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 Zygmunt Bauman, "Retrotopia" English | ISBN: 1509515321 | 2017 | 180 pages | MOBI | 286 KB We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state―a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a future-to-be-created but on an abandoned and undead past that we could call retrotopia.  Henry Buckton, "Retreat: Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe" English | ISBN: 1445664828 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB A defining moment in Britain's Second World War, meticulously recounted.  Julia Clarke, "Restorative Yoga for Beginners: Gentle Poses for Relaxation and Healing" English | ISBN: 1646111842 | 2019 | 180 pages | MOBI | 6 MB Relax, relieve, restore―a beginner's path to healing with restorative yoga  Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" English | ISBN: 1009290487 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 3 MB How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of their movement. The witnesses' testimonies were transmitted via successive generations of copyists and historians, with the oldest surviving fragments dating to the second and third centuries - that is, to well after Jesus' death. In this innovative and important book, Markus Vinzent interrogates standard interpretations of Christian origins handed down over the centuries. He scrutinizes - in reverse order - the earliest recorded sources from the sixth to the second century, showing how the works of Greek and Latin writers reveal a good deal more about their own times and preoccupations than they do about early Christianity. In so doing, the author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place.  Scott Borchert, "Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America" English | ISBN: 0374298459 | 2021 | 400 pages | MOBI | 9 MB A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | Winner of the New Deal Book Award  Charlotte Gray, "Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention" English | ISBN: 1611450608 | 2011 | 480 pages | MOBI | 3 MB The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this magisterial reassessment based on thorough new research, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray reveals Bell's wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. The child of a speech therapist and a deaf mother, and possessed of superbly acute hearing, Bell developed an early interest in sound. His understanding of how sound waves might relate to electrical waves enabled him to invent the talking telegraph" be- fore his rivals, even as he undertook a tempestuous courtship of the woman who would become his wife and mainstay.  Wilhelm Reich, "Reich Speaks of Freud: Wilhelm Reich Discusses His Work and His Relationship with Sigmund Freud" English | ISBN: 0374506728 | 1967 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 1312 KB The core of this book is a tape-recorded interview of Wilhelm Reich, conducted by a representative of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. Published here for the first time, it is a profoundly human and an unusually candid document that supplies a long-awaited clarification of the relationship between Reich and Freud.  Brooke Coe, "Regionalized Governance in the Global South " English | ISBN: 1009376624 | 2023 | 84 pages | PDF | 3 MB This Element addresses questions of division of labor and concentration of authority among intergovernmental organizations by examining multilevel governance in the Global South. It focuses on the policy domains of peace and security and human rights in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its central finding is that the extent of governance regionalization varies across regions and issue areas. In the domain of peace and security, governance is most regionalized in Africa. In the domain of human rights protection, governance is most regionalized in the LAC region. Given the phenomenon of regional specialization, the Element makes the case for the greater explanatory power of regional drivers of regional institutional development. This Element is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.  Alex von Tunzelmann, "Reel History: The World According to the Movies" English | ISBN: 1782396462 | 2015 | 353 pages | MOBI | 2 MB From ancient Egypt to the Tudors to the Nazis, the film industry has often defined how we think of the past. But how much of what you see on the screen is true? And does it really matter if filmmakers just make it all up? Picking her way through Hollywood's version of events, acclaimed historian Alex von Tunzelmann sorts the fact from the fiction. Along the way, we meet all our favorite historical characters, on screen and in real life: from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I, from Spartacus to Abraham Lincoln, and from Attila the Hun to Nelson Mandela. Based on the long-running column in the Guardian, Reel History takes a comic look at the history of the world as told through the movies-the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly.  Matthew Quirk, "Red Warning: A Novel" English | ISBN: 006305163X | 2022 | 432 pages | MOBI | 1067 KB "Intricately Descriptionted with extraordinary characters and riveting action." -Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood |
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