Tag: Aftermath

Free Download James Duermeyer, "The Capture of the USS Pueblo: The Incident, the Aftermath and the Motives of North Korea"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1476675406 | EPUB | pages: 209 | 7.7 mb
For President Lyndon Johnson, 1968 was a year of calamity, including the hijacking of the USS Pueblo in international waters off North Korea. After a fierce attack by the North Korean Navy, the lightly armed spy ship was captured and its 83 crewmen taken hostage, imprisoned and tortured for nearly a year before being released.

Free Download The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0143127047 | 352 Pages | EPUB | 9.5 MB
If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible?

Free Download Joshua J. Bowman, "Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau "
English | ISBN: 1498559026 | 2018 | 200 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau seeks to correct oversimplified readings of Henry David Thoreau’s political thought by elucidating a key tension within his imagination. With the celebration of Thoreau’s two-hundredth birthday now past, this study outlines, and builds on, his own understanding of imagination and considers its implications for environmental politics.

Free Download Idit Alphandary, "Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film "
English | ISBN: 3111242331 | 2023 | 217 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 25 MB
The author’s starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and perpetrators. The insights of these two writers and of several Jewish novelists and poets, including Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, and Aharon Appelfeld, are used to develop accounts of forgiveness and resentment in other cases of mass atrocity around the world. The author offers a critical rereading of primary sources that aim to separate resentment from nonviolent resistance, and forgiveness from reconciliation. Forgiveness and resentment are not, as they might first appear, mutually exclusive. Together with Arendt, Améry, and Walter Benjamin, it is argued that it is through the interaction between them that victims of mass atrocity become agents of personal and cultural change. Together, forgiveness and resentment interrupt the present, reframe the past, and shape the future. They can reduce the chasm that separates memory and trust by fashioning new connections between identity and alterity, which can open paths to truly ethical coexistence for victims and perpetrators, and their descendants.

Free Download Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CM462K89 | 2023 | 11 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Brian McAllister Linn
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
What happens to the US Army after the battles are over, the citizen soldiers depart, and all that remains is the Regular Army? In this pathbreaking work, Brian Linn argues that in each decade following every major conflict since the War of 1812 the postwar army has undergone a long, painful, and remarkably consistent recovery process as it struggled to build a new model force to replace the "Old Army" that entered the conflict. Real Soldiering provides the first comprehensive study of the US Army’s transition from war to peace.

Free Download Ian Smith, "Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence"
English | 2008 | pages: 465 | ISBN: 1857826043 | PDF | 2,8 mb
For more than a decade, Ian Smith served as Rhodesia’s Prime Minister during the era of white minority rule. Following his death in 2007, he is still a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions. To some he is a leader whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labor government of Britain in the 1960s. To others he is a demon best known for stating "I don’t believe in black majority rule ever, not in a thousand years," for staunchly opposing Britain’s insistence that majority rule be implemented before the nation’s independence, and for imprisoning the leadership of the newly emerged black nationalist movement. In this revealing autobiography, Smith tells his own side of the story and reveals how he sought to keep Rhodesia on a path to full democracy during the West’s decolonization of Africa. He tells the remarkable story behind the signing of the country’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and addresses the excesses of power that the current president, Robert Mugabe, has used to create the virtual dictatorship which exists in Zimbabwe today. This is a revealing and prescient historical document from a controversial figure charting the rise and fall of a once-great nation.

Free Download Michael Maizels, "Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath"
English | 2015 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0816694699, 0816694680 | PDF | 4,4 mb
Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and 1970s-Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner among them-Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study of his work reveals, his rigorously planned art was instigated to mask its creator’s intentions and methods, presenting itself as an "aftermath" of modernism’s claim to permanency and civil society’s preferred mode of monumentalism.

Free Download Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents by Annette Libeskind Berkovits
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 9493276406 | 396 pages | EPUB | 6.95 Mb
"I spent the first three years of my life unaware of the disaster that had befallen my family." Annette Libeskind Berkovits writes: "I was shaped by the aftermath of the Holocaust…I adapted…grew a protective shield for self-preservation, then put on a smile and moved forward to meet the world on my own terms."

Free Download The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath: A Reassessment (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00LMLSMFQ | 2014 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 496 MB
Author: David Curtis Skaggs
Narrator: Stephen W. Davis
Experts weigh in on a pivotal engagement in the War of 1812. Few naval battles in American history have left a more enduring impression on America’s national consciousness than the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry’s battle flag emblazoned with the message "Don t Give Up the Ship", now enshrined at the U.S. Naval Academy, has become a naval maxim. His succinct after-action report, "We have met the enemy and they are ours", constitutes one of the more memorable battle summaries in American history. This splendid collection celebrates the bicentennial of the American victory with a review of the battle and its consequences. The volume is divided into three sections.

Free Download Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China’s Rise
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009161202 | 276 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Atomized Incorporation examines why the Chinese regime selectively tolerates workers’ collective action within single factories and what this means for the country’s long-term political resilience. It investigates the implications of state-labor relations in contemporary China and suggests that it has evolved away from overt coercion to limited incorporation. Based on two years of in-depth fieldwork, Rho uncovers how ordinary workers think, believe, and behave in this changing socio-political environment. She demonstrates that labor grievances have become more politicized and finds that the current approach to economic grievance resolutions demobilizes the emergence of labor movements by rewarding those with collective action resources within individual workplaces. Rho argues that though this limited state of incorporation allows workers to express discontent at wages and working conditions, it also denies them the opportunity to make claims about structural problems and does not effectively enhance political loyalty in the long run.