Musical Semantics By Ole Kühl
2008 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 3039117181 | PDF | 3 MB
Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behavior in the light of research from a number of sources. Being an analytical study, the volume combines evidence from neurobiology, developmental psychology and cognitive science. It aims to bridge the gap between music as an empirical object in the world and music as lived experience. This is the semantic aspect of music: how can something like an auditory stream of structured sound evoke such a strong reaction in the listener? The book is in two parts. In the first part, the biological foundations of music and their cognitive manifestations are considered in order to establish a groundwork for speaking of music in generic, cross-cultural terms. The second part develops the semantic aspect of music as an embodied, emotively grounded and cognitively structured expression of human experience.

Musical Democracy By Nancy S. Love
2006 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0791468690 | PDF | 1 MB
How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.

Diana Souhami, "Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0312155948 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 0.4 mb
Portraying an intense mother/daughter relationship through a series of memoirs, letters, and diaries, the author of Gertrude and Alice explores the passionate lives of Alice Keppel, mistress to Edward VII, and her daughter, Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West.

Ghi-woon Seo, Laura Kingdon, Chris Backe, "More Making Out in Korean: A Korean Language Phrase Book - Revised & Expanded Edition (A Korean Phrasebook)"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0804843562 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 4.9 mb
"More Making Out in Korea is a fun, accessible and thorough Korean phrase book and guide to the Korean language as it's really spoken.

Miri Nakamura, "Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan "
English | ISBN: 0674504321 | 2015 | 192 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters―doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations―bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868-1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of "stigmatized others"―figures subversive to national ideologies. Miri Nakamura contends instead that these monsters were products of modernity, informed by the newly imported scientific discourses on the body, and that they can be read as being complicitin the ideologies of the empire, for they are uncanny bodies that ignite a sense of terror by blurring the binary of "normal" and "abnormal" that modern sciences like eugenics and psychology created. Reading these literary bodies against the historical rise of the Japanese empire and its colonial wars in Asia, Nakamura argues that they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.

Minidrill: Fifteen Projects by John Everett
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1861081375 | 144 pages | PDF | 100 MB
Make the most of your minidrill! This versatile tool is an absolute must for very small projects, and, with its generous assortment of options, it can handle an astounding array of tasks. By illustrating each technique with a specific project, this unique manual gives woodworkers and other crafters the experience to become fully competent on the machine while they're also making useful and decorative items. After instruction on the basic toolkit and the care of this precision instrument, begin by making some accessories for the minidrill-such as a tool rack and drill stand-that teach how to drill precise holes. Practice engraving on glass, making toys and games, shaping delicate miniatures like a love spoon, decorative panels, and more!

Millisecond Pulsars
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030851974 | 334 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume. These aspects include pulsations powered by stellar spin, accretion and thermonuclear burning of accreted matter, their physics and utility, stellar evolution and the extreme physics of super-dense stellar cores. The book includes substantial background material as well as recent theoretical and multi-wavelength observational results. The volume will thus be useful for professional astronomers and graduate students alike.

Metabolic Syndrome e-chart: Full illustrated by HC-HealthComm
English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01HATM7Y0 | EPUB | 1.06 Mb
Metabolic Syndrome e-chart - Full illustrated

Medieval Sovereignty (Past Imperfect) by Andrew Latham
English | February 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1641892943 | 123 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Through a focused and systematic examination of medieval theologians, philosophers, and jurists, Andrew Latham explores how ideas about supreme political authority―sovereignty―first emerged during the high medieval period. The author provides a new model for understanding the concept of sovereignty, and traces its roots, not to the early modern or late medieval eras as do all other accounts, but to the High Middle Ages.

Mechanical Ventilation from Pathophysiology to Clinical Evidence
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030934004 | 422 Pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of the current challenges and solution posed to the health care professionals who need to use mechanical ventilation to treat their patients.