Tag: Resistance

Free Download Pandemic Resilience: Vaccination Resistance and Hesitance, Lessons from COVID-19 by David M. Berube
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 524 Pages | ISBN : 3031740610 | 22.4 MB
This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to play in contributing to human, community, and transnational protection against infectious diseases. The problems associated with vaccination against infection diseases was made abundantly clear during the current pandemic of COVID-19. Vaccines were traced back to Dr. Edward Jenner in the 18th century as a tool to control smallpox in England. Today we have six different categories of vaccines (three seem most controversial today): inactivated, live-attenuated, and messenger RNA (mRNA). We examine the reasons for public reluctance and outright resistance to vaccines examining cognitive biases, communication campaign failures, politicization, misinformation, partisanship, and greed. The healthcare industry has not treated all infected people equally, especially the poor and people of color. This is true in the USA as well as abroad. In the future, we can expect more exotic infections to increase due to globalization, development, and transportation. As climate changes, humans will contact more species carrying many different bacteria and viruses. Advances in medical research have led to increases in the number of vaccinations available to control infection and outbreaks. However, the rates of vaccination have fluctuated over time. A vaccine that is not used is meaningless. To increase vaccination rates, we must learn why the public shies away from vaccinations and under what circumstances. This information will enable us to design more effective messaging and communication campaigns to maximize general resilience. An interactive partnership between providers of healthcare and their patients is a prerequisite to productive and effective vaccination campaigns.

Free Download Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII by Randall Hansen
English | October 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1835980562 | 480 pages | PDF | 4.14 Mb
The failed 1944 ‘Valkyrie’ Description to assassinate Hitler is evidence of a strand of resistance to the Nazi regime that existed within the German army and among German civilians. Here, Randall Hansen describes how dissenting voices were silenced, how a number of key officers and officials defied the Führer’s direct orders to destroy everything they could in retreat and how, by disobeying Hitler, they saved lives and delivered historic cities and cultural landmarks from annihilation. Off-mint.

Free Download GERONIMO: The Apache Icon of Resistance, Leadership, and Sovereignty by Dennis A. Smith
English | November 23, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DNY1VMY5 | 72 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb
Step into the captivating life of Geronimo, the fearless Apache leader who defied impossible odds to preserve his people’s freedom, culture, and dignity. In Geronimo: The Apache Icon of Resistance, Leadership, and Sovereignty, this deeply researched and compelling narrative explores the extraordinary journey of a man who became a symbol of resilience, justice, and unwavering spirit.

Free Download Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities
by Ragini Shah
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0520404475 | 203 Pages | True PDF | 2.58 MB

Free Download A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution by John D. Garrigus
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 067427282X | True EPUB | 256 pages | 13.9 MB
A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.

Free Download Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition
by Henry A. Giroux
English | 2025 | ISBN: 135045849X | 303 Pages | True PDF | 2.51 MB

Free Download Howard Clark, "Civil Resistance in Kosovo"
English | 2000 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 0745315690, 0745315747 | PDF | 1,0 mb
The world woke up to the conflict between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians too late – when Kosovo erupted into full-scale war in the spring of 1999. But many Balkans watchers were surprised war in Kosovo did not happen sooner. In Civil Resistance in Kosovo, Howard Clark argues that war had been avoided previously because of the self-restraint exercised by the Kosovo Albanians and their policy of nonviolence. Prior to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)’s taking up of arms, Kosovo Albanians had had a long history of civil resistance in the face of Serbian ultra-nationalism. They were committed to a strategy of nonviolent resistance even as they were harassed by Serbian police, vilified in racial terms, and excluded from jobs, education and government benefits. Excluded from the 1995 Dayton Agreement, Kosovo became a breeding ground for frustration and ethnic strife, ultimately leading to war and the NATO bombings. The author traces the historical evolution of the Kosovo Albanians’ struggle, from peaceful demonstrations to the KLA backlash, covering the 1980s to the present day. In assessing the achievements and limitations of nonviolence, Clark explains why the policy was ultimately abandoned and how it could have been made more effective. Importantly, this book draws on the lessons of Kosovo to provide suggestions for future peace-building.

Free Download Feras Hammami, "Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City "
English | ISBN: 1800735723 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 9 MB
What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what ways are the interpretations and performances of ‘the past’ linked to urban gentrification, marginalization, displacement, and social responses? Authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials, and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge and experiences, memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighborhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

Free Download Violence and Resistance, Art and Politics in Colombia by Stephen Zepke, Nicolás Alvarado Castillo
English | April 21, 2023 | ISBN: 3031103254 | 311 pages | MOBI | 8.57 Mb
This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance.

Free Download Masato Yoneda, "Insulin Resistance and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nafld / Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Nash "
English | ISBN: 1616689277 | 2010 | 54 pages | PDF | 819 KB
The liver is the first organ to receive nutrients that enter the body via the intestines after a meal, and this organ plays a pivotal role in energy metabolism. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is among the most common causes of chronic liver disease in the world and is now considered to be a component of metabolic syndrome. A wide spectrum of histological changes has been observed in NAFLD, ranging from simple steatosis, which is generally non-progressive, to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), liver cirrhosis, liver failure, and sometimes even hepatocellular carcinoma. This book reviews recent evidence concerning insulin resistance and NAFLD/NASH as a step towards a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of NAFLD/NASH.