Barbara Trish, "Inside the Bubble: Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process"
English | ISBN: 0367429780 | 2021 | 172 pages | EPUB | 437 KB
Inside the Bubble: Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process is a behind-the-scenes look at the 2020 Democratic nomination process focusing on the Iowa caucuses and the campaign workers who located there. For decades, Iowa held the first contest in the presidential nomination process and individuals interested in campaign work considered it a "holy grail." But in 2020, a record number of Democrats seeking to unseat President Trump - and the hundreds of young campaign workers who located to Iowa - created a political event unmatched in scope and scale. Those workers, embedded in the caucus bubble, focused for months on finding supporters for their candidate and ensuring they attended their precinct event - the first step in selecting delegates to the national convention. And then Caucus Day came, and with it a technology-driven fiasco that seemed to foreshadow a year of pandemic and protest. The lessons learned in 2020 underscored the importance of local staff who organize and mobilize supporters for a candidate in whom they believe. And those lessons are applicable to any race of any party in any state. For students of US politics as well as aspiring candidates, political journalists, and campaign professionals, this book captures the drama and human perspective of campaigns and elections in America.

Majid Sharifi, "Insecurity Communities of South Asia and the Middle East"
English | ISBN: 0367543184 | 2020 | 286 pages | EPUB | 915 KB
This book critically examines how US foreign policy has produced a regional regime of instability and insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East. It focuses on three interconnected zones of conflict―Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia, Iran and the Persian Gulf states, and Iraq and its neighbours.

Karin Zitzewitz, "Infrastructure and Form: The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008"
English | ISBN: 0520344928 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India's economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India.

Carolijn van Noort, "Infrastructure Communication in International Relations "
English | ISBN: 0367557363 | 2020 | 154 pages | EPUB | 468 KB
This book demonstrates how infrastructure projects and the communications thereof are strategized by rising powers to envision progress, to enhance the actor's international identity, and to substantiate and leverage the actor's vision of international order. While the physical aspects of infrastructure are important, infrastructure communication in international relations demands more scholarly attention.

Information Theory and Language by Łukasz Dębowski
English | PDF | 2020 | 246 Pages | ISBN : 3039360264 | 123.98 MB
"Information Theory and Language" is a collection of 12 articles that appeared recently in Entropy as part of a Special Issue of the same title. These contributions represent state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research at the interface of information theory and language studies.

Anita Lavorgna, "Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1800715226 | 2021 | 93 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold. In this context, and with cyberspace being increasingly used to support health-related decision making and to market health products, potentially harmful behaviours have been carried out by individuals propagating non-science-based health (mis)information and conspiratorial thinking. This includes, among other actions, boycotting the use of masks and physical distancing, proactively opposing the use of the COVID-19 candidate vaccines, and promoting the use of useless or even dangerous substances to prevent or resist the virus. By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities through the development of an 'us vs. them' narrative, are central to the creation and propagation of medical misinformation.

Stuti Bhatnagar, "India's Pakistan Policy: How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations"
English | ISBN: 0367334755 | 2020 | 168 pages | EPUB | 943 KB
This book critically examines the role of think tanks as foreign policy actors. It looks at the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India and their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making process.

Ana Maria Albulescu, "Incomplete Secession after Unresolved Conflicts: Political Order and Escalation in the Post-Soviet Space "
English | ISBN: 1032048581 | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 736 KB
This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states.

Terri Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy"
English | ISBN: 1138932256 | 2020 | 198 pages | EPUB | 826 KB
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing policy makers in the twenty-first century. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century provides students with an in-depth introduction to the politics that have led to the development of different approaches over time to immigration policy in North America, Europe, and Australia. The authors draw on the work of the most respected researchers in the field of immigration politics as well as providing insights from their own research.

Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects By Carolee Schneemann
2001 | 357 Pages | ISBN: 0262194597 | PDF | 182 MB
Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists, such as Salvador Dali and Yves Klein, had used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use her body to animate the relationship between the world of lived experience and the imagination, as well as issues of the erotic, the sacred, and the taboo. In the 1960s, her work prefigured the feminist movement's sexual self-assertion for women, and by the mid-1970s, her work anticipated the field of women's studies and its critique of patriarchal institutions. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to experiment with virtual environments. Imaging Her Erotics integrates images from Schneemann's works in painting, collage, drawing, and video sculptures with written material drawn from the artist's journals, dream diaries, essays, and lectures. Encompassing four decades of her work, it demonstrates her profound influence on artists in all media. An opening essay by Kristine Stiles presents Schneemann's major themes and places her work in a historical context. Among other topics, the book covers Schneemann's response to the widespread use by artists of the ideas of theoreticians such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan; her relationship to male artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Morris, and Claes Oldenburg; and reminiscences about her friends Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, and Hannah Wilke. The book also contains essays by Jay Murphy and David Levi-Strauss and interviews with the artist by Kate Haug, Linda Montano, and Aviva Rahmani.