Download or read book The Magma of War written by Edgar Illas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, from the conflicts in the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine to Mexican narco-violence, from neocolonial land grabs in the Global South to racial, border, health, and climate crises all over the planet, defines the most extreme and contradictory expression of the global world. In this fascinating exploration on the history of the thinking of conflict, Edgar Illas departs from military and sociological analyses to propose a theoretical exploration of war as the ontological force that produces political orders. Magma is used as a geological metaphor to theorize the mixtures of politics and war that organize, and disorganize, global society. Divided into two parts, Illas’ study begins by surveying some of the most important thinkers of war, moving from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Each thinker provides a different inflection in the historical evolution of the being of war. The second part turns to a theorization of the twenty-first century to claim that conflictive relations between capital, state power, political movements, and social life in globalization culminate and at the same time reiterate the paradoxes of war as an ontological event. The Magma of War is an energizing contribution to the task of rethinking politics in relation to war and an invaluable resource to all those conscious of the unstable forms of contemporary social and political life.
Download or read book Magma written by Thora Hjörleifsdóttir and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The provocative Icelandic poet’s debut novel . . . urgently explores the challenges and costs of a young woman’s passionate yet toxic relationship.” —Time, Best Books of Summer 2021 As a young university student, Lilja is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. Before she knows it, she’s moved into his cramped apartment, surrounded by sour towels and flat Diet Cokes. As the newfound intimacy of sharing a shower and a bed fuels her desire to please her partner, his subtle abuses continue to mount undetected. Lilja desperately tries to meet his every need, slowly losing her sense of self in the process. In her debut novel, Thora Hjörleifsdóttir sheds light on the commonplace undercurrents of violence that so often go undetected in romantic relationships. She deftly illustrates the failings of psychiatric systems in recognizing symptoms of cruelty, and in powerful, poetic prose depicts the unspooling of a tender-hearted woman desperate to love well.
Download or read book Paramount War God written by Shi HuangDi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War God Continent was vast and endless. The nine forbidden lands were filled with a rain of blood and gore. The Four Great Sacred Grounds had forged countless peerless experts. The mysterious youth who had walked out from the forbidden area. A man. A saber. He stepped on the geniuses and the strong, becoming a supreme wargod. And all of this, from the moment Mu Tian arrived ...
Download or read book The God of War written by Zhang Wei and published by Devneybooks. This book was released on with total page 3968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early winter, the ancient town, which looked a little depressed, was bleak with the cold wind, and a cool breeze blew, and several bright red maple leaves fell from the air, swirling along the dry and pale slate with the breeze, which was particularly bleak. The sunshine in early winter is a little shabby, shooting down from the air, bringing a little warmth to this cold winter.
Download or read book The War Below written by Ernest Scheyder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply unpopular, even as they have a role to play in fighting climate change. These tensions have sparked a worldwide reckoning over the sourcing of these critical minerals, and no one understands the complexities of these issues better than Ernest Scheyder, whose exclusive access has allowed him to report from the front lines on the key players in this global battle to power our future.
Download or read book The War Below written by Ernest Scheyder and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines. Critical minerals are vital to many sustainable technologies, and the competition for them is intensifying. Nations which aspire to energy independence are ever more intertwined: a hedge fund manager's attempt to revive rare earths mining in California needs Chinese expertise, and international reliance on Africa's mining sector persists despite concern over child labour. Meanwhile, ecological dilemmas abound: a proposed lithium mine in Nevada would help global car manufacturers slash their dependence on fossil fuels, but developing that mine could cause the extinction of a flower found nowhere else on the planet. As investors attempt to predict how the geopolitics of resource extraction will unfold, this is a story of the industry giants, researchers, and policymakers at the forefront of the new energy wars.
