Paradoxes of Modernity: Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber By Wolfgang Schluchter; Neil Solomon
1996 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0804724555 | PDF | 64 MB
One of the world's preeminent Max Weber scholars here presents a comprehensive analysis of Weber's ambiguous stance toward modernity considered from a normative, theoretical, and historical point of view. The book is in two parts. Part One scrutinizes Weber's worldview, and Part Two considers his unfinished project on the sociology of religion.

Open Modeling Language (OML) Reference Manual By Donald Firesmith; Ian Graham; B. Henderson-Sellers
1998 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0521648238 | DJVU | 4 MB
OPEN (Object-oriented Process, Environment, and Notation) is an international de facto standard object-oriented development method developed and maintained by the OPEN Consortium. OPEN consists of the OPEN Modeling Language (OML) as well as process, metrics, etc. This book specifies OML, a small but vital component of the complete OPEN method. It uses diagrams, tables, Web references, and text to present the syntax, semantics, and rationale behind OML. It documents Version 1.0 of OML so that object-oriented modelers can learn to use it and upperCASE vendors can support it.

One thousand roads to Mecca : ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage By Wolfe, Michael
2015 | 655 Pages | ISBN: 0802135994 | PDF | 6 MB
"The pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, is a journey all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. Its purpose is to detach human beings from their homes and, by bringing them to Islam's birthplace, to emphasize the equality of all people before God. Since its inception in the seventh century, the Hajj has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the Christian West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims. One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries. These two very different literary traditions form distinct sides of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry."

Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health, 5th Edition by Geoffrey P. Webb
English | November 20, 2019 | ISBN: 0367369397, 0815362412 | EPUB | 676 pages | 12.3 MB
Following the tradition of its predecessor, the fifth edition of Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health continues to offer a wide-ranging coverage of all aspects of nutrition while providing new information to this edition including:

Wendy Lesser, "Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0618340815, 061808293X | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.91 MB
From the esteemed cultural critic and journalist Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same is a bibliophile's dream: a book about the pleasures and surprises of rereading, a witty, intelligent exploration of what books can mean to our lives. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal - it involves the interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor, humor, and grace, Lesser takes us on a guided tour of her own return to books she once knew, from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth. Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we've read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer.

Douglas Murray, "Neoconservatism: Why We Need It"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1594031479 | 248 pages | EPUB | 0.27 MB
Neo Conservatism: Why We Need It is a defense of the most controversial political philosophy of our era. Douglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror. While others are blaming it for foreign policy failures and, more extremely, attacking it as a Jewish cabal, Murray argues that the West needs Neo-conservatism more than ever. In addition to explaining what Neo conservatism is and where it came from, he argues that this American-born response to the failed policies of the 1960s is the best approach to foreign affairs not only for the United States but also for Britain and the West as well.

Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity by Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes
English | Jul 27, 2021 | ISBN: 0367683385 | 254 pages | PDF | 41 MB
The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

Nan Jing: The Classic of Difficult Issues By Paul U. Unschuld
2016 | 648 Pages | ISBN: 0520292278 | PDF | 72 MB
This newly revised and updated edition of Paul U. Unschuld's original 1986 groundbreaking translation reflects the latest philological, methodological, and sinological standards of the past thirty years. TheNan Jingwas compiled in China during the first century C.E., marking both an apex and a conclusion to the initial development stages of Chinese medicine. Based on the doctrines of the Five Phases and yinyang, theNan Jingcovers all aspects of theoretical and practical health care in an unusually systematic fashion. Most important is its innovative discussion of pulse diagnosis and needle treatment.This new edition also includes selected commentaries by twenty Chinese and Japanese authors from the past seventeen centuries. The commentaries provide insights into the processes of reception and transmission of ancient Chinese concepts from the Han era to the present time.Together with theHuang Di Nei Jing Su Wenand theHuang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu,this new translation of theNan Jingconstitutes a trilogy of writings offering scholars and practitioners today unprecedented insights into the beginnings of a two-millennium tradition of what was a revolutionary understanding of human physiology and pathology.

Muscle building cookbook: With 200 recipes & more, 200 high protein recipes for effective fat burning by Henry Alkire
English | June 5, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096LYNXHJ | 330 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb
Learn how to prepare delicious meals that make building muscle and breaking down fat easy, fun, and sustainable!

Jon Chattman, "Moving Foreword: Real Introductions to Totally Made-Up Books"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1946885819 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB
A great foreword is more than just a few pages of self-indulgent frippery that comes before a book. A great foreword adds zest. It sets the stage for the page turner you're about to open, and perhaps even puts you in the locked room where a mystery happens or in the high-button shoes of a year gone by.