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Free Download Wim van Meurs, "The Unfinished History of European Integration"
English | ISBN: 9462988145 | 2018 | 332 pages | PDF | 8 MB
When the Treaty of Lisbon went into effect in December 2009, the event seemed to mark the beginning of a longer phase of institutional consolidation for the EU. Since 2010, however, the EU has faced multiple crises, which have rocked its foundations and deeply challenged the narrative of ‘the end of the history of integration’. The military crisis in eastern Ukraine and the refugee crisis call for a joint approach, but in practice reveal the difficulty of maintaining even the appearance of European solidarity and political unanimity. The financial and socio-economic crisis in southern Europe and Brexit present the EU with the latest set of challenges. If seventy years of European integration have taught us anything, it is that fundamental crises as well as moments of rapid institutional change form integral parts of its history. ‘The Unfinished History of European Integration’ presents the reader with historical and theoretical knowledge on which well-founded judgements can be based.

Free Download John Phillip Santos, "Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation"
English | 2000 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0140292020, 0670868086 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Finalist for the National Book Award!In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina-touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body-to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos’ search for the meaning of his grandfather’s suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.

Free Download Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements By Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
2014 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0871406764 | EPUB | 2 MB
The American women’s movement has been shrouded in myths, argue three leading scholars in this bold and revisionist history. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women’s history. Also challenging the contemporary "lean-in," trickle-down feminist philosophy and asserting that women’s histories all too often depoliticize politics, labor issues, and divergent economic circumstances, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry demonstrate that the post-Suffrage women’s movement focused on exploitation of women in the workplace as well as on inherent sexual rights. The authors carefully revise our "wave" vision of feminism, which previously suggested that there were clear breaks and sharp divisions within these media-driven "waves." Showing how history books have obscured the notable activism by working-class and minority women in the past, Feminism Unfinished provides a much-needed corrective. 20 illustrations

Free Download Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution by Bill Rolston, Robbie McVeigh
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1642599840, 9798888900680, ASIN: B0BZ443X65 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 1.7 MB
A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world.

Free Download Willow Berridge, "Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution "
English | ISBN: 0197657540 | 2022 | 280 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5F3TV8Y | 2023 | 9 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Robyn Davidson
Narrator: Kerry Fox
A spellbinding memoir exploring time and memory, home and belonging, from the internationally bestselling author, "an unforgettably powerful book". In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed-from the Outback to Sydney’s underworld; from sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in India and Tibet, to marrying an Indian prince. The only territory she avoided was the past. In Unfinished Woman, she ventures into that unknown, unearthing an ache for a lost but barely remembered mother and an unmet desire to feel at home in her freedom. Adventurous but guarded, fearless yet broken, Davidson asks: how can we live with pain and uncertainty, to find beauty in the strangeness of being? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting listeners in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare.

Free Download Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHX4NPP4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Caroline E. Janney
Narrator: Ed Cunningham
The Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself.

Free Download Arthur Krystal, "Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
English | ISBN: 0813950619 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB | 411 KB
Surely enough has been written about F. Scott Fitzgerald, the man who coined "the Jazz Age" and symbolized the Roaring Twenties, whose very name conjures up a meteoric rise and an equally spectacular fall? But the better question might be, Why has so much ink been spent on a writer who completed only four novels, who fell from grace in the 1930s only to be resurrected twenty years later? The answer, according to the cultural critic Arthur Krystal, "is the problem that is Fitzgerald."

Free Download Einstein’s Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CF2S5D3S | 2023 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Don Lincoln
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Humanity has long looked to the sky and marveled at the world around us. We’ve wondered why the world is the way it is and whether it has to be that way. For millennia these questions were theological, transitioning to philosophical during the Enlightenment, but the discipline that now drives progress is science. We now look forward, hoping to make additional connections and create a better understanding of the ultimate laws of nature. We dream of a time when we have developed a theory of everything-a theory that answers all questions. There is so much that we don’t know.

Free Download Unfinished business: The politics of ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism By Marisa McGlinchey; Kevin Bean
2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0719096987 | PDF | 58 MB
This book discusses the development of ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups and currents which make up ‘dissident’ republicanism, the book provides an up-to-date assessment of the political significance and potential of the groups who continue to oppose the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. It shows that the ‘dissidents’ are much more than traditionalist irreconcilables left behind by Gerry Adams’ entry into the mainstream. Instead the book suggests that the dynamics and trajectory of ‘dissident’ republicanism are shaped more by contemporary forces than historical tradition and that by understanding the "dissidents" we can better understand the emerging forms of political challenge in an age of austerity and increasing political instability internationally.