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Marjorie Vecchio, "The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border " English | ISBN: 1848859538 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 24 MB The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including Chocolat, Beau travail and White Material - explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker. As Wim Wenders writes in his Foreword: ""This book will hopefully throw many new lights on the amazing director that Klärchen [Claire Denis] became, a path she carved out all on her own."" Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/988b9fe33ea818b257df2c66adaf8432/juqku.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/yq3zghbzgny7/juqku.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/1ul9ofrrkana/juqku.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/OtaNxEVcLM/juqku.7z.html

The Filling Station: A Novel by Vanessa Miller English | March 11, 2025 | ISBN: 1400344123 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 2.3 MB "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is, shockingly, little more than a footnote in history . . . Miller's book, thankfully, reverses that egregious oversight . . . we viscerally learn how this vibrant Black community fought devastation with resilience, faith, and grit." -Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author Two sisters. One unassuming haven. Endless opportunities for grace. Sisters Margaret and Evelyn Justice have grown up in the prosperous Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma-also known as Black Wall Street. In Greenwood, the Justice sisters had it all-movie theaters and entertainment venues, beauty shops and clothing stores, high-profile businesses like law offices, medical clinics, and banks. While Evelyn aspires to head off to the East Coast to study fashion design, recent college grad Margaret plans to settle in Greenwood, teaching at the local high school and eventually raising a family. Then the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre upends everything they know and brings them unspeakable loss. Left with nothing but each other, the sisters flee along what would eventually become iconic Route 66 and stumble upon the Threatt Filling Station, a safe haven and the only place where they can find a shred of hope in oppressive Jim Crow America. At the filling station, they are able to process their pain, fill up their souls, and find strength as they wrestle with a faith in God that has left them feeling abandoned. But they eventually realize that they can't hide out at the filling station when Greenwood needs to be rebuilt. The search for their father and their former life may not give them easy answers, but it can propel them-and their community-to a place where their voices are stronger . . . strong enough to build a future that honors the legacy of those who were lost. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/58f7792fef113939211ed650de330b29/c0sc5.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/ep085tk74ju2/c0sc5.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/t0udagbp53vz/c0sc5.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/CoVa6Mp6GE/c0sc5.7z.html

Joseph Tafur MD, "The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine" English | ISBN: 0998609501 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. I have watched people spend years in frustration and thousands of dollars consulting an army of specialists, without getting real relief from their problem. Because these and others are diseases deeply connected with the state of our emotional bodies. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness. This is where traditional plant medicines, with their ability to alter consciousness and open channels of communication to our emotions, offer so much promise. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/eded73e57cbc29b97da6684f6b2a50c1/lo7i9.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/rvq2gte6abyi/lo7i9.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/s2tyacer966c/lo7i9.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/COXqKzczWj/lo7i9.7z.html

The Family Receipe: A Novel by Carolyn Huynh English | April 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1668033046 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 3.8 MB From the author of the "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author) Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Fortunes of Jaded Women, a stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries. Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc's Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn't want anything to do with Duc, the business, or their kids. But the money has to go to someone. With the help of the shady family lawyer, Duc informs his five estranged adult children that to receive their inheritance, his four daughters must revitalize run-down shops in old-school Little Saigon locations across America: Houston, San Jose, New Orleans, and Philadelphia-within a year. But if the first-born (and only) son, Jude, gets married first, everything will go to him. Each daughter is stuck in a new city, battling gentrification, declining ethnic enclaves, and messy love lives, while struggling to modernize their father's American dream. Jude wonders if he wants to marry for love or for money-or neither. As Duc's children scramble to win their inheritance, they begin to learn the real intention behind the inheritance scheme-and the secret their mother kept tucked away in the old fishing tackle box, all along. The Family Recipe is about rediscovering one's roots, different types of fatherly love, legacy, and finding a place in a divided country where the only commonality among your neighbors is the universal love of sandwiches. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/335d03e5a6e4cb689228aa8067b04d01/hdg7g.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/z3ig77mpl0x6/hdg7g.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/t05rfpjj8pm9/hdg7g.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/0PsDyJgYvZ/hdg7g.7z.html

