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Free Download Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe : Relations, Borders and Invisibilities By Frederiksen, Martin Demant; Harboe Knudsen, Ida
2015 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 178308412X | PDF | 2 MB
Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations from planned to market economics, and a desire to create ‘new states’ and internationally minded ‘new citizens’ has left some in poverty, unemployment and social insecurity, leading them to rely on normative coping and semi-autonomous strategies for security and social guarantees. This anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect contemporary Eastern Europe.

Free Download Bruno Latour, "Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth"
English | ISBN: 0262044455 | 2020 | 560 pages | PDF | 58 MB
Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change.

Free Download Michael J. Totten, "Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other Hellholes"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0692616861 | EPUB | pages: 258 | 0.3 mb
Prize-winning author and award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century. From crumbling Havana, Cuba-still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall-to a comparatively upscale Hanoi, Vietnam, still struggling to free itself from Chinese-style authoritarian rule. From a nightmarish Libya under the deranged Moammar Qaddafi, to an exhausted, polarized and increasingly fanatical Egypt before the Arab Spring finally ripped the region to pieces. From the Lebanese border during the devasting war between Israel and Hezbollah, to Iraq in the grips of an insurgency mounted by the murderous precursor to ISIS. Partly a collection of Totten’s best previously published work, Dispatches includes plenty of new material from Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the dysfunctional quarters of Europe. He goes to rough places so you don’t have to, and his dispatches are by turns entertaining, harrowing and occasionally even hilarious despite the dark subject matter. Not to be missed. Praise for Michael J. Totten "Totten…practices journalism in the tradition of Orwell: morally imaginative, partisan in the best sense of the word, and delivered in crackling, rapid-fire prose befitting the violent realities it depicts." Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary "It is extremely rare to read such an accurate account of anything to which one was oneself a witness." – Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great. "One of America’s premier foreign correspondents." – Damien Penny, Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Of all the journalists now alive and writing in English, ther are few whose reporting interests me more than Michael Totten’s-in fact, none that I can think of offhand." – Claire Berlinski, author of Menace in Europe "Michael J. Totten is one of a rare breed. Moving from front to front, he brings experience and context and the willingness to go where few men dare." – Michael Yon, Moment of Truth in Iraq

Free Download The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth by Dan Buettner
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1426223471 | 288 pages | MOBI | 95 Mb
The creator of National Geographic’s popular Blue Zones-now a documentary on Netflix-brings readers a beautifully illustrated and informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longest-including lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors to help you live to 100-plus a surprising new blue zone.

Free Download Oscar Abedi Dunia, "Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones: Towards a More Equitable Knowledge Production"
English | ISBN: 1350265667 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Indispensable to the research practice carried out by so-called "contracting researchers," who are often based in the Global North, "facilitating researchers," often based in those conflict-affected areas of the Global South that contracting researchers are contracted to study, are usually the ones who truly regulate the access and flow of knowledge. Yet as often as not, they are referred to merely as ‘fixers’, with their contributions systematically erased in final research texts. Facilitating Researchers in Insecure Zones brings together first-hand accounts by several facilitating or "brokering" researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict-namely, DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India-in order to highlight the varied and crucial roles they play. In so doing, this volume also bears witness to the insecurities and resource-scarcities they have to navigate in order to facilitate the research of others. Ultimately, their experiences and insights point to more equitable fieldwork and more collaborative processes of knowledge production. For its first-hand accounts of fieldwork in insecure zones, as well as for its diverse geographical and topical coverage, this book is a must-read for researchers and students researching interested in ethnographic and fieldwork methods and ethics, particularly as they apply to conflicts and to research in the Global South.

Free Download Hoda Kotb, "Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1439189498, 143918948X | EPUB | 2,5 mb
Hoda is a memoir of lessons Kotb has learned along her journey, from breast cancer survivor to Today show anchor.

Free Download Groundwater Potential Zones GIS – Complete Project ArcGIS
Last updated 2/2023
Created by Lakhwinder Singh
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 41 Lectures ( 3h 50m ) | Size: 3.33 GB

Free Download John Roth, "Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (War and Genocide, 8)"
English | 2005 | pages: 440 | ISBN: 184545071X, 1845453026 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain-lest resolution deceive us-will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.

Free Download Max Kemman, "Trading Zones of Digital History "
English | ISBN: 311068196X | 2021 | 340 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1152 KB
Digital history is commonly argued to be positioned between the traditionally historical and the computational or digital. By studying digital history collaborations and the establishment of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Kemman examines how digital history will impact historical scholarship. His analysis shows that digital history does not occupy a singular position between the digital and the historical. Instead, historians continuously move across this dimension, choosing or finding themselves in different positions as they construct different trading zones through cross-disciplinary engagement, negotiation of research goals and individual interests.

Free Download Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States By Lerner, Steve;Brown, Phil(Foreword)
2010 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 0262014408 | PDF | 2 MB
Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action–organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In "Sacrifice Zones," Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods "sacrifice zones." And he argues that residents of these sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections."Sacrifice Zones" goes beyond the disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves, offering compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fenceline with heavy industry.