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 Sethulego Matebesi, "Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa " English | ISBN: 1138348937 | 2019 | 158 pages | EPUB | 5 MB This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa.  T Beller, "Sleep-over Artist" English | 2001 | ISBN: 0393020339, 0393321711 | EPUB | pages: 299 | 0.3 mb Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory ("Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth."-The New York Times), Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses and ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over-an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance and a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire and all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies The Sleep-Over Artist is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear and belong all at the same time.  Dorothy Allison, "Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature" English | 1994 | ISBN: 1563410443, 1563410451 | 261 pages | EPUB | 0.68 MB Compelling collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces They don't write much better than this.
 Antonio Míguez Macho, "Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain: From the Spanish Civil War to the Present Day" English | ISBN: 1350199249 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB | 5 MB In this sophisticated study, Antonio Míguez Macho and his team of expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an uncomfortable relationship with its own past, this book reveals how sites of violence also became sites of forgetting.  Simulations in the Political Science Classroom: Games without Frontiers English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367699761 | 319 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class discussions-especially in political science classrooms, where real-world circumstances provide ideal applications of theory and policy prescriptions. Implementing such an active learning program, however, is sometimes daunting to overburdened professors and teaching assistants. This book addresses the challenges of using games and simulations in the political science classroom, both online and in person. Each chapter offers a game or simulation that politics teachers can use to teach course concepts and explains ways to execute it effectively. In addition, the authors in this volume make a proactive case for games and simulations. Each chapter offers research to evaluate the effectiveness of the activity and pedagogical design best practices. Thus, the book not only serves as a game design resource, but also offers demonstrable support for using games and simulations in the political science classroom. Aimed at teachers at all levels, from high school through college, the book may be especially appealing to graduate students entering teaching for the first time and open to new teaching and learning approaches.  Hiroshi Takayama, "Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages " English | ISBN: 1138496197 | 2019 | 394 pages | EPUB | 5 MB This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most neglected kingdoms in the medieval world. Some of his articles were published in influential journals such as English Historical Review, Viator, Mediterranean Historical Review, and Papers of the British School at Rome, while others appeared in hard-to-obtain festschrifts, proceedings of international conferences, and so on. The articles included here, based on analysis of Latin, Greek, and Arabic documents as well as multi-lingual parchments, explore subjects of interest in medieval Mediterranean world such as Norman administrations, multi-cultural courts, Christian-Muslim diplomacy, conquests and migrations, religious tolerance and conflicts, cross-cultural contacts, and so forth. Some of them dig deep into curious specific topics, while others settle disputes among scholars and correct our antiquated interpretations. His attention to the administrative structure of the kingdom of Sicily, whose bureaucracy was staffed by Greeks, Muslims and Latins, has been a particularly important part of his work, where he has engaged in major debates with other scholars in the field.
 Aziza Khazzoom, "Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual " English | ISBN: 080475697X | 2008 | 360 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other? The most common sociological answer is that they want to monopolize scarce resources―good jobs or top educations―for themselves. This book offers a different answer, showing that racial and ethnic discrimination can also occur to preserve particular group identities.  Sheet Pan Science: 25 Fun, Simple Science Experiments for the Kitchen Table; Super-Easy Setup and Cleanup English | 2022 | ISBN: 0760375674 | 372 Pages | EPUB | 18 MB Each project in the book contains simple instructions, easy-to-understand science explanations, and step-by-step photographic guides. While a stovetop or freezer may occasionally be required, most steps of the experiments can be performed directly on a rimmed baking sheet.  J. Azema, M. Emery, M. Ledoux, "Seminaire de Probabilites XXXV" English, French | 2001 | pages: 433 | ISBN: 3540416595 | DJVU | 2,6 mb Researchers and graduate students in the theory of stochastic processes will find in this 35th volume some thirty articles on martingale theory, martingales and finance, analytical inequalities and semigroups, stochastic differential equations, functionals of Brownian motion and of Lévy processes. Ledoux's article contains a self-contained introduction to the use of semigroups in spectral gaps and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities; the contribution by Emery and Schachermayer includes an exposition for probabilists of Vershik's theory of backward discrete filtrations.  Takashi Suzuki, "Semilinear Elliptic Equations: Classical and Modern Theories " English | ISBN: 3110555352 | 2020 | 450 pages | PDF | 4 MB The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs which cover the whole spectrum of current nonlinear analysis and applications in various fields, such as optimization, control theory, systems theory, mechanics, engineering, and other sciences. One of its main objectives is to make available to the professional community expositions of results and foundations of methods that play an important role in both the theory and applications of nonlinear analysis. Contributions which are on the borderline of nonlinear analysis and related fields and which stimulate further research at the crossroads of these areas are particularly welcome. |
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