Koivunen, "Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy "
English | ISBN: 311075844X | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 40 MB
Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev's Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots' perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world.
Cathy Rose Salit, "Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work"
English | ISBN: 0316382485 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Break through to your peak performance!
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion
by Stéphane Rinfret
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031054369 | 372 pages | True PDF EPUB | 239.17 MB
Peace in Ancient Egypt (Harvard Egyptological Studies) by Vanessa Davies
English | September 6, 2018 | ISBN: 9004380213 | True PDF | 228 pages | 24.3 MB
In Peace in Ancient Egypt, Vanessa Davies offers a new analysis of the ancient Egyptian concept of hetep (""peace"").
Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0137670109 | 544 Pages | True MOBI EPUB | 47 MB
"This book provides a healthy mix of theory and practice, containing numerous nuggets of deep advice but never losing the big picture . . . grounded in real-world experience and documented with academic rigor applied and practitioner community feedback incorporated. I am confident that t will serve the community well, today and tomorrow."
Pathology of the Pancreas
by Irene Esposito, Eva Karamitopoulou-Diamantis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030624153 | 239 pages | True PDF EPUB | 45.05 MB
Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University by Michael Gibson
English | November 29th, 2022 | ISBN: 164177245X | 400 pages | True EPUB | 1.98 MB
Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031049578 | 1233 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism's impact across disciplines and areas of study.
Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter by Anthony Rudd
English | November 18, 2022 | ISBN: 0192856286 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 0.9/1.5 MB
This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and good, and may take us away from them. Rudd tries to show that this Platonic Challenge can be answered in its own terms: that painting is good because it does lead us to truth. What paintings can give us is a non-discursive "knowledge by acquaintance" in which the essence of the painting's subject-matter is made present to the viewer.
Painter's Life
by Lyons, Mari;Lyons, Nick;Perl, Jed;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1510774343 | 183 pages | True EPUB | 34.85 MB