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 Free Download Artificial Intelligence: A Blessing or A Curse English | 2025 | ASIN : B0F7GKCDD3 | 107 Pages | EPUB | 0.3 MB In this thought-provoking and timely book, Hiba J. Alhasanat explores the dual nature of AI's impact on society. From job displacement and privacy loss to ethical dilemmas in warfare and the rise of autonomous machines, this book dives deep into one of the most critical challenges of our era.  Free Download Arterial Treatment of Neurological Diseases: Current Status and Future Directions English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031801725 | 1329 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 121 MB Drug delivery by injecting them through arteries poses unique challenges. The first attempts to treat malignant brain tumors by arterial injections were undertaken soon after World War II. Yet, the applications of arterial delivery in treating neurological diseases have not advanced significantly over the last seventy years. Although arterial drug delivery is used to treat several neurological conditions, its applications, other than for localization of brain functions, remain experimental and are unproven in robust scientific studies. Over the last two decades, interventional radiology has significantly advanced by developing catheter-based devices, but arterial drug development has largely been ignored. This book makes the case for arterial drug development. Unless drugs are developed explicitly for arterial injections, the vast potential of arterial treatments of neurological diseases will remain untapped.  Free Download Marina Aksenova, "Art, Aesthetics and International Justice" English | ISBN: 1032605898 | 2025 | 190 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book demonstrates that art is implicit in the process of administration of international justice. The diverse nature of recent global threats as well as an overwhelming pull towards isolationism and nationalism challenge the dominant deterrence paradigm of international governance created in the aftermath of the Second World War. An alternative model is to focus on cooperation, and not deterrence, as a guiding operational principle.  Free Download Marina Aksenova, "Art, Aesthetics and International Justice" English | ISBN: 1032605898 | 2025 | 190 pages | EPUB | 994 KB This book demonstrates that art is implicit in the process of administration of international justice. The diverse nature of recent global threats as well as an overwhelming pull towards isolationism and nationalism challenge the dominant deterrence paradigm of international governance created in the aftermath of the Second World War. An alternative model is to focus on cooperation, and not deterrence, as a guiding operational principle.  Free Download Grace McQuilten, "Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art " English | ISBN: 1784534102 | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 21 MB Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity. However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of artists, and indeed the entanglement of art with enterprise generates significant aesthetic, conceptual, philosophical and ethical challenges for contemporary art practice. Social enterprise has emerged from this complex terrain with the promise of an alternative model of economic organisation in the arts. Grace McQuilten and Anthony White argue that artists can, and have, engaged critically in the commercial market, by way of this model. Art as Enterprise brings a fresh perspective to the debate about the roles of contemporary art in consumer capitalist society.  Free Download Zeena Feldman, "Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between " English | ISBN: 1780769067 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 19 MB How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions these dynamics, asking how the dissemination of visual culture on a global scale affects art and its institutions. Taking Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong's practice as a point of departure, this volume focuses on how politically charged images produced in contemporary art, cinema, literature, news media and fashion become widely consumed or marginalised. Through case studies of artists including Titus Kaphar, Sara Maple, Shirin Neshat, J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Walker and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the book illuminates the relationship between visibility, politics and identity in contemporary visual culture.  Free Download Imogen Racz, "Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday " English | ISBN: 1780762003 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 26 MB Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. Like the personal, social, and cultural elements out of which they are constructed, homes can be not only comforting, but threatening too. The home is a rich theme running through post-war western art, and it continues to engage contemporary artists today - yet it has been the subject of relatively little critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday is the first single-authored, up-to-date book on the subject. Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts  Free Download Lizelle Bisschoff, "Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film " English | ISBN: 184885692X | 2012 | 360 pages | PDF | 19 MB The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well known are their artistic representations. A number of recent films, novels and other art forms have sought to engage with and overcome postcolonial atrocities and to explore the attempts of reconciliation commissions towards peace, justice and forgiveness. This creativity reflects the memories and social identities of the artists, whilst offering a mirror to African and worldwide audiences coming to terms with a collective memory that is often traumatic in itself. The seeming paradox between creative representation and the reality of horrific events such as genocide presents challenges for the relationship between ethics, poetics and politics. In Art and Trauma in Africa, Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer bring together multiple ways of analyzing the ethical responsibility at the heart of an artist's decision to tackle such controversial and painful subjects. Also, to study trauma, conflict and reconciliation through art in a pan-African context offers new perspectives on a continent that is often misrepresented by the Western media.  Free Download Maria Walsh, "Art and Psychoanalysis " English | ISBN: 1848857985 | 2013 | 168 pages | PDF | 12 MB Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. Art and Psychoanalysis investigates these encounters. The shared relationship to the unconscious, severed from Romantic inspiration by Freud, is traced from the Surrealist engagement with psychoanalytic imagery to the contemporary critic's use of psychoanalytic concepts as tools to understand how meaning operates. Following the theme of the 'object' with its varying materiality, Walsh develops her argument that psychoanalysis, like art, is a cultural discourse about the mind in which the authority of discourse itself can be undermined, provoking ambiguity and uncertainty and destabilising identity. The dynamics of the dream-work, Freud's 'familiar unfamiliar', fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois, including 1980s postmodernists such as Cindy Sherman, the performance art of Marina Abramovic' and post-minimalist sculpture.  Free Download Arnold Schwarzenegger: Il corpo del campione, la mente dello stratega Italiano | 2025 | ASIN: B0F5JKHVZ8 | 196 Pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB Per tutta la mia vita, mi sono sempre aggrappato a una frase semplice, che porto come un mantra: "Ignora coloro che dicono che non puoi". Il mondo è pieno di esperti nel dire "non posso". Cercheranno di convincerti che i tuoi sogni sono esagerati, che non sei nato nel posto giusto, che non hai il talento giusto, che è troppo tardi. Loro indicheranno ciò che manca. Ma la vera forza nasce quando si decide di mettere in evidenza ciò che si possiede. E credetemi, avete molto di più di quanto pensiate. |
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