E-book Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

Much of the thought and the practice of human life is irredeem-ably related to Ionia, to Achaea, to classical Greek civilisation. Certainly one, if not the only one, of the central imaginings of ourselves and our world is Ionian. Our mapping of ourselves in our world also owes a huge debt to the classical. The emergence, materialisation, and extra-territorialisation of Ionian spaces of philosop…

E-book Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe : A Performance History o…

The aim of this book is to investigate the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Ro-manian theatre from the end of the 19thcentury to the first half of the 20thcentury.On the one hand, the quantitative analysis of data on the early Romanian produc-tionsofIbsen’splaysbetween1894and1947revealsthathewasnotperformedwithgreatfrequency in either the major state or independent theatres. Yet, it…

E-book The Supernatural Media Virus : Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990

In June 2009, a thread on the forum SomethingAwful.com asked usersto participate in a Photoshop challenge involving the creation of imagesdisplaying a paranormal feature. One user named Victor Surge, whosereal name was later revealed to be Eric Knudsen, uploaded two grainyblack-and-white images in response to this call. These pictures showeda faceless and uncannily tall figure in a suit lurking…

E-book The Boggart Sourcebook : Texts and Memories for the Study of the Briti…

This section gathers nineteenth-century boggart ephemera, particularly from newspapers but also from magazines, rare books and broadsides. Given the space constraints, I concentrate on material that other researchers might have trouble finding. I have typically included here actual boggart news (everything from ‘boggart hunts’ to children dying from boggart stories, sic)…

E-book Living with Monsters : Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

"Did you hear a single thing Uncle said to you, Sarah? A single damn thing?” Marvin shook his head in exasperation. “Don’t go looking for things unless you want them to find you.” These quotes are extracts from some of the chapters that follow, and they superbly condense what we mean by Living with Mon-sters. There is a fundamental distinction between the monsters you will meet on t…

E-book The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and …

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The t…

E-book Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-D…

E-book Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous ''year without a summer'' in North America, food riots in Eur…

E-Book Labirin

Aku dan Han tidak sedang mempermainkan kepercayaan atau tidak menghormati Sang Pencipta. Kami hanya mencari sebuah cara untuk menyadarkan orang tua - Lizda Kami tidak membunuh. Tidak juga berzina. Bukan pula pencuri atau penjahat. Mengapa cinta kami dianggap salah? - Johan Akhir kisah, garis akhir labirin, entah menuju ke mana... Kamu dan aku terlalu jauh berbeda. Bersiaplah memasuki la…

E-book Laporan Informasi Intelijen Bisnis 2019 : Vegetable Oil HS 1516

Penggunaan kelompok animal and vegetable fats and oils (HS 1516) sangat beragam seperti sebagai bahan pembuatan sabun hingga untuk produksi bahan makanan. Namun demikian, salah satu penggunaan utama dari kelompok produk ini adalah sebagai bahan baku untuk produksi makanan olahan. Lemak dan minyak yang didapatkan dari binatang dan tumbuhan merupakan komponen yang sangat penting untuk menjag…

E-book Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunam…

n March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's coast, triggering a powerful tsunami. The massive destruction that resulted proved that not even sophisticated, industrialized nations are immune from nature's fury. Written to take some of the mystery out of the earth's behavior, this encyclopedia chronicles major natural disasters that have occurred around the Pacific Rim, an are…

E-book Become a Barista

Cofee is grown typically between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where conditions are ideal for the species. There are two main branches of the cofee varietal, Robust and Arabica. Robusta is less favoursome, high yielding with high pest tolerance. Hence, it is great for cheaper, low-quality instant cofees. Arabica makes up the majority of the cofee grown in the world and is wha…

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E-book Meditations

Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarelybeen able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the RomanEmpire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Yet the title is one that Marcus …

E-book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, 3rd Edition

The definitive book on Warren Buffett's views on everything from investing to management, this is the classic curated collection of his famous shareholder letters, masterfully arranged according to topic by long-time Buffett expert, Lawrence Cunningham.

E-book How to Hack Computers: How to Hack Computers, Hacking for Beginners, P…

Hackers are shrouded in a cloud of mystery, and most people don't understand who they are, what they do, how they do it, and what motivates them. As a network security engineer, I want to reveal the mysterious world of hackers to beginners so you can get your feet wet hacking. Not only will I teach you the background of hacking, but I will also expose you to some of the latest software and even…

E-book Arts of The Samurai

The legends of the Japanese warrior-statesmen, referred to as the samurai, are renowned for accounts of military valor and political intrigue—epic conflicts between powerful lords, samurai vassals, and the imperial court—as well as accounts of profound self-sacrifice and loyalty. The term samurai is derived from the word saburau, or “one who serves.” The evolution of the samurai from mo…

E-book Hacking: Beginner to Expert Guide to Computer Hacking, Basic Security,…

This book will teach you how you can protect yourself from most common hacking attacks -- by knowing how hacking actually works! After all, in order to prevent your system from being compromised, you need to stay a step ahead of any criminal hacker. You can do that by learning how to hack and how to do a counter-hack. Within this book are techniques and tools that are used by both criminal a…

E-book The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the …

From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an important role in countless medical and technological advances. Covering entertaining stories and unexpected applications, chemist and journalist Derek B…

E-book The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of…

Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs lik…

E-book Time for the Ancients : Measurement, Theory, Experience

n this chapterIexploreGraeco-Roman techniques of, and attitudes towards,time measurement,from the twin perspectivesofeverydaylife andmedicine. Isurvey literary and archaeological evidence for the twomain available technol-ogies of timemeasurement,sundials and water-clocks, and consider what thisevidence tells us about their differential accessibility and context of use, andabout Roman attitudes…

E-book The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 …

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterlings Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, …

E-book Pynchon’s Sound of Music

When Penguin announced the upcoming release of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice in 2009, they heightened the suspense with two marketing gimmicks. One was a series of short movie trailers with Pynchon providing Doc Sportello’s slurred voice. The other one was a playlist of songs that would be mentioned in the novel. The choice of media was fitting since film…

E-book The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Mi…

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Programme at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, including chemical…

E-book The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

When Carl Maria von Weber conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Dresden in the 1820s, one of the people sitting in the auditorium was the Italian singer Luigi Bassi who had created the title role back in 1787. And he was not pleased with what he saw. ‘Bassi generally passed the judgement on all Don Giovannis whom he and I saw performing’, his friend Count Hohenthal recalled a few years afte…

E-book The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the Hi…

From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important thinkers and ideas in the history of science. This unique omnibus edition includes 250 thoughtfu…

E-book Under Construction : Performing Critical Identity

At the turn of the 2020s, identity seems to remain an omnipresent and somewhatunseizable term, serving different views in and outside academia, in politics,in everyday talk, in intellectual and popular jargon, as well as in the arts. While,currently, identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend tosimplify and reduce life experience to simple factors globally …

E-book Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications : 1…

The effects of neurodegenerative diseases on speech are well known. Phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency are speech characteristics strongly affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD) [1]. On the other hand, it is also well known that neuroacustical stimulation based on binaural beats may modify the brain activity measured in the cortex by…

E-book Verdi in Victorian London

Giuseppe Verdi’s first success was Nabucco, given in Milan on 9 March 1842. Although this was Verdi’s third opera,1 the composer referred to it as the first milestone in what would become a life-long, successful career. “With Nabucco,” he declared to Count Opprandino Arrivabeneyears later, “my career can be said to have begun.”2 However, when Verdi made his f…

E-book Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Ryme is found in verbal arts throughout the world. In the appendix tothis introduction, we offer a partial list of languages whose associated verbal arts sometimes have rhyme.Rhyme is most commonly found in texts which are poems, including sung poems (songs). Poems are dened as texts which are divided into lines, where lines are a sectioning imposed on the oral or written …

E-book The Management of Opera (1861-1918) : Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic

The present research intends to trace the presence of opera and reconstruct the organisa-tional system in the theatres situated along the coastline of present-day Croatia in the period immediately following the constitution of the first Diet of Dalmatia (1861) until the end of the First World War. The period is sufficiently broad to permit us to understand and define the workings of both the im…

E-book Brought to Life by the Voice : Playback Singing and Cultural Politics …

In 1975, a reviewer for the Toronto Sun reported on a live performance by Lata Mangeshkar, then the reigning playback voice of Hindi cinema, during her first North American tour. “Lata Mangeshkar is what is known as a ‘playback singer,’” he wrote. “That is the vocalist who replaces the voice of the leading lady [in a film] whenever she breaks into song. …

E-book Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

The book examines the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three West African countries: Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The choice of these three countries enables a fair comparison: all three face similar social, economic and political problems, share similar religious, tra-ditional and cultural backgrounds and, most importantly for this book, all suffe…

E-book Crude Moves : Political Power in Oil-Age Niger

auguration, on 28 November 2011, I received this text message2 calling on the people to make Zinder a “ghost town”. The message was one of several circulated prior to the inauguration which named oil-related grievances, attacked the incumbent govern-ment of new President Mahamadou Issoufou (since March 2011), and called on the population to resist and fight.When Papa arrived …

E-book Lithium-ion Batteries : Thin Film for Energy Materials and Devices

In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology. It is the invention of lithium-ion battery (LIB). The energy density of LIB with high discharge voltage (3.6 V) is nearly twice that of Ni-Cd batteries, and excellent cycle life and higher level of intrinsic safety have been …

E-book Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile : The Pottery

The pottery published in this volume was excavated and recorded between 1997 and 2018. During the first seasons only diagnostic sherds (rims, bases, handles, decorated pottery and unusual fabrics) were recorded, ignoring the non-diagnostic body sherds for the sake of keeping up with the quantity of pottery excavated. This concerns only the pottery from Area B and part of…

E-book The fabric(ation) of consciousness : A neuro-ecological perspective

Understanding the mystery of consciousness goes to the heart of the human condition. Consciousness is what makes us human and understanding its nature is to know what it is to be human and what the world is like. Consciousness does not make us special among the animals, but human consciousness captures the essence of our being as animals. W…

E-book The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones…

Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Gen…

E-Book Cinta Tak Pernah Tua

Bakda kehancuran di daerah Danau Ranau, seperti diturunkan Tuhan, Samin menyusuri rimba Belalau di Lubuklinggau untuk bercinta dengan kecubung dan mati untuk ketiga kalinya. Samin adalah seorang veteran dengan riwayat lima istri. Sebuah kecelakaan di pengujung Sakban mendamparkan ia dan istrinya ke taman paling indah, sekaligus menjadi gerbang untuk memasuki kisah cinta terlarangnya dengan seo…

E-book The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Mil…

With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events—encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest computing technologies—this highly topical addition to the Sterling Milestones series takes a chronological journey through the history and future of computer science. Two expert authors, with decades’ of experience working in computer research and i…

E-book The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones i…

Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, The Math Book covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares from centuries ago, the discovery of pi and calculus, and the …

E-book The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Miles…

Following the hugely successful The Science Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwells demon, the books timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big…

E-book The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Mileston…

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoeks microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colorfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major subdiscipline, including cell theory, genetics, evolution, physiology, thermodynamics, molecular biology, and ecology. With information on such varied…

E-book The Earth Book: From the Beginning to the End of Our Planet, 250 Miles…

A beautifully illustrated presentation of 250 milestones in the history of our home planet, from a celebrated geologist and planetary scientist. Spanning Earth’s entire history, from its birth 4.6 billion years ago to its inevitable destruction billions of years into the future, this stunning volume chronicles the life of our home planet in 250 well-chosen milestones. Jim Bell leads us on …

E-book The Space Book Revised and Updated: From the Beginning to the End of T…

Since the original edition of The Space Book was published in 2013, much has happened in the world of space exploration. This revised and updated edition, with a new introduction from author Jim Bell, brings the popular Milestones book up to date. It includes the most exciting and newsworthy breakthroughs, from the groundbreaking discovery of the Trappist-1 system to the technologies of the fut…

E-book GDPR and Biobanking : Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research …

Discrepancies in biobank research regulations have commonly been regarded as one of the most significant hurdles for effective research collaboration. One of the more central aspects of biobank research regulation concerns the use of personal data—health and genetic data and other information related to individuals, either as indi-vidual research subjects or participants in a particular scien…

Eyewitness Travel Guides: Great Places to Stay in Europe

The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you! Truly the guide that shows you what others only tell you, DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Places to Stay in Europe features detailed street maps, cutaways of important attractions, a handy phrasebook, and advice on the best places to eat, shop and sleep. Wake to the sounds of cocks crowing at the Quinta Nova da Conceicao in Li…

E-book Nordic Knitting Traditions: Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic and Fair I…

Traditional Scandinavian and Icelandic designs are given new life in the projects found in Nordic Knitting Traditions. 25 projects feature original floral, star, feather and geometric motifs, all knit in fresh and modern colors. With a diverse collection of hats, tams, mittens, gloves, socks, knee-highs and legwarmers, you'll find plenty of jaw-dropping, colorful accessories to knit for yoursel…

E-book Metaphysical Poems

‘Metaphysical poetry’ is a problematic term: it is broad and the phe-nomenon it denotes has blurred borderlines. In the eyes of some of the leading figures within classicist aesthetics, this description seemed pejorative, suggesting poems that were too detached from the rules of rationalised discourse, and often invoked contradictory ideas. T.S. Eliot pointed this out in his essay The Metap…

E-book When Music Takes Over in Film

A cold and grey day in an urban environment, monotony reigns and dictates the mundane lives of the city’s inhabitants. A boy wants to express his love for the girl next door. Timidly at first he starts to sing and an orchestral accompaniment slowly rises as the girl joins him in song and they begin to dance. Here the environment changes,…