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 Thomas King, "Obsidian: A DreadfulWater Mystery" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1443455202 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 0.5 mb From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author ofSufferance and Indians on Vacation  Keri K. Stephens, "New Media in Times of Crisis " English | ISBN: 113857029X | 2019 | 254 pages | PDF | 3 MB New Media in Times of Crisis provides an interdisciplinary look at research focused around how people organize during crises.  Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus by Cornell University Press English | January 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1501753274 | 336 pages | EPUB | 16 Mb Nested Nationalismis a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political consequences of such efforts. Titular nationalities that had republics named after them in the USSR were comparatively privileged within the boundaries of "their" republics, but they still often chafed both at Moscow's influence over republican affairs and at broader Russian hegemony across the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, members of nontitular communities frequently complained that nationalist republican leaders sought to build titular nations on the back of minority assimilation and erasure. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research conducted in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Georgia, and Moscow, Krista A. Goff argues that Soviet nationality policies produced recursive, nested relationships between majority and minority nationalisms and national identifications in the USSR.  Musical Semantics By Ole Kühl 2008 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 3039117181 | PDF | 3 MB Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behavior in the light of research from a number of sources. Being an analytical study, the volume combines evidence from neurobiology, developmental psychology and cognitive science. It aims to bridge the gap between music as an empirical object in the world and music as lived experience. This is the semantic aspect of music: how can something like an auditory stream of structured sound evoke such a strong reaction in the listener? The book is in two parts. In the first part, the biological foundations of music and their cognitive manifestations are considered in order to establish a groundwork for speaking of music in generic, cross-cultural terms. The second part develops the semantic aspect of music as an embodied, emotively grounded and cognitively structured expression of human experience.  Musical Democracy By Nancy S. Love 2006 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0791468690 | PDF | 1 MB How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.  Diana Souhami, "Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter" English | 1997 | ISBN: 0312155948 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 0.4 mb Portraying an intense mother/daughter relationship through a series of memoirs, letters, and diaries, the author of Gertrude and Alice explores the passionate lives of Alice Keppel, mistress to Edward VII, and her daughter, Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West.  Ghi-woon Seo, Laura Kingdon, Chris Backe, "More Making Out in Korean: A Korean Language Phrase Book - Revised & Expanded Edition (A Korean Phrasebook)" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0804843562 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 4.9 mb "More Making Out in Korea is a fun, accessible and thorough Korean phrase book and guide to the Korean language as it's really spoken.  Miri Nakamura, "Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan " English | ISBN: 0674504321 | 2015 | 192 pages | PDF | 24 MB Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters―doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations―bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868-1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of "stigmatized others"―figures subversive to national ideologies. Miri Nakamura contends instead that these monsters were products of modernity, informed by the newly imported scientific discourses on the body, and that they can be read as being complicitin the ideologies of the empire, for they are uncanny bodies that ignite a sense of terror by blurring the binary of "normal" and "abnormal" that modern sciences like eugenics and psychology created. Reading these literary bodies against the historical rise of the Japanese empire and its colonial wars in Asia, Nakamura argues that they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.  Minidrill: Fifteen Projects by John Everett English | 2000 | ISBN: 1861081375 | 144 pages | PDF | 100 MB Make the most of your minidrill! This versatile tool is an absolute must for very small projects, and, with its generous assortment of options, it can handle an astounding array of tasks. By illustrating each technique with a specific project, this unique manual gives woodworkers and other crafters the experience to become fully competent on the machine while they're also making useful and decorative items. After instruction on the basic toolkit and the care of this precision instrument, begin by making some accessories for the minidrill-such as a tool rack and drill stand-that teach how to drill precise holes. Practice engraving on glass, making toys and games, shaping delicate miniatures like a love spoon, decorative panels, and more!  Millisecond Pulsars English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030851974 | 334 Pages | PDF | 10 MB This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume. These aspects include pulsations powered by stellar spin, accretion and thermonuclear burning of accreted matter, their physics and utility, stellar evolution and the extreme physics of super-dense stellar cores. The book includes substantial background material as well as recent theoretical and multi-wavelength observational results. The volume will thus be useful for professional astronomers and graduate students alike. |
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