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 Histories of Nationalism beyond Europe: Myths, Elitism and Transnational Connections English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030926753 | 174 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB This edited collection explores varying shapes of nationalism in different regional and historical settings in order to analyse the important role that nationalism has played in shaping the contemporary world. Taking a global approach, the collection includes case studies from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America. Unique not only in its wide range of geographically diverse case studies, this book is also innovative due to its comparative approach that combines different perspectives on how nations have been understood and how they came into being, highlighting the transnational connections between various countries. The authors examine what is meant by the concepts of 'nation' and 'national identity,' discussing themes such as citizenship, ethnicity, historical symbols and the role of elites. By exploring these entangled categories of nationalism, the authors argue that throughout history, elites have created 'artificial ' versions of nationalism through symbolism and mythology, which has led to nationalism being understood through social constructivist or primordialist lenses. This diverse collection will appeal to researchers studying nationalism, including historians, political scientists and anthropologists.
 Historical Variability of Rainfall in the African East Sahel of Sudan: Implications for Development By John F. Hermance (auth.) 2014 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 331900574X | PDF | 6 MB The northward migration of the African monsoon rains in summer, associated with the seasonal march of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) across the plains south of the Sahara, is the most critical asset for the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local economies of the Sahel. It is essential that climate science (and its publicly available database) play a key role in characterizing the variabilities of these rainfall patterns in space and time if sustainable life styles are to accommodate the expanding populations of the region. This study turns to the East Sahel of Sudan by analyzing over 100 years of historical rainfall data from three of the few long term standard WMO rain gauge stations in substantially different rainfall settings. From north to south, transecting the Sahel, the stations with their annual rainfall are Khartoum (130 mm); Kassala (280 mm); and Gedaref (600 mm). The conclusions challenge a popular notion that changing climate, drought and desertification in the East Sahel may have already accelerated the deterioration of its water resources. However, any evidence of a persistent and coherent regional trend of diminishing rainfall is obscure. Quite the contrary, the evidence demonstrates that the fluctuations of climate and weather patterns over the ensuing decades of the past century - at all temporal scales from days to years to decades - profoundly overwhelm any suggestion of a large-scale, coherent decrease (or increase) in rainfall. The implication is that, it is not long term change, but the highly localized interseasonal, interannual and multiannual variability of rainfall that poses the greatest and most immediate societal threat from naturally-induced causes; a process constantly destabilizing an agrarian economy struggling to survive in a climate that irregularly vacillates between years of drought and years of flooding. While this report may have some interest for climate scientists, it is primarily directed to a general readership (including students in public policy and anthropology) concerned with the availability of water in the Sahel, particularly the long term sustainability of local small-scale farms and transhumant pastoralism.  Cheryl Harness, "Hillary Clinton: American Woman of the World" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1481460587, 1481460579 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 23.1 mb A biography of 2016 Presidential candidate, US Senator, US Secretary of State, and former first lady Hillary Clinton.  Wim Vanderbauwhede, Khaled Benkrid, "High-Performance Computing Using FPGAs" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1461417902, 1493943103 | PDF | pages: 799 | 29.2 mb High-Performance Computing using FPGA covers the area of high performance reconfigurable computing (HPRC). This book provides an overview of architectures, tools and applications for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC). FPGAs offer very high I/O bandwidth and fine-grained, custom and flexible parallelism and with the ever-increasing computational needs coupled with the frequency/power wall, the increasing maturity and capabilities of FPGAs, and the advent of multicore processors which has caused the acceptance of parallel computational models. The Part on architectures will introduce different FPGA-based HPC platforms: attached co-processor HPRC architectures such as the CHREC's Novo-G and EPCC's Maxwell systems; tightly coupled HRPC architectures, e.g. the Convey hybrid-core computer; reconfigurably networked HPRC architectures, e.g. the QPACE system, and standalone HPRC architectures such as EPFL's CONFETTI system. The Part on Tools will focus on high-level programming approaches for HPRC, with chapters on C-to-Gate tools (such as Impulse-C, AutoESL, Handel-C, MORA-C++); Graphical tools (MATLAB-Simulink, NI LabVIEW); Domain-specific languages, languages for heterogeneous computing(for example OpenCL, Microsoft's Kiwi and Alchemy projects). The part on Applications will present case from several application domains where HPRC has been used successfully, such as Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Financial Computing; Stencil computations; Information retrieval; Lattice QCD; Astrophysics simulations; Weather and climate modeling.  Captain Stephen D. Nagiewicz, "Hidden History of Maritime New Jersey" English | ISBN: 146711829X | 2016 | 176 pages | EPUB | 5 MB An estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jersey - but these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls.
