Hyun Kyung Lee, "`Difficult Heritage` in Nation Building: South Korea and Post-Conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture "
English | ISBN: 3319663372 | 2019 | 313 pages | EPUB, PDF | 19 MB + 7 MB
This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates how buildings are selectively destroyed, preserved, or reconstructed in order to either establish or challenge the cultural identity of places as new political orders are developed. In addition, she illuminates the Korean traditional concept of feng shui as a core indigenous framework for understanding the relationship between space and power, as it is associated with nation-building processes and heritagization.

Daliany Jerónimo Kersh, "Women's Work in Special Period Cuba: Making Ends Meet"
English | ISBN: 3030056295 | 2019 | 255 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and oral histories to offer a compelling portrait of how Cuban women cleverly combined various forms of paid work to make ends meet. Disproportionately impacted by the economic crisis given their role as primary caregivers and household managers and unable to survive on devalued state salaries alone, women often employed informal and illegal earning strategies. As she argues, this regression into gendered work such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, reselling, and providing sexual services precipitated by the post-Soviet crisis to a large extent marked a return to pre-revolutionary gendered divisions of labor.

Ruth Jackson, "Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender"
English | ISBN: 3319945017 | 2019 | 340 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1398 KB + 3 MB
This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender―and sometimes their ethnicity and age―impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience. Drawing on research findings from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Uganda and other African countries, the book looks at gender and identity as a female researcher in Africa; relationships with `others`; and unique methodological challenges for female researchers in Africa. With refreshing candour, each chapter challenges other researchers in Africa (both women and men), to integrate critical reflections of gender and diverse gendered field experiences into their work.

Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing by K. M. M. Prabhu
English | October 12, 2017 | ISBN: 1138076139 | 404 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
Window functions―otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions―are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part of digital signal processing. Window Functions and their Applications in Signal Processing presents an exhaustive and detailed account of window functions and their applications in signal processing, focusing on the areas of digital spectral analysis, design of FIR filters, pulse compression radar, and speech signal processing.

Sergey S. Zhiltsov, Igor S. Zonn, Andrey G. Kostianoy, "Water Resources in Central Asia: International Context"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3030112047 | PDF | pages: 284 | 7.6 mb
This book outlines the current status of water resources management in Central Asia countries, and provides a review of the history, policies and transboundary cooperation regarding water resources in the region. Particular attention is given to the water-energy-food-environmental nexus, and to the application of the UNECE Environmental Conventions in Central Asia. Readers will also learn about the US and German environmental policies applied in Central Asia, and will discover specific case studies on water resources policies in Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan.

Andreas Luescher, "Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants"
English | ISBN: 3030033791 | 2019 | 131 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 6 MB
This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning, the authors examine the changing form of the auto factory itself, the changing geography of auto production, and the challenges faced by communities as the auto plants that once brought them prosperity, and often a sense of identity, leave town. They examine four places that are dealing in different ways, and with varying success, with the aftermath of a decommissioned auto plant in their midst. These are Janesville, Wisconsin, and Willow Run, Michigan, in the U.S., and Bochum, Germany, and Genk, Belgium, in Europe. Together these four cases provide some clues about what the future might look like for places that were once intimately connected with the manufacture of cars.

Partha Nath Mukherji, "Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia: Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee"
English | ISBN: 981130386X | 2019 | 297 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1354 KB + 3 MB
This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919-2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, family and gender, and nationalism. In the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory as well as issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis on the need for social researchers to transcend the 'what' and 'how' to 'why' in the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The volume is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a book of substantive readings on social dynamics; those researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects.

Oldrich Bubak, "Trivialization and Public Opinion: Slogans, Substance, and Styles of Thought in the Age of Complexity"
English | ISBN: 3030179249 | 2019 | 271 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
Centering on public discourse and its fundamental lapses, this book takes a unique look at key barriers to social and political advancement in the information age. Public discourse is replete with confident, easy to manage claims, intuitions, and other shortcuts; outstanding of these is trivialization, the trend to distill multifaceted dilemmas to binary choices, neglect the big picture, gloss over alternatives, or filter reality through a lens of convenience―leaving little room for nuance and hence debate. Far from superficial, such lapses are symptoms of deeper, intrinsically connected shortcomings inviting further attention. Focusing primarily on industrialized democracies, the authors take their readers on a transdisciplinary journey into the world of trivialization, engaging as they do so the intricate issues borne of a modern environment both enabled and constrained by technology. Ultimately, the authors elaborate upon the emerging counterweights to conventional worldviews and the paradigmatic alternatives that promise to help open new avenues for progress.

April J. Mayes, Kiran C. Jayaram, "Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1683400380 | PDF | pages: 283 | 11.9 mb
In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship.

Luisa Dall'Acqua, "Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence"
English | ISBN: 1799843394 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
"This book explores perspectives and approaches to the intelligence analysis and risk management"-