Free Download Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970: 29 By Sumathi Ramaswamy 1997 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0520208048 | PDF | 13 MB Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic, "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these multiple imaginings to their experience of colonial and post-colonial modernity. Focusing in particular on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother, and maiden, Ramaswamy explores the pious, filial, and erotic aspects of Tamil devotion. She considers why, as its speakers sought political and social empowerment, metaphors of motherhood eventually came to dominate representations of the language. Free Download Robert Tittler, "Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England " English | ISBN: 1783276630 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 11 MB A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and worked Free Download Optimizing Pharmacotherapy in Older Patients: An Interdisciplinary Approach English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031280601 | 857 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB This book summarizes the broad and rapidly evolving field of geriatric pharmacotherapy, which is becoming increasingly relevant for practicing physicians who care and prescribe medications for older patients. Around the globe, ageing populations are associated with an increased prevalence of chronic diseases. Older adults are often affected by multimorbidity, i.e., suffer from more than one chronic disease. The main consequence of multimorbidity is polypharmacy, which is commonly defined as the regular use of five or more medicines. Polypharmacy has now reached epidemic proportions in our societies, and is associated with an increased risk of drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions and adverse drug reactions. The management of polypharmacy in older patients with complex multimorbidity poses several challenges and needs to be based on specific knowledge and prescribing expertise.
Free Download Michael Bazzell, "Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information" English | 2018 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 1984201573 | PDF | 63,0 mb Completely Rewritten Sixth Edition Sheds New Light on Open Source Intelligence Collection and AnalysisAuthor Michael Bazzell has been well known in government circles for his ability to locate personal information about any target through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In this book, he shares his methods in great detail. Each step of his process is explained throughout twenty-five chapters of specialized websites, software solutions, and creative search techniques. Over 250 resources are identified with narrative tutorials and screen captures. This book will serve as a reference guide for anyone that is responsible for the collection of online content. It is written in a hands-on style that encourages the reader to execute the tutorials as they go. The search techniques offered will inspire analysts to "think outside the box" when scouring the internet for personal information. Much of the content of this book has never been discussed in any publication. Always thinking like a hacker, the author has identified new ways to use various technologies for an unintended purpose. This book will greatly improve anyone's online investigative skills. Among other techniques, you will learn how to locate:Hidden Social Network ContentCell Phone Subscriber InformationDeleted Websites & PostsMissing Facebook Profile DataFull Twitter Account DataAlias Social Network ProfilesFree Investigative SoftwareUseful Browser ExtensionsAlternative Search Engine ResultsWebsite Owner InformationPhoto GPS & MetadataLive Streaming Social ContentSocial Content by LocationIP Addresses of UsersAdditional User AccountsSensitive Documents & PhotosPrivate Email AddressesDuplicate Video PostsMobile App Network DataUnlisted Addresses & #sPublic Government RecordsDocument MetadataRental Vehicle ContractsOnline Criminal ActivityPersonal Radio CommunicationsCompromised Email InformationAutomated Collection SolutionsLinux Investigative ProgramsDark Web Content (Tor)Restricted YouTube ContentHidden Website DetailsVehicle Registration Details Free Download One Medicine: How Understanding Animals Can Save Our Lives by Matt Morgan English | 2 Mar. 2023 | ISBN: 1471173070, 1471173089 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.8 MB It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to himself. This began an investigation that spanned continents, species and millennia.
Free Download On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing By James V. Schall 2001 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 1882926633 | EPUB | 1 MB To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are "unserious." But this fundamental truth is exactly what James Schall, following Plato, has to teach us in this wise and witty book. Schall cites Charlie Brown, Aristotle, and Samuel Johnson with the same sobriety-the sobriety that sees the truth in what is delightful and even amusing. Schall contends that singing, dancing, playing, contemplating, and other "useless" human activities are not merely forms of escape from more important things-politics, work, social activism, etc.-but an indication of the freedom in and for which men and women were created.Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian concerns. Though he does not deny the importance of those necessary and prosaic activities that take up the bulk of our daily lives, Schall puts these pursuits in perspective by asking, what do we do when everything we have to do is done? Defending the importance of simply wasting time, losing ourselves in play, and Chesterton's claim that "a thing worth doing is worth doing badly," Schall contends that the joy that accompanies leisure, festivity, and conviviality gives us a glimpse of the eternal. Such activities also enable us to get beyond ourselves - indeed call us beyond ourselves - and are therefore essential if we are to rightly order our worldly concerns. For as Schall reminds us, neither man nor his projects are the highest things in the universe, and it is only by understanding this fact that man can attain to his true dignity. Citing Aristotle, Samuel Johnson, Charlie Brown, and New Yorker cartoons with equal sobriety, Schall unfolds a defense of both Being and being, of the radi
Free Download L. M. Palmer, "On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language" English | 1988 | ISBN: 0801495113, 0801412803 | PDF | pages: 220 | 10.8 mb On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge. This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and 1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics. Free Download On Web typography By Jason Santa Maria; Ellen Lupton 2014 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1937557073 | PDF | 12 MB Achieving a thorough grasp of typography can take a lifetime, but moving beyond the basics is within your reach right now. In this book, we'll learn how to look at typefaces with a discerning eye, different approaches to typographic planning, how typography impacts the act of reading, and how to choose and combine appropriate typefaces from an aesthetic and technical point of view. Through an understanding of our design tools and how they relate to the web as a medium, we can empower ourselves to use type in meaningful and powerful ways.This book will be released Summer 2012. Free Download On Civilizing Capitalism English | 2023 | ISBN: 303129680X | 356 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB This book shows how modern political, economic and moral theory, including our ideas of liberty and individualism, are trapped in 17th century notions of intuitive reasoning and not informed by modern scientific understanding. Brian Ellis starts with a re-appraisal of the founding of the United Nations and the political and economic policies of the post-war reconstruction period. He then shows how this period, despite its many faults, embodied a philosophy more closely embedded in scientific realism than dominant theories of either left or right today. He goes on to develop this philosophy, meticulously, demolishing theories of Rawls, Nozick and others along the way. The result is a philosophy that investigates how a society actually works, supports evidence-based economics and can better enable human beings to flourish. It is a philosophy that can also accommodate the historical differences between societies and their different, but parallel, development strategies over time. Free Download Observations and Dynamics of Circulations in the North Indian Ocean English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811958637 | 523 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB The book is the first to focus on the physical oceanography of the North Indian Ocean (NIO), a special region of the global ocean that exhibits a distinct seasonality due to the impact of the South Asian Monsoon (SAM). It is written as a textbook about the NIO for graduate students, lecturers, and researchers in physical oceanography. It will also be useful for courses on the interior, coastal, and equatorial dynamics in any other ocean. It helps readers, particularly new entrants to the field, to gain a comprehensive understanding of tropical-ocean dynamics by: developing from first principles the equation set for the linear continuously stratified (LCS) model, which has long been used to study tropical oceans; and then obtaining solutions that explore different aspects of the dynamics. |