Tag: Fight

Free Download Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music"
English | ISBN: 0226923002 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I’d Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics, from the nineteenth-century rise of fiddler-politicians to more recent figures like Pappy O’Daniel, Roy Acuff, and Rob Quist. These performers and politicians both rode and resisted cultural waves: some advocated for the poor and dispossessed, and others voiced religious and racial anger, but they all walked the line between exploiting their celebrity and righteously taking on the world. La Chapelle vividly shows how country music campaigners have profoundly influenced the American political landscape.

Free Download How Drones Fight: How Small Drones are Revolutionizing Warfare
by Lars Celander
English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1636244599 | 172 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb

Free Download Clementine Ford, "Fight Like A Girl Gift Edition"
English | ISBN: 1760527017 | 2018 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 541 KB
Personal and fearless – a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.

Free Download Peter Duggan-Smith, Raymond Eagle, "Don’t Tell My Mother: How to Fight War on Your Own Terms"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0919614752 | EPUB | pages: 313 | 2.5 mb
Peter Duggan-Smith was born in 1916 to an actress mother. As she was always on the move he was brought up by two maiden aunts until he was accepted to train for a sea-going career on the cadet ship H.M.S. Conway. It was on the last of several voyages to New Zealand as a Merchant Navy apprentice that his life of adventure began ― though it did not always turn out as he had planned! The one constant in Peter’s life was his love of flying; by the end of his final flight in Cambodia in 1974, he had racked up more than 17,000 flying hours-in no less than 70 types of piston-engine aircraft. Peter was small in stature, but a giant among adventurers, with a rare ability to take the reader along with him through his many escapades.

Free Download Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power by Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Trere
English | February 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262547422 | 256 pages | MOBI | 2.39 Mb
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.

Free Download Jennifer Zeng, "Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong"
English | 2005 | pages: 367 | ISBN: 1741144000 | PDF | 1,1 mb
One woman’s harrowing story of imprisonment and survival in the face of the Chinese government’s persecution of Falun GongOn May 23,2000, the Chinese government sentenced Jennifer Zeng to reeducation through forced labor. Her fellow inmates were drug addicts, prostitutes, and traffickers in pornography. Jennifer’s only crime was her belief in the three tenets of Falun Gong: Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

Free Download The Fight over Digital Rights: The Politics of Copyright and Technology By Bill D. Herman
2013 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 1107015979 | PDF | 3 MB
In the political fight over copyright, Internet advocacy has reshaped the playing field. This was shown most dramatically in the 2012 "SOPA blackout," when the largest online protest in history stopped two copyright bills in their tracks. For those not already familiar with the debate, this protest seemingly came out of nowhere yet was the culmination of an intellectual and political evolution more than a decade in the making. This book examines the debate over digital copyright, from the late 1980s through early 2012, and the new tools of political communication involved in the advocacy around the issue. Drawing on methods from legal studies, political science, and communications, it explores the rise of a coalition seeking more limited copyright, as well as how these early-adopting, technology-savvy policy advocates used online communication to shock the world. It compares key bills, congressional debates, and offline and online media coverage using quantitative and qualitative methods to create a rigorous study for researchers that is also accessible to a general audience.

Free Download Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking By Eugene S. Robinson
2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0061189227 | EPUB | 22 MB
Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn’t get any better than this." -Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That’s the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson’s Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into the all-absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former body-builder, one-time bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur – takes readers on a no-holds-barred plunge into what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. If George Plimpton had muscles and had been choked out one too many times–this is the book he could have written. When Robinson and his fellow fighters mix it up, they live completely for the moment: absorbed in the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. They fight because it feels good. They fight because they want to win. And even if they get their asses kicked, they fight because they love fighting. Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory. Robinson’s narrative – told in his trademark tough-guy, stream-of-consciousness noir voice – punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting world. From wrestling, jiu-jitsu, boxing and muay thai to bar fighting, hand-to-hand combat, prison fighting and hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a scene-by-scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting. With his aficionado’s enthusiasm and fast-paced, addictive voice, Robinson’s Fight combines compelling text with beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy and interesting as it is gorgeous.

Free Download Marilyn Greenwald, "Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice"
English | ISBN: 0823293734 | 2021 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
2022 BIOGRAPHY CATEGORY WINNER FOR PROSE AWARDS

Free Download William Casey Baker, "Britain’s War for the Mediterranean: The Fight against Revolutionary France"
English | ISBN: 1682479250 | 2024 | 360 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality of British affairs. These contradictions manifested themselves in the War of the First Coalition as Great Britain attempted to build consensus in the Mediterranean World while clinging to its power base of naval power and commerce. The book explores the decisions of individuals and the wider trends of the British political and naval system, honed over the course of the eighteenth century. In explaining war against Revolutionary France, the book follows the decisions of admirals, diplomats, and politicians in attempting to cobble together a coalition of Spanish, Austrian, Sardinian, and Neapolitan forces. This book also makes connections with the other theaters of war: The Austrian Netherlands and the Caribbean.