Jocelyn Frelier, "Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature"
English | ISBN: 1496225090 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of "trans-" families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders.

Cong Ellen Zhang, "Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China"
English | 2010 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0824833996 | PDF | 10,7 mb
During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited.

Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan By Heide Fehrenbach (editor), Uta G. Poiger (editor)
1999 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1571811079 | PDF | 10 MB
American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational,socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.

Training and Conditioning Young Athletes
by Bompa, Tudor O.;Sarandan, Sorin;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1718216149 | 305 pages | True PDF | 10.01 MB

Traffic Congestion Control by PDE Backstepping
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031193458 | 373 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 52 MB
This monograph explores the design of controllers that suppress oscillations and instabilities in congested traffic flow using PDE backstepping methods. The first part of the text is concerned with basic backstepping control of freeway traffic using the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) second-order PDE model. It begins by illustrating a basic control problem - suppressing traffic with stop-and-go oscillations downstream of ramp metering - before turning to the more challenging case for traffic upstream of ramp metering. The authors demonstrate how to design state observers for the purpose of stabilization using output-feedback control. Experimental traffic data are then used to calibrate the ARZ model and validate the boundary observer design. Because large uncertainties may arise in traffic models, adaptive control and reinforcement learning methods are also explored in detail.

Trading Order Block Like Big Banks With Smart Money.: Beginners Guide to understanding what order blocks are in the forex market, identifying these orders and utilizing them in your trading strategy. by Emily Dhruv
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQ8R5DJN | EPUB | 0.27 Mb
The world of trading has changed drastically over the past few decades, with individual retail traders becoming more involved in predicting price movements and understanding market dynamics.

Trade Unions in the Developed Economies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032394412 | 228 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
Originally published in 1981, Trade Unions in the Developed Economies is a collection of studies on the growth, structure and policies of trade unions in 7 developed economies. The early growth of trade unions has been summarised so that a post-Second World War analysis could be undertaken. The section on growth contains an examination of the extent to which conflict between the parties has either increased or decreased. All developments are viewed against a backcloth of general economic developments and the statistical data deal with trends rather than particular developments at any one point. The section on structure analyses how changes in the structure of the labour force have been reflected by changes in the structure of trade unions. Inter-union relations are examined in this and other contexts. The policy section examines the main bargaining issues and the methods employed to achieve these goals.

Bacon, "Toxic Cultures "
English | ISBN: 1789979536 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 19 MB
«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying, this book is paradoxically a delight and purgative to read! An antidote to the very thing it explores.» (Professor Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema)

Moazzem Hossain, "Towards a Sustainable Economy "
English | ISBN: 1032140062 | 2022 | 316 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced by the United Nations (UN) for all member nations with a total of 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved between 2016 and 2030. The recent pandemic has presented more challenges to achieving the UN's SDGs. This book examines Bangladesh's ascendancy in socio-economic terms and the prospects of Bangladesh overcoming the challenges to become a higher-middle-income nation by 2030.

Marcus Doshi, "Towards Good Lighting for the Stage"
English | ISBN: 1032073314 | 2022 | 210 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting design from conceptualization to live performance.