Tag: Politics

Free Download Claire Perkins, "B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value"
English | 2014 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 143844995X, 1438449968 | PDF | 6,4 mb
Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Free Download Tim Marshall, "A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols"
English | 2017 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 1501176641, 1501168339 | EPUB | 57,1 mb
Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard), explains flags and their symbols-how their power is used to unite and divide populations and intimidate enemies.

Free Download Pakier Małgorzata, "A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance"
English | 2012 | pages: 373 | ISBN: 0857456059, 0857454307, 1845456211 | PDF | 2,0 mb
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe―with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences―was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe’s past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe’s past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

Free Download Pamela K. Lamb, "5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. Government & Politics 2017, Cross-Platform Edition"
English | 2016 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1259588645 | EPUB | 8,8 mb
A proven 5-step study guide for today’s digital learners preparing for the AP U.S. Government and Politics exam

Free Download Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Carol Monda, Hachette Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B089X54X6X | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 15 hours and 2 minutes + EPUB | 428 Mb
Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative audiobook, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced.

Free Download The Politics of Modelling
by Saltelli, Andrea;Di Fiore, Monica;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0198872410 | 273 pages | True PDF | 14.69 MB
Chapter 2, ‘Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain’, Chapter 4, ‘Mind the hubris: Complexity can misfire’, and Chapter 8, ‘ Sensitivity auditing: A practical checklist for auditing decision-relevant models’ are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic

Free Download The Politics of Language
by David Beaver and Jason Stanley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691181985 | 521 pages | True PDF EPUB | 57.55 MB
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language

Free Download The Climate Debt: Combining the Science, Politics and Economics of Climate Change (167 Pages)
by Guy Deutscher
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811274002 | 168 pages | True PDF | 21.31 MB
Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction between economists and scientists, long separated from an academic standpoint. The separation is artificial. This book shows that the free trade concept of David Ricardo and that of the Sadi Carnot thermodynamic cycle, both developed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, are amazingly close to each other. The analogy between the two cycles helps understand the fundamental mechanism of free trade. Irreversible processes, such as the release of CO₂ by fossil fuel burning, have increased the Boltzmann entropy level. It has generated climate warming and disorder, a phenomenon accelerated by a growth model largely based on delocalization of industrial production to low wage countries. Major irreversible phenomena such as melting of all arctic ice including the Greenland ice sheets can be expected within 1000 years that can only be avoided by active removal of atmospheric CO₂, whose cost can be calculated based on the entropy laws of Clausius and Boltzmann.

Free Download Shame
by David Keen
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0691183759 | 361 pages | True PDF EPUB | 27.23 MB
The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violence

Free Download Food Politics
by Paarlberg, Robert;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0199322384 | 313 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.53 MB
Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today’s global food landscape.