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The War Against Germany Europe and Adjacent Areas (Classics To Go)


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English | February 9, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BVBNJMWK | 502 pages | EPUB | 45 Mb
The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas is a book written by Kenneth E. Hunter. It’s likely a historical account or analysis of World War II, with a focus on the conflict in Europe and neighboring areas. The book provides an in-depth examination of the events, strategies, and outcomes of the war, and offers a comprehensive overview of the war effort in this region. The book aims to provide historical context, critical analysis, and an appreciation of the scale and impact of the war in Europe and adjacent areas.

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Economy for and Against Democracy


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English | ISBN: 1782388443 | 2015 | 278 pages | PDF | 872 KB
Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They explore how our collective aspirations for greater democracy might be informed by serious empirical research on the human economy today. If we want a better world, we must act on existing social realities.

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Germans Against Nazism Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann


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English | ISBN: 178238815X | 2015 | 464 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance ranging from symbolic acts of disobedience to organized assassination attempts, and looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservatives, communists, socialists, and the military all defied the regime in their own ways.

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Mothers Against War Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan


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English | ISBN: 0824898532 | 2025 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in the decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, generally understood to be the "motherly" qualities that are supposedly inherent to women, the book illuminates how popular perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child relationship gradually evolved to create the image that mothers, more than anyone else, protect children from war. This image did not result simply from a mothers’ desire to keep their children safe, nor was it the outcome of the Japanese experience of the Asia-Pacific War in which many mothers became widowed or lost their children. Through the examination of five instances of peace activism that took place between 1945 and 1980, Mothers Against War

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Hubris The Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine


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English | September 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1804548227 | 400 pages | PDF | 5.55 Mb
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began long before that historic date.

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Against Value in the Arts and Education (Disruptions)


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783484896 | PDF | pages: 448 | 27.1 mb
Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art’s defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people’s lives lived in an "audit culture", a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability.

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Wellington Against Massena The Third Invasion of Portugal, 1810-1811


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English | ISBN: 1526752530 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Wellington’s clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable generals carried on a campaign of maneuver, battle and attrition across Spain and Portugal in 1810 and 1811 which had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. Wellington’s reputation was enhanced, Massena’s was ruined.

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The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 0817949429, 0817949410 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.8 mb
With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impact that it will have on the workplace and the overall economy. InThe Case against the Employee Free Choice Act, Richard Epstein examines this proposed legislation and why it is a large step backward in labor relations that will work to the detriment of employees, employers, and the public at large.

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