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Free Download Chao Gejin, "Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1032191821 | 2021 | 234 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of epic studies, during the last several decades between the 20th and 21st centuries.

Free Download Optimal Inspection Models With Their Applications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303122020X | 266 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 21 MB
This booksurveys recent applications of inspection models, maintenance models and cumulative damage models, as well as discusses the policies involved with these models. It explains how a stochastic approach can be applied to systems using real-world examples.

Free Download On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World by Raghavan Iyer
English | February 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1523511214 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 132.53 MB
Award-winning author and instructor Raghavan Iyer explores the origin of curry across the globe with 50 recipes in this illustrated cookbook about the simmering, scrumptious history and lore of a globally beloved dish.​ On the Curry Trailis an enlightening journey across Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to explore the origins of curry and the signature, essential curries of each region. This diaspora of curry brings alive not only the most iconic, category-defining recipes from these continents, but also the history, lore, anecdotes, and familial remembrances that fashion each dish.

Free Download On Shedding an Obsolete Past by Andrew J. Bacevich
English | December 27, 2022 | ISBN: 1642598860, 1642598348 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.8 MB
On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump and Biden administrations. These policy decisions have produced a series of costly disappointments and outright failures that have destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands around the world and cost US taxpayers astronomical sums of money.

Free Download On John Stuart Mill (Core Knowledge) by Philip Kitcher
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0231204140 | True EPUB | 152 pages | 1.7 MB
John Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill's apparent victory in the marketplace of ideas has numbed us to the power of his arguments. To many readers today, his views can seem utterly familiar, even banal.

Free Download Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study "
English | ISBN: 0745344127 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 1478 KB
An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge

Free Download Ocular Disease and Sight Loss: Meeting Psychosocial Needs
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031217276 | 160 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.3 MB
​Background: Psychosocial care remains an extremely important part of the holistic approach to care, but one which has been underestimated in clinical practice and only superficially addressed in the ophthalmic literature to date. This aspect of care most often gets less attention by healthcare professionals due to the dominance of a technology-enhanced approach to caring practice. Clearly, the skills afforded by science and technology are important for healthcare professionals in practice, but it is also important for them to be aware of the impact of the transfer of such skills on patients from a humanistic perspective. The delivery of technology-enhanced care can often trigger innermost feelings and needs such as fear, anxiety, stress, loss of control, and a sense of alienation. This book seeks to address the imbalance often observed between nursing both as an art and science, and to emphasise the importance of raising the healthcare knowledge and understanding of the value of social psychology and its application to ophthalmic practice in addressing this imbalance. Main aims: (1) To discuss the psychosocial needs and care of patients with ocular disease and sight loss. (2) To discuss the importance and relevance of the psychosocial aspects of ophthalmic care with reference to psychosocial theory and its application. (3) To discuss the psychosocial role of the healthcare professional in facilitating emotional recovery and promoting quality of life in the care and management of patients with ocular disease and sight loss.

Free Download Numerical Treatment and Analysis of Time-fractional Evolution Equations
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031210492 | 427 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 39 MB
This book discusses numerical methods for solving time-fractional evolution equations. The approach is based on first discretizing in the spatial variables by the Galerkin finite element method, using piecewise linear trial functions, and then applying suitable time stepping schemes, of the type either convolution quadrature or finite difference. The main concern is on stability and error analysis of approximate solutions, efficient implementation and qualitative properties, under various regularity assumptions on the problem data, using tools from semigroup theory and Laplace transform. The book provides a comprehensive survey on the present ideas and methods of analysis, and it covers most important topics in this active area of research. It is recommended for graduate students and researchers in applied and computational mathematics, particularly numerical analysis.

Free Download Burke Mees, "Notes on the Tailwheel Checkout and an Introduction to Ski Flying"
English | ISBN: 1619541904 | 2014 | 112 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
In the northern latitudes, many pilots fly a tailwheel in the summer and then put the same airplane on skis in the winter an initial tailwheel checkout is often followed up with a ski checkout. Author Burke Mees keeps to that sequence of events in this book, which covers the basics for both checkouts along with valuable commentary on the finer points.

Free Download Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History By William C. Kirby; Jaw-Ling Joanne Chang
2006 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0674019040 | PDF | 2 MB
Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship--Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.On the Chinese side, normalization of relations was instrumental to Beijing's effort to enhance its security vis-a-vis the Soviet Union and was seen as a tactical necessity to promote Chinese military and economic interests. The United States was equally motivated by national security concerns. In the wake of Vietnam, policymakers saw normalization as a means of forestalling Soviet power. As the essays in this volume show, normalization was far from a foregone conclusion.