Clarence Taylor, "Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0231152698, 023115268X, 0231526482 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 6.0 mb
The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union positions and advocating a number of Party goals. Clarence Taylor recounts this pivotal relationship and the backlash it created, as the union threw its support behind controversial policies and rights movements. Taylor's research reaffirms the party's close ties with the union-yet it also makes clear that the organization was anything but a puppet of Communist power.

Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy: Evidence from Comparative Cases
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031094603 | 473 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
This book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy research, by comparing policies of EU and India and demonstrating the importance of taking a comparative perspective while studying language policies. This book challenges the notion of macro-level power in language policy research and offers evidence that, in democratic frameworks, macro-level power is not absolute. It is not uniform across policy domains, but rather susceptible to pressure, especially in the domains of healthcare and social welfare.

Recipes from Southern Africa That You Must Try: Finger-licking Dishes That will Take You Around South Africa by Ava Archer
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09CQF2Z1L | 75 pages | EPUB | 3.43 Mb
Southern Africa is a combination of almost every country from the Germans, French, Europe, Caucasians, etc. They all dwell in Southern Africa and have introduced their various dishes, but Southern Africa is still known for its amazing traditional cuisines that most people crave. This cookbook has brought Southern Africa to your doorstep with 30 of their finest recipes, all for you.

Real-Time Streaming with Apache Kafka, Spark, and Storm:
Create Platforms That Can Quickly Crunch Data and Deliver Real-Time Analytics to Users
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9390684595 | 230 Pages | EPUB (True) | 5.32 MB

Radical Care (Social Text) By Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (editor), Tamara Kneese (editor)
2020 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 1478008784 | PDF | 5 MB
Care has re-entered the zeitgeist. In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Beyond this popular focus on self-care rituals, care has also emerged as a driving force within new collective movements. Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence. They explore how trans activists find resilience and vitality through coalitional labor; argue that social movements should expand mutual aid strategies, focusing on solidarity over charity; discuss a neoliberal university wellness culture that seeks to patch up structural care deficits with quick fixes like meditation apps and yoga classes; and more. As the traditionally undervalued labor of caring becomes recognized as a key element of survival, contributors show how radical care provides a roadmap for not only enduring precarious worlds but also envisioning new futures. In the face of state-sanctioned violence, economic crisis, and impending ecological collapse, collective care offers a way forward. Contributors. Nicole Charles, Elijah Adiv Edelman, Hi'ilei Hobart, Tamara Kneese, Micki McGee, Leyla Savloff, Cotten Seiler, Dean Spade

Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race By Wendy Roth
2012 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0804777950 | PDF | 4 MB
In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race―for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an American idea about race does not mean abandoning earlier ideas. New racial schemas transfer across borders and cultures spread between sending and host countries.Behind many current debates on immigration is the question of how Latinos will integrate and where they fit into the U.S. racial structure. Race Migrations shows that these migrants increasingly see themselves as a Latino racial group. Although U.S. race relations are becoming more "Latin Americanized" by the presence of Latinos and their views about race, race in the home countries is also becoming more "Americanized" through the cultural influence of those who go abroad. Ultimately, Roth shows that several systems of racial classification and stratification co-exist in each place, in the minds of individuals and in their shared cultural understandings of "how race works."

Queueing Networks and Markov Chains: Modeling and Performance Evaluation with Computer Science Applications by Gunter Bolch, Stefan Greiner, Hermann de Meer
English | September 14, 1998 | ISBN: 0471193666 | 744 pages | PDF | 51 Mb
The first book to address computer performance evaluation from the perspective of queueing theory and Markov chains.

Matthew Sadler, "Queen's Gambit Declined"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1857442563 | 180 pages | PDF | 17.6 MB
In this book Grandmaster Sadler explains the ideas behind the Queen's Gambit Declined, one of Black's most dependable replies to the queens pawn. He discusses all of the major variations in popular practice, explaining the key plans and ideas and highlighting important recent developments.

J. Simon, "Quantum Point Theory"
English | 2012 | ASIN: B0095H6EUO | EPUB | pages: 3 | 0.1 mb
A short paper about a new theory of Quantum Mechanics. This theory is based on the idea (first proposed by John Wheeler) that perhaps there is only one electron. One.

Quantum International Relations: A Human Science for World Politics edited by Alexander Wendt, James Der Derian
English | May 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0197568203, 0197568211 | True EPUB/PDF | 410 pages | 2.6/26.5 MB
The contributors to this volume are motivated by a common apprehension and a common hope. The apprehension was first voiced by Einstein, who lamented the inability of humanity, at the individual and social level, to keep up with the increased speed of technological change brought about by the quantum revolution. As quantum science and technology fast forward into the 21st century, the social sciences remain stuck in classical, 19th century ways of thinking. Can such a mechanistic model of the mind and society possibly help us manage the fully realized technological potential of the quantum? That's where the hope appears: that perhaps quantum is not just a physical science, but a human science too.