Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China By Emily Chao
2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0295992239 | PDF | 3 MB
Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.The vignettes presented here are lively examples of the cultural reverberations that have occurred throughout contemporary China in the wake of its emergence as a global giant. With particular attention to the politics of gender, ethnicity, and historical representation, Chao reveals how citizens strategically imagine, produce, and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are preeminent.

Matt Appling, "Life After Art: What You Forgot About Life and Faith Since You Left the Art Room"
English | ISBN: 0802407390 | 2013 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
You will be creating for the rest of your life. You might as well do it on purpose.

Abraham Socher, "Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays "
English | ISBN: 1589881605 | 2022 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
"Socher is one of the sharpest observers of Jewish America in our times. These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka to Rabbi Kook, are a loving, cutting, whimsical, and wise look at a Jewish moment that he senses might be ending."-Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel

Jeffrey Bloechl, "Levinas on the Primacy of the Ethical: Philosophy as Prophecy "
English | ISBN: 0810145448 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 1104 KB
Exploring the relationship between phenomenology and religion in Levinas's writings

Legitimacy Issues of the European Union in the Face of Crisis: Dimitris Tsatsos in memoriam By Lina Papadopoulou (editor), Ingolf Pernice (editor), Joseph HH Weiler (editor)
2017 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 3848741075 | PDF | 2 MB
Given the crises shattering the European Union since several years, from the financial crisis up to the refugee crisis and the vote on Brexit, Euro-scepticism and rejection are growing; a pending crisis of legitimacy compels us to analyse not only causes but also the potentials of enhancing legitimacy. This volume originates from contributions and discussions of two conferences held by the European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN). It reaches from foundational questions of democracy theory, an analysis of the causes of the crises and of the role of the judiciary in coping with the crisis, the protection of fundamental rights of the Union citizens and their better inclusion and participation through digitization, up to concrete reform proposals. A dialogical epilogue of Joseph Weiler with some of the authors strives to stimulate further discussion and reflection, as needed in the coming years if the EU is to overcome the crises and develop further as a democratic Union of citizens.

Lectures on Intelligent Systems
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031179218 | 352 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
This textbook provides the reader with an essential understanding of computational methods for intelligent systems. These are defined as systems that can solve problems autonomously, in particular problems where algorithmic solutions are inconceivable for humans or not practically executable by computers. Despite the rapidly growing applications in this field, the book avoids application details, instead focusing on computational methods that equip the reader with the methodological tools and competencies necessary to tackle current and future complex applications.

Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner by Michael Hausenblas
English | May 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1098108949 | 258 pages | MOBI | 2.47 Mb
If you use Linux in development or operations and need a structured approach to help you dive deeper, this book is for you. Author Michael Hausenblas also provides tips and tricks for improving your workflow with this open source operating system. Whether you're a developer, software architect, or site reliability engineer, this hands-on guide focuses on ways to use Linux for your everyday needs, from development to office-related tasks.

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Learn UX Design For Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide To Designing For The User Experience | Learn And Master UX Programming Basics For Non-Coders And No Previous Experience by Kylan Blair
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQRQ4TK8 | 130 pages | EPUB | 7.46 Mb
Everything you need to know about UX!

Learn Programming in Python with Cody Jackson:
Grasp the basics of programming and Python syntax while building real-world applications
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9781789531947 | 304 Pages | PDF EPUB MOBI (True) | 22 MB