George W. Liebmann, "The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty" English | ISBN: 1784531766 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 17 MB The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. It was the first major banking firm to finance Germany's Weimar Republic and provided League of Nations loans to Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria. Yet, the firm was doomed by the nationalist passions aroused by World War I. Its English partner was denaturalized and exiled; its American partner experienced reduced standing because of his connection to Germany; and the Frankfurt branch closed with the coming of the Third Reich, its German partner fleeing into exile. The firm was dissolved in 1939, an anticlimactic end to one of the great international banking companies. Liebmann tells the story of the firm and the family-shedding new light on the protagonists of a remarkable dynasty, who came undone in the dramatic years of the early twentieth century. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/8b37fe7262df7d7fb8518732d6d69f5c/g9rm5.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/yfooe1205zho/g9rm5.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/nzpzhslpvvy5/g9rm5.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/BoXge2skgS/g9rm5.7z.html

The Fall of Israel: The Degradation of Israel's Politics, Economy & Military by Dan Steinbock English | January 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1963892003 | True EPUB | 520 pages | 11.2 MB The fall of Israel did not begin on October 7th, 2023. The path to the obliteration of Gaza was paved by the confluence of a set of longstanding forces. This great conjuncture has transformed Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Dr Dan Steinbock connects the dots among these lethal headwinds. What makes The Fall of Israel unique is its comprehensive scope. It covers Israel's political, economic, social and military changes, the shifts in the Palestinian struggle for sovereignty, Israel's degradation into apartheid rule, the attendant atrocities, the regional and global reverberations and the human and economic costs, both prior and subsequent to Israel's fatal war on Gaza. There, its nightmarish actions have led to the engagement of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, renewed international boycotts, and massive domestic and international protests. The Fall of Israel outlines the central drivers of this simmering tinderbox: the serial expulsions of Palestinians, the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, a half century of failed U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and Israel's militarization, enabled by the symbiotic bilateral ties with the U.S. and massive U.S. military aid. In the Gaza War, these ties fostered paradigms of devastation, such as the Dahiya doctrine and mass assassination factories, backed by pioneering artificial intelligence. The settlements have contributed to the destabilization of the broader region since the early 1970s, and are now compounding its politico-economic and geopolitical crisis. This book addresses the efforts to institute a Jewish rather than a secular state. It shows how the postwar labor alignments were replaced by the hard-right coalitions, thanks to U.S. neoliberal economic policies, assertive neoconservatism and Jewish-American donors. It also explains the causes behind the rise of the Messianic far-right, centrist parties, and the failure of the Left. The corrosion of Israeli society and politics was already reflected in and driven by an economy constrained by adverse erosion, as reflected by the liabilities of its high-tech cluster, the talent "brain drain," the threatened welfare state and subsidized religious sector. But now, the already evident politico-economic costs to Israel of the Gaza war have set the stage for extraordinary uncertainty in the foreseeable future. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/4a6dfe0a45367c89cde6d17236dd9a37/jft10.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/s6fcjrni0l4m/jft10.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/u9p2t05igvhu/jft10.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/zNBiZbiNq2/jft10.7z.html

Hani Faris, "The Failure of the Two-State Solution: The Prospects of One State in the Israel-Palestine Conflict " English | ISBN: 1780760949 | 2013 | 400 pages | PDF | 11 MB Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But as this conflict continues unabated, and violence and instability deepen, it seems that the ideal of two states co-existing alongside each other and the ever-elusive goal of peace slips further from reach. The Failure of the Two-State Solution examines the impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, exploring the reasons behind the breakdown of attempts to establish a meaningful Palestinian state. This book therefore points to another - until recently unthinkable - option: a single bi-national state in Israel-Palestine, with all inhabitants sharing in equal rights and citizenship, regardless of ethnicity or faith. Hani A. Faris has drawn together a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis of the historical and current situation in Israel-Palestine. By analysing the history of the conflict in Israel-Palestine and its numerous peace initiatives, this book demonstrates how the current deadlock has been reached. With a nascent Palestinian state hampered by Israeli security policy and internal political divisions and the continuing expansion of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, it is argued here that the viability of the two-state solution seems to have run its course. And so highlights the one-state solution as an option, and debates and develops the organisational steps and strategies, on a local and international level, that would enable the construction of a bi-national state. With scholars from the US, Europe, the Arab world and Israel analysing the possibility of a one-state solution and the shortcomings of the two-state track, this is an important and ground-breaking book for students of Politics, International Relations, Peace Studies and Middle East Studies and all interested in the resolution of this seemingly intractable conflict. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/962966c110a8114ba4a55b2b2d226b83/aema5.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/sjossi5y66pc/aema5.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/grkb85jh2ry5/aema5.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/EC0uyPGNxl/aema5.7z.html

