Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South: A Reevaluation by Michael S. Frawley
English | May 8th, 2019 | ISBN: 0807170682 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 8.03 MB
In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to explain why the Confederacy succumbed to the Union. Even after the cliometric revolution of the 1970s, when historians first began applying statistical analysis to reexamine antebellum manufacturing output, the pervasive belief in the region's backward-ness prompted many scholars to view slavery, not industry, as the economic engine of the South.

In the Manner of the Franks: Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe by Eric J. Goldberg
English | Oct 16, 2020 | ISBN: 0812252357 | 384 pages | PDF | 89 MB
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world. While hunting was central to elite lifestyles throughout these centuries, the Carolingians significantly altered this aristocratic activity in the later eighth and ninth centuries by making it a key symbol of Frankish kingship and political identity. This new connection emerged under Charlemagne, reached its high point under his son and heir Louis the Pious, and continued under Louis's immediate successors. Indeed, the emphasis on hunting as a badge of royal power and Frankishness would prove to be among the Carolingians' most significant and lasting legacies.

Immigration and the American Ethos by Morris Levy and Matthew Wright
English | Jan 2, 2020 | ISBN: 1108488811, 1108738877 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What do Americans want from immigration policy and why? In the rise of a polarized and acrimonious immigration debate, leading accounts see racial anxieties and disputes over the meaning of American nationhood coming to a head. The resurgence of parochial identities has breathed new life into old worries about the vulnerability of the American Creed. This book tells a different story, one in which creedal values remain hard at work in shaping ordinary Americans' judgements about immigration. Levy and Wright show that perceptions of civic fairness - based on multiple, often competing values deeply rooted in the country's political culture - are the dominant guideposts by which most Americans navigate immigration controversies most of the time and explain why so many Americans simultaneously hold a mix of pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant positions. The authors test the relevance and force of the theory over time and across issue domains.

Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities By Carlin A. Barton; Daniel Boyarin
2016 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0823271196 | PDF | 3 MB
What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively mistranslated as "religion," in order to explore the manifold nuances of their uses within ancient Roman and Greek societies. In doing so, they reveal how we can conceptualize anew and speak of these cultures without invoking the anachronistic concept of religion. From Plautus to Tertullian, Herodotus to Josephus, Imagine No Religion illuminates cultural complexities otherwise obscured by our modern-day categories.

IRON MAKING AND STEELMAKING: THEORY AND PRACTICE By GHOSH, A.; CHATTERJEE, A.
2008 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 812033289X | PDF | 7 MB
This authoritative account covers the entire spectrum from iron ore to finished steel. It begins by tracing the history of iron and steel production, right from the earlier days to today's world of oxygen steelmaking, electric steelmaking, secondary steelmaking and continuous casting. The physicochemical fundamental concepts of chemical equilibrium, activity-composition relationships, and structure-properties of molten metals are introduced before going into details of transport phenomena, i.e. kinetics, mixing and mass transfer in ironmaking and steelmaking pro-cesses. Particular emphasis is laid on the understanding of the fundamental principles of the processes and their application to the optimisation of actual processes. Modern developments in blast furnaces, including modelling and process control are discussed along with an introduction to the alternative methods of ironmaking. In the area of steelmaking, BOF plant practice including pre-treatment of hot metal, metallurgical features of oxygen steelmaking processes, and their control form part of the book. It also covers basic open hearth, electric arc furnace and stainless steelmaking, before discussing the area of casting of liquid steel-ingot casting, continuous casting and near net shape casting. The book concludes with a chapter on the status of the ironmaking and steelmaking in India. In line with the application of theoretical principles, several worked-out examples dealing with fundamental principles as applied to actual plant situations are presented. The book is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of metallurgical engineering. It would also be immensely useful to researchers in the area of iron and steel.

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring by George S. Stergiou
English | PDF | 2019 | 174 Pages | ISBN : 3030230643 | 3.8 MB
Hypertension remains a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Self-monitoring of blood pressure by patients at home is currently recommended as a valuable tool for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Unfortunately, in clinical practice, home blood pressure monitoring is often inadequately implemented, mostly due to the use of inaccurate devices and inappropriate methodologies. Thus, the potential of the method to improve the management of hypertension and cardiovascular disease prevention has not yet been exhausted.

Hathor: The History of the Ancient Egyptian Sky Goddess and Symbolic Mother of the Pharaohs by Charles River Editors
English | February 10, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07NLM5DGH | 72 pages | EPUB | 1.85 Mb
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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React : Build Scalable Full-stack Applications While Learning to Solve Complex Problems with GraphQL
by Sebastian Grebe
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1789134528 | 450 Pages | PDF/ePUB | 10.5 MB

Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE : Build Scalable and Reactive Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
by Luigi Fugaro and Mauro Vocale
English | 2019 | ISBN: 178883786X | 342 Pages | PDF/ePUB | 15.3 MB

Guns of Gore: U.S. Field Artillery Howitzers of the 20th Century by Independently published
English | May 18, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0959BG3WJ | 135 pages | EPUB | 8.86 Mb
U.S. Army 20-year field artillery veteran Donald Yates leads you on a tour of the many different American howitzer systems of the 20th century. This book is loaded with over 80 photographs and illustrations, some never before published, along with facts about each weapon. The author also shares his opinions and experiences regarding the weapon systems in which he has first-hand experience operating. You'll see both mechanized and towed cannons used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. Guns featured include: French 75 mm Model of 1897, 6-inch M1900, M1902 3-inch Field Gun, M1906 4.7-inch Gun,6-inch Siege Howitzer, Model of 1908, 8-inch Model of 1917, French GPF 155 mm Gun, Model of 1918, M1918 240 mm Howitzer, 155 mm Howitzer Model of 1917/18 (Schneider), 4.7-inch gun motor carriage, M1/M116 75 mm Pack Howitzer,M1/M115 8-inch, M1897A4 75 mm, M2A1/M101A1 105 mm, M12 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M44 155 mm Self Propelled, M1 240 mm howitzer, M3 105 mm, M43 8-inch Howitzer Motor Carriage, M37 105 mm Motorized Carriage, M40 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M41 155 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, M53/ M55 Self Propelled Howitzers, M56 90 mm Self Propelled, M65 280 mm Motorized Carriage, M52 105 mm Self-propelled Howitzer, M107 175 mm Self Propelled, M108 155 mm Self Propelled Howitzer, M110A2 203 mm Self Propelled, M109 155 mm Self Propelled, M102 105 mm Howitzer, M119 105 mm, 1975, M198 155 mm, M109A6 Paladin, and M777 155 mm Howitzer.