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 Shanna K. Kattari, "Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities: Voices for Equity, Incl" English | ISBN: 113833622X | 2020 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book examines issues across the lifespan of transgender and nonbinary individuals whilst synthesizing conceptual work, empirical evidence, pedagogical content, educational experiences, and the voices of transgender and nonbinary individuals. It highlights the resilience and resistance of transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities to challenge narratives relying on one-dimensional perspectives of risk and tragic lives.  Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood English | October 10, 2008 | ISBN: 0195333055, 0199733538 | EPUB | 400 pages | 2.7 MB The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples found in Six-legged Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture.  Lawrence Wang-chi Wong, "Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries " English | ISBN: 9629966077 | 2016 | 300 pages | PDF | 6 MB This collection deploys archive studies and translation hermeneutics to merge the historical study of sinology with translation research. Focusing on the context of contributions by early Sinologists and their translations of works in Chinese, the essays in this volume ask why certain works were chosen for translation in particular historical moments; how they were interpreted, translated, and manipulated; and what influence they had, especially in advancing sinology in various countries. This book reconstructs a wider historical and intellectual context from which certain translations emerged and further expands sinology through the extensive use of overlooked archive materials.  Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization by Michael K. Miller 2021 | ISBN: 0691217009, 0691217599 | English | 368 pages | PDF | 6 MB How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic change  Helen Scott, "Shakespeare's Tempest and Capitalism" English | ISBN: 1032089385 | 2021 | 282 pages | PDF | 5 MB In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the 'primitive accumulation' of capital, which she suggests help explain the play's continued and particular resonance. The 'storm' of the title refers both to Shakespeare's Tempest hurtling through time, and to Walter Benjamin's concept of history as a succession of violent catastrophes. Scott begins with an account of the global processes of dispossession―of the peasantry and indigenous populations―accompanying the emergence of capitalism, which generated new class relationships, new understandings of human subjectivity, and new forms of oppression around race, gender, and disability. Developing a detailed reading of the play at its moment of production in the business of theatre in 1611, Scott then moves gracefully through the global reception history, showing how its central thematic concerns and figurative patterns bespeak the upheavals and dispossessions of successive stages of capitalist development. Paying particular attention to moments of social crisis, and unearthing a radical political tradition, Scott follows the play from its hostile takeover in the Restoration, through its revival by the Romantics, and consolidation and contestation in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century transatlantic modernism generated an acutely dystopic Tempest, then during the global transformations of the 1960s postcolonial writers permanently associated it with decolonization. At century's end the play became a vehicle for exploring intersectional oppression, and the remarkable 'Sycorax school' featured iconoclastic readings by writers such as Abena Busia, May Joseph, and Sylvia Wynter. Turning to both popular culture and high-profile stage productions in the twenty-first century, Scott explores the ramifications and figurative potential of Shakespeare's Tempest for global social and ecological crises today. Sensitive to the play's original concerns and informed by recent scholarship on performance and reception history as well as disability studies, Scott's moving analysis impels readers towards a fresh understanding of sea-change and metamorphosis as potent symbols for the literal and figurative tempests of capitalism's old age now threatening 'the great globe itself.'
 J. A. Rogers, "Sex and Race, Volume 3: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands ― Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Oppositio Ed 5" English | ISBN: 0819575097 | 2011 | 376 pages | PDF | 28 MB Classic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
 J. A. Rogers, "Sex and Race, Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands ― The Old World" English | ISBN: 0819575070 | 2011 | 314 pages | PDF | 27 MB Classic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history
 J. A. Rogers, "Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas, Vol. 2: The New World" English | ISBN: 0819575089 | 2012 | 420 pages | PDF | 24 MB Classic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black history  Betty Radice, David Parlett, "Selections from the Carmina Burana: A New Verse Translation" English | 1986 | ISBN: 0140444408 | 266 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This is a selection from the 13the century collection of secular latin poems. Some are serious (eg Crusade poems) but the majority are light, including many love poems. A number of items from the Carmina are well known as text for Carl Orff's 'Scenic Cantata'.
 Science for the Curious Photographer: An Introduction to the Science of Photography (2nd edition) By Charles S. Johnson Jr. 2017 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 041579322X | PDF | 16 MB While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography,Science for the Curious Photographeris a book for those who also want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S. Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work, and why modern lenses are so complicated.Addressing the complex aspects of digital photography, the book discusses color management, resolution, "noise" in images, and the limits of human perception. The creation and appreciation of art in photography is discussed from the standpoint of modern cognitive science.A crucial read for those seeking the scientific context to photographic practice, this second edition has been comprehensively updated, including discussion of DSLRs, mirror-less cameras, and a new chapter on the limits of human vision and perception. |
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