Neal I. Rosenthal, "Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0374531781 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.628 MB
A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of controversy, hype, and change in the world of wine
Recent Advances in Power Electronics and Drives: Select Proceedings of EPREC 2020 by Jitendra Kumar
English | PDF | 2021 | 518 Pages | ISBN : 9811585857 | 27.1 MB
This book presents select proceedings of the Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2020 (EPREC-2020). It provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of power electronics, especially, power inverter and converter, electrical drives, regulated power supplies, operation of FACTS & HVDC, etc. The readers would be benefited in enhancing their knowledge and skills in these domain areas. The book will be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in advancements in power electronics and drives.
Recent Advances in Computational Optimization: Results of the Workshop on Computational Optimization WCO 2019 (Studies in Computational Intelligence Book 920)
by Stefka Fidanova
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030588831 | 291 Pages | EPUB | 43 MB
Noel Malcolm, "Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0199215936 | PDF | pages: 238 | 1.1 mb
Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".
Eric S. Mallin, "Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning "
English | ISBN: 3030288978 | 2019 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare's work create non-adaptations, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot. Eric S. Mallin explores how Shakespeare illuminates these movies, analyzing the ways that The Godfather, Memento, Titanic, Birdman, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre take on new life in dialogue with the famous playwright. In addition to challenging our ideas about adaptation, Mallin works to inspire new awareness of the meanings of Shakespearean stories in the contemporary world.
Peter Brusov, "Ratings: Critical Analysis and New Approaches of Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology "
English | ISBN: 3030562425 | 2021 | 375 pages | EPUB, PDF | 20 MB + 10 MB
This book presents new methodologies for rating non-financial issuers and project ratings based on the BFO (Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova) theory of capital cost and structure, and its perpetuity limit (Modigliani-Miller theory), as well as modern investment models created by the authors.
Raspberry Pi: 3 in 1- A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide + Tips and Tricks + Advanced Guide to Setup, Expert Programming (Concepts, Theories, and Techniques) and Build Raspberry Pi Projects
by Joe Grant
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08PL8TVXC | 493 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy By David Stoesz
2005 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 0195181204 | PDF | 2 MB
American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. Stoesz's fascinating account documents how conservative think tanks arose to combat the dominance of liberal intellectualism in the university system, and by now have taken command of the ''means of analysis,'' flooding Congress with proposals and effectively shifting American public philosophy from liberalism to conservatism. While the Right devoted enormous amounts of energy in reconstructing social policy, Stoesz argues that the American liberal-intellectual class-the Liberati-abandoned its original mission, defecting from the welfare state project to pursue a philosophical tangent, postmodernism, that vilified social policy and romanticized oppressed populations. Presenting case studies from welfare reform and children's services, he illustrates how both the Right and the Left have shortchanged American social policy. In the process, he proposes radical pragmatism as the solution to counter the dominance of an emerging welfare-industrial complex and revive a Progressive orientation to social policy. Only through citizen empowerment, social mobility, and government restructuring, Stoesz argues, can we effectively craft a new approach to social policy that meets the requirements of the 21st century and transcends the impasse between the Left and the Right. Quixote's Ghost, framed by the metaphor of a Romantic Left whose actions-like Don Quixote's obsession with chivalry-are out of synch with the present reality, will be of immense interest to students and academics alike. As one of the few books to chart this radical shift in social policy and its implications on the ground, it will be sure to challenge both the Right and the Left to craft a new approach to thinking about American social policy.
Quest for Inclusive Growth in Bangladesh: An Employment-focused Strategy by Muhammed Muqtada
English | EPUB | 2020 | 295 Pages | ISBN : 9811576130 | 3.5 MB
This book offers a selection of intensely researched essays focused on the critical planning objectives and policy priorities that would enhance the promotion of inclusive growth in a developing country.