Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era by Kären Wigen, Caroline Winterer
2020 | ISBN: 022671859X | English | 272 pages | PDF | 52 MB
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways.
Gerald Soff, "Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Cancer"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 303020314X | PDF | pages: 211 | 3.9 mb
In this book, leaders in the field explore our current understanding of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer and address key questions on the subject. Among the topics discussed are the mechanisms that cancers use to activate the coagulation system, and those by means of which an activated coagulation system can lead to more aggressive cancer growth. Clinical chapters examine the role of thrombosis prophylaxis and treatment, central line-associated thrombosis, and cancer-associated hemorrhage. Subsequent chapters deal with the management of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, anticoagulation in the presence of brain metastases, and other unique challenges in the interaction of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer.
Tobias Boes, "Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters"
English | ISBN: 1501744992 | 2019 | 376 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.
Alexis L. Boylan, "Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall"
English | ISBN: 0822348527 | 2011 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. They consider Kinkade's imagery and career in relation to nineteenth-century Currier and Ives prints and Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the collectibles market and the fine-art market, the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center, and "The Village at Hiddenbrooke," a California housing development inspired by Kinkade's paintings. The conceptual artist Jeffrey Vallance, the curator of the first major museum exhibition of Kinkade's art and collectibles, recounts his experiences organizing that show. All of the contributors draw on art history, visual culture, and cultural studies as they seek to understand Kinkade's significance for both art and audiences. Along the way, they delve into questions about beauty, class, kitsch, religion, and taste in contemporary art.
This Is Bioethics: An Introduction (This is Philosophy) by Ruth F. Chadwick, Udo Schüklenk
November 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1118770749 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Should editing the human genome be allowed? What are the ethical implications of social restrictions during a pandemic? Is it ethical to use animals in clinical research? Is prioritizing COVID-19 treatment increasing deaths from other causes? Bioethics is a dynamic field of inquiry that draws on interdisciplinary expertise and methodology to address normative issues in healthcare, medicine, biomedical research, biotechnology, public health, and the environment. This Is Bioethics is an ideal introductory textbook for students new to the field, exploring the fundamental questions, concepts, and issues within this rapidly evolving area of study.
Thinking Probabilistically: Stochastic Processes, Disordered Systems, and Their Applications
by Ariel Amir
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108479529 | 243 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
English | November 5, 2020 | ISBN: 0241454689 | EPUB | 240 pages | 2.9 MB
A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time
Therapeutic Applications of Honey and its Phytochemicals: Vol.1 by Muneeb U. Rehman
English | PDF | 2020 | 404 Pages | ISBN : 9811567980 | 8.4 MB
Honey typically has a complex chemical and biochemical composition that invariably includes complex sugars, specific proteins, amino acids, phenols, vitamins, and rare minerals. It is reported to be beneficial in the treatment of various diseases, such as those affecting the respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems, as well as diabetes mellitus and certain types of cancers; however, there is limited literature describing the use of honey in modern medicine.
The other side of Kadugodi: A photo book documenting candid street photography by Krishna Ramalingam
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NPVLN1Y | 70 pages | PDF | 248 Mb
Street photography is a genre of photography which records everyday life in public spaces. In this book, the photographer has gone hyperlocal in capturing everyday life as it unfolds in the suburbs of Whitefield, Bengaluru (Bangalore). The photographer has beautifully captured the rich blend of city as well as village life, all within the radius of ~ 6 kms. The images are truly candid, along with funny or thought provoking captions
The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill By James C. Humes, Richard M. Nixon
1995 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0060925779 | PDF | 1 MB
An enormously entertaining compendium of witticisms, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill by a former White House speechwriter.