Rio Azul: An Ancient Maya City By Richard E. W. Adams
1999 | 72 Pages | ISBN: 0806130768 | PDF | 55 MB
Deep within the forest in northern Guatemala lie the ruins of Río Azul, a Maya city that reached one-third the size of Tikal. Discovered and partially explored in the early 1960s, Río Azul and the surrounding region were more fully investigated between 1983 and 1987 by an archaeological team led by Richard E. W. Adams. In this summary, Adams integrates the findings of field archaeologists with those of the epigraphers and art historians to recreate the life of this Maya city from the little-known Early Classic period.Remains in the Río Azul area date from 900 B.C. to A.D. 850. The data indicate that, unlike most Maya cities that have been studied, Río Azul was a frontier town, an administrative center, with alternating defense and trade outpost functions. About A.D. 385, the Río Azul region was conquered and the city founded by Tikal, serving as a Teotihuacan-linked garrison for that capital. Nearly all of the more than seven hundred structures found within Río Azul were erected between A.D. 390 and 530.Acres of pavement were laid down around some thirty complexes of residences, temples, and tombs notable for the brightly painted red hieroglyphs and murals on their walls. The elaborate complexes and sumptuous artifacts suggest a city with a heavy proportion of aristocratic families and retainers.Around A.D. 530, Río Azul appears to have been suddenly destroyed. The city was abandoned, then reoccupied--only to stagnate and finally collapse, like many other Classic Maya cities, in the late ninth century.**

Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism by Justin Joque
English | January 11th, 2022 | ISBN: 1788734009 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.57 MB
Traces the revolution in statistics that gave rise to artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism.

Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism By Kalyan Sanyal
2014 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0415735467 | PDF | 54 MB
n this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. Analyzing critical questions from a third world perspective such as: Will the integration into the global capitalist network bring to the third world new economic opportunities? Will this capitalist network make the third world countries an easy prey for predatory multinational corporations? The end result is a discourse, drawing on Marx and Foucault, which envisages the post-colonial capitalist formation, albeit in an entirely different light, in the era of globalization.

Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America by Eduardo Moncada
English | Jan 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1108843387, 1108824706 | 300 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Criminal extortion is an understudied, but widespread and severe problem in Latin America. In states that cannot or choose not to uphold the rule of law, victims are often seen as helpless in the face of powerful criminals. However, even under such difficult circumstances, victims resist criminal extortion in surprisingly different ways. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in violent localities in Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico, Moncada weaves together interviews, focus groups, and participatory drawing exercises to explain why victims pursue distinct strategies to resist criminal extortion. The analysis traces and compares processes that lead to individual acts of everyday resistance; sporadic killings by ad hoc groups of victims and police; institutionalized and sustained collective vigilantism; and coordination between victims and states to co-produce order in ways that both strengthen and undermine the rule of law. This book offers valuable new insights into the broader politics of crime and the state.

Resilience and Southern Urbanism: Towards a New Paradigm by Binti Singh and Manoj Parmar
English | January 10, 2022 | ISBN: 0367563525 | 120 pages | PDF | 18,3 MB
This volume studies the urbanisation trends of medium-sized cities of India to develop a typology of urban resilience. It looks at historic second-tier cities like Nashik, Bhopal, Kolkata and Agra, which are laboratories of smart experiments and are subject to technological ubiquity, with rampant deployment of smart technologies and dashboard governance.

Residential Landscape By Arthur Gao
2011 | 138 Pages | ISBN: 9881973945 | PDF | 42 MB
Residential Landscape This book is mainly devoted to featured residential landscape projects of the Hocker Design Group. mirknig.com These projects respond to unique design challenges with a commitment to providing responsible and innovative solutions. The focus of their design is to solidify the landscape as a cohesive link to the architecture and site. As landscape design is getting more and more popular, the book offers a timely green glimpse into residence design.

Bob Brotherton, "Researching Hospitality and Tourism"
English | ISBN: 1446287556 | 2015 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"Takes readers systematically through the entire research process from the formulation of the aim to the presentation of the dissertation... a key subject-specific resource in our fields."

Amaresh Chakrabarti, Debkumar Chakrabarti, "Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1: Proceedings of ICoRD 2017"
English | 2017 | pages: 1030 | ISBN: 9811035172 | PDF | 27,8 mb
This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 6th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2017) - the largest in India in this area - written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for communities. While design traditionally focused on the development of products for the individual, the emerging consensus on working towards a more sustainable world demands greater attention to designing for and with communities, so as to promote their sustenance and harmony - within each community and across communities. The special features of the book are the insights into the product and system innovation process, and the host of methods and tools from all major areas of design research for the enhancement of the innovation process. The main benefit of the book for researchers in various areas of design and innovation are access to the latest quality research in this area, with the largest collection of research from India. For practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of theories, models, methods and tools that can be taught and practiced for design-led innovation.The contents of this volume will be of use to researchers and professionals working in the areas on industrial design, manufacturing, consumer goods, and industrial management.

Research and Design for Fashion, 3rd edition (Basics Fashion Design) by Simon Seivewright and Richard Sorger
English | Sep 19, 2019 | ISBN: 1350107735 | 200 pages | EPUB | 81 MB
The ability to generate inspired ideas is vital in all creative industries, and nowhere is this more true than in the fast-paced and trend-driven fashion industry. A bestseller in both the UK and US, this fully revised third edition of Research and Design uniquely provides a handy and indispensable resource that will gently guide readers through the fashion design process.

Jonatan Leer, "Research Methods in Digital Food Studies"
English | ISBN: 0367819279 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and media studies and explores research methods from textual analysis to digital ethnography and action research.