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Free Download The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective By Ronald M. Glassman
1997 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0333683056 | PDF | 14 MB
High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes – technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers – who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or, will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

Free Download Maria Teresa Brolis, "Stories of Women in the Middle Ages Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0773554793 | 2018 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 345 KB
Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in Europe, not all women fit the stereotype of passive housewife and mother. Many led bold and dynamic lives. In this collection of historical portraits, Maria Teresa Brolis tells the fascinating tales of fashion icons, art clients, businesswomen, saints, healers, lovers, and pilgrims – both famous and little known – who challenge conventional understandings of the medieval female experience. Drawing on evidence from literary works and archival documents that include letters, chronicles, trials, testimonials, notary registers, contracts, and wills, Brolis pieces together an intricate overview of sixteen women’s lives. With zest and compassion, she describes the mysterious visionary Hildegard of Bingen, the cultured Heloisa, the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, Saint Clare of Assisi, the rebel Joan of Arc, as well as lesser-known women such as Flora, the penitent moneylender, Bettina the healer, and Belfiore the pilgrim, among others. Following the trajectories and divergences of their lives from wealth to poverty, from conjugal love to the love of community, from the bedroom to life on the streets of Paris, London, Mainz, Rome, and Bergamo, each portrait offers a riveting glimpse into the often complex and surprising world of the medieval woman. Combining the rigour of research with the thrill and empathy of narrative, Stories of Women in the Middle Ages is a provocative investigation into the biographies of sixteen incredible medieval heroines.

Free Download Stochastic Flood Forecasting System: The Middle River Vistula Case Study By Renata J. Romanowicz, Marzena Osuch (eds.)
2015 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 3319188534 | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents the novel formulation and development of a Stochastic Flood Forecasting System, using the Middle River Vistula basin in Poland as a case study. The system has a modular structure, including models describing the rainfall-runoff and snow-melt processes for tributary catchments and the transformation of a flood wave within the reach. The sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of the elements of the study system are performed at both the calibration and verification stages. The spatial and temporal variability of catchment land use and river flow regime based on analytical studies and measurements is presented. A lumped parameter approximation to the distributed modelling of river flow is developed for the purpose of flow forecasting. Control System based emulators (Hammerstein-Wiener models) are applied to on-line data assimilation. Medium-range probabilistic weather forecasts (ECMWF) and on-line observations of temperature, precipitation and water levels are used to prolong the forecast lead time. The potential end-users will also benefit from a description of social vulnerability to natural hazards in the study area.

Free Download Kathleen Sutcliffe, "Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine"
English | 2019 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0190271264 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community – in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities – sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what made these accidents to rise to epidemic levels, seemingly overnight?

Free Download Anna Dorofeeva, "Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin Physiologus, ca. 700-1000 "
English | ISBN: 1802700021 | 2023 | 266 pages | PDF | 19 MB
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus―the foundation of the medieval bestiary. The Physiologus helped to shape the post-Roman worldview about the role and place of human beings in Creation. This process drew on classical ideas, but in its emphasis on allegory, etymology, and a plurality of readings, it was original and distinctive. This study demonstrates precisely how the early medieval re-contextualization of existing knowledge, together with a substantial amount of new writing, set the course of ideas about faith and nature for centuries to come. In doing so, it establishes the importance of multi-text miscellanies for early medieval written culture.

Free Download Frederick Key Smith, "Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium"
English | ISBN: 0275973999 | 2002 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The five countries that make up Northern Europe―Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland―have, over the course of the last several centuries, developed and unique and viable art music history that easily rivals that of their continental neighbors. Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium provides an informative and accessible overview of the fascinating historical and aesthetic developments of this music and its creators, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, to the beginning of this new century. Though some Nordic composers, including Edvard Grieg, Carl Nielsen, and Jean Sibelius, have found great acclaim in all parts of the world, author Frederick Key Smith lays the foundation for their work in his discussion of the many composers relatively unknown outside of Northern Europe.

Free Download Nicole R. Rice, "Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature"
English | 2009 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 052189607X, 1107404657 | PDF | 1,9 mb
In late-fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and Chaucer; however, they have not received the critical attention they deserve until now. Nicole Rice analyses how the idea of religious discipline was translated into varied literary forms in an atmosphere of religious change and controversy. By considering the themes of spiritual discipline, religious identity, and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer, the study also brings fresh perspectives to bear on Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. This juxtaposition of spiritual guidance and poetry will form an important contribution to our understanding of both authors and of late medieval religious practice and thought.

Free Download Instability and Conflict in the Middle East: People, Petroleum and Security Threats By Naji Abi-Aad, Michel Grenon
1997 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0333689364 | PDF | 13 MB
The present book is about instability and conflict in the Middle East at a time when many still believe that peace between the Arabs and Israel will bring an end to all problems in the region. Maybe that is due to the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict has dominated much of the discussions about the area over the past 50 years. Insufficient attention has therefore been devoted to other important issues that may not be quite as eye-catching or newsworthy. This is exactly what the book is aiming to offer.

Free Download Krzysztof Fokt, "Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 3110569280 | 2017 | 310 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This study is based upon both written and material (archeological and numismatic) sources, and tries to present some passages of the history of Upper Lusatia region anew, without applying the stereotypes present in the three national historiographies engaged (the German, the Czech and the Polish).

Free Download China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom By Arthur Hacker
2004 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0804835195 | EPUB | 39 MB
From the mid-16th century to the beginning of World War II, foreigners learned a great deal about China through trade contacts. This lavishly illustrated social history highlights the lives and lifestyles of the merchants, mercenaries, missionaries, adventurers and refugees who came to China during this period, set against the backdrop of China’s great cities and the ancient culture of its people. A short commentary on the history of the period sets the scene in each chapter, allowing readers to follow the dramatic changes that took place through these turbulent years. The informative text and hundreds of images, many never published before, brilliantly capture the atmosphere of China throughout the centuries.