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 Alan Bailin, Ann Grafstein, "Readability: Text and Context" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137388765 | 235 pages | PDF | 0.821 MB This book explores what makes a book readable by bringing together the relevant literature and theories, and situating them within a unified account. It provides a single resource that offers a principled discussion of the issues and their applications.  Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan edited by Yetta Howard English | September 29, 2020 | ISBN: 0814214487, 0814256031 | PDF | 320 pages | 10.7 MB "The thing that people don't understand is that Bob was my invention," says Sheree Rose, the oft-overlooked partner of the late "supermasochist" performance artist Bob Flanagan. Unpacking this statement is at the heart of this important collection, which seeks to recuperate and showcase Rose's contributions as performer, photographer, writer, and cultural innovator. While Rose is mostly known for blurring the boundaries between art and lived experience in the context of her full-time, mistress-slave relationship with Flanagan, Rated RX shifts focus from Flanagan to Rose, presenting a feminist project that critically reassesses the artistic legacies of Sheree Rose.  Adrian Vaughan, "Railways Through the Vale of the White Horse" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1847978711 | 160 pages | EPUB | 40.7 MB A commemorative history of the railways of the beautiful Oxfordshire district "Vale of the White Horse," running 27 miles from Steventon to Wootton Bassett. The book spans the history of the route from the opening in 1840 until 1965, when British Rail withdrew all the local passenger services between Didcot and Swindon and all the intermediate stations were closed. With personal insight and images from railway historian Adrian Vaughan, the book covers the Great Western Railway's development of the route, as part of Brunel's "Bristol Railway," and shows the original correspondence between Brunel and his staff. Fully illustrated with hundreds of historical photographs and detailed track diagrams, Railways Through the Vale of the White Horse is an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in this scenic railway route and a nostalgia for the early days of railways in Britain.  Queen of Versailles: Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV's France by Mark Bryant English | October 22nd, 2020 | ISBN: 0228003393 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 3.39 MB The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at the French court as governess to the legitimized children of Louis XIV. Her relationship with the Sun King gradually flourished, and after the death of the queen in 1683 the couple secretly married.  Quantum Many-particle Systems By John W. Negele, Henri Orland 1998 | 474 Pages | ISBN: 0738200522 | PDF | 36 MB This volume explains the fundamental concepts and theoretical techniques used to understand the properties of quantum systems used to understand the properties of quantum systems having large numbers of degrees of freedom. A number of complimentary approaches are developed, including perturbation theory; nonpurturbative approximations based on functional integrals; general arguments based on order parameters; symmetry, and Fermi liquid theory; and stochastic methods. Each approach provides its own insights and quantitative capabilities, and in conjunction provide a powerful framework for understanding a wide variety of physical systems. Written at a level for graduate students with no prior background in manybody theory, this classic text is intended for physicists in solid state physics, field theory, atomic physics, condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and nuclear physics.  Python for Fun: 4 in 1 By Trevor Evans English | ASIN: B08NLT1YP1 | 2020 | 382 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 25 MB  Noah D. Guynn, "Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce " English | ISBN: 0812251687 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 11 MB As Noah D. Guynn observes, early French farce has been summarily dismissed as filth for centuries. Renaissance humanists, classical moralists, and Enlightenment philosophes belittled it as an embarrassing reminder of the vulgarity of medieval popular culture. Modern literary critics and theater historians often view it as comedy's poor relation-trite, smutty pap that served to divert the masses and to inure them to lives of subservience. Yet, as Guynn demonstrates in his reexamination of the genre, the superficial crudeness and predictability of farce belie the complexities of its signifying and performance practices and the dynamic, contested nature of its field of reception. Pure Filth focuses on overlooked and occluded content in farce, arguing that apparently coarse jokes conceal finely drawn, and sometimes quite radical, perspectives on ethics, politics, and religion.  Pure Charcuterie: The Craft and Poetry of Curing Meats at Home by New Society Publishers English | November 6, 2017 | ISBN: 0865718601 | 160 pages | PDF | 8.50 Mb Cured meat products arose from the need for preservation, in a time when cooking and refrigeration were not always available. Today, charcuterie is an embodiment of art in the kitchen, combining precision, balance, patience, and creativity; an economy of ingredients, as poetry is an economy of words. The confluence of these elements, along with the purest of ingredients, can enable anyone to craft cured meats in their home.  Public Finance: An International Perspective by Joshua E Greene English | 2021 | ISBN: 9814365041 | 538 Pages | PDF | 12 MB  Monika Mischke, "Public Attitudes toward Family Policies in Europe: Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion" English | 2013 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 3658035765 | PDF | 1,8 mb Family-policy variation in Europe is still enormous and there is very limited knowledge about the publics' attitudes toward family-policy measures in a comparative perspective. This book addresses this research gap by combing a profound analysis of existing family-policy measures with a thorough analysis of public attitudes. Based on institutional theory, which argues that institutions structure the processes of orientation, the empirical analyses shed light on the relationship between the current family-policy setup, the social context, and public attitudes toward particular family-policy measures in 12 countries of the European Union. The results demonstrate that the social context needs to be taken into account in order to improve our understanding of attitudinal variation among different countries and family-policy contexts. Moreover, this book points out that only few patterns of social polarization are quasi universal whereas many others are specific to individual countries or certain groups of countries. |
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