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 Steven Rutledge, "Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting " English | ISBN: 0199573239 | 2012 | 424 pages | PDF | 10 MB In antiquity, Rome represented one of the world's great cultural capitals. The city constituted a collective repository for various commemoratives, cultural artefacts, and curiosities, not to mention plunder taken in war, and over its history became what we might call a "museum city." Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects and memorabilia both from Rome and its empire came to reflect a specific Roman identity and, in some instances, to even construct or challenge Roman perceptions of power and of the self. In this volume, Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values and identity are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.  An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis by J. N. Reddy English | 2004-06-03 | ISBN: 019852529X | 488 pages | PDF | 7,3 mb This book presents the theory and computer implementations of the finite element method as applied to nonlinear problems of heat transfer and similar field problems, fluid mechanics (flows of incompressible fluids), and solid mechanics (elasticity, beams and plates).  Arthur E. Rowse, "Amglish, in Like, Ten Easy Lessons: A Celebration of the New World Lingo" English | ISBN: 1442211679 | 2011 | 236 pages | EPUB | 6 MB One of the world's leading linguists recently wrote: "We may be seeing the birth of a new language as yet without a name." He was referencing the new informal mixture of English and other languages being freely formed around the world, with little effort to conform to prescribed rules of grammar, syntax, or spelling.
 American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger English | January 26th, 2021 | ISBN: 0593182537 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 30.10 MB Kompromatn.-Russian for "compromising information"  American Breechloading Mobile Artillery 1875-1953 2016 | ISBN: 0764350498 | English | 234 Pages | PDF | 291 MB [center]  Gabrielle Glaser, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption" English | ISBN: 0735224684 | 2021 | EPUB | pag pages | 9 MB "Powerful... Tells a singular story to illuminate a universal truth."-The New York Times Book Review  America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian English | January 26th, 2021 | ISBN: 0307271811 | 688 pages | True EPUB | 88.32 MB An important, urgently needed book-a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers-once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian, and the author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil ("he would do Graham Greene proud"-KirkusReviews).  Tom Lutz, "Aimlessness (No Limits)" English | ISBN: 0231199341, 023119935X | 2021 | EPUB | 184 pages | 25 MB Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity.  Professor Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan" English | ISBN: 0824880374 | 2019 | 246 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), a number of entities, both natural and supernatural, came to be worshipped as "gods of world renewal." These included disgruntled peasants who demanded their local governments repeal unfair taxation, government bureaucrats who implemented special fiscal measures to help the poor, and a giant subterranean catfish believed to cause earthquakes to punish the hoarding rich. In the modern period, yonaoshi gods took on more explicitly anti-authoritarian characteristics. During a major uprising in Saitama Prefecture in 1884, a yonaoshi god was invoked to deny the legitimacy of the Meiji regime, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the new religion Ōmoto predicted an apocalyptic end of the world presided over by a messianic yonaoshi god.  Adolescent Depression (A Guide for Parents) by Francis Mark Mondimore English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1421417898 | 408 pages | EPUB | 2.98 Mb The timely second edition of this bestselling guide will inform and encourage struggling adolescents and their families. |
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