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Free Download From The Front Lines Of Rock: interviews & heavy metal road stories with Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Green Day, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, more! Relive the good old days of rock by Jason Arnopp
English | October 20, 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B076N71596 | 250 pages | EPUB | 0.34 Mb
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Free Download David Van Reybrouck, "From Primitives to Primates: A History of Ethnographic and Primatological Analogies in the Study of Prehistory"
English | 2017 | pages: 387 | ISBN: 9088904758, 9088900957 | PDF | 7,8 mb
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day - often far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Likewise, today's primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors. The belief that the contemporary world provides 'living links' still goes strong. Such primate models, Van Reybrouck argues, continue the highly problematic 'comparative method' of the Victorian times. He goes on to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology has succeeded in circumventing the major pitfalls of such analogical reasoning.

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English | ISBN: 1502631245 | 2017 | pages | EPUB | 10 MB
As inhabitants of Earth, it is humanity's role to take care of the world in which we live. Human activity has greatly contributed to global climate change. As a result, countries around the world are joining together to tackle the threat of climate change, preserve our planet, and protect the environment. This book reveals the history of global climate action, environmental pacts, and the ways governments are using regulations and accords to protect Earth.

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English | ISBN: 0826522114 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 1335 KB
From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as the Kayapó of Brazil, the Mapuche of Chile, the Kichwa of Ecuador, and the Ayuuk of Mexico, among others, as they engage video, DVDs, photography, television, radio, and the internet.

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English | September 26, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B7Z7XV5Y | 213 pages | EPUB | 0.62 Mb
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Free Download French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire: Political Culture, Diplomacy, and the Limits of Universal Revolution, 1792-1798 By Pascal Firges
2017 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0198759967 | PDF | 26 MB
The effects of the French Revolution reached far beyond the confines of France itself. The Ottoman Empire, ancient ally and major trading partner of France, was not immune from the repercussions of the 'Age of Revolutions', especially since it was home to permanent French communities with acertain legal autonomy. French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire examines, for the first time, the political and cultural impact of the French Revolution on Franco-Ottoman relations, as well as on the French communities of the Ottoman Empire. The modern interpretation of revolutionaryideological expansionism is strongly influenced by the famous propaganda decree of 19 November 1792 which promised 'fraternity and help to all peoples who wish to recover their liberty', as well as the well-studied efforts to export the Revolution into the territories conquered by the revolutionaryarmies and to the various Sister Republics. Against all expectations, however, French revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire exhibited neither a 'crusading mentality' nor a heightened readiness to use force in order to achieve ideological goals. Instead, as this volume shows, in matters of diplomacyas well as in the administration of French expatriate communities, revolutionary policies were applied in an extremely circumspect fashion. The focus on the effects of the French regime change outside of France offers valuable new insights into the revolutionary process itself, which will revisecommon assumptions about French revolutionary diplomacy. In addition, Pascal Firges takes a close look at the establishment of the new political culture of the French Revolution within the transcultural context of the French expatriate communities of the Ottoman Empire, which serves as athought-provoking point of comparison for the emergence and development of French revolutionary political culture.

Free Download Dr Emily Kilpatrick, "French Art Song: History of a New Music, 1870-1914 "
English | ISBN: 1648250548 | 2022 | 468 pages | PDF | 15 MB
A ground-breaking study of the musical and literary priorities, professional practices and creative interactions that shaped one of the most adventurous artforms of the Belle Époque.

Free Download Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981 by Laura Wittern-Keller
English | January 11, 2008 | ISBN: 0813124514 | True EPUB | 356 pages | 1.5 MB
At the turn of the twentieth century, the proliferation of movies attracted not only the attention of audiences across America but also the apprehensive eyes of government officials and special interest groups concerned about the messages disseminated by the silver screen. Between 1907 and 1926, seven states-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, and Massachusetts-and more than one hundred cities authorized censors to suppress all images and messages considered inappropriate for American audiences. Movie studios, hoping to avoid problems with state censors, worrying that censorship might be extended to the federal level, and facing increased pressure from religious groups, also jumped into the censoring business, restraining content through the adoption of the self-censoring Production Code, also known as the Hays code.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811940622 | 447 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 41 MB
This book perfects the theoretical system of fracture mechanics of nonhomogeneous materials through the establishment of the piecewise exponential model and expands the fracture research scope to nonhomogeneous materials containing complex interfaces through proposing the domain-independent interaction integral concept. The piecewise exponential model has overcome the problem of fracture mechanics of nonhomogeneous materials and clarified the doubt of traditional exponential models in recent 30 years. The domain-independent interaction integral method is not affected by material nonhomogeneity and discontinuity, which greatly facilitates its numerical implementation in the investigation of fracture behaviors of nonhomogeneous materials with complex interfaces.

Free Download Fractal Geometry and Number Theory: Complex Dimensions of Fractal Strings and Zeros of Zeta Functions by Michel L. Lapidus , Machiel Frankenhuysen
English | PDF | 2000 | 277 Pages | ISBN : 0817640983 | 21.76 MB
A fractal drum is a bounded open subset of R. m with a fractal boundary. A difficult problem is to describe the relationship between the shape (geo metry) of the drum and its sound (its spectrum). In this book, we restrict ourselves to the one-dimensional case of fractal strings, and their higher dimensional analogues, fractal sprays. We develop a theory of complex di mensions of a fractal string, and we study how these complex dimensions relate the geometry with the spectrum of the fractal string.