Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou By Lucie B. Olivova, Vibeke Bordahl
2009 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 8776940357 | PDF | 12 MB
Yangzhou, once the central place of literati and urban culture, is still one of the most important centers of traditional culture in China today. Over the years particular regional forms of art and entertainment have arisen here, some surviving into the present time. This richly illustrated volume celebrates Yangzhou's rich cultural tradition through a well-balanced spectrum of topics spanning the period from the late 17th century to modern times. These are grouped into four thematic parts: Yangzhou's cultural heritage during historic downfalls and revivals; regional literature and book production; local theatre and storytelling; and various artists of the 18th-century Yangzhou School of Painting. Within each thematic part, descriptions and evaluations of cultural phenomena are supplemented with reflections on lifestyle and customs, weaving a virtual dialogue that binds the topical richness of the collection tightly together.

LifePass: Develop the Mindset, Techniques, and Goals to Optimize Your Life by Payal Kadakia
2022 | ISBN: 179720694X | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Introducing The LifePass Method: A unique method of goal setting from the founder of ClassPass that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires.

Life Forms and Meaning Structure By Alfred Schutz, translated, introduced and annotated by Helmut R. Wagner
2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0415703042 | PDF | 11 MB
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz's phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987.The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson's conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.

Patrick Geoghegan, "Liberator: The Life and Death of Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1847"
English | 2013 | pages: 315 | ISBN: 0717154025, 0717146650 | PDF | 60,4 mb
In this sequel to his critically acclaimed King Dan, Patrick Geoghegan looks at the dramatic final years of Daniel O'Connell's life and career. Charting his remarkable rise and fall in the 1830s, it also deals with his political resurrection in the 1840s when he rolled back the years to lead a new national movement, culminating in a series of massive public meetings around the country. In doing so he developed a new model for peaceful agitation.

Level Up: The Best Kept Secrets to Overcoming Roadblocks, Achieving Success & Multiplying Results by Robert Plank
English | January 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1660205271 | 159 pages | MOBI | 0.84 Mb
Multiple experts share how they were able to overcome limits to achieve the "next level" in their business, mindset, and/or relationships. In "Level Up" - you'll hear from experts in business, mindset, and life - and how THEY were able to surpass their goals, turn disadvantages into advantages, and create their ideal lifestyle! Including...- LARRY DODD was frustrated when it came to inspiring change (and confidence) in his subordinates and co-workers. The solution is for you to create your three "playbooks" that help you discover change from frustration and lead to you getting "comfortable being uncomfortable."- LARRY BECHT sympathizes with the issue of modern-day business being too "crowded" - and the answer is to use publicity (Authority Marketing) to stand out from the crowd.- DREW GRIFFIN struggled landing local clients until he co-created a new method called Local Media Assets that allowed business owners to come to him, using contests and giveaways.- LANCE TAMASHIRO understands, much like you do, that you can't scale as only one person, but it's also difficult (and scary) to trust others to run your business for you. His solution is for you to hire a full time employee, NOT a freelancer, and he shares the tools and mindsets you'll need to implement to make it happen.- ROBERT PLANK can get you to break out of your shell using podcast interviews - find out what all the fuss is about and how you can use the WWHW (Why, What, How-To, What-If) formula to consistently network with experts in your industry.- SYNDEE HENDRICKS wants to know: Where is your hidden money? If you've ever felt like giving up, you might simply need to re-focus and consider a new perspective.- TAMMY WASINGER, Functional Medicine Health Coach, has easy and actionable advice for you to improve your diet and lifestyle with a few simple changes, so that you can be your best self and live your best life.- JEANETTE CHASWORTH, The Color Whisperer, wants you to reinvent, recreate and reimagine your home, closet, and surroundings, so that you can move on and grow.- MELINDA KELLY is no stranger to painful growth, mentors, learning, and being resourceful out of necessity.- COLLEEN REKERS can relate to your need to sometimes re-invent yourself, discover self-care, and update your mental "writing" in order to get to your final destination!- SUZY PRUDDEN says that failure is her best tool when it comes to leveling up. Discover her secrets when it comes to grit and determination.- DR. MIKE WOO-MING wanted to escape the "trap" of being a doctor - he was ready to work smarter, take risks, find fulfilment, and escape fear.Claim your copy of "Level Up: The Best Kept Secrets to Overcoming Roadblocks, Achieving Success & Multiplying Results" so that you too can be inspired, educated, entertained and informed by the adversities of others. Avoid the usual boring facts & figures, cliched advice, and outdated material... instead, take the advice of those "mentors" you can learn from.

Lessons from Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective on Transport By Supriyo Datta
2012 | 492 Pages | ISBN: 9814335290 | EPUB | 6 MB
Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smart phone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms in length. These lecture notes are about a less-appreciated by-product of the microelectronics revolution, namely the deeper understanding of current flow, and device operation that it has enabled, which forms the basis for a new approach to transport problems. The book assumes very little background beyond linear algebra and differential equations, and is intended to be accessible to anyone in any branch of science or engineering.

Gregory Heyworth, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, "Les Eschéz d'Amours"
English | 2013 | pages: 696 | ISBN: 9004212531 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Les Eschéz d'Amours constitutes a vast encyclopedic allegory in the tradition of the Roman de la Rose, treating matters of love, politics, economics, music, medicine, courtly learning and leisures in the age of Charles V.

Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination By John Griffith Urang
2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0801476534 | PDF | 2 MB
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic Description: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.

Lectures on Dependency: Selected Topics in Multivariate Statistics
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030969312 | 64 Pages | PDF | 1.26 MB
This short book elaborates on selected aspects of stochastic-statistical dependencies in multivariate statistics. Each chapter provides a rigorous and self-contained treatment of one specific topic, poses a particular problem within its scope, and concludes by presenting its solution. The presented problems are not only relevant for research in mathematical statistics, but also entertaining, with elegant proofs and appealing solutions. The chapters cover correlation coefficients of bivariate normal distributions, empirical likelihood ratio tests for the population correlation, the rearrangement algorithm, covariances of order statistics, equi-correlation matrices, skew-normal distributions and the weighted bootstrap. This book is primarily intended for early-career researchers in mathematical statistics, but will also be interesting for lecturers in the field. Its goal is to rouse the reader's interest, further their knowledge of the subject and provide them with some useful mathematical techniques.

Corita Kent, Jan Steward, "Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1581156472 | EPUB | pages: 337 | 115.0 mb
Learn how to challenge fears, be open to new directions, recognize connections between objects and ideas, and much more in this remarkable, indispensable guide to freeing the creative spirit within all of us.