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 Bill Minutaglio, "In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0292722893 | 184 pages | EPUB | 2.4 MB The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers in the 1970s, few large publications had more than a token number of African American journalists, and they barely acknowledged the things of lasting importance to the African American community. Though hardly the most likely reporter―as a white, Italian American transplant from New York City―for the black Texas beat, Minutaglio was drawn to the African American heritage, seeking its soul in churches, on front porches, at juke joints, and anywhere else that people would allow him into their lives. His nationally award-winning writing offered many Americans their first deeper understanding of Texas's singular, complicated African American history. This eclectic collection gathers the best of Minutaglio's writing about the soul of black Texas. He profiles individuals both unknown and famous, including blues legends Lightnin' Hopkins, Amos Milburn, Robert Shaw, and Dr. Hepcat. He looks at neglected, even intentionally hidden, communities. And he wades into the musical undercurrent that touches on African Americans' joys, longings, and frustrations, and the passing of generations. Minutaglio's stories offer an understanding of the sweeping evolution of music, race, and justice in Texas. Moved forward by the musical heartbeat of the blues and defined by the long shadow of racism, the stories measure how far Texas has come . . . or still has to go.  In Search of Grace : an ecological pilgrimage. By Reason, Peter 2017 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 1782794875 | EPUB + PDF | 2 MB We must transform our perception of our relationship with the Earth, if we ever hope to save ourselves from ecological disaster.
 How to Understand Women: The Secret Behind How They Think and What They Really Want by K. Connors English | June 7, 2017 | ISBN: 1547208724 | 72 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb How to Understand Women  José Luis Stevens PhD, "How to Pray the Shaman's Way: Ancient Techniques for Extraordinary Results" English | ISBN: 1950253120 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 654 KB Discover the secrets of prayer for healing and inner peace.  How to Market a Book: Overperform in a Crowded Market by Ricardo Fayet English | June 1, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096TRXHF9 | 330 pages | EPUB | 7.21 Mb Writing a book is hard. Marketing it can be even harder.  How to MONETIZE your blog: A Step by Step Strategy for Beginner Influencers By Julie Nowell English | 2021 | ASIN : B094Q3H88L | 92 pages | PDF, EPUB | 7.7 MB  Sudha Murty, "How the Sea Became Salty" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0143447041 | 40 pages | EPUB | 4.7 MB A long, long time ago, seawater was sweet and drinkable. How it became salty is a remarkable story.
 Benoit Fresse, "Homotopy of Operads and Grothendieck-teichmuller Groups: The Applications of Rational Homotopy Theory Methods " English | ISBN: 1470434822 | 2017 | 704 pages | PDF | 5 MB The ultimate goal of this book is to explain that the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, as defined by Drinfeld in quantum group theory, has a topological interpretation as a group of homotopy automorphisms associated to the little 2-disc operad. To establish this result, the applications of methods of algebraic topology to operads must be developed. This volume is devoted primarily to this subject, with the main objective of developing a rational homotopy theory for operads. The book starts with a comprehensive review of the general theory of model categories and of general methods of homotopy theory. The definition of the Sullivan model for the rational homotopy of spaces is revisited, and the definition of models for the rational homotopy of operads is then explained. The applications of spectral sequence methods to compute homotopy automorphism spaces associated to operads are also explained. This approach is used to get a topological interpretation of the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group in the case of the little 2-disc operad. This volume is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in the applications of homotopy theory methods in operad theory. It is accessible to readers with a minimal background in classical algebraic topology and operad theory.
 Benoit Fresse, "Homotopy of Operads and Grothendieck-teichmuller Groups: The Algebraic Theory and Its Topological Background " English | ISBN: 1470434814 | 2017 | 532 pages | PDF | 5 MB The Grothendieck-Teichmuller group was defined by Drinfeld in quantum group theory with insights coming from the Grothendieck program in Galois theory. The ultimate goal of this book is to explain that this group has a topological interpretation as a group of homotopy automorphisms associated to the operad of little 2-discs, which is an object used to model commutative homotopy structures in topology. This volume gives a comprehensive survey on the algebraic aspects of this subject. The book explains the definition of an operad in a general context, reviews the definition of the little discs operads, and explains the definition of the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group from the viewpoint of the theory of operads. In the course of this study, the relationship between the little discs operads and the definition of universal operations associated to braided monoidal category structures is explained. Also provided is a comprehensive and self-contained survey of the applications of Hopf algebras to the definition of a rationalization process, the Malcev completion, for groups and groupoids. Most definitions are carefully reviewed in the book; it requires minimal prerequisites to be accessible to a broad readership of graduate students and researchers interested in the applications of operads. |
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