| |
|
|
 The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920 (Religion and American Culture) By Andrew Chamberlin Rieser 2003 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0231126425 | PDF | 5 MB This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in western New York. More than a college or a summer resort or a religious assembly, it was a composite of all of these -- completely derivative yet brilliantly innovative. For five decades, Chautauqua dominated adult education and reached millions with its summer assemblies, reading clubs, and traveling circuits.Scholars have long struggled to make sense of Chautauqua's pervasive yet disorganized presence in American life. In this critical study, Andrew Rieser weaves the threads of Chautauqua into a single story and places it at the vital center of fin de si?cle cultural and political history. Famous for its commitment to democracy, women's rights, and social justice, Chautauqua was nonetheless blind to issues of class and race. How could something that trumpeted democracy be so undemocratic in practice? The answer, Rieser argues, lies in the historical experience of the white, Protestant middle classes, who struggled to reconcile their parochial interests with radically new ideas about social progress and the state. The Chautauqua Moment brings color to a colorless demographic and spins a fascinating tale of modern liberalism's ambivalent but enduring cultural legacy.  The Changing Role of Government: The Reform of Public Services in Developing Countries (The Role of Government in Adjusting Econ) By Richard Batley, George A. Larbi 2004 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0333736176 | PDF | 1 MB Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: healthcare, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being driven to adopt an "indirect" approach--managing, contracting and regulating public agencies or private partners, rather than providing services directly. It questions how governments are responding and whether this approach is appropriate to the capacities of developing countries.  The Changing Face of the Channel Islands Occupation: Record, Memory and Myth By Hazel Knowles Smith 2007 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 1403988048 | PDF | 2 MB This independent study has already attracted controversy. It vividly portrays the Islanders' Occupation experiences and explores the most hotly disputed issues, including collaboration, resistance and starvation; the fate of missing forced workers; the question of whether Island Officials knowingly sent three Jewish women to their deaths in Auschwitz; whether the Islands' experiences were unique, or whether they would have provided the blueprint for Hitler's planned occupation of Britain, and many more. The study discusses, disputes and often refutes what are today becoming received ideas, which frequently seek to imply a "shameful" wartime past.  The Changing Constitution (Politics Study Guides) By Kevin Harrison, Tony Boyd 2006 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0748622233 | PDF | 2 MB This textbook provides an introduction to the topical subject of constitutional change in Britain. It considers the historical origins of the constitution but its main focus is on recent reforms and their likely impact.It includes chapters on:* The Legislature: The House of Commons and the House of Lords* The Executive* The Judiciary* The Debate over a Written Constitution and a Bill of Rights for the UK* Devolution: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English Regions* Electoral Reform and Referenda* The European Union and the United Kingdom Constitution* The 'Hollowing Out of the State'The key theme running throughout the book is the debate as to whether the constitution has undergone a revolutionary transformation or has gradually evolved.Key Features* Includes up-to-date examples of constutional change in Britain* Offers a readable, stimulating and provocative introduction to the subject* Covers all the major issues surrounding the constitution in Britain  The Chancellor's Mansion: A Renovation Story of Family, Home, History, and Mystery by Jamie Arty English | July 15, 2025 | ISBN: 136810388X | 336 pages | PDF | 22 Mb The breathtaking story of one family's journey to restore, renovate, and preserve a historic mansion. It's a million-dollar project with gorgeous potential-and many challenges.  The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds (International Humanitarian Law) By Ustinia Dolgopol, Judith Gardam 2006 | 652 Pages | ISBN: 9004145990 | PDF | 3 MB The papers in this collection bring together a wide and diverse range of viewpoints to consider how the catastrophic consequences of deadly armed conflict can be addressed. Commentators are drawn from the United Nations and its agencies, key non- governmental organisations, world-class academic circles, senior members of government, leading human rights lawyers and judges with experience in international criminal law. These experts address deadly conflict in a comprehensive fashion covering all its stages: the causes and prevention of conflict; conflict resolution and peace-building; international criminal law and international humanitarian law and the role of the United Nations, humanitarian organisations and peacekeepers in post conflict situations. This collection is for those with an existing interest and expertise in international law, international relations, peace studies and criminal justice as well as for those who wish to become conversant with emerging developments in these fields.  The Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis By Tran Van Hoa, Charles Harvie 2000 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0312226551 | PDF | 34 MB This book, written by international experts in the Asian and world economies, provides a timely, comprehensive and authoritative assessment on the likely causes and potential impact of the Asian financial crisis. The countries covered include Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam in the ASEAN, Korean and China in Asia, and the major countries in North America and the European Community.  Jørgen Møller, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" English | ISBN: 0192857118 | 2022 | 238 pages | MOBI | 1430 KB Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern representative democracy, and modern levels of prosperity. The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 inserts the Catholic Church as the main engine of this persistent international and domestic power pluralism, which has moulded European state-formation for almost a millennium.  Chittaranjan Kole, "The Catharanthus Genome " English | ISBN: 3030892689 | 2022 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on botany, medicinal importance, genetic diversity, classical genetics and breeding, in vitro biosynthesis, somatic embryogenesis, genetic transformation, molecular mapping, genome sequence, and functional genomics of Catharanthus roseus. Catharanthus is the most important medicinal plant in the world that contains about 130 therapeutic alkaloids out of which vinblastine and vincristine are the two highly used anticancer drugs sold by the pharmaceutically industries. Altogether, the book contains about 10 chapters authored by globally reputed experts on the relevant field of this plant. This book is useful to the students, teachers and scientists in the academia and relevant private companies interested in horticulture, genetics, breeding, pathology, entomology, physiology, molecular genetics and breeding,  The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution by Elisabeth A. Lloyd English | April 22, 2005 | ISBN: 0674017064, 0674022467, 9780674265462 | True EPUB | 321 pages | 1.2 MB Why women evolved to have orgasms-when most of their primate relatives don't-is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. |
:
