|
|
|
 Free Download Michael Theune, "We Need to Talk: A New Method for Evaluating Poetry (New Writing Viewpoints, 16) " English | ISBN: 1783098856 | 2017 | 160 pages | PDF | 755 KB We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which anyone involved in the assessment of poetry can be more transparent about how they value verse. This book foregrounds the ethical and professional obligations of poets, teachers and critics to conduct axiological inquiry so they can discover and publish what they value. We Need to Talk suggests why and how people who care about poetry should communally explore and document their shared (and conflicting) values. This is the first book to provide the background and theory, as well as a practical, working model, for the communal, empirical evaluation of creative writing.  Free Download We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0691232601 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 0.9 MB How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status-without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged  Free Download Nam June Paik, "We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik " English | ISBN: 026203980X | 2019 | 464 pages | PDF | 68 MB Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.  Free Download We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me by Elliot Mintz English | October 22, 2024 | ISBN: 0593475550 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 20.7 MB A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon's life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best  Free Download Marijeta Bozovic, "Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River " English | ISBN: 1618114875 | 2016 | 414 pages | PDF | 6 MB From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe's second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide Europe from non-Europe, and facilitating the flow of economic and cultural forms of international exchange. Yet the river has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention, and what exists too often privileges single disciplinary or national perspectives. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to the river and its cultural imaginaries, the anthology Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River remedies this neglect and explores the river as a site of transcultural engagement in the New Europe.  Free Download Water Stories in the Anthropocene: Anglophone Climate-Change Fiction by Angelo Monaco English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032861320 | 200 Pages | True PDF | 5.31 MB  Free Download Water Soluble Vitamins: Clinical Research and Future Application By Hamid M. Said (auth.), Olaf Stanger (eds.) 2012 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 9400721986 | PDF | 6 MB The discovery of vitamins in the early 1900s, their later chemical characterization and the clarification of pivotal metabolic functions are sequential aspects of a brilliant chapter in the history of modern nutritional sciences and medicine. The name, derived from "vital-amines", indicates their elementary metabolic key functions in human metabolism. Vitamins are truly families of compounds, which include precursors and various free and bound forms, all with individual roles in metabolism and function. A more recent approach therefore searches for the components, the understanding of their roles in physiology and pathology as well as looking for novel pharmacological applications. When used properly, vitamins are, indeed, "magical" substances. Due to their efficacy, they should therefore be regarded as drugs with effects and side effects to be weighted against each other. Today, it is not the previously fatal deficiency-associated diseases that are in the focus of interest, but rather the relation of suboptimal vitamin bioavailability to chronic disease. This is complicated by genetic susceptibility, lifestyle, and the presence or absence of health-compromising habits, such as smoking. In turn, the development and application of new and more sensitive and specific assays further enable us to look more closely into the many functions of vitamins. Water soluble vitamins are complex molecular structures and even today, many areas in vitamin biochemistry are not yet fully understood. Novel effects and functions of vitamins remain and continue to be discovered. This book presents most recent research results and fascinating new knowledge on the role and effects of the water soluble vitamins in man. Some of the most distinguished chemists, biochemists, biologists and clinicians have contributed valuable chapters sharing unexpected novel insights into the biochemistry, (epi)genetics, metabolism, and function of water soluble vitamins, with their potential for clinical applications. Thus, physicians, clinicians, scientists, researchers, epidemiologists. nutritional specialists and health professionals alike will find stimulating and fascinating new insight in the many roles that water soluble vitamins play in human health and disease.  Free Download Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations By Yoshinori Yasuda (auth.), Yoshinori Yasuda (eds.) 2013 | 477 Pages | ISBN: 4431541101 | PDF | 24 MB Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations comprises three major topics: 1) Discovery of the origin of rice agriculture and the Yangtze River civilization in southern China was mainly based on investigation of the Chengtoushan archaeological site, the earliest urban settlement in East Asia. The origin of rice cultivation can be traced back to 10000 BC, with urban settlement starting at about 6000 BP; 2) The Yangtze River civilization collapsed around 4200 BP. Palaeoenvironmental studies including analyses of annually laminated sediments in East and Southeast Asia indicate a close relationship between climate change and the rise and fall of the rice-cultivating and fishing civilization; and 3) Migrations from southern China to Southeast Asia occurred after about 4200 BP. Archaeological investigation of the Phum Snay site in Cambodia, including analyses of DNA and human skeletal remains, reveals a close relationship to southern China, indicating the migration of people from southern China to Southeast Asia. This publication is an important contribution to understanding the environmental history of China and Cambodia in relation to the rise and fall of the rice-cultivating and fishing civilization, which we call water civilization.
