Bob Woodward, "Obama's Wars"
English | 2011 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1439172498, 1439172501 | EPUB | 3,9 mb
In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.

Lisa Rofel, "New World Orderings: China and the Global South "
English | ISBN: 147801637X | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China's twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation's position in the world and the centrality of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race, and literature to this reconfiguration. Among other topics, the contributors examine China's post-Bandung cultural diplomacy with African nations, how West African "pastor-entrepreneurs" in China interpreted and preached the prosperity doctrine, the diversity of Chinese-Argentine social relations in the soy supply chain, and the ties between China and India within the complex history of inter-Asian exchange and Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. By examining China's long historical relationship with the Global South, this volume presents a non-state-centric history of China that foregrounds the importance of transnational communicative and imaginative worldmaking processes and interactions.

Johanna Ennser-Kananen, "New Materialist Explorations into Language Education"
English | ISBN: 3031138465 | 2023 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 5 MB
This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they are able to engage in research that sees society as an ethical interrelationship between humans and the material world and explore the socio-materialities of language education from the perspectives of material agency, spatial and embodied materiality, and human and non-human assemblages.

Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair "
English | ISBN: 1478016434 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 14 MB
From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, "natural hair" has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustrations, documentary films, and photography as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining

New Directions in Mineral Processing, Extractive Metallurgy, Recycling and Waste Minimization
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031227646 | 780 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 112 MB
This collection addresses new research and technology for increased efficiency, energy reduction, and waste minimization in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and recycling. Professor Patrick R. Taylor and his students have been studying these topics for the past 45 years. Chapters include new directions in:

Neurosurgery: The Essential Guide to the Oral and Clinical Neurosurgical Exam: Second Edition
by Vivian A. Elwell
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032138742 | 283 pages | True PDF | 12.1 MB

Neural Engineering, Third Edition by Bin He
English | EPUB | 2020 | 706 Pages | ISBN : 3030433943 | 152.58 MB
This third edition overviews the essential contemporary topics of neuroengineering, from basic principles to the state-of-the-art, and is written by leading scholars in the field. The book covers neural bioelectrical measurements and sensors, EEG signal processing, brain-computer interfaces, implantable and transcranial neuromodulation, peripheral neural interfacing, neuroimaging, neural modelling, neural circuits and system identification, retinal bioengineering and prosthetics, and neural tissue engineering. Each chapter is followed by homework questions intended for classroom use.

Navigating Stress: How to Find Calm During Stressful Times (Mental Health Handbook) by Joy Langley
English | August 10, 2021 | ISBN: 1789562988 | 185 pages | PDF | 5.65 Mb
We are all unique and we each respond differently to every situation. Reducing stress is possible for every one of us but you will need to create your own unique blueprint of coping mechanisms in order to do so. This book will show you just how to do that, with practical tools and memorable strategies to help you put together your personalized stress plan. After reading this book you will be able to deal quickly with real or imagined dangers. Along the road, you will discover:What stress is and why it happens.What causes it, and how it can help as well as hinder you.Why you need to understand and care about it.How to control it.Life-long coping strategies and soothing skills that you can tailor to your own individual needs.

Jill Bolte Taylor, "My Stroke of Insight"
English | 2006 | pages: 183 | ISBN: 0340980508, 0670020745 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.

Sita Ram Goel, "Muslim Separatism: Causes and Consequences"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 8185990263 | EPUB | pages: 143 | 0.3 mb