The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience by Plestia Alaqad English | 17 April 2025 | ISBN: 1035070251 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 1.5 MB In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate with dreams of becoming a successful journalist. By the end of November, her social media posts depicting daily life in Gaza, amid Israel's deadly invasion and bombardment, would profoundly move millions of people. She would be internationally known as the 'Eyes of Gaza'. Written as a series of diary extracts, The Eyes of Gaza relates the horrors of her experiences while showcasing the indomitable spirit of the men, women and children who share her communities. From the epicentre of turmoil, while bombs rain around her and devastation grips her people, she is witness to their emotions, their gentle acts of quiet, necessary heroism, and the moments of unexpected tenderness and vulnerability amid the chaos. Through the raw honesty and vulnerability of a normal 21-year-old woman trying to make her way through a human tragedy, The Eyes of Gaza is a potent reminder of the horrors of violence and a powerful testament to the human spirit. It recounts a harrowing experience, but it is not a heart-breaking lamentation. Rather, it is a deeply intimate love letter to a girl's home: demolished before her eyes, yes, but forever present in her heart. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/4c3261439941867588712ba4b58b96ef/30k4n.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/z7uvbipreop9/30k4n.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/5iqcthsqo9pz/30k4n.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/eiRspvD4gk/30k4n.7z.html

Chi-kwan Mark, "The Everyday Cold War: Britain and China, 1950-1972" English | ISBN: 1474265448 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were involved in the 'everyday Cold War', or a continuous process of contestation and cooperation that allowed them to 'normalize' their confrontation in the absence of full diplomatic relations. From Vietnam and Taiwan to the mainland and Hong Kong, China's 'everyday Cold War' against Britain was marked by diplomatic ritual, propaganda rhetoric and symbolic gestures. Rather than pursuing a failed policy of 'appeasement', British decision-makers and diplomats regarded engagement or negotiation with China as the best way of fighting the 'everyday Cold War'. Based on extensive British and Chinese archival sources, this book examines not only the high politics of Anglo-Chinese relations, but also how the British diplomats experienced the Cold War at the local level. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/0d917eb24a13c9ca227feebcc8dac7d1/6io9j.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/fchb2x3x4qt3/6io9j.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/cabesn63tv0t/6io9j.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/o22iUOUBJU/6io9j.7z.html

Mary Harrod, "The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, Globalization " English | ISBN: 1780769296 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 8 MB From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d'Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent, world-wide, than ever before. This book identifies the distinctive character of European cinema, both in films and as a critical concept, asking: what place does European cinema have in an increasingly globalized world? Including in-depth analyses of production and reception contexts, as well as original readings of key European films from leading experts in the field, it re-negotiates traditional categories such as auteurism, art cinema and national cinemas. As the first publication to explore 'Europeanness' in cinema, this book refocuses and updates historically significant areas of study in relation to this term. Leading scholars in European cinema - including Thomas Elsaesser, Tim Bergfelder, Anne Jackel, Lucy Mazdon and Ginette Vincendeau - acknowledge the transnational character of European filmmaking whilst also exploring the oppositions between European and Hollywood filmmaking, considering the value of the 'European' label in the circulation of films within and beyond the continent. The Europeanness of European Cinema makes a lively, timely intervention in the fields of European and transnational film studies. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/0ec1aa26a610b9cea00a55dcee11ca63/y3ynp.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/u92dnnk4pqar/y3ynp.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/v4kctchdusvm/y3ynp.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/S4LP7Cshbh/y3ynp.7z.html

