Peter N. Gregory, "Tsung Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0691073732, 082482623X | PDF | pages: 364 | 19.1 mb
This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.

Nicole R. Fleetwood, "Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0226253031, 0226253023 | PDF | pages: 297 | 2.1 mb
Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investigate the black body as a troubling presence to the scopic regimes that define it as such? How is value assessed based on visible blackness?

Transition to Triumph: Indian Navy 1965: 1975 By Vice Adm G. M. Hiranandani
2012 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 1897829698 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume of the history of the Indian navy covers the period from 1965 to 1975. Several major developments occurred during this decade. The latest design of the Royal Navy's Leander class frigates started being produced in Mazagon Docks in India with British collaboration. The first submarine arrived in 1968, and by 1975, the Submarine Arm had grown to eight submarines. The Air Arm was augmented by additional Seahawks, Alizes, and the latest British SeaKing antisubmarine helicopters equipped with dunking sonar. Along with the induction of modern fire-control systems in ships, submarines, and aircraft, the navy acquired its first guided missiles and homing torpedoes.

Sonal Bhatt, "Totally Beads"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 080698399X, 0806979119 | 30 pages | PDF | 8.3 MB
"[For] the young at heart...37 items to craft concentrate on hair ornaments and necklaces, bracelets, and anklets; most are fairly simple to fashion...the book is frontloaded with the how-tos, a good basic explanation of threads, needles, clasps catches, knots, and other challenges a novice beader just might encounter....Totally for young people-from styles to execution."-Booklist. "A 'how-to' delight for any budding bead enthusiast."-Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot.

Robert M. Dunkerly, "To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy "
English | ISBN: 1611212529 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Across the Confederacy, determination remained high through the winter of 1864 into the new year-yet ominous signs were everywhere. The peace conference had failed. Large areas were overrun, the armies could not stop Union advances, the economy was in shambles, and industry and infrastructure were crumbling. The Confederacy could not make, move, or maintain anything. No one knew what the future held but uncertainty.

Time's Up!: The Subscription Business Model for Professional Firms by Paul Dunn, Ronald J. Baker
English | November 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 1119893526 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 11.29 MB
Put values-and value-over volume with a professional services subscription model

Those Terrible Grey Horses (Osprey General Military)
2015 | ISBN: 1472813480 | English | 304 Pages | EPUB | 24 MB

Elaine Chambers, "This Queer Angel"
English | ISBN: 1912618389 | 2019 | 368 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
The incredible true story of one woman's campaign for equality in the armed forces, after a five-month investigation into unnatural conduct which led to her expulsion.

Lindsey Bro, "Thermal: Saunas, Hot Springs & Baths"
English | ISBN: 1797218573 | 2022 | EPUB | 224 pages | 320 MB
A visually driven celebration of bathing culture around the world, featuring more than 150 photos plus healing rituals and calming practices for daily life.

The music of the spheres: Music, science, and the natural order of the universe By Jamie James
1995 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0387944745 | PDF | 10 MB
This book provides the parallel histories of music and science, from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism -- mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history. - Back cover. Can music that springs from our 20th-century acceptance of the chaotic nature of reality ever attain the heavenly heights of its Romantic predecessors from an age of order? In The Music of the Spheres Jamie James asks this question, contrasting the importance of music to life before the Industrial Revolution with its value now, when we see it more as entertainment than nourishment. Now that chaos and unpredictability prevail, James wonders, what place can the music of the spheres have for the average person? In the absence of certainty, where is the faith that inspired the Romantic classics? Is not the sound of cynicism unedifying . . . are we beyond beauty? As William Burroughs observed of our age, 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted', and this breakdown in music, order and the aesthetic sense suggests that perhaps we are out of key with the cosmos, in rebellion against the sacred, and so loosed from the ground of being, unable to make our art sing while our souls lament. Could the rejection by our arts and sciences of Romantic sentimentalism be anger at our own dissociation from the divine?Founder of Discover magazine James explores the genesis of sacred and profane music by examining the work of the great artists and scientists, and shows how our understanding of the riddles that confront us has robbed us of our musical treasure by making nonsense of primitive, ancient theism. It is his premise that the physicists' search for order in the quantum world and Freud's ordering of the psyche reflect the deterministic wisdom of the Pythagoreans, and that the 20th-century classical composers from Igor Stravinsky, John Cage to Philip Glass expose the gap we inhabit, between gnosis and psychosis.Zen, so dear to the late John Cage, teaches 'when something is fulfilled, Heaven strikes it'. James says that perhaps our existential troughs have trapped and strangled our ability to return to an innocence sufficient to the task of creating music of the spheres. However, it is equally possible that we postmodernists, digi-talising 'natural' sounds, are aware that the spheres are in a way empty and it is the inner, not outer, spaces of our being where the music arises and disappears regardless of its manifestation.