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Free Download Camille Schmoll, "Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea "
English | ISBN: 3031450965 | 2024 | 204 pages | EPUB | 366 KB
This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women. It gives a complex picture of individual journeys of migrant women, and in a radical departure from the miserabilist or culturalist approach through which women are usually viewed, the book argues for a politically and socially aware, activist feminism that is attuned to what border-obsessed migration policies actually do to women.The research presented in this book is based on multi-sited fieldwork that led the author to closely follow migration survivors. The book depicts the journey of women as they experience brutal separations, have to make heart-wrenching decisions and end up wandering from one place to another, but also as they make acquaintances and find new opportunities. The first-person accounts collected here demonstrate that the reasons behind these women's decision to leave are anything but simple and linear: they combine various forms of persecution and oppression, a desire for autonomy and a yearning for new horizons, as well as changes in gender relations in their countries of origin.The book further explores the daily lives of women in reception centres, where they are in limbo, their journey as if "suspended," as they wait for this Europe rejecting them to acknowledge their presence. These women live on and "in" the border - a border that relentlessly haunts them and pursues them everywhere they go. Boredom is constant and, likewise, racism and marginalisation processes are pervasive. At the same time, this study shows that these women are also resisting, strategising, taking charge of their own destinies and journeys, and looking for a way out.Written from the standpoint of a geographer, this study accordingly puts the space of everyday life front and centre. Such a space acts as an impediment to these women's journeys: it generates a "moralscape" of waiting, which plays a key role in these women's daily lives.However, it can also help these women gain greater autonomy, thus empowering them, and it may be subverted through various tactics and stratagems, which sometimes take the form of spatialised strategies.

Free Download Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy By Melvin Konner
2015 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0393239969 | EPUB | 1 MB
A lively, richly informed argument for the natural superiority of women from the acclaimed author of The Tangled Wing.There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression.It is called maleness.In Women After All, Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. With patience and wit he explores the knotty question of whether men are necessary in the biological destiny of the human race. He draws on multiple, colorful examples from the natural world―such as the mating habits of the octopus, black widow, angler fish, and jacana―and argues that maleness in humans is hardly necessary to the survival of the species.In characteristically humorous and engaging prose, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities, while noting the poignant exceptions that challenge the male/female divide. We meet hunter-gatherers such as those in Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, invented the working mother, and respected women's voices around the fire. Recent human history has upset this balance, as a dense world of war fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has been recovering over the past two centuries, and an unstoppable move toward equality is afoot. It will not be the end of men, but it will be the end of male supremacy and a better, wiser world for women and men alike. Provocative and richly informed, Women After All is bound to be controversial across the sexes.

Free Download Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television "
English | ISBN: 0814346561 | 2022 | 282 pages | EPUB | 1012 KB
While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television is the first sustained critical analysis of the twenty-first-century resurgence of this tradition. In Woman Up, Julia Havas'scentral argument is that postmillennial "feminist quality television" springs from a rhetorical subversion of the (much-debated) masculine-coded "quality television" culture on the one hand and the dominance of postfeminist popular culture on the other.

Free Download Wohngebäudeversicherung: Eine Erläuterung anhand praktischer Fälle
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 396329471X | 230 Seiten | PDF (True) | 7 MB
Sie möchten sich zielgerichtet und praxisorientiert in das Thema Wohngebäudeversicherung einarbeiten? Zahlreiche Übungen, Schadenfälle und Beispiele aus der Versicherungspraxis veranschaulichen den Aufbau und erklären die Systematik der Wohngebäudeversicherung. Durch den strukturierten Aufbau der Musterlösungen kann der Leser die Lösungswege selbst komplexer Schadenfälle gut nachvollziehen und im Arbeitsalltag anwenden. Das Buch eignet sich deshalb sowohl für Beschäftigte als auch für Einsteiger der Versicherungswirtschaft, die sich auf diesem Gebiet weiterbilden möchten, und dient zugleich als solide Ausgangsbasis für das vertiefende Studium. Die GDV-Bedingungen sind zur Übersicht im Anhang abgedruckt. Zudem enthält das Buch eine Synopse der GDV-Musterbedingungen und der Proximus-Bedingungen, welche deutlich durch Hinweiskästchen gekennzeichnet sind und dem Leser somit die Abweichungen auch optisch verdeutlichen.

Free Download Wobbling Motion in Nuclei: Transverse, Longitudinal, and Chiral
by Nirupama Sensharma
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031171497 | 153 Pages | True PDF | 6 MB

Free Download Martin Stokhof, "Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100"
English | ISBN: 3031298624 | 2023 | 233 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.

Free Download Yoram Bilu, "Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana "
English | ISBN: 0814343244 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his Jewish identity.

Free Download Justin Smith, "Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema "
English | ISBN: 1848850921 | 2010 | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Withnail and Us charts the journey of cult in culture through an exploration of British cult films and their fans. It is about our bizarre and enduring fascination with once obscure or shocking movies, from A Clockwork Orange to The Wicker Man. What is it about certain films that provokes such obsessive fan devotion? What impells people to remote locations in search of filmic relics? Why do they gather in groups to re-enact scenes learnt by heart? Is any film worth re-viewing over 100 times? From 1968 and all that, through the cultural by-ways of the 1970s, this book attempts to explain such strange practices, and to trace their origins in the makings of some remarkable films, including Tommy, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Quadrophenia, Withnail & I, Trainspotting and Performance. Prepare to enter the arena of the unwell!

English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 0271096748 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 59.5 MB
Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear.

Free Download Robert Rapley, "Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0773531866 | EPUB | pages: 326 | 2.0 mb
Witch hunts are the products of intense fear and paranoia and the results are often terrible. The accused in three famous witchcraft cases - in Bamberg and Wurzburg, Germany, in Loudun, France, and in Salem, Massachusetts - were assumed to be guilty without proof. Secret accusations were accepted, evidence was falsified, and extreme pressures, including torture, were used. Arguing that fear was, and still is, a prerequisite to any witch hunt, Robert Rapley shows that the current hunt for terrorists mirrors the witch crazes of the past. Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two white girls in the 1930s, to the Guildford and Maguire terrorist prosecutions in Britain in the 1970s. All three cases took place during times of extreme fear and paranoia and in all cases the accused were innocent.Today, argues Rapley, the "witch" lives on in the "terrorist." He cites as evidence Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the first prisons created for "witches" since Salem. In Witch Hunts he makes a compelling case that, in the wake of 9/11, witch hunts threaten today's America.