Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900-1975"
English | ISBN: 1501761064 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.

Poetic Revolutionaries By Marion May Campbell
2014 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 9042037865 | PDF | 3 MB
Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by a range of writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance such as those of Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies - covering the structural, narratological, stylistic and scenographic - can work to boost a text's subversive power.

Podman for DevOps: Containerization Reimagined with Podman and Its Companion Tools by Alessandro Arrichiello, Gianni Salinetti
English | April 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1803248238 | True EPUB/PDF | 518 pages | 4.5/7.7 MB
Build, deploy, and manage containers with the next-generation engine and tools

Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War"
English | ISBN: 1501764403 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 10 MB
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries.

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work by Francine Parham
English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1523001526 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 0.41 MB
The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works-who has it, where it hides, and how it's used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.

Plato's Symposium (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature) by Richard Hunter
English | July 15, 2004 | ISBN: 0195160797, 0195160800 | True EPUB | 168 pages | 0.2 MB
Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations from the original are translated into English.

Shih-shan Susan Huang, "Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China"
English | 2015 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 0674504283 | PDF | 15,8 mb
Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-Shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.

Piano Solos from Encanto, Frozen II, and Coco: Nine Beautiful Intermediate Arrangements by Mona Rejino by Editors of Hal Leonard
English | June 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1705166881 | True EPUB | 48 pages | 12.9 MB
(Educational Piano Library). 9 great piano solo arrangements of songs from your favorite Disney movies! Excellent for recitals, lessons, or just for fun! From COCO: Proud Corazon * Remember Me (Lullaby) * Un Poco Loco * From ENCANTO: Dos Oruguitas * Surface Pressure * We Don't Talk About Bruno * From FROZEN II: All Is Found * Into the Unknown * Show Yourself.

Physics: New Frontiers by Scientific American Editors
English | July 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 9781250121493 | 180 pages | True EPUB | 9.88 MB
Science fiction has imagined some pretty wild ideas about how the universe could work - from hidden extra dimensions in Interstellar to life as a mental projection in The Matrix. But these imaginings seem downright tame compared with the mind-bending science now coming out of physics and astronomy, and in this eBook, we look at the strange and fascinating discoveries shaping (and reshaping) the field today.

Phraseology in Corpus-Based Translation Studies (New Trends in Translation Studies) By Meng Ji
2010 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 3039115502 | PDF | 3 MB
Translations of Cervantes' Don Quijote (1605) take pride of place among foreign literature in China. Despite the contrasts between the two cultures and the passage of four centuries the adventures and misadventures of the Castilian hero have always been popular with Chinese readers. In this book a corpus-based stylistic study is used to explore two contemporary Mandarin Chinese translations of Don Quijote: those by Yang Jiang (1978) and Liu Jingsheng (1995). Utilising a micro-structural perspective this study suggests explanations for the surprising popularity of Don Quijote in China.