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Free Download Tom Head, "Civil Liberties: A Beginner’s Guide (Beginner’s Guides)"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1851686444 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.9 mb
In a country famous for having the most CCTVs in the world, how safe are your rights?

Free Download Thomas J Kerr, "Civil Defense In The United States: Bandaid For A Holocaust?"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0865315868, 036716972X | EPUB | pages: 268 | 1.1 mb
This book traces the endeavor in U.S. to develop a means of protecting the people from the effects of nuclear war. It shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology.

Free Download Lorenzo Fioramonti, "Citizens vs. Markets: How Civil Society is Rethinking the Economy in a Time of Crises"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415721652, 0415830168 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.7 mb
After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The ‘double dip’ has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of ‘markets’) and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.

Free Download James L Nelson, "Thieves of Mercy: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea"
English | 2005 | pages: 481 | ISBN: 0060199709 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders – take command of an ironclad warship being built in Memphis, Tennessee.

Free Download Civil Engineering, Material and Smart Buildings: New Technologies in Cities’ Infrastructures
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031765567 | 324 Pages | PDF (True) | 70 MB
As cities continue to grow and evolve, the challenges of building sustainable, resilient, and efficient urban environments have never been greater. This comprehensive volume presents cutting-edge research and innovative solutions in the fields of construction, materials science, and civil engineering. With contributions from leading experts and researchers, this book explores the transformative role of new technologies, sustainable materials, and advanced methodologies in shaping the future of cities worldwide.

Free Download David Herbert Donald, "Why the North Won the Civil War"
English | ISBN: 0684825066 | | 128 pages | EPUB | 404 KB
In this classic exploration of the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald and author of Lincoln assembles insightful and probing essays from six of America’s most distinguished historians.

Free Download This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth
English | April 16, 2011 | ISBN: 0742551849 | 424 pages | PDF | 6.08 Mb
Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely.

Free Download Zbigniew Rau, "The Reemergence Of Civil Society In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367310937, 0367295474 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.7 mb
The turmoil that shook Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and challenged traditional centers of power in the Soviet Union has touched off an intense debate about the forces behind the recent collapse of Soviet-type systems. Civil society, a key concept in the debate, is the focus of this thought-provoking volume, which contrasts the views of Eastern scholars and activists in independent movements against those of Western academics. The authors’ various perspectives on the struggle between the people and their governments highlight different facets of civil society, providing new insights into its definition, origin, and function within a nation’s public life.

Free Download Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos, "Reproducing Citizens: family, state and civil society"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138942294, 113809899X | EPUB | pages: 106 | 0.3 mb
Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations.

Free Download Stefano Recchia, "Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0801452910 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.7 mb
Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia draws on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders to illuminate little-known aspects of U.S. decision making in the run-up to those interventions. American leaders, he argues, seek UN or NATO approval to facilitate sustained military and financial burden sharing and ensure domestic support. However, the most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders in Washington tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. In these circumstances, America’s senior generals and admirals-as reluctant warriors who worry about Vietnam-style quagmires-can play an important restraining role, steering U.S. policy toward multilateralism.