Norman Smith, "Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation "
English | ISBN: 0774813350 | 2007 | 216 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic by Daniel D. Miller
English | Aug 26, 2021 | ISBN: 0367757729, 0367757702 | 280 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society.
Kip Fulbeck, "Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids"
English | ISBN: 0811874087 | 2010 | 264 pages | AZW3 | 16 MB
From beloved writer and artist Kip Fulbeck, author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa, this timely collection of portraits celebrates the faces and voices of mixed-race children. At a time when 7 million people in the U.S. alone identify as belonging to more than one race, interest in issues of multiracial identity is rapidly growing. Overflowing with uplifting elements-including charming images, handwritten statements from the children, first-person text from their parents, a foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng (President Obama's sister), and an afterword by international star Cher (who is part Cherokee)-this volume is an inspiring vision of the future.
Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe by Geri Walton
English | March 3, 2017 | ISBN: 1473853338, 1526781530 | EPUB | 272 pages | 7.5 MB
The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France-and the price she paid for her devotion.
Christine Conners, "Lipsmackin' Backpackin', 2nd: Lightweight, Trail-Tested Recipes for Backcountry Trips"
English | ISBN: 0762781327 | 2013 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Not a fan of bland, boring, and lifeless meals after a hard day of backpacking? Neither are the Conners, which is why you'll find their new second edition packed full of even more tasty favorites from the trails! Completely revised and updated, this all-in-one food guide builds on the format pioneered by the original, providing clear and thorough at-home and on-trail preparation directions, nutrition and serving information, and the weight of each recipe, while adding a wealth of reference information and instructional material. Pacific Crest Pancakes, Jammin' Jambalaya, and Buried Forest Trail Fudge - it's in here!
Shmuel Friedland, "Linear Algebra and Matrices"
English | ISBN: 1611975131 | 2018 | 285 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This introductory textbook grew out of several courses in linear algebra given over more than a decade and includes such helpful material as: constructive discussions about the motivation of fundamental concepts many worked-out problems in each chapter, and topics rarely covered in typical linear algebra textbooks. The authors use abstract notions and arguments to give the complete proof of the Jordan canonical form and, more generally, the rational canonical form of square matrices over fields. They also provide the notion of tensor products of vector spaces and linear transformations. Matrices are treated in depth, with coverage of the stability of matrix iterations, the eigenvalue properties of linear transformations in inner product spaces, singular value decomposition, and min-max characterizations of Hermitian matrices and nonnegative irreducible matrices. The authors show the many topics and tools encompassed by modern linear algebra to emphasize its relationship to other areas of mathematics.
Ella Coleman, "Keto Living Cookbook: Lose Weight with 101 Delicious and Low Carb Ketogenic Recipes"
English | ISBN: 0992402913 | 2013 | 166 pages | AZW3 | 362 KB
The Perfect Cookbook Companion for the Ketogenic Diet
Islands and Snakes: Isolation and Adaptive Evolution by Harvey Lillywhite and Marcio Martins
English | Aug 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0190676418 | 360 pages | PDF | 146 MB
Islands and Snakes contains 13 chapters describing ecological systems with foci on snakes and their ecological roles on islands around the world. Each chapter is written by one or more authors who is an authority on that particular system. Summaries of research on the various islands are written in a narrative manner that includes science as well as personal insights in easily understood language. These varied vignettes of science feature islands around the world, and in all cases, fantastic species of snakes and their roles in the community of insular organisms in which they occur.
Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China by Yan Liu
English | Jun 27, 2021 | ISBN: 0295749008, 0295748990 | 276 pages | PDF | 4 MB
At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, court officials, and laypeople used powerful substances to both treat intractable illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du―a word carrying a core meaning of "potency"―led practitioners to devise a variety of techniques to transform dangerous poisons into efficacious medicines.
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories by Chris Stuck
English | July 6, 2021 | ISBN: 0063029979 | EPUB | 256 pages | 1.6 MB
A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz's Drown.