Carina Gallo, "Victim Support and the Welfare State "
English | ISBN: 036778632X | 2021 | 166 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB
This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim support. With the majority of research on victim support centering on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice system. While Sweden has enacted many laws to support victims, and victim assistance programs have grown rapidly, welfare policy has become more restrictive and crime policy, to some degree, more punitive.

David Amram, "Vibrations: A Memoir"
English | ISBN: 1594517061 | 2009 | 528 pages | EPUB | 1535 KB
David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as "the Renaissance man of American Music." Amram and Jack Kerouac collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading in New York City in 1957 as well as the subsequent legendary film Pull My Daisy in 1959, combining Amram's music with Kerouac's narration. Amram, honored as the first Composer-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic, has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson, Nancy Griffith, Johnny Depp, and more. Vibrations is the story of one boy's adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the U.S. Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East Side, day-laboring-often down but never out-finally emerging as a major musical force. With its stage-setting foreword by Douglas Brinkley and a new afterword by Kerouac biographer Audrey Sprenger, this new edition is not to be missed.

Choire Sicha, "Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year "
English | ISBN: 0061914312 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 266 KB
Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power-in search of love and connection.

Veronica Lake, "Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake"
English | ISBN: 191305473X | 2020 | 225 pages | EPUB | 390 KB
"What a sense you have for finding trouble and entering into it."

Dominic Colvert, "Venture into the Stratosphere: Flying the First Jetliners"
English | ISBN: 1683507932 | 2018 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Aviation in the 1950s was a positive, exciting sequel to the most destructive war in history. It gave birth to the jet age for passengers, fostering remarkable social changes. Venture into the Stratosphere is a memoir about the exhilaration and challenges in flying the first jetliners. It brings to life a story of diverse elements, such as technical matters in layman's terms, a love story, social interactions, engineering philosophy, the post-war ethos, and the intimate details of the flight deck in routine flying and emergency situations. Readers enjoy the stories that make all

James Stewart, "Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism "
English | ISBN: 1138802166 | 2015 | 224 pages | EPUB | 658 KB
Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage vegetarianism and most Buddhists do not practice it. Using research based on ethnographic evidence and interviews, this book discusses this issue by presenting an investigation of vegetarianism and animal ethics within a Buddhist cultural domain.

Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites By Nadira Jenkins-El
2020 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 1646117212 | PDF | 9 MB
Soul food goes vegan―101 plant-based takes on comfort food classics If you love classic soul food but are hungry for options that don't rely on meat or dairy, the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook is here to delight your taste buds. It's full of mouthwatering, plant-based versions of comforting favorites like Gumbo, Biscuits and Gravy, and Cajun Fried "Chicken" that are totally vegan but still hearty, delicious, and satisfying. This vegan soul food cookbook features: Authentic flavors for everyone―Dig in to 101 modern twists on soul food staples that use only wholesome, plant-based ingredients. Easy and accessible―These recipes only include vegan ingredients that are affordable, easy to find, and easy to prepare at home. The vegan basics―Get a crash course in what it means to go vegan, how it helps your health (and the environment), and the fundamentals of veganizing comfort foods.Savor a new take on beloved soul food favorites with the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook.

Lakshmi Subramanian, "Veena Dhanammal: The Making of a Legend "
English | ISBN: 1138178748 | 2017 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India, as a process of urbanisation ― beginning in the late nineteenth century ― resulted in Karnatik music's movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern, secular form of entertainment in the city space.

Barbara Celarent, "Varieties of Social Imagination"
English | ISBN: 022643396X | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1242 KB
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent's short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe-from India, Brazil, and China to South Africa, Turkey, and Peru. . . and occasionally the United States and Europe.

Berni Kelly, "Valuing Disabled Children and Young People: Research, policy, and practice"
English | ISBN: 1138687081 | 2016 | 184 pages | EPUB | 935 KB
Focusing on contemporary childhood disability issues, and relevant to the lived experiences of disabled children and young people and their families, this book addresses themes such as transition, identity, education, inclusion, and service provision. It also includes insightful contributions on participatory research and practice with disabled children and young people, including an emphasis on capability, voice, and communicative spaces for those with life limiting and more severe levels of impairment.