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 Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari, "Post-stroke Rehabilitation" English | ISBN: 3725820546 | 2024 | 148 pages | PDF | 6 MB This Special Issue presents the latest achievements related to post-stroke rehabilitation in several different types of valuable articles, including original studies, reviews, and a brief report written by experts from Iran, the USA, China, Australia, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada.  Bart Barendregt, "Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories" English | ISBN: 9462984034 | 2025 | 104 pages | MOBI | 658 KB From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.  Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" English | ISBN: 147800682X | 2020 | 264 pages | MOBI | 961 KB In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. Drawing on the everyday experiences of teaching and learning queer studies at the College of Staten Island, Brim outlines the ways the field has been driven by the material and intellectual resources of those institutions that neglect and rarely serve poor and minority students. By exploring poor and working-class queer ideas and laying bare the structural and disciplinary mechanisms of inequality that suppress them, Brim jumpstarts a queer-class knowledge project committed to anti-elitist and anti-racist education.  Rosie Harman, "Politics of Viewing in Xenophon's Historical Narratives, The" English | ISBN: 1350159026 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of Xenophon's historical narratives, the Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia. These texts depict conflicts between Greek states, conflicts between Greeks and non-Greeks, and relations between the elite individual and society. In all three texts, politically significant moments are imagined in visual terms. We witness spectacles of Spartan military victory, vistas of Asian landscape or displays of Persian imperial pomp, and historical protagonists are presented as spectators viewing and responding to events. Through this visual form of narration, the reader is encouraged imaginatively to place themselves in the position of the historical protagonists. In viewing events from different perspectives, and therefore occupying multiple, often conflicting political positions, the reader not only experiences the problems faced by historical actors, but becomes engaged in the political conflicts acted out in the narratives. The reader is prompted to take pleasure in the sight of Panhellenic achievement, but also to witness the divisions and conflicts between Greeks on class and ethnic lines. Similarly the reader is invited to identify with spectacular Greek and non-Greek figures of power as emblems of Greek imperial potential, but also to see through the eyes of those communities subjugated at their hands. The depiction of spectacles and spectators draws the reader into an active participation in the ideological contradictions of their time, in a period when Panhellenic aspiration co-existed with hegemonic competition between Greek states, and when Greeks could be both beneficiaries and victims of imperialism.  Una Bergmane, "Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union " English | ISBN: 0197578349 | 2023 | 256 pages | MOBI | 1448 KB In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence. Within weeks, the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Latvia, announced the beginning of a transition period toward full sovereignty. The Soviet Union, which considered the Baltic declarations illegal, harshly condemned them and imposed an economic blockade against Lithuania. Fearing an outbreak of violence in the region, the United States tried to de-escalate the crisis, pressuring all sides to engage in dialogue.  Una Bergmane, "Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union " English | ISBN: 0197578349 | 2023 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence. Within weeks, the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Latvia, announced the beginning of a transition period toward full sovereignty. The Soviet Union, which considered the Baltic declarations illegal, harshly condemned them and imposed an economic blockade against Lithuania. Fearing an outbreak of violence in the region, the United States tried to de-escalate the crisis, pressuring all sides to engage in dialogue.  Politics and Policy in Australia's States and Territories by James C. Murphy, Rob Manwaring, Alan Fenna English | November 21, 2025 | ISBN: 3031950704 | 412 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 11 Mb This book offers the first critical examination of Australian State and Territory politics in over 20 years. It presents a major updating of the field, with deep analysis of key political, electoral and policy developments in all the States and both Territories over the last decade. The volume addresses a substantial gap in our understanding of politics and policy in Australia, providing systematic scholarly analysis of many new developments, including major policy reforms, and the rise of long-serving and important political leaders, such as Dan Andrews in Victoria and Anna Palaszczcuk in Queensland.  Jonathan Shea, "Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats " English | ISBN: 0755601939 | 2020 | 272 pages | MOBI | 6 MB The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. At its start Byzantium was the paramount power in the Mediterranean world, by turns feared, respected and admired. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had managed only a partial recovery under the leadership of the Komnenos family. How did a powerful and famously wealthy empire collapse so quickly?  Political Cannibalism in Nazi Germany: 49 victims devoured by Adolf Hitler's personal ruthless ambition (The Third Reich Unseen Book 3) by Paul Spice English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GFY2G6L3 | 207 pages | pdf | 92 MB  Lisa Shapiro, "Pleasure: A History " English | ISBN: 0190225114 | 2018 | 318 pages | MOBI | 1475 KB For many, the word 'pleasure' conjures associations with hedonism, indulgence, and escape from the life of the mind. However little we talk about it, though, pleasure also plays an integral role in cognitive life, in both our sensory perception of the world and our intellectual understanding. This previously important but now neglected philosophical understanding of pleasure is the focus of the essays in this volume, which challenges received views that pleasure is principally motivating of action, unanalyzable, and caused, rather than responsive to reason. Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, it traces the development of the focal idea from ancient times through the 20th century. The essays highlight points of departure for new lines of inquiry rather than attempting to provide a full picture of how the idea of pleasure has been explored in philosophy. |
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