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 Sidney Descriptionkin, "Veblen's America: The Conspicuous Case of Donald J. Trump" English | ISBN: 1783088729 | 2018 | 344 pages | PDF | 26 MB Donald Trump's astonishing rise to the US presidency challenges conventional understandings of American politics, yet he is distinctively American. His biography and family lineage reflect American traditions such as real estate hucksterism and buccaneering salesmanship. But Trump's pugnacity also reflects the shadow of other darker American traditions of misogyny, racism and xenophobia, patterns that formed what Thorstein Veblen called a "sclerosis of the American soul." Using Veblen's theory of American development to explore the nation's curious fusion of barbarism and liberal democracy, Veblen's America taps the rich vein of the sociologist's early twentieth-century insights to shed light on the Trump phenomenon that has overwhelmed and threatened early twenty-first-century American democracy.  Jessica L Allen, "Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America" English | ISBN: 0300252994 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 42 MB A practical field guide to the common lichens found in the northeastern megalopolis, including New York City, Toronto, Boston/New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., and as far west as Chicago  Harry Harootunian, "Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History " English | ISBN: 0231190204 | 2019 | pages | PDF | 3 MB Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian's essays on Japan's intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies.
 Twenty One Classical Studies for Double Bass: Four Accompanied and Seventeen Unaccompanied Studies for Double Bass by James Strange English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09NXRBSKR | 57 pages | PDF | 5.17 Mb The pieces in this book have been loyally arranged from the original piano scores to be performed on the double bass. The collection consists of seventeen solo pieces and four pieces with piano accompanied.  Danielle J Lindemann PhD, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" English | 2022 | ISBN: 0374279020 | 353 pages | MOBI | 1.17 MB A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium-and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality  Simon Singh, "Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine" English | ISBN: 0393337782 | 2009 | 352 pages | EPUB | 442 KB "For anyone who has ever wondered about the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of such alternative therapies...offers fascinating and clearly presented information" ―Susan Okie, Washington Post  Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance. By Kene Igweonu 2011 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 904203386X | PDF | 3 MB Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.
 Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (Literature Now) by Sunny Xiang English | December 15, 2020 | ISBN: 0231196962, 0231196970 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 15.4 MB Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of "Oriental inscrutability" across a wide range of texts. She examines how cold war regimes of suspicious thinking produced an ambiguity between "Oriental" enemies and Asian allies, contributing to the conflict's status as both a "real war" and a "long peace."  Timing Jitter in Time-of-Flight Range Imaging Cameras English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030941582 | 455 Pages | PDF EPUB | 64 MB This book explains how depth measurements from the Time-of-Flight (ToF) range imaging cameras are influenced by the electronic timing-jitter. The author presents jitter extraction and measurement techniques for any type of ToF range imaging cameras. The author mainly focuses on ToF cameras that are based on the amplitude modulated continuous wave (AMCW) lidar techniques that measure the phase difference between the emitted and reflected light signals. The book discusses timing-jitter in the emitted light signal, which is sensible since the light signal of the camera is relatively straightforward to access. The specific types of jitter that present on the light source signal are investigated throughout the book. The book is structured across three main sections: a brief literature review, jitter measurement, and jitter influence in AMCW ToF range imaging.  Murray G. Murphey, "Thorstein Veblen: Economist and Social Theorist" English | ISBN: 113806906X | 2018 | 268 pages | PDF | 3 MB In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), whom, many scholars agree, remains one of the leading social theorists of all time, if not also one of the more confounding. Murphey's account begins with a brief economic history of nineteenth-century America, wherein he examines the conditions that formed Veblen's ideology. With that understanding, the author studies Veblen's personal history and brings to the fore his foundational ideas on human psychology, race, his theory of knowledge, and his analysis of social evolution. In the book's later chapters, Murphey considers Veblen's writing through the scope of his major volumes - The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, and among others. |
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