William O'Shaughnessy, "Vox Populi: The O'Shaughnessy Files"
English | 2010 | pages: 777 | ISBN: 0823232476 | PDF | 5,7 mb
Vox Populi is the long-awaited fourth collection of interviews, editorials, essays, observations and keen insight from legendary New York broadcaster William O'Shaughnessy. With this inspiring new anthology, Bill is back in a big way, offering compelling dialogue and opinion on timely issues and current events in politics, media, the arts and popular culture.
Jessie Y.C. Chen, Gino Fragomeni, "Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Applications and Case Studies, Part II"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030215644 | PDF | pages: 591 | 71.9 mb
This two-volume set LNCS 11574 and 11575 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA.
Joseph A. Zygmunt Jr., "Venous Ultrasound Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0367354144 | 2020 | 253 pages | EPUB | 20 MB
Venous Ultrasound 2e is the essential text for anyone involved in the treatment of chronic venous disease. It provides specific information on ultrasound as it is applied to chronic insufficiency, including history, general techniques, examples of anatomy, and protocols for performing ultrasound on patients, and discussions on key aspects of interpretation of sonographic findings.
Vegan YUM: The Secrets to Mastering Plant-Based Cooking by Megan Sadd
English | December 15, 2020 | ISBN: 1645671267 | EPUB | 176 pages | 207 MB
75 Vegan Recipes That Will Blow Your Mind
Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology by Stephen R. Grimm
English | Sep 19, 2019 | ISBN: 0190860979 | 300 pages | PDF | 14 MB
What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks like from different perspectives and exploring how ordinary people use the notion of understanding. According to a long historical tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In particular, it is said that understanding people has a different epistemic profile than understanding the natural world-that it calls on different cognitive resources and brings to bear distinctive normative considerations. Thus, in order to understand people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way. By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed-mainly because there are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together.
Sandro Sessarego, "Variation and Evolution: Aspects of Language Contact and Contrast Across the Spanish-Speaking World"
English | ISBN: 9027207380 | 2020 | 277 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with other languages and dialects under the influence of several linguistic and extra-linguistic forces. While some papers analyze the linguistic dynamics affecting Spanish grammars from a cross-dialectal perspective, others focus more closely on the relations established between Spanish and other languages with which it is in contact. In particular, some of these studies show how power and prestige may support (or not) the use of Spanish in different social contexts and educational realities, given that the attitudes toward this language vary greatly across the Spanish-speaking world. On the one hand, in some regions, Spanish represents the variety spoken by the majority of the population, typically related to prestige and power (Spain and Latin America). On the other hand, in other contexts, the same language is conceived as a minority variety, which may or may not be associated with stigmatized immigrant groups (i.e., in the US).
Uzbekistan (Cultures of the World (Third Edition)) by Nicole Horning, Marylee Knowlton
2021 | ISBN: 150265878X | English | 144 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
When Uzbekistan declared independence and left the Soviet Union, it started a new chapter in its long history. Readers will explore this history and the steps Uzbekistan has taken to plan for the future with this thoroughly-researched and updated guide. From facts about the government and economy to details about art, music, and sports, every aspect of life in this Central Asian nation is presented. Additional information about Uzbekistan is found in easy-to-read maps, a comprehensive timeline, recipes for making popular foods, and helpful sidebars.
Urban Governance and Smart City Planning: Lessons from Singapore (Emerald Points) by Zaheer Allam
English | February 20th, 2020 | ISBN: 1839821078 | 137 pages | True EPUB | 11.92 MB
In a world characterised by rapid urbanisation it is increasingly difficult to devise urban governance models which are resilient, safe and inclusive, and that also preserve the environment. This book takes Singapore, a leader in this field, as a case study, looking at its successes in urban governance and smart city planning.
Purnima Mankekar, "Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality"
English | ISBN: 0822358360 | 2015 | 320 pages | PDF | 1404 KB
In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and "Indianness," as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate through transnational public cultures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area, Mankekar tracks the sense of unsettlement experienced by her informants in both places, disrupting binary conceptions of homeland and diaspora, and the national and transnational. She examines Bollywood films, Hindi TV shows, advertisements, and such commodities as Indian groceries as interconnected nodes in the circulation of transnational public cultures that continually reconfigure affective connections to India and what it means to be Indian, both within the country and outside. Drawing on media and cultural studies, feminist anthropology, and Asian/Asian American studies, this book deploys unsettlement as an analytic to trace modes of belonging and not-belonging.
Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the 9 Secrets of People Who Changed the World by Richard Koch
English | December 8th, 2020 | ISBN: 1642011460б 1642011363 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.56 MB
Can We Map Success?