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 Breaking Point by Stuart Minor English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPR4H996 | 270 pages | EPUB | 0.29 Mb August 1944.
 Brain-centric Design: The Surprising Neuroscience Behind Learning with Deep Understanding by Rich Carr, Kieran O'Mahony English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQX6M8SH | 272 pages | EPUB | 2.82 Mb Teach The Way People Love To Learn  Brain-Computer Interface: Using Deep Learning Applications English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119857759 | 413 pages | True EPUB | 30.54 MB BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACEIt covers all the research prospects and recent advancements in the brain-computer interface using deep learning.  Chase Joynt, "Boys Don't Cry " English | ISBN: 0228010829 | 2022 | 128 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen. Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically since 1999. Morgan Page and Chase Joynt approach the accumulated tension with a spirit of curiosity about the limits of these historical returns. They argue that new visibilities of transness on screen require us to re-engage earlier portrayals: Boys Don't Cry is central to conversations about casting, violence against gender non-conforming people, and the borders between butch and trans identities. Acknowledging a younger generation of queer and trans people who are straining against the images foisted upon them, including this film's egregious violence, and an older cohort for whom it remains a formative, if complicated, touchstone, Joynt and Page revisit the original contexts of production and distribution to unsettle the overdetermined ways the work has been understood and interpreted. Boys Don't Cry ultimately relocates the film in a way that attends to the story's violence and values, both on and off screen.  Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century By Tera W. Hunter 2017 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0674045718 | PDF | 31 MB 2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History―Boston and NantucketA Vibe "5 Books on Slavery that Kanye West Needs to Read" SelectionA Huffington Post "Seven Notable New Books on Slavery" SelectionAmericans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock. Though their unions were not legally recognized, slaves commonly married, fully aware that their marital bonds would be sustained or nullified according to the whims of white masters.Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera W. Hunter reveals the myriad ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage. Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.After emancipation, white racism continued to menace black marriages. Laws passed during Reconstruction, ostensibly to secure the civil rights of newly freed African American citizens, were often coercive and repressive. Informal antebellum traditions of marriage were criminalized, and the new legal regime became a convenient tool for plantation owners to discipline agricultural workers. Recognition of the right of African Americans to enter into wedlock on terms equal to whites would remain a struggle into the Jim Crow era, and its legacy would resonate well into the twentieth century.  Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic by Thomas Noel English | September 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1493040936 | 264 pages | PDF (Converted) | 10 Mb Promises of gold brought the first waves of European-Americans to Colorado in the 1859s. They found riches and built cities that never should have lasted. Readers will discover the golden beginnings of towns like Leadville and Boulder and meet the early settlers and miners who brought them to life. The next promise was always right around the corner, and the optimistic pioneers who came west simply never gave up. Silver flooded the state with more riches and more people, until the bubble burst and Colorado faded from the forefront of the American dream. The state is booming again today, with a vibrant beer, marijuana and energy economy epitomizing the 21st century American dream. This is the history of Colorado through the lens of its uniquely mythic economy, from boom to boom and into the future.  Bodyweight Training Protocol: How Using Your Own Bodyweight Can Build and Keep the Amazing Body You've always Wanted by Amanda West English | 0216 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01MQIBIXQ | 51 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb Bodyweight Training Protocol: How Using Your Own Bodyweight Can Build and Keep the Amazing Body You've always Wanted
 Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 By Gillian McGillivray 2009 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0822345420 | PDF | 6 MB Sugar was Cuba's principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island's population depended on sugar production for its livelihood. In Blazing Cane, Gillian McGillivray examines the development of social classes linked to sugar production, and their contribution to the formation and transformation of the state, from the first Cuban Revolution for Independence in 1868 through the Cuban Revolution of 1959. She describes how cane burning became a powerful way for farmers, workers, and revolutionaries to commit sabotage, take control of the harvest season, improve working conditions, protest political repression, attack colonialism and imperialism, nationalize sugarmills, and, ultimately, acquire greater political and economic power.Focusing on sugar communities in eastern and central Cuba, McGillivray recounts how farmers and workers pushed the Cuban government to move from exclusive to inclusive politics and back again. The revolutionary caudillo networks that formed between 1895 and 1898, the farmer alliances that coalesced in the 1920s, and the working-class groups of the 1930s affected both day-to-day local politics and larger state-building efforts. Not limiting her analysis to the island, McGillivray shows that twentieth-century Cuban history reflected broader trends in the Western Hemisphere, from modernity to popular nationalism to Cold War repression.  Nicole Austen, "Black Magic " English | ISBN: 195171069X | 2022 | 196 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The once-powerful and proud Willow River pack is struggling. But when a special litter of pups is born, hope of a bright future returns. Mala, born different, will never be given a chance to prove that she can be anything other than the runt of the litter. Some say her differences may even put the pack at risk. Now, her parents worry how the rest of the pack will react. Will they mistreat her? Will they fear her? But Mala doesn't think she's a threat to anyone, least of all her own family. Before Mala can change the hearts and minds of her pack, she must find out once and for all exactly why she is so different. In her search for the truth, Mala discovers something surprising about her pack and herself. Could she be the one wolf who changes everything?  Black Cultural Mythology By Christel N. Temple 2020 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 1438477872 | PDF | 2 MB Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively surveys more than two hundred years of figures, moments, ideas, and canonical works by such visionaries as Maria Stewart, Richard Wright, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition. In so doing, she at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana cultural memory studies, while also staging a much broader intervention by challenging scholars across disciplines―from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and beyond―to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival. |
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