Optimizing Metabolic Status for the Hospitalized Patient:
The Role of Macro- and Micronutrition on Disease Management
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1138611646 | 427 Pages | PDF (True) | 59 MB

Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) By Naomi D. Segal (editor), Hyunseon Lee (editor)
2014 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 3034317824 | PDF | 2 MB
As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the fin-de-siècle as its primary lens, this volume explores the shifting relationships between the multimedia genre of opera and the rapidly changing world of visual cultures. It also examines the changing aesthetics of opera in composition and performance and historical (dis)continuity, including the postcolonial era. The book comprises eleven interdisciplinary essays by scholars from eight countries, researching in music, theatre, literature, film and media studies, as well as a special contribution by opera director Sir Jonathan Miller. The book begins with an examination of operatic exoticism in various cultural contexts, such as French, Latin American and Arabic culture. The next sections focus on the most beloved figures in opera performance - Salome, Madame Butterfly and Aida - and performances of these operas through history. Further interpretations of the operas in film and new media are then considered. In the final section, Sir Jonathan Miller reflects on the 'afterlife' of opera.

Only Connect: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction (Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture) By Elsa Cavalié (editor), Laurent Mellet (editor)
2017 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 3034325991 | PDF | 2 MB
Since Forster's death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf's terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other's political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster's private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his œuvre?

Diane Ackerman, "One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0393341747 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.5 mb
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today edited by Richard D. Mohr, Barbara M. Sattler
English | May 5, 2010 | ISBN: 1930972326 | True EPUB/PDF | 416 pages | 3.6/31.5 MB
The much-anticipated anthology on Plato'sTimaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos-examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September of 2007.

Tobias Mühlenbruch, Wissam Raji, "On the Theory of Maass Wave Forms"
English | 2020 | pages: 527 | ISBN: 3030404765 | PDF | 5,6 mb
1. A Brief Introduction to Modular Forms.- 2. Period Polynomials.- 3. Maass Wave Forms of Real Weight.- 4. Families of Maass Cusp Forms, L-Series and Eichler Integrals.- 5. Period Functions.- 6. Continued Fractions and the Transfer Operator Approach.- 7. Weak Harmonic Maass Wave Forms.- A. Background Material.- References.- Symbol Index.- Index.

E. M. Cioran, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, "On the Heights of Despair"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0226106705 | 150 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
Born of a terrible insomnia-"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"-this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights."

On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice: Noam Chomsky's Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna (Counterpoints) By Pierre W. Orelus, Noam Chomsky
2014 | 174 Pages | ISBN: 1433124483 | PDF | 3 MB
Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated languages, democratic schooling, neoliberalism, colonization, and the harmful effect of Western globalization on developing countries, particularly on the poor living in those countries. On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice offers a unique perspective on these issues. Educators and scholar-activists interested in challenging the long-standing status quo to inspire transformative social, educational, and political change must read this book.

Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland By Paula Blair
2014 | 271 Pages | ISBN: 3034309457 | PDF | 6 MB
Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, uncertainty and disagreement. This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the underlying anxieties that continue to trouble post-Agreement society. In doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis of film's convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in Northern Ireland's new, 'shared' society. This book was the winner of the 2012 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Film Studies.

Of Empire and the City: Remapping Early British Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema) By Maurizio Cinquegrani
2014 | 311 Pages | ISBN: 303430823X | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of the economic, social and cultural life of these cities but also that the spatial organization of these urban areas, and the cinematic representations of them, were shaped by the ideology and activity of imperialism. The pioneer camera operators who made these early films often put forward an imperialist ideology by paying particular attention to the cinematic representation of monumental and ceremonial spaces, modern communication and transport within the city and between the city and the empire. Of Empire and the City establishes connections between these cities and their cinematic representation by means of continuous motifs and themes, including modernity, Orientalism, spectatorship and the imperial subject. The book makes a unique contribution to studies of early film, British urban history and the history of the British Empire. «This is a highly original and genuinely groundbreaking piece of scholarship on early British cinema. Very little work on this subject to date has sought to contextualise films of the 1890s and 1900s within the broader field of the history of imperialism. Cinquegrani's book systematically corrects this 'blind spot', and in its use of a wide range of ideas and methodologies [...] it offers a compelling new model for future scholarship on British cinema of the silent era.» (Dr Jon Burrows, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick)