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Free Download Matthew Dermody, "Gray Man: Camouflage for Crowds, Cities, and Civil Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1976351189 | 2017 | 132 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Gray Man is the antithesis of individual expression. He hides in the corners of conformity. He only flaunts a quotidian nature. He meanders through the mundane and occupies the ordinary. Individual expression and exceptionalism are his enemies. The Gray Man is the forgettable face, the ghost guy, the hidden human. Implementing the concepts is more than looking less tactical, less hostile, or less threatening. It is the willful abandonment of anything and everything that defines oneself as different. Using his unique "S" word conceptual approach featured in Appear to Vanish, camouflage and concealment expert Matthew Dermody discusses the concepts, tactics and mindset necessary to assimilate into any urban environment. From the safety-conscious international traveler to the SERE contingencies of the deep cover foreign operative, GRAY MAN is the definitive urban concealment resource.

Free Download Joy James, "Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons"
English | ISBN: 0745350488 | 2024 | 144 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various items of equipment available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags, to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarisation has, unsurprisingly, been shown to unjustly impact on Black communities and is associated with increased killings by police . No wonder there have been calls to ‘defund the police’ echoing across the streets of America.

Free Download Jane S. Gerber, "Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1904113303 | PDF | pages: 330 | 6.0 mb
Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact in the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form. Significantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and culture―half of them under Christian rule and half under Muslim rule―and this too shaped the Sephardi world-view and attitude. While Sephardim cultivated a distinctive identity, they felt at home in the cultures of their adopted lands. Drawing upon a variety of both primary and secondary sources, Jane Gerber demonstrates that Sephardi history and culture have always been multifaceted. Her interdisciplinary approach captures the many contexts in which the life of the Jews from Iberia unfolded, without either romanticizing the past or diluting its reality.

Free Download Joshua K. Leon, "World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire"
English | ISBN: 1009444999 | 2024 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century ‘golden age.’ He provides a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of significant periods in history, showing how global networks have shaped everyday life. Alongside grand architecture, art and literature, these extraordinary places also innovated ways to exert control over far-flung hinterlands, the labor of their citizens, and rigid class, race and gender divides. Asking what it meant for ordinary people to live in Athens, Rome, Chang’an, or Baghdad – those who built and fed these cities, not just their rulers – he offers one of the few fully rendered applications of world cities theory to historical cases. The result is not only vividly detailed and accessible, but an intriguing and theoretically original contribution to urban history.

Free Download Rock-cut Architecture and Underground Cities in Koramaz Valley of Kayseri, Turkey by Ali Yamaç
English | March 29, 2023 | ISBN: 3031293738 | 177 pages | MOBI | 29 Mb
In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail. The valley; located in eastern Turkey near the town of Kayseri, has hundreds of rock-cut structures, in addition to several underground cities, and almost none of them have been studied before. Research conducted by a team from 2014 to 2020, resulted in this overview of all the rock-cut and underground structures in and around seven different settlements in the valley and aims for the physical documentation and inventory of all these structures.

Free Download Josef W. Konvitz, "Cities and crisis"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0719099641, 1784992909 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 0.4 mb
Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience.

Free Download Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 3: The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart City Applications by Mohamed Ben Ahmed
English | PDF | 2020 | 1284 Pages | ISBN : 3030376281 | 139.51 MB
This book highlights original research and recent advances in various fields related to smart cities and their applications. It gathers papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Smart City Applications (SCA19), held on October 2-4, 2019, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Free Download Samuel Avery-Quinn, "Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America "
English | ISBN: 1498576540 | 2019 | 340 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of religious retreat in that most traditional of Methodist theaters: the camp meeting. Samuel Avery-Quinn examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first Century. These transformations are a window into the religious worlds of middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

Free Download Bas Von Benda-Beckmann, "German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities: The Contested Air War "
English | ISBN: 9089647813 | 2015 | 292 pages | PDF | 1470 KB
Today, strategic aerial bombardments of urban areas that harm civilians, at times intentionally, are becoming increasingly common in global conflicts. This book reveals the history of these tactics as employed by nations that initiated aerial bombardments of civilians after World War I and during World War II. As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing left a strong imprint on German society. Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at whether the history of the air war forms a counternarrative against the idea of German collective guilt. Provocative and unflinching, this study offers a valuable contribution to German historiography.

Free Download Theo Engelen, "Two Cities One Life: The Demography of Lu-Kang and Nijmegen, 1850-1945 "
English | ISBN: 905260214X | 2008 | 288 pages | PDF | 583 KB
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