Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini
English | May 17, 2016 | ISBN: 0198758960, 0198813112 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 1.3 MB
In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach such audiences. Among the figures discussed are T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, C.S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Ignatieff.
Matthew Highland, "Coding for Kids: Scratch: Learn Coding Skills, Create 10 Fun Games, and Master Scratch"
English | ISBN: 1641522453 | 2019 | 172 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Learn to code awesome games with Scratch―a fun starter guide for kids 6 to 10
Codes of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines: Emerging Technologies, Changing Fields
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030862003 | 267 Pages | PDF EPUB | 8 MB
This book investigates how ethics generally precedes legal regulation, and looks at how changes in codes of ethics represent an unparalleled window into the research, innovation, and emerging technologies they seek to regulate. It provides case studies from the fields of engineering, science, medicine and social science showing how professional codes of ethics often predate regulation and help shape the ethical use of emerging technologies and professional practice. Changes in professional ethics are the crystallization of ongoing conversation in scientific and professional fields about how justice, privacy, safety and human rights should be realized in practice where the law is currently silent. This book is a significant addition to this area of practical and professional ethics and is of particular interest to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in the areas of practical and applied ethics.
Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 4 By Shiba Ryotaro, Phyllis Birnbaum
2013 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0415508894 | PDF | 2 MB
Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japans emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century.Volume I describes the growth of Japan's fledgling Meiji state, a major «character» in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form.Anyone curious as to how the «tiny, rising nation of Japan» was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.
John Cross, Edward J. Singer, "Cationic Surfactants: Analytical and Biological Evaluation"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0824791770, 0367402084 | PDF | pages: 393 | 191.7 mb
This work focuses on the environmental availability and effects, toxicological properties and numerous applications of cationic surfactants, detaling the modern analytical processes by which this important class of compounds may be studied. It discusses the types of microorganisms that are susceptible or refractory to the actions of cationic agents.
Edward Schwarz, Tomos Richards, "Cases of a Hollywood Doctor"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138332909, 1138332917 | PDF | pages: 137 | 8.6 mb
Would you know how to manage the Easter Bunny's blood sugars after too much chocolate?
William Eskridge Jr., "Cases and Materials on Statutory Interpretation "
English | ISBN: 0314278184 | 2012 | 912 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Drawn from and updating the materials in the authors' landmark casebook on Legislation, this new casebook is a comprehensive and highly teachable introduction to Statutory Interpretation. Reflecting new scholarship as well as recent federal and state cases, the editors have included and updated the many teachable statutory interpretation cases found in the longer legislation casebook.
Mari SanGiovanni, "Camptown Ladies"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1932859861 | 264 pages | EPUB | 0.37 MB
"Damn if I didn't actually laugh out loud while reading it-several times, in fact. If you're looking for a funny, well-written novel . . . give this a try!"-AfterEllen.com
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection edited by Richard Lansdown
English | June 23, 2015 | ISBN: 0198722559, 0198806442 | True EPUB | 500 pages | 1.1 MB
Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal.
Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia (Religion and Society in Asia) by DR. (ENG) Lee Ooi Tan
English | Aug 22, 2020 | ISBN: 9463726438 | 206 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia tells the story of how a minority community comes to grips with the challenges of modernity, history, globalization, and cultural assertion in an ever-changing Malaysia. It captures the religious connection, transformation, and tension within a complex traditional belief system in a multi-religious society. In particular, the book revolves around a discussion on the religious revitalization of Chinese Buddhism in modern Malaysia. This Buddhist revitalization movement is intertwined with various forces, such as colonialism, religious transnationalism, and global capitalism. Reformist Buddhists have helped to remake Malaysia's urban-dwelling Chinese community and have provided an exit option in the Malay and Muslim majority nation state. As Malaysia modernizes, there have been increasing efforts by certain segments of the country's ethnic Chinese Buddhist population to separate Buddhism from popular Chinese religions. Nevertheless, these reformist groups face counterforces from traditional Chinese religionists within the context of the cultural complexity of the Chinese belief system.