| |
|
|
 Piotr Guzowski, "Framing the Polish Family in the Past" English | ISBN: 0367673231 | 2021 | 350 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This volume shows how families in different contexts - noble, urban, legal, religious - and across different periods of history from the late Middle Ages to the modern era, shaped the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor states, pre-partitioned and post-partitioned Poland. Contributors draw on a diverse range of different sources including rural and urban court registers, church registers, and population surveys to examine the economic bases of families as well as marital and family conflicts. The sources and the applied research methods enable contributors to characterize families led not only by men but also by single women. New research methods employed include approaches to family structures drawn from sociology, such as life-cycle and life-course analysis, as well as anthropological methods to reconstruct kinship in communities. Spanning several centuries, and from the river Oder to the Black Sea, the Baltic, Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukrainian borderlands, this volume is a major contribution to the historiography on East Central Europe, a region still too often omitted from histories of Europe.  Sophie Fuggle, "Framing the Penal Colony: Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation " English | ISBN: 3031193954 | 2023 | 351 pages | PDF | 7 MB This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the 'penal colony' as a widespread phenomenon is as much 'imagined' and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on the range of 'media' produced in and around penal colonies both during their operation and following their closures. This approach emphasizes the role of cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to examining the history and legacy of convict transportation, prison islands and other sites of exile. It develops a range of methodological tools for engaging with cultures and representations of incarceration, detention and transportation. The chapters draw on media discourse analysis, critical cartography, museum and heritage studies, ethnography, architectural history, visual culture including film and comics studies and gaming studies. It aims to disrupt the idea of adopting linear histories or isolated geographies in order to understand the impact and legacy of penal colonies. The overall claim made by the collection is that understanding the cultural production associated with this global phenomenon is a necessary part of a wider examination of carceral imaginaries or 'penal spectatorship' (Brown, 2009) past, present and future. It brings together historiography, criminology, media and cultural studies.  Four Laws That Drive the Universe (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Atkins English | September 6th, 2007 | ISBN: 0199232369 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 2.40 MB The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal, and from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself - everything is directed and constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature and heat, and reveal the arrow of time and even the nature of energy itself. Peter Atkins' powerful and compelling introduction explains what the laws are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics.  Meylan, "Foundations of an Ethics of Belief " English | ISBN: 3110327449 | 2013 | 218 pages | PDF | 911 KB In the course of our daily lives we make lots of evaluations of actions. We think that driving above the speed limit is dangerous, that giving up one s bus seat to the elderly is polite, that stirring eggs with a plastic spoon is neither good nor bad. We understand too that we may be praised or blamed for actions performed on the basis of these evaluations. The same is true in the case of certain beliefs. Sometimes we blame people for what they believe falsely or irrationally. On occasion, we praise them for their intellectual discoveries. The goal of the present study is to describe the foundations which allow for these kinds of judgments. If you think that people are not always forgivable for what they believe, you will find in this book the resources to defend this thought.  Neil R. Carlson, "Foundations of Physiological Psychology, 6th Edition" English | 2004 | ISBN: 0205429114 | 592 pages | PDF (scan) | 464 MB This text offers an introduction to the foundations of physiology that incorporates new research, illustrative examples, case studies, and a CD-ROM. This text incorporates the latest studies and research in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology. The text also uses many human examples to help make the material interesting and relevant to student readers.  Yiu-Wai Chu, "Found in Transition: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China " English | ISBN: 1438471688 | 2019 | 308 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.  Forex Trading: Beginners' Guide to the Best Swing and Day Trading Strategies, Tools, Tactics, and Psychology to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities on Currencies Pairs by David Reese English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08W2NG1TB | 106 pages | EPUB | 0.18 Mb Are you searching for a reliable source of passive income to supplement your salary? Would you like to gain financial freedom and eventually quit your day job? Are you new to investing and looking for expert guidance to help you enhance your skills?  Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective: Second Edition by Edited by Dragan Primorac and Moses S. Schanfield English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367030268 | 533 pages | True PDF | 30.49 MB  For the Glory of Rome: A History of Warriors and Warfare by Ross Cowan English | June 1, 2007 | ISBN: 1853677337, 1473898765 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 6.8/66.5 MB Ancient Rome was uniquely bellicose. Her legions marched out to war every year and the fury of legionaries in combat was terrible. Officers and common soldiers gloried in single combat, taking heads and despoiling their enemies. Long before the Vikings emerged, Roman warriors were discarding their armor to fight berserk and bare-chested in battle, going so far as to maul opponents with their bare teeth and sometimes even drinking their blood. Generals would occasionally perform the act of devotio - sacrificing themselves to the gods of the Underworld - to secure victory. Yet these same warriors read philosophy, wrote history and recited poetry. Singing, too, was popular - in battle as much as elsewhere. At Pharsalus in 48 BC, where Julius Caesar routed his rival Pompey the Great, his more psychotic legionaries sang gleefully as they killed. Regimental anthems were popular, but at Pharsalus lyrical pronouncements on the parentage of your opponent, virtue of his mother, and reputation of his city were most prominent.  Jerrett Holloway, "Football A Beginner's Guide: Learn the Basics to Watch and Enjoy the Game" English | ISBN: 1638076782 | 2022 | 138 pages | EPUB | 19 MB Follow football like a superfan |
:
