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The Downfall of the American Order? edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Jonathan Kirshner
English | May 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1501762974, 1501762982 | True EPUB | 246 pages | 1.5 MB
The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world.
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The Digital Age in Agriculture
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032385774 | 307 Pages | PDF (True) | 116 MB
The Digital Age in Agriculture presents information related to the digital age in the agriculture sector. Agriculture is an essential activity for the continuity of life, yet is very labor-intensive and faces a wide variety of challenges. In the struggle against these difficulties, the superior features offered by technology provide important benefits. These technologies require expertise in various technical disciplines, and The Digital Age in Agriculture provides information to readers allowing them to make more informed decisions and giving them the opportunity to improve agricultural productivity.
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The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact By Jeremy Agnew
2014 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 078647839X | PDF | 95 MB
As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
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M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo"
English | ISBN: 1108831508 | 2021 | 270 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods, it is still popular today, with many contemporary Japanese comedians having originally trained as rakugo artists. Rakugo is divided into two distinct strands, the Tokyo tradition and the Osaka tradition, with the latter having previously been largely overlooked. This pioneering study of the Kamigata (Osaka) rakugo tradition presents the first complete English translation of five classic rakugo stories, and offers a history of comic storytelling in Kamigata (modern Kansai, Kinki) from the seventeenth century to the present day. Considering the art in terms of gender, literature, performance, and society, this volume grounds Kamigata rakugo in its distinct cultural context and sheds light on the 'other' rakugo for students and scholars of Japanese culture and history.
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Thomas C. Holt
English | February 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 0190605421 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 1.78 MB
The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For many, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans and the world know about that remarkable decade of struggle.
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Debin Ma, "The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 2, 1800 to the Present"
English | ISBN: 1108425534 | 2022 | 864 pages | PDF | 23 MB
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering international scholarship in all dimensions of economic history to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of this tumultuous and dramatic transformation. In many cases, it offers a fundamental reinterpretation of major themes in Chinese economic history, such as the role of ideology, the rise of new institutions, human capital and public infrastructure, the impact of Western and Japanese imperialism, the role of external trade and investment, and the evolution of living standards in both the pre-Communist and Communist eras. The volume includes seven important chapters on the Mao and reform eras and provides a critical historical perspective linking the past with the present and future.
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The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason by Mark Johnson
English | January 1, 1987 | ISBN: 0226403173, 0226403181 | True EPUB/PDF | 284 pages | 2.2/13.8 MB
The Body in the Mind explores the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns of our bodily experience.
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"The Black Bible Of Science" (Compilation) By Dr. Osei Kufuor
2015 | 102 Pages | ISBN: 1329003888 | PDF | 23 MB
This book breaks down the so-called holy books and help those who are asleep in religion to overstand the metaphysics of what its reality and the truth that it points toward is really about.This is a book for the black man and woman who has the spiritual DNA that will bring about change throughout the dimensions of self.
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Weitseng Chen, "The Beijing Consensus?: How China Has Changed Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development"
English | ISBN: 1107138434 | 2017 | 346 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Is there a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development? In The Beijing Consensus scholars turn their collective attention to answer this basic but seemingly under-explored question as China rises higher in its global standing. Advancing debates on alternative development programs, with a particular focus on social and political contexts, this book demonstrates that essentially, no model exists. Engaging in comparative studies, the contributors create a new set of benchmarks to evaluate the conventional wisdom that the Beijing Consensus challenges and that of the Beijing Consensus itself. Has China demonstrated that the best model is in fact no model at all? Overall, this title equips the reader with an understanding of the conclusions derived from China's experience in its legal and economic development in recent decades.
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David Metzer, "The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé"
English | ISBN: 1107161525 | 2017 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB
While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more than seventy years, offering a definition of the genre and discussing the influences of celebrated performers including Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. The emotional power of the ballad is strongly linked to the popular mood of the time, and consequently songs can tell us much about how events and emotions were felt and understood in wider culture at specific moments of recent American history. Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the present day, this lively and engaging volume is as much a musical history as it is a history of emotional life in America.
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