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 Agencies: How Governments Do Things through Semi-Autonomous Organizations By Christopher Pollitt, Janice Caulfield, Amanda Smullen, Colin Talbot 2005 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1403933227 | PDF | 1 MB Many countries now use agencies to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but there has been little research into how they work in practice. This book both reviews existing theories and models of "agentification" and adds detailed analysis of major new empirical evidence.  Matthias Drilling, "Ageing and Urban Planning " English | ISBN: 0367700670 | 2025 | 362 pages | EPUB | 14 MB Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This process requires collaboration between professionals and the community, going beyond mere functionality to connect the micro and macro scales at the city, region, nation, and the global level.  Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava by James Stout English | January 20, 2026 | ISBN: 1849355452, 9781849355469 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 4 MB A book about those that cannot wait any longer for the world to change.  Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth English | September 23, 2025 | ISBN: 0593850637 | 368 pages | PDF | 4.18 Mb NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Against Narrow-Mindedness and Chauvinism - Journeying Through Absurd Times with Paul K. Feyerabend by Wolfgang Frindte English | 2026 | ISBN: 365850112X | 265 Pages | True PDF | 2.27 MB  Afterthoughts: Or Some Pistachios Won't Open - Wisdom for the Unreflective by Richard Ayoade English | October 28, 2025 | ISBN: 0571398200, 9780571398218 | True EPUB | 86 pages | 0.2 MB Richard Ayoade dispenses a lifetime of deepness into over 500 individually digestible thought pellets. Taste, masticate, and savour. You're about to get extremely wise.  After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace by Robert Polito English | January 27, 2026 | ISBN: 0871402939 | 384 pages | EPUB | 0.71 Mb Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, "If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?" A familiar narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s―only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was controversially awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative.  After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening By Nancy Mccabe 2003 | 135 Pages | ISBN: 1557532583 | PDF | 1 MB One night in 1990, a stranger cut the screen out of Nancy McCabe's bedroom window while she slept and shone a flashlight into her eyes as she woke. A few weeks later, her father came down with temporary amnesia. Although unrelated, these events became linked in her mind, sweeping out from under her the fundamentals many of us take for granted: safety, freedom, the stability of memory, and a general oblivion to mortality. After the Flashlight Man is the story of how one author came to terms with these experiences that threw her life into a whole new light: the self-defense classes, rape crisis volunteer work, writing, and meditation that served as checkpoints along her healing journey while she re examined events from her childhood and relationships with family and friends. Ultimately, a flashlight turned against her as a bizarre weapon became instead a metaphorical tool that blazed her path, the impetus to reclaim, recast, and tell her own stories, discovering her own power to reinvent her vision of her life.  After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest edited by Camilla Townsend, Josh Anthony English | December 29, 2025 | ISBN: 0197776175, 0197776183 | True PDF | 288 pages | 52.99 MB Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how Nahuas and other Indigenous peoples spoke privately about the great changes, and accounts written in Indigenous languages mostly date from the latter half of the sixteenth century.  James Penney, "After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics" English | ISBN: 0745333796 | 2014 | 224 pages | MOBI | 488 KB After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signaling the end of anti homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. |
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