Michael E. Sawyer, "An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis"
English | 2018 | pages: 355 | ISBN: 3030075095 | PDF | 3,4 mb
This book is a timely intervention in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature. As an exploration of the modern political order and its racial genealogy, it emerges at a moment when scholars and activists alike are wrestling with how to understand subject formation from the perspective of the subordinated rather than from dominant social and philosophical modes of thought. For Sawyer, studying the formation of racialized subjects requires a new imagining of marginalized subjects. Black subjectivity is not viewed from the static imaginings of social death, alienation, ongoing abjection, or as a confrontation with the treat of oblivion. Sawyer innovates the term "fractured temporality," conceptualizing Black subjects as moving within and across temporalities in transition, incorporated, yet excluded, marked with the social death of Atlantic slavery and the emergent political orders it etched, and still capable of exerting revolutionary force that acts upon, against, and through racial oppression.

American Stories By Nagai Kafu, Mitsuko Iriye
2000 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0231117906 | PDF | 1 MB
Nagai Kafu is one of the greatest modern Japanese writers, but until now his classic collection, American Stories, based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington State, Michigan, and New York City in the early years of the twentieth century, has never been available in English. Here, with a detailed and insightful introduction, is an elegant translation of KafuВґs perceptive and lyrical account. Like de Tocqueville a century before, Kafu casts a fresh, keen eye on vibrant and varied America -world fairs, concert halls, and college campuses; saloons, the immigrant underclass, and red-light districts. Many of his vignettes involve encounters with fellow Japanese or Chinese immigrants, some of whom are poorly paid laborers facing daily discrimination. The stories paint a broad landscape of the challenges of American life for the poor, the foreign born, and the disaffected, peopled with crisp individual portraits that reveal the daily disappointments and occasional euphorias of modern life. Translator Mitsuko IriyeВґs introduction provides important cultural and biographical background about KafuВґs upbringing in rapidly modernizing Japan, as well as literary context for this collection. In the first story, ''Night Talk in a Cabin,'' three young men sailing from Japan to Seattle each reveal how poor prospects, shattered confidence, or a broken heart has driven him to seek a better life abroad. In ''Atop the Hill,'' the narrator meets a fellow Japanese expatriate at a small midwestern religious college, who slowly reveals his complex reasons for leaving behind his wife in Japan. Caught between the pleasures of AmericaВґs cities and the stoicism of its small towns, he wonders if he can ever return home. Kafu plays with the contradictions and complexities of early twentieth-century America, revealing the tawdry, poor, and mundane underside of New YorkВґs glamour in ''Ladies of the Night'' while celebrating the ingenuity, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the American city in ''Two Days in Chicago.'' At once sensitive and witty, elegant and gritty, these stories provide a nuanced outsiderВґs view of the United States and a perfect entrance into modern Japanese literature.

America's Wars By Alan Axelrod
2002 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0471327972 | PDF | 9 MB
In America’s Wars, one of the nation’s leading authors of popular history provides a unique one-stop resource for essential information on every military action involving the United States and its precursor colonies. Comprehensive coverage includes: Capsule histories of every recorded conflict that occurred in North America or involved the United States through the present day Engagingly written accounts of more than 100 wars, skirmishes, and military expeditions More than 100 illustrations, including period photos and depictions Compelling firsthand accounts of major engagements Timelines and primary-source documents Fresh insights into the underlying causes and consequences of each conflict Wiley Desk References are comprehensive, generously illustrated reference works on major historical, cultural, and scientific topics. Their easy-to-use format helps you quickly find just the information you need, while first-person accounts and excerpts from official documents, letters, and other primary sources bring the subject to life. Wiley Desk References give you all the information you need on the subjects that matter most.

Amazing Facts You Don't Know: 1100 Amazing Trivia Facts by Mike Gonzalez
English | May 25, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0892DJWFK | 121 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.55 Mb
Did you know?-In the Chinese version of Beauty and the Beast, Jackie Chan is both the speaking and singing voice of the beast.-The longest bout of hiccups ever recorded lasted for 68 years.Amazing Facts You Don't Know has RETURNED with 1,100 more outrageous facts to both shock and entertain you. .We weed out all the boring trivia facts and promise to give you just the most unbelievable trivia facts spanning across all categories of trivia. Prepare to be shocked and amused for hours on end.Take a break from trivia night and discover new exciting facts you may not even believe with The Amazing Facts You Don't Know: 1,100 Unbelievable Trivia Facts

Amazing Facts You Don't Know: 1,100 Unbelievable Trivia Facts by Michael Gonzalez
English | November 24, 2017 | ISBN: 198137146X | 242 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.60 Mb
Amazing Facts You Don't Know is a new series dedicated to providing only the most fascinating trivia facts!

All-Exciting Christmas Recipes: Christmas Foods That Everyone Will Be Talking About by April Blomgren
English | September 13, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08HTGG9MJ | 91 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 7.70 Mb
What is Christmas looking like for you this year?

Alexander Pepper, "Agency Theory and Executive Pay: The Remuneration Committee's Dilemma"
English | 2018 | pages: 140 | ISBN: 3319999680 | PDF | 1,6 mb
This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay. It argues that while Jensen and Meckling (1976) were right in their analysis of the agency problem in public corporations they were wrong about the proposed solutions. Drawing on ideas from economics, psychology, sociology and the philosophy of science, the author explains how standard agency theory has contributed to the problem of executive pay rather than solved it. The book explores why companies should be regarded as real entities not legal fictions, how executive pay in public corporations can be conceptualised as a collective action problem and how behavioral science can help in the design of optimal incentive arrangements. An insightful and revolutionary read for those researching corporate governance, HRM and organisation theory, this useful book offers potential solutions to some of the problems with executive pay and the standard model of agency.

Arne De Boever, "Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism "
English | ISBN: 1517908345 | 2019 | 130 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics

Aether: The Physicalists' God by Laurent R. Duchesne
English | October 5, 2009 | ISBN: 1438205325 | 122 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.91 Mb
God is a thing, not a person. Whether there is an aether or not is finally answered: the Aether is but does not exist until it turns into matter. This isn't a new theory but a new insight into already existing theories. A freshly synthesized interpretation consistent with already known and well accepted scientific facts. A modern perspective in which the aether concept is reintroduced in an attempt to reconcile a centuries old notion of wholeness in space and time with actually established scientific paradigms. In addition to arguing for a common substrate to all matter, without math or complicated formulas, I relate self-awareness and perception to non-living self-organized systems. Thereby suggesting that Consciousness is not an independent supernatural entity separate from matter but an intrinsic property of all matter. This book represents what I have realized after a lifelong quest for proof of wholeness in space and time as a fundamental property of the Universe. It is aimed at a general audience, going from the specialist to the layman, with the hope of further popularizing these deeply philosophical issues.

Advances in Remote Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring by Vernon Singhroy
English | PDF | 2021 | 366 Pages | ISBN : 3030591085 | 32.3 MB
This volume provides international case studies of practical and advanced methods using satellite images integrated with other airborne, drone images and field data to monitor infrastructure. The book is timely, as infrastructure spending by national governments is increasing and robust monitoring techniques are needed to keep pace with climate change impacts affecting infrastructures globally.