| |
|
|
 Leaving America: The New Expatriate Generation By John R. Wennersten 2007 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0313345066 | PDF | 2 MB Today more than ever, large numbers of Americans are leaving the United States. It is estimated that by the end of the decade, some 10 million of the brightest and most talented Americans, representing an estimated $136 billion in wages, will be living and working overseas. This emigration trend contradicts the internalized myth of America as the land of affluence, opportunity, and freedom. What is behind this trend? Wennersten argues that many people these days, from college students to retirees, are uncertain or ambivalent about what it means to be an American. For example, many are uncomfortable with that they believe America has come to represent to the rest of the world. At the same time, globalization and advances in technology have enabled the growth of a telecommuting work force whose members can live in one country and work in another, and this trend, among other factors, has encouraged a new generation of people to respond to the pull of global citizenship. Leaving America is an important reexamination of one of the most central stories in the history of American cultureвЂ"the story of the immigrant coming to the Promised Land. While millions still come to America and millions more still wish to do so, there is an important counterflow of emigration from America to distant parts of the planet. This book focuses on modern American expatriates as a significant and heretofore largely ignored counterpoint phenomenon every bit as central to understanding modern America as is the image of a nation of immigrants. The greatest irony in America today may well be that while argument and discord prevail in the edifice of American democracy about diversity, economic justice, equality, and the Iraq War, many of the most thoughtful citizens have already left the building.  Lorna Uden, Dario Liberona, Galo Sanchez, "Learning Technology for Education Challenges" English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030207978 | PDF | pages: 492 | 26.6 mb This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education Challenges, LTEC 2019, held in Zamora, Spain, in July 2019.  Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Malory, edited by Helen Cooper English | December 15, 2008 | ISBN: 0199537348 | PDF | 624 pages | 28.6 MB The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions. Recounting the life of King Arthur, the knightly exploits of Sir Lancelot du Lake, Sir Tristram, Sir Gawain, and the quest for the Holy Grail, Le Morte Darthur depicts the contradictions that underscore the Fellowship's chivalric ideals. A pervading tension cumulates in the revelation of Lancelot and Guenivere's illicit passion, and in Arthur's powerlessness to prevent a related outbreak of violence and revenge.  Michael Kulikowski, "Late Roman Spain and Its Cities (Ancient Society and History)" English | 2004 | ISBN 0801879787 | PDF | 510 pages | 3 MB The history of Spain in late antiquity offers important insights into the dissolution of the western Roman empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. Nonetheless, scholarship on Spain in this period has lagged behind that on other Roman provinces.  Roxana Radvan, "Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks VIII" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415580730 | PDF | 240 pages | 5,8 MB Laser techniques offer possibilities for the examination and conservation of artwork, and for the prevention of cultural heritage. This collection of peer reviewed papers from the 8th International Conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks, Sibiu, Romania, September 21-25, 2009, addresses various aspects of cultural heritage preservation (laser induced phenomenas, laser investigations and recent laboratory studies and onsite applications).  Xiaodong Na, Stone, "Laser Welding" English | 2010 | ISBN: 9789533071299 | 240 pages | PDF | 35,1 MB This book is entitled to laser welding processes. The objective is to introduce relatively established methodologies and techniques which have been studied, developed and applied either in industries or researches.  Laser Micro-Nano-Manufacturing and 3D Microprinting by Anming Hu English | EPUB | 2020 | 377 Pages | ISBN : 3030593126 | 128.9 MB This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in laser techniques for micro-nano-manufacturing and an in-depth analysis of applications, such as 3D printing and nanojoining. Lasers have gained increasing significance as a precise tool for advanced manufacturing.  Large Deviations Techniques and Applications, Second Edition by Amir Dembo Engilsh | PDF | 2009 | 409 Pages | ISBN : 3642033105 | 4.1 MB The theory of large deviations deals with the evaluation, for a family of probability measures parameterized by a real valued variable, of the probabilities of events which decay exponentially in the parameter.  Alastair Pennycook, "Language as a Local Practice" English | ISBN: 0415547512 | 2010 | 176 pages | PDF | 3 MB Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.  Kinetic Theory of Gases in Shear Flows: Nonlinear Transport by Vicente Garzó English | PDF | 2003 | 353 Pages | ISBN : 9048163471 | 31.1 MB The kinetic theory of gases as we know it dates to the paper of Boltzmann in 1872. The justification and context of this equation has been clarified over the past half century to the extent that it comprises one of the most complete examples of many-body analyses exhibiting the contraction from a microscopic to a mesoscopic description. |
:
