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 Lena Halldenius, "Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Republicanism: Independence, Rights and the Experience of Unfreedom" English | 2015 | pages: 182 | ISBN: 1848935366 | PDF | 6,5 mb Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft's political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work - that of a 'feminist republican'.  Marxism, China, and Development: Reflections on Theory and Reality By A. James Gregor 1999 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0765806347 | EPUB | 1 MB China has always been something of a mystery to Westerners. For one genera-tion, Mao Zedong and his followers were simple "agrarian reformers," while for another they were the "communist emperor and his blue ants." In the 1970s, some of the finest Sinologists believed there was much the United States could learn from Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution with regard to bureaucracy, criminal justice, health care, and mass education. By the 1980s, those same theo-rists asserted that Maoism was nothing more than a feudal fascism and had abso-lutely nothing positive to teach. Marxism, China, and Development provides a plausible explanation of these developments that have had such a powerful effect on the people of China for the past half century.The author describes and explains the strange collection of beliefs that made up the Marxism of Mao Zedong. He seeks to understand why the communist leader-ship of China, like that of the USSR, tried to spur economic growth by abandoning the market modalities common to developed economies. A. James Gregor's con-ceptual framework is both original, and makes more comprehensible the history of Marxism and the history of China. Among the major topics he covers are imperi-alism, political democracy, economics, and alternatives to Maoism and Marxism for China.While it is unlikely that our understanding of so complex a series of events as modern Chinese history will soon become less controversial, Marxism, China, and Development's clear, concise explanations will clarify some perplexing areas, and make the new turns in Chinese political economy more understandable. This is a monumental effort at theory construction that will be of interest to political scien-tists, economists, sociologists, and Sinologists.  Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva English | January 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 1839765534 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 0.25 MB Marx's Literary Style argues that a true understanding of Marx's work requires a careful study of his literary choices  Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity By Lorraine M. York 2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1442646136 | PDF | 3 MB For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine York explores the ways in which the careers of famous writers are managed and maintained and the extent to which literary celebrity creates a constant tension in these writers' lives between the need of solitude for creative purposes and the give-and-take of the business of being a writer of significant public stature.Making extensive use of unpublished material in the Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto, York demonstrates the extent to which celebrity writers must embrace and protect themselves from the demands of the literary world, including by participating in - or even inventing - new forms of technology that facilitate communication from a slight remove. This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye.  Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production By Annika A. Culver (editor), Norman Smith (editor) 2020 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 9888528130 | PDF | 11 MB This groundbreaking volume critically examines how writers in Japanese-occupied northeast China negotiated political and artistic freedom while engaging their craft amidst an increasing atmosphere of violent conflict and foreign control. The allegedly multiethnic utopian new state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) created by supporters of imperial Japan was intended to corral the creative energies of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians, and Mongols. Yet, the twin poles of utopian promise and resistance to a contested state pulled these intellectuals into competing loyalties, selective engagement, or even exile and death―surpassing neat paradigms of collaboration or resistance. In a semicolony wrapped in the utopian vision of racial inclusion, their literary works articulating national ideals and even the norms of everyday life subtly reflected the complexities and contradictions of the era. Scholars from China, Korea, Japan, and North America investigate cultural production under imperial Japan's occupation of Manchukuo. They reveal how literature and literary production more generally can serve as a penetrating lens into forgotten histories and the lives of ordinary people confronted with difficult political exigencies. Highlights of the text include transnational perspectives by leading researchers in the field and a memoir by one of Manchukuo's last living writers.  Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control By Powers, William T. 2021 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0964712156 | EPUB | 2 MB Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control by William T. Powers is a profound and sometimes funny introduction to control theory as applied to the behavior of living things.Written for the common reader, MSOB demonstrates how "living control systems" really behave and interact. Deliberately simple examples peel back the layers of Powers' Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to reveal its universal truths.Originally published 1998; cleaned EPUB released 2021.
 Making Jigs and Fixtures: Techniques for Better Woodworking (The Workshop Companion) by Nick Engler English | 1995 | ISBN: 0875966896 | 134 pages | PDF | 101 MB This step-by-step pictorial manual shows how to design and build jigs for every operation in the shop, choose materials for strength and durability, and where to purchase particular hardware. Includes a special section with detailed plans and instructions for 12 jigs and fixtures.  Richard Kibbe, Roland Meyer, Warren White, "Machine Tool Practices" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0132912651 | PDF | pages: 815 | 53.4 mb Machine Tool Practices, Tenth Edition, provides a richly illustrated, practical, and understandable treatment of machine tool technology and related subjects, including measurement and tools, reading drawings, mechanical hardware, hand tools, metallurgy, and the essentials of computer numerical control. The text's teaching and learning package includes an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, and computerized testing.  MCQ in Pain Medicine English | 2019 | ISBN: 9388527801 | 290 Pages | PDF (True) | 56 MB Learning through MCQs is an interesting method of gaining knowledge as they provide complete answers supported with references. Readers can go through the references in detail for further study. The book will also prove a useful tool for candidates preparing for different MCQ-based examinations in the field of pain medicine and management and associated areas.  MATLAB for Medical Physics: Real-life Clinical Scenarios and Projects English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811998566 | 418 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 88 MB This book gives the practical introduction for medical physics students and clinical physicists to learn MATLAB programming. The first part of the book explains the MATLAB software layout and ways to get help followed by the demonstration of the fundamentals of MATLAB programming through over 100 examples. The second part of the book features eighteen real-life clinical scenarios and projects and twenty-three scenario expansions. The scenarios cover many of the common clinical medical physics areas including DICOM file manipulation, film dosimetry, brachytherapy application, linear accelerator and CT quality assurance and their automations, medical image processing and analysis. All scenarios include the step-by-step solution as a guidance for readers to learn MATLAB by practicing. The data files (e.g. DICOM) used for all clinical scenarios are provided |
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