The Powers of Pure Reason: Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy by Alfredo Ferrarin
English | April 14, 2015 | ISBN: 022624315X, 022641938X | True EPUB | 352 pages | 0.6 MB
The Critique of Pure Reason―Kant's First Critique―is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise, Kant's oeuvre as a whole has been compartmentalized, the three Critiques held in rigid isolation from one another. Working against the standard reading of Kant that such compartmentalization has produced, The Powers of Pure Reason explores forgotten parts of the First Critique in order to find an exciting, new, and ultimately central set of concerns by which to read all of Kant's works.

Tessa Jowell, "The Power of Politicians "
English | ISBN: 1912208075 | 2018 | 120 pages | EPUB | 131 KB
The Power of Politicians takes readers inside the workings of Parliament via an autobiographical account of Tessa Jowell's own experience of entering politics as an MP. Jowell offers fascinating insights into the workings of Parliament and sheds light on the successful pathways for developing policy into final legislation. The details of the inner workings of politics are interwoven with a powerful personal narrative, as Jowell offers a firsthand account of the role of women in contemporary political life.

Nick Robinson, "The Power of Journalists "
English | ISBN: 1912208253 | 2019 | 90 pages | EPUB | 103 KB
We live in a profoundly challenging era for journalists. While the profession has historically taken on the mantle of providing clear, sound information to the public, journalists now face competition from dubious sources online and smear campaigns launched by public figures. In The Power of Journalists, four of the United Kingdom's foremost journalists-Nick Robinson, Barbara Speed, Charlie Beckett, and Gary Gibbon-give on-the-ground accounts of how they've weathered some of the most significant political events of the past five years, including the referendum on Scottish independence and Brexit. These monumental political decisions exposed each journalist to the dangerous vicissitudes of public opinion, and made them all the more certain of their mission. In describing the role of the journalist as truth-teller and protector of impartiality as well as interpreter of controversial facts and trusted source of public opinion, they issue a clarion call for good journalism.

Carlos Quiñonez, "The Politics of Dental Care in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773382675 | 2021 | 404 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Filling a gap in the health policy literature, author and dental public health specialist Dr. Carlos Quiñonez explores the complexities surrounding Canada's dental care system and policies, including how they came to be, their consequences, and what they mean for oral health and access to dental care.

Catarina Kinnvall, "The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West"
English | ISBN: 0199747547 | 2011 | 240 pages | PDF | 1198 KB
In an increasingly globalized world, there are new economic, strategic, cultural, and political forces at work. The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West explores how these shifts and shocks have influenced the way in which Muslim minorities in western countries form their identities as political actors. Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking uncover three identity strategies adopted by Muslims in the West: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. Six western countries - Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - serve as places for exploration of the emergence of these Muslim political identities. These countries are discussed in light of their colonial histories, patterns of immigration, and citizenship regimes.

The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich by Fritz Trümpi, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
English | November 7, 2016 | ISBN: 022625139X, 022676026X | True EPUB | 344 pages | 2.9 MB
This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trümpi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in the larger political constellation.

Jean-Paul Brodeur, "The Policing Web "
English | ISBN: 0199740593 | 2010 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Nearly all research devoted to policing focuses on public uniformed police and their legal use of force. An overwhelming amount of this work draws on evidence from Anglo-American police forces. These twin emphases have led to a limited view. Agencies such as criminal investigation units, intelligence services, private security companies, and military policing organizations have almost entirely escaped scholarly attention.

The Poetics of Sight (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) By John Harvey
2015 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 3034307233 | PDF | 14 MB
«Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind's eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize the process of visualization. The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex sight within the metaphors of Shakespeare, Pope and Dickens; and within the visual metaphors of Picasso, Magritte and Bacon. This book explores the difference between the great and the failed works of the supreme poet-painter, William Blake, and tracks the migrations of the Satiric muse between verbal mockery and scabrous images in Persius, Pope, Gillray and Gogol. It records the rise, and partial decline, of the vividly «seen» novel in Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Proust and Hardy. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which in the twentieth century acquired overarching importance: in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes, in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida. The book closes with a far-reaching definition of visual metaphor and with the great visual metaphor of the human body.

Filip Bondy, "The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476777187, 1476777179 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 37.0 mb
The New York Times bestseller-"a rollicking account" (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history's most absurd and entertaining controversies.

The Origins of the First World War 4th Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003306733 | 405 pages | True PDF | 4.73 MB
This thoroughly revised edition has been updated to incorporate recent case studies, biographies, syntheses, journal articles and scholarly conferences that appeared in conjunction with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014.