Robert G. Picard, "The Euro Crisis in the Media: Journalistic Coverage of Economic Crisis and European Institutions " English | ISBN: 1784530603 | 2015 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB The Euro Crisis produced the most significant challenge to European integration in 60 years testing the structures and powers of the European Union and the Eurozone and threatening the common currency. This book explores how the financial and political crisis was portrayed in the European press and the implications of that coverage on public understanding of the developments, their causes, responsibilities for addressing the crisis, the roles and effectiveness of European institutions, and the implications for European integration and identity. It addresses factors that shaped news and analysis, the roles of European leaders, and the extent to which national and pan-European debates over the crisis occurred. In doing so, it provides a clear and readable explanation of what the portrayals tell us about Europe and European integration in the early twenty-first century." Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/b1c216a9ac9a223f79e63346398328b7/efwsd.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/vro5b8rba7uj/efwsd.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/h2gzeh9qet4z/efwsd.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/JvcuNXhgDB/efwsd.7z.html

Hamad Albloshi, "The Eternal Revolution: Hardliners and Conservatives in Iran " English | ISBN: 1784535427 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB More than three decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In that time, theories of modern revolution would suggest a retreat from ideological goals, heralding a phase of institutional development. However, Hamad Albloshi argues that Iran is unique: the current rhetoric of conservative Iranian leaders implies the regime has not left its revolutionary stage. Through an examination of the hardline conservative ideology in Iran-personified by the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-this book explores how the usual development seen in revolutions from radical discourse to pragmatic rhetoric has not been the case in Iran. Albloshi explores the evolution of the hardline conservatives and their main ideas about the nature of the Iranian regime, their position toward other groups within the system, and their approach to the international community. By doing so, he sheds new light on the group's position in the country and the ideological roots of major shifts that occurred in Iran's internal and external policies in the period between 2005 and 2013. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/dcfc28c8df36b61f31171a96937c39b2/idfvv.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/23fjo7muuqlo/idfvv.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/llo0omjd7d66/idfvv.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/4ibVOUK6Bf/idfvv.7z.html

The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems by César Vallejo, translated by Margaret Jull Costa English | April 22, 2025 | ISBN: 0811237664 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 1.2 MB One of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century, the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo now has a translatorworthy of his genius The Peruvian poet César Vallejo―one of Latin America's most famous poets―was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of Walt Whitman, the French symbolists, and the modernist Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario. He brought out his first book of poems in 1919,Los heraldos negros, and in 1922, he published his famous Trilce, which met a cool reception. Vallejo spent many years of his life in Europe―in Paris and Spain. Like many of the surrealists, he became a Marxist, and he was an ardent supporter of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War. In his poems, Vallejo poignantly describes human misery, isolation, and anguish. As the translator Margaret Jull Costa explains: "Vallejo edited and redrafted and honed his poetry. This is the only way in which he could describe the antithetical, paradoxical, oxymoronic universe he was living in, by using language at full tilt, making it perform all kinds of acrobatics. The resulting poems often defy interpretation..." This marvelous new bilingual selection of poems spanning his career up to his early death confirms Robert Hass's assessment that Vallejo was "one of the essential poets of the twentieth century, a heartbreaking and groundbreaking writer." RapidGator https://rg.to/file/418196c6c6250b30df3e82308890acce/z4kir.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/ahbuzw0o19on/z4kir.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/9g4dl04n2srs/z4kir.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/blopBiskrc/z4kir.7z.html

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Jill Bialosky English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1451677928, 9781451677942 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 4.3 MB Jill Bialosky, the poet behind the "tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir" (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother's life, told in reverse order from burial to birth. When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care facility on March 29, 2020, it unleashed a torrent of emotions in her daughter, Jill Bialosky. Grief, of course, but also guilt, confusion, and doubt, all of which were compounded by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic which made it impossible for Jill to be with her mother as she was dying and to attend her mother's funeral. Now, with a poet's eye for detail and a novelist's flair for storytelling, Jill presents a profoundly moving elegy unlike any other. Starting with her mother's end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home, The End Is the Beginning explores Iris's battle with depression, the tragedy of a daughter's suicide, a failed second marriage, the death of her beloved first husband only five years into their young marriage, her joyful teenage years, and the trauma of losing her own mother at just eight years old. Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iris's life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness. As we see Iris become younger and younger, we learn how we are all the sum of our experiences. Iris becomes a multi-dimensional, fascinating woman. We come to understand her difficulties and shortcomings, her neediness and her generosity, her pride and her despair. The End Is the Beginning is not just a family memoir, it is a brave and compassionate celebration of a woman's life and death and a window into a daughter's inextricable bond to her mother. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/818bdd5ef2ecd15f6e76309eb0dbd0af/b3194.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/ky2sbfjjafqh/b3194.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/8r594d6a5ulc/b3194.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/yYRzDy4JGz/b3194.7z.html

