Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala By Kedron Thomas
2016 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0520290968 | PDF | 4 MB
Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. Fashion companies have taken notice, ensuring that international trade agreements include stronger intellectual property protections to prevent brand "piracy." In Regulating Style, Kedron Thomas approaches the fashion industry from the perspective of indigenous Maya people who make and sell knockoffs, asking why they copy and wear popular brands, how they interact with legal frameworks and state institutions that criminalize their livelihood, and what is really at stake for fashion companies in the global regulation of style.

Juan Poblete, "Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America: Rethinking Creativity and the Common Good"
English | ISBN: 0367423995 | 2020 | 222 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Prashant Reddy, Sumathi Chandrashekaran, "Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas"
English | 2016 | pages: 395 | ISBN: 0199470669 | PDF | 1,8 mb

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, Michael Allis
English | August 18, 2020 | ISBN: 019061692X | True EPUB/PDF | 568 pages | 3.2/4.8 MB
Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy.

Crain Soudien, "Cape Radicals: Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s"
English | ISBN: 1776144686 | 2019 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The history of a radical group of intellectuals who founded the New Era Fellowship, which shaped human rights precedents and social justice policy in South Africa

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, 3rd Edition by Jonathan Rose
English | July 20, 2021 | ISBN: 0300257848 | True EPUB | 560 pages | 0.99 MB
This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.

Cemil Aydin, "The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History"
English | ISBN: 0674050371 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 797 KB
When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread?

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World By James H. Sweet
2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1469609754 | PDF | 6 MB
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also addressed the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade. As a result, he and other African healers frequently ran afoul of imperial power brokers. Nevertheless, even the powerful suffered isolation in the Atlantic world and often turned to African healers for answers. In this way, healers simultaneously became fierce critics of Atlantic imperialism and expert translators of it, adapting their therapeutic strategies in order to secure social relevance and even power. By tracing Alvares' frequent uprooting and border crossing, Sweet illuminates how African healing practices evolved in the diaspora, contesting the social and political hierarchies of imperialism while also making profound impacts on the intellectual discourse of the "modern" Atlantic world.

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Justine Pila, "The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law"
English | 2018 | pages: 1271 | ISBN: 0198758456 | PDF | 5,5 mb
We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the primary means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It aims to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to support solutions to global environmental and health problems, as well as freedom of expression and democracy. It also seeks to stimulate economic growth and competition, accounting for its centrality to EU Internal Market and international trade and development policies. Additionally, it is of enormous and increasing importance to business.

Joseph Zornado, "Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice"
English | ISBN: 113834284X | 2019 | 178 pages | EPUB | 659 KB
Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the reader step by step from intellectual competency, to critical thinking, to cultural cognition, and to critical awareness necessary for social justice.