Forging Mettle: Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story by C. Lall Pavan
English | August 26th, 2022 | ISBN: 9789394407237 | 245 pages | True EPUB | 4.20 MB
The endless possibilities of a value-driven enterprise

Nancy B. Bouchier, "For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895"
English | 2003 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0773524568 | PDF | 11,9 mb
Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.

Flow: The Rhythmic Voice in Rap Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) by Mitchell Ohriner
English | September 3, 2019 | ISBN: 019067041X | True EPUB | 292 pages | 8.4 MB
From its dynamic start at dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have exploded into a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism and expression all over the world. So, too, has scholarship on hip hop and rap music grown. Yet much of this scholarship, employing methods drawn from sociology and literature, leaves unaddressed the expressive musical choices made by hip hop artists. Fundamental among these choices is the rhythm of the rapping voice, termed "flow."

Flexible Metal Forming Technologies: Principles, Process and Equipment
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811913471 | 688 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 222 MB
This book systematically introduces the principles of flexible forming technologies to manufacture thin-walled complex-shaped components, the mechanism of controlling the material flow, the design and the configuration of flexible forming technologies' equipment and tools. It covers new technologies and new processes for forming hollow components, and relevant research on forming mechanisms, deformation laws, and defect control with examples from practical applications. It will be a useful reference for researchers, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students in aerospace, nuclear, railway, vehicle and petrochemical engineering, etc.

E. Jayne White, "First Transitions to Early Childhood Education and Care: Intercultural Dialogues across the Globe "
English | ISBN: 3031088506 | 2022 | 311 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book brings together the work of researchers from around the globe around the topic of children's first transitions to early care and education. It discusses political and sociocultural contexts, theories, and ideologies around the theme. The book offers perspectives and findings on adult expectations around a child's first transition, infant emotional experiences, the role of space, the part that key objects play in infant transitions, and the role of time. It also discusses age of first entry, routines and rhythms of the institutions, and the future expectations of those involved.

Shelford Bidwell, "Fire Power: The British Army: weapons and theories of war, 1904-1945, "
English | ISBN: 1844152162 | 2005 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century. The authors, both former artillery officers who saw action in Word War Two, describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual war-winning role that artillery played, to the culmination of professional military deployment in the Second World War.

Brian Purnell, "Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn "
English | ISBN: 081316558X | 2015 | 368 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself as one of the most audacious and dynamic chapters in the nation.

Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility by George Cotkin
English | December 11, 2015 | ISBN: 0190218479 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 4.4 MB
In 1952, John Cage shocked audiences with 4'33", his compositional ode to the ironic power of silence. From Cage's minimalism to Chris Burden's radical performance art two decades later (in one piece he had himself shot), the post-war American avant-garde shattered the divide between low and high art, between artist and audience. They changed the cultural landscape.

Explaining Resistance to Change: Some Experimental Evidence and Implications by Jan Philipp Krügel
English | December 7th, 2017 | ISBN: 3848741881 | 155 pages | True PDF | 2.73 MB
Many organisational changes fail because of resistance to change by employees. Changes require new ways of thinking, and the general uncertainty that surrounds them tends to make people uncomfortable. Jan Philipp Kr|gel examines the circumstances under which employees are more accepting of change with a laboratory experiment. His findings suggest that if employees are treated well by their employer in the first place, they are also more willing to help implement changes. The general uncertainty about the outcome of change, however, does not necessarily lead to strong resistance. Jan Philipp Kr|gel is currently working as a research assistant for the chair of behavioural economics at Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg. His research focuses on experimental economics, game theory and behavioural economics.

Amy H. Liu, "Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1108927793 | 2022 | 90 pages | PDF | 1398 KB
What explains the treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? This Element conceptually disaggregates ethnicity into multiple constituent markers - specifically language, religion, and phenotype. By focusing on the interaction between these three ethnic markers, Liu and Ricks explore how overlap between these markers can affect whether a minority integrates within a broader ethnic identity; successfully extracts accommodation as unique group; or engages in a contentious and potentially violent relationship with the hegemon. The argument is tested through six case studies: (1) ethnic Lao in Thailand: integration; (2) ethnic Chinese in Thailand: integration; (3) ethnic Chinese in Malaysia: accommodation; (4) ethnic Malays in Singapore: accommodation; (5) ethnic Malays in Thailand: contention; and (6) ethnic Chinese in Indonesia: contention.