Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia"
English | ISBN: 0691212465 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works
Water and Public Policy in India: Politics, Rights, and Governance by Deepti Acharya
English | Sep 17, 2021 | ISBN: 1032005483 | 262 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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Violence, Entitlement, and Politics: A Theology on Transforming the Subject by Steven G. Ogden
English | Sep 30, 2021 | ISBN: 0367221519 | 150 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender-based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw on sources ranging from Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Étienne Balibar to Rowan Williams and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Entitlement is theorized and interpreted as a gender pattern, predisposing subjects toward controlling behaviour and/or violent actions. Steven Ogden develops a theology of transformation, stressing immanence. He examines entitled subjects, predisposed to violence, where transformation requires a limit-experience that wrenches the subject from itself. The book also reflects on today's pervasive strongman politics, where political rationalities foster proprietorial thinking and entitlement gender patterns, and how theology is called to develop counter-discourses and counter-practices.
Vegetarian Nutrition and Wellness edited by Winston J. Craig
English | June 18, 2018 | ISBN: 1138035564, 1032095288 | EPUB | 344 pages | 1.8 MB
A large amount of research effort goes into assessing the health benefits of a plant-based diet, resulting from human desire to consume a more sustainable diet that is less destructive of the earth's natural resources. In addition, a growing number of people are choosing the vegan or total vegetarian diet because of the potential to greatly reduce the risk of chronic diseases and mortality rates. Although this interest in plant-based eating is popular, there exist concerns on the safety of some vegetarian diets, especially a vegan diet. This book describes issues of the vegetarian diet and outlines ways to prevent nutrient deficiencies.
Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Michael Beckley
English | September 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1501724789 | EPUB | 248 pages | 1.3 MB
The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower?
Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium A History of Afghanistan Through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera
Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A History of Afghanistan Through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera by Tim Bonyhady
2021 | ASIN: B09234YH5S, ISBN: 1922330752 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to woven depictions of tanks and Kalashnikovs. From photographs of unveiled women to an image of horror-the execution of a kneeling woman known as Zarmeena, videoed covertly by one of the few watching women. This remarkable book provides a history of Afghanistan through the visual.
Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust by Karen Gershowitz
English | July 13, 2021 | ISBN: 1647421268 | EPUB | 368 pages | 4.5 MB
Since leaving home for Europe alone at age seventeen, Karen Gershowitz has traveled to more than ninety countries.
Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad By Kenneth Osgood
2006 | 506 Pages | ISBN: 0700614451 | PDF | 16 MB
When President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of waging "total cold war," he was proposing nothing less than a global, all-embracing battle for hearts and minds. His wide-ranging propaganda campaign challenged world communism at every turn and left a lasting mark on the American psyche.Kenneth Osgood now chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War. These programs--which were often indistinguishable from CIA covert operations--went well beyond campaigns to foment unrest behind the Iron Curtain. The effort was global: U.S. propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world.Total Cold Waralso shows that Eisenhower waged his propaganda war not just abroad, but also at home. U.S. psychological warfare programs blurred the lines between foreign and domestic propaganda with campaigns that both targeted the American people and enlisted them as active participants in global contest for public opinion.Osgood focuses on major campaigns such as Atoms for Peace, People-to-People, and cultural exchange programs. Drawing on recently declassified documents that record U.S. psychological operations in some three dozen countries, he tells how U.S. propaganda agencies presented everyday life in America to the world: its citizens living full, happy lives in a classless society where economic bounty was shared by all. Osgood further investigates the ways in which superpower disarmament negotiations were used as propaganda maneuvers in the battle for international public opinion. He also reexamines the early years of the space race, focusing especially on the challenge to American propagandists posed by the Soviet launch of Sputnik.Perhaps most telling, Osgood takes a new look at President Eisenhower's leadership. Believing that psychological warfare was a potent weapon in America's arsenal, Ike appears in these pages not as a disinterested figurehead, as he's often been portrayed, but as an activist president who left a profound mark on national security affairs.Osgood's distinctive interpretation places Cold War propaganda campaigns in the context of an international arena drastically changed by the communications revolution and the age of mass politics and total war. It provides a new perspective on the conduct of public diplomacy, even as Americans today continue to grapple with the challenges of winning other hearts and minds in another global struggle.
Stewart Shapiro, "Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics"
English | ISBN: 0192893068 | 2000 | 328 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This unique book by Stewart Shapiro looks at a range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics in four comprehensive sections. Part I describes questions and issues about mathematics that have motivated philosophers since the beginning of intellectual history. Part II is an
Theory, Policy, Practice: Development and Discontents in India by Suman Nath and Debraj Bhattacharya
English | Sep 10, 2021 | ISBN: 0367634546 | 294 pages | PDF | 14,4 MB
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