The Truth About the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery By Robert K. Wilcox
2010 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 159698600X | EPUB | 2 MB
The shroud of Turin is one of history's most controversial and perplexing relics. Many believe it to be the genuine burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Some hypothesize the image on the shroud was created through a rare scientific phenomenon. Still others think the shroud is a fake, provenВ—through carbon tests in 1988В—to be a clever forgery. In The Truth About the Shroud of Turin, investigative reporter Robert K. Wilcox applies his investigative eye and compelling writing style to this mysterious artifact. Featuring new evidence, The Truth About the Shroud of Turin offers new insight into this baffling mystery and offers compelling evidence that the shroud is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

Rachel P. Maines, "The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction "
English | ISBN: 0801866464 | 2001 | 208 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 3 MB + 2 MB
Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association

The Russian Anarchists By Paul Avrich
2005 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1904859488 | PDF | 25 MB
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of "direct action"-workers' control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.Avrich consulted published material in five languages and anarchist archives worldwide to present a picture of the philosophers, bomb throwers, peasants, and soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of "Mother Russia." Including the influence and ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin, the armed uprisings of Makhno, the activities of Volin, Maximoff, and the attempted aid of Berkman and Emma Goldman.Paul Avrich is a retired professor of history at Queens College.

Larry Frohman, "The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany"
English | ISBN: 1789209463 | 2020 | 406 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.

The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108837344 | 489 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused evolutionary biologists. The origin and early evolution of snakes is a broad, interdisciplinary topic for which experts in palaeontology, ecology, physiology, embryology, phylogenetics, and molecular biology have made important contributions. The last 25 years has seen a surge of interest, resulting partly from new fossil material, but also from new techniques in molecular and systematic biology. This volume summarises and discusses the state of our knowledge, approaches, data, and ongoing debates. It provides reviews, syntheses, new data and perspectives on a wide range of topics relevant to students and researchers in evolutionary biology, neontology, and palaeontology.

The New Bail-In Legislation: An Analysis of European Banking Resolution by Angela Maria Maddaloni, Giulia Scardozzi
English | EPUB | 2022 | 96 Pages | ISBN : 3030875598 | 2.8 MB
Financial stability is a pillar of well-functioning financial markets. After the last financial crisis, European policymakers harmonised banking regulation and revised the framework of banking resolution. The introduction of the bail-in legislation is a natural experiment to improve the understanding of banking resolution and how it affected the funding strategies of banks. This book assesses whether financial stability has been strengthened by the change in banks' resolution policy with a focus on the bail-in.

The Middle-Tier Of The Architectural Photography: How To Handle Photo Techniques by Granville Ostorga
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09LXZHL9X | 255 pages | EPUB | 0.62 Mb
An architectural photographer uses his or her artistic talent and composition skills to capture images of structures on film. Architectural photographers have a combination of skills and experience and frequently a college degree.

Milton Osborne, "The Mekong Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future"
English | ISBN: 1865082198 | 2000 | 306 pages | EPUB | 4 MB

The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence By Maurizio Tinnirello (editor)
2022 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0429446675 | PDF | 19 MB
The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligencetackles some issues linked to AI development and use, contributing to a better understanding of the global politics of AI; an area where enormous work still needs to be done, and the contributors provide significant input into this field of study, to policy makers, academics, and society at large.

The Exoteric Square of Opposition: The Sixth World Congress on the Square of Opposition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030908224 | 480 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 97 MB
The theory of the square of opposition has been studied for over 2,000 years and has seen a resurgence in new theories and research since the second half of the twentieth century. This volume collects papers presented at the Sixth World Congress on the Square of Opposition, held in Crete in 2018, developing an interdisciplinary exploration of the theory. Chapter authors explore subjects such as Aristotle's ontological square, logical oppositions in Avicenna's hypothetical logic, and the power of the square of opposition to solve theological problems regarding predestination and theodicy. Other topics covered include:

The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties by Steve Berges
English | November 14, 2003 | ISBN: 0471463310 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.77 Mb
Fix and flip single-family houses for quick profit-and long-term prosperity

The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin By Carolyn S. Loeb
2022 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1350258601 | PDF | 23 MB
In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, post-reunification public sculptures, and images and sites from the street art scene. Her careful analyses show how these developed new architectural and spatial vocabularies that drew on the city's infrastructure and daily urban experience. These works challenged mainstream urban development practices and engaged with citizen activism and with a wider civic discourse about what a city can be.Loeb extends this urban focus to her examination of the extensive outdoor installation of the Berlin Wall Memorial and its mandate to represent the history of the city's division. She studies its surrounding neighborhoods to show that, while the Memorial adopts many of the urban-oriented vocabularies established by the earlier works of public art she examines, it truncates the story of urban division, which stretches beyond the Wall's existence. Loeb suggests that, by embracing more multi-vocal perspectives, the Memorial could encourage the kind of participatory and heterogeneous construction of the city championed by the earlier works of public art.

Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire"
English | ISBN: 1681778696 | 2018 | 624 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
A monumental cultural history of Napoleon Bonaparte's fascination with antiquity and how it shaped Paris' artistic landscape.

The Best Beautiful Women's 2022 by Perfect Photography Content
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09Z7233GV | 94 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
Beauty with natural tits and breasts are posing in seducing scenery.

The Art of UI/UX Design by Blaine Fisher
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9MDWCT4 | 90 pages | EPUB | 0.45 Mb
The Art of UI/UX Design is an essential guide for anyone who wants to learn about the principles and practices of effective user interface and user experience design. This book will teach you how to create designs that are not only attractive and visually appealing, but also easy to use and navigate. You'll learn how to create user interfaces that are both intuitive and visually appealing, and you'll gain a better understanding of the overall user experience. With The Art of UI/UX Design, you'll have everything you need to become a successful UI/UX designer.

Steven E. Sodergren, "The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865"
English | ISBN: 0807165565 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern warfare, a shift that produced unprecedented consequences for the soldiers fighting on the front lines. In The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns, Steven E. Sodergren examines the transition to trench warfare, the lengthy campaigns of attrition that resulted, and how these seemingly grim new realities affected the mindset and morale of Union soldiers.

Telemedicine: The Computer Transformation of Healthcare
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030994562 | 389 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system. With the arrival of advanced technologies, telehealth has become a new subject, requiring a different understanding of IT devices and of their use, to fulfill health needs. Different topics are discussed - from the basics of TeleMedicine, to help readers understand the technology from ground up, to details about the infrastructure and communication technologies to offer deeper insights into the technology. The use of IoT and cloud services along with the use of blockchain technology in TeleMedicine are also discussed. Detailed information about the use of machine learning and computer vision techniques for the proper transmission of medical data - keeping in mind the bandwidth of the network - are provided. The book will be a readily accessible source of information for professionals working in the area of information technology as well as for the all those involved in the healthcare environment.

Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy By Jan Jordan
2022 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 1032263598 | PDF | 4 MB
In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we must view rape culture as a consequence of the social divisiveness that emerges from the logic of patriarchy. In advancing this argument, Jordan offers a comprehensive indictment of the patriarchal system while recognising also women's efforts to resist its edicts. Jordan critically explores two mechanisms that she argues are central to the maintenance and reproduction of rape culture - silencing and objectification. Both are examined as patriarchal strategies that have been relied on for centuries to control and constrain women's lives, silencing their voices and keeping them as 'othered' outsiders in a male-defined world. Women throughout history have sought ways to resist such control and, since the second-wave women's movement of the 1970s, this has included multiple initiatives both offline and more recently online. While #MeToo is being hailed by many as evidence that the silencing of women's voices about rape has finally been broken, Jordan urges a more critical appraisal given the continued dominance of patriarchal thinking. To end rape culture, Jordan argues, we must end patriarchy.This timely and provocative book, which complements Jordan's Women, Rape and Justice: Unravelling the Rape Conundrum (Routledge, 2022), will be of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and activists seeking to understand and challenge the pervasive rape culture characterising contemporary patriarchal society.

Sustainable Global Resources of Seaweeds Volume 2: Food, Pharmaceutical and Health Applications by Ambati Ranga Rao, Gokare A. Ravishankar
English | PDF | 2022 | 656 Pages | ISBN : 3030921735 | 15.6 MB
Marine plant life is an abundant source of nutrients that enhance the daily diet. In recent years, consuming diets rich in seaweeds or their extracts have been shown to provide health benefits due to being rich in macronutrients, micronutrients and nutraceuticals. The commercial value of seaweeds for human consumption is increasing annually, and some countries harvest several million tons annually.

Strategic Planning for Project Management Using a Project Management Maturity Model by Harold R. Kerzner
English | January 16, 2001 | ISBN: 0471400394 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.75 Mb
"It has often been said that 'to improve, one must be prepared to measure the improvement' and 'one must inspect what one expects.' The Kerzner Project Management Maturity Model has provided this tangible measure of maturity. The rest is up to a company to set the expectations and to inspect the results."-Bill Marshall, Nortel Global Project Process Standards (from the Foreword)

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1492086894 | 773 Pages | True MOBI | 11 MB
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts-difficult problems or issues with no best practices-that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.

