Tag: Reluctant

Free Download Beata Świtek, "Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands"
English | ISBN: 1785332694 | 2016 | 242 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers’ experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national "other" in Japan.

Free Download Stefano Recchia, "Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0801452910 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.7 mb
Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia draws on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders to illuminate little-known aspects of U.S. decision making in the run-up to those interventions. American leaders, he argues, seek UN or NATO approval to facilitate sustained military and financial burden sharing and ensure domestic support. However, the most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders in Washington tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. In these circumstances, America’s senior generals and admirals-as reluctant warriors who worry about Vietnam-style quagmires-can play an important restraining role, steering U.S. policy toward multilateralism.

Free Download Larry J. Kolb, "Overworld: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy"
English | 2004 | pages: 481 | ISBN: 1573222534 | PDF | 1,7 mb
An intriguing memoir that journeys into the complex and dangerous world of covert statecraft and espionage describes growing up as the son of a high-ranking American spymaster, his refusal to take a job with the CIA in order to pursue a life in business, and his job as an agent for Muhammad Ali, a position that drew him back into the family business. 40,000 first printing.

Free Download Dr. Stanley L. Brodsky PhD, "Therapy With Coerced and Reluctant Clients"
English | ISBN: 1433808706 | 2010 | 233 pages | PDF | 1429 KB
Stanley L. Brodsky demonstrates how therapists can tailor their interventions to avoid impasses, build a firm alliance with the coerced and reluctant client, and help him or her develop more productive behaviors. Through the use of case material, the author demonstrates that interacting creatively with reluctant clients can lead to significant breakthroughs.

Free Download Peter Lamb, "Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist: Socialist Democracy for a World in Turmoil "
English | ISBN: 3031657616 | 2024 | 247 pages | EPUB, PDF | 487 KB + 5 MB
This book examines Harold Laski’s relationship to Marxism. Laski was a reluctant Marxist; he had been a pluralist, democratic socialist who wanted to reach a better society by means of parliamentary, constitutional and associational channels. In fact, he never abandoned these early aspirations. In the 1930s and 1940s he wove them into a distinctive Marxist position as he gradually came to believe that there was no answer to Marxist philosophy on history, social change and the prospects for socialism. It is the incorporation of his earlier political thought into his later work that makes his Marxism so fascinating and his work raises important questions.

Free Download Dominik Richert, David Sutherland, "The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript"
Deutsch | 2012 | ISBN: 3926901152 | EPUB | pages: 410 | 3.1 mb
As a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realized from the outset of the First World War that his family would be at or near the front line. While he saw no alternative to performing his duty, he was a reluctant soldier who was willing to stand up to authority and to avoid risks-in order to survive. This thoughtful memoir of the conflict gives a lively picture of major events from the rare perspective of an ordinary German soldier.

Free Download Ann Sandford, "Reluctant Reformer: Nathan Sanford in the Era of the Early Republic"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1438466935 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 3.3 mb
Set in the tumultuous decades of post-revolutionary America, Reluctant Reformer brings to light the long neglected New York lawyer-politician, Nathan Sanford. As a lawyer, Sanford contributed to modern property law. In the United States Senate, he dealt with central banking, struggled against slavery, and supported popular voting for presidential electors. He was a major designer of the program to rationalize the nation’s currency. Against a backdrop of European wars and the War of 1812, he capitalized on opportunities for upward social mobility in a period of nation-building and commercial expansion. At the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821, he fought for universal manhood suffrage.

Free Download Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism
by Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231205198 | 285 Pages | True PDF | 5 MB

Free Download Roam Alone: Inspiring tales by reluctant solo travellers edited by Hilary Bradt, Jennifer Barclay
English | 5 April 2017 | ISBN: 1784770493 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 5.8 MB
A unique title from Bradt, showcasing a brand new collection of remarkable travellers’ tales with a different slant, following on the heels of To Oldly Go!, one of the UK’s best-selling travel titles of 2015.

Free Download Retrieving Darwin’s Revolutionary Idea : The Reluctant Radical
by Samuel Grove
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1793632499 | 301 Pages | True PDF | 28 MB