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 The Possibility of a World: Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin by Jean-Luc Nancy English | August 8, 2017 | ISBN: 082327540X, 0823275418 | True EPUB | 152 pages | 0.7 MB In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life's work. But like Schlegel's historian―"a prophet facing backwards"―Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought.  Gordon B. Smith, "The Politics Of Eastwest Trade" English | ISBN: 0367295113 | 2019 | 267 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Trade and technology transfer have come to occupy a major role in Soviet-American relations. Twice in recent years embargoes have been imposed on the sale of U.S. high technology to the U.S.S.R., and these sanctions have had wide-ranging political and economic consequences in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. The Politics of East-West Trade draws together leading U.S. and European scholars, government officials, and businesspeople to explore the complex issues arising from U.S. trade policies toward the Soviet Union. The book begins with an assessment of the degree to which the Soviet economy is dependent on Western technology imports. In subsequent chapters, in addition to assessing the general nature and volume of U. S .-U. S. S .R. trade, the contributors consider the extent to which Western technology has helped or hindered Soviet economic and technological growth; the specific impact of U.S. trade sanctions in four critical sectors (computers, energy, agriculture, and defense); and the impact in the West of U.S. trade policies (for example, recent embargoes have resulted in the loss of several billion dollars in U.S. equipment and commodity sales to the U.S.S.R.). Examining the serious strains that differences over East-West trade policy have put on U.S. relations with its West European allies, the authors conclude that there are tangible limits on the ability of the United States to use technology trade as leverage to alter Soviet policies.
 Michael Sims, "The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes " English | ISBN: 0143105663 | 2009 | 248 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 356 KB + 476 KB An exclusive collection-the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy  Patrick Keddie, "The Passion: Football and the Story of Modern Turkey" English | ISBN: 0755618521 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1308 KB In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades later he is Turkey's most powerful ruler since Ataturk....'
 Joel Rast, "The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago" English | ISBN: 022666144X | 2019 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city," a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today's tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city-something that can't be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today.
 The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 24-27 April 2001 By Mark J. McCaughrean (auth.), João F. Alves, Mark J. McCaughrean (eds.) 2002 | 515 Pages | ISBN: 3540435417 | PDF | 9 MB Many important observational clues about our understanding of how stars and planets form in the interior of molecular clouds have been amassed using recent technological developments. ESO's Very Large Telescope promises to be a major step forward in the investigation of stellar nurseries and infant stars. This volume collects papers from the leaders in this very timely field of astrophysical research. It presents theoretical and a host of observational results and many papers show the plans for future observations.
 The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn by Avner Offer, Gabriel Söderberg English | October 4, 2016 | ISBN: 069116603X, 0691196311 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 5.3 MB How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the world
 , "The Munich Crisis, politics and the people: International, transnational and comparative perspectives " English | ISBN: 1526138085 | 2021 | 312 pages | EPUB | 1284 KB The Munich Crisis of 1938 had major diplomatic as well as personal and psychological repercussions. As much as it was a climax in the clash between dictatorship and democracy, it was also a People's Crisis and an event that gripped and worried the people around the world. The traditional approach has been to examine the crisis from the vantage points of high politics and diplomacy. Traditional approaches have failed to acknowledge the profound social, cultural and psychological impacts of diplomatic events, an imbalance that is redressed in this volume. Taking a range of national examples and using a variety of methods,  The Metaverse Discovery Guide for Beginners: Find New Opportunities to Make Real Money in the Metaverse with NFTs, Cryptocurrency, Digital Assets, Games and Digital Marketing by Stella K. English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6T5NWKV | 122 pages | EPUB | 0.18 Mb Want to understand exactly what the Metaverse is? Why it matters for this to be learned now? What about the role you will play in it?  The Mediations of Music: Critical Approaches after Adorno English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367762544 | 221 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication - in particular, pedagogy and dissemination through the media. Each of the book's four parts deal with different aspects of the mediation process. The contributing authors outline the problematic moments in Adorno's reasoning but also highlight its potential. In many chapters the pole of immediacy is explicitly brought into play, its different manifestations often proving to be fundamental for the understanding of mediation processes. The prime reference sources are Adorno's Current of Music, Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Composing for the Films. Critical readings of these texts are supplemented by reflections on performance studies, media theories, sociology of listening, post-structuralism and other contiguous research fields. |
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