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 Lawrence Kramer, "Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music" English | ISBN: 9004342125 | 2017 | 484 pages | PDF | 5 MB This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer's seminal writings-some significantly revised for republication-on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include text-setting, subjectivity, the sublime, mourning, sexuality, decadence, orientalism, the body, Romanticism, modernity, and cultural change.
 J. Michael Hayden, "Six Hundred Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church, 1190-1789 (Volume 2) " English | ISBN: 0773528938 | 2005 | 624 pages | PDF | 34 MB This book describes the efforts of French bishops to reform the Catholic Church from the late 12th century to the French Revolution.  Bradford Keeney Ph.D., "Shamanic Christianity: The Direct Experience of Mystical Communion" English | 2006 | ISBN: 1594770867 | EPUB | pages: 212 | 0.8 mb A guide to reconnecting with Jesus, Mary, and the saints as shamanic teachers of divine mysteries
 Screen Enemies of the American Way: Political Paranoia About Nazis, Communists, Saboteurs, Terrorists and Body Snatching Aliens in Film and Television By Fraser A. Sherman 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 078644648X | PDF | 3 MB American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.  Andrew Steane, "Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion" English | ISBN: 0198824580 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 14 MB Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstream philosophy of science. Science is a beautiful, multi-lingual network of ideas; it is not a ladder in which ideas at one level make those at another level  Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by David Seed English | December 22nd, 2017 | ISBN: 0199557454 | 147 pages | True EPUB | 2.46 MB Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern technological environment.  Philippe Cullet, "Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments" English | ISBN: 0199456704 | 2015 | 368 pages | PDF | 8 MB For the longest time, sanitation received little attention from policymakers and lawyers, although it was not completely outside the purview of laws and policies in India. However, the past couple of decades have witnessed a significant change in the manner in which sanitation is viewed, both  Ayesha Mattu, Nura Maznavi, "Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0807079758 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB From the editors of the groundbreaking anthology Love, InshAllah comes a provocative new exploration of the most intimate parts of Muslim men's lives  Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, "Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran (Volume 11) " English | ISBN: 0228008468 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrongheaded assumptions about the attachment of Muslims to their religion and the impossibility of secularism in the Muslim world. At the heart of these assumptions is the notion of Muslim exceptionalism: the idea that Muslims think, believe, and behave in ways that are fundamentally different from other faith communities. In Sacred as Secular Abdolmohammad Kazemipur attempts to debunk this flawed notion of Muslim exceptionalism by looking at religious trends in Iran since 1979. Drawing on a wide range of data and sources, including national social attitudes surveys collected since the 1970s, he examines developments in the spheres of politics and governance, schools and seminaries, contemporary philosophy, and the self-expressed beliefs and behaviours of Iranian men, women, and youth. He reveals that beneath Iran's religious façade is a deep secularization that manifests not only in individual beliefs, but also in Iranian political philosophy, institutional and clerical structures, and intellectual life. Empirically and theoretically rich, Sacred as Secular looks at the place of religion in Iranian society from a sociological perspective, expanding the debate on secularism from a predominantly West-centric domain to the Muslim world.  SQL Server Advanced Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781098101916 | 557 Pages | EPUB | 18 MB This practical book provides a comprehensive overview of troubleshooting and performance tuning best practices for Microsoft SQL Server. Database engineers, including database developers and administrators, will learn how to identify performance issues, troubleshoot the system in a holistic fashion, and properly prioritize tuning efforts to attain the best system performance possible. |
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