Robin Blaetz, "Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks"
English | 2007 | pages: 433 | ISBN: 0822340232, 0822340445 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Women's Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films. The essays rescue the work of critically neglected but influential women filmmakers for teaching, further study, and, hopefully, restoration and preservation. Just as importantly, they enrich the understanding of feminism in cinema and expand the terrain of film history, particularly the history of the American avant-garde.

Women Prisoners Of Auschwitz: Strengths and Steadfastness by David Budman
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0869P7T5S | 75 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Women Prisoners Of Auschwitz:

Ibn Warraq, "Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy"
English | ISBN: 1594035768 | 2011 | 286 pages | MOBI | 771 KB
We, in the West in general, and the United States in particular, have witnessed over the last twenty years a slow erosion of our civilizational self-confidence. Under the influence of intellectuals and academics in Western universities, intellectuals such as Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Edward Said, and Noam Chomsky, and destructive intellectual fashions such as post-modernism, moral relativism, and mulitculturalism, the West has lost all self-confidence in its own values, and seems incapable and unwilling to defend those values. By contrast, resurgent Islam, in all its forms, is supremely confident, and is able to exploit the West's moral weakness and cultural confusion to demand ever more concessions from her. The growing political and demographic power of Muslim communities in the West, aided and abetted by Western apologists of Islam, not to mention a compliant, pro-Islamic US Administration, has resulted in an ever-increasing demand for the implementation of Islamic law-the Sharia- into the fabric of Western law, and Western constitutions. There is an urgent need to examine why the Sharia is totally incompatible with Human Rights and the US Constitution. This book , the first of its kind, proposes to examine the Sharia and its potential and actual threat to democratic principles.

John PhD Gottman, "Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0684802414, 0671867482 | 240 pages | MOBI | 1.7 MB
Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship.

John PhD Gottman, "Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0684802414, 0671867482 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2 MB
Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship.

Daniel Hannan, "Why America Must Not Follow Europe "
English | ISBN: 1594035601 | 2011 | 48 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 78 KB + 293 KB
Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament, calls on Americans to avoid Europe's future. He traces the common roots of British and American liberty, and describes how both countries are losing their inheritance as government crowds out the private sphere. He calls for a renewed commitment to the Anglosphere: the alliance of free, English-speaking nations which has preserved freedom in our time.

Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza, "Whose Rights?: Counterterrorism and the Dark Side of American Public Opinion"
English | 2013 | pages: 202 | ISBN: 0871540584 | PDF | 2,6 mb
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government adopted a series of counterterrorism policies that radically altered the prevailing balance between civil liberties and security. These changes allowed for warrantless domestic surveillance, military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and even extralegal assassinations. Now, more than a decade after 9/11, these sharply contested measures appear poised to become lasting features of American government. What do Americans think about these policies? Where do they draw the line on what the government is allowed to do in the name of fighting terrorism? Drawing from a wealth of survey and experimental data, Whose Rights? explores the underlying sources of public attitudes toward the war on terror in a more detailed and comprehensive manner than has ever been attempted. In an analysis that deftly deploys the tools of political science and psychology, Whose Rights? addresses a vexing puzzle: Why does the counterterrorism agenda persist even as 9/11 recedes in time and the threat from Al Qaeda wanes? Authors Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza provocatively argue that American opinion, despite traditionally showing strong support for civil liberties, exhibits a "dark side" that tolerates illiberal policies in the face of a threat. Surveillance of American citizens, heightened airport security, the Patriot Act and targeted assassinations enjoy broad support among Americans, and these preferences have remained largely stable over the past decade. There are, however, important variations: Waterboarding and torture receive notably low levels of support, and counterterrorism activities sanctioned by formal legislation, as opposed to covert operations, tend to draw more favor. To better evaluate these trends, Whose Rights? examines the concept of "threat-priming" and finds that getting people to think about the specter of terrorism bolsters anew their willingness to support coercive measures. A series of experimental surveys also yields fascinating insight into the impact of national identity cues. When respondents are primed to think that American citizens would be targeted by harsh counterterrorism policies, support declines significantly. On the other hand, groups such as Muslims, foreigners, and people of Middle Eastern background elicit particularly negative attitudes and increase support for counterterrorism measures. Under the right conditions, Brooks and Manza show, American support for counterterrorism activities can be propelled upward by simple reminders of past terrorism Descriptions and communication about disliked external groups. Whose Rights? convincingly argues that mass opinion plays a central role in the politics of contemporary counterterrorism policy. With their clarity and compelling evidence, Brooks and Manza offer much-needed insight into the policy responses to the defining conflict of our age and the psychological impact of terrorism.

Phil Cooper, "Who Is Elon Musk?: The Story of a Boy Who Got Bullied In School and Then Went On to Become the Most Interesting and Famous Man in Tech"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09TWTJFT8, B09TQ2WGML | EPUB | pages: 46 | 0.1 mb
As a kid, Elon became so lost in his daydreams that even his parents were worried he wasn't in the right frame of mind. However, Elon knew that one day his dreams would come true.

Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0262046075 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.36 MB
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse.

Jeremy Wildeman, "What Lies Ahead? Canada's Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians"
English | ISBN: 1032190620 | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB | 587 KB
This edited volume explores Canada's foreign policy relationship with the Palestinians and broader Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). Canada was intensively involved from 1992 to 2000 in peacebuilding as a mediator in the multilateral part of the MEPP, as chair of the Refugee Working Group, and sponsor of Track II negotiations. This all changed after a significant mid-2000s discursive and policy shift when Canada withdrew from the politics of Israel-Palestine peacebuilding and took a strong partisan stance in favour of Israel.