Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers By Arundhati Roy
2009 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 160846024X | PDF | 7 MB
"Gorgeously wrought...pitch-perfect prose...In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."-Time MagazineCombining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy.This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu Nationalism and India's neo-liberal economic reforms, which began their journey together in the early 1990s, are now turning India into a police state.She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations. She also offers a brilliant account of the August 2008 uprising of the people of Kashmir against India's military occupation and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai.Field Notes on Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.Praise for Field Notes on Democracy:"In her searing account of the actual practice of the world's largest democracy, Arundhati Roy calls for 'factual precision' alongside of the 'real precision of poetry.' Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach. Roy shows in painful detail how the beneficiaries of the highly admired 10 percent growth rate are enjoying a 'new secessionism,' leaving the great majority languishing in poverty and despair, with malnutrition reaching the same levels as sub-Saharan Africa. As surveillance and state terror extend, all under the guise of flourishing democracy, India is becoming 'a nation waiting to be accused,' a nation where a confession extracted under torture can lead to the brink of nuclear war, and where 'fascism's firm footprint has appeared' in ways reminiscent of the early years of Nazism. Most chilling of all is that much of the grim portrait is all too familiar in the West. Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'-and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed." -Noam Chomsky"After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time."-Naomi Klein"The notion of Democracy and the pleading for human compassion first came together in Sophocles and the Greek tragedies. More than two thousand years later we live under an economic world tyranny of unprecedented brutality, which depends upon the systematic abuse of words like Democracy or Progress. Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the answers she receives from the political world today." -John BergerArundhati Roy is a world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. From her celebrated Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things to her prolific output of writing on topics ranging from climate change to war, the perils of free-market development in India, and the defense of the poor, Roy's voice has become indispensable to millions seeking a better world.

R. W. Apple, Corby Kummer, "Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr."
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0312325770 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 0.4 mb
Celebrated journalist R. W. ("Johnny") Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was food anthropologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to match, Apple was also a culinary scholar: witty, wide-ranging and intensely knowledgeable about his subjects. Far Flung and Well Fed is the best of legendary Times reporter Apple's food writing from America, England, Europe, Asia and Australia. Each of the more than fifty essays recount extraordinary meals and little-known facts, of some of the world's most excellent foods -from the origin of an ingredient in a dish, to its history, to the vivid personalities-including Apple's wife, Betsey-who cook, serve and eat those dishes.

Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics By G. L. Easwara Prasad, B. S. Keerthi Gowda (auth.), G P Tandon, Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur, Carter Ralph, Nancy R Sottos, Benjamin Blaiszik (eds.)
2014 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 3319008722 | PDF | 13 MB
Experimental Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials:Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including: Characterization of Energy Storage MaterialsMicrovascular & Natural CompositesNanocomposites for Multifunctional PerformanceComposite/Hybrid Characterization Using Digital Image CorrelationFailure Behavior of Polymer Matrix CompositesNon-Destructive Testing of CompositesComposite Test MethodsJoints/Bonded Composites

Experiential Education and Adolescents' Personal and Spiritual Development: A Mixed-Method Study in the Secondary School Context of Hong Kong By Chung Kwan Ackie Cheung (auth.)
2013 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 3531185756 | PDF | 51 MB
Adventure-based programs have become prevailing in the schools in Hong Kong. Due to the little empirical examination to the frequent use of experiential education, Chung Kwan Ackie Cheung uses mixed methods to establish its first phenomenal picture, addressing the scale of the use of experiential education and the impact of it on adolescents' development with regard to the globalizing phenomenon of Hong Kong. The findings show that experiential education, esp. adventure-based program, has been widely-spread and there is positive impact in the specified aspects self-concept, self-efficacy, learning climate and spiritual dimension of its adolescent learners.

Exam Ref MS-101 Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security 2nd Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0137471777 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Prepare for Microsoft Exam MS-101―and demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge needed to implement modern Microsoft 365 device services, security, and threat management; and to manage Microsoft 365 governance and compliance. Designed for experienced IT professionals, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert level.

Exam Ref MS-100 Microsoft 365 Identity and Services, 2nd Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0137469055 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 45 MB
Prepare for Microsoft Exam MS-100 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge needed to effectively design, deploy, manage, and secure Microsoft 365 services. Designed for experienced IT professionals, Exam Ref focuses on critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level.

Evidence of Extraterrestrials: Over 40 Cases Prove Aliens Have Visited Earth by Warren Agius
English | March 8, 2021 | ISBN: 0738767131 | 265 pages | PDF | 1.85 Mb
Over Forty Alien Encounters That Disclose the Real Truth

Every Family Has a Story: How we inherit love and loss by Julia Samuel
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0385684398 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 1.87 MB
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Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking: International Competitions and Final Workshop, EvAAL 2013, July and September 2013. Proceedings By Nevrez Imamoglu, Zhixuan Wei, Huangjun Shi, Yuki Yoshida, Myagmarbayar Nergui (auth.), Juan A. Botía, Juan Antonio Álvarez-García, Kaori Fujinami, Paolo Barsocchi, Till Riedel (eds.)
2013 | 141 Pages | ISBN: 3642410421 | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living, EvAAL 2013, which was organized in three major events: the International Competition on Indoor Localization and Tracking for Ambient Assisted Living, which took place in Madrid, Spain, in July 2013; the International Competition on Activity Recognition for Ambient Assisted Living, which took place in Valencia, Spain, in July 2013; and the Final Workshop, which was held in Norrköping, Sweden, in September 2013. The papers included in this book describe the organization and technical aspects of the competitions and provide a complete technical description of the competing artefacts and report on the experience lessons learned by the teams during the competition.

Sebastian Biba, "Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition "
English | ISBN: 0367441209 | 2021 | 226 pages | EPUB | 1412 KB
This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.