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 Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro, "Small Wars, Big dаta: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0691177074, 0691204012 | PDF | pages: 411 | 2.2 mb Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.  Rochelle Brock, "Sista Talk Too " English | ISBN: 1433126516 | 2019 | 148 pages | PDF | 9 MB In Sista Talk Too, Rochelle Brock brings meaningful new material which evokes and updates her past examination of Black women in today's culture. The first Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which devalues, dehumanizes, and silences their beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research, Rochelle Brock invited the reader on a journey of self-exploration, as she and seven of her Black female students investigate their collective journey toward self-awareness in the attempt to liberate their minds and souls from ideological domination. Throughout, attempted to understand the ways in which this self-exploration informs her pedagogy. Combining Black feminist and Afrocentric theory with critical pedagogy, frames the parameters for an Afrowomanist pedagogy of wholeness for teaching Black students and strength in dealing with an unpredictable and often unstable view of the future. Rochelle Brock brings us something to be remembered by, chapters and writings from students and colleagues to help us survive and thrive in this world...all in the spirit of love, life, and Oshun.  DR. Lena Scheen, "Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation" English | 2015 | ISBN: 908964587X | PDF | pages: 284 | 4.3 mb This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.  Peter D. Usher, "Shakespeare and Saturn: Accounting for Appearances " English | ISBN: 1433128608 | 2015 | 243 pages | PDF | 2 MB In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged position as well, thus prompting re-evaluation of all facets of human existence. This transformation in worldview gathered momentum throughout Shakespeare's writing career, yet his canon appears to lack reference to it. Peter D. Usher has studied and other Shakespearean plays and has uncovered a consistent pattern of reference to phenomena that prove the correctness of the new worldview, including reference to the infinite universe of stars. These data could not have been known without telescopic aid, which indicates that systematic telescopic study of celestial objects began before the generally accepted date of 1610. In , Usher summarizes earlier results and shows that in , Shakespeare takes account of the last supernova eruption of 1604 known to have occurred in the Milky Way galaxy. He shows further that in and Shakespeare makes observations concerning Saturn's spectacular ring system that are remarkably accurate.  Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna By K.M. Knittel 2010 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0754663728 | PDF | 5 MB No one, of course, doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the anti-semitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that 'it must be said that anti-Semitism was a permanent feature of Viennese life'. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to Jewishness has obscured the extent to which 'ordinary' attitudes about Jewish difference were prevalent and pervasive, yet subtle and covert. The context has been lost wherein such coded references to Jewishness would have been immediately recognized and understood. By painstakingly reconstructing 'the language of anti-semitism', Knittel recreates what Mahler's audiences expected, saw, and heard, given the biases and beliefs of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Using newspaper reviews, cartoons and memoirs, Knittel eschews focussing on hostile discussions and overt attacks in themselves, rather revealing how and to what extent authors call attention to Mahler's Jewishness with more subtle language. She specifically examines the reviews of Mahler's Viennese symphonic premieres for their resonance with that language as codified by Richard Wagner, though not invented by him. An entire chapter is also devoted to the Viennese premieres of Richard Strauss' "Tone Poems", as a proof text against which the reviews of Mahler can also be read and understood. Accepting how deeply embedded this way of thinking was, not just for critics but for the general population, certainly does not imply that one can find anti-semitism under every stone. What Knittel suggests, ultimately, is that much of early criticism was unease rather than 'objective' reactions to Mahler's music - a new perspective that allows for a re-evaluation of what makes his music unique, thought-provoking and valuable.  Salesforce Platform Developer I Exam-Prep: Over 300 Realistic PD1 Questions based on the latest Salesforce Release by Abound Academy English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09R2HV7FC | 295 pages | EPUB | 4.47 Mb The Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I credential is intended for individuals who have knowledge, skills, and experience building custom applications on the Lightning Platform. This credential encompasses the fundamental programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform to develop custom business logic and interfaces to extend Salesforce using Apex and Visualforce. To achieve this credential, a candidate must successfully pass the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I exam. This exam is also a prerequisite to the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II Multiple Choice exam. This exam guide provides information about the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I exam.  Celeste Ray, "Sacred Waters: A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells" English | ISBN: 0367445131 | 2020 | 398 pages | PDF | 19 MB Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water's sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human-environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.  Alice Wambui Macharia, "Rights of the Child, Mothers and Sentencing: The Case of Kenya " English | ISBN: 0367698013 | 2021 | 192 pages | PDF | 21 MB This book draws international attention to the autonomy of the child accompanying incarcerated mothers, and those they leave behind in the community, despite being dependent on the convicted caregiver.  Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang by Ken Croke, Dave Wedge English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0063092409 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 38.95 MB Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous-and infamously violent-Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.  Revisualizing Visual Culture By Chris Bailey, Hazel Gardiner, Chris Bailey, Hazel Gardiner 2010 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0754675688 | PDF | 6 MB In the past twenty years digital technology has had a radical impact on all the disciplines associated with the visual arts - this book provides expert views of that impact. By looking at the advanced ICT methods now being employed, this volume details the long-lasting effects and advances now made possible in art history and its associated disciplines. The authors analyze the most advanced and significant tools and technologies, from the ongoing development of the Semantic Web to 3D visualization, focusing on the study of art in the various contexts of cultural heritage collections, digital repositories and archives. They also evaluate the impact of advanced ICT methods from technical, methodological and philosophical perspectives, projecting supported theories for the future of scholarship in this field. The book not only charts the developments that have taken place until now but also indicates which advanced methods promise most for the future. |
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