Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction By Rebecca Suter
2015 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0824840011 | PDF | 2 MB
Christians are a tiny minority in Japan, less than one percent of the total population. Yet Christianity is ubiquitous in Japanese popular culture. From the giant mutant "angels" of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise to the Jesus-themed cocktails enjoyed by customers in Tokyo's Christon caf, Japanese popular culture appropriates Christianity in both humorous and unsettling ways. By treating the Western religion as an exotic cultural practice, Japanese demonstrate the reversibility of cultural stereotypes and force us to reconsider common views of global cultural flows and East-West relations.Of particular interest is the repeated reappearance in modern fiction of the so-called "Christian century" of Japan (1549-1638), the period between the arrival of the Jesuit missionaries and the last Christian revolt before the final ban on the foreign religion. Literary authors as different as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Endō Shūsaku, Yamada Fūtarō, and Takemoto Novala, as well as film directors, manga and anime authors, and videogame producers have all expressed their fascination with the lives and works of Catholic missionaries and Japanese converts and produced imaginative reinterpretations of the period. In Holy Ghosts, Rebecca Suter explores the reasons behind the popularity of the Christian century in modern Japanese fiction and reflects on the role of cross-cultural representations in Japan. Since the opening of the ports in the Meiji period, Japan's relationship with Euro-American culture has oscillated between a drive towards Westernization and an antithetical urge to "return to Asia." Exploring the twentieth-century's fascination with the Christian Century enables Suter to reflect on modern Japan's complex combination of Orientalism, self-Orientalism, and Occidentalism.By looking back at a time when the Japanese interacted with Europeans in ways that were both similar to and different from modern dealings, fictional representations of the Christian century offer an opportunity to reflect critically not only on cross-cultural negotiation but also more broadly on both Japanese and Western social and political formations. The ghosts of the Christian century that haunt modern Japanese fiction thus prompt us to rethink conventional notions of East-West exchanges, mutual representations, and power relations, complicating our understanding of global modernity.

Captain Bill Travis, "Hoa Boards: What You Need to Know, But Weren't Told"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 098909376X | ASIN: B074N9K76Q | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.5 mb
"HOA Boards, What You Need to Know but Weren't Told"

Lauren Young, "Hitler's Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII"
English | ISBN: 0062936735 | 2022 | EPUB | 240 pages | 11 MB
A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy-using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today's turn toward authoritarianism.

Hitler's Defeat on the Eastern Front (Images of War) by Ian Baxter
English | ISBN: 1844159779 | 160 pages | EPUB | July 23, 2012 | 55 Mb
A stunning photographic account of Hitler's last stand in the face of the Red Army's successful offensive of 1944.

Hip Dips Workout - Hourglass Side Booty in 7 Days - Complete, Fast and Easy Hip Workout 4 Mins a day by Minimalistic Workout
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09RG2V5MQ | EPUB | 1.51 Mb
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High Permittivity Gate Dielectric Materials bySamares Kar
English | PDF | 2013 | 515 Pages | ISBN : 3642365345 | 18.7 MB
"The book comprehensively covers all the current and the emerging areas of the physics and the technology of high permittivity gate dielectric materials, including, topics such as MOSFET basics and characteristics, hafnium-based gate dielectric materials, Hf-based gate dielectric processing, metal gate electrodes, flat-band and threshold voltage tuning, channel mobility, high-k gate stack degradation and reliability, lanthanide-based high-k gate stack materials, ternary hafnia and lanthania based high-k gate stack films, crystalline high-k oxides, high mobility substrates, and parameter extraction. Each chapter begins with the basics necessary for understanding the topic, followed by a comprehensive review of the literature, and ultimately graduating to the current status of the technology and our scientific understanding and the future prospects."

Gary Hustwit, Jonathan Ive, Dieter Rams, "Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized: The Complete Interviews"
English | 2015 | pages: 736 | ISBN: 0989532143 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
The complete interviews from all three films in the Design Trilogy, including 100 hours of never-before-released conversations, with a foreword and notes on each interview by Gary Hustwit. The book includes in-depth discussions with designers and thinkers like Paola Antonelli, Alejandro Aravena, Chris Bangle, Michael Bierut, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Neville Brody, Tim Brown, Amanda Burden, David Carson, Matthew Carter, Candy Chang, Yung Ho Chang, Noah Chasin, James Corner, Wim Crouwel, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Dan Formosa, Sir Norman Foster, Naoto Fukasawa, Jan Gehl, Jonathan Hoefler, Jonathan Ive, Hella Jongerius, Bruce Katz, David Kelley, Rem Koolhaas, Rahul Mehrotra, Bill Moggridge, Marc Newson, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Peñalosa, Michael C. Place, Rick Poynor, Dieter Rams, Karim Rashid, Alice Rawsthorn, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Ric Scofidio, Erik Spiekerman, Davin Stowell, Jane Fulton Suri, Massimo Vignelli, Rob Walker, Hermann Zapf, and many more... over 75 of the world's most creative and innovative people. "A buried trove of treasure: hundreds of hours of insight from some of the most luminous design minds of our era... an oral history of the contemporary world of design." - Fast Company

Heat Storage: A Unique Solution For Energy Systems by Ibrahim Dincer
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 343 Pages | ISBN : 3319918923 | 109.79 MB
This book covers emerging energy storage technologies and material characterization methods along with various systems and applications in building, power generation systems and thermal management. The authors present options available for reducing the net energy consumption for heating/cooling, improving the thermal properties of the phase change materials and optimization methods for heat storage embedded multi-generation systems.

Sophie White, "Hearing Enslaved Voices "
English | ISBN: 0367541866 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives―including the inner and spiritual lives―of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words.

Alan D. Wolfelt, "Healing Your Grieving Heart After Miscarriage: 100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1617222186 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.3 mb
The miscarriage of a hoped-for child is a shattering loss and those who had already begun to feel attached to the baby will naturally grieve-particularly the mother and father but also siblings this baby would have had, extended family, and friends. This compassionate guide contains 100 practical ideas to help those affected by the tragedy of miscarriage, from teaching the principles of grief and mourning to practical, action-oriented tips for coping with the natural difficulties of a loss. Fostering communication between partners, explaining the loss to others, and reconciling anger and guilt are some of the additional topics covered in this compassionate book for those grieving in the aftermath of a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.