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Free Download Huaiyin Li, "Village Governance in North China: 1875-1936"
English | 2005 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 0804750912 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author’s interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.

Free Download Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital by David Browne
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0306827638 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 23.7 MB
The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers

Free Download Zdena Trinka, "A Little Village Called Lidice"
English | 2019 | ASIN: B082J6H2GC | EPUB | pages: 90 | 2.9 mb
A Little Village Called Lidice, first published in 1947, is an impassioned account of the World War II atrocity committed by the Nazis in Lidice, Czechoslovakia. The reprisal was ordered by Hitler following the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942 outside of Prague. On June 9, 1942, Gestapo and other German forces entered the small village of Lidice (chosen apparently at random by the Nazis), rounded up all men and male teenagers 15 and over, and executed them by firing squad (173 in all). Their bodies were placed in a common grave. Some women were also executed, with most transported to concentration camps. A handful of the approximately 100 village children were removed from their mothers to be raised by German families, but over 80 were sent to their death in the extermination camp at Chelmo, where they were placed in sealed trucks and gassed. Following the executions, the village was razed by fire, leveled by explosives, then bulldozed into rubble. The village’s famous cherry orchards were also uprooted and destroyed, a small lake was filled-in, and a stream diverted. Grass was planted so that the village was, in effect, obliterated. At war’s end, only a few women and 17 Lidice children survived to return to the village. Following the war, houses for a new Lidice were built near the site of the original village, and a memorial erected in honor of those who were killed.

Free Download Village to Village: Misadventures in France by Alister Kershaw
English | January 1, 1994 | ISBN: 0207176124 | True EPUB | 178 pages | 1.3 MB
In this witty and entertaining illustrated memoir, Alister Kershaw describes the pleasures of his prolonged residence in France – a country of villages – from 1948, when even Paris was a series of villages.

Free Download Alan Weisman, "Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition"
English | 2008 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1603580565 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Los Llanos―the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia―are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.

Free Download Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War By Megan Stack
2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0385527160 | EPUB | 3 MB
A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror. A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, witnessing the changes that swept the Muslim world and laboring to tell its stories. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is Megan K. Stack’s riveting account of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and her slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the elusive promise of freedom and democracy. She reports from under bombardment in Lebanon; records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews. Beautiful, savage, and unsettling, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is a memoir about the wars of the twenty-first century that readers will long remember.

Free Download The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise By Laura J. Olson, Svetlana Adonyeva
2012 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0299290344 | PDF | 2 MB
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.Table of Contents:Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise1 Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship2 Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History3 Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women’s Stories of Courtship and Marriage4 The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women’s Identity Construction5 Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women’s Chastushki6 Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood7 Magic, Control, and Social Roles8 Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World9 Death, the Dead, and Memory-KeepersConclusion

Free Download Alan R Warren, "Bruce McArthur: The Toronto Gay Village Murders"
English | ISBN: 1989980686 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB | 970 KB
Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. The series explores the world of murder in the gay community, whether the victims or the killers themselves and sometimes both, are homosexual. While the previous books looked at murders in the gay communities of Germany, England, and the United States, this fourth edition of the series visits Canada-a country that has embraced the gay community overall.

Free Download Village in the Dark: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YH9MG7 | 2024 | 7 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Iris Yamashita
Narrator: Sophie Oda, Blaire Chandler, Aspen Vincent

Free Download Les Lloyd, "Educational Technology for the Global Village: Worldwide Innovation and Best Practices"
English | ISBN: 1573874817 | 2014 | 272 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Les Lloyd and Gabriel Barreneche present an eye-opening look at projects that are innovating with technology to improve education and, indeed, the very quality of people s lives around the world. From collaborative learning communities and social networks to Web 2.0 tools, MOOCs, and mobiles, a dozen case studies demonstrate tech initiatives that teach students to think and act globally while helping to close the education gap between developed and developing nations.