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 The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea By Ivan Biliarsky (editor), Ovidiu Cristea (editor), Anca Oroveanu (editor) 2012 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 1443836524 | PDF | 5 MB The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between Europe and Asia, between the Baltic and the Mediterranean region. In this fluctuation between the two, the predominance of one over the other ( bridge or border ) has depended on a number of factors, first among them the distribution of power relations in the region. This volume, which originated in a symposium hosted by the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, brings together contributions coming from scholars within the Black Sea region and outside it, in an attempt to look at the Balkans and Caucasus from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective, highlighting their differences, as well as their common features. The overarching question this volume and the papers included in it address and leave open is to what extent we are dealing with a coherent zone, whose past, present and future can legitimately be considered as being traversed by meaningful interrelations, suggesting a shared destiny.  The Axis Forces 18 by Massimiliano Afiero English | Soldiershop | ISBN: 889327776X | 85 pages | EPUB | 7.27 Mb Eighty years ago, exactly in the summer of 1941, on June 22, 1941, German military forces invaded the Soviet Union, beginning one of the largest military campaigns of the entire Second World War. We will start from this issue of the magazine to retrace the fundamental stages of the war on the Eastern front, dealing, as always, mainly with foreign voluntary units. Let's now analyze the contents of this new issue of the magazine. Let's start with the history of the Walloon Legion on the Eastern front, we continue with the second part of the history of the Frikorps Danmark, with the use of the Nord Division in the summer of 1941 on the Finnish front and finally we close with an article dedicated to the insignia used by the Italian volunteers in the Waffen SS.  The Art of Writing Efficient Programs: An advanced programmer's guide to efficient hardware utilization and compiler optimizations using C++ examples English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800208111 | 452 Pages | PDF EPUB | 16 MB  The Art of Public Speaking : A Practical Guide to Improving Your Presentation skills, Overcome Anxiety and fear of Public Speaking by Ibrahim Mustapha English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B7FPZM8D | 85 pages | MOBI | 0.19 Mb Are you ready to get up in front of a crowd and speak?  The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; Jonathan Karp 2008 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0812240022 | PDF | 7 MB The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice.The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals?This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world--or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world--and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.  The 90-Day Sprint: Executive Coaching for Leaders: Fast Track Your Results and Overcome any Roadblock to Boost Your Effectiveness by Teresa Silver English | April 23, 2022 | ASIN: B09YQMFQBF, ISBN: 9798809878104 | True AZW3 | 43 pages | 0.7 MB Did you know that 92% of people will fail to achieve their goals? Keep reading to make sure you don't become one of them...  The 10th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks by Qi Liu English | PDF | 2021 | 1770 Pages | ISBN : 9811584613 | 168 MB This book contains a collection of the papers accepted by the CENet2020 - the 10th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks held on October 16-18, 2020 in Xi'an, China.  That Is Not Your Mind!: Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutr by Robert Rosenbaum English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1645470792 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.98 MB Viewed through the lens of psychology and neuroscience, a classic Zen sutra becomes a springboard for exploring sensory experiences and realizing freedom.  Mayil V. Natarajan, "Textbook of Orthopaedics & Traumatology" English | ISBN: 8184734433 | 2011 | 379 pages | PDF | 133 MB This book is part of the LWW India publishing program. This program is developed for the Indian market working with Indian authors who are the foremost experts in their respective fields. Our Indian authors do research and teach at the most respected Indian medical schools and academic hospitals.  Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression By Wendy Z. Goldman 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0521866146 | PDF | 12 MB Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the Great Terror, a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove corrupt and negligent officials. Workers, shop foremen, local Party members, and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and used them, often against each other, to redress long-standing grievances. Using new, formerly secret archival sources, Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia shows how ordinary people moved in clear stages toward madness and self-destruction. Wendy Z. Goldman is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge, 1993), winner of the Berkshire Conference Book Award, as well as Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge, 2002). |
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