Pippa Norris, "Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World "
English | ISBN: 0521493684 | 2009 | 446 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this process. A series of fire-walls protect national cultures. This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from both the societal level and the individual level, examining the outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90 societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The conclusion considers the implications of their findings for cultural policies.

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory
English | 2021 | ISBN: 036723775X | 326 Pages | PDF (True) | 22 MB
The book first examines the universe's series of phase transitions in which the successive gauge symmetries of the higher-temperature phase were spontaneously broken after the big bang, discussing relics of these phase transitions, more generic relics (baryons, neutrinos, axions), and supersymmetric particles (neutralinos and gravitinos). The author next studies supersymmetric theory, supergravity theory, and the constraints on the underlying field theory of the universe's inflationary era. The book concludes with a discussion of black hole solutions of the supergravity theory that approximates string theory at low energies and the insight that string theory affords into the microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

Cook the Vietnamese Way: Delectable Homemade Vietnamese Recipes by Heston Brown
English | May 6, 2019 | ISBN: 1097151980 | 98 pages | EPUB | 3.01 Mb
You are probably thousands of kilometers away from Vietnam, but the distance should not matter for you to enjoy one of the country's greatest exports - their food. That is great and all, but you are wondering exactly how you can do this when you do not have any idea how to cook their food. Take a deep breath; this book is here to be your companion. Nobody said you cannot get help.

David Winters, Jason Lucarelli, "Conversations with Gordon Lish"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1496818164, 1496816250 | PDF | pages: 192 | 2.7 mb
Known as "Captain Fiction," Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential-and controversial-figures in modern American letters. As an editor at Esquire (1969-1977), Alfred A. Knopf (1977-1994), and The Quarterly (1987-1995) and as a teacher both in and outside the university system, he has worked closely with many of the most pioneering writers of recent times, including Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Sam Lipsyte, and Ben Marcus. A prolific author of stories and novels, Lish has also won a cult following for his own fiction, earning comparisons with Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett.

Control stress: stop worrying and feel good now! By Paul McKenna
2007 | 111 Pages | ISBN: 0593056299 | PDF | 7 MB
The book and trance work together as a complete breakthrough system - the totally natural way to improve your overall quality of life!

Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System (Volume 10) "
English | ISBN: 0520384083 | 2022 | 332 pages | PDF | 25 MB
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand "the rise of China" literally, as the country itself rises into the air?

Keith Pickus, "Constructing Modern Identities: Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914"
English | ISBN: 081434352X | 2017 | 242 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The emergence of Jewish student associations in 1881 provided a forum for Jews to openly proclaim their religious heritage. By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Keith Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish. Not only did the identities crafted by these students enable them to actively participate in German society, they also left an indelible imprint on contemporary Jewish culture. Pickus's portrayal of the mutability and social function of Jewish self-definition challenges previous scholarship that depicts Jewish identity as a static ideological phenomenon. By illuminating how identities fluctuated throughout life, he demonstrates that adjusting one's social relationships to accommodate the Gentile and Jewish worlds became the norm rather than the exception for 19th-century German Jews.

Constitutional Oncogenetics
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1789450160 | 255 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
In the age of genomics, oncogenetics is a growing discipline. It is defined as the identification and management of families where there is a suspected hereditary risk of cancer. This relatively new discipline is part of a modern medicine that aims to be both preventive and predictive.

James H. Mills, Satadru Sen, "Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1843310333, 1843310325 | PDF | pages: 217 | 8.3 mb
The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume and provide a balance of materials from colonial and post-colonial India. Included are new writings by established and upcoming writers in the social sciences and humanities, all based on original research.

Conflict, Reconciliation and Peace Education: Moving Burundi Toward a Sustainable Future By William Timpson, Elavie Ndura, Apollinaire Bangayimbaga
2014 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 0415702186 | PDF | 3 MB
When the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States occurred―causing that nation to wage wars of revenge in Afghanistan and Iraq―the people of Burundi were recovering from nearly forty years of violence, genocide and civil wars that had killed nearly one million and produced another million refugees. Here in this small East African nation, one of the four poorest nations on earth, however, was a desire for reconciliation―not revenge―and it still runs deep today.The University of Ngozi in northern Burundi was created in 1999 and is now dedicated to peace, reconciliation and sustainable development. People in this region tell remarkable stories of tragedy and recovery amid these horrors. Their stories can inspire others to preserve their humanity and resist the urge to continue the violence, focusing instead on forgiveness, reconciliation and a better way forward. This volume presents case study analysis while pointing to the promise of a new kind of education that is committed to sustainable peace and development. The lessons here for the rest of the world are deep and inspiring.