The New Politics Of Surveillance And Visibility
Kevin Haggerty, Richard Ericson, "The New Politics Of Surveillance And Visibility"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0802038298, 0802048781 | PDF | pages: 395 | 22.5 mb
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the ‘war on terror,’ with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations. The last few years have also seen the public’s consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with ‘data mines’ of demographic information such as postal codes and purchasing records. Additionally, surveillance has become a form of entertainment, with ‘reality’ shows becoming the dominant genre on network and cable television.

The Making of an African Working Class Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana
The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana By Pnina Werbner
2014 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0745334962 | EPUB | 3 MB
The Making of an African Working Class explores the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of labour activism often neglected in other labour studies.Pnina Werbner shows that by fusing cosmopolitan and local popular cultural forms of protest, unionists have created a distinctive, vernacular way of being a worker in Botswana: one that does not deny workers' roots at home, in the countryside, while being cognisant of a wider world of cosmopolitan labour rights. The assertion of working class dignity, honour and respect, Pnina argues, is a powerful motivating force for manual workers.Against legal-sceptical approaches, The Making of an African Working Class argues that in challenging the government - their employer - in court, manual workers' protests and mobilisation are deeply embedded in ethics, social justice and the law.

The Gun Debate What Everyone Needs to Know
The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know by Kristin A. Goss
English | April 16, 2020 | ISBN: 0190073454 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1.28 Mb
No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades.

The End of Me Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins
Kyle Idleman, "The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins"
English | ISBN: 1434707075 | 2015 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1349 KB
Are you sometimes perplexed with Jesus's teaching? Do you really want what he wants? Bestselling author Kyle Idleman reveals that the key to the abundant life Jesus promised lies in embracing His inside-out way of life.

The Covid-19 Pandemic A Public Choice View
The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Public Choice View
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031249666 | 144 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This monograph evaluates public policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic through a public choice lens. The book compares two prominent, albeit mutually exclusive, theories in social sciences―public interest theory and public choice theory―and explores how their predictions perform within the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapters present different pandemic policies alongside empirical data in order to draw conclusions about their efficacy, and, in turn, draw conclusions about the veracity of each theory. By the end of the volume, the reader will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether the pandemic policy responses served the public interest, as public interest theory suggests, or the personal interests of the politicians who implemented them, as public choice theory holds.

The Best Little Army In The World
J. L. Granatstein, "The Best Little Army In The World"
English | ISBN: 1443439894 | 2015 | 336 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen army and turned it into one of the very best fighting armies in World War II, one which helped defeat the most implacable, desperate and battle-hardened German army over the course of 11 months in '44 and '45. Canada has always produced astonishingly effective soldiers, and this book is about one of their finest moments.

The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Guy Grainger
2006 | 436 Pages | ISBN: 0954962710 | PDF | 50 MB
With contributions by Birte Brugmann [et al.]The excavation of the cemetery at Finglesham in east Kent was a milestone in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, as one of the first cemeteries of this period to be excavated in its entirety. The present report covers the 216 inhumation graves dating from the 6th to 8th centuries excavated by Sonia Hawkes between 1959 and 1967. The volume comprises an introduction, a fully illustrated grave inventory, a report on the human skeletal remains and a number of specialists reports.