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 Riccardo Capoferro, "Empirical Wonder: Historicizing the Fantastic, 1660-1760" English | 2010 | ISBN: 3034303262 | PDF | pages: 238 | 51.7 mb Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the fantastic, such as imaginary voyages and apparition narratives. Combining theoretical reflection and cultural analysis, the author of this book investigates the origins, and demonstrates the formal and historical identity of a great variety of texts, which have never been considered as part of the same family. The fantastic, he argues, is an intrinsically modern mode, which uses the devices of realistic representation to describe supernatural phenomena. Its origins can be found in the seventeenth century, when the rise of modern empiricism threatened the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of traditional religious culture. The author shows how a broad range of discursive formations - demonology, providential literature, teratology, and natural philosophy - attempted to reconcile world-views that were felt to be increasingly incompatible, and traces the development of a new kind of fiction that gradually replaced them and took over their work of reconciliation. Coalescing as an autonomous system of genres, free from the restrictions of modern science and at the same time self-consciously aesthetic, the fantastic emerged as an instrument both to affirm and to transcend the empirical vision.  Electrified Democracy: The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108473059 | 387 Pages | PDF | 2.32 MB The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary response to networked computers. He uncovers evidence and makes new connections, while situating all this within the wider global debates on connections between communication and democracy in the age of the Internet, constitutional law and history, and 'law and technology'. This book will be of interest to a wide readership including policy makers, researchers, and all those interested in contemporary controversies about the role of the Internet in modern societies.  Economic and Business Management English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032067543 | 294 Pages | PDF True | 5 MB With the rapid development and drastic change of the world economy, "Digital Finance", "Internet Finance", "Science and Technology Finance" have become new hotspots, which also represent the future trend of economy development in the era of big data. Enterprises are facing more uncertainty, opportunities coexist with challenges. There are more possibilities for economic development and enterprise management to accelerate the integration of cutting-edge research results, to deepen hot topics discussion and to promote opinion exchanges among academic and business circles.  Econometrics, 6th Edition by Badi H. Baltagi English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 495 Pages | ISBN : 3030801489 | 46.2 MB This textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. It also includes a simple and concise treatment of more advanced topics in spatial correlation, panel data, limited dependent variables, regression diagnostics, specification testing and time series analysis. Each chapter has a set of theoretical exercises as well as empirical illustrations using real economic applications. These empirical exercises usually replicate a published article using Stata, Eviews as well as SAS.  Imre Galambos, "Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium " English | ISBN: 3110723492 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 8 MB "Dunhuang Manuscript Culture" explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting-alongside obvious Chinese elements-the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less 'Chinese' than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.  Dissipative Solitons By N. Akhmediev, A. Ankiewicz (auth.), Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz (eds.) 2005 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 3540233733 | PDF | 24 MB This volume is devoted to the exciting topic of dissipative solitons, i.e. pulses or spatially localised waves in systems exhibiting gain and loss. Examples are laser systems, nonlinear resonators and optical transmission lines. The physical principles and mathematical concepts are explained in a clear and concise way, suitable for students and young researchers. The similarities and differences in the notion of a soliton between dissipative systems and Hamiltonian and integrable systems are discussed, and many examples are given. The contributions are written by the world's leading experts in the field, making it a unique exposition of this emerging topic.  Michael D. Randall, "Disease Management: A guide to clinical pharmacology Ed 3" English | ISBN: 0857112090 | 2016 | 496 pages | PDF | 5 MB Disease Management is a comprehensive introduction to the management of diseases which are commonly encountered in primary care. Pharmacology is considered in the context of clinical practice and a holistic approach is taken to patient care to include lifestyle issues, concurrent disease and treatment, and the use of alternative remedies and complementary medicine.  The Nation of Islam Research Group, "Defending Farrakhan: The Campaign to Free the Real Children of Israel, Book 2" English | 2015 | ASIN: B014LPALYY | 414 pages | EPUB | 0.66 MB The importance of independent Black media unafraid to publish the truth cannot be underestimated or overemphasized. Defending Farrakhan, Book 2, contains nearly 100 powerful articles and essays by a new cadre of fearless scholars who skillfully repel and defeat the defamatory attacks against Minister Louis Farrakhan, other Black leaders, and Black people generally. Read as they expertly use history, science, culture, and religion to deliver bold, uncompromising commentary. Drawing from hidden historical documents and the most current research, the writers bluntly confront the charge of "black anti-Semitism" and in the process shatter the false premises of American history and rewrite the history of Blacks and Jews. Absorbing, thought-provoking and compelling, Defending Farrakhan, Book 2, is a must-have for your library.  The Nation of Islam Research Group , "Defending Farrakhan: The Campaign to Free the Real Children of Israel, Book 1" English | 2015 | ASIN: B018O4BNKE | 369 pages | EPUB | 0.64 MB The importance of independent Black media unafraid to publish the truth cannot be underestimated or overemphasized. Defending Farrakhan, Book 1, is a collection of over 70 provocative and insightful essays written by the scholars of the Nation of Islam. It includes the updated, expanded versions of articles that appeared originally in the Final Call newspaper. Read as they expertly use history, science, culture, and religion to deliver bold, uncompromising commentary. Foreword by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.  David Nichtern, "Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1614294984 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 2.6 mb A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others. Also a beloved and highly regarded Buddhist teacher, David teaches readers how to integrate their creative process with their spiritual practice and livelihood. |
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