Give a F*ck, Actually
by Wills, Alex;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1510772979 | 113 pages | True EPUB | 5.5 MB

Sophus Helle, "Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic"
English | ISBN: 0300251181 | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace

Thor Muller, "Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business"
English | ISBN: 1118249755 | 2012 | 288 pages | MOBI | 576 KB
A guide to getting luck on your side

George Kateb: Dignity, Morality, Individuality By John Seery (editor)
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1138017493 | PDF | 2 MB
George Kateb's writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy―sovereignty vested in the many―might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have focused on many inter-related topics: rights, representation, constitutionalism, war, evil, extinction, punishment, privacy, patriotism, and more. This book focuses in particular on his thought in three key areas: Dignity These essays exhibit the breadth and complexity of Kateb's notion of dignity and outline some implications for political theory. Rather than a solely moral approach to the theory of human rights, he elaborates a human-dignity rationale for the very worth of the human species Morality Here Kateb challenges the position that moral considerations are often too demanding to have a place in the rough-and-tumble of modern politics and political analysis. Rejecting common justifications for the propriety of punishment, he insists that state-based punishment is a perplexing moral problem that cannot be allayed by repairing to theories of state legitimacy. Individuality These essays gather some of Kateb's rejoinders and correctives to common conceptions and customary critiques of the theory of democratic individuality. He explains that Locke's hesitations and religious backtracking are instructive, perhaps as precursors for the ways in which vestigial beliefs can still cloud moral reasoning.

Gendering the Crown in the Spanish Baroque Comedia By María Cristina Quintero
2012 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1409439631 | PDF | 3 MB
The Baroque Spanish stage is populated with virile queens and feminized kings. This study examines the diverse ways in which seventeenth-century comedias engage with the discourse of power and rulership and how it relates to gender. A privileged place for ideological negotiation, the comedia provided negative and positive reflections of kingship at a time when there was a perceived crisis of monarchical authority in the Habsburg court. Author MarÃa Cristina Quintero explores how playwrights such as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Antonio Coello, and Francisco Bances Candamo--taking inspiration from legend, myth, and history--repeatedly staged fantasies of feminine rule, at a time when there was a concerted effort to contain women's visibility and agency in the public sphere. The comedia's preoccupation with kingship together with its obsession with the representation of women (and women's bodies) renders the question of royal subjectivity inseparable from issues surrounding masculinity and femininity. Taking into account theories of performance and performativity within a historical context, this study investigates how the themes, imagery, and language in plays by Calderón and his contemporaries reveal a richly paradoxical presentation of gendered monarchical power.

Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation By Donna Pankhurst (editor)
2007 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 041595648X | PDF | 3 MB
This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. Such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of a war often fails to bring freedom from sexual violence for many women. Within such a context, efforts on the part of women, and those made on their behalf, to hold to account those who commit crimes against them, and to access their rights are difficult to make, are often dangerous, and are also often deployed with little effect. Gendered Peace explores international contexts, and a variety of local ones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress. The volume highlights the surprising success in the development of international legal advances for women, but contrasts this with the actual experience of women in cases from Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Peru, Central America and the Balkans.'

Walklate, Sandra, "Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice: Second Edition"
English | 2004 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 1843920689, 1138136840 | PDF | 4,5 mb
The first edition of this book provided a lucid and highly acclaimed introduction to gender issues in crime and criminal justice, central to any understanding of crime and criminal justice policy and practice. This second edition has been updated to take full account of recent developments, particularly in the areas of policing, crime prevention, restorative justice and legislation relating to sexual offenses and the nature and impact of crime on women - in particular the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The book is divided into three main sections. The first considers different ways of theorizing about gender and the relative impact of this on thinking about crime and criminal victimization; the second considers some of the evidence in relation to people's gendered experiences of crime and criminal victimization; and the third considers how those working within the criminal justice system, and the policies that are put in place, work to sustain or change those experiences of crime and criminal victimization in relation to gender.

Dr. Henrietta C. Mears, "Founders of Our Faith: Genesis through Deuteronomy: From Creation to the Promised Land "
English | ISBN: 1496416392 | 2016 | 160 pages | EPUB | 1112 KB
This study, based on Dr. Mears' perennial best-seller, invites readers to explore the world of the biblical Patriarchs in Genesis and journey with the ancient Israelites on their liberating exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. Through 12 sessions of study, readers will get to know Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and others, and see God's timeline for Israel's formation and salvation unfold. Plus, Dr. Mears' signature approach to the sweeping biblical narrative is to focus on Christ, so readers will also come to understand how even the earliest events of Scripture point forward to Jesus and His faithfulness to us today.

Flatfish Metamorphosis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811978581 | 307 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the development and evolution of flatfish metamorphosis. The chapters use the tissue model to explain a series of metamorphic events， including eye migration, front bone deformation, dorsal fin elongation and regression, and body depth change, left/right asymmetrical pigmentation, give a hypothesis on the mechanism of eye migration, and the evolutionary origin of left/right eye asymmetry.

Joseph Amagada MD, "Fix Your High Blood Pressure in 90 Days or Less: Scientific Methods to Break Free from Life Long Prescription Meds"
English | ISBN: 1802275584 | 2022 | 344 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"After reading this book, most lay people will know as much or more about elevated blood pressure than their doctor does, and most physicians will be far better able to effectively treat their patients with hypertension. I would recommend this book to my patients and colleagues, and no doubt will even employ some of his sage wisdom in my own life."