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Free Download Gashawbeza Bekele, "Africa in the Twenty-First Century: The Promise of Development and Democratization "
English | ISBN: 1498564518 | 2018 | 238 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from varied theoretical perspectives. The diverse issues and sub-themes addressed in this volume include tenets of democracy such as democratization, democratic institutions, good governance, term limits, minority rights, and women’s political participation; and dynamics of development such as economic growth, liberalization, development strategies and models, Millennium Development Goals, uneven regional development, sustainable development challenges, transport development and management, and health and development. Featuring established and emerging scholars, this book is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers, and students interested in African politics and development.

Free Download A Century of Fluid Mechanics in The Netherlands by Fons Alkemade
English | PDF | 2019 | 162 Pages | ISBN : 3030035859 | 108.49 MB
In October 1918, Jan Burgers, 23 years old, started as professor of ‘aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and their applications’ at the Technical University in Delft. This can be regarded as the birth of fluid mechanics in the Netherlands, not only as an academic discipline but also as the start of the serious study of flow phenomena in engineering environments.

Free Download Emily Horton, "21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1350286567 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 624 KB + 7 MB
In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st-century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, including Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged and reread by contemporary writers to address the cultural anxieties invoked living under neocolonial and neoliberal governance, including terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change.

Free Download 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wind Energy Resource Evaluation by Chongwei Zheng
English | EPUB | 2021 | 189 Pages | ISBN : 9811641102 | 110.3 MB
This book aims to establish a wind energy evaluation system, to provide scientific reference for site selection, daily operation and long-term planning of wind power generation, thus to make contribution to breaking the shackles of power shortage. Firstly, it presents the advantages and disadvantages of offshore wind power, then further discusses about the status quo and challenges for wind power programs along the Maritime Silk Road and offer suggestions.

Free Download Kenneth O. Morgan, "Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction"
English | 2005 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 019285397X | EPUB | 2,4 mb
The last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have existed in Britain since the First World War. Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political parties and recently released documents from Britain’s Public Records Office, Kenneth Morgan covers the full scope of Britain’s modern history while drawing thought-provoking comparisons with the post-war history of other nations. This penetrating analysis by a leading twentieth-century historian makes for fantastic reading for anyone interested in the development of modern Britain.

Free Download Tara Moss, "Speaking Out: A 21st Century Handbook For Women And Girls"
English | 2016 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 1460751337, 1460754530 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
A short, accessible and practical handbook for women on speaking out safely and confidently.

Free Download Rafey Habib, "Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century"
English | 2010 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1847740219 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered."-Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

Free Download Evgueny Kovtun, "Russische Avantgarde: Art of Century"
Deutsch | 2014 | pages: 236 | ASIN: B00KHLP5XO | EPUB | 6,6 mb
Die russische Avantgarde entstand an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert im vorrevolutionären Russland. Die intellektuelle und kulturelle Unruhe dieser Zeit bildete einen idealen Nährboden für die Entwicklung dieser Bewegung. Für viele von der europäischen Kunst beeinflusste Künstler verkörperte sie eine Möglichkeit, sich von den sozialen und ästhetischen Zwängen der Vergangenheit zu befreien. Die avantgardistischen Künstler begründeten durch ihre immense Kreativität die abstrakte Kunst und führten Russland auf diese Weise in die Moderne.

Free Download Laura Morowitz, William Vaughan, "Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2018 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 1138727563 | PDF | 163,5 mb
This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods – groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that this is an unique feature of the period, there has not previously been a separate study of the phenomenon. This collection of essays provides a thorough and wide-ranging exploration of the issue. Situating artistic brotherhoods within their historical context, it offers unique insights into the social, political, economic and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the most celebrated and influential brotherhoods, while also bringing to light lesser-known or forgotten artists. The essays explore the artistic fraternity from a wide variety of perspectives, probing issues of gender, identity, professional practices and artistic formation in Europe and the United States. This book investigates the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Russian Abramatsova, the Primitifs, the Nabis as well as other leading groups. The book contains a substantial introduction, which establishes the key questions and issues surrounding the phenomena of the artistic brotherhood, including their relation to the larger artistic community, their association with other social and political organizations of the period, and the ways in which mythologies have been built around them in subsequent histories and recollections of the period.

Free Download Twentieth Century Romania
by Kurt W. Treptow, Ed.
English | 2023 | ISBN: 159211332X | 240 pages | True EPUB | 9.43 MB