The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
English | July 28th, 2021 | ISBN: 0063001829, 0063090589 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 1.03 MB
How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?

The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment: Health Policy Innovations and Lessons
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030667251 | 144 Pages | PDF EPUB | 10 MB
The landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "Obamacare," is a topic of great debate in mainstream, academic, and scientific media that generated strong opinions across the political spectrum and our nation. Soon after the enactment of the ACA and the fierce debate that ensued, The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment was published by Springer in 2014. Now five years later, just finishing an election year in which the ACA was a hotly debated issue, the second edition of this title examines the history, lessons, and impact of this ground-breaking legislation.

Alison Gulley, "Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts "
English | ISBN: 1641890320 | 2018 | 226 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge the temporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century. When episodes involving rape are thrown into the mix, that task becomes even more difficult. The essays in this volume approach these difficult texts in ways that are both academically and ethically sound, recognizing that students and teachers bring a variety of experiences to the classroom that necessarily color the reception of a given work. At a time when colleges and universities are tasked with finding new solutions to the problem of sexual violence, this volume proposes ways educators can help students navigate the perceived divide between in- and out-of-class experiences. The contributors―from community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and large state universities―offer suggestions for classroom activities and assignments for a range of medieval texts, as well as insight into the concerns of students in various settings.

Solar Energy: Systems, Challenges, and Opportunities by Himanshu Tyagi
English | PDF | 2019 | 423 Pages | ISBN : 9811506744 | 15.8 MB
This book covers challenges and opportunities related to solar-energy based systems. It covers a wide variety of topics related to solar energy, including applications-based systems such as solar thermal systems that are focused on drying, desalination, space cooling, refrigeration, and processing; recent advances in solar cells (DSSC) and photovoltaics; technologies for storage of energy (both sensible heating as well as latent heating); and the design of concentrated solar receivers. The information is presented in the context of the overall global energy utilization, and the role of solar energy has been highlighted. The contents of this book will be of interest to researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.

Sojourns in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics - III: Interacting Particle Systems and Random Walks, A Festschrift for Charles M. Newman by Vladas Sidoravicius
English | PDF | 2019 | 327 Pages | ISBN : 981150301X | 5.8 MB
Charles M. (Chuck) Newman has been a leader in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics for nearly half a century. This three-volume set is a celebration of the far-reaching scientific impact of his work. It consists of articles by Chuck's collaborators and colleagues across a number of the fields to which he has made contributions of fundamental significance. This publication was conceived during a conference in 2016 at NYU Shanghai that coincided with Chuck`s 70th birthday.

Anne D. Wallace, "Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women's Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature "
English | ISBN: 1783088451 | 2018 | 214 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histories of the family, and providing a detailed account of the 70-year Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister controversy, Anne Wallace traces an alternative domesticity anchored by adult sibling relations through Dorothy Wordsworth's journals; William Wordsworth's poetry; Mary Lamb's essay "On Needle-Work"; and novels by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Dinah Mulock Craik and George Eliot. Recognizing adult sibling relationships, and the figure of the adult unmarried sibling in the household, as primary and generative rather than contingent and dependent, and recognizing material economy and law as fundamental sources of sibling identity, Sisters and the English Household resets the conditions for literary critical discussions of sibling relations in nineteenth-century England.

Judith Bennett, "Sex Signs: Every Woman's Astrological and Psychological Guide to Love, Health, Men and More!"
English | 1990 | ISBN: 0312915977 | 530 pages | EPUB / AZW3 | 5.6 MB
A groundbreaking, unique, and dramatic marriage of astrology, psychology, and female sexuality where you'll find extraordinary tools for taking charge of your life!

Second World War Infantry Tactics: The European Theatre by Stephen Bull
English | July 19, 2012 | ISBN: 1848840705 | EPUB | 224 pages | 10.2 MB
The 'poor bloody infantry' do the dirty front-line work of war. It bears the brunt of the fighting and often suffers disproportionately in combat in comparison with the other armed forces. Yet the history of infantry tactics is too rarely studied and often misunderstood.

Claire Fanger, "Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk "
English | ISBN: 0271066504 | 2015 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 8 MB
In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John's book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book's inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John's work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John's visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger's approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion.