Tag: Abandonment

Free Download Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment
by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1789149118 | 257 Pages | PDF | 3.2 MB

Free Download Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 082235084X | 2011 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 732 KB
In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the global distribution of life and death, hope and harm, and endurance and exhaustion not merely sensible but also just. She presents new ways of conceptualizing formations of power in late liberalism-the shape that liberal governmentality has taken as it has responded to a series of legitimacy crises in the wake of anticolonial and new social movements and, more recently, the "clash of civilizations" after September 11. Based on longstanding ethnographic work in Australia and the United States, as well as critical readings of legal, academic, and activist texts, Povinelli examines how alternative social worlds and projects generate new possibilities of life in the context of ordinary and extraordinary acts of neglect and surveillance. She focuses particularly on social projects that have not yet achieved a concrete existence but persist at the threshold of possible existence. By addressing the question of the endurance, let alone the survival, of alternative forms of life, Povinelli opens new ethical and political questions.

Free Download Derek Wood – Project cancelled: A searching criticism of the abandonment of Britain’s advanced aircraft projects
Macdonald and Jane’s | 1975 | ISBN: 0356081095 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 148.98 MB
A good introduction to the rarer and less known aspects of British aviation. What could have been had the right choices been made, but never was.

Free Download Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Laura A. Spates – contributor, Janet Metzger (Narrator), "Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm"
English | ASIN: B0CP69VV2N | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~17:11:00 | 501 MB
Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation’s deadliest firestorms swept over California’s Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism. Headlines blamed caregivers for abandonment and neglect, but the truth proved far more complex.
Inflamed is the gripping and emotional narrative detailing what happened to these seniors, employees, and rescuers before, during, and after the Tubbs Fire decimated portions of Santa Rosa, including Oakmont Senior Living Villa Capri and part of Varenna at Fountaingrove. Anne Belden and Paul Gullixson are professional journalists and Sonoma County residents who spent three years recording each phase of the disaster in agonizing detail-from the botched evacuation and its excruciating aftermath to the investigations, lawsuits, and breakdowns that followed. They tell this harrowing story with a veracity and compassion only achieved by experienced reporters with local roots.

Free Download Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Laura A. Spates – contributor, Janet Metzger (Narrator), "Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm"
English | ASIN: B0CP69VV2N | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~17:11:00 | 501 MB
Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation’s deadliest firestorms swept over California’s Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism. Headlines blamed caregivers for abandonment and neglect, but the truth proved far more complex.
Inflamed is the gripping and emotional narrative detailing what happened to these seniors, employees, and rescuers before, during, and after the Tubbs Fire decimated portions of Santa Rosa, including Oakmont Senior Living Villa Capri and part of Varenna at Fountaingrove. Anne Belden and Paul Gullixson are professional journalists and Sonoma County residents who spent three years recording each phase of the disaster in agonizing detail-from the botched evacuation and its excruciating aftermath to the investigations, lawsuits, and breakdowns that followed. They tell this harrowing story with a veracity and compassion only achieved by experienced reporters with local roots.

Free Download Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
English | December 23, 2021 | ISBN: 000832980X | 341 pages | PDF | 9.34 Mb
THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR