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Free Download Matthew D. Lassiter, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs"
English | ASIN: B0CLVSW5J6 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~29:05:00 | 835 MB
Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.
In this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the "white middle-class victim" has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the "foreign trafficker," "urban pusher," and "predatory ghetto addict." He describes how the futile mission to safeguard and control white suburban youth shaped the enactment of the nation’s first mandatory-minimum drug laws in the 1950s, and how soaring marijuana arrests of white Americans led to demands to refocus on "real criminals" in inner cities.

Free Download Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against Covid-19 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMZ38293 | 2023 | 8 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Jerome M. Adams
Narrator: Leon Nixon
Hard truths and surprising insights about our COVID-19 response from America’s former top doctor. When COVID-19 began spreading rapidly, the world was taken by surprise. As the ensuing pandemic raged, we faced one constant-a lack of consistent, scientifically sound, and trusted information about dangers, risks, and mitigation strategies that the average person could understand and put into practice to keep themselves and their families safe. Politicians, opportunists, and agenda-driven media personalities spread misinformation for an array of purposes, leaving most of the public scratching their heads, wondering what was true and what wasn’t.

Free Download The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature By Jennifer Wenzel
2019 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0823286770 | PDF | 18 MB
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming.The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia, and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet, Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale.Impressive in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel’s book fuses insights from political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize movements for justice and livable futures.

Free Download Rethinking the BSE Crisis: A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty By Louise Cummings (auth.)
2010 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 9048195039 | PDF | 4 MB
In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations has sought to examine the reasoning of scientists during this critical period in the public health of the UK. Using concepts and techniques in informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory, this study reconstructs and evaluates the reasoning of scientists in the ten-year period between 1986 and 1996. Specifically, a form of presumptive reasoning is described in which extensive use is made of arguments traditionally identified as informal fallacies. In the context of the adverse epistemic conditions that confronted scientists during the BSE epidemic, these arguments were anything but fallacious, serving instead to confer a number of epistemic gains upon scientific inquiry. This book argues for a closer integration of philosophy with public health science, an integration that is exemplified by the case of scientific reasoning during the BSE affair. It will therefore be of interest to advanced students, academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of public health science and epidemiology, as well as philosophical disciplines such as informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory and epistemology.

Free Download 1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler’s Putsch by Mark William Jones
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1541600207 | 432 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
How Germany’s fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923-and how pro-democracy forces fought back

Free Download Meg Jacobs, "Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s"
English | 2016 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0809058472, 0809075075 | EPUB | 5,1 mb
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought

Free Download Ruth A. Miller, "Law in Crisis: The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster (The Cultural Lives of Law)"
English | 2009 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0804762562 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, in Law in Crisis Ruth Miller makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and that natural disaster is the endpoint to law. Developing an idiosyncratic but compelling new theory of legal and political existence, Miller challenges existing arguments that, whether valedictory or critical, have posited the rational, bounded self as the normative subject of law.

Free Download Jørgen Bruhn, "Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media "
English | ISBN: 1793653267 | 2023 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 25 MB + 9 MB

Free Download Vladimir Bortun, "Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe: The Radical Left’s Lost Decade"
English | ISBN: 3031391500 | 2023 | 347 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Free Download Harry V. Jaffa, "Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West"
English | 2012 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 1442217111 | EPUB | 7,4 mb
"Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I share with very few, if any." So writes Harry V. Jaffa in his epilogue to this volume. Including an extensive unpublished essay entitled "Straussian Geography: A Memoir and Commentary," Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years since Strauss’s death. The volume includes arguments of those who have disagreed with Jaffa about Strauss’s teaching and about the nature of political philosophy. These wide ranging exchanges explore many of the great themes of political philosophy and, in particular, the implications of Strauss’s thinking for America and modern civilization.