White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference By Fred Pfeil
1995 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 1859849377 | PDF | 18 MB
What do men-white straight men in particular-want? In a series of witty and provocative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of white heterosexual masculinity over the last fifteen years. White Guys probes such topics as the rock'n'roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose, and the late Kurt Cobain; the "male rampage" films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and the films of "sensitive transformation" that followed in their wake; and the curious yet symptomatic activities of the men's movement whose "rituals" Pfeil has investigated firsthand.

Dan Schlossberg, Bobby Cox, "When the Braves Ruled the Diamond: Fourteen Flags over Atlanta"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1683582721, 1613218370 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 9.1 mb
Relive the greatest fifteen years of Braves baseball-the days of Bobby Cox, Greg Madduz, Chipper Jones, and more!

Greg Jobin-Leeds, AgitArte, "When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1620970937 | PDF | pages: 209 | 62.9 mb
Real stories of hard-fought battles for social change, told by those on the front lines-with clear lessons and tips for activists on gaining power from the ground up

Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell
English | August 18, 2022 | ISBN: 1788705580 | True EPUB | 406 pages | 5.8 MB
In 1986, the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. A collection of twenty-two independently signed guitar-based bands, C86 was the sound and ethos that defined a generation. It was also arguably the point at which 'indie' was born.

Roberta Iversen, "What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now"
English | ISBN: 1439922365 | 2022 | 197 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? In What Workers Say, Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industries-like manufacturing, construction, printing-as well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food service, retail, and automotive-jobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people's full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide any

What Happened To Fairbanks?: The Effects Of The Trans-alaska Oil Pipeline On The Community Of Fairbanks, Alaska By Mim Dixon
2019 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 1000010767 | EPUB | 9 MB
This book describes what Fairbanks was like during trans-Alaska oil pipeline construction and how the community responded to the project, and assesses the unplanned negative effects that, in many cases, outweighed the positive ones.

Taylor N. Carlson, "What Goes Without Saying"
English | ISBN: 1108927440 | 2022 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Why are political conversations uncomfortable for so many people? The current literature focuses on the structure of people's discussion networks and the frequency with which they talk about politics, but not the dynamics of the conversations themselves. In What Goes Without Saying, Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle investigate how Americans navigate these discussions in their daily lives, with particular attention to the decision-making process around when and how to broach politics. The authors use a multi-methods approach to unpack what they call the 4D Framework of political conversation: identifying the ways that people detect others' views, decide whether to talk, discuss their opinions honestly―or not, and determine whether they will repeat the experience in the future. In developing a framework for studying and explaining political discussion as a social process, What Goes Without Saying will set the agenda for research in political science, psychology, communication, and sociology for decades to come.

Mike Mariani, "What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma"
English | ISBN: 0593236947 | 2022 | EPUB | 400 pages | 1 MB
"A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us-a reincarnation."-Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

What Can We Know About Sex?: A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032259906 | 151 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.45 MB
Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud's discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan's work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisèle Chaboudez's insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled, opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity.

Wetland Development in Paddy Fields and Disaster Management
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811937346 | 263 Pages | PDF (True) | 16 MB
This book proposes the use of green infrastructure to balance biodiversity conservation and disaster management. Paddy fields are one example of such infrastructure and are the focus of this book. In Japan, abandoned, once-cultivated land is increasing in the paddy fields due to the aging of society and recent depopulation. The author proposes to consolidate such lands and create wetlands because the paddy fields hold water during heavy rains, which prevents floods and protects cities. This is essential, considering that extreme weather conditions have increased the risk of flood damage in Japan. Not only do such wetlands hold water during the flood season, they also provide habitats for aquatic life and places for children to learn about the natural environment. In addition, fish farming in the wetlands will provide food for many people. The increase in water disasters associated with global warming is occurring not only in Japan but globally. The proposal presented in this book will help government officials around the world, especially those involved in urban and rural planning, to consider disaster management-an idea that will be welcomed by both engineers and biologists.