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R. X. Fischer, "Zeolite-Type Crystal Structures and their Chemistry. 41 New Framework Type Codes"
English | ISBN: 3642414516 | 2014 | 435 pages | PDF | 110 MB
Zeolites and zeolite-like materials became important because of their ion exchange capacities and their outstanding catalytic properties. Millions of tons of zeolites have been produced in the past years for the oil refining industry alone and, in even greater quantities, as ion-exchanging softening agents for detergents. Numerous other applications, e.g., in environmental protection, farming, gas separation, medicine, and pharmacy, are known, making zeolites almost a necessity for daily life. Consequently, there are many research activities dealing with zeolite properties and characterization. However, a strictly systematic description of zeolite-type crystal structures was not available but is now presented in this series of volumes. It is designed as a reference work for zeolite chemists and materials scientists, but it also serves as a tool to interpret structural similarities and to derive new structures from known topologies.

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Lauren Cassel Brownell, "Zen and the Art of Housekeeping: The Path to Finding Meaning in Your Cleaning"
English | ISBN: 1598694499 | 2008 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 559 KB
Teaches novice moppers how to find peace while dealing with dust and dirt. This book challenges readers to put more than elbow grease into their daily routine.

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Youth Culture in Global Cinema By Timothy Shary, Alexandra Seibel
2007 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 0292714149 | PDF | 11 MB
Coming of age is a pivotal experience for everyone. So it is no surprise that filmmakers around the globe explore the experiences of growing up in their work. From blockbuster U.S. movies such as the Harry Potter series to thought-provoking foreign films such as Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider, films about youth delve into young people's attitudes, styles, sexuality, race, families, cultures, class, psychology, and ideas. These cinematic representations of youth also reflect perceptions about youth in their respective cultures, as well as young people's worth to the larger society. Indeed, as the contributors to this volume make plain, films about young people open a very revealing window on the attitudes and values of cultures across the globe. Youth Culture in Global Cinema offers the first comprehensive investigation of how young people are portrayed in film around the world. Eighteen established film scholars from eleven different national backgrounds discuss a wide range of films that illuminate the varied conditions in which youth live. The essays are grouped thematically around the issues of youthful resistance and rebellion; cultural and national identity, including religion and politics; and sexual maturation, including gender distinctions and coming-of-age queer. Some essays engage in close readings of films, while others examine the advertising and reception of films or investigate psychological issues. The volume concludes with filmographies of over 700 youth-related titles arranged by nation and theme.

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Yoga Games to Teach in Schools: 52 Activities to Develop Self-Esteem, Self-Control and Social Skills by Michael Chissick
English | August 21st, 2020 | ISBN: 1787756289 | 114 pages | True PDF | 3.63 MB
The best way to teach yoga to children is with games. With 52 vibrant, easy-to-follow yoga games requiring no previous yoga experience, this book will enable you to help children become better listeners, take responsibility, gain self-control, improve behaviour, become assertive and improve self-esteem and confidence.

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Leila Ahmed, "Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate"
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0300055838, 0300049420 | 403 pages | PDF | 11.3 MB
Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a "pure" Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.

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Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction, 2nd edition by Tarun K. Saint
English | Sep 19, 2019 | ISBN: 0367210355, 0367210363 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
This book interrogates representations - fiction, literary motifs and narratives - of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of 'fictive' testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate - the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma.

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Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation by Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan
English | Sep 3, 2020 | ISBN: 1108490514 | 284 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. This book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.

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Wildlife in Asia: Cultural Perspectives (Man and Nature in Asia) by John Knight
English | December 29, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0700713328 | 272 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Drawing on anthropological and historical data, this book examines human-wildlife relations in China, Tibet, Japan, Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Wilderness of Hope: Fly Fishing and Public Lands in the American West (Outdoor Lives) by Quinn Grover
English | September 1st, 2019 | ISBN: 1496211804 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 1.59 MB
Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the "why" of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the "how" of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman in large part because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.

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Why Worry About Future Generations? (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) by Samuel Scheffler
English | Jun 26, 2018 | ISBN: 0198798989, 0198854862 | 160 pages | PDF | 1 MB
The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral responsibility, Samuel Scheffler considers the broader question of why and how future generations matter to us. Although we lack a developed set of ideas about the value of human continuity, we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our existing values and attachments are a variety of powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing. This has implications for the way we think about problems like climate change. And it means that some of our strongest reasons for caring about the future of humanity depend not on our moral duty to promote the good but rather on our existing evaluative attachments and on our conservative disposition to preserve and sustain the things that we value. This form of conservatism supports rather than inhibits a concern for future generations, and it is an important component of the complex stance we take toward the temporal dimension of our lives.

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