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 Spoiled by Mendelson, Anne; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231547706 | 413 pages | True PDF | 6.87 MB  Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World By Verlyn Flieger (editor) 2002 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0873387449 | PDF | 4 MB J.R.R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"", but it is in ""The Silmarillion"" that the true-depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. ""The Silmarillion"" was written before, during and after ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"". A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien's better known works and, in doing so, turns ""The Lord of the Rings"" into much more than a sequel to ""The Hobbit"", making it instead a continuation of the mythology of Middle-earth. Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition of ""Splintered Light"", a study of Tolkien's fiction first published in 1983, examines ""The Silmarillion"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"" in light of Owen Barfield's linguistic theory of the fragmentation of meaning. Flieger demonstrates Tolkien's use of Barfield's concept throughout his fiction, showing how his central image of primary light splintered and refracted acts as a metaphor for the languages, peoples and history of Middle-earth.  Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032318864, 1032318880 | 279 Pages | PDF (True) | 280 MB Cantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit. Speculative Coolness surveys and collects a highly experimental architecture/design praxis.
 Mike McGuire, "Spearfishing Manual: Insider Secrets of Spearfishing for Beginners to Die-Hard Spearos" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1545335060 | 98 pages | True EPUB | 1.4 MB Spearfishing is one of the most rewarding underwater sport activities today.  Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality By Yogesh Snehi 2019 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 1138057886 | PDF | 18 MB This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab. What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century? What was the fate of popular shrines that persisted even when the Muslim population was virtually wiped off as a result of migration during Partition? How did these shrines manifest in the context of thethreat posed by militants in the 1980s? How did such popular practices reconfigure themselves when some important centres of Sufism were left behind in the West Punjab (now Pakistan)? This book examines several of these questions and utilizes a combination of analytical tools, new theoretical tropes and an ethnographic approach to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they are both historicized and spatialized. As such, it lays out some crucial contours of the method and practice of understanding popular sacred spaces (within India and elsewhere),bridging the everyday and the metanarratives of power structures and state formation. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers and those engaged in interdisciplinary work in history, social anthropology, historical sociology, cultural studies, historical geography, religionand art history, as well as those interested in Sufism and its shrines in South Asia.  Soviet Women - Everyday Lives By Melanie Ilic 2020 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0367352311 | PDF | 3 MB Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women's accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women's everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. Including testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures and from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the regime and dissidents, the book considers women's daily routines, attitudes and behaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian society, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was the 'reach' of the Soviet regime; how 'modern' was it; how far were there continuities after 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia's imperial past; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society?
 Song of the Forest: Russian Forestry and Stalinist Environmentalism, 1905-1953 By Stephen Brain 2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0822961652 | PDF | 2 MB The Soviets are often viewed as insatiable industrialists who saw nature as a force to be tamed and exploited. Song of the Forest counters this assumption, uncovering significant evidence of Soviet conservation efforts in forestry, particularly under Josef Stalin. In his compelling study, Stephen Brain profiles the leading Soviet-era conservationists, agencies, and administrators, and their efforts to formulate forest policy despite powerful ideological differences. By the time of the revolution of 1905, modern Russian forestry science had developed an influential romantic strand, especially prevalent in the work of Georgii Morozov, whose theory of "stand types" asked forest managers to consider native species and local conditions when devising plans for regenerating forests. After their rise to power, the Bolsheviks turned their backs on this tradition and adopted German methods, then considered the most advanced in the world, for clear-cutting and replanting of marketable tree types in "artificial forests." Later, when Stalin's Five Year Plan required vast amounts of timber for industrialization, forest radicals proposed "flying management," an exaggerated version of German forestry where large tracts of virgin forest would be clear-cut. Opponents who still upheld Morozov's vision favored a conservative regenerating approach, and ultimately triumphed by establishing the world's largest forest preserve. Another radical turn came with the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, implemented in 1948. Narrow "belts" of new forest planted on the vast Russian steppe would block drying winds, provide cool temperatures, trap moisture, and increase crop production. Unfortunately, planters were ordered to follow the misguided methods of the notorious Trofim Lysenko, and the resulting yields were abysmal. But despite Lysenko, agency infighting, and an indifferent peasant workforce, Stalin's forestry bureaus eventually succeeded in winning many environmental concessions from industrial interests. In addition, the visionary teachings of Morozov found new life, ensuring that the forest's song did not fall upon deaf ears.  Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2022 Collocated Workshops : AI4EA, F-IDE, CoSim-CPS, CIFMA, Berlin, Germany, September 26-30, 2022, Revised Selected Papers by Paolo Masci, Cinzia Bernardeschi English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031262352 | 424 Pages | True ePUB | 44 MB  Social Science and Social Policy By Martin Bulmer (editor) 2021 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 1032159146 | PDF | 47 MB First published in 1986, Social Science and Social Policy addresses major questions concerned with the social utility of social science. The book is divided into four parts. The first part considers the place of social science in the policy-making process and criticizes the rational model which gives a central place to analysis. In part two, five different methodologies for policy research are considered: the use of continuous surveys, public opinion polls, social indicators, evaluation research and social experimentations and the use of qualitative methods. The advantages and drawbacks of each are considered with extensive use of examples. In the third part, the role of theory is examined. Particular attention is paid to the issue of health inequality. In part four, general questions are raised about the use and abuse of social science, including questions about how it can be most effectively disseminated to make maximum impact. The book is aimed at a general readership and requires no special methodological expertise. It will appeal particularly to undergraduates and graduate students taking courses in social policy, public policy applied sociology and a range of applied social sciences such as criminology, health studies, education and social work.  Smart Parenting: A Modern Guide to the Modern Teen by C.K. Murray English | July 8, 2018 | ISBN: 1722488808 | 76 pages | EPUB | 0.15 Mb We live in hectic times. Our kids especially. Today more than ever, thanks to a million and one technologies, attention spans are shorter, expectations are higher, and our developing teens are exposed to more sheer stimuli than ever before. Simply put, modern life is wild.And now you, the parent, have to tame it. For you, and for the ones that matter most. |
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