American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2: A Cultural History
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1316514331 | 531 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.

Ambush at Ruby Ridge; How government agents set Randy Weaver up and took his family down By Alan Bock
1995 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 1880741482 | PDF | 57 MB
On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver's family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to treat a family like a gang of criminals. This is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a nation increasingly attuned to the dangers of unchecked federal power.AUGUST 21, 1992: A SIX-MAN TEAM from the Special Operations Group of the U.S. Marshals Service, dressed in full regalia and armed with silenced automatic weapons, moved onto Randy Weaver's 20-acre property known as Ruby Ridge. In less than 36 hours they had killed his son and an FBI sniper had shot his wife as she stood in the door of the cabin holding her 10-month-old-baby. Almost immediately the agents declared a hostage situation and a massive paramilitary buildup began, which eventually reached more than 400 heavily armed agents, including most of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and a large array of assault vehicles and weaponry.Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down chronicles the U.S. Marshals Service elaborate, multi-million-dollar 18-month surveillance of Weaver, an Idaho backwoods resident known as a white separatist, indicted on a minor firearms charge many claim was a government act of hatred and blackmail. The resultant 11-day standoff in Weaver's small family cabin and the paramilitary attack that ensued are described through graphic and closely documented accounts: from the details surrounding the initial siege to the shoot-to-kill orders given by FBI headquarters.Through court transcripts, private testimonies and interviews with insiders, local residents, and friends of the Weaver Family, jounalist Alan Bock debunks the myth that government agencies are beyond the realm of entrapment, cover-ups, and even the killing of innocent people. He overturns the hypocrisies and contradictions of the FBI, and takes you straight to the scene-first, to the tragedy of Ruby Ridge, then to the colorful neo-Nazi and protester-filled roadblock, and finally to the courtroom, where prosecutors and flamboyant defense attorney Gerry Spence go head to head.But beyond being a shocking account of bizarre circumstances, Ambush at Ruby Ridge challenges the personal and political implications of the most notorious trial in Idaho history. Maybe if the ambush on David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, hadn't happened as the Weaver trial was underway. the events of Ruby Ridge might be seen as a regional story of government bungling with tragic results. But Waco did happen, causing many Americans to ask hard and fundamental questions about what the United States Government has become. Unlike with Waco, the government may actually be held accountable for what it did at Ruby Ridge.

Amazon Redshift Cookbook: Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions by Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel, Eugene Kawamoto
English | July 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1800569688 | True EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 21.9/26.95 MB
Discover how to build a cloud-based data warehouse at petabyte-scale that is burstable and built to scale for end-to-end analytical solutions

All about exercise: The ultimate fitness guide by Tony Ray
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B7KTMFQ3 | 80 pages | EPUB | 3.56 Mb
The body is a wonderful thing. With regular training, we can literally transform ourselves. How we train depends on what we want to achieve, but with a little bit of effort, we can improve our strength, our size, our endurance, our power and even our appearance. The first part of the book is about weigh training. Learn how to construct the perfect routine and how to get the most our of every workout. The second chapter is all about cardiovascular training. Which exercise are the best and which to avoid. Once you've read this book, you'll know how to plan out and achieve all of your fitness goals, so the next time you step inside the gym, you'll know exactly what you need to do. We've included lots of tips and tricks to give you the best chance of success.

Owen Bruhn, Ainslie Meares, Pauline McKinnon, "Ainslie Meares on Meditation: Dissolve tension, anxiety & pain.Tap your inner wealth. Includes Relief Without Drugs* & poems written by Meares."
English | 2017 | pages: 152 | ISBN: 0646966936 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Ainslie Meares (1910-1986) was an eminent psychiatrist of international reputation who made major contributions to medical hypnosis. He melded mental homeostasis with the essence of mysticism. Dissolving tension, anxiety & pain. Taping the wealth within. Rest naturally in meditation and live a calm, active life.

Uncle Crypto, Maggy Graham, "Aha! So That's What Bitcoin Is!: Step-by-Step Guide to Cryptocurrency in Pictures & Plain Language"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B7QG7WF7 | EPUB | pages: 57 | 2.6 mb
47 illustrations make the material fun and easy to learn

Rafia Zakaria, "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption"
English | ISBN: 1324006617 | 2021 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 649 KB
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights.

Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (The Princeton-China) by Tongdong Bai
English | December 24, 2019 | ISBN: 0691195994, 069123020X | True EPUB | 344 pages | 0.5 MB
How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today's political problems

Nidhi Srinivas, "Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development"
English | ISBN: 1108840388 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics By Richard Shusterman (editor)
2018 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 9004347690 | PDF | 6 MB
This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.