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 Postharvest Management and Value Addition of Underutilised Fruit Crops by A K Singh & A K Chaurasiya English | 2020 | ISBN: 938817383X | 257 Pages | Image PDF | 135 MB  Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling (Volume 70) " English | ISBN: 0520391721 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 17 MB A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.  Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures By Bernard K. Freamon 2019 | 586 Pages | ISBN: 9004364811 | PDF | 8 MB In Possessed by the Right Hand, Bernard K. Freamon offers a comprehensive legal history of slavery and slave-trading in Islam, considering the impact of Western abolitionism, its failure, and the implications of the rise of ISIS and Boko Haram.  Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Learn Brazilian Portuguese and Build Your Vocabulary the Fun and Easy Way by Language Guru English | October 16, 2022 | ISBN: 1950321452 | 82 pages | EPUB | 0.16 Mb Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Portuguese to fluency?  Portable Python Projects: Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi by Mike Riley English | March 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1680508598 | 182 pages | PDF (Converted) | 4.41 Mb Discover easy ways to control your home with the powerful new Raspberry Pi hardware. Program short Python scripts that will detect changes in your home and react with the instructions you code. Use new add-on accessories to monitor a variety of measurements, from light intensity and temperature to motion detection and water leakage. Expand the base projects with your own custom additions to perfectly match your own home setup. Most projects in the book can be completed in under an hour, giving you more time to enjoy and tweak your autonomous creations. No breadboard or electronics knowledge required!  Professor Andrew H. Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era" English | ISBN: 0231193580 | 2019 | 216 pages | EPUB | 905 KB Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring "pork"―federal funds for local projects―back home to their districts are better able to fend off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have found that securing federal spending has no electoral effects at best or can even cost incumbent legislators votes.  Lesley Hawkes, "Popular Appeal: Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture" English | ISBN: 1443852392 | 2013 | 220 pages | PDF | 6 MB Now is an opportune moment to consider the shifts in youth and popular culture that are signalled by texts that are being read and viewed by young people. In a world seemingly compromised by climate change, political and religious upheavals and economic irresponsibility, and at a time of fundamental social change, young people are devouring fictional texts that focus on the edges of identity, the points of transition and rupture, and the assumption of new and hybrid identities. This book draws on a range of international texts to address these issues, and to examine the ways in which key popular genres in the contemporary market for young people are being re-defined and re-positioned in the light of urgent questions about the environment, identity, one's place in the world, and the fragile nature of the world itself. The key questions are: what are the shifts and changes in youth culture that are identified by the market and by what young people read and view? How do these texts negotiate the addressing of significant questions relating to the world today? Why are these texts so popular with young people? What are the most popular genres in contemporary best-sellers and films? Do these texts have a global appeal, and, if so, why? These over-arching themes and ideas are presented as a collection of inter-related essays exploring a rich variety of forms and styles from graphic novels to urban realism, from fantasy to dystopian writing, from epic narratives to television musicals. The subjects and themes discussed here reveal the quite remarkable diversity of issues that arise in youth fiction and the variety of fictional forms in which they are explored. Once seen as not as important as adult fiction, this book clearly demonstrates that youth fiction (and the popular appeal of this fiction) is complex, durable and far-reaching in its scope.  Yves Van de Peer, "Polyploidy: Methods and Protocols " English | ISBN: 1071625608 | 2023 | 531 pages | PDF | 27 MB This volume provides protocols on evidence for polyploidy and how it can be unveiled. Chapters guide readers through evolutionary experiments, measure effects of polyploidy, evidence for (remnants of) ancient WGDs, models of chromosome number evolution, population genomics approaches to study polyploidy, analysing genetic data from polyploid populations, Phylogenetic and phylogenomic methods, gene expression, gene regulation, unicellular alga (Chlamydomonas), and a fast-growing duckweed (Spirodela). Written in the format of the highly successful  Political Theory of the Digital Age: Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009255215 | 331 Pages | PDF | 2 MB With the rise of far-reaching technological innovation, from artificial intelligence to Big Data, human life is increasingly unfolding in digital lifeworlds. While such developments have made unprecedented changes to the ways we live, our political practices have failed to evolve at pace with these profound changes. In this path-breaking work, Mathias Risse establishes a foundation for the philosophy of technology, allowing us to investigate how the digital century might alter our most basic political practices and ideas. Risse engages major concepts in political philosophy and extends them to account for problems that arise in digital lifeworlds including AI and democracy, synthetic media and surveillance capitalism and how AI might alter our thinking about the meaning of life. Proactive and profound, Political Theory of the Digital Age offers a systemic way of evaluating the effect of AI, allowing us to anticipate and understand how technological developments impact our political lives - before it's too late.  Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest " English | ISBN: 1501755587 | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 5 MB In Policing China, Suzanne E. Scoggins delves into the paradox of China's self-projection of a strong security state while having a weak police bureaucracy. Assessing the problems of resources, enforcement, and oversight that beset the police, outside of cracking down on political protests, Scoggins finds that the central government and the Ministry of Public Security have prioritized "stability maintenance" (weiwen) to the detriment of nearly every aspect of policing. The result, she argues, is a hollowed out and ineffective police force that struggles to deal with everyday crime. |
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