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Free Download The gods left first : imperial collapse and the repatriation of Japanese from northeast Asia, 1945-56 By Barshay, Andrew E
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0520276159 | EPUB | 6 MB
At the time of Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan’s army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid forced labor and reeducation campaigns, they waited for return, never knowing when or if it would come. Drawing on a wide range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, The Gods Left First reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. In a broader sense, this study is a meditation on the meaning of survival for Japan’s continental repatriates, showing that their memories of involvement in Japan’s imperial project were both a burden and the basis for a new way of life.

Free Download Introduction to Dynamical Wave Function Collapse
by Pearle, Philip;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198901372 | 241 pages | True PDF | 7.91 MB

Free Download Thomas Reuter, "Averting a Global Environmental Collapse: The Role of Anthropology and Local Knowledge"
English | ISBN: 144387597X | 2015 | 330 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The numerous and varied indicators of environmental risks point toward the likelihood of a systemic and catastrophic ecological failure at some point during this century. Political inaction and cultural resistance, meanwhile, are even preventing the implementation of already available technical solutions, which has led many experts to conclude that averting a global environmental catastrophe is, foremost, a socio-political, rather than a technical, challenge. The World Science Union (ICSU) has recognized that knowledge of the social sciences is indispensable for facilitating the major socio-cultural transformations now required, and, together with the International Social Science Council (ISSC), called for a mainstreaming of environmental research in the social sciences at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The two major international organizations in anthropology, IUAES and WCAA, responded to this call by co-sponsoring a symposium on environmental change at the Manchester World Anthropology Congress, and by creating a scientific Commission for Anthropology and Environment, which then hosted a second symposium in Chiba City, Tokyo, in May 2014. This volume is a selection of the many papers presented by a truly international group of experts at the two symposia. It identifies and provides case study examples in six major research areas where anthropology and local and indigenous peoples knowledge can make a significant contribution: Environmental Vulnerability and Risk Perceptions; Sustainable Urban Environments; Sustainable Rural Environments and Food Security; Indigenous People and Nature Conservation; Environmental Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility; and Sustainable Resource Management. Contributors represent nine different national anthropologies across all continents. The volume thus also enacts a new world anthropologies paradigm, first proposed by the World Anthropologies Network (WAN), which aspires to unify and globalize the discipline in a spirit of equality and mutual respect among scholars across all national traditions and language barriers. Furthermore, the volume will also support teaching and promote further research in the anthropology of the environment.

Free Download The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199594937 | 464 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB
Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture – one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones – is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted.

Free Download Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse"
English | ISBN: 1032382244 | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 11 MB
Museums and Societal Collapse explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary perspective and considers the potential museums have to contribute to the reimagining and transitioning of a new society with the threat of collapse.

Free Download Illusion of Control : COVID-19 and the Collapse of Expertise
by Ian Miller
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1637589786 | 260 Pages | True ePUB | 9.5 MB

Free Download Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Narrating Past, Presence and Future Abot Periods of Crisis
by Alexander Drost, Olga Sasunkevich
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3412225371 | 176 Pages | PDF | 2.88 MB

Free Download Black Hole Physics: From Collapse to Evaporation (Graduate Texts in Physics) by Daniel Grumiller, Mohammad Mehdi Sheikh-Jabbari
English | November 9, 2022 | ISBN: 3031103424 | 444 pages | MOBI | 42 Mb
This textbook gradually introduces the reader to several topics related to black hole physics with a didactic approach. It starts with the most basic black hole solution, the Schwarzschild metric, and discusses the basic classical properties of black hole solutions as seen by different probes. Then it reviews various theorems about black hole properties as solutions to Einstein gravity coupled to matter fields, conserved charges associated with black holes, and laws of black hole thermodynamics. Next, it elucidates semiclassical and quantum aspects of black holes, which are relevant in ongoing and future research. The book is enriched with many exercises and solutions to assist in the learning.The textbook is designed for physics graduate students who want to start their research career in the field of black holes; postdocs who recently changed their research focus towards black holes and want to get up-to-date on recent and current research topics; advanced researchers intending to teach (or learn) basic and advanced aspects of black hole physics and the associated mathematical tools. Besides general relativity, the reader needs to be familiar with standard undergraduate physics, like thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics. Moreover, familiarity with basic quantum field theory in Minkowski space is assumed. The book covers the rest of the needed background material in the main text or the appendices.

Free Download Jordi Pujol, "The Collapse of Freedom of Expression: Reconstructing the Ancient Roots of Modern Liberty "
English | ISBN: 0268203962 | 2023 | 394 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB

Free Download On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson, Dan Woren, Hachette Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: B0036QUORY | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 15 hours and 4 minutes + EPUB | 826 Mb
When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation’s next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging.
But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world’s most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression. Major institutions including Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup, among others – all steeped in rich, longstanding tradition – literally teetered at the edge of collapse. Panic ensnared international markets. Worst of all, the credit crisis spread to all parts of the U.S. economy and grew more ominous with each passing day, destroying jobs across America and undermining the financial security millions of families had spent their lifetimes building.
This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime economic nightmare. Events no one had thought possible were happening in quick succession, and people all over the globe were terrified that the continuing downward spiral would bring unprecedented chaos. All eyes turned to the United States Treasury Secretary to avert the disaster.