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Free Download The Possessed: A Novel by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 0802162525 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.7 MB From "a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation  Free Download Raffaella Perin, "The Popes on Air: The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II " English | ISBN: 153150714X | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War II  Free Download Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion " English | ISBN: 9463729860 | 2023 | 158 pages | PDF | 1123 KB Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin's Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to modern audiences. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book argues that developers of videogames and their players engage in a 'Pop Theology' through which laymen reconsider traditional questions of religion by playing with them. Games allow us to play with religious questions and identities in the same way that children play at being a soldier, or choose to 'play house.' This requires a radical rethinking of religious questions as no longer just questions of belief or disbelief; but as truths to be tried on, compared, and discarded at will.  Free Download Patricia Strach, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929" English | ISBN: 1501766988 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 3 MB The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly expanding American cities livable.  Free Download Anne Mette Kjær, "The Politics of Revenue Bargaining in Africa: Triggers, Processes, and Outcomes" English | ISBN: 0192868780 | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 6 MB This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.  Free Download Dan Degerman, "The Politics of Negative Emotions " English | ISBN: 1529228794 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 3 MB Negative emotions, including anger, fear, and shame, have been at the heart of recent political events, such as the protests against COVID-19 restrictions. These negative emotions can be politically destructive, leading people to act rashly without due concern for democratic principles. However, they can also accurately signal wrongdoing and motivate acts to redress the situation, as displayed in the Black Lives Matter and climate change movements. This volume brings together perspectives from political science and philosophy to shed new light on the political faces of negative emotions. Engaging with real-world political events from Europe, the US, and Africa, contributors critically evaluate much-discussed emotions, such as anger and fear, but also less prominent ones, such as frustration and discomfort.  Free Download Philippe Zittoun, "The Political Formulation of Policy Solutions: Arguments, Arenas, and Coalitions" English | ISBN: 1529210348 | 2021 | 210 pages | PDF | 17 MB In this book, an international group of public policy scholars revisit the stage of formulating policy solutions by investigating the basic political dimensions inherent to this critical phase of the policy process. The book focuses attention on how policy makers craft their policy proposals, match them with public problems, debate their feasibility to build coalitions and dispute their acceptability as serious contenders for government consideration. Based on international case studies, this book is an invitation to examine the uncertain and often indeterminate aspects of policy-making using qualitative analysis embedded in a political perspective.  Free Download Tim Veen, "The Political Economy of Collective Decision-Making: Conflicts and Coalitions in the Council of the European Union" English | 2011 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 3642201733, 3642429017 | PDF | 3,3 mb The Council of the European Union is the institutional heart of EU policy-making. But 'who gets what, when and how' in the Council? What are the dimensions of political conflict, and which countries form coalitions in the intense negotiations to achieve their desired policy outcomes? Focussing on collective decision-making in the Council between 1998 and 2007, this book provides a comprehensive account of these salient issues that lie at the heart of political accountability and legitimacy in the European Union. Based on a novel and unique dataset of estimates of government policy positions, salience and power in influencing deliberations, an explanatory model approximating the Nash-Bargaining solution is employed to predict the policy outcomes on ten policy domains of central importance to this institution. The book's analyses comprise investigations into the determinants of decision-making success, the architecture of the political space and the governments' coalition behavior.  Free Download Stephen Bernard, "The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe, Volume I: The Early Plays" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138762032 | EPUB | pages: 1484 | 4.6 mb Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the 'lost Augustan'. His plays are important both for the way they address the political and social concerns of the day and for reflecting a period in which the theatre was in crisis. This edition sets out to demonstrate Rowe's mastery of the early eighteenth century theatre, especially his providing significant roles for women, and examines the political and historical stances of his plays. It also highlights his work as a translator, which was both innovative and deeply in tune with current practices as exemplified by John Dryden and Alexander Pope. This is the first scholarly edition of all Rowe's plays and poems and is accompanied by 15 musical scores and 31 black and white illustrations.  Free Download The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd By Richard Zacks 2003 | 434 Pages | ISBN: 0786884517 | EPUB | 5 MB Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America's most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, a married war hero whose secret mission took a spectacularly bad turn. This harrowing tale traces Kidd's voyages in the 1690s from his home near Wall Street to Whitehall Palace in London, from the ports of the Caribbean to a secret pirate paradise off Madagascar. Author Richard Zacks, during his research, also unearthed the story of a long forgotten rogue named Robert Culliford, who dogged Kidd and led Kidd's crew to mutiny not once but twice. The lives of Kidd and Culliford play out like an unscripted duel: one man would hang in the harbor, the other would walk away with the treasure. Filled with superb writing and impeccable research, The Pirate Hunter is both a masterpiece of historical detective work and a ripping good yarn, and it delivers something rare: an authentic pirate story for grown-ups. |
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