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Free Download Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (German Jewish Cultures) by Joela Jacobs
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 0253071976, 0253071984 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 0.5 MB
Animal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser’s and Hitler’s Reichs, the genre’s irreverent comedy and criticism sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers.

Free Download Arctic Oceanography: Marginal Ice Zones and Continental Shelves By Walker O. Smith Jr., Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
1995 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0875902634 | PDF | 8 MB
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Volume 49.The Arctic Ocean is the least understood ocean on Earth, and yet its importance to the world’s oceans and climate is immense. For example, it has been suggested that the Arctic is the region most likely to be affected by increased atmospheric temperatures which might occur as a result of anthropogenic releases of greenhouse gases. It also plays a critical role in global oceanic circulation, in that it modulates the formation of deep water in the North Atlantic via ice export. Despite its pivotal role in global processes, the Arctic remains poorly understood. This volume is an attempt to highlight and synthesize some of the recent advances in our knowledge of Arctic oceanography and includes topics that will interest physical, biological, chemical, and geological oceanographers as well as atmospheric scientists.That the Arctic is so poorly known relative to other oceans is not surprising. It is largely ice-covered throughout the year, with only some of its continental shelves becoming ice?]free in summer. Its ice is mostly multi?]year and very thick, making penetration into the deeper portions impossible except by the most powerful ice?]breakers. However, in recent years new technologies have been applied to the Arctic, and our understanding of the physical, chemical, biological and geological processes which occur within it is rapidly increasing. Satellite sensors observe the Arctic continually, allowing us to follow ice circulation, storms, and openings in the pack ice that had never been observed previously. Moorings, ships and buoys now can withstand many of the rigors of the Arctic, and observations of the water column and seabed are becoming more common. Finally, because of its importance to global processes, studies of the Arctic are attracting scientists not only from Arctic nations but from nations around the world. Arctic oceanography truly has become an international effort.

Free Download Marginal Revolution in Economics: A Reappraisal (Monographs in Mathematical Economics, 6) by Toru Maruyama
English | January 3, 2024 | ISBN: 9819943418 | 268 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the Marginal Revolution on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.

Free Download Janice M. Irvine, "Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0472055380 | PDF | pages: 349 | 5.8 mb
Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures-ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California-helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists who told the stories of these marginalized groups represented an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism, prefiguring the academic fields of gender, ethnic, sexuality, and queer studies in key ways. In recounting the social histories of certain American outsiders, Irvine identifies an American paradox by which social differences are both despised and desired, and she describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it.

Free Download From Marginal to Mainstream: Why Tomorrow’s Brand Growth Will Come from the Fringes – and How to Get There First by Helen Edwards
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 139860433X | 264 pages | MOBI | 5.26 Mb
Legacy brands are struggling. The hand-to-hand combat for advantage has become a zero-sum game – producing small share gains and losses but nothing to bring about sensational new growth.

Free Download Pelle Ehn, "Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy"
English | ISBN: 0262027933 | 2014 | 351 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.

Free Download Hervé Anderson Tchumkam, "Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis "
English | ISBN: 1793640750 | 2021 | 194 pages | EPUB | 393 KB
Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author analyzes social categories in relation to civil and social protections and in particular, the ways in which disruptions to these protections can lead to social degeneration. The author’s analysis starts from the premise that precarious lives in North Africa have become true bodies of exception. In other words, they are deemed dangerous, expendable and unworthy of the rights and treatment accorded to full citizens. Thus, the author assesses portrayals of violence in contemporary literature as a crystallization of the existing disjunction between the socially disqualified and those who wield colonial, political, and religious power. Moreover, the author argues that in order to understand contemporary politics and the current climate of insecurity, a deeper understanding of precarity in North Africa from colonial times to the present is crucial. By affirming their right to exist, the author argues that the marginal bodies of North Africa offer unique insights into the society that marginalized them and thus, from the often inaudible and invisible periphery, they nevertheless challenge the dominant ideas of the center.

Free Download Toby Norris, "Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars "
English | ISBN: 168393248X | 2023 | 326 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 17 MB
Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War I, it was a marginal phenomenon, largely absent from the museums and bought and sold by a handful of second-string dealers; by the early 1950s it had been canonized as the representative form of the epoch. The triumph of modernism, and the simultaneous establishment of Paris as the crucible of modern art, were not the products of a coherent policy but of a stumbling and spasmodic process. France was the leading democratic nation in Europe, and it wanted its art to reinforce its prestige on the international stage, but no-one could agree how best to achieve this. Toby Norris shows how, amidst the policy squabbles and in-fighting of representative government, France fumbled its way toward an art of democracy and in the process helped install modern art as the house style of democratic capitalism.

Free Download Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania’s Black Sea
by Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031357981 | 276 Pages | True PDF | 4.17 MB

Free Download Marginal Revolution in Economics: A Reappraisal by Toru Maruyama
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 264 Pages | ISBN : 9819943418 | 9.4 MB
This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the Marginal Revolution on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The year 1871 should be remembered as one of the most important turning points in the history of economics. W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, and L. Walras published epochal works at the very beginning of the 1870s. Although these works were written independently, they shared a common mathematical structure based on classical analysis. For this reason, the emergence of the trio is called the Marginal Revolution. Indeed, 1871 is the starting point of modern economics in the proper sense.