Die Große Erneuerung: Zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution

Hans Wußing, "Die Große Erneuerung: Zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution"


2002 | German | ISBN-10: 3034894589 | 223 pages | PDF | 16 MB

Die nach Inhalt, Methode und sozialer Relevanz durchgreifenden Umwälzungen in Mathematik, Astronomie, Physik, Chemie, Biologie und Geographie sowie in Naturphilosophie und wissenschaftlichen Organisationsformen während des 16./17. und des beginnenden 18. Jahrhunderts werden in der Historiographie der Wissenschaften mit dem Sammelbegriff Wissenschaftliche Revolution schlechthin bezeichnet. Der Autor beschreibt in seinem Buch markante Höhepunkte jenes Prozesses, auf denen ganz wesentlich unsere heutige Wissenschaft gegründet ist. Um die geistigen Wendungen und die Persönlichkeiten hervortreten zu lassen, wurde großer Wert auf authentische Äußerungen jener Wissenschaftler gelegt.

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Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television

Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television by Kristal Brent Zook


English | 1 Jan. 1999 | ISBN: 0195105486 | 180 Pages | PDF | 12 MB

Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire―a yearning for home and community―in the shows produced by and for African-Americans in this period, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies. Incorporating interviews with such prominent executives, producers, and stars as Keenan Ivory Wayans, Sinbad, Quincy Jones, Robert Townsend, Charles Dutton, Yvette Lee Bowser, Ralph Farquhar, and Susan Fales, this study looks at both production and reception among African-American viewers, providing nuanced readings of the shows themselves as well as the sociopolitical contexts in which they emerged. While black TV during this period may seem trivial or buffoonish to some, Sly as a Fox reveals its deep-rooted ties to African-American protest literature and autobiography, and a desire for social transformation.

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Clothing for Liberation: A Communication Analysis of Gandhi"s Swadeshi Revolution

Clothing for Liberation: A Communication Analysis of Gandhi"s Swadeshi Revolution by Peter Gonsalves


English | 11 Mar. 2010 | ISBN: 8132103106 | 188 Pages | PDF | 7 MB

This is the first analysis of Gandhi’s dressing style in terms of communication theory and an exploration of the subliminal messages that were subtly communicated to a large audience. Peter Gonsalves chooses three famous theorists from the field of communication studies and looks at Gandhi through the lens of each one, to give us a fascinating and new insight into one of the most famous men from South Asia.




The author first prepares the ground for the theoretical investigation by exploring the breadth of Gandhi’s communication skills. He provides essential information on a wide range of Gandhi’s communication skills, with a view to proposing interesting areas of research for communication scholars.




The book deals with the qualitative and quantitative aspects of Gandhi’s verbal output, his linguistic capacity, his journalistic and letter-writing style, his peace communication in an atmosphere of conflict, his organizational ability and the international repercussions of his mass mediated messages. It also elaborates the different types of non-verbal communication he used, such as silence, fasting, clothing, personal presence and charisma. The book closes with, perhaps for the first time, a Gandhian approach to symbolisation for socio-political change.Photographs of Gandhi in different phases of his life have been used to provide a visual chronology of sartorial change and emphasise the arguments in the book.

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Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo, "Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?"


ISBN: 1400204186, 1400275075 | 2012 | EPUB | 288 pages | 683 KB


For all the Christians facing conflict between Jesus’ words and their own lives, for all the non-Christians who feel they rarely see Jesus’ commands reflected in the choices of his followers, Red Letter Revolution is a blueprint for a new kind of Christianity, one consciously centered on the words of Jesus, the Bible’s “red letters.”




Framed as a captivating dialogue between Shane Claiborne, a progressive young evangelical, and Tony Campolo, a seasoned pastor and professor of sociology, Red Letter Revolution is a life-altering manifesto for skeptics and Christians alike. It is a call to a lifestyle that considers first and foremost Jesus’ explicit, liberating message of sacrificial love.




Shane and Tony candidly bring the words of Jesus to bear on contemporary issues of violence, community, Islam, hell, sexuality, civil disobedience, and twenty other critical topics for people of faith and conscience today. The resulting conversations reveal the striking truth that Christians guided unequivocally by the words of Jesus will frequently reach conclusions utterly contrary to those of mainstream evangelical Christianity.




If the Jesus who speaks to you through the Gospels is at odds with the Christian culture you know, if you have ever wanted to stand up and say, “I love Jesus, but that’s not me,” Red Letter Revolution will prove that you are not alone―you may have been a Red Letter Christian all along.

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As If an Enemy"s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (Repost)

As If an Enemy"s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution By Richard Archer


2010 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0195382471 | PDF | 3 MB

In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy"s Country is Richard Archer"s gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town.


Bringing colonial Boston to life, Archer deftly moves between the governor"s mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists" conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial political leaders such as Governor Francis Bernard, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and James Otis Jr. as they responded to London"s new policies, and he evokes the outrage many Bostonians felt towards Parliament and its local representatives.


Archer captures the popular mobilization under the leadership of John Hancock and Samuel Adams that met the oppressive imperial measures—most notably the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act—with demonstrations, Liberty Trees, violence, and non-importation agreements. When the British government decided to garrison Boston with troops, it posed a shocking challenge to the people of Massachusetts. The city was flooded with troops; almost immediately, tempers flared and violent conflicts broke out. Archer"s vivid tale culminates in the swirling tragedy of the Boston Massacre and its aftermath, including the trial and exoneration of the British troops involved.


A thrilling and original work of history, As If an Enemy"s Country tells the riveting story of what made the Boston townspeople, and with them other colonists, turn toward revolution.

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Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading [Repost]

Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading by Jason Merkoski


English | 2013 | ISBN: 1402288832 | 256 pages | PDF | 11 MB

A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon"s Kindle team.




•Is digital the death knell for print?


•Or will it reinvigorate the written word?


•What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries, even autographs?


•Will they die out—or evolve into something new?




In Burning the Page, digital pioneer Jason Merkoski charts the eBook revolution"s striking impact on the ways in which we create, discover, and share ideas. From the sleek halls of Silicon Valley to the jungles of Southeast Asia, Merkoski explores how eBooks came to be and predicts innovative and interactive ways digital content will shape our lives. Throughout, you are invited to continue the conversation online and help shape this exciting new world of "Reading 2.0."


For those who love books, collect books, own an e-reader, vow never to own one, or simply want to know where books are headed, this is a crucial guide to both the future of reading and to our digital culture as a whole.

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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (repost)

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries


English | 24 Jun. 2010 | ISBN: 0521847567 | 454 Pages | PDF | MB

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.

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Caught in the Crossfire: Revolution, Repression and the Rational Peasant

Caught in the Crossfire: Revolution, Repression and the Rational Peasant by T. David Mason


English | 28 Jan. 2004 | ISBN: 0742525384 | 328 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Caught in the Crossfire presents a multifaceted explanation of why people participate in something as dangerous and uncertain as a revolutionary movement. Beginning with an analysis of the grievances that motivate peasant participation in political movements, the book also explores the additional factors_leadership, resources, and strategies_required to mobilize peasants for collective action. Collective action itself need not be violent, but a repressive state response can quickly transform a reformist movement into a revolution. Mason shows how different strategies on the part of various actors can result in a government victory, a rebel victory, or a negotiated settlement. The book concludes with a look to the future: Will the emerging trends toward political democratization and economic globalization make revolution in the countryside more or less likely?

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