Alan C. Love, "Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution (Volume 22) " English | ISBN: 1517906903 | 2019 | 576 pages | PDF | 9 MB Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time Benthic Foraminiferal Ecology: Indicators of Environmental Impacts by Patrícia Pinheiro Beck Eichler English | PDF | 2020 | 236 Pages | ISBN : 303061462X | 14.9 MB This book provides effective statistical analyses in benthic foraminiferal communities patterns and show solutions for sea-land processes and alterations caused by climate changes and other local (and global) environmental concerns. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan By Nancy K. MacLean 1995 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 0195098366 | PDF | 17 MB On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the infamous secret order in which many of their fathers had served after the Civil War. Unsure of their footing in the New South and longing for the provincial, patriarchal world of the past, the men of the second Klan saw themselves as an army in training for a war between the races. They boasted that they had bonded into ''an invisible phalanx...to stand as impregnable as a tower against every encroachment upon the white man's liberty...in the white man's country, under the white man's flag.'' Behind the Mask of Chivalry brings the ''invisible phalanx'' into broad daylight, culling from history the names, the life stories, and the driving passions of the anonymous Klansmen beneath the white hoods and robes. Using an unusual and rich cache of internal Klan records from Athens, Georgia to anchor her observations, author Nancy MacLean combines a fine-grained portrait of a local Klan world with a penetrating analysis of the second Klan's ideas and politics nationwide. No other right-wing movement has ever achieved as much power as the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, and this book shows how and why it did. MacLean reveals that the movement mobilized its millions of American followers largely through campaigns waged over issues that today would be called ''family values'': Prohibition violation, premarital sex, lewd movies, anxieties about women's changing roles, and worries over waning parental authority. Neither elites nor ''poor white trash,'' most of the Klan rank and file were married, middle-aged, and middle class. Local meetings, or klonklaves, featured readings of the minutes, plans for recruitment campaigns and Klan barbecues, and distribution of educational materials--Christ and Other Klansmen was one popular tome. Nonetheless, as mundane as proceedings often were at the local level, crusades over ''morals'' always operated in the service of the Klan's larger agenda of virulent racial hatred and middle-class revanchism. The men who deplored sex among young people and sought to restore the power of husbands and fathers were also sworn to reclaim the ''white man's country,'' striving to take the vote from blacks and bar immigrants. Comparing the Klan to the European fascist movements that grew out of the crucible of the first World War, MacLean maintains that the remarkable scope and frenzy of the movement reflected less on members' power within their communities than on the challenges to that power posed by African Americans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and white women and youth who did not obey the Klan's canon of appropriaite conduct. In vigilante terror, the Klan's night riders acted out their movement's brutal determination to maintain inherited hierarchies of race, class, and gender. Compellingly readable and impeccably researched, The Mask of Chivalry is an unforgettable investigation of a crucial era in American history, and the social conditions, cultural currents, and ordinary men that built this archetypal American reactionary movement.
Greg Lim, "Beginning iOS 13 & Swift App Development: Develop iOS Apps with Xcode 11, Swift 5, Core ML, ARKit and more" English | ISBN: 981148029X | 2020 | 252 pages | MOBI | 10 MB In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning iOS13 application development using Swift. You'll start building your first iOS app within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don't want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have the skills to create an app and submit it to the app store. Becoming My Mothers Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal By Erika Gottlieb 2008 | 187 Pages | ISBN: 1554580307 | PDF | 4 MB Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War II, to the family’s dramatic escape and emmigration to Canada. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer trying to work through her complex and deep relationship with her mother, whose portrait she cannot paint until she completes her journey through memory. The core of the book is Eva’s riveting recollection of the last months of World War II in Budapest, seen through a child’s eyes, and is reminiscent in its power of scenes in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan . Exploring the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, the book illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory. Illustrations by the author throughout the book, some in colour, enhance the story. Sukanya Banerjee, "Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire " English | ISBN: 0822346087 | 2010 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote Indian claims to formal equality prior to decolonization, she emphasizes the extralegal life of citizenship: the modes of self-representation it generates even before it is codified and the political claims it triggers because it is deferred. Banerjee theorizes modes of citizenship decoupled from the rights-conferring nation-state; in so doing, she provides a new frame for understanding the colonial subject, who is usually excluded from critical discussions of citizenship.
Be the Fittest: Your ultimate 12-week guide to training smart, eating clever and learning to listen to your body by Tyrone Brennand English | December 24th, 2020 | ISBN: 1787135586 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 39.04 MB BE THE FITTEST is a powerful, fun and inspirational guide that will change your life. Tyrone is a personal trainer who turned his life around through fitness. In this, his first book, he shares his ground-breaking workout and meal plans so that anyone can learn to BE THE FITTEST in 12 weeks. Blagoja Markoski, "Basic Principles of Topography" English | 2018 | pages: 229 | ISBN: 3319721461 | PDF | 17,4 mb This book gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant elements in topography and their practical application. It elaborates on the classical representation of terrain on maps such as cartographic projections, together with their classification, scale, and geographical elements. It is richly illustrated with photographs, maps and figures, in which the theoretical explanations are clarified. BELFAST: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY by ADOLFO ESCAT English | November 8, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08MWGJGPT | 86 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 18 Mb Welcome to Belfast, Street Photography. In this book containing 82 photographs, you will find interesting street photography and works of art, including graffiti and pictures of inhabitants of Belfast. I was impressed by the beauty and quality of urban art that I found on the streets of Belfast. This kind of art embellish the streets of Belfast and give a new quality of life to the inhabitants and to visitors alike.I have captured urban art in a way that I think improves the original visual image propositions, that is, framing art within more art, within my photographic imagination, so as to produce street photography artistic proposals. Also, a number of artists have been photographed, either while performing or being simply portraited. There is always something interesting going on in the center of Belfast. Angels, sirens, lions, dogs, crocodiles and chimpanzees are not forgotten in these collection. This is why many of the depicted images include inhabitants of the city going about their daily business. I am of the opinion that urban art becomes more powerful when it is framed in an urban narrative that includes human beings. This is so because we, as humans, make connections to other human beings, we are curious about the looks and behaviour of other humans. Framing a work of art next to an interesting human narrative both improves the work of art and the human narrative depicted. Also, images have been digitally retouched so as to improve and to enhance colours and profiles, as many of the photographed objects have faded colours by now, or in order to create new visual effects, erasing colours and leaving only interesting colours in a way that reinterprets reality. This is all about when trying to create art, to reinterpret reality and to present it under a new light. In this respect, this collection of photographs both reinterpret the aesthetic qualities of urban art, frames it in new photographic visual proposals and preserves it for the future generations as well in an artistic collection of photographs. As the volcano ashes of the volcano Vesuvius in Italy did to the graffiti of Pompei, these photographic images will fix the memory of the city of Belfast during the virus pandemic times of 2020.I hope that you will enjoy the contemplation of these images. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT-series 3 vol 1 : -collection of unpublished-HIGH QUALITY & ORIGINAL RESEARCH WITH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND REALISTIC ANALYSIS by MOSTAFA EMAMI English | 2020 | ASIN: B08R7Q58X5 | 362 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB |