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 Alexandra T. Vazquez, "The Florida Room" English | ISBN: 1478015306 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 10 MB In The Florida Room Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to offer a lush story of place and people, movement and memory, dispossession and survival. She transforms the "Florida room"-an actual architectural phenomenon-into a vibrant spatial imaginary for Miami's musical cultures and everyday life. Drawing on songs, ephemera, and oral histories from artists, families, and inheritors of their traditions, Vazquez hears Miami as a city that has long been shaped by Indigenous Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and southern Georgia. She draws connections between seemingly disparate artists, sounds, and stories, from singer Gwen McCrae to pirate radio innovator DJ Uncle Al, from the Miccosukee rock band Tiger Tiger to the Cuban-American songwriter Desmond Child, among the percussionists Dafnis Prieto, Obed Calvaire, and Yosvany Terry, and through the notes of Eloise Lewis, Betty Wright, and the Miami Bass group Anquette. By listening to musical collaborations and ancestral ties across place and time, Vazquez brings together formal musical details, the histories of people and locations they hold, and the aesthetic traditions transformed inside them.  The Feudalism Debate By Harbans Mukhia (editor) 1999 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 8173042845 | PDF | 66 MB In 1981 Harbans Mukhia's essay, 'Was There Feudalism in Indian History?' was published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, which triggered off an international debate of the problem in the journal's special issues in 1985 and some subsequent issues. Among the central questions was the tension between Marxist conception of capitalism as the first world system and several Marxist historians' construction of feudalism as a universal category. This volume contains 11 essays discussing these issues.  The Evolution of Society: An Information-processing Perspective English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031230531 | 434 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 21 MB This book covers the work of Erik W. Aslaksen who continues to develop the view of society and its evolution published in earlier work - The Social Bond (Springer 2018), The Stability of Society (Springer 2020), and Measures of Social Evolution (Springer 2021), bringing together core material of that work with the results of recent investigations in order to present the evolution of society as an integrated and continuous story leading right up to the present time. A story of human action driven by our beliefs, desires, and an ideology arising out of our ability to transform and exploit our environment through the development and application of technology. The distinguishing feature of the work is the treatment of society as an information-processing system and applying the system methodology for handling complexity, as it is applied, e.g., in engineering. This focus on information is particularly pertinent in the current circumstances, where the world has arrived at a critical point in its history through the conjunction of a number of issues that appear to be spiralling out of control: Global warming and the associated climate change, the destruction of our environment through such processes as land clearing and industrialisation with associated loss of biodiversity, the rapidly increasing visibility of the inequality in the quality of life with associated tensions, and above all, the determination of the US-led Western alliance to cling to its hegemonial role, apparently at all cost. With the sophistication and proliferation of nuclear weapons, the latter has the potential to bring on the end of civilisation as we know it. The resolution of any of these issues depends on the information available to all parties involved, and hence, the availability and quality of information is seen as the crucial and overarching issue of the present time. A number of aspects of this issue, including the role of education, economic inequality, and the control of the media, are treated in some detail, and proposals for some small steps in the right direction are put forward.  Philip Gulley, "The Evolution of Faith: How God Is Creating a Better Christianity" English | 2012 | ISBN: 0061689939, 0060736607 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.3 mb "Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " -Diana Butler Bass,author of Christianity for the Rest of Us  Andreas Schönle, "The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825: Public Role and Subjective Self " English | ISBN: 087580747X | 2016 | 420 pages | PDF | 53 MB This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview, complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their attitude to state service, the changing patterns of their family life, their emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time.
 The Essentials of Financial Modeling in Excel by Rees, Michael; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394157800 | 333 pages | True PDF EPUB | 68.02 MB  Professor Ian Peate OBE, "The Essential Guide to Becoming a Staff Nurse" English | ISBN: 1118812298 | 2016 | 208 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Written specifically for graduating students and newly registered nurses, this essential handbook will help you navigate the transition from student to registered practitioner. Providing you with the key knowledge to help consolidate your degree course, The Essential Guide to Becoming a Staff Nurse will enable you to become an autonomous and accountable practitioner.  S. Manikutty, "The Essence of Leadership" English | ISBN: 9384898023 | 2015 | 339 pages | EPUB | 870 KB Understanding leadership is really about understanding life, and this starts with gaining an understanding of the self. Traditional management approaches, based on 'scientific' analysis, cannot contribute much towards understanding leadership. This book shows how leadership can be better understood by reading and interpreting masterpieces of world literature, and relating them to leadership issues. The book starts with Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote, whose main character asserts, 'I know who I am', and believes in himself. This is followed by other works to highlight important issues: ambition and purpose in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, faith vs. reason in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo, awakening the human spirit in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, authenticity in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, and the old Sanskrit play Mudra Rakshasa by Visakhadatta, leaders and society in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the role of illusions in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, taking a stand in A Dolls' House, the epic Mahabharata for development of perspective, and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha for understanding the process of self-development and realisation of one's potential. Based on the experience of the authors teaching a course on leadership for the last 20 years at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this is an enlightening and illuminating read for both academicians and corporate leaders.
 Philip B. Thomason, "The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain: A Bibliography of Criticism and Documentation" English | ISBN: 1138884057 | 2015 | 210 pages | EPUB | 1083 KB Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain.  Khalid Ikram, "The Egyptian Economy, 1952-2000: Performance Policies and Issues " English | ISBN: 0415489954 | 2005 | 376 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Interviews with former Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers along with previously unpublished analysis by the World Bank, IMF and USAID provide entertaining and interesting insights into Egypt's economic development policy during 1952 to 2000. Areas addressed include: |
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