The Empowered Hysterectomy: Your Complete Handbook to Diagnosis, Decision, and Treatment by Kameelah Phillips English | May 13, 2025 | ISBN: 1538769352, 9781538769362 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 3.4 MB Are you dealingwith uterine pain, heavy bleeding, fibroids, or endometriosis? Take your power and your health back with this comprehensive, inclusive and accessible guide to uterine health, and should you need it, hysterectomy. After years of dealing with pelvic pain-whether from fibroids, endometriosis, or another issue-your doctor has recommended a hysterectomy. Perhaps those are words you'd never thought you'd hear. Perhaps the suggestion is a relief; perhaps it brings up all sorts of concerns-questions about the surgical process, the recovery period, and even about your own mental health as you weigh your options. In this offering from board certified obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Kameelah Phillips, you'll find a comprehensive, evidenced-based, and empowering guide that you need to read before making a life-changing, irreversible decision about about your future health and well-being. The Empowered Hysterectomyis the antidote to the lack of medically sound resources and the overwhelming amount of misinformation surrounding this procedure. In it, you'll find: A primer/refresher on the female anatomy-something many women are out of touch withInsights into the origins of the hysterectomy procedure, and the ripple effect it continues to haveThe various conditions (fibroids, endometriosis, ectopic pregnancy, cancer, and other ailments) that may lead to hysterectomyFinding balance between holistic & non-surgical options alongside medical managementAdvice for gender-affirming hysterectomyA complete guide to the surgical and recovery process You don't have to make this decision alone! WithThe Empowered Hysterectomy, you can come to the table prepared and informed about your body and your choices and avoid potential pitfalls in the doctor-patient conversation around treatment options. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/df0b0e0e3c2abfc10969d9834e1c6b8c/tpm96.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/alff9wnkiz66/tpm96.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/z408ngixt5ij/tpm96.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/SgE7Bm5HTD/tpm96.7z.html

Alon Schwabe, "The Empire Remains Shop" English | ISBN: 1941332374 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 111 MB "Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and products―sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica―available in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on a public installation in London in the fall of 2016, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program of discussions, performances, dinners, installations, and screenings hosted at 91-93 Baker Street. The pieces in this book use food to trace new geographies across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Structured as a franchise agreement, Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/cdba0589daf4a1f6a4889c29c957f4d7/n2ir7.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/ki9nvg5clfuq/n2ir7.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/kjnutulhixaa/n2ir7.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/7m0UPHTPJb/n2ir7.7z.html

Zsófia Varga, "The Effectiveness of the Köbler Liability in National Courts " English | ISBN: 1509939199 | 2020 | 312 pages | PDF | 5 MB Over the last 15 years, Köbler liability has resulted in the allocation of damages on only five occasions. Why is that? And what are the practical implications of the Köbler judgment in the Member States? This book offers a unique analysis of the principle - not from the usual EU-focused point of view but from the view of the practical Member State - and thus follows the track set by earlier books in the 'EU Law in the Member States' series. It thoroughly examines the national jurisprudential and legislative acceptation of the state liability principle and explores the existence of alternative remedies available in the Member States in case of such breaches. The conclusions, based on a systematic assessment of 300 national judgments from the 28 Member States, lead to a reconsideration of the role of the Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/4832a7eecc8ec05433f9b9a4af20ddb1/fincp.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/0yxi7saqil8x/fincp.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/wicf0e5yqgi1/fincp.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/8jcU8Ocze5/fincp.7z.html

