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 Jeanne Morefield, "Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory " English | ISBN: 1538168626 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said's influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said's thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said's writings on the experience of exile, the practice of "contrapuntal" criticism, and the illuminating potential of worldly humanism. Said's critical vision, Morefield argues, provides a fresh perspective on debates in political theory about subjectivity, global justice, identity, and the history of political thought. Most importantly, she maintains, Said's approach offers theorists a model of how to bring the insights developed through historical analyses of imperialism and anti-colonialism to bear on critiques of contemporary global crises and the politics of American foreign policy.  Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine, Revised Edition by Alan S. Gerber, Eric M. Patashnik, Conor M. Dowling English | July 7, 2020 | ISBN: 0691203229 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 1.5 MB How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine  Ultimate Resistant Band Exercises: Resistant Band Workout For Strength, Total Body Fitness, Muscle Growth, Flexibility, And Body Rehabilitaion by Ralph Mcdaniel English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BBFP2W8W | 51 pages | EPUB | 0.49 Mb There are endless excuses for not exercising: time, space, and money is the most common barriers people point to. However, a full-body workout can be accomplished without a gym, expensive equipment, or a large amount of time or space.  Gerald R Pitzl, "True North: Victory in the Race to the Pole" English | ISBN: 1662445253 | 2021 | 200 pages | EPUB | 4 MB The Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968 was the first indisputable attainment of the North Pole over the Arctic Ocean ice surface from a point of land. The journey took forty-four days of struggle, delays, intense cold, windstorms, and the uncommon determination of dedicated expedition members to achieve the goal. Part 1 of the book covers the daily activities of the ice party as they progressed ever so slowly northward and of the support team at the base camp, working to ensure the necessary logistical tasks to keep the ice party moving. Part 2 shines a light on the navigational practices of Peary in his 1909 quest to reach the North Pole, a claim that even the National Geographic Society, his solid supporter for 111 years, now concluded he did not achieve. His navigation failed him. This became abundantly clear in the analysis.
 Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora By Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (editor), Lan Duong (editor), Mariam B. Lam (editor), Kathy L. Nguyen (editor) 2014 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0295993197 | PDF | 25 MB Juxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs, Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This thematically arranged collection interrupts borders of categorization and gender, in what preface author Shirley Geok-Lin Lim describes as a "leap over the barbed fences that have kept these women apart in these, our United States of America."The sixty-two contributors have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and showing their work is a bold act in itself. Their provocative and accessible creations tell unique stories, provide sharp contrasts to familiar stereotypes―Southeast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon ladies, prostitutes, or "bar girls"―and serve as entry points for broader discussions about questions of history, memory, and identity.
 , "Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond: Converting the Isles II " English | ISBN: 2503568688 | 2018 | 526 pages | PDF | 4 MB Conversion to Christianity is arguably the most revolutionary social and cultural change that Europe experienced throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christianization affected all strata of society and transformed not only religious beliefs and practices, but also the nature of government, the priorities of the economy, the character of kinship, and gender relations. It is against this backdrop that an international array of leading medievalists gathered under the auspices of the Converting the Isles Research Network (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) to investigate social, economic, and cultural aspects of conversion in the early medieval Insular world, covering different parts of Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and Iceland. This volume analyses the effects of religious conversion on landscapes of cult and on religious practice in Europe, focusing in particular on Britain and Ireland. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the volume investigates the interaction between different forms of belief, their coexistence and competition. It discusses the coming of writing, the power of the word, landscapes of ritual, and converting communities. The contributors include leading historians, archaeologists, linguists, and literary scholars. This is the second volume to emerge from research undertaken by contributors to the Converting the Isles Research Network and forms a companion volume to The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World.  Track and Trace Management System for Dementia and Intellectual Disabilities English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811912637 | 241 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB This book reviews humanitarian literature and presents the development of low-cost track & trace management system integrated with accurate GPS location data pinging using Internet of Things (IoT). The first part relates to mobile device configuration with an embedded GPS and wireless Internet connection to transmit its current location. The second part presents web server implementation and development that receives the data, parses it, and stores it for access over the Internet. The third part discusses the user interface that allows one to visually identify the current location of the device.
 Tit-for-tat Media: The Contentious Bodies and Sex Imagery of Political Activism By Katrien Jacobs 2022 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 0367753359 | PDF | 7 MB This book examines the visual-sexual turn in social media discourses in the field of online activism with a particular focus on the extraordinary protest years of 2018-2020.  Time's arrows and quantum measurement By L. S. Schulman 1997 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0521561221 | PDF | 20 MB This book is an introduction to the arrow of time in thermodynamics and cosmology, and develops a new quantum measurement theory in which the foregoing concepts play an essential role. The first chapter is an overview and "route map" and is followed by an exposition of irreversibility, the expansion of the universe and other arrows of time. The author examines the thesis that the thermodynamic arrow follows the cosmological one, and in doing so extends traditional statistical mechanics. The second part of the book presents a new theory of quantum measurement and possible experimental tests. This theory incorporates the extended statistical mechanics in an essential way. The last chapter discusses open experimental and theoretical issues. Written in a lively and accessible style, the text is liberally sprinkled with exercises. Each chapter ends with a resources section that includes notes, further reading, and technical appendices. This book will fascinate graduate students in physics, cosmology, and the philosophy of physics.  Karen Manners Smith, "Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties" English | ISBN: 1138414492 | 2017 | 464 pages | EPUB | 4 MB What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock. |
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