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Free Download Hubris: The Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Jonathan Haslam
English | September 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804548227 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 4.58 MB
On February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of 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.

Free Download Fighting Back against Scams by Emilia Heber
English | March 1, 2024 | ISBN: 8891135445 | 227 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
In 2022, the top scam types reported to the Committee shared many similarities to those reported by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): imposter scams and prizes, sweepstakes, and lottery scams are both cited as some of the top reported categories. Though many of the same types of scams present themselves year after year, the methods through which scammers contact victims have diversified-Artificial Intelligence (AI) and social media now play a prominent role. Scammers are also using new payment methods, making losses difficult to trace. Gift cards are the main payment method used by scammers to request and steal money from older adults. In 2021, 27 percent of adults 60 and older who lost money paid a scammer using a gift card or a reloadable card. Peer-to-peer payment apps, like Zelle, Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal, are also increasingly used by scammers.

Free Download Paul Hurley, "Against the Tyranny of Outcomes"
English | ISBN: 0198899238 | 2024 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Outcomes tyrannize over prevailing accounts of ethics, actions, reasons, attitudes, and social practices. The right action promotes the best outcome, the end of every action is an outcome to be promoted, reasons to act are reasons to promote outcomes, and preferences and desires rationalize actions that aim at the outcome of realizing their contents. This book canvasses two sets of seemingly powerful arguments, the first that outcome-centered ethics cannot be wrong, the second that it cannot be right. It proceeds to undermine the arguments that outcome-centered ethics cannot be wrong, in the process providing additional support for the arguments that it cannot be right. The tyranny of outcomes in ethics is given its appearance of legitimacy by ethical arguments that trade on conflations obscured from view by appeal to non-ethical accounts that are in the grips of these very same conflations. Rooting out the mistaken grounding for outcome-centered ethics involves rooting out the outcome-centered accounts of value, attitudes, reasons, and actions upon which the case for outcome-centered ethics depends, along with the considerations that have been offered to support them. The ethical and intuitive arguments for outcome-centered ethics are implausible, the outcome-centered accounts of attitudes, reasons and actions that form the cornerstone of the non-ethical argument shoring up outcome-centered ethics are implausible, and the considerations offered to bolster such outcome-centered accounts either themselves turn on the same equivocations that undermine the ethical arguments, or depend upon highly controversial positions in metaphysics and the theory of action. The result is a comprehensive argument for rejecting these outcome-centered accounts, stepping outside of this toxic outcome-centered circle. The conclusion points to only a few of the many significant implications of this comprehensive rejection of the tyranny of outcomes, with particular focus upon our democratic and legal practices. It demonstrates that outcome-centered accounts lead agents away from the quest for good reasons of the right kind-for integrated and authentic agency, and towards appeal to the wrong kinds of reasons and to bad reasons of the right kind.

Free Download The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis
English | 7 Mar. 2002 | ISBN: 0099422220 | True EPUB | 528 pages | 0.5 MB
Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career.

Free Download The Secret War Against Red Russia: The Daring Exploits of Paul Dukes and Augustus Agar VC During the Russian Civil War by Brian Best
English | January 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1399090658 | 184 pages | PDF | 3.56 Mb
The Armistice of November 1918 ended four years of slaughter that left armies exhausted and populations weary of war – but the fighting was not over. In Russia, civil war and revolution had divided the nation and the Allies sought to intervene on behalf of the ‘White’ Russians against the Bolsheviks and this conflict continued long after the war had finished elsewhere in Europe.

Free Download Leigh A. Payne, "The Right against Rights in Latin America "
English | ISBN: 0197267394 | 2023 | 306 pages | PDF | 22 MB
From President Bolsonaro’s openly racist, misogynist, and homophobic rhetoric in Brazil, to the politicisation of gender ideology leading to the rejection of a peace deal in Colombia and beyond, Latin America is home to right-against-rights movements that have grown in numbers, strength, and influence in recent years. New anti-rights groups are intent on blocking, rolling back, and reversing social movements’ legislative advances by obstructing justice and accountability processes and influencing politicians across the region.

Free Download The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe by Vaclav Havel, John Keane
English | September 16th, 2016 | ISBN: 0873327616 | 228 pages | True EPUB | 2.16 MB
Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless.

Free Download The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
English | June 25th, 2024 | ISBN: 0393882004 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 9.02 MB
An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation * Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by the BBC, The Observer, Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Millions.

Free Download Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind by Riley Gaines
English | May 21st, 2024 | ISBN: 154600744X | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.81 MB
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Free Download Nick Basannavar, "Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse "
English | ISBN: 3030831477 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965. It explores the representational trail of the Moors murders and subsequent trial of 1966, the emergence of age of consent abolitionism in the 1970s, Cleveland’s child sexual abuse crisis of 1987-8, and 2010 and 20s contemplations on the Jimmy Savile scandal. Harnessing research into popular media forms and a huge range of personal, political and professional records, Nick Basannavar carefully parses and illustrates the ways in which journalists, medical workers, politicians, lobbyists and other groups assembled and animated their narratives, revealing complex rhetorical and emotional processes. This book challenges problematic conceptual dichotomies such as silence/noise or ignorance/knowledge. It shows instead that although categories such as ‘child sexual abuse’ and ‘paedophilia’ may be relatively recent linguistic value-constructs, sexual violence against children has existed and been represented across historical moments, in changeable and challenging ways.