The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship by Ernst Fraenkel, translated by E. A. Shills English | June 15, 2017 | ISBN: 0198716206, 9780191025341 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 0.4 MB The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism-and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany. Ernst Fraenkel's courageous ethnography of law was widely acclaimed upon publication, and it has influenced considerably postwar debates about the nature of the "Third Reich." But The Dual State also has relevance for the study of dictatorship in the twenty-first century. Fraenkel's innovative concept of "the dual state," with its two halves-the normative state (which generally respects its own laws and regulations) and the prerogative state (which violates them wantonly)-illuminates powerfully the complicated relationship between law and order in many countries around the world. It speaks directly to the idea of an authoritarian rule of law. This republication of Fraenkel's classic makes it once again available to scholars and students in law, the social sciences, and the humanities. It includes Fraenkel's 1974 preface to and two appendices from the first German edition-never before published in English. An extensive introduction by Jens Meierhenrich places Fraenkel's ethnography of law in historical and theoretical context. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/7be5ca06d93ca184d2289e8c0be77a47/eic9z.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/5wgd2i5xnr6x/eic9z.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/wv6mx0oxtvyn/eic9z.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/r84WjVlBJF/eic9z.7z.html

Tony Joel, "The Dresden Firebombing: Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction " English | ISBN: 1780763581 | 2014 | 384 pages | PDF | 7 MB The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre.Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack have become fierce historical battlegrounds, as German feelings of victimhood complete with those of guilt and loss. The Dresden bombing was used by East Germany as a propaganda tool, and has been re-appropriated by the neo-Nazi far right. Meanwhile the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche- the city's sumptuous eighteenth-century church destroyed in the raid-became central to German identity, while in London, a statue of the Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, has attracted protests. In this book, Tony Joel focuses on the historical battle to re-appropriate Dresden, and on how World War II continues to shape British and German identity today. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/6b1c840ac35d00f4d3648ab50e61b3ea/5aaz9.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/3vjxc1uo8f3d/5aaz9.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/efpbm1xywq6t/5aaz9.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/QAR1mNMQDK/5aaz9.7z.html

The Director: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1668087790, 9781668087817 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 4 MB "Nothing short of brilliant." -The Wall Street Journal "A surpassingly gifted storyteller." -The New York Times From "one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today" (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich. An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels-the minister of propaganda in Berlin-sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement. Kehlmann's latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/aa309fb4370812440782984571d4ea8e/ce5e2.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/hs4g42uzsk96/ce5e2.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/g9kssuult1fw/ce5e2.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/Yc1mSJi7Cv/ce5e2.7z.html

The Death of Us: A Novel by Abigail Dean English | April 15, 2025 | ISBN: 0593831136 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.97 MB "A page-turner par excellence, written with unobtrusive brilliance, [and] full of sharply observed lines.... The Death of Us lives up to the hype." -Stephen King It's the night we never talk about. It's the story the world wants to hear. But this isn't the story of that night. This is the story of us. Together, Edward and Isabel move to London. They are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun. But late on a spring evening when they are thirty years old, their home is invaded by a serial killer. In the wake of this violation, each tries to come to terms with a night that changed everything - and their marriage begins to crumble. Twenty-five years later, their tormentor is caught, and Edward and Isabel reunite for his sentencing. Isabel has waited years for the man who nearly ended her life to be brought to justice. Edward has tried to think about anything else. As they prepare to deliver impact statements in the public eye, it is time to revisit their love story. Will they finally be able to confront the secrets, longings and lies that tore them apart? Or will the horror of that night be the death of them? A captivating portrait of a marriage and its implosion, The Death of Us digs into the stories we tell ourselves about love - and everything love can bear. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/f0c192ffce006f457a34e24935cca2ef/pjcnd.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/1t6lm01q9l1l/pjcnd.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/lnnryx4djre9/pjcnd.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/sh1iMPJuh2/pjcnd.7z.html

