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 Shahrokh Meskoob, "The Ant's Gift: A Study of the Shahnameh " English | ISBN: 0815637012 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant's Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran's history from its first mythical king to the fall of the Sasanian dynasty, the Shahnameh includes myths, romance, history, and political theory. Meskoob sheds new light on this seminal work of Persian culture, identifying the story as at once a historical and poetic work. While previous criticism of the Shahnameh has focused on its linguistic importance and its role in Iranian nationalism, Meskoob draws attention to the work's pre-Islamic cultural origins.  6.91 GB | 01:26:13 | mkv | 1432X1072 | 4:3 | 10826 Kbps ,6 Language:English Genres:: Thriller iMDB info African exchange student, Stan Rohamba arrives in the U.S., excited to be a part of the "model democratic system". While campaigning for a powerful American senator, Stan uncovers a host of dishonest activity leading directly back to his home country of Mombaire. His discoveries could cost him his life
 Joyce Meyer, "The Answer to Anxiety: How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry" English | ISBN: 1546029176 | 2023 | EPUB | 160 pages | 1 MB Renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers how to overcome anxiety by giving their worries to God.  A. Bleakley, "The Animalizing Imagination: Totemism, Textuality and Ecocriticism" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1349415294 | PDF | pages: 190 | 2.2 mb From Palaeolithic cave paintings to post-modern cyber-pets, animals appear in guises other than 'natural', or biological, beasts. While this spectrum of animal presences is not limited to the immediacy of literal, flesh-and-blood presentation, it may feed off the death of the literal, or spring like ghosts or spirits from the abandoned carcases. For animals also stalk our dreams, slither into our fantasies, haunt our mentalities, and frame our metaphors. We might dream of a snake biting us; use the animal as a linguistic trope, or figure of speech, such as a snaking queue; or thrill at the hyper-real snakes represented on our television screens from locations we will never visit. Such animals are photographed in vivid close-up, beyond the capacity of the human eye. Shots of the animal in the wild are spliced with 'studio' shots of 'stand-in' animals in zoos, so that the viewer has a seamless experience, believing all the footage to be 'wild', where the televisual animal actually becomes a simulacrum. We wonder at these beastly presences as we are anaesthetized to their worldly value, for we cannot smell, taste or touch their images. And their sounds are also simulations. They are recreated for TV-audience consumption, yet they remain extraordinarily 'other'.
 The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China) by Dieter Kuhn English | October 15th, 2011 | ISBN: 0674062027 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 8.05 MB Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed.
 John Crilly, "The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations: Walking alongside People Who Believe Differently" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1496405765 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.9 mb Love God, love people. Could evangelism really be that simple?  Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate By Penelope Walton Rogers 1997 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1872414761 | PDF | 5 MB This volume is intended as a companion to the volume on the textile products from the same site, published in 1989 (AY 17/5). A total of 1,147 artefacts connected with textile production were recovered from the excavation at 16-22 Coppergate together with raw fibres, dyestuffs, teasels and other biological evidence. Of these, 1,006 of the artefacts are dated to the 9th-13th centuries and two-thirds of these belong to the Anglo-Scandinavian period.All the processes of production are represented: raw flax and wool are present, as are tools for preparing fibre; spinning with distaff, spindle-and-whorl and spindle wheel; weaving with the warp-weighted loom, the two-beam vertical loom and the horizontal treadle loom; there are also dyeplants for dyeing; tools for finishing wool cloth and smoothing linen; and for cutting and stitching garments.  Bonnie S. Hirst, "Test of Faith: Surviving My Daughter's Life Sentence" English | ISBN: 1631525948 | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Bonnie S. Hirst is a woman of faith who has always believed that everything in life works out for the best. So, when her daughter, Lacey, is accused of a terrible crime, although Bonnie is devastated, she is also convinced that God will protect her family from harm. He always has, after all. But when her prayers are not answered and Lacey is sentenced to life in prison, Bonnie questions every aspect of her existence: her beliefs, her role as a mother, and the purpose behind the events that are tearing her family apart. As Bonnie and her family navigate the complicated labyrinth of the legal system, she struggles with the duality of presenting a façade of being okay on the outside and screaming for air on the inside. Finally, she is guided to ask for help―a concept previously foreign to her―and is rewarded with a bubble of friends who surround her and her family with love. Poignant, hopeful, and ultimately uplifting,  Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis English | 2023 | ISBN: 981197862X | 320 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the "Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory", as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter's Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty.  Ten Projects in Applied Statistics English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031142748 | 431 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 26 MB The first half of the book is aimed at quantitative research workers in biology, medicine, ecology and genetics. The book as a whole is aimed at graduate students in statistics, biostatistics, and other quantitative disciplines. Ten detailed examples show how the author approaches real-world statistical problems in a principled way that allows for adequate compromise and flexibility. The need to accommodate correlations associated with space, time and other relationships is a recurring theme, so variance-components models feature prominently. Statistical pitfalls are illustrated via examples taken from the recent scientific literature. Chapter 11 sets the scene, not just for the second half of the book, but for the book as a whole. It begins by defining fundamental concepts such as baseline, observational unit, experimental unit, covariates and relationships, randomization, treatment assignment, and the role that these play in model formulation. Compatibility of the model with the randomization scheme is crucial. The effect of treatment is invariably modelled as a group action on probability distributions. Technical matters connected with space-time covariance functions, residual likelihood, likelihood ratios, and transformations are discussed in later chapters. |
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