Tag: Visions

Free Download Prakash Kashwan, "Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action"
English | ISBN: 1350335479 | 2025 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism. Decolonizing Environmentalism helps us navigate these emotions and reimagine our approach to environmental stewardship. The authors cast a critical eye on wealthy and influential environmental groups that committed to anti-racist strategies in the wake of the racial awakening of 2020. Yet, they continue to embrace false solutions like carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, which carry deeply racialized consequences. By tracing the roots of these misplaced priorities to detrimental modernity steeped in colonialism and capitalism, the authors call for transformational changes in human-nature relationships. They distil lessons from the divestment movement, which has questioned the fossil fuel industry’s moral standing, and food sovereignty activists, who have mobilized global civil society to hold agribusiness corporations accountable. Amidst calls for "apocalyptic optimism," Kashwan and Hasnain offer a radical vision grounded in intersectional ecofeminism, Indigenous sovereignty, and strategies honed in the trenches of transnational environmentalism. In these extraordinary times,

Free Download Eileen Chanin, "Capital Designs: Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London"
English | ISBN: 1925984230 | 2020 | 474 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Founded as a sovereign Commonwealth in 1901, a dominion in the British Empire, Australia set out immediately to present itself to the world as a nation with a great future. This book relates the untold story of how Australia’s first diplomatic mission was conceived, designed and built. Its international showcase was to be Australia House, a splendid purpose-built building at the Aldwych in the very heart of London, the Imperial capital, and of world trade and prosperity. Commenced in 1913, Australia House was opened in 1918 while the Great War still raged. It is a story of ambitions and achievements – global, imperial, local and personal.

Free Download Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time by Richard M. Weaver
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1684515491 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.88 Mb
An essential work from scholar and rhetorician Richard Weaver, a leading figure in the rise of the modern conservative intellectual movement.

Free Download Isabel Moreira, "Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul"
English | ISBN: 0801436613 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 31 MB
In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter. No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with the supernatural. Drawing on a rich variety of sources―histories, hagiographies, ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints’ shrines―Isabel Moreira provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate its religious visions.

Free Download Alexandra Seibel, "Visions of Vienna: Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema "
English | ISBN: 9462981892 | 2017 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.

Free Download Cecilia Panti, "Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1032535563 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 4 MB
Dante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The relationship between the soul and the body and the bond between human beings and their natural environment were significant areas of interest in the medieval world. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, as well as in his Vita Nuova and Convivio, these connections are enhanced to the fullest, expressing feelings and sensations, pain and ecstasy, and physical and spiritual passions under exceptional psychological and environmental stimuli.

Free Download The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 9798212183796, 9798212183772 | True EPUB | 450 pages | 5.9 MB
An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.

Free Download Again, Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 821218375H, 9798212183758, 9798212183734 | True EPUB | 1182 pages | 8.4 MB
A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.

Free Download What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSL8NQS | 2024 | 21 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 632 MB
Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrator: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson, Steve Connell
Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data and poetry, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take-from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer-to create. If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world-or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it-this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you. With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites listeners to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right?

Free Download Dangerous Visions (Audiobook)
English | March 26, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLF152R9 | M4B@VBR 117 kbps | 24h 33m | 1.21 GB
Editor: Harlan Ellison | Narrators: Ramiz Monsef, Neil Hellegers, Jim Meskimen, Edoardo Ballerini, P. J. Ochlan, Dion Graham, Natalie Naudus, JD Jackson, Scott Aiello, Grover Gardner, Joe Hempel, Steve West, James Patrick Cronin, Joel Froomkin, Neil Shah, John Pirhalla, Robert Fass, Heath Miller, Scott Brick, Shiromi Arserio, Thom Rivera, Bradford Hastings, Feodor Chin, Stefan Rudnicki, Mara Wilson, Bronson Pinchot, Mark Sanderlin, Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, Johnny Heller
WITH A NEW FORWARD BY PATTON OSWALT
Dubbed "the most significant and controversial SF book" of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire sub-genre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.