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Free Download Julie Déserti, "The Cremona Group and Its Subgroups"
English | ISBN: 1470460122 | 2021 | 187 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The goal of this book is to present a portrait of the n\-dimensional Cremona group with an emphasis on the 2\-dimensional case. After recalling some crucial tools, the book describes a naturally defined infinite dimensional hyperbolic space on which the Cremona group acts.\n\nThis space plays a fundamental role in the study of Cremona groups, as it allows one to apply tools from geometric group theory to explore properties of the subgroups of the Cremona group as well as the degree growth and dynamical behavior of birational transformations.\n\nThe book describes natural topologies on the Cremona group, codifies the notion of algebraic subgroups of the Cremona groups and finishes with a chapter on the dynamics of their actions.\n\nThis book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry who are interested in birational geometry and its interactions with geometric group theory and dynamical systems.

Free Download Alexander Stewart, "The Apocalypse of John Among its Critics: Questions and Controversies "
English | ISBN: 1683597060 | 2023 | 300 pages | EPUB | 5 MB

Free Download Peter Whitewood, "Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy, The: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism"
English | ISBN: 1350238945 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Ronald L. Grimes, "Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on Its Theory"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1453758240 | EPUB | pages: 266 | 0.5 mb
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to a topic seldom written about: the evaluation of rites. Enacting ritual and thinking critically are often imagined as mutually exclusive activities, but Ritual Criticism demonstrates their complementarity by presenting case studies in which ritual and criticism require one another. The cases are drawn from contemporary, urban, North American social contexts in which specific rites are undergoing evaluation, interpretation, or revision. The cases eventuate in essays, more theoretical treatments of critical issues in ritual studies. The rituals studied are as varied as the strategies utilized. The diversity of approaches illustrates the ways criticism shifts as types of ritual vary. One rite is a traditional liturgy; another is invented rather than traditional; a third is a hybrid ritual drama; and in a fourth instance the ritualization is so tacit that some would deny that it is ritual at all. Many of the contexts that provide data for the chapters are typified by syncretism, the eclectic mixing and matching of ritual elements from diverse traditions. Other examples involve attempts to engage in ritual invention and experimentation. The essays are likewise diverse, taking readers into territories traditionally the purview of several disciplines. Drama, literature, education, psychology, medicine, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and theology are traversed in this effort to understand ritual, an unusually complex genre of human activity.

Free Download Nineveh and Its Remains: the Gripping Journals of the Man Who Discovered the Buried Assyrian Cities by Austen Henry Layard
English | February 1st, 2013 | ISBN: 1295649764 | 420 pages | True EPUB | 1.19 MB
In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh. Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of its time and was an important religious center around 3000 BC. Commerce and religion thrived in the city, which was decorated with ornate stone carvings and reliefs and boasted well-defended walls and an aqueduct. However, the city was sacked in 612 BC, and its citizens were either deported or murdered. From that time forward, the city remained unoccupied, until Layard’s excavation in the mid-1800s brought its treasures back into the world.

Free Download Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, "Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials"
English | ISBN: 1498509754 | 2016 | 178 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism. Multiracialism is often heralded as a breakthrough in racial reconciliation; some even go so far as to posit that the U.S. will become so racially mixed that racism will diminish. However, this comparative analysis of multiracials who identify as part-Asian and part-White and those who identify as part-Black and part-White indicates vastly different experiences of what it means to be multiracial. The book also attends to a nuanced understanding of how racism and inequality operate when an intersectional approach of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation is taken into account. Ittakes a focused look at how multiracialism is shaped by racism, but ultimately reveals a broader statement about race in the U.S. today: that there is no post-racial state and any identity or movement that attempts to address racial inequality must contend with that reality.

Free Download David C. Lay, "Linear Algebra and Its Applications [RENTAL EDITION] Ed 6"
English | ISBN: 0135851254 | 2020 | 672 pages | EPUB | 41 MB
Linear Algebra and Its Applications [RENTAL EDITION]

Free Download Amin Saikal, "Afghanistan and Its Neighbors after the NATO Withdrawal "
English | ISBN: 1498529127 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself. The problem of a chaotic Afghanistan-or of an outright Taliban victory-is of great concern to not only immediate neighbors such as Iran, Pakistan, and the former Soviet Central Asian republics to the north, but also to those countries in the region with Afghanistan-related security or economic concerns, such as China and India. Further abroad, Russian, American and European interests and plans for dealing with the fallout from Afghanistan must also be taken into account as these major powers have enduring interests in Afghanistan and the region. This volume puts the prospects for short- and mid-term security dynamics at the core of the analysis, with each case being placed in its proper contemporary historical, economic, and political context. The book will offer a truly comprehensive, nuanced, and timely account of the security situation in and around Afghanistan.

Free Download Mark Anthony Benvenuto, "Green Chemistry: Water and its Treatment "
English | ISBN: 3110597306 | 2021 | 150 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 9 MB
The "greening" of industry processes, i.e. making them more sustainable, is a popular and often lucrative trend in Chemical Engineering. The 7th volume of Green Chemical Processing considers the role of water in sustainable chemistry and highlights innovations in the field of water treatment. The American Chemical Society’s 12 Principles of Green Chemistry are woven throughout this text as well as the series to which this book belongs.

Free Download Andrew Holleran, "Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath"
English | 2008 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0786720395 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as "one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height." Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge, Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastation wreaked by AIDS, which has claimed the lives of 450,000 gay men as well as 22 million others. Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited features ten pieces never previously republished outside Christopher Street, as well as a new introduction keenly describing and evaluating a historical moment that still informs and defines today’s world-particularly its community of homosexuals, which, arguably, is still recovering from the devastation of AIDS.