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English | February 27, 2024 | ISBN: 0190937807 | True EPUB | 624 pages | 288 MB
A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeological discoveries

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2003 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1551930439 | PDF | 14 MB
Global Shaping and its Alternativesoffers a unique series of reflections on the connections between market capitalism, the politics of alternatives, and the cultural elaboration of social change. It argues that there is a need for an alternative explanatory framework on globalization - one that rejects fatalism and highlights the dynamic roles of states, NGOs, local fractions of capital, democrative movements and gendered social relations. Without understanding how global shaping is taking place and how it affects human life across the globe, there can be no transformational possibility for humanizing our conditions of existence.

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English | ISBN: 9087284012 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 1370 KB
There are many publications dealing with the political career of Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), who transformed the political landscape of Iran and the Middle East after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Most of the research conducted in the West is on Khomeini's political strategies, while the influential role of mysticism in all facets of his life is ignored. This book is the first study examining Khomeini's poetry, mysticism and the reception of his poetry both in Iran and the West. It investigates how Khomeini integrated various doctrines and ideas of Islamic mysticism and Shiiism such as the Perfect Man into his poetry.

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English | March 15, 2023 | ISBN: 194976270X | 424 pages | MOBI | 1.23 Mb
Atrocity fabrication - the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary without knowledge that they ever occurred - has a centuries-long history at the heart of propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public and international opinion. Its use can provide pretext for a range of hostile measures against its targets, transforming in the public eye wars of unprovoked aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed, or turning blockades to starve enemy civilians into humane efforts to pressure abusive governments under the moralistic label of sanctions. As it plays a large and growing role in global conflict in the 21st century understanding atrocity fabrication and the consistent means by and ends to which it has been used has become crucial to comprehending geopolitical events in the present day.

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English | February 15, 1992 | ISBN: 0819560162 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 1.9 MB
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian "ranges informally but authoritatively" across Civil War-related topics in a thought-provoking essay collection (The New York Times).

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This book states that current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modeling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modeling; long-term modeling and trend analysis; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation; aerosol transformation. Additionally, this work also examines the relationship between air quality and human health and the effects of climate change on air quality.

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English | 2003 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0520239695 | PDF | 4,9 mb
The Zinfandel grape―currently producing big, rich, luscious styles of red wine―has a large, loyal, even fanatical following in California and around the world. The grape, grown predominantly in California, has acquired an almost mythic status―in part because of the caliber of its wines and its remarkable versatility, and in part because of the mystery surrounding its origins. Charles Sullivan, a leading expert on the history of California wine, has at last written the definitive history of Zinfandel. Here he brings together his deep knowledge of wine with the results of his extensive research on the grape in the United States and Europe in a book that will entertain and enlighten wine aficionados and casual enthusiasts. In this lively book, Sullivan dispels the false legend that has obscured Zinfandel's history for almost a century, reveals the latest scientific findings about the grape's European roots, shares his thoughts on the quality of the wines now being produced, and looks to the future of this remarkable grape.

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Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade after the fighting stopped. Christopher R. Duncan spent several years conducting fieldwork in North Maluku, and in Violence and Vengeance, he examines how the individuals actually taking part in the fighting understood and experienced the conflict.

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1999 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0714838640 | PDF | 33 MB
The Most Serene Republic of Venice was the most extraordinary and the longest surviving of the European city states. Having emerged in the early Middle Ages on the margins of an Adriatic lagoon, her glory represents man's collective genius for building triumphant order out of what was once a marshy, reed-choked wilderness. Fortuitously positioned, she stood at the crossroads of the trade routes to the East; her ascendancy inextricably linked to her supremacy as a maritime power. The centre of an extensive maritime and Terraferma empire, she imported Oriental and then classical artistic influences. These combined with the city's difficult topography, changing light, reflective waters and peculiar government to create a metropolis that was unique in both its architecture and urban form. This book charts the metamorphosis of Venice from its meagre origins, as a number of small scattered settlements or hamlets, into one of the wealthiest capitals in the world. By focusing on particular nuclei of the City, all its contrasts are brought into focus: from the political and religions heart of San Marco to the bustling mercantile centre of the Rialto and the jewish Ghetto, with its social limitations and distinct cultural life. Descriptions of individual buildings are equally far-reaching, including fishermen's cottages and exuberant palazzi, shimmering on the Grand Canal. Churches range from simple early Christian basilicas to Andrea Palladio's masterpieces and the white marble Baroque triumph of Baldassare Longhena's Santa Maria della Salute. The visual wealth of Venice is reflected in the extensive illustrations of this book, in which colour photographs are combined with plans and paintings. Contemporary plans provide a unique insight into the city's historical evolution, while paintings by the Venetian masters provide lyricism and vital detail. As the first truly comprehensive history of Venetian architecture, Uenice: The City and its Architecture advances on all previous accounts of the subject in its depth and scope. By abandoning the chronological approach of earlier histories, it encompasses the diverse and manifold influences that have affected the city's development.

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032170778 | 284 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Elastic wave propagation applies to a wide variety of fields, including seismology, non-destructive testing, energy resource exploration, and site characterization. New applications for elastic waves are still being discovered. Theory of Elastic Wave Propagation and its Application to Scattering Problems starts from the standpoint of continuum mechanics, explaining stress and strain tensors in terms of mathematics and physics, and showing the derivation of equations for elastic wave motions, to give readers a stronger foundation. It emphasizes the importance of Green's function for applications of the elastic wave equation to practical engineering problems and covers elastic wave propagation in a half-space, in addition to the spectral representation of Green's function. Finally, the MUSIC algorithm is used to address inverse scattering problems.