Cuba: Island of Dreams By Antoni Kapcia
2000 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1859733263 | PDF | 14 MB
As spiritual home of Che Guevara and arch-enemy of the United States for more than forty years, Cuba exerts a powerful hold over people's imaginations. The Revolution and its leader, Fidel Castro, have survived invasion, repeated external and internal crisis, and most astonishingly, economic collapse and political isolation. What is at the root of the continuity and success of the 'Revolution' and in what sense can it be termed a 'revolution'? This book is the first in-depth study of Cuba to examine its history and revolutionary transformation through the evolution of ideology and myth. Music, political campaigns, street and media propaganda, literature, cinema, and drama have served to establish a cubanista tradition, supported by powerful myths such as Che Guevara and Jose Marti, the New Man, youth, and an Afro-Cuban identity. Challenging preconceptions and conventional wisdoms about Cuba and its leadership, this book presents a remarkable portrait of the distinctive history of the island's culture. The interplay of history, revolutionary action, and ideology through myth and collective experience make this book essential reading for Cuban scholars, Latin American and US historians, political analysts and those generally interested in the history and future of Cuban political culture.

Ranga Raghuram, "Critical Thinking and Logical Reasoning Workbook-1"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1494830930 | ASIN: B07MLFD99V | EPUB | pages: 128 | 2.3 mb
The Gift Of Logic ™ Critical Thinking & Logical Reasoning Series is a set of twelve workbooks written with the goal of establishing a basic standard in cognitive thinking for K-12 students. These workbooks will help the students develop cognitive skills in three strands - Verbal Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, and Pictorial Reasoning. Each workbook has a variety of exercises in these three strands. These workbooks can be used by college students and working professionals as well for a quick and easy introduction to logic and reasoning. Visit the Gift Of Logic website for more information.

Alan Tyers, "Crickileaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1408152401 | EPUB | pages: 123 | 4.8 mb
Cricket's greatest legends. Sport's fiercest rivalry. Wisden's fakest diaries.CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players' balcony and imagines 40 cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated book covers they might have inspired. Featuring spoof journal entries drawn from throughout Ashes history, CrickiLeaks reveals for the first time the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers of the last 129 years. And Mitchell Johnson. CrickiLeaks includes imagined diaries from players on the most recent tour (Andrew Strauss, Ricky Ponting), diaries from the all-time greats (Shane Warne, Freddie Flintoff, Sir Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Donald Bradman, W.G. Grace), as well as contributions from less obvious personalities.An irreverent and entertaining collection of Ashes diaries, CrickiLeaks finally lays to rest some of cricket's greatest mysteries:- What exactly was going through Gatting's mind as he faced the ball of the century- Why did Ricky Ponting lose his rag with Ronald McDonald- What really went on between Douglas Jardine and Daphne the Koala in Adelaide ZooA riotous and uniquely scurrilous addition to any cricket-lover's library.

Richard A. Marsden, "Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past c. 1825-1875"
English | ISBN: 1409455939 | 2014 | 382 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Today, Scotland's history is frequently associated with the clarion call of political nationalism. However, in the nineteenth century the influence of history on Scottish national identity was far more ambiguous. How, then, did ideas about the past shape Scottish identity in a period when union with England was all but unquestioned?

Natalia A. Volosin, "Corruption in Argentina: Towards an Institutional Approach "
English | ISBN: 0367338718 | 2019 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The book provides an institutional, historical, and sectorial analysis of Argentina's structural corruption. Looking back over the last 200 years, the book demonstrates that Argentina has historically addressed corruption through ineffective debates between public-private biases or a cultural-criminal approach reinforced by modernization theory, neither of which have helped tackle the problem. Instead, Volosin proposes meaningful institutional reforms to reduce opportunities for corruption and to increase monitoring incentives and capabilities.

Omar E. Hawthorne, "Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts "
English | ISBN: 1138307971 | 2018 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1484 KB
Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors. Across the globe, the annual publication of TI's CPI and World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators elicits spirited denials and accusations of targeting, of neo-colonialism. Poor measures on corruption indices and the ensuing negative publicity can have serious consequences both externally, through a freeze or retraction of donor funding, and internally, through reducing the availability of public funds, and harming the credibility of serving governments and institutions.

Copying The Master And Stealing His Secrets: Talent And Training In Japanese Painting By Victoria Louise Weston; Brenda G. Jordan
2003 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0824826086 | PDF | 7 MB
Examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan.

Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman By Stanley Cavell
1996 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0226098141 | PDF | 27 MB
What is marriage? Can a relationship dedicated to equality, friendship, and mutual education flower in an atmosphere of romance? What are the paths between loving another and knowing another? Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, Pursuits of Happiness. With Contesting Tears, Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," shares a surprising number and weave of concerns with those comedies.

Contemporary Urban Design Thinking: The Australian Approach by Rob Roggema
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 (2019 Edition) | 236 Pages | ISBN : 3319919490 | 144.60 MB
This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions. Furthermore, detailed insights are given into how current designers, architects, urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time: climate change, migration, resiliency, politics, environmental change.

Contemporary Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism By Jamie Kaminski (editor), Angela M Benson (editor), David Arnold (editor)
2017 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 1138082015 | PDF | 4 MB
The perceived quality of a destination's cultural offering has long been a significant factor in determining tourist choices of destination. More recently, the need to present touristic offerings that include cultural experiences and heritage has become widely recognised, that this aspect of the tourism experience is an important differentiator of destinations, as well as being amongst the most manageable. This has also led to an increase in the management of such experiences through special exhibitions, events and festivals, as well as through ensuring more routine and controlled access to heritage sites.Reflecting the increasing application of cultural heritage as a driver for tourism and development, this book provides for the first time a cohesive volume on the subject that is theoretically rich, practically applied and empirically grounded. Written by expert scholars and practitioners in the field, the book covers a broad range of theoretical perspectives of cultural heritage tourism; regeneration, policy, stakeholders, marketing, socio-economic development, impacts, sustainability, volunteering and ICT. It takes a broad view, integrating international examples of sites, monuments as well as intangible cultural heritage, motor vehicle heritage events and modern art museums.This significant book furthers knowledge of the theory and application of tourism within the context of cultural heritage and will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in a range of disciplines.