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Start your reading journey today on DL4ALL.org and unlock a world of imagination, knowledge, and inspiration!  Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires By Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, Maureen Quilligan 2008 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0226307212 | PDF | 3 MB The phrase "The Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain's uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the "Black Legend."A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance. (20070620)  Christian Fuchs, "Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism" English | ISBN: 0745339999 | 2019 | 144 pages | MOBI | 2 MB The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how communication technologies, media representation and digitalisation have come to define contemporary capitalism. There is an urgent need for critical, Marxian-inspired knowledge as a foundation for changing the world and the way we communicate from digital capitalism towards communicative socialism and digital communism. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism does exactly this. Delving into Marx's most influential works, such as Capital, The Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto, Christian Fuchs draws out Marx's concepts of machinery, technology, communication and ideology, all of which anticipate major themes of the digital age. A concise and coherent work of Marxist media and communication theory, the book ultimately demonstrates the relevance of Marx to an age of digital and communicative capitalism.  Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Routledgecurzon City University of Hong Kong South East Asian Studies, 3.) By Richard Robison, Vedi R. Hadiz 2004 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0415332532 | PDF | 2 MB Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex politico-business oligarchy and the ongoing reorganisation of its power through successive crises, colonising and expropriating new political and market institutions. With the collapse of authoritarian rule, the authors propose that the way was left open for this oligarchy to reconstitute its power within society and the institutions of newly democratic Indonesia.  Renewing our Libraries: Case Studies in Re-planning and Refurbishment By Michael Dewe 2009 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0754673391 | PDF | 7 MB With the wish to heighten their profile, modernize their environment and increase use, libraries in the UK have refurbished and, where necessary and possible, extended their existing buildings. Although much has been achieved in this regard across the UK, more continues and needs to be accomplished.The aim of this case-study publication is to provide librarians, architects and others with examples of what has been undertaken and to highlight the policies, processes, design issues - and the problems that have been overcome - leading to successful library refurbishments. While the case studies will be mainly drawn from the UK and will cover a variety of library types, the book will have wide international appeal and includes case studies drawn from Ireland, Sweden and the USA.  Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics " English | ISBN: 069121056X | 2021 | 208 pages | MOBI | 611 KB From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political lives  Remotely Innovative: Innovation in a Hybrid/Remote and AI Driven World by Tom Coughlan, David Fogarty English | July 22, 2025 | ISBN: 103289668X | 242 pages | MOBI | 1 Mb In the near term, the future will not belong to AI, but it will belong to the people who understand AI and how to strategically leverage its advantages.  Remembering the Future (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Luciano Berio English | May 30, 2006 | ISBN: 0674021541, 9780674261792 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 1.3 MB How one of the foremost experimental composers of the twentieth century approaches his métier.  Alastair Fowler, "Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems" English | ISBN: 0198856970 | 2021 | 320 pages | MOBI | 1476 KB Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period. Specifically, it shows how genre has come to be understood in terms of family resemblance theory. Remembered Words argues that realism can be seen as altering historically, so that Renaissance realism, for example, differs from those of later periods. Similar changes are traced in the emblem, which Fowler shows to be not only a particular genre, but an element of various kinds of realism. Famous passages in ancient literature are remembered in the familiar emblems of the Renaissance; and Renaissance emblems form the basis of metaphors in later literature.  Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century By Jinghao Zhou 2003 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0275978826 | PDF | 2 MB In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of "public philosophy" to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in China studies, he examines China systematically in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. The volume asserts that the remaking of China's public philosophy is they key for the nation to achieve both economic and political prosperity, making the bold argument that this remaking can contribute profoundly not only to China's development, but to international peace and development as well.  Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences: China and Europe Compared, c. 700-1800 by Karel Davids English | November 9, 2012 | ISBN: 9004233881 | 292 pages | PDF | 4.08 Mb In Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences Karel Davids offers a new perspective on technological change in China and Europe before the Industrial Revolution. This book makes an innovative contribution to current debates on the origins of the 'Great Divergence' between China and Europe and the ' Little Divergence' within Europe by analysing the relationship between the evolution of technical knowledge and religious contexts. It deals with the question to what extent disparities in the evolution of technical knowledge can be explained by differences in religious environment. It takes a comparative look at the relation between technology and religion in China and Europe between c.700 and 1800 from four angles: visions on the uses of nature, the formation of human capital , the circulation of technical knowledge and technical innovation. |
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