Free Download Marjolijn van Riemsdijk, Jordan Zinovich, "Assault on the Impossible"
English | 2013 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1570272719 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Assault on the Impossible is the second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo period in the Netherlands. The Provo movement is unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without violence. Political change is often tumultuous, but never takes place in cultural isolation. Actuating the revolutionary impulse requires activating large groups of people, generating group minds capable of reimagining the realities they inhabit. It requires a kind of visionary emotional adventurism able to gaze with a clear heart at impossibility. Viewing the historical nature of revolutions through exclusively ideological lenses tends to miss the fact that they blaze forth from wider cultural fields, frequently ignited by the eccentric (often aesthetic) insights of a few profound aliens. Richard Kempton s Provo: Amsterdam s Anarchist Revolt, focused on a detailed narrative of the birth, florescence, and decline of the Provo political trajectory. Marjolijn van Riemsdijk s Assault on the Impossible widens the field, investigating the aesthetic attitudes and ludic interventions that helped generate the group mind that drove the politics.

Jeb Sprague, "Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti"
English | 2012 | pages: 401 | ISBN: 1583673016, 1583673008 | PDF | 2,5 mb
In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide's Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic. The product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews-some of which placed the author in severe danger-and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Haiti today, and is a vivid reminder of how democratic struggles in poor countries are often met with extreme violence organized at the behest of capital.

The Assault 2010 FRENCH 1080p BluRay x265-VXT

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.

Language: French
1.36 GB | 01:27:23 | 1998 Kbps | hev1 | 1920x1040 | mp4a-40-2, 48 Khz, 6 channels
Genre: Action | History | Thriller
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier
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Last Assault: 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge Reassessed (Pen and Sword Military Classics) By Charles Whiting
2005 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1844152227 | PDF | 52 MB
It has generally been assumed by historians of the Second World War that the Americans were caught completely unawares by the last great German Offensive - the drive into the Ardenees in December, 1944, known as the Battle of the Bulge.But were they in fact caught unawares? In this remarkable reappraisal of those hectic days which preceded the last Christmas of the War, Charles Whiting argues that the answer is very probably that they were not. Which immediately poses the question: 'if the Americans knew that the Germans were coming, why didn't they reinforce the troops on the weakly held Ardennes sector of the front line?' Why indeed!What is certain is that ever since the end if the Second World War the guardians of the files relating to the Battle of the Bulge in the United States have been most unwilling to permit any examination thereof - this is spite of the Freedom of Information Act. So the author raises yet another question: 'Was somebody trying to cover something up and if so why?'On the basis of such information as he has been able to cull from those, as yet unsorted, files and on information provided by the numerous survivors of the battle with whom he has been in contact, Charles Whiting attempts to answer these questions, and in so doing suggests that, if and when all the information relating to the Battle of the Bulge is made available, a serious reappraisal of that brief but bloody campaign, in which thousands of young American soldiers lost their lives at a time when many regarded the war as virtually won, may be required.

Talking About Sexual Assault: Society's Response to Survivors By Sarah E. Ullman PhD
2010 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 1433807416 | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides a comprehensive look at women's rape disclosure, addressing such issues as why, how often, and to whom women disclose their sexual assault; how people respond to disclosures; what factors influence how they respond to disclosures; and how these responses affect survivors.

Assault on Kids and Teachers: Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools By Roberta Ahlquist (editor), Paul C. Gorski (editor), Theresa Montaño (editor)
2017 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1433151197 | PDF | 2 MB
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the "public" out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors, including teachers, educational and community activists, teacher educators, critical education scholars, and others, expose how racism, economic injustice, and other forms of injustice are created and recreated both locally and nationally through educational policies more intent on turning schools into profit centers and undermining teacher unions than on strengthening public schools. Topics include the privatization of public schools, the growing influence of grit ideology on school practices, zero tolerance policies and the school-to-prison pipeline, Teach For America, the lies behind the charter school movement, and the damage TPAs are doing to teacher education. Beyond leveling critiques at these and other troubling trends and practices, though, contributors describe the many sites and forms of resistance emerging in response to these assaults on kids and teachers from students, parents, teachers, and other concerned people. Assault on Kids and Teachers is both a call for deeper understandings of anti-democratic and regressive school reform initiatives and an invitation into movements for putting the "public" back into public education.

Nancy Ettlinger, "Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought "
English | ISBN: 0367625806 | 2022 | 184 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

David J. Leonard, "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1438442068, 143844205X | PDF | pages: 276 | 1.1 mb
Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the "Palace Brawl" of 2004.

British Amphibious Assault Ships: From Suez to the Falklands and the present day (New Vanguard) by Edward Hampshire
English | December 24, 2019 | ISBN: 1472836308 | 48 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb
From the first "commando carriers" to the legendary Fearless class and the current generation, this title explores the capabilities, roles, and history of the Royal Navy's frontline amphibious assault ships.

Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape by Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
2022 | ISBN: 1032033398, 1032033436 | English | 458 pages | PDF | 21 MB