 Wouter J. Hanegraaff, "Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity" English | ISBN: 1009123068 | 2022 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves as followers of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary master of ancient wisdom. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as philosophical treatises about theological topics. Wouter J. Hanegraaff challenges this dominant narrative by demonstrating that Hermetic literature was concerned with experiential practices intended for healing the soul from mental delusion. The Way of Hermes involved radical alterations of consciousness in which practitioners claimed to perceive the true nature of reality behind the hallucinatory veil of appearances. Hanegraaff explores how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnôsis.  Colin Sterling, "Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past " English | ISBN: 0367135574 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds new light on the role photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and articulation of heritage in diverse sociocultural contexts.  Herbal Medicine & Molecular Basis in Health and Disease By Lester Packer, Choon Nam Ong, Barry Halliwell 2004 | 969 Pages | ISBN: 0824752082 | PDF | 16 MB Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicine and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine, this reference reviews and critically evaluates various safety, toxicity and quality-control issues relating to the field. Content: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Series Introduction; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Integrating Traditional and Complementary Medicine into National Health Care; 2 Can Traditional Medicine Coexist with Modern Medicine in the Same Health Care System?; 3 Clinical Trials for Herbal Extracts; 4 Herbal Medicine; 5 Effects of Phytochemicals in Chinese Functional Ingredients on Gut Health; 6 Tea and Health; 7 Ginkgo biloba; 8 Ginger; 9 Lingzhi Polyphorous Fungus (Ganoderma lucidum); 10 Epimedium Species; 11 Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort; 12 Salvia miltiorrhiza. 13 Schisandrin B and Other Dibenzocyclooctadiene Lignans14 Spirulina; 15 Averrhoa bilimbi; 16 Lentinus edodes; 17 Cruciferous Vegetables and Chemoprevention; 18 Pharmacological and Chemopreventive Studies of Chrysanthemum; 19 Andrographis paniculata and the Cardiovascular System; 20 Rosemary; 21 Crataegus (Hawthorn); 22 Resveratrol; 23 Pharmacological and Physiological Effects of Ginseng; 24 Antioxidant Activities of Prickly Pear (Opuntia.  Ghoshdastidar, "Heat Transfer" English | 2012 | pages: 620 | ISBN: 0198079974 | PDF | 30,5 mb The book provides an exhaustive coverage of two- and three-dimensional heat conduction, forced and free convection, boiling and radiation heat transfer, heat exchangers, computer methods in heat transfer, and mass transfer. The main emphasis is on the understanding of fundamental concepts and their application to complex problems.  Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity by Daniel Messelken English | EPUB | 2022 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 3030804429 | 2.5 MB This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions. Contexts of armed conflict, hybrid wars or other forms of violence short of war, as well as natural disasters, all have in common that ordinary circumstances can no longer be taken for granted. Hence, the provision of health care has to adapt, for example, to a different level of risk, to scarce resources, or uncommon approaches due to external incentives or requirements. This affects the practice of health care as well as its ethics. This book offers a panoramic overview on various challenges healthcare faces in extraordinary situations and provides new insights from practitioners' as well as from academic scholars' perspectives. |
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