Richard Swift, "S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780261705 | PDF | pages: 175 | 1.1 mb
With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer-including socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology. It picks its way through the pockets of resistant thinking and emerges with paths to changing the world that rest less on rigid ideology imposed from above than on practical transformation from below.
Russia History: A Solution to An Enigma of Russia by Viktor Nickson
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VXL3HN5 | 240 pages | MOBI | 0.40 Mb
A Solution to An Enigma of Russia
Router Techniques: A Woodworker's Guide by Kevin Harris
English | 1998 | ISBN: 185223993X | 130 pages | PDF | 102 MB
This manual of routing techniques is designed to introduce the novice to basic router skills and suggest new ways of using the tool for more experienced woodworkers. Topics covered include: practical advice on buying a router; materials and cutters to use; use of jigs and templates; and workshop safety. The author also offers ideas for using the router outside the workshop.
Rick Steves Snapshot Madrid & Toledo by Rick Steves
English | January 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1641713283 | 329 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
With Rick Steves, Madrid and Toledo are yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted fromRick Steves Spainincludes:Rick's firsthand, up-to-date adviceon Madrid and Toledo's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist trapsTop sights and local experiences:Visit the masterpieces of the Prado Museum, explore the Royal Palace, or admire the magnificent Toledo Cathedral. Chat with locals at lively tapas bar and sip authentic vermouth. Wander the medieval town of Ávila or take a rowboat through the lush Retiro ParkHelpful maps and self-guided walking toursto keep you on trackUpdated to reflectchangesthatoccurred during the Covid-19 pandemicup to the date of publicationWith selective coverage and Rick's trusted insight into the best things to do and see,Rick Steves Snapshot Madrid & Toledois truly a tour guide in your pocket.Exploring beyond Madrid and Toledo? Pick upRick Steves Spainfor comprehensive coverage, detailed itineraries, and essential information for planning a countrywide trip.
Retirement Planning Guidebook: Navigating the Important Decisions for Retirement Success (The Retirement Researcher's Guide) by Wade Pfau
English | September 5, 2021 | ISBN: 194564009X | 474 pages | MOBI | 13 Mb
TheRetirement Planning Guidebookhelps you navigate through the important decisions toprepare for your best retirement. You will have the detailed knowledge and understanding tomake smart retirement decisions:
Marc Stein, "Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415874106 | PDF | pages: 249 | 2.0 mb
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement.
Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru By Moises Arce
2014 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0822963094 | PDF | 8 MB
Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest level of protest participation in the region, Peru has been largely ignored in these discussions.In this groundbreaking study, Moisés Arce exposes a longstanding climate of popular contention in Peru. Looking beneath the surface to the subnational, regional, and local level as inception points, he rigorously dissects the political conditions that set the stage for protest. Focusing on natural resource extraction and its key role in the political economy of Peru and other developing countries, Arce reveals a wide disparity in the incidence, forms, and consequences of collective action. Through empirical analysis of protest events over thirty-one years, extensive personal interviews with policymakers and societal actors, and individual case studies of major protest episodes, Arce follows the ebb and flow of Peruvian protests over time and space to show the territorial unevenness of democracy, resource extraction, and antimarket contentions. Employing political process theory, Arce builds an interactive framework that views the moderating role of democracy, the quality of institutional representation as embodied in political parties, and most critically, the level of political party competition as determinants in the variation of protest and subsequent government response. Overall, he finds that both the fluidity and fragmentation of political parties at the subnational level impair the mechanisms of accountability and responsiveness often attributed to party competition.Thus, as political fragmentation increases, political opportunities expand, and contention rises. These dynamics in turn shape the long-term development of the state.Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru will inform students and scholars of globalization, market transitions, political science, contentious politics and Latin America generally, as a comparative analysis relating natural resource extraction to democratic processes both regionally and internationally.
Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom: Ritual Forms, Material Display, Historical Development (Archaeopress Egyptology, 36) by Angelo Colonna
English | Oct 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1789698219 | 242 pages | PDF | 18,6 MB
Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom presents an articulated historical interpretation of Egyptian 'animal worship' - intended as a segment of religious practice focused on the mobilisation of selected animals within strategically designed ritual contexts - from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom, and offers a new understanding of its chronological development through a fresh review of pertinent archaeological and textual data. The goal is twofold: (1) to re-conceptualise the notion of 'animal worship' on firm theoretical and material bases, reassessing its heuristic value as a tool for analysis; (2) to demonstrate, accordingly, that 'animal worship' did not represent a late degeneration of traditional religion, socially (popular cult) and thematically (animal mummies and burials) restricted, but a complex domain of religious practice with a longer history and a larger variety of configurations than usually assumed.
Ginger Garrett, "Reign: The Chronicles of Queen Jezebel"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1434765962 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 7.9 mb
Beyond the Drama, Her Heart Was Real
Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton (Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles) by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Maren Clegg Hyer
English | Nov 22, 2019 | ISBN: 1783274743 | 311 pages | PDF | 96 MB
All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and transformation of material items for purposes of religion, memorialisation, restoration and display; attempts to regulate dress, both ecclesiastical and secular, the reasons for it and the refashioning which was both a result and a reaction; conventional ways in which dress was used to characterise children, and their transition into young men; how symbolism-laded dress items could indicate political/religious affiliations; waysin which allegorical, biblical and historical figures were depicted in art in dress familiar to the viewers of their own era, and the emotive and intellectual responses to these costumes the artists sought to elicit; and the use of clothing in medieval literature (often rich, exotic or unique) as narrative, structuring and rhetorical devices.