Pauline A. LeVen, "Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought"
English | ISBN: 110714874X | 2020 | 228 pages | PDF | 1497 KB
Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and that this book examines. Focusing on mythical narratives of metamorphosis, it investigates the aesthetic and ontological questions raised by fantastic stories of musical origins. Each chapter opens with an ancient text devoted to a musical metamorphosis (of a girl into a bird, a nymph into an echo, men into cicadas, etc.) and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with 'contemporary' debates - contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story, and with modern debates in the posthumanities about what it means to be a human animal enmeshed in a musicking environment.

Modern Systems Analysis and Design, Ninth Edition
by Joseph S. Valacich, Joey F. George
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0135172756 | 529 Pages | PDF | 60 MB

Modelling object-oriented software - an introduction by The Open University
English | March 1, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01D8X5ZKK | 143 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.39 Mb
How do you model a software system? This course, Modelling object-oriented software an introduction, will help you to work through the processes necessary to produce a conceptual model, by analysing the requirements document to identify classes and associations appropriate for modelling the system domain, together with their respective attributes and multiplicities.

Vathi, "Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World "
English | ISBN: 3319130234 | 2015 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence (Italy). Building on key concepts from the social sciences and migration studies, such as identity, integration and transnationalism, the author links these with emerging theoretical notions, such as mobility, translocality and cosmopolitanism. Ethnic identities, transnational ties and integration pathways of the youngsters and adults are compared, focusing on intergenerational transmission in particular and recognizing mobility as an inherent characteristic of contemporary lives.

Alvin C. Rencher, "Methods of Multivariate Analysis Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0471418897 | 2002 | 738 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Amstat News asked three review editors to rate their top five favorite books in the September 2003 issue. Methods of Multivariate Analysis was among those chosen.

Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users, 6th edition by David R. Croteau and William D. Hoynes
English | Sep 4, 2018 | ISBN: 150631533X | 488 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Providing a framework for understanding the relationship between media and society, this updated Sixth Edition of Media/Society helps you develop the skills you need to critically evaluate both conventional wisdom and your own assumptions about the social role of the media. Authors David Croteau and William Hoynes retain the book's basic sociological framework but now include additional discussions of new studies and up-to-date material on today's rapidly changing media landscape. Now featuring streamlined content and a more engaging narrative, this edition offers expanded discussions of the "new media" world, including digitization, the internet, the spread of mobile media devices, the role of user-generated content, the potential social impact of new media on society, and new media's effect on traditional media outlets

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe by Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0230232892 | 360 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
This collection looks at transnational infrastructures, from the first ceremonial train of the European Coal and Steel Community to the new border signs replacing checkpoints along motorways, and how such infrastructural links are part of the long history of European unification.

Joan Grimalt, "Mapping Musical Signification "
English | ISBN: 3030524957 | 2020 | 430 pages | EPUB, PDF | 38 MB + 24 MB
This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it - in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context.

Mappers of Society: The Lives, Times, and Legacies of Great Sociologists By Ronald Fernandez
2003 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 0275974340 | PDF | 18 MB
Fernandez examines the lives and ideas of sociologists who shaped the main contours of the discipline. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, and Simmel fashioned the early ideas and approaches of sociology, and their ideas are still central to the discipline. Veblen, Mead, Goffman, and Berger added crucial conceptual approaches; they also serve to underscore the length and breadth of Sociology as a science.

Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand by Peter Limbrick
English | ISBN 10: 0230102646 | 2010 | PDF | 288 pages | 3,7 MB
In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond readings of narrative and representation, this book studies the production, distribution, reception, and reexhibition of cinema across three settler societies under the sway of two empires.