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 Idleness (The Five Giants: A New Beveridge Report, Book 5) by Katy Jones, Ashwin Kumar English | 20 Oct. 2022 | ISBN: 1788214544 | True EPUB/PDF | pages | 2.3/2.9 MB We are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality jobs, with barely any training and little chance of getting on. Dramatic growth in gig economy work has brought insecurity to the labour market in defiance of employment protections built up steadily since the Second World War. Underlying this crisis is the question of power. The balance between low-paid workers and employers has shifted decisively towards the latter. People feel trapped: trapped by the lack of options but, most of all, trapped by the lack of alternative jobs that offer a better future.  Idiocracy: The Culture of the New Idiot by Zoran Terzić, translated by Michael Turnbull English | January 5, 2023 | ISBN: 3035803676 | True PDF | 192 pages | 1.4 MB There is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. A figure of systematic incompetence, the new idiot is impacting global culture and politics alike, giving rise to surprising, often absurd competences. Yesterday's "fake news" or "post-truths" can be read today as evidence of an ongoing transformation of self-politics in which the idiotic impulse is redefining our experience of the world. Despite talk of global awareness, the isolated self of the many is all the more effective. It brings about a culture of happy singletons strolling towards a black hole that has become their substitute for society.  Identity-native Infrastructure Access Management (Second Early Release) English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098131883 | 86 pages | True EPUB, MOBI | 4.24 MB Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack vectors and protocols to consider.  Hydrogen Electrical Vehicles by Sankir, Mehmet;Sankir, Nurdan Demirci; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394166389 | 275 pages | True PDF | 16.99 MB  Eddie Tay, "Hong Kong as Creative Practice " English | ISBN: 3031213610 | 2022 | 122 pages | PDF | 5 MB In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a practice-led research project informed by both documentary and creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process of art-making.  Vladimir Jordan, "High-Performance Computing Systems and Technologies in Scientific Research, Automation of Control and Production: 12th I" English | ISBN: 3031237439 | 2023 | 334 pages | PDF | 43 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on High-Performance Computing Systems and Technologies in Scientific Research, Automation of Control and Production, HPCST 2022, held in Barnaul, Russia, during May 20-21, 2022.  Hereford Cathedral: A History By Gerald Aylmer, John Tiller 2000 | 672 Pages | ISBN: 1852851945 | PDF | 54 MB The history of Hereford Cathedral is one of dramatic events, colourful characters and an ever changing building both inside and out. The building is perhaps most famous for its library, the late 13th century Mappa Mundi and its 8th century Gospel book. This authoritative history includes 36 essays on all aspects of the cathedral: the history of its foundation before 1056 to the present day; architecture and furnishings; music and worship; library and archives; school and hospitals. Illustrated with photographs of the building and its furnishings, plans and drawings this is truly a comprehensive work.  Markham J. Geller, "Healing Magic and Evil Demons " English | ISBN: 1614515328 | 2015 | 729 pages | EPUB | 65 MB This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world. It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many ancient libraries.  Mary Grace Flaherty, "Great Library Events " English | ISBN: 1538137054 | 2021 | 142 pages | EPUB | 669 KB Libraries and library staff are constantly in the process of expanding and adapting services in order to remain responsive to their varied user communities. As part of this trend, there is an increasing emphasis on providing a wide variety of programs and events; this service expansion has been met with broad enthusiasm by library users everywhere.  Adrian Kelly, "Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology" English | ISBN: 1108480241 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants. |
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