The Rime of the Modern Mariner By Nick Hayes
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0224090259 | PDF | 28 MB
Deep in a polluted city, a worker escapes his office for a sandwich on a park bench. But his moment's peace is shattered by a stranger - a seaman with a tale to tell...The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a recasting of Coleridge's famous poem - now, though, the fantastical voyage is one of environmental disaster. Stranded in the North Pacific Gyre - a vast, hypoxic maelstrom of plastic waste - the mariner comes face to face with the consequences of man's excessive consumption - in the form of wrathful gods, petroleum slicks and tsunamis, ghostly apparitions, and the great endangered creatures of the deep. Crackling with moral force, humour and pure craftsmanship, The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a beautiful book which confronts directly the burning issue of our time.
The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks: A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic by Umberto Cavallaro
English | EPUB | 2018 | 349 Pages | ISBN : 3319921525 | 352.1 MB
The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies.
The Quintessential Guide To Bushcraft For Novices And Starters by MIA LEMAY
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8TQ1WHT | 88 pages | EPUB | 0.17 Mb
Buѕhсrаft іѕ the use аnd рrасtісе оf ѕkіllѕ, thеrеbу асԛuіrіng аnd dеvеlоріng knоwlеdgе and undеrѕtаndіng, іn оrdеr tо ѕurvіvе аnd thrіvе in а nаturаl еnvіrоnmеnt.
The Quality of Hurt; The Early Years; the Autobiography of Chester Himes By Chester Himes
1995 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1560250933 | PDF | 12 MB
"This volume of my autobiography recounts all that memory retains of the forty-five years of my hurt. America hurt me terribly, whether rightly or wrongly is not the point. When I fought hack through writing it decided to kill me, whether because I was a degenerate ex-convict who refused to wear sackcloth and ashes, a Negro who refused to accept the Negro Problem as my own, a 'nigger' who would not conform to the existence prescribed for niggers, or a black man who pitied white women, I will never know. I do know that when America kills a nigger it expects him to remain dead. But I didn't know I was supposed to die. I still had hope. I still believed in the devil. But at age forty-five, while trying to make a white woman feel safe, I suddenly realized I had never been safe. Fear erased my hurt. I became afraid to live. Fortunately the desperate struggle for life informed me that the only place where I was safe was in my skin."--Jacket of volume 1.
Alan Brinkley, "The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0679414444 | EPUB | pages: 560 | 4.9 mb
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
Stephen Fishman, "The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More, 5 edition"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1413312055 | 462 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB
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Fathali M. Moghaddam, "The Psychology of Dictatorship"
English | ISBN: 1433812983 | 2013 | 255 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this book, Fathali M. Moghaddam presents his "springboard model" of dictatorship, derived from both a substantive analysis of the common structures underlying dictatorial regimes and his own personal experience of life in a modern dictatorship. He discusses the importance of psychological processes such as displacement of aggression, conformity, obedience, fear, and cognitive dissonance as tools that aid the development and maintenance of dictatorships, as well as the crucial role of ideology in cementing the allegiance of elites.
The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament By Tommy McKearney
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0745330754 | PDF | 14 MB
This book analyses the underlying reasons behind the formation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), its development, where this current in Irish republicanism is at present and its prospects for the future.Tommy McKearney, a former IRA member who was part of the 1980 hunger strike, challenges the misconception that the Provisional IRA was only, or even wholly, about ending partition and uniting Ireland. He argues that while these objectives were always the core and headline demands of the organisation, opposition to the old Northern Ireland state was a major dynamic for the IRA's armed campaign. As he explores the makeup and strategy of the IRA he is not uncritical, examining alternative options available to the movement at different periods, arguing that its inability to develop a clear socialist programme has limited its effectiveness and reach.This authoritative and engaging history provides a fascinating insight into the workings and dynamics of a modern resistance movement.
Karen Kelsky, "The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job"
English | ISBN: 0553419420 | 2015 | 448 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job
Robert B. Talisse, Scott F. Aikin, "The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0691137064, 0691137056 | EPUB | pages: 504 | 0.9 mb
A wide-ranging anthology of key pragmatist writings