Tag: Middle

Free Download Claire Mercer, "The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam"
English | ISBN: 0520402383 | 2024 | 220 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.

Free Download Ian Wood, "The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0198767498, 0199650489 | PDF | pages: 389 | 2.4 mb
The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often been drawn into a series of discourses that are more concerned with the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries than with the distant past.

Free Download Jesse Gellrich, "The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1501740709 | 2019 | 294 pages | AZW3 | 1531 KB
This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.

Free Download The Essential Middle Eastern Cookbook: Classic Recipes Made Easy by Michelle Anderson
English | May 19th, 2020 | ISBN: 1646116380 | 174 pages | True EPUB | 2.58 MB
Learn the basics of Middle Eastern cooking with 100 simple, authentic recipes

Free Download Anna Blennow, "Rome and The Guidebook Tradition: From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century"
English | ISBN: 3110610442 | 2019 | 3
65 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Free Download Glending Olson, "Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 150174674X | 2019 | 246 pages | AZW3 | 455 KB
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure―one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself―Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well.

Free Download A. R. Bridbury, "Economic Growth: England in the Later Middle Ages"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138647837, 1138647845 | EPUB | pages: 116 | 1.4 mb
First published in 1962, this book challenges the notion that the later Middle Ages failed to sustain the economic growth of earlier centuries, suggesting that historians have been preoccupied with absolute levels of output over more important questions of output per head. It also argues they have ignored the disastrous fall in living standards in the thirteenth century and the astonishing rise that occurred later. Using national taxation records and records of urban government, as well as research from fields ranging from parliamentary history to statistics of foreign trade, the author attempts to establish that the later Middle Ages has also been wrongly defamed in political affairs.

Free Download Gabriel Ben-dor, David B. Dewitt, "Confidence Building Measures In The Middle East"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813322936, 0367159295 | EPUB | pages: 389 | 1.1 mb
Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were pioneered in Europe at the height of the Cold War. The immediate goal of such measures is to create enough trust between parties in international conflicts to avoid mutually unfavorable – sometimes dangerous – outcomes due to misunderstandings. The long-term goal of CBMs is to move the contending parties closer to a resolution of their more fundamental differences.

Free Download Guy Burton, "China and Middle East Conflicts: Responding to War and Rivalry from the Cold War to the Present"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367438240, 0367502259 | EPUB | pages: 270 | 1.1 mb
How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict? Using China, the book studies its response to wars and rivalries in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present.

Free Download The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke By Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
2004 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0465090907 | EPUB | 3 MB
In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today’s middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today’s two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs. This is "the rare financial book that sidesteps accusations of individual wastefulness to focus on institutional changes," raved the Boston Globe. Warren and Tyagi reveal how the ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America’s suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class. The authors show why the usual remedies-child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women-won’t solve the problem. But as the Wall Street Journal observed, "The book is brimming with proposed solutions to the nail-biting anxiety that the middle class finds itself in: subsidized day care, school vouchers, new bank regulation, among other measures." From Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Dr. Phil to Bill Moyers, The Two-Income Trap has created a sensation among economists, politicians, and families-all those who care about America’s middle-class crisis.