Tag: Origins

Free Download Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3J51DSC | 2024 | 14 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Alexandra Filindra
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults-approximately 86 million people-own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies.

Free Download Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner, Jesse Cromwell, Allyson Johnson (Narrator), "Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery"
English | ASIN: B0D3258XWL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:38:00 | 210 MB
Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.
In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery and its aftermath, with 1619-the year that the first recorded enslaved persons of African descent arrived in British North America-taking center stage as its starting point. Yet this dialogue has narrowed our understanding of slavery, race, and their repercussions to the U.S. context. Beyond 1619 showcases the results when scholars examine and put into conversation multiple empires, regions, peoples, and cultures to get a more complete view of the rise of racial slavery in the Americas.
Painting racial slavery’s emergence on a hemispheric canvas, and in one compact volume, provides historical context beyond the 1619 moment for discussions of slavery, racism, antiracism, freedom, and lasting inequalities. This volume shines new light on these topics and illustrates the centrality of racial slavery, and contests over its rise, in nearly every corner of the early modern Atlantic World.

Free Download Sean M. Parr, "Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera"
English | ISBN: 0197542646 | 2021 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 27 MB + 39 MB
Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reaction to cascades of coloratura with climaxing high notes is strong. Coloratura-agile, rapid-fire singing-was originally essential for all singers, but its function changed greatly when it became the specialty of particular sopranos over the course of the nineteenth century.

Free Download The Origins of Humanity (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas) by Scientific American
English | July 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1725349639 | 160 pages | PDF | 3.45 Mb
"How did humans get their start as a species? This is one of the core questions that have preoccupied humankind for centuries. This volume considers the complex and often mysterious characteristics that define humanity, including its unique anatomical and neurological features, behaviors such as use of tools and language, and the social structures that are unique to the species. The book also considers how the species has evolved over time and how it may continue to evolve"-

Free Download Andrea Facchin, "Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Origins, Developments and Current Directions"
English | ISBN: 946372060X | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language concentrates on the origins, developments and current directions of the discipline Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) within the Arab world and partially outside of it during the last 60 years, namely between 1958 and 2018. Considered in this volume are the most influential scholars, authors, educators and those significant works that have contributed to the development of the discipline. In addition, special attention is paid to the TAFL institutes, regarded as epicenters of TAFL activities and important meetings, that allow scholars to gather around the same table and discuss approaches, trends and methods used in the field. All of these aspects converge in one comprehensive study which is enriched by a narration of the main sociopolitical changes that have affected the Middle East in latter-day history.

Free Download Tares Oburumu, "Origins of the Syma Species "
English | ISBN: 1496237021 | 2024 | 72 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1099 KB + 1041 KB
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

Free Download Robert Wallace, "Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece"
English | 2007 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 0520245628, 0520258096 | PDF | 0,9 mb
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy first realized in ancient Greece? Was democracy "invented" or did it evolve over a long period of time? What were the conditions for democracy, the social and political foundations that made this development possible? And what factors turned the possibility of democracy into necessity and reality? The authors first examine the conditions in early Greek society that encouraged equality and "people’s power." They then scrutinize, in their social and political contexts, three crucial points in the evolution of democracy: the reforms connected with the names of Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes in the early and late sixth and mid-fifth century. Finally, an ancient historian and a political scientist review the arguments presented in the previous chapters and add their own perspectives, asking what lessons we can draw today from the ancient democratic experience. Designed for a general readership as well as students and scholars, the book intends to provoke discussion by presenting side by side the evidence and arguments that support various explanations of the origins of democracy, thus enabling readers to join in the debate and draw their own conclusions.

Free Download China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009444891 | 273 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Between the 1980s and the present day, China has experienced one of the most consequential economic transformations in world history. One-fifth of the Earth’s population has left behind a life of scarcity and subsistence for one of abundance and material comfort, while their nation has emerged as a preeminent economic and political power. In a systematic historical and sociological analysis of this unique juncture, Wang Feng charts the origins, forces, and consequences of this meteoric rise in living standards. He shifts the focus away from institutions and policies to offer new perspectives based on consumption among poorer, rural populations as a driver of global economic change. But is this ‘Age of Abundance’ coming to an end? Anticipating potential headwinds, including an aging population, increasing inequality, and intensifying political control, Wang explores whether this preeminence could be coming to a close.

Free Download Dr. Nadège Ragaru, "Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust: On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative "
English | ISBN: 164825070X | 2023 | 406 pages | PDF | 39 MB
A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Free Download Edmund Blair Bolles, "Babel’s Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1619020092, 158243641X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.3 mb
Describes the evolutionary history of language, tracing the history of the first words, phrases, and sentences, arguing that the human ability to speak derives from a need that is not necessary for other species.