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 Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland By Glenn Dynner 2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 019998851X | PDF | 2 MB In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ingrained as to endure even the rise of Hasidism's robust drinking culture. As liquor became the region's boom industry, Jewish tavernkeepers became integral to both local economies and local social life, presiding over Christian celebrations and dispensing advice, medical remedies and loans. Nevertheless, reformers and government officials, blaming Jewish tavernkeepers for epidemic peasant drunkenness, sought to drive Jews out of the liquor trade. Their efforts were particularly intense and sustained in the Kingdom of Poland, a semi-autonomous province of the Russian empire that was often treated as a laboratory for social and political change. Historians have assumed that this spelled the end of the Polish Jewish liquor trade. However, newly discovered archival sources demonstrate that many nobles helped their Jewish tavernkeepers evade fees, bans and expulsions by installing Christians as fronts for their taverns. The result-a vast underground Jewish liquor trade-reflects an impressive level of local Polish-Jewish co-existence that contrasts with the more familiar story of anti-Semitism and violence. By tapping into sources that reveal the lives of everyday Jews and Christians in the Kingdom of Poland, Yankel's Tavern transforms our understanding of the region during the tumultuous period of Polish uprisings and Jewish mystical revival.  World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict and Military Experience by Judith Devlin, John Paul Newman, Maria Falina 2018 | ISBN: 1788311876, 0755602269 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and Central Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and, engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the Western front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war in the East. Analysing soldiers' letters and diaries to discover the nature and impact of displacement and refugee status on memory, this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in these two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was the war in the East wholly 'other'? Were soldiers in this region as alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as citizens and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian and military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the post-war era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.  Workplace Ethics: Mastering Ethical Leadership and Sustaining a Moral Workplace (The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership) by Paul Falcone English | March 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 1400229979 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 0.53 MB Quickly understand complex HR concepts surrounding the modern workplace to ensure you-and those you supervise-are practicing leadership principles that sustain an ethical workplace while protecting your company from liability.  Woodworking Projects for the Kitchen: 50 Useful, Easy-To-Make Items by Mark Strom, Lee Rankin English | 1993 | ISBN: 0806903961 | 152 pages | PDF | 104 MB Provides instructions for making cutting boards, utensil racks, stools, shelves, stacking bins, plant stands, and cork boards  Wearable Systems Based Gait Monitoring and Analysis English | 2022 | ISBN: 303097331X | 244 Pages | PDF | 7 MB Wearable Systems Based Gait Monitoring and Analysis provides a thorough overview of wearable gait monitoring techniques and their use in health analysis. The text starts with an examination of the relationship between the human body's physical condition and gait, and then introduces and explains nine mainstream sensing mechanisms, including piezoresistive, resistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, inductive, optical, air pressure, EMG and IMU-based architectures. Gait sensor design considerations in terms of geometry and deployment are also introduced. Diverse processing algorithms for manipulating sensors outputs to transform raw data to understandable gait features are discussed. Furthermore, gait analysis-based health monitoring demonstrations are given at the end of this book, including both medical and occupational applications. The book will enable students of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, signal processing, and ergonomics and practitioners to understand the medical and occupational applications of engineering-based gait analysis and falling injury prevention methods.  Wagner and the Wonder of Art: An Introduction to Die Meistersinger By M. Owen Lee 2007 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 0802098576 | PDF | 1 MB Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of genius ever achieved by any artist in any field of human endeavour.' H.L. Mencken declared, 'It took more skill to plan and write it than it took to plan and write the whole canon of Shakespeare.'And yet Wagner's many-splendoured comedy has come under severe criticism in recent years for what has been called its 'dark underside,' its 'fascist brutality,' and its 'ugly anti-Semitism.' In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee addresses that criticism. He also provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work's intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre. The book includes the on-air commentary that Father Lee gave during the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera after the events of 9/11. He thought it necessary, after attempting to refute the charges leveled against Wagner's opera, to say something about its truthfulness, its life-affirming music, its insight into the madness that can destroy human lives, and its witness to the importance of art for the survival of our civilizations.  WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN MATTERS by L.L. Bennett English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VX73FRD | EPUB | 0.14 Mb Why Vladimir Putin Matters  Christopher Bondy, "Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan " English | ISBN: 0674088409 | 2015 | 200 pages | PDF | 1298 KB The Burakumin. Stigmatized throughout Japanese history as an outcaste group, their identity is still "risky," their social presence mostly silent, and their experience marginalized in public discourse. They are contemporary Japan's largest minority group―between 1.5 and 3 million people. How do young people today learn about being burakumin? How do they struggle with silence and search for an authentic voice for their complex experience?  Virginia Woolf By Camille-Yvette Welsch, Harold Bloom 2004 | 155 Pages | ISBN: 0791078736 | PDF | 2 MB This biography of the author provides an in-depth look at the author's life. An original critical essay looks at the writer's work as a whole and examines specific works. Chronology of the author's life provides the facts at a glance. Bibliographies of works by and works about the author direct the student to additional resources.  Brenda Bethman, "University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers: The Changing Landscape" English | ISBN: 0815386818 | 2018 | 182 pages | PDF | 786 KB University and College Women's and Gender Equity Centers examines the new institutional contexts surrounding women's centers. It looks at the possibilities for, as well as the challenges to, advocating for gender equity in higher education, and the ways in which women's and gender equity centers contribute to and lead that work. |
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