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South Asian Cultures of the Bomb Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan


Free Download Itty Abraham, "South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan"
English | 2009 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 0253220327 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Since their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan. Yet the relationship between nuclear arms and civil society in the region is seldom taken into account in conventional security studies. These original and provocative essays examine the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons. Equal coverage for comparable issues in each country frames the volume as a genuine dialogue across this contested boundary.

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The Sociology of Central Asian Youth Choice, Constraint, Risk


Free Download Mohd.Aslam Bhat, "The Sociology of Central Asian Youth: Choice, Constraint, Risk "
English | ISBN: 0815380607 | 2018 | 174 pages | EPUB | 766 KB
At the onset of the twenty-first century, ‘youth studies’ emerged as a distinct field of inquisition. Discourses and debates in the field have since become more sophisticated, and the spectrum of analysis has likewise broadened. However, it is striking to note how little reference is made to young people of peripheral regions like Central Asia.

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Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2005. Data Management on the Web 10th Asian Computing Science Conference, Kunming, China,


Free Download Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2005. Data Management on the Web: 10th Asian Computing Science Conference, Kunming, China, December 7-9, 2005. Proceedings By Richard Hull (auth.), Stéphane Grumbach, Liying Sui, Victor Vianu (eds.)
2005 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 3540307672 | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2005, held in Kunming, China in December 2005.The 17 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security and privacy, semantic Web and data integration, peer-to-peer data management, Web services and electronic commerce, data mining and search, XML, data streams and publish/subscribe systems, security and privacy, semantic Web and data integration, peer-to-peer data management, Web services and electronic commerce, data mining and search, data streams and publish/subscribe systems, and Web-based applications.

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Asian Philosophies Ed 7


Free Download John M. Koller, "Asian Philosophies Ed 7"
English | ISBN: 1138629723 | 2018 | 428 pages | PDF | 6 MB
With an inside view from an expert in the field and a clear and engaging writing style, Asian Philosophies, Seventh Edition invites students and professors to think along with the greatminds of the Asian traditions. Eminent scholar and teacher John M. Koller has devoted hislife to understanding and explaining Asian thought and practice. He wrote this text to givestudents access to the rich philosophical and religious ideas of both South and East Asia.

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