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Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Size: 223 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom.Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as t...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Size: 365 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 382 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2020 onward
This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data from a broad range of qualitative methods. Using a theoretical framework and methodological approach that can be applied transnationally, it sheds light on the complex interplay of factors which shape children’s socialisation and media usage in multiple ways. ...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 314 pages
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A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality. Coverage looks at new family and partnership forms among the young and middle-aged, their relationship with health, and the pathways through which they act. Among the old, lifelong family biography and present family situation are explored. Evidence is provided that partners advancing in age start to resemble each other more closely in terms of health, with t...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths
Size: 303 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2020 onward
3 reviews
Vampirist: A book about real vampires
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Genre: Nonfiction, Children's Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Teen & Young Adult, Education & Reference
Size: 118 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
If you want to know how this book can help you to unlock your brain’s potential, then keep reading..Why do we act so often against our own interests? Are you tired of living in a state of mental confusion? Are you crushed by friends, by work, by society and can't get your ideas reorganized to focus on what you really care about?We’ve all felt anxious, sad, stressed, angry, or hopeless. We are humans, not robots. It’s perfectly normal. It is how you respond to these challenges that will make all the difference in how you feel. Unfortunately, many people turn to self-medicating behaviors, such as overeating, drugs, alcohol.I hope you are reading this because you no longer want to be part of this group of people. Certainly, you want to unlock your brain’s potential to defeat...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 183 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 200 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
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Genre: History, Ancient, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 434 pages
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Knowledge and power in an overheated world
Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as ‘the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people’, revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites – a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change. In this world, where the authority of science and empirical methods is being questioned and where even world leaders may brush aside uncomfortable facts as ‘fake news’, it is increasingly difficult to know whose knowledge to trust. This insight is the starting point of this collection of articles, which has g...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Disaster Relief
Size: 199 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
Mobilities of Knowledge (Knowledge and Space Book 10)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 303 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
3 reviews
Revival of the West: Securing a Future for European People
This book deconstructs the myth of progressive liberalism. The author explores left-wing ideals of equality, diversity, social justice and open society, and exposes them as empty fiction.The fate of modern civilization rests solely on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it. After the European colonial age, the discovery of the New World, the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of the modern West, Western man has arrived at a crisis. Has he exhausted himself like Goethe’s Faust? Should he end his quest for greatness and let others take charge of the world he built? Should he dissolve his ego and hide himself in the safe comfort of anonymous masses? Or should he, at long last, unleash his suppressed potential?High on a cocktail of sugar, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, an...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 150 pages
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An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 128 pages
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This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studie...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 344 pages
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320 Quotes By Albert Einstein: Interesting Quotes By The Legendary Albert Einstein
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Quotations
Size: 321 pages
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Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 313 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Sex Positions for Couples: The Ultimate Guide for Exploding a Couple’s Sex Life
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sex
Size: 144 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
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Over 8 million people go missing each and every year…just vanishing into thin air... This is some of their stories. Download FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Of these, some are found within hours, others within days, some within weeks, and certain people are found after months of being away. However, the story does not always end happily.Of the millions who go missing every year around the world, there are those who simply vanish and are never seen again. The sheer volume of people who disappear each and every year are when examined in detail, terrifying. In this book, we will touch upon some of the most terrifying, touching, strange, and worrying stories.In this book, we hope to examine the sheer range of cases which have enthralled the interested and distressed those involved for many years...
Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Nonfiction, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, True Accounts, True Crime
Size: 201 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
What do the world’s superpowers get up to in their secret underground bunkers?
UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, details confirmed and rumored underground facilities in the United States and around the world. Containing rare photographic evidence throughout as well as little-known quotes from key government figures, it makes a compelling case for there being an enormous hidden world under the Earth's surface.
The Morcans speculate that the covert underground infrastructure may be far bigger than anyone has previously supposed and is likely used for the development of suppressed technologies. Their sources include declassified files...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 115 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
2 reviews
Chilling. One of the best words to describe the cases recounted in this book set. These gruesome crimes seemed to hit a dead end… That is until the cases were reopened for investigation and later and then solved thanks to modern technologies and investigation techniques.Download FREE with Kindle Unlimited! From the more famous cases to the more obscure, the crimes and hardships that the victims had to suffer will send shivers down your spine. Notably detailing the disappearance of Chandra Levy to the multiple murders committed by Dennis Rader.You will find that this book includes:• Bone chilling murder and disappearance cases• The rise of DNA technology• International cases from the United Kingdom• More local cases from North America• Ingenious methods that some investigators h...
Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, True Accounts, True Crime
Size: 141 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Parenting & Families, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 318 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
WARBOOK (The Historical Prequel; 1832-2020)
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Genre: Fiction, Drama, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 3.59 mb
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
A vindication of the rights of woman with strictures on political and moral subjects
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 138 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
This open access book analyses the strategies of migration intermediaries from the public and private sectors in Switzerland to select, attract, and retain highly skilled migrants who represent value to them. It reveals how state and economic actors define “wanted immigrants” and provide them with privileged access to the Swiss territory and labour market. The analysis draws on an ethnographic study conducted in the French-speaking Lake Geneva area and the German-speaking northwestern region of Switzerland between 2014 and 2018. It shows how institutional actors influence which resources are available to different groups of newcomers by defining and dividing migrants according to constructed social categories that correlate with specific status and privileges. This research thus shifts...
Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 244 pages
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This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy ac...
Genre: History, Africa, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, History & Philosophy
Size: 360 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
This open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be modified and supplemented, and propose that we consider violence in terms of psychological supremacy, rather than in terms of femininity and masculinity. Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships will appeal to students and scholars across a range of areas including criminology, sociology and family violence, and gender studies....
Genre: Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 174 pages
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Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Nonfiction, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 195 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
James Fenimore Cooper: The Complete Novels
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Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction Classics, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Foreign Languages
Size: 21.36 mb
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Travel
Size: 130 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
Russia's Turn to the East: Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation (Global Reordering)
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Genre: Business & Finance, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, International
Size: 167 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
