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 Pedal Culture: Guitar Effects Pedals as Cultural Artifacts by Ronald Light English | December 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1493060791 | True EPUB/PDF | 128 pages | 14.2/16.1 MB Pedal Culture is a themed exploration of guitar effects pedals as cultural artifacts, derived from a 2017 design exhibition at San Francisco State University curated by the writer. This colorful and artfully designed volume contains curatorial text describing eight different object displays along with photographs of each of the sixty-three individual pedals, richly illustrated in approximately one hundred original photographs.  Gordon Wells, "Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Cultural Historical Approach" English | ISBN: 1107014654 | 2013 | 261 pages | PDF | 2 MB What can Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) contribute to the solution of the problems facing higher education today? This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars and researchers to address this important question. Drawing on contemporary interpretations of CHAT, the contributors take on a wide range of issues, ranging from pedagogy to administration and from teacher preparation to university outreach. An introduction presents the key principles of CHAT. Subsequent chapters address such issues as effective ways of teaching large undergraduate classes, providing support for struggling writers or for students with disabilities, opening up opportunities for students from historically underserved communities, preparing students for the professions, and building bridges between higher education and the wider community. Readers with an interest in higher education will encounter ideas in these chapters that will prompt them to rethink their role in preparing today's students for tomorrow's challenges.  Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions), 12th Edition by Pat Rushin English | October 20th, 2021 | ISBN: 1478014679, 1478013745 | 409 pages | True PDF | 34.44 MB Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation.  Over the Line: A History of the England v Germany Football Rivalry by Alexander Gross English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1801501688 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 4.9 MB The history of the fierce football rivalry between England and Germany is encapsulated in a single moment - Geoff Hurst's extra-time shot off the crossbar in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final and the decision of an infamous Russian linesman to award a goal. It is a rivalry that now spans more than 90 years since the first official match between the two nations.  Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges English | October 19, 2021 | ISBN: 1982154438 | 272 pages | PDF (Converted) | 2.45 Mb A powerfully moving book that "could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations" (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.  One-Pot Healthy by Fauda-Rôle, Sabrina; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1784886165 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 29.01 MB  One-Night Stand: A Step-by-Step Guide to Picking Up Girls for No-String Sex by Josh Manuel English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08CSY2PQ6 | 55 pages | MOBI | 1.15 Mb If you're interested in no-strings sex (or same-day lay), this is the right e-book for you.  Haakon Gjerløw, "One Road to Riches? " English | ISBN: 1009054554 | 2022 | 96 pages | PDF | 2 MB Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this "stateness-first" argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development outcomes. In this Element, we discuss several strong assumptions that (different versions of) this argument rests upon and critically evaluate the existing evidence base. In extension, we specify various observable implications. We then subject the stateness-first argument to multiple tests, focusing on economic growth as an outcome. First, we conduct historical case studies of two countries with different institutional sequencing histories, Denmark and Greece, and assess the stateness-first argument (e.g., by using a synthetic control approach). Thereafter, we draw on an extensive global sample of about 180 countries, measured across 1789-2019 and leverage panel regressions, preparametric matching, and sequence analysis to test a number of observable implications. Overall, we find little evidence to support the stateness-first argument.  Jack Shitama, "One New Habit, One Big Goal: Change Your Life in 10 Weeks" English | ISBN: 1732009376 | 2018 | 68 pages | EPUB | 138 KB You don't need more willpower. You need a system to focus the willpower you have until your desired change becomes a habit. Once you do this, your new practice will be automatic. You can apply this process to improve your spiritual and physical health, as well to reach the big goals you have for your life. This short book will show you:  On the Marble Cliffs (New York Review Classics) by Ernst Jünger, translated by Tess Lewis English | January 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1681376253 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 1 MB Now in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an enroaching fascistic force. |
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