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Free Download J. P. Linstroth, "Marching against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland"
English | ISBN: 0739125214 | 2015 | 318 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Marching against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland begins with the question: why is it so problematic for the majority of people in the Basque town of Hondarribia to accept the broader participation of women in their annual military march known as the Alarde? To explain this dispute, this study examines local history as well as the history of this unique parade, but most importantly considers how gender practices were and are organized. The controversy to extend female involvement in the Alarde resulted in two positions between betikoak traditionalists, (Betiko Alardearen Aldekoak, "Always the Town’s Alarde"), and local "feminists" (emakumealdekoak or Emakumeak Juana Mugarrietakoa, the Women of Mugarrietakoa, WJM), the former group wishing to preserve the ritual and the latter wanting to change it. These are not simply dichotomous stances but represent multiple levels of local identity through differing concepts of gender, history, and social experience. It will be shown throughout the Alarde’s long history (1639-present) that it represents several periods of militarism from the town’s defense in 1638 against French forces, Napoleonic resistance (1808-1813) to the Carlist Wars (1833-1840 and 1872-1876). The Alarde began as a religious procession and gradually incorporated more and more secular elements. In essence, by the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Alarde became one of many "Basque celebrations" (Euskal jaiak), tying it to Basque nationalism.

Free Download Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat"
English | ISBN: 0774867876 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Responding to the activism of former Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence, this book explores what it means to be in a treaty relationship today.

Free Download Jonathan Owens, "Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics "
English | ISBN: 0192867512 | 2023 | 512 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a multiple pathways approach to Arabic language history. Arabic has multifarious sources: its relations to other Semitic languages, an old epigraphic and papyrological tradition, a vibrant and linguistically original classical Arabic linguistic tradition, and a widely dispersed array of contemporary spoken varieties. These diverse sources present a challenge to and an opportunity for defining a holistic but not necessarily linear Arabic language history.

Free Download Jonathan Owens, "Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics "
English | ISBN: 0192867512 | 2023 | 512 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a multiple pathways approach to Arabic language history. Arabic has multifarious sources: its relations to other Semitic languages, an old epigraphic and papyrological tradition, a vibrant and linguistically original classical Arabic linguistic tradition, and a widely dispersed array of contemporary spoken varieties. These diverse sources present a challenge to and an opportunity for defining a holistic but not necessarily linear Arabic language history.

Free Download Alasdair MacIntyre, "Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0268005869 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB

Free Download Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice: Rescuing Ronald Dworkin’s Legacy by Lesley A. Jacobs , Matthew McManus
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 140 Pages | ISBN : 3031453468 | 2.9 MB
This book covers how Liberal institutions – constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights – around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions. These post-liberal institutions are founded on the core conviction that the actions of liberal institutions including the United States Supreme Court are patently unjust. This volume makes the case against post-liberal courts and justice by reconnecting to the principles of moral equality and dignified freedom for all. The intention is to show how there is great untapped potential in the work of Ronald Dworkin’s work to demonstrate that it can help progressive liberals think through the great issues of the day and respond to the contemporary criticisms of the political right. The core themes are concretely illustrated by focusing on some of the most controversial recent post-liberal decisions of the Supreme Court, ranging from election funding to abortion to race-sensitive affirmative action, to economic inequality in an age of increasingly unequal opportunities.

Free Download Kevin F. Steinmetz, "Against Cybercrime "
English | ISBN: 1032235055 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book advances a theoretically informed realist criminology of computer crime. Looking beyond current strategies of online crime control, this book argues for a new sort of policy that addresses the root causes of computer crime and criminality, reduces the harms experienced by the victims of such crimes, and does not unduly contribute to state and corporate power and surveillance.

Free Download Danny Orbach, "The Descriptions Against Hitler"
English | 2016 | pages: 386 | ISBN: 0544714431, 1328745678, ASIN: B01912P2J6 | EPUB | 5,6 mb
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler’s dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged – soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians, even a carpenter – who would try repeatedly to end the Fuhrer’s genocidal reign. This dramatic and deeply researched book tells the full story of those noble, ingenious, and doomed efforts. This is history at its most suspenseful, as we witness secret midnight meetings, crises of conscience, fierce debates among old friends about whether and how to dismantle Nazism, and the various Descriptions themselves being devised and executed.

Free Download Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031490738 | 133 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society. It traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas and shows that these ideas form a collectivistic identity politics.

Free Download HUCK Magazine, Douglas Coupland, "Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels"
English | 2015 | pages: 152 | ISBN: 1452138060 | PDF | 55,7 mb
Nas on language, Cat Power on looking inward, Spike Jonze on loving what you do, and Kim Gordon on feeling the flow. These are just a few of the indie stars and surprising insights collected in this gorgeous book by Huck magazine. Since launching in 2006, Huck has been at the vanguard of London’s thriving independent publishing scene and has grown into an internationally distributed bi-monthly, with editions available on newsstands in 20 countries worldwide. Bringing together the best insights from over 60 of the most inspiring people Huck has spoken to over the years-along with exclusive photography and art that has come to embody Huck’s distinct aesthetic-this book presents a diverse range of truths, creative wisdom, and life lessons from those who paddle against the flow.