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 Nitin Sinha, "Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time: Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time " English | ISBN: 3111696499 | 2025 | 129 pages | EPUB | 2 MB From the viewpoint of social history, is time itself a plural entity or are there multiple forms of engagement in and with it? Pivoted around this question, Sinha attempts to rethink the current theory and practice of history writing by pointing the pitfalls of the growing fetishisation of plurality and the 'plural time' framework. Engaging a range of studies in History, Anthropology, and Sociology, Sinha provides a critical assessment of some of the leading frameworks on time studies, questions their foundational premises, highlights their limitations, and proposes an alternative framework that is attuned to privileging the approach of social history. The purposes of the latter, the book argues, is best served when time's irreversible character is not diluted under the weight of plurality. Plurality in time is an outcome of practices and their historicisation; plurality  Wendy Doniger, "Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics " English | ISBN: 030021619X | 2018 | 248 pages | MOBI | 465 KB An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance  Debra Javeline, "After Violence: Russia's Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed" English | ISBN: 0197683347 | 2023 | 600 pages | MOBI | 13 MB A novel analysis of the aftermath of the most appalling terrorist act in Russian history, the seizure of a school and the violent deaths of hundreds of hostages, and insights into why it triggered unprecedented peaceful political activism instead of the widely predicted retaliatory ethnic violence.  Debra Javeline, "After Violence: Russia's Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed" English | ISBN: 0197683347 | 2023 | 600 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB A novel analysis of the aftermath of the most appalling terrorist act in Russian history, the seizure of a school and the violent deaths of hundreds of hostages, and insights into why it triggered unprecedented peaceful political activism instead of the widely predicted retaliatory ethnic violence.  Amanda C. Demmer, "After Saigon's Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000" English | ISBN: 1108488382 | 2021 | 288 pages | MOBI | 1 MB Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US-Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.  Dominika Ciesielska, "Affect in Fandom " English | ISBN: 9463725660 | 2025 | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis and design costumes. This international collection offers a diverse exploration of contemporary fan practices through different cases, such as Yuri!!! On ICE, Harry Potter and Mass Effect., This book reveals how expression, emotion and agency are central to fan activity. Fans are highly adept at transmedia, as well as the critical use of different media and platforms. Fandom can apply to wider concepts within new media, the humanities and design, as the authors in this collection show. They also rely on different approaches, ranging from textual analysis to different forms of ethnography. Overall, Affect in Fandom offers a deliberately diverse exploration of exactly what contemporary fans create and curate, and how.  Advancing Subsurface Imaging, Energy Transition and Digital Innovation (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 728) by Numair Ahmed Siddiqui, Berihun Mamo Negash, Syahrir Ridha English | November 18, 2025 | ISBN: 9819507154 | 459 pages | PDF | 66 Mb This proceedings presents selected papers from the International Conference on Subsurface Technology (ICSsT 2024) held during September 10-11 at the Sabah International Convention Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The book seeks to bring together a diverse collection of research developments in subsurface technology. It will cover topics such as subsurface imaging, energy transition focusing on rare earth elements and geothermal energy, subsurface storage including carbon storage, hydrogen storage, and hazardous waste management, integrating IOR/EOR methods with the current energy landscape, and field digitalization utilizing machine learning and data analytics. The content of the book will appeal to researchers and engineers working in the field of subsurface technology and its applications in the energy sector.  Advances in temperate grassland science and management English | 2026 | ISBN: 1801469024 | 645 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 29.83 MB While grasslands face a number of challenges, such as land-use competition and the impact of climate change, there is a growing recognition of the critical role they play in supporting the transition to more resilient, sustainable and circular agricultural systems.  Advances in sheep production English | 2026 | ISBN: 1801468028 | 457 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 9.05 MB While sheep production has an important place in many farming systems across the world, sheep products face an increasingly competitive market. In addition to traditional concerns about product quality, consumers are also increasingly motivated by issues such as livestock welfare, greenhouse gas emissions and the sustainability of production to maintain or enhance natural capital.  Advances in Lean Manufacturing: LEAN in Action: Solutions for Operational Excellence (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering) by Katarzyna Antosz English | November 23, 2025 | ISBN: 3032101107 | 436 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 88 Mb This book reports on the latest developments and challenges in lean philosophy, within the context of operational excellence. It explores key topics such as decision support systems, inspection robotics and production planning models , discussing how they can foster development of Industry and Quality 5.0, and sustainable development. It also highlights innovative strategies for lean automation, lean change management and human-centered work. Based on the 11th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC 2025), held on October 22-24, 2025, at the Rzeszów University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland, this second volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive information on technologies, challenges, and practice-oriented experience for the future of the industry. |
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