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Free Download Revolutionizing World Trade: How Disruptive Technologies Open Opportunities for All (Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy) by Kati Suominen
English | November 19, 2019 | ISBN: 1503603601, 1503610713 | True EPUB/PDF | 360 pages | 0.5/24.6 MB
Almost 15 years ago, in The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman popularized the latest wave of globalization as a world of giant corporate supply chains that tripled world trade between 1990 and 2010. Major corporations such as Apple, Dell, and GE offshored manufacturing to low-cost economies; China became the world's factory, mass-producing and exporting computers and gadgets to Western shoppers. This paradigm of globalization has dominated global trade policy-making and guided hundreds of billions of dollars in business investments and development spending for almost three decades.

Free Download Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China By Tie Xiao
2017 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0674977165 | PDF | 5 MB
During China's transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum have used the crowd trope to ruminate on questions of selfhood and nationhood, and to advance competing models of enlightenment and revolution.Revolutionary Waves analyzes the centrality of the crowd in the Chinese cultural and political imagination and its global resonances by delving into a wide range of fiction, philosophy, poetry, and psychological studies. Bringing together literary studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and the history of human sciences, this interdisciplinary work highlights unexplored interactions among emerging social-scientific forms of knowledge, new aesthetic modes of representation, and changing political imperatives. The work brings into relief the complexities of the modern Chinese crowd discourse, which generated subjectivities and oriented actions, enabled as well as constrained the expression of togetherness, and thus both expanded and limited the horizon of political possibilities in the emerging age of mass politics.The first in-depth examination of the aesthetics and politics of the crowd in modern Chinese literature and thought, Revolutionary Waves raises questions about the promise and peril of community as communion and reimagines collective life in China's post-socialist present.

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English | ISBN: 1609387848 | 2021 | 250 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous, anti-imperial victimhood-the sense that white men, in particular, are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the presidential election from being "stolen from them."

Free Download Revelations of the Watchers: The Unfolding Destiny of the Rebel Angels by Timothy Wyllie
English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 1591433681 | 330 pages | PDF (Converted) | 7.61 Mb
Writing together with Timothy Wyllie, the angel Georgia details the events of Earth's ancient history during the second era of Atlantis

Free Download Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China By Rebecca E. Karl; Peter Gue Zarrow
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0674008545 | PDF | 60 MB
The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the "new" woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experience of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways.

Free Download Restoring Heritage Grains: The Culture, Biodiversity, Resilience, and Cuisine of Ancient Wheats by Eli Rogosa
English | July 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1603586709 | 272 pages | PDF (Converted) | 9.09 Mb
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 0192865773 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 27.63 MB

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English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BH1HSQVN | 176 pages | EPUB | 8.76 Mb
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Free Download Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global Politics, Law and International Relations By Ben Wagner (editor), Matthias C. Kettemann (editor), Kilian Vieth (editor)
2019 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1785367714 | PDF | 7 MB
In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and fulfil human rights has become unavoidable. Uniting research from scholars and practitioners, this contemporary Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates surrounding digital technologies by framing them in terms of human rights.An international group of expert contributors explore the issues posed by the management of key Internet resources, the governance of its architecture, the role of different stakeholders, the legitimacy of rule-making and rule-enforcement, and the exercise of international public authority over users. Highly interdisciplinary, the Handbook draws on law, political science, and international relations, as well as computer science and science and technology studies in order to engage with human rights aspects of the digitally connected world. The chapters examine in depth current topics relating to human rights and security, internet access, surveillance, automation, trade, and freedom of expression.This comprehensive and engaging Handbook will be vital reading for both researchers and students in law, human rights, international politics, international relations and technology studies. Policy-makers seeking an understanding of the state of human rights in technology will also find this book a highly useful resource. Contributors include: W. Benedek, D. Bigo, D. Brodowski, G. Contissa, P. de Hert, M. Dunn Cavelty, T. Engelhardt, B. Farrand, M I. Franklin, M.I. Ganesh, M. Graham, S. Horth, L. Jasmontaite, R.F. Jørgensen, C. Kavanagh, M.C. Kettemann, D. Korff, G. Lansdown, E. Light, S. Livingstone, A. Millikan, J.A. Obar, G. Sartor, G. Sobliye, A. Third, M. Tuszynski, K. Vieth, B. Wagner, T. Wetzling, M. Zalnieriute

Free Download Beatriz Caiuby Labate, "Religious Freedom and the Global Regulation of Ayahuasca "
English | ISBN: 0367028751 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book offers a comprehensive view of the legal, political, and ethical challenges related to the global regulation of ayahuasca, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing DMT, which is a Schedule I substance under the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the legality of its ritual use has been interpreted differently throughout the world. The chapters in this volume reflect on the complex implications of the international expansion of ayahuasca, from health, spirituality, and human rights impacts on individuals, to legal and policy impacts on national governments. While freedom of religion is generally protected, this protection depends on the recognition of a religion's legitimacy, and whether particular practices may be deemed a threat to public health, safety or morality. Through acomparative analysis of different contexts in North America, South America and Europe in which ayahuasca is consumed, the book investigates the conceptual, philosophical, and legal distinctions among the fields of shamanism, religion, and medicine. It will be particularly relevant to scholars with an interest in Indigenous religion and in religion and law.