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 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), "The Military Balance 2023: The International Institute for Strategic Studies" English | ISBN: 1032508957 | 2023 | 576 pages | PDF | 84 MB The Military Balance has been published annually since 1959. The 2023 edition provides an open-source assessment of the armed forces and equipment inventories of 173 countries, with accompanying defence economics data. Alongside detailed country data, The Military Balance assesses important military issues, region-by-region, and includes graphics to illustrate these as well as noteworthy equipment developments. Maps this year include a focus on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and select China-Russia military cooperation activities. The book draws on the range of data carried in the Military Balance+ online database, particularly the procurement features in each regional section. The accompanying wallchart explores the military use of outer space, an increasingly important element of defence capabilities, focusing on China, Russia and the United States. For those involved in defence and security policymaking, analysis and research,
 The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War By John H Flores 2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0252041801 | PDF | 2 MB Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to history, though they have much to teach us about the increasingly international world of today. John H. Flores follows this revolutionary generation of Mexican immigrants and the transnational movements they created in the United States. Through a careful, detailed study of Chicagoland, the area in and around Chicago, Flores examines how competing immigrant organizations raised funds, joined labor unions and churches, engaged the Spanish-language media, and appealed in their own ways to the dignity and unity of other Mexicans. Painting portraits of liberals and radicals, who drew support from the Mexican government, and conservatives, who found a homegrown American ally in the Roman Catholic Church, Flores recovers a complex and little known political world shaped by events south of the U.S border.
 Michael Loewe, "The Men Who Governed Han China: Companion to a Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods" English | 2004 | pages: 683 | ISBN: 9004138455 | PDF | 134,8 mb The creation or closure of institutions of government and the careers of men who took their part in public life show how human lives were affected by political concepts and official demands in the formative stages of China's imperial government.  The Memory Palace of Bones by Rockwell, Jeff;Lauterstein, David; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1913426599 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 34.4 MB  The Mbira: An African Musical Tradition by Mahealani Uchiyama English | September 14, 2021 | ISBN: 1623176492 | 128 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb An introductory guide to the mbira: the spiritual traditions, historical perspectives, and practical applications of a sacred Zimbabwean instrument.  Danu Forest, "The Magical Year: Seasonal Celebrations to Honor Nature's Ever-Turning Wheel" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1780288611 | 224 pages | EPUB | 6.7 MB The Celtic seasonal wheel is based on eight festivals - Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lughnasadh, Autumn Equinox and Samhain. Together, these lead us through the cycle of the year, aligning our awareness with the seasonal pattern of the earth beneath our feet.In this book on the solstices, equinoxes and other festivals within the sacred cycle, Danu Forest reveals the secrets of each festival in turn and skilfully revives ancient traditions, encouraging us to reconnect with nature, and ourselves, with a host of practical ideas and rituals. Decorate your home with beautiful seasonal crafts and altars to manifest sacred space. Make gifts to give to friends, cast spells for creativity, fertility and blessing, and use the abundance of nature in recipes that can be enjoyed as part of your seasonal celebrations or for self-healing and empowerment. Meditate on the changing heavens throughout the year with Celtic star lore. Deepen your experience of the turning seasons, from the rest and renewal of winter through the revels of spring and summer to the soul or spirit nights of autumn with magical guided visualizations. This cycle of conscious celebration helps us, year on year, to align with nature's rhythms with greater wonder and insight.  The Magic Thread: Astrological Chart Interpretation Using Depth Psychology By Richard Idemon, Gina Ceaglio (editor) 1996 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 087728864X | PDF | 30 MB Back due to popular demand! For centuries, philosophers, alchemists and pychologists have been intrigued and fascinated by the intricacies of the labyrinth as a metaphor for human experience. Richard Idemon sees the birth chart, a symbol of inherent universal order, as a labyrinth - a logical but complicated and elusive structure. The interwoven symbols in the horoscope are made up of a single thread that, when unravelled - like the magic thread of Ariadne - lead us through the maze to the heart of the chart and our own nature. This book is transcribed from a six-day lecture given in 1986.  Fredy Perlman, "The Machine And Its Discontents: A Fredy Perlman Anthology" English | 2018 | pages: 247 | ISBN: 0995660980 | PDF | 2,0 mb New collection of essays by Fredy Perlman, divided into sections on Worker-Student Uprisings; Critique of Political Economy; Critique of Leaders; Critique of Nationalism; Critique of 'Progress'. Includes bibliography and index. Co-published by Active Distribution with Theory and Practice, 2018. This is a hardback, there is also a paperback edition available.  Samuel E. Balentine, "The Lure of Transcendence and the Audacity of Prayer: Selected Essays " English | ISBN: 3161611039 | 2022 | 286 pages | PDF | 4 MB  The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa By Jonathan Glasser 2016 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 022632706X | PDF | 3 MB For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire's enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of disappearance. In The Lost Paradise, Jonathan Glasser explores the close connection between the paradox of patrimony and the questions of embodiment, genealogy, secrecy, and social class that have long been central to Andalusi musical practice. Through a historical and ethnographic account of the Andalusi music of Algiers, Tlemcen, and their Algerian and Moroccan borderlands since the end of the nineteenth century, Glasser shows how anxiety about Andalusi music's disappearance has emerged from within the practice itself and come to be central to its ethos. The result is a sophisticated examination of musical survival and transformation that is also a meditation on temporality, labor, colonialism and nationalism, and the relationship of the living to the dead. |
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