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 Elisabeth R. Anker, "Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom" English | 2014 | ISBN: 082235697X, 0822356864 | PDF | pages: 353 | 1.7 mb Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discourses cast war and surveillance as moral imperatives for eradicating villainy and upholding freedom. In Orgies of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.  Stuart Warren, Paul Wyatt, "Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, 2nd Edition" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0470712368, 0470712376 | 352 pages | EPUB | 9.1 MB One approach to organic synthesis is retrosynthetic analysis. With this approach a chemist will start with the structure of their target molecule and progressively cut bonds to create simpler molecules. Reversing this process gives a synthetic route to the target molecule from simpler starting materials. This "disconnection" approach to synthesis is now a fundamental part of every organic synthesis course.  Oral Sex Grammar by Lucas Cross-Oliver English | November 7, 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00A422I2C | EPUB | 0.07 Mb "Oral Sex Grammar" is a bitter and pungent critique of ageless societies, and it digs deep in people's taboos and stereotypes. In a poetic prose, the author, Lucas Cross-Oliver, offers a provoking narrative of surrealistic depictions of people, where no one will be left unattended. Read it at your own risk.  Online Capacity Provisioning for Energy-Efficient Datacenters English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031115481 | 130 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB This book addresses the urgent issue of massive and inefficient energy consumption by data centers, which have become the largest co-located computing systems in the world and process trillions of megabytes of data every second. Dynamic provisioning algorithms have the potential to be the most viable and convenient of approaches to reducing data center energy consumption by turning off unnecessary servers, but they incur additional costs from being unable to properly predict future workload demands that have only recently been mitigated by advances in machine-learned predictions.  Ken Wilber, "One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality" English | 2009 | ISBN: 1570623872, 1570625476 | 386 pages | True EPUB | 1.4 MB As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber - the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology - naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world, but offers an introduction to his essential thought. "If there is a theme to this journal," Wilber writes, "it is that body, mind, and the luminosities of the soul - all are perfect expressions of the Radiant Spirit that alone inhabits the universe, sublime gestures of that Great Perfection that alone outshines the world."  On Teaching and Writing Fiction By Wallace Stegner 2002 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0142001473 | EPUB | 1 MB Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every aspect of fiction writing-from the writer's vision to his or her audience, from the use of symbolism to swear words, from the mystery of the creative process to the recognizable truth it seeks finally to reveal. His insights will benefit anyone interested in writing fiction or exploring ideas about fiction's role in the broader culture.  Ocean States: Archipelagic Regimes in the Law of the Sea By Mohamed Munavvar 1995 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0792328825 | PDF | 24 MB This is the first comprehensive study on archipelagic regimes published since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982. The book traces the historical evolution of the archipelagic concept in international law and examines the definition of archipelagos and archipelagic states.  Node.js Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Cory Gackenheimer English | PDF(True) | 2013 | 368 Pages | ISBN : 1430260580 | 3.6 MB Node.js Recipes is your one-stop reference for solving Node.js problems. Filled with useful recipes that follow a problem/solution format, you can look up recipes for many situations that you may come across in your day-to-day server-side development.
 Leigh Patel, "No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education" English | ISBN: 0807055638 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery and stolen Indigenous lands  Erwin W. Lutzer, "No Reason to Hide: Standing for Christ in a Collapsing Culture" English | ISBN: 0736986871 | 2022 | 304 pages | EPUB | 473 KB Will You Be Complicit, Complacent, or Courageous? |
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