | ISBN: 1529153050 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 122 MB In Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022 the nation's finest satirists turn their eyes and their pens to the biggest, funniest and most poignant news stories of the year so far.  Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-49 By Robert Bickers 1999 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0719056977 | PDF | 7 MB Using archival materials newly available in China and records in Britain and the US, Robert Bickers paints a detailed portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China." Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into growing conflict with the Chinese population and the British imperial government. Bickers goes on to examine how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.  Bridges to Global Ethics: Geoethics at the Confluence of Humanities and Sciences English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031222229 | 119 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB This book contributes to the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the geoscience and humanities communities. It provides new content and insights into developing convergent human actions in response to global anthropogenic changes, based on perspectives that make it possible to combine geoscience knowledge with humanities and social sciences approaches. Selected authors present their reflections, findings and insights regarding the vision of geoethics (ethics of responsibility towards the Earth) as global ethics from philosophical, humanities and social sciences perspectives. In addition, they discuss ethical frameworks from diverse cultural traditions, searching for points of intersection with geoethics.  Breaking Point by Stuart Minor English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPR4H996 | 270 pages | EPUB | 0.29 Mb August 1944.  Brain-centric Design: The Surprising Neuroscience Behind Learning with Deep Understanding by Rich Carr, Kieran O'Mahony English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQX6M8SH | 272 pages | EPUB | 2.82 Mb Teach The Way People Love To Learn  Brain-Computer Interface: Using Deep Learning Applications English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119857759 | 413 pages | True EPUB | 30.54 MB BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACEIt covers all the research prospects and recent advancements in the brain-computer interface using deep learning.  Chase Joynt, "Boys Don't Cry " English | ISBN: 0228010829 | 2022 | 128 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen. Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically since 1999. Morgan Page and Chase Joynt approach the accumulated tension with a spirit of curiosity about the limits of these historical returns. They argue that new visibilities of transness on screen require us to re-engage earlier portrayals: Boys Don't Cry is central to conversations about casting, violence against gender non-conforming people, and the borders between butch and trans identities. Acknowledging a younger generation of queer and trans people who are straining against the images foisted upon them, including this film's egregious violence, and an older cohort for whom it remains a formative, if complicated, touchstone, Joynt and Page revisit the original contexts of production and distribution to unsettle the overdetermined ways the work has been understood and interpreted. Boys Don't Cry ultimately relocates the film in a way that attends to the story's violence and values, both on and off screen. |
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