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 Jennifer Gaynor, "That (Expletive) Broad: Women Who Broke Barriers in the Casino and Gaming Industry" English | ISBN: 1641379391 | 2020 | 154 pages | EPUB | 423 KB It might surprise you to learn that women have actually played a major role in the gambling industry from its earliest days-as gamblers, dealers, and even gaming establishment owners. In fact, some of Las Vegas' first and most historic casinos were owned and run by women. Just how did each rise to the top in the "man's world" of casinos and gaming?That (Expletive) Broad: Women Who Broke Barriers in the Casino and Gaming Industry is an exploration of the journeys of some of the amazing women who have defied the odds and pushed the boundaries to make their mark in the world of gaming. These inspiring women ("Broads") provide a unique perspective into the history of Las Vegas and the casino and gaming industry. This book is a must for readers who would like to be inspired by true stories of women who have broken barriers, even when their presence as women was not always welcome. Each and every one of these women were (or are), in their own way, That (Expletive) Broad!  Patricia G. Lange, "Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube" English | ISBN: 1607329476 | 2019 | 362 pages | EPUB | 1263 KB YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology-participant-observation, reciprocity, and community-apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange's book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures.
 Rodanthi Tzanelli, "Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism " English | ISBN: 0367877589 | 2019 | 200 pages | EPUB | 788 KB In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on their economy's tourist sector. Indeed, there is fear that that 'the end of tourism' might be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet, in designing relevant policies to tackle this, arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration.
 Paul Statham, "Thai-Western Mobilities and Migration: Intimacy within Cross-Border Connections " English | ISBN: 1032037415 | 2021 | 156 pages | EPUB | 908 KB The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between 'ordinary' people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and 'the West'. While Thai and Western people's social relationships are usually studied as personal stories within a cross-border marriage migration perspective, this book considers it necessary to see them as more than marriage migration.  Orlo H Clark, "Textbook of Endocrine Surgery" English | 2016 | pages: 1365 | ISBN: 9351528065 | PDF | 165,4 mb Textbook of Endocrine Surgery, Third Edition, is the latest edition of this highly illustrated, comprehensive guide. Edited by professors from the University of California, San Francisco, this authoritative textbook covers surgical procedures for a broad range of endocrine conditions. Comprised of four sections, divided into 81 chapters, this book examines disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, as well as neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. All chapters have been extensively revised and updated, and many new chapters have been added to this edition to reflect recent advances in the field. This book provides up to date information on aetiology, embryology, anatomy, clinical manifestations, diagnostic and localisation procedures, surgical and other treatment modalities for endocrine disorders. Enhanced by 550 full colour images and illustrations, Textbook of Endocrine Surgery is an invaluable resource for surgeons and endocrinologists. Key Points New edition of this richly illustrated, comprehensive guide to endocrine surgery Previous edition published 2005 (9780721601397) Editorial team from the University of California, San Francisco 550 full colour images and illustrations  Leanne McRae, "Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era " English | ISBN: 1787565262 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 345 KB This book uses a series of narrowly defined case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism. It argues that these events enter into the accelerated media landscape as exemplars of contemporary terror because they re-code leisure spaces into spaces of and for harm. This re-coding is permissible due to the crises of the post-crash era which have seen a decline in work-as-harm due to the collapse of the structures of capitalism that support labour exchange. Instead, we have moved into an era where the corrosion of capitalism has enacted a series of violent exchanges between 'East' and 'West', employed and unemployed, consumers and terrorists, criminals and prosecutors, leisure and work. This book focuses on attacks on the Bataclan Theatre and Stade de France in Paris, the German Christmas Market van attack in Berlin, the Reina Nightclub shooting in Istanbul, the Stockholm lorry attack, the bombing of the Ariana Grande Concert in Manchester and knife attacks on London Bridge. In these case studies, terrorists target leisured spaces and create synergetic narratives of harm that are mobilised via the media to dialogue with the corrosions and violences of capitalism that percolate through the global landscape.
 Tensions of Social History by Stanziani, Alessandro; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350276820 | 249 pages | True PDF EPUB | 26.28 MB  Dr. Julie Reid, "Tell Our Story: Multiplying voices in the news media" English | ISBN: 1776145771 | 2020 | 234 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media  MJ Robinson, "Television on Demand: Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of TV" English | ISBN: 1441193987 | 2017 | 264 pages | EPUB | 334 KB Since 2010 "curation" has become a marketing buzzword. Wrenched from its traditional home in the world of high art, everything from food to bed linens to dog toys now finds itself subject to this formerly rarified activity. Most of the time the term curation is being inaccurately used to refer to the democratization of choice - an inevitable development and side effect of the economics of long tail distribution. However, as any true curator will tell you - curation is so much more than choosing - it relies upon human intelligence, agency, evaluation and carefully considered criteria - an accurate, if utopian definition of the much-abused and overused term.
 Boris Shishkov, "Telecommunications and Remote Sensing: 11th International Conference, ICTRS 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 21-22, 2022," English | ISBN: 3031232259 | 2022 | 109 pages | PDF | 16 MB This book contains the proceedings of ICTRS 2022 (the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing), held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 21-22 November 2022. ICTRS is an annual event that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in telecommunications, remote sensing, and their societal implications. |
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