Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032395745 | 187 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology. It outlines the conventional meanings of these terms, but also addresses their contentious character. The aim is to offer interpretations of them that provide a coherent conception of the nature of social science. Maulin P. Shah, "Membrane and Membrane-Based Processes for Wastewater Treatment " English | ISBN: 0367759845 | 2023 | 258 pages | PDF | 8 MB The proposed book mainly sorts out emerging and burning issues faced day to day by municipal and industrial wastewater treatments. It also provides a comprehensive view of recent advances in hybrid treatment technologies for wastewater treatment, addresses the current limitations and challenges of applying these tools in wastewater treatment systems. This book gives an insight about recent developments in membrane technology for wastewater treatment. Industrial wastewater contains a large variety of compounds, such as heavy metals, salts and nutrients, which makes its treatment challenging. Thus, the use of conventional water treatment methods is not always effective. In this sense, membrane-based hybrid processes have emerged as a promising technology to treat complex industrial wastewater. The present book analyses and discusses the potential of membrane-based hybrid processes for the treatment of complex industrial wastewater along with the recovery of valuable compounds and water reutilization. In addition, recent and future trends in membrane technology are highlighted.
Tom Mattson, "Meeting Strangers, Making Friends: More Surprising Travel Adventures from the Minnesota Storyteller" English | ISBN: 1940013860 | 2021 | 298 pages | EPUB | 5 MB "Tom Mattson's stories are just phenomenal, and he writes in a way that is so captivating... He sees parts of the world that no one else ever sees, and meets people in different cultures from all walks of life. He is an amazing person"- Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul, New York Times best seller. (2020) Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108425658 | 397 Pages | PDF | 4 MB The 'mirror for princes' genre of literature offers advice to a ruler, or ruler-to-be, concerning the exercise of royal power and the wellbeing of the body politic. This anthology presents selections from the 'mirror literature' produced in the Islamic Early Middle Period (roughly the tenth to twelfth centuries CE), newly translated from the original Arabic and Persian, as well as a previously translated Turkish example. In these texts, authors advise on a host of political issues which remain compelling to our contemporary world: political legitimacy and the ruler's responsibilities, the limits of the ruler's power and the limits of the subjects' duty of obedience, the maintenance of social stability, causes of unrest, licit and illicit uses of force, the functions of governmental offices and the status and rights of diverse social groups. Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes is a unique introduction to this important body of literature, showing how these texts reflect and respond to the circumstances and conditions of their era, and of ours. Ayman Ibrahim, "Medieval Encounters: Arabic-speaking Christians and Islam " English | ISBN: 1463244479 | 2022 | 534 pages | PDF | 4 MB A sourcebook of major Arabic Christian theologians and texts from the 9th-11th centuries. Christian authors who spoke and wrote Arabic had no choice but to engage with Islam and the complex realities of life―initially as a majority, later as a minority―under Muslim rule. They had to express their theology in new ways, polemicize against the claims of a new religion, as well as defend their doctrines against Islam's challenges.
Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781003295082 | 175 pages | True PDF | 23.99 MB Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies. Media Innovations AR and VR: Success Factors For The Development Of Experiences English | 2023 | ISBN: 3662662795 | 205 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB Augmented and virtual reality are media innovations with specific characteristics. They create immersion in the user, as the user is immersed in the medium and its 360° environment. To successfully develop content and applications for AR and VR, psychological effects, the specifics of the 360° environment, the story, and the way the media is used must be aligned with the needs and experiences of the user. Goran Bolin, "Media Generations: Experience, identity and mediatised social change" English | 2016 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 1138907677, 1138907685 | PDF | 1,0 mb While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social change, the role of the media in this process has only been acknowledged as an important feature during the last couple of decades. Building on quantitative and qualitative comparative research, Media Generations analyses the role of the media in the formation of generational experience, identity and habitus, and how mediated nostalgia is an important part in the social formation of generations.
Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023: Bring out the best in your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023, 5th Edition English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781803248455 | 510 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 487 MB Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" English | ISBN: 1501191055 | 2023 | 416 pages | EPUB | 25 MB The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. |