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 Birol Baskan, "From Religious Empires to Secular States " English | ISBN: 1138696390 | 2016 | 202 pages | PDF | 913 KB In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a unilinear, homogeneous and universal process, and has convincingly shown that secularization of the state has unfolded along different paths. Much, however, remains to be uncovered.  Folklore and Social Media by Andrew Peck, Trevor J. Blank English | December 7th, 2020 | ISBN: 1646420586 | 266 pages | True EPUB | 2.12 MB Ten years after the publication of the foundational edited collection Folklore and the Internet, Andrew Peck and Trevor J. Blank bring an essential update of scholarship to the study of digital folklore, Folklore and Social Media. A unique virtual, hybridized platform for human communication, social media is more dynamic, ubiquitous, and nuanced than the internet ever was by itself, and the majority of Americans use it to access and interact with digital source materials in more advanced and robust ways.  Senko K. Maynard, "Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture" English | 2016 | ISBN: 9027256683 | 356 pages | PDF | 5.6 MB This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through "character-speak", the book analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating whispers in manga, and fictionalized dialects in television drama series. Explorations into conversational interaction, internal monologue, rhetorical figures, intertextuality, and the semiotic mediation between verbal and visual signs reveal how speakers manipulate language in performing playful "characters" and "characteristics". Most prominent in the discourse of Japanese popular culture is its "fluid orality". We find the essential oral nature in and across genres of Japanese popular culture, and observe seamless transitions among styles and speech variations. This fluidity is understood as a feature of polyphonic speech initiated not by the so-called ideal singular speaker, but by a multiple and often shifting interplay of one's speaking selves performing as various characters. Challenging traditional (Western) linguistic theories founded on the concept of the autonomous speaker, this study ventures into open and embracing pragmatic and discourse studies that inquire into the very nature of our speaking selves.  Feta Cheese is a Yummy Cheese: A Cookbook Helping You to Use It in Many Ways! by Ivy Hope English | 2021 | ASIN: B08RWK1J56 | 61 Pages | PDF AZW3 EPUB | 28 MB  Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart: A Novel by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann English | December 8, 2020 | ISBN: 1635420350 | EPUB | 256 pages | 4.4 MB The last novel from the acclaimed author of The Artificial Silk Girl, this 1950 classic paints a delightfully shrewd portrait of postwar German society.  Fences, Gates and Trellises: Plan, Design, Build by James Barrett English | 1997 | ISBN: 1880029960 | 163 pages | PDF | 108 MB From wood to vinyl and chain link, this book tells you how to build fences and gates, as well as the trellises and arbors that complement them. Projects include privacy fences, picket fences, a grape arbor, a fan trellis, and more. 70 color photographs and 325 illustrations.  Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate, ""Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide" English | 1997 | ISBN: 1565843592 | 179 pages | PDF | 5.06 MB "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, Sven Lindqvist takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, the author exposes the roots of genocide in Africa via his own journey through the Saharan desert. As Lindqvist shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination―"cleansing" the earth of the so-called lesser races―deeply informed European colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe's own Holocaust.  Bradley Charbonneau, John Muldoon, "Every Single Day: Daily Habits to Create Unstoppable Success, Achieve Goals Faster, and Unleash Your Extraordinary Potential" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1732243441, 1549936662 | 196 pages | EPUB | 0.34 MB Brendan Burchard said, "You need, more than anything else, daily momentum. It's the secret of all life happiness."  Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe By Walter L. Adamson 2007 | 449 Pages | ISBN: 0520252705 | PDF | 2 MB This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists, suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically satisfying form of cultural democracy.  Stephan J. G. Gift, Brent Maundy, "Electronic Circuit Design and Application" English | ISBN: 3030469883 | 2021 | EPUB | 616 pages | 60 MB This textbook for core courses in Electronic Circuit Design teaches students the design and application of a broad range of analog electronic circuits in a comprehensive and clear manner. Readers will be enabled to design complete, functional circuits or systems. The authors first provide a foundation in the theory and operation of basic electronic devices, including the diode, bipolar junction transistor, field effect transistor, operational amplifier and current feedback amplifier. They then present comprehensive instruction on the design of working, realistic electronic circuits of varying levels of complexity, including power amplifiers, regulated power supplies, filters, oscillators and waveform generators. Many examples help the reader quickly become familiar with key design parameters and design methodology for each class of circuits. Each chapter starts from fundamental circuits and develops them step-by-step into a broad range of applications of real circuits and systems. |
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