Smart Photos: 52 Ideas To Take Your Smartphone Photography to the Next Level by Jo Bradford
English | October 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 0711265461 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 8.57 MB
Packed with projects and inspirational ideas you can do any time, any place, become an accomplished photographer while feeding your creativity with this guide that reveals what just what your smartphone camera is capable of.

Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad By Hil Malatino
2022 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1517912083 | PDF | 9 MB
How the "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days-or weeks, or months, or even years-being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening.In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the "wrong body." Posttransition, trans individuals-especially trans people of color-are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair.By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing-and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.

Sex More Than A Technique: Redefining sex and building genuine intimacy Forever. by John T. Parks
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9YRJCDM | 55 pages | EPUB | 0.12 Mb
The complete guide to creating the sex life of your greatest fantasies with advanced knowledge from sexpert John T. Parks

Secularism: The Basics By Jacques Berlinerblau
2021 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0367691574 | PDF | 5 MB
Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. "Secularism" must be the most confused and convoluted term in the entire global political lexicon. From New York, to Paris, to Istanbul, to Addis Ababa, to New Delhi, to Montevideo, there are countless examples of politicians, religious leaders and journalists, invoking the S-word in heated debates about public education, gender, sex, national symbols, and artistic freedom. In this lively and lucid book, Jacques Berlinerblau addresses why secularism is defined in so many ways and why it so ignites people's passions. In so doing, he explores the following important questions: What does secularism mean? Why should we care about this idea? What are the different types of secularism and what are their histories? What are the basic principles of political secularisms? Why are secularism and Atheism often confused? What is the relationship between secularism and LGBTQ rights? What opposition are secularisms up against? What does the future hold for a concept millennia in the making, but only really operationalized in the twentieth century? With a glossary of key terms, case studies, informative tables, and suggestions for further reading throughout, the book considers key philosophical, religious, anti-religious, post-modern and post-colonial arguments around secularism. This book is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a readable introduction to the often-conflicting interpretations of one of our era's most complex and controversial ideas.

Science for a Green New Deal : Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice
by Eric A. Davidson
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1421444348 | 264 Pages | True ePUB | 2.06 MB

SECOND STAGE: THE CLASSICAL COGNITIVE MODEL by Erick Jaimes
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9Y2W4XS | 260 pages | MOBI | 0.41 Mb
Using the example of the machine to read English texts, an important difference between the connectionist and the Symbolist models can be shown. In the connectionist model, as soon as the printed letters enter the system, they are transformed into a series of patterns of activation and deactivation and transmission of signals by the components of the network; It does not become a symbol, nor is it possible to linearly follow its path of transformations as it happens in the sequential architecture of the classical cognitivist model. In connectionism, symbols or representations disappear or serve no function. Thus, the traditional perspective of various psychologies and other disciplines, expressed in that the mind works with symbols, is left without place.

Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture By Beth Lynch, Anne Dunan-Page (editor)
2008 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0754658007 | PDF | 23 MB
Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable, significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England. Whilst there has been regular, if often cursory, scholarly interest in his activities as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is the first sustained book-length study of the man for almost a century. L'Estrange's engagement on the Royalist side during the Civil war, and his energetic pamphleteering for the return of the King in the months preceding the Restoration earned him a reputation as one of the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the Press under Charles II, he was charged with preventing the printing and publication of dissenting writings; his additional role as Surveyor of the Press authorised him to search the premises of printers and booksellers on the mere suspicion of such activity. He was also a tireless pamphleteer, journalist, and controversialist in the conformist cause, all of which made him the bГѓВЄte noire of Whigs and non-conformists. This collection of essays by leading scholars of the period highlights the instrumental role L'Estrange played in the shaping of the political, literary, and print cultures of the Restoration period. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the volume covers all the major aspects of his career, as well as situating them in their broader historical and literary context. By examining his career in this way the book offers insights that will prove of worth to political, social, religious and cultural historians, as well as those interested in seventeenth-century literary and book history.

Edited by Andreas Lammer, "Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World "
English | ISBN: 9004504443 | 2022 | 428 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography, in order to investigate and present shared contexts and questions, and to initiate future collaboration among the fields of classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.

Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory: Theorizing the Other By John Solomos
2022 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1857286324 | PDF | 9 MB
In Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory John Solomos provides a critical and comprehensive overview of recent theorising and debate about the role of race and ethnicity in contemporary societies. Written in an accessible style and drawing on a wide range of both theoretical and empirically focused materials this is a book that seeks to explore the evolution of race and ethnicity as subjects of both scholarly and political debate. It includes detailed analysis of key themes in contemporary scholarly research and provides case studies and examples that will be of interest to students and scholars of race and ethnicity alike.Key chapters include:race and racismanti-semitism, racism and modernityrace, difference and identityfeminism, race and cultural politicsnationalisms and racismsrace and ethnicity in a changing world.