Chuck McCutcheon, David Mark, Jeff Greenfield, "Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1611686032 | PDF | pages: 270 | 1.4 mb
To the amusement of the pundits and the regret of the electorate, our modern political jargon has become even more brazenly two-faced and obfuscatory than ever. Where once we had Muckrakers, now we have Bed-Wetters. Where Blue Dogs once slept peaceably in the sun, Attack Dogs now roam the land. During election season―a near constant these days―the coded rhetoric of candidates and their spin doctors, and the deliberately meaningless but toxic semiotics of the wing nuts and backbenchers, reach near-Orwellian levels of self-satisfaction, vitriol, and deceit. The average NPR or talk radio listener, MSNBC or Fox News viewer, or blameless New York Times or Wall Street Journal reader is likely to be perplexed, nonplussed, and lulled into a state of apathetic resignation and civic somnolence by the rapid-fire incomprehensibility of political pronouncement and commentary―which is, frankly, putting us exactly where the pundits want us. Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes is a tonic and a corrective. It is a reference and field guide to the language of politics by two veteran observers that not only defines terms and phrases but also explains their history and etymology, describes who uses them against whom, and why, and reveals the most telling, infamous, amusing, and shocking examples of their recent use. It is a handbook of lexicography for the Wonkette and This Town generation, a sleeker, more modern Safire's Political Dictionary, and a concise, pointed, bipartisan guide to the lies, obfuscations, and helical constructions of modern American political language, as practiced by real-life versions of the characters on House of Cards.

Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970 (International Explorations in Comparative Labor History, 179) By Sam Davies, Colin J. Davis, David de Vries, Lex Heerma van Voss, Lidewij Hesselink, Klaus Weinhauer
2000 | 880 Pages | ISBN: 0754602648 | PDF | 153 MB
Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour, their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter. The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour, patterns of strike action and involvement in political organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this essential reference work.

Divorcing a Narcissist: The Complete Guide to End a Toxic Relationship, and Build the Life You Want by Rachel Jackson
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09SGPM7HK | 310 pages | EPUB | 6.98 Mb
Are you in a relationship with a Narcissist? Do you want to start a new life? If yes, then this is the right book for you!

David James, "Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0198789750 | PDF | pages: 287 | 1.5 mb
Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking archive, Discrepant Solace considers writers who engage with consolation not as an aesthetic salve but as an enduring problematic, one that unravels at the centre of emotionally challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing. The book understands solace as a generative yet conflicted aspect of style, where microelements of diction, rhythm, and syntax capture consolation's alternating desirability and contestation. With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene, David James examines writers who are rarely considered in conversation, including Sonali Deraniyagala, Colson Whitehead, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson,

Aziz Demian Lichtenstein,Shajen Joy, "Discover the Gift: It's Why We're Here"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1846042941, 1504364449 | PDF | pages: 266 | 18.5 mb
Discover the Gift is the companion book to an upcoming film of the same name which introduces the Gift, a compelling concept that contains the wisdom you need to unlock your fullest potential. The insight and the life plan that Discover the Gift presents will definitely appeal to the millions who loved The Secret. This complete programme provides people with the means to find happiness and peace by living the life they were meant to live, resulting in a variety of possible benefits, including a closer family, career fulfilment, material abundance, greater creativity and unconditional love.It is explained by well-known transformational teachers, such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Barbara de Angelis, who lay out the steps one needs to take to uncover this life-changing source of strength and wisdom.

John Pittard, "Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190051817 | PDF | pages: 356 | 2.9 mb
The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs. For this reason, many have argued that the only rational response to religious disagreement is to adopt a religious skepticism that eschews confident religious belief. Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment contests this skeptical conclusion, explaining how it could be rational to maintain confident belief even in the face of the epistemic worries posed by disagreement. John Pittard argues against the commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality that underlies the case for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism, while also critiquing approaches to disagreement that allow for the unproblematic privileging of one's first-person perspective. He emphasizes the importance of having rational insight into reasons that favor one's outlook; however, he challenges narrowly intellectualist accounts of insight,

Tim Dunne, Ian Hall, Herbert Butterfield, "Diplomatic Investigations: Essays on the Theory of International Politics"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0198836465 | PDF | pages: 260 | 1.6 mb
Diplomatic Investigations is a classic work in the field of International Relations. It is one of the

Janice Wong, Ma Jian Jun, "Dim Sum: A Flour-forward approach to Traditional Favorites and Contemporary Creations"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 9810778546 | PDF | pages: 143 | 29.0 mb
Chef Janice Wong's approach to cuisine is novel and innovative-she views familiar items in a different light, twisting and combining them in a unique way. In this book with dim sum expert Chef Ma Jian Jun, Chef Wong brings her unique concepts and presentation to the traditional Cantonese art of dim sum. Together they have pioneered a collection of over 90 traditional recipes as well as new creations incorporating both Chef Ma's impeccable craft and Chef Wong's pastry vision.

Digital Technology: The impact of digital technology for a sustainable future by Laura May
English | November 14, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BMFXCMVX | 70 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb
It is the technology by which various information, whether data or data in the form of electronic signals, is transmitted between the continents of the world, without the latter affected by the length of the distance, and its resistance to interference and interference between waves of different sources, and it also guarantees the safety and confidentiality of that information.

Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora By David A. Phillips
2013 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0857283030 | PDF | 3 MB
"Development Without Aid" aims to opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up inAfrica the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique ofaid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as aresource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. The key point is that diaspora initiatives are a type of indigenous resource flowing through private initiative, not an alien resource flowing through public bureaucratic organizations. The book usesextensive research evidence to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world's diasporas.