Gil Fishhof, "Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East "
English | ISBN: 0367196743 | 2021 | 322 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century.

The Twentieth Century World: An International History By William R. Keylor
1996 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 0195097696 | PDF | 29 MB
Explores the history of modern relations between the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The book's unique analytical framework focuses on the relationships between these countries rather than on their individual histories; helps readers to easily examine how the nations of the world have interacted since the beginning of the last century. Extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship; featureing photographs for the first time - more than fifty throughout the text. The new edition addresses such issues as refugees and stateless persons, human rights, the environment, and the events of September 11, 2001. Updated to include the war on terrorism, military action in Iraq, and the causes and consequences of globalization, this edition also explores the expanding role of nongovernmental organizations, the threat of AIDS to world order, narcotics trafficking, and environmental degradation. Examines a wide range of countries, The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond, International Fifth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth-century international history, twentieth-century world history, and international relations.

R.F Mould, "A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine: With Emphasis on Photographic Records of the Early Years"
English | ISBN: 0750302240 | | 234 pages | PDF | 83 MB
A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine: With Emphasis on Photographic Records of the Early Years celebrates three great discoveries-x-rays (1895), radioactivity (1896), and radium (1898)-and recalls the pioneering achievements that founded the new science of radiology and changed the face of medicine forever. Over 700 historical illustrations with full and informative captions are supported by short introductory essays to illuminate the fascinating radiological past in an easy-to-read style.

Technical Services in the 21st Century by Samantha Schmehl Hines
English | 2021 | ISBN: 180043829X | 249 Pages | ePUB | 7.1 MB
While librarianship in general has had to respond to constant revolutionary change, technical services have faced much more immediate challenges, having nearly been completely reimagined in the 21st century. By showcasing the work of technical services, and the ground-breaking changes they have encountered, this edited collection provides readers with an opportunity to re-assess the opportunities and challenges for library administration, and to understand how libraries should be managed in the future.

Fariha Shaikh, "Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art "
English | ISBN: 1474433693 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination

Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction By Ronald Tiersky; Erik Jones
2014 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 1442221097 | PDF | 6 MB
This textbook is a true post Cold War enterprise. The contributors, an authoritative group of Americans and Europeans, explore the new Europe West and East using intertwining themes of domestic politics, European integration, and European security. The chapters divided into country, institutional, and thematic sections are both student and teacher friendly: clearly written, engaging, and tailored for classroom discussion. Each chapter provides necessary basic information and explanations, enhanced by an accessible and distinctive perspective on concepts and current debates.

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe By Annick Paternoster (Editor), Susan Fitzmaurice (Editor)
2019 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 9027201994 | PDF | 5 MB
This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between theAncien Rgimeand the contemporary period, with the rise of the middle classes as economic, political, social and cultural actors. The central innovation of this volume consists in its use of a wide range of politeness metasources - grammar books, schoolbooks, conduct books, etiquette books, and letter-writing manuals - to access social norms. This interdisciplinary approach, which draws on historical linguistics, argumentation theory, appraisal theory and literary stylistics, is applied to a wide range of languages: English, including Scottish and business English, Italian, Spanish, West and South Slavic languages. As a highly coherent collection of innovative research papers, the volume will be welcomed by researchers of (im)politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, both from a historical and contemporary perspective.

21st Century Challenges in Chemical Crystallography II: Structural Correlations and Data Interpretation by D. Michael P. Mingos
English | PDF | 2021 | 240 Pages | ISBN : 3030647463 | 8.8 MB
This volume summarises recent developments and highlights new techniques which will define possible future directions for small molecule X-ray crystallography. It provides an insight into how specific aspects of crystallography are developing and shows how they may interact or integrate with other areas of science.

Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Century: International Perspectives By Maria Yudkevich (Editor), Philip G. Altbach (Editor), Laura E. Rumbley (Editor)
2015 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 1438457278 | PDF | 6 MB
Young faculty are the future of academia, yet without attractive career paths for young academics, the future of the university is bleak. Featuring case studies from Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, and the United States,Young Faculty in the Twenty-First Centuryis the first book to analyze issues facing early-career higher education faculty in an international context. The contributors discuss how young academics are affected by contracts, salaries, the structure of careers, and institutional conditions. The analyses cover the full spectrum of the academic profession, including part-time jobs and short-term contracts, both in public and private institutions. The book also addresses what universities must do in order to attract young, qualified candidates.

Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England By Rebecca Herissone, Alan Howard
2013 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1843837404 | PDF | 39 MB
In the seventeenth century, the concept of creativity was far removed from most of the fundamental ideas about the creative act - notions of human imagination, inspiration, originality and genius - that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, in this period, students learned their crafts by copying and imitating past masters and did not consciously seek to break away from tradition. Most new material was made on the instructions of a patron and had to conform to external expectations; and basic tenets that we tend to take for granted-such as the primacy and individuality of the author-were apparently considered irrelevant in some contexts. The aim of this interdisciplinary collection of essays is to explore what it meant to create buildings and works of art, music and literature in seventeenth-century England and to investigate the processes by which such creations came into existence. Through a series of specific case studies, the book highlights a wide range of ideas, beliefs and approaches to creativity that existed in seventeenth-century England and places them in the context of the prevailing intellectual, social and cultural trends of the period. In so doing, it draws into focus the profound changes that were emerging in the understanding of human creativity in early modern society - transformations that would eventually lead to the development of a more recognisably modern conception of the notion of creativity. The contributors work in and across the fields of literary studies, history, musicology, history of art and history of architecture, and their work collectively explores many of the most fundamental questions about creativity posed by the early modern English 'creative arts'. REBECCA HERISSONE is Head of Music and Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Manchester. ALAN HOWARD is Lecturer in Music at the University of East Anglia and Reviews Editor for Eighteenth-Century Music. Contributors: Linda Phyllis Austern, Stephanie Carter, John Cunningham, Marina Daiman, Kirsten Gibson, Raphael Hallett, Rebecca Herissone, Anne Hultzsch, Freyja Cox Jensen, Stephen Rose, Andrew R. Walkling, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, James A. Winn.