Dominick LaCapra, "Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts"
English | ISBN: 1501724894 | 2018 | 204 pages | EPUB | 349 KB
To what extent do we and can we understand others―other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid such questions? And have these questions become particularly pressing and not in the least confined to other peoples, times, and places?
Agustin Maciel-Padilla, "Understanding Mexico's Security Conundrum "
English | ISBN: 0367424126 | 2020 | 106 pages | EPUB | 136 KB
Unlike other analyses which aim to explain the notion of national security in Mexico and at the same time address the security challenges facing the country, this short text describes the distinction between national, internal and public security in Mexico. It is the first book to provide detailed analysis on Mexico's security policy and its long-term consequences.
Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century: CCG Global Dialogues
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811938458 | 226 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thomas M. Kane, "Understanding Contemporary Strategy Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1138059471 | 2019 | 362 pages | EPUB | 727 KB
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to modern strategy, covering the context, theory, and practice of military strategy in all its different forms.
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "Understanding Contemporary Air Power"
English | ISBN: 1138393800 | 2020 | 218 pages | EPUB | 741 KB
This book aims to explain air power to both military and civilian audiences in an accessible manner, approaching the topic in a balanced and systematic way.
Matthew Johnson, "Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality "
English | ISBN: 1501748580 | 2020 | 336 pages | EPUB | 443 KB
Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.
Michael Bonura, "Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War "
English | ISBN: 0814709427 | 2012 | 318 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations.
Rhona Seidelman, "Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate"
English | ISBN: 1978808372 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 947 KB
Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold,
Bobby Benedicto, "Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0816691088, 081669107X | PDF | pages: 236 | 2.1 mb
Gay-friendly dance clubs, upmarket bars, and party circuits-such commercial venues evoke the image of a gay globe, but what happens when they are bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay? Vividly describing this world of contradictions through the prism of twenty-first-century Manila, Under Bright Lights challenges popular interpretations of the "third world queer" as a necessarily radical figure.
Barbara Gibby, "Uncle Ted: A G.I.'s Journal of World War II"
English | ISBN: 1647537479 | 2021 | 372 pages | EPUB | 1000 KB
Barbara Gibby's passion for documenting the lives of family members is only surpassed by her unerring sense of history. In this exciting narrative, she faithfully follows Uncle Ted from the day he was drafted into the army in 1941 to the end of WWII. During this young G.I.'s tour of duty he had several assignments. He served as a gunner with the Air Corps in B-17s as well as driving a fast truck for the Red Ball Express, which was the hot line transportation outfit that delivered vital supplies to the front lines in Europe. But in November 1944 Ted was on his way to England, and only one month later, parachuted into the Siegfried Line at the Belgium-German border. As soon as he touched the ground, he found himself in one of the bloodiest battles of the European Theatre of War, The Battle of the Bulge. For the next five months he would chronicle the worst, terror-filled experiences of his life and this is his story, a true reflection of an American G.I.