Tag: Conflict

Free Download Joseph Ford, "Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature "
English | ISBN: 1498581862 | 2021 | 178 pages | EPUB, PDF | 433 KB + 3 MB
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a time of crisis and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to conflict in the first place. Ford demonstrates how Francophone Algerian literature, along with the cultural and academic criticism that has surrounded it, has mobilized visions of Algeria over the past thirty years that often belie the complex and multi-layered realities of power, resistance, and conflict in the region. Scholars of literature, history, Francophone studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.

Free Download Ştefan Bolea, "Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow"
English | ISBN: 1793607125 | 2020 | 218 pages | EPUB | 1322 KB
Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow" examines the genealogy of the Jungian shadow in Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Ştefan Bolea analyzes the way the crisis of identity in nineteenth-century literature prefigures our contemporary "inner discord" by means of the philosophy of literature, combining literary criticism with psychoanalytical phenomenology. This book provides a deep analysis of the connection between this "inner discord" and the century that brought us industrialization, nationalism, modernity, and the unconscious by comparing Jung’s theory of the shadow with Nietzche’s and Cioran’s versions of Antihumanism in a highly interdisciplinary landscape. Scholars of psychology, philosophy, literature, media studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Free Download Galina Weinstein, "General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries: Einstein’s Polemics with Physicists"
English | ISBN: 144388362X | 2015 | 383 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book focuses on Albert Einstein and his interactions with, and responses to, various scientists, both famous and lesser-known. It takes as its starting point that the discussions between Einstein and other scientists all represented a contribution to the edifice of general relativity and relativistic cosmology. These scientists with whom Einstein implicitly or explicitly interacted form a complicated web of collaboration, which this study explores, focusing on their implicit and explicit responses to Einstein s work. This analysis uncovers latent undercurrents, indiscernible to other approaches to tracking the intellectual pathway of Einstein to his general theory of relativity. The interconnections and interactions presented here reveal the central figures who influenced Einstein during this intellectual period. Despite current approaches to history presupposing that the efforts of scientists such as Max Abraham and Gunnar Nordström, which differed from Einstein s own views, be relegated to the background, this book shows that they all had an impact on the development of Einstein s theories, stressing the limits of approaches focusing solely on Einstein. As such, General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries proves that the general theory of relativity was not developed as a single, coherent construction by an isolated, brooding individual, but, rather, that it came to fruition through Einstein s conflicts and interactions with other scientists, and was consolidated by his creative processes during these exchanges.

Free Download Miguel de Baca, "Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art"
English | ISBN: 1443883751 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art explores the powerful relationship between artistic production and cultures of conflict in the United States. Such a theme continues to provoke practitioners and scholars across a range of media and disciplines, especially as definitions of war and protest evolve and change in the twenty-first century. This anthology presents vital discussions of visual works in relationship to national identity, the politics and contexts of artistic production and reception, and the expressive and political function of art within historical periods defined by wars, rebellions, and revolutions. It sheds new light on the shifting nature of identity, and specifically how conflict armed conflict as well as rhetorical conflict inspires new identities to emerge. Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art will appeal to historians of American art and architecture, American studies, cultural studies, and material culture. Its vibrant discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality represent the urgency of these topics in modern and contemporary art history. This book is suitable for academics at all levels, from undergraduates through to graduate students and faculty researchers, as well as artists and non-specialised readers.

Free Download War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II (Audiobook)
English | August 25, 2020 | ASIN: B08D6TFKF2 | M4B@64 kbps | 25 hours | 718 MB
Author: Peter Padfield | Narrator: Chris MacDonnell
Sweeping from the frigid waters of the North Atlantic to the steaming South Pacific, this riveting chronicle of submarine warfare is the first to cover all the major submarine campaigns of the war, describing, in detail, the operations of the British, American, Japanese, Italian, and German submarine and anti-submarine forces.

Free Download East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s By Jonathan Fisher
2020 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1108494277 | PDF | 6 MB
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa’s postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary ‘liberation’ movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements transformed from rebels to rulers, promising to deliver ‘fundamental change’. This study exposes, examines and underlines the acute challenges each has faced in doing so. Drawing on over 130 interviews with the region’s post-liberation elite, undertaken over the course of a decade, Jonathan Fisher takes a fresh and empirically-grounded approach to explaining the fast-moving politics of the region over the last three decades, focusing on the role and influence of its guerrilla governments. East Africa after Liberation sheds critical light on the competing pressures post-liberation governments contend with as they balance reformist aspirations with accommodation of counter-vailing interests, historical trajectories and their own violent organisational cultures.

Free Download Undermining the Japanese Miracle: Work and Conflict in a Japanese Coal-mining Community by Matthew Allen
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0521450098 | 318 Pages | PDF | 10.1 MB
This book is about the underside of Japan’s economic miracle.

Free Download Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa by Edmond J. Keller
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0253011787 | 208 Pages | EPUB | 736.2 KB
Reflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared and may be more assertive than previously thought, especially in instances of political conflict.

Free Download War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict [3 volumes]
by Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy
English | 2017 | ISBN: 161069516X | 1194 Pages | True PDF | 10.3 MB

Free Download Handbook of Solution-Focused Conflict Management by Fredrike Bannink
English | July 1, 2010 | ISBN: 0889373841 | True EPUB/PDF | 174 pages | 0.4/0.9 MB
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Every problem is an opportunity in disguise."