Tag: Fighting

Published 4/2023
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Free Download Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts By Dale C. Spencer
2012 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 0415896282 | PDF | 3 MB
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters’ training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Drawing from the philosophical phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book develops bodies-centered ontological and epistemological grounding for this study. Guided by such a position, it places bodies at the center of analysis of MMA and elucidates the embodied experience of pain and injury, and the sense and rhythms of fighting.

Free Download Fight the New Drug, "Fortify: A Step Toward Recovery – Fighting Pornography Addiction"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1626201315 | PDF | pages: 273 | 15.8 mb
The problem of pornography addiction has never been worse. With easy access to the most extreme pornographic material at the tip of our fingers, we are facing something our parents never did. In the palm of our hand we can be exposed to images, messages, and ideas that cripple our potential and distort our very nature. FORTIFY was specifically designed to help young people facing an addiction to pornography eventually reach long-lasting freedom. In this book you will find the tools, education, and resources necessary to help you or someone you love overcome this addiction.

Free Download Roger Stonebanks, "Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story"
English | 2004 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 1894000064 | PDF | 13,0 mb

Free Download Ryuji Hattori, "Fighting Japan’s Cold War "
English | ISBN: 1032399090 | 2023 | 278 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Yasuhiro Nakasone, who served as prime minister for more than five years in the 1980s, was one of Japan’s leading postwar politicians. This book is a biography of him, but by interweaving international politics and media appraisals of him, it also serves as an examination of Japan’s postwar politics. Nakasone was an innovative conservative who actively criticized the conservative mainstream, and this book reveals from both domestic and foreign policy perspectives how the Liberal Democratic Party governed. The Nakasone government served not only as the final phase of the Cold War era of LDP factional politics but also as the starting point for the general mainstream faction system that followed. With the lengthy passage of time since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Japan’s 1955 party system, there is a need to reassess Nakasone, showing that there was much more to him than the popular picture of him as a far-right hawk who loudly advocated for Japan to engage in autonomous self-defense and as an opportunist leader of a small faction, and to place the era in which Nakasone lived its proper historical context.

Free Download John A. Eterno, "Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting "
English | ISBN: 0367491001 | 2021 | 354 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention strategies, police legitimacy, and much more.

Free Download Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore (Volume 54) "
English | ISBN: 0520379314 | 2022 | 266 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.

Free Download Dan Saxon, "Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity "
English | ISBN: 0812253558 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines?

Free Download Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations By Richard W. Thatcher
2004 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0802089852 | PDF | 21 MB
In Fighting Firewater Fictions, Richard W. Thatcher describes and explains the emergence and perpetuation of the ‘firewater complex’ – the cultural construct of an informally sanctioned, destructive, binge-drinking norm in First Nations reserve communities.The complex has reified alcoholism as an inevitability in the First Nations – an approach that has resulted in essential aspects of collective and personal responsibility being vacated in favour of therapeutic interventions assisted by social personnel of questionable expertise. This substitution has had the effect of relieving government policy-makers and reserve leadership from accountability for problematic community development strategies that have long since outgrown their support capacities.Thatcher argues that the conditions that give rise to extraordinary alcohol abuse rates in First Nations are largely traceable to the hopelessness associated with multi-generational unemployment. Fighting Firewater Fictions calls for community re-organization around a band development policy that looks beyond the reserve, and outlines a strategy that shifts the current, exclusive emphasis on the needs of alcoholics towards the neglected counselling and non-residential service needs of potential or actual binge-drinkers. This is essential reading for anybody working in, or seeking to understand, aboriginal communities that are experiencing problems with alcoholism.