Download or read book Destined War Sovereign written by Ai Ling and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every era had countless legends. Some legends could penetrate time and become memories of immortality. In this strange and joyful world of martial cultivation, could a Martial God whose memories were shattered and whose soul had been reborn establish his own legend ... A man should lie drunk on the knees of beauties, waking up to rule the world! The Ancestor will bring you into a vast and mysterious fantasy world where blood is like fire, passion is everywhere, and desire is limitless ...
Download or read book Eternal War Songs written by Wu XinZhiYang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war deities of this generation were all sealed for no reason. They watched as their country was destroyed in front of their eyes. After a thousand years, he finally broke through the seal and began his cruel path of revenge. The eternal horn, the eternal war song, seethed with endless hot blood. Close]
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Download or read book War Sovereign of Wasteland written by Ke AiTao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honghu Zhi, Kun Peng raised up, one person in ten steps, one person in a thousand miles, returning to the invincible Battle-Saint from the Great Desolation, resuming his legends of ancient times.
Download or read book Mind over Magma written by Davis A. Young and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind over Magma chronicles the scientific effort to unravel the mysteries of rocks that solidified on or beneath Earth's surface from the intensely hot, molten material called magma. The first-ever comprehensive history of the study of such igneous rocks, it traces the development of igneous petrology from ancient descriptions of volcanic eruptions to recent work incorporating insights from physical chemistry, isotope studies, and fluid dynamics. Intellectual developments in the field--from the application of scientific methods to the study of rocks to the discovery of critical data and the development of the field's major theories--are considered within their broader geographical, social, and technological contexts. Mind over Magma examines the spread of igneous petrology from western Europe to North America, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and much of the rest of the world. It considers the professionalization and Anglicization of the field, detailing changes in publication outlets, the role of women, and the influence of government funding. The book also highlights the significant role that technological developments--including the polarizing microscope, high-temperature quenching furnaces, and instrumental analysis--have played in the discovery of new data and development of revolutionary insights into the nature of igneous rocks. Both an engagingly told story and a major reference, Mind over Magma is the only available history of this important field. As such, it will be appreciated by petrologists, geochemists, and other geologists as well as by those interested in the history of science.
Download or read book The Return of Mephistopheles World War III written by Demetrios Anagnostopoulos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Line War written by Neal Asher and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebus’s attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself . . .
Download or read book Why We Fight written by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait and published by Himalayan Institute Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is the most ancient and primitive way of dealing with conflict. According to yoga, stopping the cycle of war requires delving into the subtle causes underlying material desires and religious differences. These are selfishness, ego, greed, ethnocentrism, and sense of inferiority. Because of these attributes, we fail to do what we know is right, and persist in doing what we know is wrong. In the scriptures, this phenomenon is called killing the conscience. The great scriptures of yoga--The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutra, and The Upanishads--clearly describe how the subtle causes of external war emanate from the internal world. The real cause of war lies rooted in the individual's unwillingness to listen to the voice of the heart, the inner conscience. Drawing on the philosophy of yoga and other spiritual systems, Why We Fight: Practices for Lasting Peace offers practical tools for self-transformation. Through contemplation and spiritual practice, we can replace greed, desire, jealousy, and anger with compassion, tolerance, and love for ourselves and others. By cultivating these qualities in our daily lives, we have the power to make a positive impact on the world.
Download or read book The Grassroots Chronicles of War written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 2376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filariasis never used gold coins or silver coins, and even never used copper coins several times before he was 20 years old. Liuhuo has never seen famous mountains and rivers, eaten delicious food, and even seen beautiful women. He doesn't even know that there are several countries in Zhongzhou mainland.
Download or read book Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War written by Tabea Alexa Linhard and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Study of the role women played in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Examines female figures such as the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution and the milicianas of the Spanish Civil War and the intersection of gender, revolution, and culture in both the Mexican and the Spanish contexts"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Road to War written by Martin Shipway and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated France? Based on French archival sources, almost all of them previously unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the author assesses the policy that emerged from the 1944 Brazzaville conference; and the doomed attempt to apply that policy in Indo-China.