The Darkening Globe by Naomi Kelsey English | 24 April 2025 | ISBN: 0008534802, 9780008534813 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 2 MB Each time the globe turns, murder strikes... 1597, London. When Beatrice's husband returns from exploring the New World, he comes home with unexpected company: a mysterious woman, and an enormous painted globe. As Hugh refuses to explain who their female guest is, Beatrice's foreboding grows. The unwieldy globe now strikes her as sinister - a reminder of the world of secrets pervading her household. Then one night, the great, hulking globe begins to turn of its own accord. Terrifying new illustrations appear on its face - and when untimely deaths ensue, Beatrice is convinced that the drawings are connected. Desperate to prove that she is not paranoid, Beatrice risks everything to uncover the truth. What sinister force is behind these killings? What really happened on Hugh's excursion to the Americas? Who is the strange woman who won't leave her house? And on this otherworldly map of murders, who will be painted as the final victim? RapidGator https://rg.to/file/d9d77e850118c554ade649e0e57125af/58w4d.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/j6tmu5c8mvj6/58w4d.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/7sbiesfpx3vq/58w4d.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/qALCHPzpZF/58w4d.7z.html

The Dark Maestro: A Novel by Brendan Slocumb English | May 13, 2025 | ISBN: 0593687612, 9780593687628 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 6.3 MB His cello made him famous. His father made him a target. Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and talent, and the loving support of his father's girlfriend, Larissa, Curtis claws his way out of his challenging circumstances and rises to unimagined heights in the classical music world-even soloing with the New York Philharmonic. And then, suddenly, his life disintegrates. His father, Zippy, turns state's evidence, implicating his old bosses. Now the family-Curtis included-must enter the witness protection program if they want to survive. This means Curtis must give up the very thing he loves the most: sharing his extraordinary music with the world. When Zippy's bosses prove too elusive for law enforcement, Curtis, Zippy, and Larissa realize that their only chance of survival is to take on the criminals themselves. They must create new identities and draw on their unique talents, including Curtis's musical ability, to go after the people who want them dead. But will it be enough to save Curtis and his family? A propulsive and moving story about sacrifice, loyalty, and the indomitable human spirit, The Dark Maestro is Brendan Slocumb at the height of his powers. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/0f66ebea9777276ac62883773286f716/adqxx.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/xkq9fu59gl5m/adqxx.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/khmzgmxig34g/adqxx.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/PlxARqUScQ/adqxx.7z.html

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1477331484, 9781477331507 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.3 MB A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward. In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe's allusions to queer longing, Radiohead's embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen's very trans desire to "change my clothes my hair my face"-and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis's own who embody the tenderness at the genre's heart, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul. RapidGator https://rg.to/file/a7741760996216b86c513ee431f38fc3/cdidb.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/p9rpeeep73v3/cdidb.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/zipkz6yf3yzi/cdidb.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/8l73cEN7gG/cdidb.7z.html

Irving Finkel, "The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon" English | ISBN: 1350297054 | 2024 | 160 pages | PDF | 14 MB Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC by the Persian king, it records an event which launched one of the greatest imperial adventures in history. It describes Cyrus' capture and deposition of Nabonidus, last native Babylonian ruler (represented by the Cylinder text as an oppressor of his own people), and proclaims the Persian, aided by the god Marduk, as a liberator. His annexation of Babylon was to become the platform upon which the Achaemenid military machine built its later vast imperium. But the Cylinder is more than an ancient exercise in propaganda. It has been celebrated as the world's first declaration of human rights, and an international symbol of religious tolerance, setting out the decree from which Cyrus freed the Jews in Babylon: an event recorded by Isaiah. Few other objects from antiquity are invested with so many hopes for the future. This important volume is the first to discuss the Cylinder and its remarkable history. Written by internationally respected authorities from the British Museum, it offers a fresh consideration of its subject in the light of new discoveries. Included here is a complete new translation of the Cylinder inscription using recently identified but previously unpublished sources. Archive materials have allowed a fresh investigation of the circumstances of the original nineteenth-century find by Hormuzd Rassam, and a reappraisal of the mysterious 'Chinese bone' forgeries. The book also discusses the extraordinary and evolving history of Cyrus' timeless message: a message that continues powerfully to resonate. Read more RapidGator https://rg.to/file/a6227a26ecf470d9c025b3dd4730d636/n4sp5.7z.html Fileaxa https://fileaxa.com/z9fero64a646/n4sp5.7z [b]FilesPayouts[/b] https://filespayouts.com/1axqhsow6bxs/n4sp5.7z Fikper https://fikper.com/2iTqts1s1v/n4sp5.7z.html