Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics 1915-48 By J. Ellen Gainor
2001 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0472030108 | PDF | 3 MB
Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism.J. Ellen Gainor is Professor of Theatre, Women's Studies, and American Studies, Cornell University. Her other books include Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (co-edited with Jeffrey D. Mason) from the University of Michigan Press.
Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers by Petra Wille , Marty Cagan
English | Dec 18, 2020 | ISBN: 3982235103 | 392 pages | EPUB | 4,5 MB
Are you a product leader looking for advice on how to be certain that every product manager on your team lives up to their full potential? Do you want to make sure your product people are competent, empowered, and inspired, and would you like to know how you can best help them on this journey? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then this book is for you!
Hans Goebeler, "Steel Boat Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505"
English | ISBN: 1932714316 | 2008 | 288 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 1242 KB + 1335 KB
Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. 'Steel Boat, Iron Hearts' is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard for every one of U-505's war patrols.
State and Nature: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy by Peter Adamson and Christof Rapp
English | Apr 19, 2021 | ISBN: 3110735431 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A much-maligned feature of ancient and medieval political thought is its tendency to appeal to nature to establish norms for human communities. From Aristotle's claim that humans are "political animals" to Aquinas' invocation of "natural law," it may seem that pre-modern philosophers were all too ready to assume that whatever is natural is good, and that just political arrangements must somehow be natural. The papers in this collection show that this assumption is, at best, too crude. From very early, for instance in the ancient sophists' contrast between nomos and physis, there was recognition that political arrangements may be precisely artificial, not natural, and it may be questioned whether even such supposed naturalists as Aristotle in fact adopt the quick inference from "natural" to "good." The papers in this volume trace the complex interrelations between nature and such concepts as law, legitimacy, and justice, covering a wide historical range stretching from Plato and the Sophists to Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Cicero, the Neoplatonists Descriptioninus and Porphyry, ancient Christian thinkers, and philosophers of both the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages.
Marco Bellucci, "Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainability Reporting "
English | ISBN: 0815373155 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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Social Changes and Yuwen Education in Post-Mao China: Control, Conformity and Contradiction by Min Tao
English | May 14, 2019 | ISBN: 1138339121, 1032092734 | 222 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Inspired by the author's observations of the language curriculum as a practising teacher for the past 20 years, this book addresses how the high school Chinese language and literacy (Yuwen) curriculum in China was controlled and directed in the post-Mao era. Examining the social and political domination from 1980 to 2010, the book offers insights into how teachers and schools responded to the top-down curriculum change in their teaching practice.
Slave Labor in the Capital: Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks By Bob Arnebeck
2014 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1626197210 | EPUB | 6 MB
In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation. The commission found paying masters of faraway Maryland plantations sixty dollars a year for their slaves made it easier to keep wages low for free workers who flocked to the city. In 1798, half of the two hundred workers building the two most iconic Washington landmarks, the Capitol and the White House, were slaves. They moved stones for Scottish masons and sawed lumber for Irish carpenters. They cut trees and baked bricks. These unschooled young black men left no memoirs. Based on his research in the commissioners' records, author Bob Arnebeck describes their world of dawn to dusk work, salt pork and corn bread, white scorn and a kind nurse and the moments when everything depended on their skills.
Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City by Josephine Ensign
English | August 3, 2021 | ISBN: 142144013X | EPUB | 312 pages | 6.9 MB
A compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the "worthy" and "unworthy" poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States.
Simply yoga : mind, body, spirit By Pettinato, Yolanda
2006 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 1741810477 | PDF | 6 MB
Includes clear step-by-step instructions and photographs, as well as detailed instructions on simple breathing techniques and meditation practice.
Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals By Gail Omvedt
2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 8189059459 | PDF | 16 MB
The bhakti radical Ravidas (c 1450-1520), calling himself a 'tanner now set free', was the first to envision an Indian utopia in his song "Begumpura"-a modern casteless, classless, tax-free city without sorrow. This was in contrast to the dystopia of the brahmanical kaliyuga. Anticaste intellectuals in India posited utopias much before Thomas More, in 1516, articulated a Renaissance humanist version.Gail Omvedt, in this study, focuses on the worldviews of subaltern visionaries spanning five centuries-Chokhamela, Janabai, Kabir, Ravidas, Tukaram, the Kartabhajas, Phule, Iyothee Thass, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar and Ambedkar. She charts the development of their utopian visions and the socioeconomic characteristics of the societies conceived through this long period.