Java for Beginners: A Crash Course to Learn Java Programming in 1 Week
By Brady Ellison
English | 2022 | ASIN : B09ZVFLT3C | EPUB | 185 pages | 0.6 MB

Java Programming for beginners: A piratical beginners guide to learn programming, fundamentals and code by Will Norton
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B085W1HZBR | 118 pages | EPUB | 0.78 Mb
Developed by James Goslin and his team members for Sun Microsystems in 1995,Java is one of the most popular programming languages.It was developed for its use by the company in digital devices like set-top boxes, televisions etc.

Java Interview Guide: How to Build Confidence With a Solid Understanding of Core Java Principles by Anthony DePalma
English | September 16, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B015HF9SJQ | 120 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb
A Java interview can be a harrowing experience. You only have a short time to convince someone that you're worth hiring, so you can't afford to be unprepared. A technical interview is a rare opportunity to show potential employers what you're worth. Unfortunately, memorizing the answers to interview questions just doesn't cut it. You need to understand the underlying concepts.

Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices By Geoffrey Bownas
2004 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0415330696 | PDF | 7 MB
The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan.Originally published in 1963.

Japanese Buddhism: A Cultural History By Yoshiro Tamura; Jeffrey Hunter
2001 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 4333016843 | PDF | 6 MB
Buddhism was founded in India more than two thousand years ago, but the Japanese molded it to suit their culture, and it became one of the most enduring and far-reaching cultural and intellectual forces in Japan's history.The stamp of Japanese Buddhism is unmistakable in the nation's poetry, literature, and art; and the imprint of Japan's indigenous culture is clear from the amalgamation of pre-Buddhist worship and esoteric Buddhism in the practice of the Shugendo ascetics.Japan's Buddhism and the nation's cultural infrastructure are so inextricably linked that it is impossible to understand one without the other. Japanese Buddhism is both a history of Japanese Buddhism and an introduction to Japan's political, social, and cultural history. It examines Japanese Buddhism in the context of literary and intellectual trends and of other religions, exploring social and intellectual questions that an ordinary history of religion would not address.

Japan in the American Century By Kenneth B. Pyle
2018 | 472 Pages | ISBN: 0674983645 | PDF | 30 MB
No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order.The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the United States that ensured America's dominance in the region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and social institutions.Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations' relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian geopolitics.

Miltiades Varvounis, "Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1462880800, 1462880819 | 276 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB
Jan Sobieski was one of the most extraordinary and visionary monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 until his death. He was a man of letters, an artistic person, a dedicated ruler but above all the greatest soldier of his time. Popular among his subjects, he won considerable fame for his decisive victory over the Ottomans at the walls of Vienna (1683). For defeating the Muslim invaders, Pope Innocent XI hailed Sobieski as the saviour of Christendom.

JUST MERCY: The Taiwan Straits Crises in the Color of Law by SOPHIA FERRIS
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8QVJBXJ | 88 pages | EPUB | 0.15 Mb
Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 and the establishment of the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) exile rule on the island two months later, China's relationship with Taiwan has been fraught with conflict. The KMT's insistence on continuing to represent not just Taiwan but all of China initially led to challenges to the island's autonomous sovereignty; later, Taiwan refused to yield sovereignty to the then-dominant power that had developed on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.

Simon Rae, "It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0571215823 | EPUB | 7 MB
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.

Dominik Mueller, "Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS "
English | ISBN: 0415844754 | 2014 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Providing an ethnographic account of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its Youth Wing (Dewan Pemuda PAS), this book analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics. It explores the party's changing approach towards popular culture and critically investigates whether the narrative of a post-Islamist turn can be applied to the PAS Youth.