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Free Download Steven A. Benko, "Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line "
English | ISBN: 1476676410 | 2020 | 260 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.

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Free Download Environmental Neuroscience by Simone Kühn
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 580 Pages | ISBN : 3031646983 | 59.5 MB
This important new book presents an introduction to Environmental Neuroscience, an emerging field devoted to the study of brain-mediated bidirectional relationships between organisms and their physical environments. Environmental Neuroscience offers a novel perspective in the human neurosciences, which have typically focused on the individual isolated from its natural habitat. The book presents the theoretical background of the field, discusses how the environment impacts humans and how humans impact the environment, explores the neuroscience of the built environment, and addresses special populations and presents different methodological approaches. Environmental Neuroscience bringing together the top authorities in the field, will appeal to neuroscientists and to a range of scholars from public health, urban studies, human geography, and architecture who are searching for guidance on what characterizes a health-promoting environment.

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Free Download Environment, Climate, Plant and Vegetation Growth by Shah Fahad, Shah Saud, Taufiq Nawaz, Liping Gu, Mushtaq Ahmad, Ruanbao Zhou
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 639 Pages | ISBN : 3031694163 | 60.6 MB
The book provides currently available information on the changing climate and its impact on functional and adaptive features of plants. The book also cover cutting edge research on key determinants of plant growth

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Free Download Greg Mattingly, "Emily Dickinson as a Second Language: Demystifying the Poetry"
English | ISBN: 1476666555 | 2018 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 3 MB
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote in 19th century American English and referenced long-vanished cultural contexts. A "private poet," she created her own vocabulary, and many of her poems have quite specific local and personal connections. Twenty-first century readers may find her poetry elusive and challenging.

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Free Download Emerging Markets Debt Restructuring: Effectively Navigating Local Institutional Frameworks by Richard Marney , Timothy Stubbs
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 566 Pages | ISBN : 3031668375 | 31 MB
Corporate debt in emerging markets (EMs) has reached historical levels in the post-Covid-19 world. This challenges international lenders (e.g., commercial banks, development finance institutions, and impact investors) and EM economies in their pursuit of economic development. This book builds on the authors' first volume by focusing on the role of institutions in the economy, credit markets, and ultimately debt restructuring. The authors identify, contextualize, and evaluate the major challenges confronting restructuring professionals in EMs, offering "ten observations" on the major differences for the practitioner in the restructuring environment of EMs versus that of advanced economies. The authors present four detailed EM case studies (following these with counterfactuals) reflecting these ten observations. The authors also explore the main elements of an effective EM insolvency framework as relevant to the restructurer's choice whether to pursue a formal versus an informal solution. Written for restructuring professionals by restructuring professionals, this book explores the factors which drive success-or failure-in EM debt restructuring.

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Free Download Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects: Build four modern applications using Swift, Xcode 14, and SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch by Frahaan Hussain
English | September 8, 2023 | ISBN: 1803242078 | 268 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
Explore the power of SwiftUI, creating complex user interfaces for different Apple platforms as you design a tax calculator app, a photo gallery app, an app store, and a fitness companion app in this part-color guide

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Free Download Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Nickelates from First-Principles by Harrison LaBollita
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 109 Pages | ISBN : 3031715470 | 40 MB
This thesis demonstrates the value of theoretical approaches in the discovery of new superconducting materials. It reports a detailed study of the recently discovered nickel-oxide (nickelate) superconductors using multiple first-principles computational tools, from density functional theory to dynamical mean field theory. In the context of superconductivity, discoveries have generally been linked to serendipitous experimental discovery; this thesis reports some of the few examples of predictions of new superconductors that have later been realized in practice, a prime example of the significance of the methodology it expounds. Overall, it represents a seminal systematic work in the electronic structure theory of the emergent field of nickelate superconductivity.

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Free Download Einführung in die Wirtschaftsinformatik: Band 1: Grundlagen des digitalen Zeitalters
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3662693143 | 207 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik ist heute ein allgegenwärtiger Teil unseres privaten und geschäftlichen Lebens geworden. Diese tiefgreifende Veränderung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft entspricht den Auswirkungen der vergangenen industriellen Revolution. Dieses Lehrbuch bricht bewusst mit den traditionellen Ausbildungskonzepten der Wirtschaftsinformatik und stellt die Menschenzentrierung in den Mittelpunkt der privaten und beruflichen Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik. Aus dem Blickwinkel von Digital Natives werden die Grundlagen des digitalen Zeitalters und die wesentlichen Wirkungsweisen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik erklärt und zentrale Herausforderungen thematisiert. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele erläutern die Definitionen, Konzepte und Methoden. Lernziele, Kontrollfragen und Diskussionsaufgaben runden dieses Lehrbuch ab. Die 2. Auflage wurde aktualisiert und um neue technologische Entwicklungen sowie Aufgaben in der Flashcards-App ergänzt.

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Free Download Steven R. Harmon, "Ecumenism Means You, Too: Ordinary Christians and the Quest for Christian Unity"
English | ISBN: 1606088653 | 2010 | 132 pages | EPUB | 293 KB
By all accounts, the modern ecumenical movement is not moving much these days. Despite dramatic breakthroughs in the past few decades, the quest for a visibly united church-in which there is common confession of the apostolic faith, full Eucharistic communion, and mutual recognition of members and ministers-now meets with indifference by many, impatience by some, and outright hostility by others. In part, this is because the movement has not given enough attention to grassroots ecumenical engagement. This book is written to convince ordinary Christians, especially young Christian adults, that they too have a stake in the future of the ecumenical movement as its most indispensable participants. Ecumenism Means You, Too draws on the music of Irish rock band U2 to cast artistic light on various aspects of the quest for Christian unity. Whether one is a U2 fan or not, and whether one thinks the ecumenical movement is a good thing or a bad thing for the church, everyone who reads this book will learn something about the Christian theological framework apart from which neither the modern ecumenical movement nor the meaning of U2's music can be understood. The book includes an annotated bibliography of resources for ecumenical engagement and a glossary of key ecumenical terms for readers who want to learn more about the Christian practice of seeking the unity of the church.

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Free Download Sidney I. Dobrin, "EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels"
English | ISBN: 1476666342 | 2020 | 189 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies. The comic form has a long tradition of representing environmental rhetoric. Through discussions of comics including A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, We3, Concrete, and Black Orchid, these essays bring the rich work of ecological criticism into dialogue with the multi-faceted landscape of comics, graphic novels, web-comics, cartoons, and animation. The contributors ask not only how nature and environment are portrayed in these texts but also how these textual forms inform how we come to know nature and environment-or what we understand those terms to represent. Interdisciplinary in approach, this collection welcomes diverse approaches that integrate not only ecocriticism and comics studies, but animal studies, posthumanism, ecofeminism, queer ecology, semiotics, visual rhetoric and communication, ecoseeing, image-text studies, space and spatial theories, writing studies, media ecology, ecomedia, and other methodological approaches.

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