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Free Download Vivek Neelakantan, "Science, Public Health and Nation-Building in Soekarno-Era Indonesia"
English | ISBN: 1443886548 | 2017 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In 1949, the newly-independent Indonesia inherited a health system that was devastated by three-and-a-half years of Japanese occupation and four years of revolutionary struggle against the Dutch. Additionally, the country had to cope with the resurgence of epidemic and endemic diseases. The Ministry of Health had initiated a number of symbolic public health initiatives both during the Indonesian Revolution (1945 to 1949) and the early 1950s resulting in a noticeable decline of mortality. These initiatives fuelled the newly-independent nations confidence because they demonstrated to the international community that Indonesia was capable of standing on its own feet. Unfortunately, by the mid-1950s, Indonesias public health program faltered due to a constellation of factors attributed to the political tensions between Java and the Outer Islands, administrative problems, corruption, and rampant inflation. The optimism that characterised the early years of independence gave way to despair. The Soekarno era could, therefore, be interpreted as the era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations in Indonesian public health. Based on extensive archival research and a close reading of Indonesian primary sources, this book provides a nuanced account of the inner tensions in Indonesian public health during the twentieth century between a narrow biomedical approach that emphasised disease eradication, and a holistic approach that linked public health to practical concerns of nation-building.

Free Download Christina Kenny, "Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya "
English | ISBN: 184701299X | 2022 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 3 MB

Free Download Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation’s Conscience Keeper (Audiobook)
English | February 01, 2017 | ASIN: B01N6WYAWI | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 35m | 233 MB
Author: Vinod Rai | Narrator: Manish Dongardive
Not Just an Accountant is an incisive, no-holds-barred account of India’s 11th comptroller and auditor general and a symbol of the anti-corruption movement, Vinod Rai.
Through a narrative rich in anecdote and inside information, Rai sheds light on the major scams that shook the country. Among the case studies – chosen for the diversity of failures they highlight – are the procedural irregularities in the issuance of licenses for second generation spectrum allotment, the last minute quick-fixes in the conduct of the XIX commonwealth games, the loss of national resources while allocating coal blocks, the flouting of systems and the clear display of crony capitalism in the exploration of hydrocarbon and the tragic tale of civil aviation in India.

Free Download Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation’s Conscience Keeper (Audiobook)
English | February 01, 2017 | ASIN: B01N6WYAWI | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 35m | 233 MB
Author: Vinod Rai | Narrator: Manish Dongardive
Not Just an Accountant is an incisive, no-holds-barred account of India’s 11th comptroller and auditor general and a symbol of the anti-corruption movement, Vinod Rai.
Through a narrative rich in anecdote and inside information, Rai sheds light on the major scams that shook the country. Among the case studies – chosen for the diversity of failures they highlight – are the procedural irregularities in the issuance of licenses for second generation spectrum allotment, the last minute quick-fixes in the conduct of the XIX commonwealth games, the loss of national resources while allocating coal blocks, the flouting of systems and the clear display of crony capitalism in the exploration of hydrocarbon and the tragic tale of civil aviation in India.

Free Download Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Tantor Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C1QD4FK9 | 11 hrs and 16 mins | MP3@64 kbps | 308 Mb
The United States is hardly a "fit nation." Only 20 percent of Americans work out consistently, over half of gym members don’t even use the facilities they pay for, and fewer than 30 percent of high school students get an hour of exercise a day. So how did fitness become both inescapable and inaccessible?
As a leading political and intellectual historian and a certified fitness instructor, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is uniquely qualified to confront the complex and far-reaching implications of how our contemporary exercise culture took shape. She explores the work of working out not just as consumers have experienced it, but as it was created by performers, physical educators, trainers, instructors, and many others.
For Petrzela, fitness is a social justice issue. She argues that the fight for a more equitable exercise culture will be won only by revolutionizing fitness culture at its core, making it truly inclusive for all bodies in a way it has never been. Examining venues from the stage of the World’s Fair and Muscle Beach to fat farms, feminist health clinics, radical and evangelical college campuses, yoga retreats, gleaming health clubs, school gymnasiums, and many more, Fit Nation is a revealing history that shows fitness to be not just a matter of physical health but of what it means to be an American.

