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 Man's Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War By Philip F. Gura 2017 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0674659546 | PDF | 14 MB Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, they became prophets of a new moral order: if only their fellow countrymen would call on each individual's God-given better instincts, the most intractable problems could be resolved.Inspired by this reformist fervor, Americans took to strict dieting, water cures, phrenology readings, mesmerism, utopian communities, free love, mutual banking, and a host of other elaborate self-improvement schemes. Vocal activists were certain that solutions to the country's ills started with the reformation of individuals, and through them communities, and through communities the nation. This set of assumptions ignored the hard political and economic realities at the core of the country's malaise, however, and did nothing to prevent another financial panic twenty years later, followed by secession and civil war.Focusing on seven individuals―George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown―Philip Gura explores their efforts, from the comical to the homicidal, to beat a new path to prosperity. A narrative of people and ideas, Man's Better Angels captures an intellectual moment in American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and the pragmatism that arose in its wake.  Amy Bliss Marshall, "Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan " English | ISBN: 1487502869 | 2019 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home). These magazines served to embed new instruments of mass communication and socialization within Japanese society and created mechanisms to facilitate the dissemination of hegemonic forms of discourse in the first half of the twentieth century. The amazing success of  Machine Learning and Its Application to Reacting Flows: Ml & Combustion English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031162471 | 348 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 63 MB These two fields, ML and turbulent combustion, have large body of work and knowledge on their own, and this book brings them together and explain the complexities and challenges involved in applying ML techniques to simulate and study reacting flows. This is important as to the world's total primary energy supply (TPES), since more than 90% of this supply is through combustion technologies and the non-negligible effects of combustion on environment. Although alternative technologies based on renewable energies are coming up, their shares for the TPES is are less than 5% currently and one needs a complete paradigm shift to replace combustion sources. Whether this is practical or not is entirely a different question, and an answer to this question depends on the respondent. However, a pragmatic analysis suggests that the combustion share to TPES is likely to be more than 70% even by 2070. Hence, it will be prudent to take advantage of ML techniques to improve combustion sciences and technologies so that efficient and "greener" combustion systems that are friendlier to the environment can be designed.  MATLAB Programming Fundamentals English | 2022 | ISBN: n/a | 1560 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB [center]  MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging by Tiffany Porta Siegel; English | 2021 | ISBN: 1839162414 | 541 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.96 MB  Lora Remote Sensing System English | 2020 | ISBN: n/a | 225 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB Tells how to write an Arduino program to detect mechanical, magnetic or angular velocity disturbances anywhere within 600 yards line-of-sight of your lora base station, and to issue alerts when the disturbances exceed preset levels, which may be programmed remotely from your base station, which is a different Arduino program on the same board type
 Bill Bodri, "Look Younger, Live Longer: Reverse the Aging Process in One Year Using Eastern Traditions and Modern Nutritional Science" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0998076422 | PDF | pages: 93 | 6.4 mb What if you could slow or even reverse the aging process and start to look years younger? It's possible if you combine the latest methods of modern science with the ancient longevity methods of the eastern spiritual traditions. Modern anti-aging science - whether it references the findings of the "Blue Zones" or new approaches to diet and nutrition - shows us how to use the right exercises, diet and vitamin-mineral supplements to turn back our biological clocks. By doing the right things we can slow or even reverse the process of aging so that we not only live longer but start to look younger and feel better too. There are also ways we can improve our home's environment in order to enjoy cleaner air and water as well as reduce our EMF exposure to support our health and anti-aging efforts. The second approach to anti-aging relies on the eastern spiritual traditions that teach you how to eat right, exercise and reduce stress so as to reverse the aging process. This approach - which comes from the ancient eastern schools of Yoga, Chinese Taoism, Buddhism and other traditions - promotes breathing practices, inner energy work, meditation and a proper diet for staying young and living longer. This road of longevity is centered on building up internal energy so that you can use its benefits for a longer and healthier life. Combining the eastern and western approaches is the premier approach to life extension. It constitutes a new science of anti-aging that takes the best from the east and west to heal your body, extend your life, and benefit your mind. Inside you'll learn the best vitamins and nutritional supplements to take in order to look younger, feel better, reverse the effects of aging you've already experienced and extend your life span. You'll also discover the best eastern practices for increasing health and longevity that - although thousands of years old - not only prepare people for progress on the spiritual trail but are actually proven remedial solutions for the many aging theories proposed by geneticists. In short, you'll find many approaches for duplicating and even going beyond the healthy anti-aging results found in the long-lived "Blue Zones" communities.  Living Theatre in the Ancient Roman House: Theatricalism in the Domestic Sphere English | 2023 | ISBN: 1316510948 | 547 Pages | PDF | 182 MB For the Romans, much of life was seen, expressed and experienced as a form of theatre. In their homes, patrons performed the lead, with a supporting cast of residents and visitors. This sumptuously illustrated book, the result of extensive interdisciplinary research, is the first to investigate, describe and show how ancient Roman houses and villas, in their décor, spaces, activities and function, could constitute highly-theatricalised environments, indeed, a sort of 'living theatre'. Their layout, purpose and use reflected and informed a culture in which theatre was both a major medium of entertainment and communication and an art form drawing upon myths exploring the core values and beliefs of society. For elite Romans, their homes, as veritable stage-sets, served as visible and tangible expressions of their owners' prestige, importance and achievements. The Roman home was a carefully crafted realm in which patrons displayed themselves, while 'stage-managing' the behaviour and responses of visitor-spectators.  Mary Pat Fisher, Robin Rinehart, "Living Religions" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0134168976 | PDF | pages: 577 | 42.9 mb Help students understand the role of modern religions in today's changing world |
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