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 James L. Hevia, "English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China" English | ISBN: 0822331888 | 2003 | 416 pages | PDF | 3 MB Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese elite on "proper" behavior in a world dominated by multiple imperial powers. Their aim was to "bring China low" and make it a willing participant in British strategic goals in Asia. These lessons not only transformed the Qing dynasty but ultimately contributed to its destruction.
 England in the Middle Ages: A Captivating Guide to English History During the Medieval Period and Magna Carta by Captivating History English | May 29, 2020 | ISBN: 1647487455 | 230 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 5.67 Mb If you want to discover the captivating history of Medieval England and Magna Carta, then keep reading...  Engineering Statics by M. Rashad Islam English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367561069 | 309 Pages | PDF | 36 MB  Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Nick Jenkins English | February 1, 2020 | ISBN: 0198813929 | EPUB | 160 pages | 1.2 MB Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation. Energy systems include the primary fuel, its conversion, and transport to the point of use. In many cases this primary fuel is still a fossil fuel, a one-use resource derived from a finite supply within our planet, causing considerable damage to the environment. After 300 years of increasing reliance on fossil fuels, particularly coal, it is becoming ever clearer that the present energy systems need to change.  Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength by Human Kinetics English | April 24, 2006 | ISBN: 0736057714 | 408 pages | PDF | 28 Mb Finally, a research-based book that covers all facets of optimizing the development of muscle and strength. Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength is a comprehensive training guide and reference that provides  Christopher Taylor, "Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism " English | ISBN: 0822371154 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 19 MB Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial "neglect"-a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire's distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect's cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.  Edward Cavanagh, "Empire and Legal Thought Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity " English | ISBN: 9004430989 | 2020 | 634 pages | PDF | 4 MB Together, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years.  Ahmed Bouyerdene, "Emir Abd el-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam " English | ISBN: 1936597179 | 2012 | 296 pages | PDF | 23 MB This extraordinary biography of the Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader (1807/8-1883), shows his dazzling spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities. The New York Times called the Emir "one of the few great men of the century," while Abraham Lincoln and Pope Pius IX both commended the Emir for rescuing 15,000 Christians while in exile in Damascus. In 1846, the town of Elkader, Iowa was named in his honor.  Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems By Miltiadis D. Lytras, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Patricia Ordonez de Pablos 2009 | 351 Pages | ISBN: 1605662224 | PDF | 10 MB Today, the information systems (IS) discipline faces new challenges. Emerging technologies as well as matured approaches for the social, technical, and developmental role of IS provide a new context for the evolution of the discipline over the next few years. Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Systems communicates the challenges and opportunities that information systems research is dealing with today while promoting cutting-edge research on how current IS support is creating the critical backbone for the knowledge society. This book is an essential reference for policy makers, government officers, academicians, and practitioners thirsty for knowledge on IS and IT beyond traditional textbooks.  Arjun K. Gupta, Tamas Varga, Taras Bodnar, "Elliptically Contoured Models in Statistics and Portfolio Theory" English | 2013 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 1461481538 | PDF | 2,6 mb Elliptically Contoured Models in Statistics and Portfolio Theory fully revises the first detailed introduction to the theory of matrix variate elliptically contoured distributions. There are two additional chapters, and all the original chapters of this classic text have been updated. Resources in this book will be valuable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in statistics and related fields of finance and engineering. Those interested in multivariate statistical analysis and its application to portfolio theory will find this text immediately useful. In multivariate statistical analysis, elliptical distributions have recently provided an alternative to the normal model. Elliptical distributions have also increased their popularity in finance because of the ability to model heavy tails usually observed in real data. Most of the work, however, is spread out in journals throughout the world and is not easily accessible to the investigators. A noteworthy function of this book is the collection of the most important results on the theory of matrix variate elliptically contoured distributions that were previously only available in the journal-based literature. The content is organized in a unified manner that can serve an a valuable introduction to the subject. |
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