Maria Rieder, "Irish Traveller Language: An Ethnographic and Folk-Linguistic Exploration "
English | ISBN: 3319767135 | 2018 | 285 pages | AZW3 | 564 KB
This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant, and Cant as 'identity'. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

Intellectuals in Politics and Academia: Culture in the Age of Hype
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031076451 | 264 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacoby's seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term "public intellectual" and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism.

Aron Raymond, "In Defense of Decadent Europe"
English | ISBN: 1138525863 | 2018 | 297 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empirical comparison between liberal democracies and collectivist regimes of the East; and, above all, the exploration of what might be termed the "problem" of democracy the tendency of democratic regimes to undermine themselves unless checked in their most extreme tendencies.

Yongtian Wang, "Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications: 17th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2022, Beijing, China, April 23-24, 2022,"
English | ISBN: 9811950954 | 2022 | 357 pages | PDF | 46 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 23-24, 2022.

Hybrid Healthcare
by Mussaad Al-Razouki
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031048350 | 451 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB

Heinrich Mann-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung
Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 3476058077 | 568 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) gehört zu den prägenden Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk umspannt ästhetisch die Epochen vom Fin de Siècle über den Expressionismus bis zur Klassischen Moderne, politisch Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik und antifaschistisches Exil. Gerade in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren ist er ein vielbeachteter Essayist und Publizist, der - als überzeugter Europäer und ‚Republikaner' - die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen seiner Zeit kritisch begleitet. Auch literarisch zeichnet er mit „Der Untertan" ein Psychogramm des deutschen Spießers oder mit „Professor Unrat" ein satirisches Sozialporträt falscher Doppelmoral. Daneben steht noch ein anderer Heinrich Mann: der Ästhet und experimentierfreudige Dichter, der Zeichner, der Liebhaber moderner Medien. Das Handbuch mit seinen rund 90 Beiträgen nimmt Manns facettenreiches, faszinierendes Gesamtwerk in den Blick, summiert die Forschung und bietet neue Perspektiven auf einen großen Autor.

Justin Scherer, "Hands-On jаvascript High Performance: Build faster web apps using Node.js, Svelte.js, and WebAssembly"
English | ISBN: 1838821090 | 2020 | 376 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
An example-driven guide covering modern web app development techniques and emerging technologies such as WebAssembly, Service Workers, and Svelte.js to build faster, secure, and scalable apps

Ranabir Samaddar, "Global Governance and India's North-East: Logistics, Infrastructure and Society"
English | ISBN: 113834270X | 2019 | 310 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade, capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context.

J. K. Rowling, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them "
English | ISBN: 1338216791 | 2017 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 26 MB
An essential companion to the Harry Potter novels, now fully illustrated!

Exploring Digital Resilience: Challenges for People and Organizations
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031109015 | 318 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
This book explores multidimensional issues concerning digital resilience and analyzes how people and organizations maintain, enhance and protect value stemming from digital technologies. Society is now heading for a future in which organizations and people will increasingly depend on digital technologies, yet to date many are still unaware of the scale and risks associated with the digital transformation. As a result, there is an urgent need for digital resilience to drive a fundamental shift in the way people and organizations understand digital technologies, risks and opportunities.