Tag: Ends

February 4, 2024

To the Ends of the Earth Scotland’s Global Diaspora 1750-2010 [Audiobook]

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Free Download To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora 1750-2010 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRM3BZQK | 2024 | 13 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 391 MB
Author: T.M. Devine
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
The Scots are one of the world’s greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children sought their fortunes in every part of the globe, from the British Empire to the United States, in cities and on prairie farms, as traders, bankers, missionaries, soldiers, politicians, and engineers. With To the Ends of the Earth, T. M. Devine-acclaimed author-puts this extraordinary epic center stage in Scottish history, cutting through myth and sentiment surrounding stories such as the Highland Clearances and the Enlightenment to show the true impact of Scottish emigration on the world, and on the nation it left behind.

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January 30, 2024

Means and Ends The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States [Audiobook]

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Free Download Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJVSB5H5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Zoe Baker
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, she demonstrates that the reasons anarchists gave for supporting or opposing particular strategies were grounded in a theoretical framework-a theory of practice-which maintained that, as people engage in activity, they simultaneously change the world and themselves.

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January 26, 2024

On Moral Ends

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Free Download On Moral Ends By Marcus Tullius Cicero
2001 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0521669014 | EPUB | 1 MB
This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero was an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf’s translation does justice to Cicero’s argumentative vigor as well as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Annas’ introduction and notes provide a clear and accessible explanation of the philosophical context of the work.

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January 14, 2024

Closer to the Edge Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

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Free Download Leo Houlding, "Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth"
English | ISBN: 1472288718 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton) to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the United States at eighteen years, which cemented his reputation. He has since gone on to summit the world’s toughest peaks and explore the most extreme places on our planet.

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January 11, 2024

The Ends of Resistance Making and Unmaking Democracy

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Free Download Alix Olson, "The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy"
English | ISBN: 023120499X | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 972 KB
Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to "resist." But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science, putting up yard signs, buying the right products, and celebrating a "return to normal." How was "resistance" diluted, and where can we find alternative forms of resistance for present and future struggles?

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