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 How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1634312341 | True EPUB | 424 pages | 1.1 MB Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today's left, he's remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout-a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism after the September 11 attacks.  How Empire Shaped Us edited by Dane Kennedy, Antoinette Burton English | January 28, 2016 | ISBN: 1474222986, 1474222978 | True EPUB/PDF | 232 pages | 1.9/1.6 MB Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as the history of empires. While historians have approached this subject in very different ways, their shared preoccupation with the British imperial experience-its institutions, ideas and impact on peoples around the world-has endured and given rise to a rich, varied, and influential body of historical scholarship. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured as an active area of inquiry even as the empire it studies slips further into the past?  How Covid Crashed the System : A Guide to Fixing American Health Care by David B. Nash, Charles Wohlforth English | 2022 | ISBN: 1538164256 | 373 Pages | True PDF | 1.97 MB  Michael Zarnock, "Hot Wheels Accessories: The Ultimate Guide" English | ISBN: 0873415418 | 2005 | 240 pages | EPUB | 14 MB "With one Hot Wheels sold every six seconds, these childhood favorites remain a hot ticket collectible, and a resource devoted to Hot Wheels accessories is a must-have for any fan of these sleek and speedy roadsters.  Brian Haughton, "History's Mysteries: People, Places and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time" English | ISBN: 1601631073 | 2010 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB History's Mysteries is an absorbing and meticulously researched exploration of the archaeology, history, and mysteries of 35 ancient places worldwide.  Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research Volume 38 by Laura W. Perna English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 695 Pages | ISBN : 3031066952 | 15.5 MB Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on current important issues pertaining to college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and other key aspects of higher education administration. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
 High-Quality Illumination of Virtual Objects Based on an Environment Estimation in Mixed Reality Applications By Tobias Schwandt 2021 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 3658351918 | EPUB | 29 MB Visualizations of virtual objects in the real environment is often done by a simplified representation with simple surfaces and without reference to the surrounding environment. The seamless fusion of the virtual and real environment is, however, an essential factor in many areas, which is of particular importance when calculating lighting in mixed realities on mobile devices. Current approaches focus on approximations, which allow the calculation of diffuse lighting, whereby the rendering of glossy reflection properties is often neglected. The aim of this book is to enable the visualization of mirror-like reflective surfaces in mixed reality. In order to achieve this goal, various approaches are explored enabling high-quality visualization of virtual objects in realtime with a focus on the use of common hardware such as cameras, sensors in mobile devices, and partially depth sensors. Complete ambient lighting can be estimated, which enables detailed reflections. The results provide a novel way to embed complex and simple geometric shapes with glossy surfaces in the real world which offers a higher level of detail in the reflections without using additional hardware.  Herbal: The Essential Guide to Herbs for Living by Deni Brown English | January 1, 2010 | ISBN: 186205892X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 69.8 MB Produced in association with the Chelsea Physic GardenSuperbly illustrated with photographs from the author's own herb garden, Chelsea Physic Garden and travels worldwide as well as plates from ancient herbalsAn authoritative but accessible text designed to appeal to experts and novices
 Buzhou Tang, "Health Information Processing: 8th China Conference, CHIP 2022, Hangzhou, China, October 21-23, 2022, Revised Selected P" English | ISBN: 9811998647 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 15 MB This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on China Health Information Processing Conference 2022 held in Hangzhou, China from August 26-28, 2022.  Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic By Sarah Gilbreath Ford 2020 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1496829697 | PDF | 3 MB At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation's history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery's perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession. |
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