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 Free Download Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters by Adam Wagner English | October 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1847927467 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.33 Mb 0n 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In eleven pages it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes, banned socialising, closed shops, gyms, pubs, places of worship. It restricted our freedoms more than any other law in history, justified by the rapid spread of a deadly new virus.  Free Download Emergency Remote Teaching and Beyond: Voices from World Language Teachers and Researchers by Julian Chen English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030840662 | 580 Pages | True ePUB | 39 MB  Free Download Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778-1814: Women and Belonging by Jillian Heydt-Stevenson English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009463985 | 314 Pages | True PDF | 10 MB  Free Download Kenneth R. 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On the eve of World War II, Czech leaders jettisoned the young republic for an "authoritarian democracy" that firmly placed their nation, and not the individual citizen, at the center of politics. In 1948, they turned to a Communist-led "people's democracy," which also devalued individual rights. By examining specific policy issues, including marriage and family law, civil service regulations, citizenship law, and abortion statutes, Elusive Equality demonstrates the relationship between Czechs' ideas about gender roles and their attitudes toward democracy. Gradually, many Czechs became convinced that protecting a traditionally gendered family ideal was more important to their national survival than adhering to constitutionally prescribed standards of equal citizenship. Through extensive original research, Melissa Feinberg assembles a compelling account of how early Czech progress in women's rights, tied to democratic reforms, eventually lost momentum in the face of political transformations and the separation of state and domestic issues. Moreover, Feinberg presents a prism through which our understanding of twentieth-century democracy is deepened, and a cautionary tale for all those who want to make democratic governments work.  Free Download William Genieys, "Elites, Policies and State Reconfiguration: Transforming the French Welfare Regime " English | ISBN: 3031415817 | 2023 | 219 pages | EPUB | 652 KB This book examines the history of the French welfare state from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. The French social security system has changed profoundly over the last few decades. 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