Simone Murray, "The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era"
English | 2018 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1421426099 | PDF | 2,4 mb
How has the Internet changed literary culture?

Massimo Modonesi, "The Concept of Social Class in Contemporary Marxist Theory"
English | ISBN: 3838216075 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Going from classic to contemporary authors, the authors of this volume consider theorists that provided contributions that became representative of trends, schools of thought and original theoretical perspectives, and that grew into the backbone of Marxist thought: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Edward Palmer Thompson, Nicos Poulantzas, Erik O. Wright, Antonio Negri, and John Holloway, with references to Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ralph Miliband.

The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon By Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael
1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0813016312 | PDF | 3 MB
This study examines the development of the communist movement in Syria and Lebanon. Drawing on party documents and literature, as well as interviews over a 25-year period, the authors examine the movement's evolution, struggles and fragmentation in Syria and Lebanon.

The Classical Guitar Book by Music Whale
English | May 12, 2022 | ISBN: 992378701X | 51 pages | EPUB | 2.98 Mb
Music Whale

Geoff Peddle, "The Church Lads' Brigade in Newfoundland: A People's Story"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1771175737 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 13.9 mb
A History of the Church Lads' Brigade (CLB)

The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing By
2009 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 1443802379 | PDF | 4 MB
Lists, one of the most archaic literary genres, stand behind many of our complex mental or rhetorical structures and they often influence the way we conceptualize the world (even if we are unaware of it). They seem plain but may conceal a complicated inner logic. They are agrammatical but may tell a story. Their basic features - selection, order, and layout - may be enough to give them enormous power: by including they exclude, by ordering they create a hierarchy, by taking on particular physical aspects they place themselves into a specific context. These and other issues are discussed in the present transdisciplinary volume collecting the best revised contributions to a workshop on lists held at the Center for Theoretical Study in Prague in November 2008. Each of the 13 articles by researchers from seven countries provides a case study on the subject of list. The fields covered include late antique, medieval and early modern history, philology, philosophy, cognitive and computer science. The contributors aim both at presenting particular cases - specific lists or list-types - and, at the same time, at addressing methodological issues: exploring the ways of researching lists in their particular disciplines, formulating relevant research themes and questions, contextualizing the subject. Since theoretical discourse on lists has not been established yet, this volume should be seen as a first step in the process, showing the variety of possible research directions on a transdisciplinary level, and raising interest in the topic, which, although it may seem a bit obscure at first, has indeed a lot to offer.

David Seawright, "The British Conservative Party and One Nation Politics"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1441123695, 0826489745 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 2.9 mb
Normal false false false E.N.-U.S. X-None X-None MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This book reveals the true nature of Conservative Party politics by examining the centrality of the myth of One Nation. The use of the term One Nation clearly matters for Conservative Party politicsGÇönot just in its 'ancestral' use emanating from Disraeli's 1840s novels and his late nineteenth century rhetoricGÇöbut also through Baldwin's speeches and to the failure of John Major to replicate such a serene and contented image of the Nation in the 1990s. But, as a concept for the Conservatives, it means so much more than mere imagery. It has been successfully utilized in their 'palaeontological' approach to their history in order to give the impression that only the Party puts 'Nation' before any sectional interest, that only the Conservative Party, as the national Party, has the ability to assuage and balance the plurality of competing interests on behalf of the Nation. It is because of this long and successful utilization of the term 'One Nation' that so many within the Party are so keen to lay claim to it.

Stuart Mitchell, "The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1847180094, 1847187684 | PDF | pages: 246 | 1.2 mb
The Brief and Turbulent Life of Modernising Conservatism is an examination of government tensions and frustrations during a time of economic and social flux. It concentrates on the development of domestic industrial policy in the Conservative Party between 1945 and 1964, with particular emphasis on Harold Macmillan s and Sir Alec Douglas-Home s administrations. Between the general elections of 1959 and 1964, the Conservative Government effected a series of striking and dangerously controversial policy transformations in response to its recognition of Britain s relative economic decline. These adjustments were both practical and strategic. The administration s aim was extraordinarily ambitious. It sought to fashion a recognisably modern and dynamic, yet socially stable, nation that could retain its place in the international élite. Thereby, the Party hoped to ensure its own continuation in power. The author considers policy innovations that included an ill-starred attempt to join the European Community, the development of macro-economic planning, and the abolition of resale price maintenance an exploit which roused the Tory Party to unusual heights of passion. The book does not simply regurgitate an orthodox high political narrative. Instead, it investigates topics of interest to modern historians and political scientists alike. It will be of value to anyone interested in questions of modern political ideology, social and economic change, the nature of popular political support, or the constraints on state power in the post-war world. 'This is an important study which speaks both to the study of the past and debates on the present. It fills a gap in literature on the history of the post-war Conservative party, but should also be read by those engaged in, or commentating on, present day developments in David Cameron's Conservative Party.' Dr. Richard Grayson Lecturer in British Politics Goldsmiths College, University of London 'A learned and well written account. Timely.' Dr. Anthony Seldon Founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary British History

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice By Peregrine Horden (editor), Elisabeth Hsu (editor)
2013 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0857459821 | PDF | 2 MB
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of "balance" in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits "harmony" and "holism" as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?

W. R. J. Barron, "The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in English Life and Literature"
English | 2001 | pages: 440 | ISBN: 0708316832, 0708314775 | PDF | 33,3 mb
The English think of Arthur as their own-stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of their princes even today. Yet if the English had anything to do with a historical Arthur, it was as his bitterest enemies and hi-jackers of the British heritage.