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Free Download Jeanne Stella, "Historic Streets of Salem, Massachusetts "
English | ISBN: 1467143332 | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
Witchcraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Samuel McIntire made this seaside town famous. But echoes of lesser-known tales linger along its lanes and avenues, from mysterious Chestnut Street to the founding Quakers of Buffum Street. Essex Street is one of the oldest in town, and the crooked street has carried several different names over the years, confusing tourists to this day. The Gedney House on High Street dates back to 1665 and was built by a shipwright, while the neighboring Pease and Price Bakery was a family-owned store that served the community for more than eighty years. Local historian and Salem News columnist Jeanne Stella recounts these and more stories of well-worn paths.

Free Download Hillsong Church: Expansive Pentecostalism, Media, and the Global City (Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges) By Miranda Klaver
2021 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 3030742989 | PDF | 3 MB
This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious networks in which media play a crucial role. By taking a lived religion approach, media is regarded as integral part of everyday practices of interaction, expression and consumption of religion. Key question raised is how processes of mediatization shape, alter and challenge this thriving cosmopolitan expression of Pentecostalism. Current debates in the study of religion are addressed: religious belonging and community in global cities; the interrelation between media technology, religious practices and beliefs; religion, media and social engagement in global cities; media and emerging modes of religious leadership and authority. In this empirical study, pressing societal issues like institutional responses to sexual abuse of children, views on gender roles, misogyny and mediated constructions of femininity are discussed.

Free Download High-Performance Adaptive Control of Teleoperation Systems
by Di-Hua Zhai
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032465158 | 314 pages | True PDF | 44.45 MB

Free Download High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China By Jing Wang
1996 | 399 Pages | ISBN: 0520202953 | PDF | 17 MB
Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a provocative inquiry into the nature of Chinese modernity.In seven linked essays, the author examines the cultural dynamics that have given rise to the epochal discourse. She traces the Chinese Marxists' short debate over "socialist alienation" and examines the various schools of thought-Li Zehou and the Marxist Reconstruction of Confucianism, the neo-Confucian Revivalists, and the Enlightenment School-that came into play in the Culture Fever. She also critiques the controversial mini-series Yellow River Elegy. In mapping out China's post-revolutionary aesthetics, Wang introduces the debate over "pseudo-modernism," refutes the pseudo-proposition of "Chinese postmodernism," and looks at the dawning of popular culture in the 1990s.This book delivers a ten-year intertwined history of Chinese intellectuals, writers, literary critics, and cultural critics that gives us a deeper understanding of the China of the 1980s, the 1990s, and beyond.

Free Download Hidden in White Sight; How AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism
by Calvin D.
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032437642 | 249 pages | True PDF | 27.81 MB

Free Download Hegemony and Democracy By Bruce Russett
2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415575702 | PDF | 6 MB
Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce Russett's long career and features new chapters that show the continuing relevance of his scholarship. In examining hegemony during and after the Cold War, it addresses: The importance of domestic politics in the formulation of foreign policy; The benefits and costs of seeking security through military power at the expense of expanding networks of shared national and transnational institutions; The incentives of other states to bandwagon with a strong but unthreatening hegemon and 'free-ride' on benefits it may provide rather than to balance against a powerful hegemon. The degree to which hegemony and democracy undermine or support each other. By applying theories of collective action and foreign policy, Russett explores the development of American hegemony and the prospects for a democratic hegemon to retain its influence during the coming decades. This collection is an essential volume for students and scholars of International Relations, American Politics, and US Foreign Policy.

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English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-87-403-2537-9 | 97 pages | EPUB | 3.24 MB
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems help in maintaining the quality of air inside a facility and hence have a direct impact on the health, comfort and productivity of the most important asset of an organization i.e. the employees. Some critical equipment and processes also require a very strict regime of temperature and humidity and any deviations can lead to a business impact or production loss. The HVAC systems are also the largest contributor to a facility's electricity consumption. For the above reasons, it is of utmost importance that the facilities staff have a good understanding of the systems deployed. This e-book discusses the basics of heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment in facilities and is suitable for students as well as fresh entrants and non-technical staff in the facilities management field wishing to get a basic understanding of the HVAC systems.

Free Download Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour:
Global Strategies for Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Context
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031221737 | 408 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB

Free Download Have no Fear of Zoology: A stroll through the animal kingdom for teachers & students
English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-87-403-2011-4 | 302 pages | EPUB | 3.86 MB
After an introduction to the evolution of animals and the systematics of the animal kingdom, the most important animal phyla, from the unicellular organisms to the mammals, are presented with regard to their structure, function and their adaptations to the environment. Emphasis is placed on the importance of animals for humans. Each chapter begins with a presentation of the most important technical terms and ends with questions for self-examination of the learned material. Information on current specialist literature is found in a reference list. The book contains 17 tables, 13 illustrations and 27 photos.

Free Download Richard Layard, "Happiness: Lessons from a New Science"
English | 2006 | pages: 323 | ISBN: 0143037013, 1594200394 | PDF | 6,2 mb
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled.