| |
|
|
 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, "Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding" English | ISBN: 1108429874 | | pages | PDF | 1062 KB Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, critically engaging children's voices alongside archival, historical, and ethnographic material in Palestine. Offering the concept of unchilding', Shalhoub-Kevorkian exposes the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform, and construct colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself. Penetrating children's everyday intimate spaces and, simultaneously, their bodies and lives, unchilding works to enable a complex machinery of violence against Palestinian children: imprisonment, injuries, loss, trauma, and militarized political occupation. At the same time as the book documents violations of children's rights and the consequences this has for their present and future well-being, it charts children's resistance to and power to interrupt colonial violence, reclaiming childhood and, with it, Palestinian futures.  Richard Stratton, "In the World: From the Big House to Hollywood (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 3) " English | ISBN: 1628727276 | 2020 | 312 pages | MOBI | 1375 KB The Hollywood Ending of an Adrenaline-Filled and, By Turns, Harrowing and Funny Odyssey of Crime and Redemption in America's War on Drugs  Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, "In the Shadow of the Mountain" English | ISBN: 1250871085 | 2023 | 320 pages | MOBI | 968 KB Winner of the Prestigious Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award  Susan Faludi, "In the Darkroom" English | ISBN: 080508908X | 2016 | 432 pages | MOBI | 1276 KB PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST  Zygmunt Bauman, "In Praise of Literature" English | ISBN: 1509502688 | 2016 | 180 pages | MOBI | 259 KB In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see literature and sociology as radically different vocations, Bauman and Mazzeo argue that they are bound together by a common purpose and a shared subject matter. Despite the many differences in terms of their methods and their ways of presenting their findings, novels and sociological texts are not at cross-purposes. Indeed, it is precisely their differences that make them at once indispensable to each other and mutually complementary.  Susan Sontag, "In America" English | ISBN: 0374175403 | 2000 | 387 pages | MOBI | 622 KB Poland's greatest living actress leads a utopian community to the wilds of 1876 California, where she will struggle to maintain love, hope, and idealism in the harsh reality of the American West.  Daniel Wendler, "Improve Your Social Skills" English | ISBN: 1517309328 | 2014 | 218 pages | AZW3 | 316 KB Improve Your Social Skills is a comprehensive, practical guide to social skills.It contains 200+ pages of step-by-step, easy-to-understand explanations of social interaction, written by a professional social skills coach whose TEDx talk on overcoming the social challenges of Asperger's Syndrome has been viewed over 180,000 times.You'll learn how to:  Simon Critchley, "Impossible Objects" English | ISBN: 0745653219 | 2011 | 180 pages | MOBI | 272 KB Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely on philosophy for interpretation and understanding; they are already independent practices and sites of sensuous meaning production. As Elvis Costello has said, "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." We don't need literary theory in order to be riveted by the poem, nor a critic's analysis to enjoy a film. How then can philosophy speak about anything outside of itself, namely all of those things which actually matter to us in this world?  Stephen R. Platt, "Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age" English | ISBN: 1786494868 | 2018 | 530 pages | MOBI | 15 MB As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.  Ruha Benjamin, "Imagination: A Manifesto " English | ISBN: 1324020970 | 2024 | 192 pages | AZW3 | 1179 KB A Boston Globe Best book of 2024 |
:
