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 Marc Myers, "Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop" English | 2017 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0802127185, 080212559X | EPUB | 8,8 mb Based on the popular Wall Street Journal column, Anatomy of a Song captures the stories behind 45 influential rock, R&B, and pop hits through oral-history interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them―including Keith Richards on "Street Fighting Man," Rod Stewart on "Maggie May," and more  An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics: Consultancy Research and Training By David Lawlor, Mannie Sher 2021 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1032020172 | PDF | 12 MB This book provides an introduction to systems psychodynamic theory and its application to organisational consultancy, research and training, outlining systems dynamics methods and their historical and theoretical developments. Systems Psychodynamics is an emerging field of social science, the boundaries of which are continually being refined and re-defined. The 'systems' designation refers to open systems concepts that provide the framing perspective for understanding the structural aspects of organisational systems. These include its design, division of labour, levels of authority, and reporting relationships; the nature of work tasks, processes, and activities; its mission and primary task; and the nature and patterning of the organisation's task and sentient boundaries and the transactions across them. This book presents a critical appraisal of the systems psychodynamics paradigm and its application to present-day social and organisational difficulties, showing how a holistic approach to organisational and social problems can offer a fresh perspective on difficult issues. Bringing together the theory and practice of systems psychodynamics for the first time, this book provides an examination of the systems psychodynamics paradigm in action. This book gives an accessible and thorough guide to understanding and using systems psychodynamic ideas for analysts, managers, policy makers, consultants and researchers in a wide range of professional and clinical settings.  An Atlas of Neonatal Brain Sonography By Paul Govaert, Linda S. de Vries 2010 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1898683565 | PDF | 43 MB This Atlas covers the entire spectrum of brain disease as studied with ultrasound, illustrated throughout with superb-quality images. It is aimed at neonatologists and radiologists confronted with everyday clinical questions on the neonatal ward. Most newborn brain disorders can be identified with ultrasound; this book will therefore be particularly useful in settings with limited MRI facilities. Prenatal ultrasound specialists will also find it valuable as a postnatal reference in their field of interest. Suggestions for differential diagnosis accompany all the sonographic findings, guiding the clinician in proceeding from an abnormal image to a diagnosis. This second edition of the Atlas has been brought up to date to include the many advances in technique and interpretation that have been made in the past decade. The images have been replaced with new ones of higher quality, and all the line artwork has been standardised and improved. ReadershipNeonatologists, radiologists, neuroradiologists with an interest in neonatal ultrasound From reviews of the first edition: "This is the most challenging and comprehensive book on this theme, and is an essential reference for clinicians to make a correct diagnosis." -Satoshi Takada, Brain and Development "This can be little doubt that this title represents the definitive work on neonatal cranial ultrasound. The authors have had extensive experience in the use of ultrasound scanning the neonatal brain for almost as long as ultrasound has been used to investigate intracranial pathology on the neonatal unit. Their combined experience is most impressive." -Malcolm Leven, Archives of Disease in Childhood  , "An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies" English | ISBN: 1350144916 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 15 MB This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future-making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book responds to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that anthropology must now propose alternative ways, rooted in ethnography, to approach and engage with what is coming and to contest dominant narratives of industry, policy, and government, and to respond to our contemporary context through a public, vocal, and interventional approach.  Paul Carter, "Amplifications: Poetic Migration, Auditory Memory" English | ISBN: 1501344471 | 2019 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history, creative practice, and sound studies, recounting this narrative through a series of themes (rattles, echoes, recordings, etc.). Carter offers a unique perspective on migratory poetics, bringing together his own compositions and life's works while using his personal narrative to frame larger theoretical questions about sound and migration.  American Pietas: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal By Ruby C. Tapia 2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0816653100 | PDF | 3 MB In American Pietàs, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing of race, death, and the maternal in Camera Lucida, Tapia contends that the contradictory essence of the photograph is both as a signifier of death and a guarantor of resurrection.Tapia explores the implications of this argument for racialized productions of death and the maternal in the context of specific cultural moments: the commemoration of Princess Diana in U.S. magazines; the intertext of Toni Morrison's and Hollywood's Beloved; the social and cultural death in teen pregnancy, imaged and regulated in California's Partnership for Responsible Parenting campaigns; and popular constructions of the "Widows of 9/11" in print and televisual journalism.Taken together, these various visual media texts function in American Pietàs as cultural artifacts and as visual nodes in a larger network of racialized productions of maternal bodies in contexts of national death and remembering. To engage this network is to ask how and toward what end the racial project of the nation imbues some maternal bodies with resurrecting power and leaves others for dead. In the spaces between these different maternities, says Tapia, U.S. citizen-subjects are born-and reborn.  Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests By Nicholas C. Kawa 2016 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1477307990 | PDF | 12 MB Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world's largest tropical rainforest. Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas Kawa examines how pre-Columbian Amerindians and contemporary rural Amazonians have shaped their environment, describing in vivid detail their use and management of the region's soils, plants, and forests. At the same time, he highlights the ways in which the Amazonian environment resists human manipulation and control―a vital reminder in this time of perceived human dominance. Written in engaging, accessible prose, Amazonia in the Anthropocene offers an innovative contribution to debates about humanity's place on the planet, encouraging deeper ecocentric thinking and a more inclusive vision of ecology for the future.  Annemarie Schwarzenbach, "All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey " English | ISBN: 0857428225 | 2021 | 124 pages | PDF | 78 MB In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses.  Nuh Washington, "All Power To The People" English | 2002 | ISBN: 1894820215 | PDF | pages: 117 | 7.4 mb Albert 'Nuh' Washington was a solider in the Black Liberation Army, and spent 29 years as a political prisoner before passing away from cancer. This is the largest collection of his essays, poetry, and interviews in print. Proceeds go to the Memorial Fund set up in his name by the Jericho Amnesty Movement to assist political prisoners with their medical needs. "I want to leave you with a positive note, and that is that in struggling you never ose. We had a poster that said, in revolution one wins or dies, and a revolutionary never dies, 'cause his ideas live within thepeople and his comrades. And this goes on and on. so it's incumbent upon us to teach others so that we can pass on the torch. It's important for our younger people to learn from us and question us critically and don't take no easy answers from us."  Mary Jane Sterling, "Algebra I For Dummies" English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1119297567 | EPUB | 3,0 mb |
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