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 Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson 2003 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0878204539 | PDF | 123 MB It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotle's thought in the Nichomachean Ethics. Linking virtue, knowledge, and well-being, Aristotle's analysis of happiness can be traced in Jewish understanding of human flourishing as early as the Greco-Roman world, but the fusion of Greek and Judaic perspectives on happiness reached its zenith in in the Middle Ages in the thought of Moses Maimonides and his followers. Even the controversies about Maimonides' ideas could be viewed as discussions about the meaning of happiness and the way to attain it within Judaism. Much of this book, then, concerns the reception of Aristotle's Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy. This book shows how a certain notion of happiness reflects the intellectual culture of a given period, including cultural exchanges among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Demonstrating the discourse on happiness as a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, between reason and faith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson presents, to specialists and non-specialists alike, a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.  Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning By Na'ilah Suad Nasir (editor), Carol D. Lee (editor), Roy Pea (editor), Maxine McKinney de Royston (editor) 2020 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0415839041 | PDF | 11 MB Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining learning as entailing inherently cultural processes. Conceptualizing culture as both a set of social practices and connected to learner identities, the chapters synthesize contemporary research in elaborating a new vision of the cultural nature of learning, moving beyond summary to reshape the field toward studies that situate culture in the learning sciences alongside equity of educational processes and outcomes. With the recent increased focus on culture and equity within the educational research community, this volume presents a comprehensive, innovative treatment of what has become one of the field's most timely and relevant topics.
 Alan Javier Hernández-Álvarez, "Green Protein Processing Technologies from Plants: Novel Extraction and Purification Methods for Product Development" English | ISBN: 3031169670 | 2023 | 369 pages | PDF | 6 MB This edited book provides the first comprehensive overview on conventional and emerging processing technologies for the extraction and purification of proteins and/or peptides from plant sources with a special focus on subsequent product development.  Lucinda Gosling, "Great War Britain: The First World War at Home" English | ISBN: 0752491881 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 8 MB The declaration of war in August, 1914, was to change Britain and British society irrevocably as conflict came to dominate almost every aspect of civilian life for the next four years. Popular weekly magazines, such as the Tatler, the Sketch, and the Queen, recorded the national preoccupations of the time, and in particular, the upper class experience of war. Targeted at a well-heeled, largely female audience, these magazines were veteran reporters of aristocratic balls, the latest Parisian fashions, and society engagements, but quickly adapted to war-like conditions without ever quite losing their gossipy essence. Fashion soon found itself jostling for position with items on patriotic fundraising, and Court presentations were replaced by notes on nursing convalescent soldiers. The result is a fascinating, at times amusing, and uniquely feminine perspective of life on the Home Front during World War I.  Graph Neural Networks in Action (MEAP V05) English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617299056 | 257 pages | PDF,EPUB | 38.62 MB A hands-on guide to powerful graph-based deep learning models! Learn how to build cutting-edge graph neural networks for recommendation engines, molecular modeling, and more.  Dr. Tomas J. McIntee, "Graduating from the Electoral College" English | ISBN: 1959266004 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 4 MB On the Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years, electors have gathered in as many as fifty-one different groups with between two and fifty-five members. Each electoral assembly, or college, operates under its own rules.
 V. Hari Saravanan, "Gods, Heros and their Story Tellers: Intangible cultural heritage of South India" English | 2015 | pages: 540 | ISBN: 9384391492 | EPUB | 318,3 mb We can hear Urumula Naganna's drum roll during the rendition of the Sri Akammagaru Kaviya. An oral tradition which is as old as the hills is captured in the book Gods, Heroes and their Storytellers. Do you know the story of how the Madiga community came to inherit the right to skin cattle carcass and produce leather articles? How are contemporary Folk Oral Literatures connected to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? There are many such stories and tradition bearers who doggedly go on in spite of the onslaught of the digital media. The author here has tried his best in keeping these traditions alive by not only telling the stories but also by living with the story tellers themselves. The rich details give us a window to a world which is not only very far away for our everyday mundane existence but also makes us retrospect on what we are missing out. Each of the tradition bearers are different and so are their stories and the region to which they belong. These are not merely stories but a way of life for these oral narrators who are fast disappearing in today's consumerist landscape. The need of the hour is to keep alive these traditions and the tradition bearers.  Go in Action, Second Edition (MEAP V01) English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781633439702 | 59 pages | PDF,EPUB | 1.54 MB Master Go language fundamentals, learn how to structure Go projects effectively, and deliver high-performance code using Go's powerful concurrency model.
 Oliver Rick, "Global Sports and Contemporary China: Sport Policy, International Relations and New Class Identities in the People's Rep" English | ISBN: 3031185943 | 2023 | 235 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class identities and its role in international Chinese state politics. Despite advances in the marketization of the sports industry through previous eras, the Chinese state expanded investment in a set of global sports following the heavily government-directed drive towards national success at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. This would be a time when the government focused on policies set to service a growing domestic middle-class and an increasingly wide-ranging set of international interests, with sporting investments being at the heart of their strategic plan. However, reform has proven difficult. The book presents a well-rounded account of this effort with tennis and soccer providing important case studies of the internal and external dynamics of this time. As such, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of globalization of sport, those studying East Asian sports development, and those who are interested in understanding China more broadly.
 Pedro Goulart, "Global Labour in Distress, Volume II: Earnings, (In)decent Work and Institutions " English | ISBN: 3030892646 | 2022 | 727 pages | PDF | 22 MB This book, the second of two volumes, explores the transformations to the labour market observed since the offi cial end of the Cold War in 1991. This period is defi ned by the retreat of the state and a move towards more market-based economies, followed by a State comeback with the Great Recession. These bumpy decades for labour and changing labour policies are analysed thematically. |
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