 Free Download Francesco Salvestrini, "Water and the Law: Water Management in the Statutory Legislation of Later Communal Italy (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies," English | ISBN: 180327736X | 2024 | 178 pages | PDF | 9 MB Water and the Law investigates water resource law in the statutory legislation codified by commune, oligarchic and seigneurial governments of cities and smaller municipalities in Northern and Central Italy from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries. It aims to shed light on the relationship between water management norms and the local environment, that is how urban governments planned the use and distribution of water, and the protection of inhabited areas from the danger of flooding. Through a careful analysis of just two hundred statutory regulations that deal with water resources, the text compares the solutions adopted in Northern Italy, presenting a relatively large water supply and a dense network of tributaries of the river Po, with the situation in central areas of the peninsula (including Rome), where smaller watercourses with torrential characteristics - such as the Arno and the Tiber - interact with important cities and manufacturing centres like Florence. From this point of view, the book highlights the existence of a border between Continental Italy (north of the Tuscan-Emilian and Tuscany-Romagna Apennines) and the Peninsular Italy (south of it). In fact, when it came to building the necessary infrastructure for the supply of water and its distribution for irrigation purposes, municipal authorities in the Po area made provision for private-sector initiatives, whereas in the central regions of the country, such initiatives were largely the result of public works and projects pursued by the Popular governments at the helm of numerous cities. Lastly, the text relativises the awareness of legislators concerning the health and hygiene risks associated with the use and improper disposal of polluted and infected water, preferring to speak about a normative defence of the semantically broader category of decorum.  Free Download Wasserstoff in der Fahrzeugtechnik: Erzeugung, Speicherung, Anwendung By Helmut Eichlseder, Manfred Klell (auth.) 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 3834810274 | PDF | 91 MB „Wasserstoff in der Fahrzeugtechnik" bietet einen allgemeinen Überblick über die verschiedenen Aspekte von Eigenschaften, Erzeugung, Speicherung und Anwendung von Wasserstoff. Schwerpunkte liegen auf der Thermodynamik der Speicherung von Wasserstoff sowie auf der Anwendung in der Fahrzeugtechnik und in der Energietechnik. Mit Bezug zu Forschungsvorhaben an der TU Graz und dem HyCentA wird der aktuelle Stand der Technik fundiert dargestellt. Als eigener Abschnitt wurde in dieser Auflage die Brennstoffzelle zur Stromerzeugung für Elektroantriebe ergänzt. Ein Verfahren zur Wasserstoffproduktion durch Pyrolyse aus Glycerin wurde neu aufgenommen. Ergänzt wurden Abschnitte über aktuelle Anwendungen, über Verbrennungsmotoren für Gemische aus Wasserstoff und Methan, über Werkstoffe sowie Fragen von Wirkungsgrad und CO2-Emissionen.Der InhaltEnergie und Umwelt - Geschichtliches - Grundlagen - Erzeugung - Speicherung und Transport- Thermodynamik der flüssigen Wasserstoffspeicherung - Wasserstoffverbrennungsmotor - Gemische aus Wasserstoff und Methan - Brennstoffzellen - Weitere Anwendungen - Werkstoffe, Recht und SicherheitDie ZielgruppenStudierende und Professoren an Universitäten und FachhochschulenPraktikerSchüler an BerufsschulenDie AutorenUniv. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Helmut Eichlseder ist Professor für Verbrennungsmaschinen und Vorstand des Instituts für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Thermodynamik an der TU Graz.Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Manfred Klell ist Geschäftsführer der HyCentA Research GmbH, des österreichischen Forschungszentrums für Wasserstoff. |
: 