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Free Download Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche) by Robert Guay
English | February 9, 2022 | ISBN: 1474430775 | 240 pages | PDF | 6.76 Mb
On the Genealogy of Morality has become the most common point of entry into Nietzsche’s thought. It offers relatively straightforward, sustained explanatory narratives addressing many of the main ideas of Nietzsche’s mature thought, such as will to power, nihilism, perspectivism, the value of truth and the critique of morality. At the same time, it is challenging to understand because Nietzsche intended it as an expansion and elaboration of his existing ideas. Robert Guay provides the interpretive and philosophical context to help new readers of Nietzsche understand both the book and Nietzsche’s thought more widely. He shows how Nietzsche’s narratives engage with philosophical issues about agency, self-knowledge, historical explanation and the critique of morality.

Free Download Walking as Critical Inquiry
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031299906 | 285 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
This book is a transdisciplinary, international collection situated within a genealogy of experimental walking practices in the arts, arts-based research, and emergent walking practices in education. It brings together emerging cartographies of relation amongst walking practices ranging across arts-based, ecological, activist, decolonising, queer, critical and posthuman modes of inquiry. Its particular investment is in the proliferation of artful modes of inquiry that open up speculative practices and concepts of walking as an orientation for pedagogy, inquiry, and the everyday, resisting the gaze of privilege and the relentless commodification of human and nonhuman life processes. This is important work for the burgeoning demand for creative methodologies in the social sciences, and more specifically, for arts-based educational research.

Free Download Guanghui Ding, "Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China: Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture"
English | ISBN: 1472463692 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 20 MB
For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices. In doing so, this book argues that the journal has engaged in the presentation and production of a particular form of critical architecture – described as an ‘intermediate criticality’ – as a response to the particular constraints of the Chinese cultural and political context. The journal’s publications displayed a ‘dual critique’ – a resistant attitude to the dominant modes of commercial building practice, characterised by rapid and large-scale urban expansion, and an alternative publishing practice focusing on emerging, independent architectural practitioners through the active integration of theoretical debates, architectural projects, and criticisms. This dual critique is illustrated through a careful review and analysis of the history and programme of the journal. By showing how the work of emerging architects, including Yung Ho Chang, Wang Shu, Liu Jiakun and Urbanus, are situated within the context of the journal’s special thematic editions on experimental architecture, exhibition, group design, new urban space and professional system, the book assesses the contribution the journal has made to the emergence of a critical architecture in China, in the context of how it was articulated, debated, presented and perhaps even ‘produced’ within the pages of the publication itself. The protagonists of critical architecture have endeavoured to construct an alternative mode of form and space with strong aesthetic and socio-political implications to the predominant production of architecture under the current Chinese socialist market economy. To rebel against certain forms of domination and suppression by capital and power is by no means to completely reject them; rather, it is to use thos

Free Download Richard D. Nelson, "Judges: A Critical & Rhetorical Commentary"
English | ISBN: 056767309X | 2017 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The book of Judges is part of the world’s literary and cultural canon, and as such it provides insights about political leadership, gender relationships, power disparities, personal strengths and weakness, as well as social and political ethics. In addition, for many Jewish and Christian scholars, Judges is a canonical, scriptural text. This new commentary on Judges considers all these issues, adopting two key approaches: rhetorical criticism and historical criticism.

Free Download A Critical Mind: Hanns Ullrich’s Footprint in Internal Market Law, Antitrust and Intellectual Property
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3662659735 | 1413 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This book traces the academic footprint of Hanns Ullrich. Thirty contributions revolve around five central topics of his oeuvre: the European legal order, competition law, intellectual property, the regulation of new technologies, and the global market order. Acknowledging him as a trailblazer, the book aims to capture how deeply Hanns Ullrich has influenced contemporaries and subsequent generations of scholars. The contributors re-iterate the path-breaking patterns of his teachings, such as his contemplation of intellectual property as embedded in competition, the necessity of balancing private and public interests in intellectual property law, the policies of market integration, and the peculiar relationship of technological advancement and protectionism.

Free Download Critical: Why the NHS Is Being Betrayed and How We Can Fight for It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTMTLTDR | 2023 | 5 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Dr Julia Patterson
Narrator: Dr Julia Patterson
The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for the past 75 years. It’s a burden to some and a potent vote-winner for others. It’s a construct, framed in the media. It’s a set of ideas and a logo. It’s a workplace for many and the birthplace of almost all of us. It’s become a valued part of our society, it is extraordinarily special – and it’s being destroyed.’ The NHS is at crisis point. In the 75 years since it was founded on the dream of making healthcare accessible to everyone, its principles have been chipped away at and disregarded by successive political leaders.

Free Download Semi-Critical Assisted Extraction: Applications and Commercialization in Biotechnology, Food, and Pharmacy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9814968366 | 263 Pages | PDF (True) | 19 MB
In the past three decades, great efforts have been made to develop new methods for the extraction of natural molecules. Improved extraction technologies have garnered scientific interest as they have helped in understanding how mass and energy transfer exhibited for a solvent and solute during a chemical extraction can be used as physical chemistry parameters, leading to the modeling and design of new advantageous equipment. In situ data collected during a chemically assisted experiment is useful in a variety of scientific and technological applications, especially in generating extractors that are safer, more efficient, and offer true opportunities to scale them up in a wide range of materials (among stainless steel).

Free Download Pulmonary and Critical Care Considerations of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031287967 | 1309 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 47 MB
This book serves as a guide to the pulmonary and critical care complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). HSCT is an important therapeutic modality for a variety of malignant and non-malignant conditions. The outcomes of these patients have been improving and the number of HSCT cases is increasing around the world. These patients, however, continue to have post-transplant complications related to conditioning regimens and graft vs. host disease. Pulmonary complications following HSCT remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in this patient population.

Free Download Intensive and Critical Care Medicine 2nd Edition by Volker Herold
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3000660992 | 1661 pages | PDF | 627 Mb
The book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients (among other things of COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit. It contains all topics of critical care medicine (airway management, ventilation principles and ventilation techniques, weaning, tracheotomy, chest tube[thoracic drainage], analgosedation, catecholamine therapy, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, nutrition, resuscitation, sepsis, ECMO, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, extracorporeal circulatory support, cardiac arrhythmias, inflammatory heart diseases[endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis], hypertensive crisis, pulmonary embolism, acute aortic syndrom, ARDS, pulmonary hypertension, acute right heart failure, obstructive lung diseases[status asthmaticus, exacerbated COPD], interstitial lung diseases, bronchial hemorrhage), gastrointestinal bleeding, acute pancreatitis, gastrointestinal atony, complications of liver cirrhosis, acute liver failure, acute mesenteric ischemia, pneumonia, multi-drug-resistant organisms, skin and soft tissue infections, fungal infections (mycoses), malaria, endocrinological emergencies, disorders of the electrolytes, disorders of the acid-base balance, blood products, DIC, hyerfibrinolysis, HIT, ITP, thrombotic microangiopathies, oncological emergencies, stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, status epilepticus, meningitis, brain death (irreversible loss of brain function), organ donation, neuromuscular diseases, crises in movement disorders, toxicology, electrical / drowning / diving accidents, hypothermia, hyperthermia (heat stroke), ethics & law and also a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

Free Download Imaging in Critical Care Medicine
by Anirban Hom Choudhuri
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032111771 | 219 pages | True PDF | 45.04 MB