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 Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 by Abby Anderton 2019 | ISBN: 0253042410, 0253042429 | English | 194 pages | EPUB | 27 MB As the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. Air raids shelled celebrated monuments, left homes uninhabitable, and reduced much of the city to nothing but rubble. After the war's end, this apocalyptic landscape captured the imagination of artists, filmmakers, and writers, who used the ruins to engage with themes of alienation, disillusionment, and moral ambiguity. In Rubble Music, Abby Anderton explores the classical music culture of postwar Berlin, analyzing archival documents, period sources, and musical scores to identify the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe. Anderton reveals how rubble functioned as a literal, figurative, psychological, and sonic element by examining the resonances of trauma heard in the German musical repertoire after 1945. With detailed explorations of reconstituted orchestral ensembles, opera companies, and radio stations, as well as analyses of performances and compositions that were beyond the reach of the Allied occupiers, Anderton demonstrates how German musicians worked through, cleared away, or built over the debris and devastation of the war.  Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration by Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty 2020 | ISBN: 1787357414, 1787357473 | English | 420 pages | PDF | 25 MB Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of that, the different disciplines that research the human past in South America have tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be studied independently of each other. Objections to that approach have repeatedly been raised, however, warning against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia when there are clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them.  Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma by Gail Parker English | June 18th, 2020 | ISBN: 1787751856 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3.66 MB Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others.  Referring in a Second Language: Studies on Reference to Person in a Multilingual World (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics) by Jonathon Ryan, Peter Crosthwaite 2020 | ISBN: 0367208946 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for "about every third word of discourse". Located at the intersection of pragmatics and grammar, reference is now proving a rich and enduring source of insight into second language development. The challenge for second language (L2) learners involves navigating the selection and positioning of reference in the target language, continually shifting and balancing the referential means used to maintain coherence, while remaining acutely sensitive to the discourse and social context.  Programming Machine Learning: From Coding to Deep Learning by Paolo Perrotta English | March 25th, 2020 | ISBN: 1680506609 | 329 pages | EPUB (True/Retail Copy) | 12.76 MB You've decided to tackle machine learning - because you're job hunting, embarking on a new project, or just think self-driving cars are cool. But where to start? It's easy to be intimidated, even as a software developer. The good news is that it doesn't have to be that hard. Master machine learning by writing code one line at a time, from simple learning programs all the way to a true deep learning system. Tackle the hard topics by breaking them down so they're easier to understand, and build your confidence by getting your hands dirty.  Elliot B Koffman, "Problem solving and structured programming in Pascal, 2nd Edition" English | 1985 | ISBN: 0201214504, 0201117363 | 612 pages | PDF | 1.53 MB Offers step-by-step instructions on the programming of computers in the Pascal language.  Rick Partlow, "Primary Targets" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1988380375 | 348 pages | EPUB | 0.38 MB Old Marines never die...they just become Space Marines  Peacekeepers, Politicians, and Warlords: The Liberian Peace Process By Abiodun Alao, John MacKinlay, Funmi Olonisakin 2000 | 211 Pages | ISBN: 9280810316 | PDF | 2 MB When the international community responds to a massive humanitarian emergency, such as the one in Liberia, the operation that results is both complicated and ephemeral. The multifaceted nature of the problems in the crisis area attracts many different responses ranging from the deployment of thousands of international troops and observers to groups of civilians who act locally. Acting simultaneously but not always in concert with the response operations are the regional and international political leaders. In the context of Liberia, the crisis and the international response to it developed in stages, each with its own idiosyncratic nature, characteristic form of violence, cast of dominant personalities, and fresh bouts of extreme violence. Peacekeepers, Politicians, and Warlords is an original account of the entire peace process in Liberia that penetrates the roles of the peacekeepers, the warlords and the politicians who were the key actors in this narrative. UNU Series on Foundations of Peace  Oxford Handbook of General Practice (Oxford Medical Handbooks) 5th Edition by Chantal Simon 2020 | ISBN: 0198808186 | English | 1168 pages | EPUB | 40.5 MB The well-loved Oxford Handbook of General Practice is a lifeline for busy GPs, medical students, and healthcare professionals. With hands-on advice from experienced practitioners, this essential handbook covers the entire breadth and depth of general practice in small sections that can be located, read, and digested in seconds. Now in its fifth edition, the Handbook has been fully revised to reflect the major new developments shaping general practice today.  Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction: The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics) by Robbie Love 2020 | ISBN: 1138367370 | English | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed understanding of corpus linguistic methodology more broadly. The book begins by situating the creation of this second corpus, a compilation of new, publicly-accessible Spoken British English from the 2010s, within the context of the first, created in 1994, talking through the need to balance backward capability and optimal practice for today's users. Chapters subsequently use the Spoken BNC2014 as a focal point around which to discuss the various considerations taken into account in corpus construction, including design, data collection, transcription, and annotation. The volume concludes by reflecting on the successes and limitations of the project, as well as the broader utility of the corpus in linguistic research, both in current examples and future possibilities. This exciting new contribution to the literature on linguistic methodology is a valuable resource for students and researchers in corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and English language teaching. |
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