Free Download Bloodbath Nation (Audiobook)
English | January 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0BQSBMRMB | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 44m | 153 MB
Author: Paul Auster | Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe) Paul Auster.
Paul Auster was a crack marksman as a kid, and like most American boys of his generation he grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in B-Westerns. But he also knows how families can be wrecked by a single act of gun violence: His grandmother shot and killed his grandfather when his father was just six years old.

Free Download Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat, Lloyd James, Tantor Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: B007V5SZMM | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 13 hours and 12 minutes + EPUB | 181 Mb
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails – and why it threatens to take American society with it.
In a story that moves from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat brilliantly charts traditional Christianity’s decline from a vigorous, mainstream, and bipartisan faith – which acted as a "vital center" and the moral force behind the Civil Rights movement – through the culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s and down to the polarizing debates of the present day. He argues that Christianity’s place in American life has increasingly been taken over, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased versions of Christian faith that breed hubris, greed, and self-absorption.
Ranging from Glenn Beck to Eat Pray Love, Joel Osteen to The Da Vinci Code, Oprah Winfrey to Sarah Palin, Douthat explores how the prosperity gospel’s mantra of "pray and grow rich", a cult of self-esteem that reduces God to a life coach, and the warring political religions of left and right have crippled the country’s ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline. His urgent call for a revival of traditional Christianity is sure to generate controversy, and it will be vital listening for all those concerned about the imperiled American future.

Free Download The Rise and Fall of the Oil Nation Venezuela by Carlos A. Rossi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 574 Pages | ISBN : 3031346599 | 82.7 MB
This book explains why Venezuela is so rich in natural resources-it has been producing oil since 1922 and harbors the largest oil reserves in the world-and yet it is also a failed nation of class-divided citizens exhibiting deep poverty in a corrupt, incompetent state. Venezuela is a bipolar nation, where two marked poles in the society exist which have historical origins and are mutually exclusive.

Free Download Vinita Chandra Aditi Chandra, "The Nation and its Margins"
English | ISBN: 1527540189 | 2019 | 194 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume questions the idea that the nation-state is the only available form of community, and challenges its hegemonic control over forms of socio-cultural belonging. The contributions here explore cross-cultural and transnational encounters which highlight narratives that escape the neat boundaries constructed by nationalities. They complicate our understanding of peoples and groups and the varying spaces they inhabit by allowing narratives that have been made invisible, due to hegemonic national control, to emerge. This volume throws light on moments of cultural encounters in the Global South, specifically South Asia, South-east Asia, West Asia, and Latin America, exploring what happens when diverse communities come together to challenge the notion that claiming national identity is the only acceptable mode of being, belonging, and existing in the world. In doing so, the book reveals other radically innovative forms of attaining cohesion and identity.

Free Download Paul Lindley, "Raising the Nation: How to Build a Better Future for Our Children "
English | ISBN: 1447366476 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world. Theirs is a generation disempowered from steering their lives while society’s systems are failing to provide the support they need. Yet, a country only prospers when its children – from all walks of life – thrive, meaning that the United Kingdom now faces some consequential choices. Raising the Nation builds a compelling case showing why we must nurture smart, strong and kind children to one day inherit the stewardship of society. Setting out big public policy ideas, enhanced by contributions from academic and campaigning experts, as well as those with lived experience, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, singer and activist Charlotte Church, and ex-prime minister of Denmark and former CEO of Save the Children International Helle Thorning-Schmidt, this book is a manifesto to deliver our brightest possible future. Reframing political success, it shows why we must prioritise child-centred policies to ensure the future strength of our communities, environment and economy.