The Order of Assassins: The History and Legacy of the Secretive Persian Sect during the Middle Ages by Charles River Editors
English | July 2, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098LWHKPF | 47 pages | EPUB | 1.11 Mb
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J. Martin Rochester, "The New Warfare: Rethinking Rules for an Unruly World "
English | ISBN: 1138191892 | 2016 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book looks at the evolving relationship between war and international law, examining the complex practical and legal dilemmas posed by the changing nature of war in the contemporary world, whether the traditional rules governing the onset and conduct of hostilities apply anymore, and how they might be adapted to new realities. War, always messy, has become even messier today, with the blurring of interstate, intrastate, and extrastate violence. How can the United States and other countries be expected to fight honourably and observe the existing norms when they often are up against an adversary who recognizes no such obligations? Indeed, how do we even know whether an "armed conflict" is underway when modern wars tend to lack neat beginnings and endings and seem geographically indeterminate, as well? What is the legality of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian intervention, targeted killings, drones, detention of captured prisoners without POW status, and other controversial practices? These questions are explored through a review of the United Nations Charter, Geneva Conventions, and other regimes and how they have operated in recent conflicts. Through a series of case studies, including the U.S. war on terror and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Kosovo, and Congo, the author illustrates the challenges we face today in the ongoing effort to reduce war and, when it occurs, to make it more humane.

The New Global Politics: Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century By Harry E. Vanden, Peter N. Funke, Gary Prevost (eds.)
2017 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 1315522284 | PDF | 2 MB
Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave.Spanning case studies from Latin America, North and South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest, which emerged from the Global South and spread to the North and highlights their interconnections - the globalized nature of these social movements. Analytically converging around Sidney Tarrow's emphasis on protest cycles, political opportunity structures and identity, the individual chapters investigate processes such as global framing, internationalization, diffusion, scale shifts, externalizations and transnational coalition building to provide an analytic cartography of the current state of social movements as they are simultaneously globalizing while still being embedded in their respective localities.Looking at new ways of thinking and new forms of challenging power, this comprehensive volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars in the fields of globalization, social movements and international politics.

The New Dogs of War: Nonstate Actor Violence in International Politics by Ward Thomas
English | September 15th, 2021 | ISBN: 1501758896 | 276 pages | True EPUB | 1.00 MB
As Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, in many countries militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global reach have come to define the security landscape for even the most powerful nations. Across the first decades of the twenty-first century we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the use of military force by these nonstate actors in ways that impact the international system, leading Thomas to undertake this valuable assessment of the state of play at this critical moment.

The Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane, 1796-1914 by Peter Reese
English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 184884848X, 1526781956 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 39.45 MB
Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were overtaken by the Wright brothers in America, by the French and the Germans. Peter Reese, in this highly readable and highly illustrated account, delves into the fascinating early history of aviation as he describes what happened and why.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales By Oliver Sacks
1998 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0684853949 | DJVU | 2 MB
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks'sThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hattells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

Andrew Mangham, "The Male Body in Medicine and Literature "
English | ISBN: 1786940523 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures By Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith
2016 | 1171 Pages | ISBN: 1457681439 | PDF | 51 MB
The Making of the West features a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context and tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped western history. This brief book includes a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options, including LaunchPad and a free sourcebook. The result is a brief book that is an excellent price and an outstanding value.With the fifth edition, Bedford/St. Martin's is proud to offer a comprehensive digital solution to meet all your classroom needs. New to the fifth edition, LaunchPad for The Making of the West provides instructors and students with a full feature program that includes a wealth of primary documents, comparative analysis, visual analysis, and quantitative analysis in every chapter. What's in the LaunchPadLynn Hunt (PhD. Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Inventing Human Rights, Measuring Time, Making History, and The Book that Changed Europe.Thomas R. Martin (PhD, Harvard University) is Jeremiah O Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece and Ancient Greece, and is one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (www.perseus.tufts.edu). He is currently conducting research on the career of Pericles as a political leader in classical Athens as well as on the text of Josephus' Jewish War.Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author or editor of several books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. She is currently working on a general history of the emotions in the West.Bonnie G. Smith (PhD, University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century."

The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds By John Bowlby
2005 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0415354811 | PDF | 3 MB
Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling, "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 147670001X | 160 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB
"The essential handbook for thinking and talking Democratic-must reading not only for every Democrat but for every responsible citizen" (Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of Beyond Outrage).