Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone By Victoria Margree
2018 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1785355392 | EPUB | 1 MB
Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The book's thesis is that the origins of women's oppression lie in biology: in the fact that it is women and not men who conceive and give birth to children. Firestone's solution is revolutionary: since it is biology that is the problem, then biology must be changed, through technological intervention that would have as its end the complete removal of the reproductive process from women's bodies. With its proposal for the development of artificial wombs, its call for the abolition of the nuclear family and its vision of a cybernetic future, Firestone's manifesto may seem hopelessly out-dated, a far-fetched, utopian hangover of Swinging Sixties radicalism. This book, on the contrary, will argue for its importance to the resurgent feminism of today as a text that interrogates issues around gender, biology, sexuality, work and technology, and the ways in which our imaginations in the 21st century continue to be in thrall to ideologies of maternity and the nuclear family.
Robert Charles Azar, "Navigating Japan's Business Culture: A Practical Guide to Succeeding in the Japanese Market"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1946425044, 0997607629 | 360 pages | MOBI | 1.3 MB
Page-turning practical and essential tips for success in the Japanese market-from communicating to negotiating, product selection to distribution, management to sales
Michigan Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year by Melinda Myers
English | November 1, 2014 | ISBN: 1591864321 | PDF | 240 pages | 48.9 MB
The when-to and how-to schedule for growing, caring for, and maintaining your Great Lakes State garden!
Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds By Vincanne Adams; Mona Schrempf; Sienna R. Craig
2013 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 1782381228 | PDF | 3 MB
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such "science" gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.
Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century by Paul Rogers
English | ISBN: 0745343678 | 344 pages | EPUB | July 20, 2021 | 0.73 Mb
'Outstanding ... combines a glimpse behind the security screens with a sharp analysis of the real global insecurities - growing inequality and unsustainability' - New Internationalist Written in the late 1990s, Losing Control was years, if not decades, ahead of its time, predicting the 9/11 attacks, a seemingly endless war on terror and the relentless increase in revolts from the margins and bitter opposition to wealthy elites. Now, more than two decades later and in an era of pandemics, climate breakdown and potential further military activity in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Paul Rogers has revised and expanded the original analysis, pointing to the 2030s and '40s as the decades that will see a showdown between a bitter, environmentally wrecked and deeply insecure world and a possible world order rooted in justice and peace.
David Hampshire, "Living and Working in Germany: A Survival Handbook, 5th Edition"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1909282901 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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Learning AWS IoT: Effectively manage connected devices on the AWS cloud using services such as AWS Greengrass, AWS button, predictive analytics and machine learning
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1788396111 | 278 Pages | True ( EPUB , PDF, MOBI, CODE ) | 275 MB
Learn to use AWS IoT services to build your connected applications with the help of this comprehensive guide.
Louis A. Knafla, "Law and Politics in Jacobean England: The Tracts of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0521211913, 0521072646 | PDF | pages: 383 | 7.1 mb
This study is devoted chiefly to Ellesmere's career and writings as Lord Chancellor, 1603-1617. After an introduction to his life and career from 1541 to 1603, Part One is a study of his role in the legal and political history of Jacobean England. In order to place the analysis of law and politics in a broader context, topics discussed include economics, religion, social customs and thought, in addition to questions concerning the forms of action at common law, disputes between the courts, law and equity, and the political activities of Parliament, the Privy Council, and the Crown. Part Two consists of a critical edition of eight of Ellesmere's little known or unidentified tracts on the royal prerogative, Anglo-Scots Union, the Parliament of 1604-1610, the administration of government, law reform, the ecclesiastical courts, Coke's Law Reports and the Chancery-Common Law conflict.
Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice By Brooke A. Ackerly
2018 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 0190662948 | PDF | 85 MB
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? In one sense, we answer this question when we buy the local homeless street newspaper, decide where to buy our clothes, remember our reusable bags when we shop, donate to disaster relief, or send letters to corporations about labor rights. But given the global scale of injustices related to poverty, environmental change, gender, and labor, can these individual acts really impact the seemingly intractable global social, political, and economic structures that perpetuate and exacerbate them? Moreover, can we respond to injustices in the world in ways that do more than just address their consequences?In this book, Brooke A. Ackerly both answers the question of what should we do, and shows that it's the wrong question to ask. To ask the right question, we need to ground our normative theory of global justice in the lived experience of injustice. Using a feminist critical methodology, she argues that what to do about injustice is not just an ethical or moral question, but a political question about assuming responsibility for injustice, regardless of our causal responsibility and extent of our knowledge of the injustice. Furthermore, it is a matter that needs to be guided by principles of human rights. As she argues, while many understand human rights as political goals or entitlements, they can also guide political strategy. Her aims are twofold: to present a theory of what it means to take responsibility for injustice and for ensuring human rights, as well as to develop a guide for how to take responsibility in ways that support local and global movements for transformative politics. In order to illustrate her theory and guide for action, Ackerly draws on fieldwork on the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, the food crisis of 2008, and strategies from 125 activist organizations working on women's and labor rights across 26 countries. Just Responsibility integrates these ways of taking political responsibility into a rich theory of political community, accountability, and leadership in which taking responsibility for injustice itself transforms the fabric of political life.Brooke A. Ackerly is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Affiliated Faculty of Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference, and co-author of Doing Feminist Research.
Osnat Lautman, "Israeli Business Culture: Building Effective Business Relationships with Israelis, 2nd Edition"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9659250452 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 2.2 MB
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