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Free Download A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine (Audiobook)
English | 06 July 2023 | ASIN: B0BYF8ZNDG | MP3@VBR kbps | 3h 23m | 71.84 MB
Author: Andrew Harding
Narrator: Andrew Harding
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan.

Free Download Malice, "Transnational Imaginations of Socialism: Town Twinning and Local Government in "Red" Italy and the GDR, 1960s-1970s "
English | ISBN: 3110667266 | 2022 | 350 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic.

Free Download Socio-Spatial Small Town Dynamics in South Africa (GeoJournal Library) by Ronnie Donaldson
English | July 15, 2023 | ISBN: 3031371410 | 248 pages | PDF | 8.45 Mb
This book explores small town geographical aspects by approaching them from a socio-spatial perspective. The contributions included in this book delve into a range of topics that have not been commonly studied before, such as white privilege, neglect of municipal infrastructure, collaborative governance, livelihoods in small-scale fisheries, housing provision, well-being in mining towns, studentification in rural contexts, election trends, and the historical development of small-town spas.

Free Download A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
English | July 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1804183377 | eISBN: 9781804183373 | 95 Pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan.

Free Download Marc De Kesel, "Down Town / Down Soul: Early Modern Mysticism, the Self & the Political "
English | ISBN: 9042941448 | 2020 | 244 pages | PDF | 810 KB
It is just as possible to live deep down in the innermost of the soul in the heart of ‘down town’ as it is in the quiet of a monastery cell. ‘Town’ and ‘soul’ are not in contradiction to each other. The mystics who agree on this are not the minor ones. And yet, as we read in the works of the same mystics, ‘town’ and ‘soul’ – the inner path and social engagement – do not go together easily. Of course, the mystic embraces the commandment of neighbourly love, but is his charity not merely an ‘instrument’ helping him – and only him – to come in closer contact with God? This and similar questions are central to Down Town / Down Soul. Part One (‘Mysticism’) presents studies on the typically ‘mystical’ character of the inner life. Part Two (‘Down Town’) reflects upon the relationship between the mystical and the political, while Part Three (‘Down Soul’) returns to the soul and its abysmal – ‘mystical’ – condition.

Free Download Barbara Hannay, "The Happiest Little Town"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1760899437 | 352 pages | EPUB | 0.73 MB
The uplifting new novel by the bestselling author of The Garden of Hopes and Dreams Happiness has a way of catching up with you, even when you’ve given up trying to find it. Tilly doesn’t believe she can ever be happy again Fourteen-year-old Tilly’s world is torn apart when her single mother dies suddenly and she is sent a million miles from everything she has ever known to a small country town and a guardian who’s a total stranger. Kate is sure she will be happy just as soon as she achieves her dream In the picturesque mountains of Far North Queensland, Kate is trying to move on from a failed marriage by renovating a van and making plans for an exciting travel escape. The fresh start she so desperately craves is within reach when an unexpected responsibility lands on her doorstep. Olivia thinks she’s found ‘happy enough’ until an accident changes everything Ageing former celebrity actress, Olivia is used to winning all the best roles in her local theatre group, but when she’s injured while making a grand stage exit, she is relegated to the wings. Now she’s determined that she won’t bow out quietly and be left alone with the demons of her past.

Free Download David Rudlin, "High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis"
English | ISBN: 1914124308 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 97 MB
The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed, this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse, characterful, independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future.

Free Download Country & Town House – 07 July 2023
English | 336 pages | PDF | 281.5 MB

Free Download Reinder 1901-1975 Blijstra, "Town-planning in the Netherlands Since 1900"
English | ISBN: 1014095417 | 2021 | 158 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRDHPD8W | 2023 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Rachel Louise Martin
Narrator: Janina Edwards, Megan Tusing
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board-will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation. But not everyone wanted to talk. As one founder of the Tennessee White Youth told her, "Honey, there was a lot of ugliness down at the school that year; best we just move on and forget it."