Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic by Camila Vergara
September 22, 2020 | ISBN: 0691207534 | English | 312 pages | PDF | 3.5 MB
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease By Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
2007 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 0060889659 | PDF | 2 MB
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on -- or off? Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth, from plants and animals to insects and bacteria. Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. When the option is a long life with a disease or a short one without it, evolution opts for disease almost every time. Everything from the climate our ancestors lived in to the crops they planted and ate to their beverage of choice can be seen in our genetic inheritance. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives. Survival of the Sickest is filled with fascinating insights and cutting-edge research, presented in a way that is both accessible and utterly absorbing. This is a book about the interconnectedness of all life on earth -- and, especially, what that means for us.

Lulu Le Vay, "Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030175693 | PDF | pages: 270 | 3.2 mb
This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies' ability to flex contours of family, the shows' narratives work to uphold the white, heterosexual, genetically-reproduced family as the ideal. In dialogue with responses from a range of female viewers, both mothers and non-mothers, the book scrutinises the construction of family ideology on television with studies including Coronation Street (1960-present), Giuliana & Bill (2009-2014), Rules of Engagement (2007-2013), The New Normal (2012-2013), Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017) The Handmaid's Tale (2017-present) and film Baby Mama (2008). These studies raise a number of questions; is homosexuality only acceptable when it echoes heterosexual norms? Are female characters only fulfilled when they are genetic mothers? Does heterosexual romance override technology in the cure for infertility? While the answers to these questions may suggest that television still conforms to heteronormative narratives, this book importantly demonstrates that audiences desire alternative happy endings that show infertile female characters more positively and recognise alternative kinship formations as meaningful.

Leiva Casemiro Oliveira, Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima, Carsten Thirstrup, "Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: A Materials Guide to Design, Characterization, Optimization, and Usage"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030174859 | PDF | pages: 332 | 33.8 mb
This significantly extended second editionaddresses the important physical phenomenon ofSurface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) or Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) in thin metal films, a phenomenon which isexploited in the design of a large variety of physico-chemical optical sensors. In this treatment, crucial materials aspects for design and optimization of SPR sensors are investigated and described in detail. The textcovers aselection of nanometer thin metal films, ranging from free-electron to the platinum-type conductors, along with their combination with a large variety of dielectric substrate materials, and associated individual layer and opto-geometric arrangements. Whereas the first edition treated solely the metal-liquid interface, the SP-resonance conditions considered here are expanded to cover the metal-gas interface in the angular and wavelength interrogation modes, localized and long-range SP's and the influence of native oxidicad-layers in the case of non-noble metals. Furthermore,a selection of metal grating structures that allow SP excitation is presented, as are features of radiative SP's.

Super Bomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Ken Young, Warner R. Schilling
2020 | ISBN: 1501745166 | English | 240 pages | EPUB | 1.2 MB
Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than sixty political, military, and scientific figures who were involved in the decision.

Keren Censor-Hillel, Michele Flammini, "Structural Information and Communication Complexity"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030249212 | PDF | pages: 383 | 10.2 mb
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2019, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2019.

Stroke: Practical Management By Charles P. Warlow, Jan van Gijn, Martin S. Dennis, Joanna M. Wardlaw, John M. Bamford, Graeme J. Hankey, Peter A. G. Sandercock, Gabriel Rinkel, Peter Langhorne, Cathie Sudlow, Peter Rothwell
2008 | 998 Pages | ISBN: 140512766X | PDF | 14 MB
Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology

Stratagem of the Corpse: Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra (Anthem Series on Radical Theory) by Gary J. Shipley
English | January 30, 2020 | ISBN: 1785272756 | EPUB | 222 pages | 0.5 MB
This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the subject of death in the work of Jean Baudrillard. Through new readings of his work, the book makes so patently clear the importance of Baudrillard's tendency to poeticize, his core indebtedness to Georges Bataille, Alfred Jarry, and others, and his reliance on paradox. Ultimately, Stratagem of the Corpse is less a making sense of death and more a transcript of what occurred when death made sense of us, a reverse thanatology in which death delineates the variant forms of our encroachment, not so much death as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.

Step Off!: My Journey from Mimbo to Manhood by Dan Cortese
English | June 16th, 2020 | ISBN: 1119653479 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 16.90 MB
Recognized from Seinfeld and MTV, Dan Cortese now gives readers a personal and humorous look at the life and career of an American TV actor and host

Branko E. Gorenc, Ron Tinyou, Arun Syam, "Steel Designers' Handbook, 7th Edition"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0868405736 | 413 pages | True PDF | 4.2 MB
The seventh edition of Steel Designers' Handbook text is fully revised and covers the extensive revision of the 'loading code', which is renamed as structural Design Actions Standard, General Principals. AS/ANZ 1170.0 and its companion parts, 1170.1 to 1170.3. The volume of revisions and new terminology necessitated the first three chapters to be substantially rewritten. This edition is based on AS 4100: 1998, which incorporates revisions to the original 1990 edition.