Posthuman Personhood By Daryl J. Wennemann
2013 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 0761861033 | PDF | 2 MB
Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age. He draws upon Wilfrid Sellars' treatment of the concept of a person within "the manifest image of man in the world." Sellars proposed that we develop a stereoscopic view of reality that includes both a scientific understanding of the world and a meaningful place for persons living and acting in the world. Following Mary Anne Warren, Wennemann develops a distinction between two meanings of the term "human," a biological meaning and a moral meaning, and maintains that all (biologically) humanbeings are persons. But, it is not necessarily the case that all persons must be (biologically) human. After drawing on a contemporary version of Kant's distinction between a theoretical possibility and a real possibility, the book posits that biologically non-human persons like robots, computers, or aliens are a theoretical possibility but that we do not know if they are a real possibility. Finally, Wennemann describes an ethic of self-limitation for the posthuman age.

Post Offices of Europe 18th - 21st Century: A Comparative History (Histoire de la Poste et des Communications / History of the Post Offices and Communications) By Muriel Le Roux (editor), Sébastien Richez (editor)
2014 | 571 Pages | ISBN: 2875741780 | PDF | 12 MB
The cursus publicus, established by the Roman Empire to connect all its conquered territories, may be considered to be the ancestor of all modern post offices. Therefore, mail service networks are part of an organization, dating from Antiquity, which is common to the entire European community. From the 18th century onwards, the French mail service network may be divided into three successive phases. First, the consolidation of the transportation system that was being set up. Second, the development of the system's ability to deal with increasing traffic (through broader human resources). Thirdly, the diversification of its operations and the development of its technical modernisation. What was the situation in other European countries? Are there similarities and differences in how their networks were set up and organized? Finally, how did European Post Offices cooperate with each other in spite of their differences?

Frank Daversa, "Politics in America: A Guide to the Two-Party System"
English | ISBN: 1638715114 | 2021 | 124 pages | EPUB | 131 KB
This book is designed to enlighten novice and undecided voters about politics in America. To start with, it describes the types of people who make up the two major political parties. Liberal to conservative democrats and libertarians to social conservatives are covered . Next, it discusses the parties' respective histories, ranging from 1800 to the present day. Then it explains the ideologies of each, from social issues to economics to the environment. This is followed by a summary of various landmark Congressional legislation. Next, it provides terse commentary on issue relevant to a given election, from taxes to abortion to national security. Lastly, it summarizes concept every voter should understand before casting their ballot on Election Day.

Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900-1975"
English | ISBN: 1501761064 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.

Poetic Revolutionaries By Marion May Campbell
2014 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 9042037865 | PDF | 3 MB
Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by a range of writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance such as those of Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies - covering the structural, narratological, stylistic and scenographic - can work to boost a text's subversive power.

Podman for DevOps: Containerization Reimagined with Podman and Its Companion Tools by Alessandro Arrichiello, Gianni Salinetti
English | April 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1803248238 | True EPUB/PDF | 518 pages | 4.5/7.7 MB
Build, deploy, and manage containers with the next-generation engine and tools

Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War"
English | ISBN: 1501764403 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 10 MB
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries.

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work by Francine Parham
English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1523001526 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 0.41 MB
The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works-who has it, where it hides, and how it's used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.

Plato's Symposium (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature) by Richard Hunter
English | July 15, 2004 | ISBN: 0195160797, 0195160800 | True EPUB | 168 pages | 0.2 MB
Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations from the original are translated into English.

Shih-shan Susan Huang, "Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China"
English | 2015 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 0674504283 | PDF | 15,8 mb
Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-Shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.