Tag: Century

Free Download Evelleen Richards, "Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of"
English | ISBN: 0367501821 | 2022 | 356 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 10 MB
Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the highly politicised roles of embryos and monsters in pre- and post- Darwinian evolutionary theorizing, including Darwin’s; several studies of the intersection of Darwinian science and its practitioners with issues of gender, race and sexuality, featuring a pioneering contextual analysis of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and explorations of responses to Darwinian science by notable Victorian women intellectuals, including the crusading anti-feminist and ardent Darwinian, Eliza Lynn Linton, the feminist and leading anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe, and Annie Besant, the bible-bashing, birth-control advocate who confronted Darwin’s opposition to contraception at the notorious Knowlton Trial.

Free Download Laura Rival, "Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador: Treks into the Future of Time"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 081650119X | PDF | pages: 352 | 4.0 mb
The indigenous people of the Amazon Basin known as the Huaorani are one of the world’s most intriguing peoples. The community of just under four thousand in Ecuador has been known to the public primarily for their historical identity as a violent society. But Laura Rival reveals the Huaorani in all their humanity and creativity through a longitudinal ethnography, bringing a deeper perspective beyond the stereotype.

Free Download S. A. Lloyd, "Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 1107000599 | 2012 | 353 pages | AZW3 | 687 KB
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes’s political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy, and the design of positive law, among others. The volume’s contributors include both Hobbes specialists and philosophers bringing their expertise to consideration of Hobbes’s texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.

Free Download Georg G. Iggers, "Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge"
English | ISBN: 0819567663 | 2005 | 198 pages | AZW3 | 517 KB
A broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.

Free Download Globalization in the 21st Century by Manfred B. Steger Professor of Global Politics University of Hawai’i-Manoa
English | January 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1538179725 | 230 pages | MOBI | 1.56 Mb
The fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of "deglobalization" exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are global in nature. This book provides an accessible assessment of 21st-century globalization that draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, higher education, demographics, human development, and the environment. Assembling such a big picture of globalization in this young century supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path.

Free Download Manfred B. Steger Professor of Global Politics University of Hawai’i-Manoa, "Globalization in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 1538179733 | 2024 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
The fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of "deglobalization" exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are

Free Download Balmiki Prasad Singh, "Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace in the 21st Century"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032011386, 036714686X | EPUB | pages: 332 | 1.1 mb
This book examines a wide range of issues that are expected to play a dominant role in shaping the 21st century. Delineating key concerns in geopolitics, democracy and peace, it studies the functions and influences of educational institutions, progressive religious and social groups, communities, international institutions such as the United Nations (UN); and forums promoting inter-faith dialogue. The author underscores how the century may be forged by a pluralist ethos: multiple and diverse nation states, centres of power, faiths, cultures, economies, and languages. He stresses the need to nurture moral strength and enlightened leadership for a life of compassion, peace and holistic development.

Free Download Nurit Kliot, David Newman, "Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Changing World Political Map"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0714650552, 0714681067 | EPUB | pages: 300 | 1.1 mb
An excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social order

Free Download Thomas Piketty, "Capital in the Twenty First Century"
English | ISBN: 067443000X | 2014 | 704 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
A New York Times #1 Bestseller

Free Download Robert E. Gallman, Paul W. Rhode, Claudia Goldin, "Capital in the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 022682103X, 022663311X | PDF | pages: 397 | 3.5 mb
Gives permanence and context to Gallman’s influential economic research on growth theory.