Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space By Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas
2016 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 1433135396 | PDF | 13 MB
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book AwardWinner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice AwardBorder Crossing Brothas examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal and figurative borders. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and numerous others from Brooklyn, Britain, and Bermuda whose lives have been taken prematurely suggest that negotiating race, place, and complex space is a matter of life and death for Black males. In jurisdictions such as the U.S. and Bermuda, racial tensions are the palpable and obvious reality, yet the average citizen has no idea how to sensibly react. This book offers a reasonable response that pushes readers to account for and draw on the best of what we know, the core of who we are, and the needs and histories of those we serve.Drawing on the educational and socializing experiences of Black males in Bermuda - a beautiful yet complex island with strong connections to the U.S., England, and the Caribbean - this book offers educators and leaders new language for postcolonial possibilities and emancipatory epistemologies related to Black male identities and success in a global context. Intriguing findings and fresh frameworks grounded in understandings of race, class, ability, transnationalism, culture, colonialism, and the construction/performance of gendered identity emerge in this book.

Bon Jovi: America's Ultimate Band By Margaret Olson
2013 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 0810886618 | EPUB | 3 MB
In 1986, when Bon Jovi's third studio album, Slippery When Wet, was released, America had found its next superband. In Bon Jovi: America's Ultimate Band, Margaret Olson chronicles the history and music of the band from its inception to present day. She closely examines Bon Jovi's musical and social relevance to listeners past and present, exploring the remarkable ways the band has emerged as the expression and product of deep cultural needs and how, within a few years of commercial success, it has made a lasting impact on Generation X, the music business, and American culture. Through opportunities offered by cable television (particularly MTV), Hollywood, and corporate brands, Bon Jovi has been able to influence not only the music, film, and television industries but also the worlds of fashion, musical theater, art, philanthropy, and politics. Like any megaband, its members have struggled with addiction, the demands of fame, and a lack of critical respect. They have persevered, however, to become one of the United States' world's best-selling touring bands. Bon Jovi is a testament to the way modern culture and entertainment can become intertwined, and its success underscores the length of the band's career, the professionalism of its management, the recognition of what audiences want, and the unique way the music-more than anything else-both reflects and shapes the social and musical American landscape it inhabits. Titles in the Tempo series are ideal introductions to major pop and rock artists, the music they produce, and their cultural and musical impact on society. Bon Jovi: America's Ultimate Band should interest fans, students, and scholars alike.

Bombs Away!: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Bomber Aircrew in WWII by Martin W. Bowman
English | June 15, 2010 | ISBN: 1848841876 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3.32 Mb
This is a unique selection of wide-ranging experiences of British and Commonwealth Bomber Command aircrew during World War II. Their endearing bravery and fortitude and sometimes their despondency and cynicism, shows through in these stirring, daring, often irreverent, humorous and sometimes sardonic but memorable stories. All reflect the ethos, camaraderie, fear and bravery of the largely ordinary men, most of whom were plucked from 'civvy street' and thrust into a frightening, bitter conflict which was made even more dangerous by the lethal advance of technology.

Body Searches and Imprisonment
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031204506 | 348 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe.Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the globe: they are perceived as indispensable to preventforbidden substances, weapons or communication devices from entering the prison. However, these are also invasive and potentially degrading control techniques. It should not come as a surprise, then, that body searches are deeply contested security measures and that they have been widely debated and regulated. What makes theses control measures problematic in a prison context? How do these practices come to be regulated in an international and European context?How are rules translated into national law?To what extent are laws and rules respected, bent, circumvented and denied? And what does the future hold for body searches?

Black Tigers: A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings By Kenneth W. Starr
2008 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0295988118 | PDF | 96 MB
Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, Black Tigers is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors.In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship.Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing.

Bituminous Coals: Nature and Utilisation
English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-87-403-2121-0 | 294 pages | EPUB | 7.15 MB
The regions of the world are reviewed for their bituminous coal production and utilisation. These include Europe, North America, Australasia and China, Africa and the Former Soviet Union. Where the coals are Gondwanan this is mentioned, and details given. International standards applicable to bituminous coals are given, and throughout the book there is some emphasis on the vitrinite reflectance. A number of instances where the rank of a coal and therefore its vitrinite reflectance have been raised by the action igneous rock are covered. The International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology (ICCP) features in the book, and its conventions for maceral nomenclature are applied. There is also coverage of bituminous coals in briquette form and slurry form.

Biopolymers in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
by Sreerag Gopi;Preetha Balakrishnan;Matej Brai;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839167815 | 623 pages | True PDF EPUB | 13.56 MB

Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze, "Biopolitics: A Reader"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0822353350, 0822353326 | PDF | pages: 453 | 5.2 mb
This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body-is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of essential medicines and medical technologies.

Biomedical Statistics: Research Methods and Data Management by Akmal El-Mazny
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08GYGCGZC | 105 pages | EPUB | 0.37 Mb
Medical research is necessary to establish the safety and effectiveness of specific health and medical products and practices. Analyzing the data and interpreting the results are the most exciting stages of a research project because these provide the answers to the study questions. This book discusses the basic process by which research studies are conducted, and show how to report results for publication. Section I provides an overview on the principles of research practice, and presents in details all the necessary steps of research design; including an essential introduction to evidence-based medicine. Section II provides a comprehensive knowledge of conducting and interpreting biomedical statistics, and guides researchers through the processes of data management. Everything is easy when you know how - I hope that this book will provide the "know how" for all researchers, academicians and health-care professionals.

Roberto Ligrone, "Biological Innovations that Built the World: A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030160564 | PDF | pages: 498 | 17.4 mb
The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact. Its main goal is to guide the reader toward an understanding of the continuity of life across diversity, and of its large-scale interactions with the planet. Combining scientific soundness with a constant effort for clarity, the book begins with a cloud of dust in a corner of the Galaxy and, covering an immense lapse of time, terminates with an organism that ponders about the texture of the Universe. Comprehensive, updated references added to each chapter will help the reader wishing to expand any of the topics. A glossary explains less common technical terms.