Jorge M. Fernandes, "The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics"
English | ISBN: 0192855409 | 2023 | 816 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, it looks at the past and present by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, it looks at political institutions as the building blocks of Portuguese democracy. The third section examines mass politics and voters, that is, a thorough analysis of the demand-side of mass politics. The fourth section turns to the supply side of mass-politics by looking at parties and the party system. The fifth section looks at the Portuguese society by unpacking a plethora of societal aspects with direct implications for politics. The sixth section examines governance and public policies, with a view to understanding how a constellation of public policies has an impact on the quality of governance and in
Mark Franko, "The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment "
English | ISBN: 0199314209 | 2017 | 680 pages | PDF | 34 MB
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.
Jennifer Cooke, "The New Feminist Literary Studies "
English | ISBN: 1108458602 | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.
The Naked Negotiator
by Michael W Phillips
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1398479144 | 111 pages | True EPUB | 5.48 MB
The MicroRNA Quantum Code Book
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811985855 | 245 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 61 MB
This book tells the story of the discovery of microRNA (miRNA) quantum code, the basic theory of biological data science for medical investigation with miRNA, to its implementation. It explains the use of a new algorithm called the miRNA entangling target sorter (METS), based on the quantum computation algorithm, to give the etiologic analysis for diseases such as cancer, infectious diseases, and age-related disorders. Providing detailed descriptions to make the METS algorithm simple to grasp, it also explains the accumulated cutting-edged data for human diseases utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for quantum miRNA language (miRNA qubit) (MIRAI). Further, it describes a discovery story for quantum miRNA surveillance against tumors and quantum miRNA immunity against viruses. Since this is a multidisciplinary field of study, crucial details on physics, mathematics, computer science, data science, virology, immunology, oncology, pathology, and biology are supplied.
Editors of Fair Winds Press, "The Little Vegan Cookbook: 500 of the Best Vegan Recipes Ever"
English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1592337325 | EPUB | 22,8 mb
The Little Vegan Cookbook is an incomparable compendium of 500 delicious and nourishing plant-based recipes collected from a variety of best-selling cookbooks and authors-filled with hearty entrees, indulgent desserts, and everything in between.
Samuel K. Dolan, "The Line Riders: The Border Patrol, Prohibition, and the Liquor War on the Rio Grande"
English | ISBN: 1493055046 | 2022 | 416 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In January of 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect and the sale and manufacture of intoxicating spirits was outlawed. America had officially gone "dry." For the next thirteen years, bootleggers and big city gangsters satisfied the country's thirst with moonshine and contraband alcohol.
Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth "
English | ISBN: 1978818858 | 2021 | 196 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Daniel Ogden, "The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World"
English | ISBN: 1107164788 | 2017 | 400 pages | PDF | 57 MB
In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition.
The Leadership Challenge
by Kouzes, James M.;Posner, Barry Z.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119736129 | 415 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.1 MB