Tag: Spaces

Free Download Anna Calori, "Between East and South: Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War (Dialectics of the Global) "
English | ISBN: 3110639653 | 2019 | 254 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Ever since the 1990s, "globalization" has been a dominant idea and, indeed, ideology. The metanarratives of Cold War victory by the West, the expansion of the market economy, and the boost in productivity through internationalization, digitalization, and the increasing dominance of the finance industry became associated with the promise of a global trickle-down effect that would lead to greater prosperity for ever more people worldwide. Any criticism of this viewpoint was countered with the argument that there was no alternative; globalization was too powerful and thus irreversible. Today, the ideology of "globalization" meets with growing scepticism. An era of exaggerated optimism for global integration has been replaced by an era of doubt and a quest for a return to particularistic sovereignty. However, processes of global integration have not dissipated and the rejection of "globalization" as ideology has not diminished the need to make sense both of the actually existing high level of interdependence and the ideology that gave meaning and justification to it.

Free Download Sergei Yu. Pilyugin, "Spaces of Dynamical Systems (De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics) Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 3110644460 | 2019 | 260 pages | EPUB | 27 MB

Free Download Monogenic Functions in Spaces with Commutative Multiplication and Applications by Sergiy A. Plaksa , Vitalii S. Shpakivskyi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 548 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 54 MB
This monograph develops a theory of continuous and differentiable functions, called monogenic functions, in the sense of Gateaux functions taking values in some vector spaces with commutative multiplication. The study of these monogenic functions in various commutative algebras leads to a discovery of new ways of solving boundary value problems in mathematical physics.

Free Download Boris Otto, Michael ten Hompel, Stefan Wrobel, "Designing Data Spaces: The Ecosystem Approach to Competitive Advantage"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303093974X, 3030939774 | PDF | pages: 577 | 26.2 mb
This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries.

Free Download Better Homes and Gardens, "Decorating Small Spaces: Live Large in Any Space"
English | 2004 | pages: 194 | ISBN: 0696218615 | PDF | 127,3 mb
How to apply basic principles for enhancing small spaces.

Free Download Marianne Blidon, Stanley D. Brunn, Donna Gilbreath, "Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places: A Changing World"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031037936, 303103791X | PDF | pages: 784 | 24.6 mb
This book addresses LGBTQ issues in relation to among others law and policy, mobility and migration, children and family, social well-being and identity, visible and invisible landscapes, teaching and instruction, parades, arts and cartography and mapping. A variety of research methods are used to explore identities, communities, networks and landscapes, all which can be used in subsequent research and classroom instruction and disciplinary and interdisciplinary levels. This extensive book stimulates future pioneering research ventures in rural and urban settings about existing and proposed LGBTQ policies, individual and group mapping, visible and invisible spaces, and the construction of public and private spaces. Through the methodologies and rich bibliographies, this book provides a rich source for future comparative research of scholars working in social work, NGOs and public policy, and community networking and development.

Free Download Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism By Msia Kibona Clark; Loy Azalia; Phiwokuhle Mnyandu; Semien Abay; Jessica Alarcon; Afua Ansong; Yelena Bailey; Eugene Mikobi Bope; Nana Afua Brantuo; Sayuni Brown; Courtney Cain; Krista L Cortes; Ariana Curtis; Mekdela Ejigu; Shelvia English; Zo Gadegb
2018 | 330 Pages | ISBN: 1498581927 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and community identities. Each of the personal essays will be written by bicultural Africans/Blacks from around the world. The essays represent a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints central to the bicultural Africans/Black experience. The contributors offer poignant and grounded perspectives on the diverse ways race, ethnicity, and culture are experienced, debated, and represented. All of the chapters contribute more broadly to writings on dual identities, and the various ways bicultural Africans/Blacks navigate their identities and their places in African and Diaspora communities.

Free Download Sebastian J. Müller, "Neo-Frontier Spaces in Science Fiction Television"
English | ISBN: 1476690898 | 2023 | 277 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The idea of the frontier-once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent-has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings. TV series have long adapted the frontier myth to outer space and have explored American Wests of the future. This book takes a deeper look at the futuristic frontiers within such series as Star Trek, Firefly, Terra Nova, Defiance and The 100, revealing how they rethink colonialism, the environment, spaces of risk and utopian/dystopian worlds.

Free Download Nabil Echchaibi, "The Third Spaces of Digital Religion "
English | ISBN: 0367499479 | 2023 | 130 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and spiritual places.

Free Download Siri Hummel, "Contested Civic Spaces: A European Perspective "
English | ISBN: 3111070077 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For some years, we have observed a broad public discussion over the shrinking civic space. While the focus has generally been on countries with authoritarian governance systems, it has more recently become apparent that the issue is neither restricted to these countries nor indeed to countries with weak or non-existing democracies. It has been demonstrated that the space in which civil society actors and individual citizens may contribute to public affairs is undergoing fundamental changes in Europe. While in some areas, the clout of civic initiative is larger today than ever before, in others, civic action is highly disputed and governments are attempting to crowd out non-governmental actors from the public sphere.