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 Stephen Allen - Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior Osprey Publishing | 2007 | ISBN: 1841769487 | English | 225 pages | PDF | 99.72 MB Osprey General Military  Tim Hitchcock, "London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800" English | ISBN: 1107639948 | 2016 | 475 pages | PDF | 7 MB London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers and vagrants, revealing how they each played the system to the best of their ability in order to survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In their acts of desperation, the authors argue that the poor and criminal exercised a profound and effective form of agency that changed the system itself, and shaped the evolution of the modern state.  Local Government Management by Edited by Nicolas A. Valcik and Teodoro J. Benavides English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367029030 | 409 pages | True PDF | 10.76 MB  Listening to the Fur Trade : Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760-1840 by Daniel Robert Laxer English | 2022 | ISBN: 022800859X | 321 Pages | True PDF | 7.6 MB  Liquid Crystals with Nano/Micro Particles and Its Applications by Jayeeta Chattopadhyay English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367554313 | 139 pages | True PDF | 6.91 MB  Linocut by Marshall, Sam; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1789940702 | 177 pages | True PDF | 342.51 MB  Johan Borgen, "Lillelord" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0811208273, 071453692X | EPUB | pages: 322 | 0.8 mb In Lillelord, Norway's contemporary master Johan Borgen (1902-79) demonstrates his belief that our lives tend toward schizophrenia. Wilfred Sagen at fourteen is still a perfectly turned out, impeccably behaved "Little Lord Fauntleroy" to his family, but to his teachers he is a disruptive enigma and, to a pack of Oslo street urchins, an instigator of crime. In his often desperate search for emotional integration, Wilfred is hampered by an acute and introspective intelligence which only compounds his normal adolescent anxieties. Painfully aware of the split in his own personality, Wilfred longs for wholeness and harmony (personified by the young Jewish violinist, Miriam), but is torn by guilt and the realization that he cannot control either himself or the world.  Lighting the Wick: An Intuitive Guide to the Ancient Art and Modern Magic of Candles by Sandra Mariah Wright, Leanne Marrama English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 0593418344 | 256 pages | PDF | 19 Mb An illustrated guide to improving your life through the simple act of lighting a candle.  Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement By Santiago Rincón-Gallardo 2019 | 138 Pages | ISBN: 1138491748 | PDF | 4 MB This book is about three complementary ideas: 1) learning is a practice of freedom; 2) liberating learning in public education requires widespread cultural change in classrooms, schools, and entire education systems; and 3) social movements have been the most powerful vehicles for widespread cultural change, and in their logic of operation lie the keys to liberate learning. Drawing on existing knowledge and new research on educational change, the author offers nine principles of action to liberate learning in schools and across entire educational systems. Topics discussed include learning, pedagogy, leadership, education policy, widespread cultural change, collective action, and whole system improvement. Written for educators and leaders interested in transforming teaching and learning in classrooms and schools, as well as for public intellectuals and people interested in widespread pedagogical change, the book articulates a new way to think about and pursue educational change.  Alexandra Couto, "Liberal Perfectionism " English | ISBN: 3110335263 | 2014 | 218 pages | EPUB | 346 KB Much of the recent literature on political perfectionism has focused on dealing with objections to this view. This book adopts a different approach: It attempts to highlight the intuitive appeal of liberal perfectionism by presenting a positive prima facie argument in its favour. The book starts by clarifying the relation between political perfectionism - a conception of politics - and prudential perfectionism and ethical perfectionism - a conception of the good life, and a type of ethical theory. It is crucial to start by selecting a plausible form of ethical perfectionism, as it makes an important difference to the plausibility of the political conception based upon it. Once appropriate distinctions are drawn and a plausible form of liberal perfectionism is endorsed, many of the standard objections to perfectionism are shown to fail to reach their target. Different arguments in favour of liberal perfectionism are then proposed and critically examined, but the resilience of some pragmatic arguments against liberal perfectionism is conceded. The book ends by showing that perfectionism can be surprisingly relevant for discussions of social justice and proceeds to draw a sketch of the perfectionist implications for questions of distributive justice. |
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