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Download Apollo’s Eye by Denis Cosgrove (.PDF)

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Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination by Denis Cosgrove
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Overview: Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences

“Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it.”―from the Preface

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space―to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo―images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo’s Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Download Impossible Citizens by Neha Vora (.PDF)

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Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora by Neha Vora
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Overview: Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai’s huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai’s Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness.

While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians—even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate—disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential—yet impossible—citizens of Dubai.
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Download Taking Frege at his Word by Joan Weiner (.PDF)

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Taking Frege at his Word by Joan Weiner
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Overview: Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. As standardly read, he meant to introduce–and make crucial contributions to–the project of giving an account of the workings of (an improved version of) natural language. Yet, despite the great admiration most contemporary philosophers feel for Frege, it is widely believed that he committed a large number of serious, and inexplicable, blunders. For, if Frege really meant to be constructing a theory of the workings of (some version of) natural language, then a significant number of his stated views–including views that he claimed to be central to his philosophical picture–are straightforwardly wrong. But did Frege mean to be giving an account of the workings of language? He himself never actually claimed to be doing this, and, indeed, never even described such a project.

Taking Frege at his Word offers an interpretation that is based on a different approach to his writings. Rather than using the contributions he is taken to have made to contemporary work in the philosophy of language to infer what his projects were, Joan Weiner gives priority to Frege’s own accounts of what he means to be doing. She provides a very different view of Frege’s project. One might suspect that, on such a reading, Frege’s writings would have purely antiquarian interest, but this would be a mistake. The final two chapters show that Frege offers us new ways of addressing some of the philosophical problems that worry us today.

Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Download Rethinking Modernity by Gurminder K. Bhambra (.PDF)

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Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination by Gurminder K. Bhambra
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Overview: Shortlisted for the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology

‘Bhambra admirably unpacks prevailing narratives of modernity and Europe, while proposing the use of ‘connected histories’ to improve contemporary sociology’
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Download AQA A Level Physics by Pauline Lowrie (.PDF)

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AQA A Level Physics (Year 1 and Year 2) by Pauline Lowrie
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Overview: Expand and challenge your students’ knowledge and understanding of Physics with textbooks that build mathematical skills and provide practical assessment guidance with this updated, all-in-one textbook for Years 1 and 2.

Combining everything you need to know for the AQA A-level Physics specification, this revised textbook will:

– – Offer support for the mathematical requirements of the course with worked examples of calculations and a dedicated ‘Maths for Physics’ chapter.

– – Measures progress and assess learning throughout the course with Test Yourself and Stretch and Challenge Questions to extend the most able pupils beyond A-level.

– – Supports all 12 required practicals with applications, worked examples and activities included in each chapter.

– – Develops understanding and enable self- and peer-assessment with free online access to ‘Test yourself’ answers.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Download The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills (.PDF)

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The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, Amitai Etzioni (Contributor)
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Overview: C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues.
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Download Poke the Box by Seth Godin (.ePUB)+

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Poke the Box by Seth Godin
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Overview: If you’re stuck at the starting line, you don’t need more time or permission. You don’t need to wait for a boss’s okay or to be told to push the button; you just need to poke.

Poke the Box is a manifesto by bestselling author Seth Godin that just might make you uncomfortable. It’s a call to action about the initiative you’re taking-–in your job or in your life. Godin knows that one of our scarcest resources is the spark of initiative in most organizations (and most careers)-–the person with the guts to say, “I want to start stuff.”

Poke the Box just may be the kick in the pants you need to shake up your life.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Download The Occupied Clinic by Saiba Varma (.PDF)

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The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir by Saiba Varma
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Overview: In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world’s most densely militarized place. Into a long history of occupations, insurgencies, suppressions, natural disasters, and a crisis of public health infrastructure come interventions in human distress, especially those of doctors and humanitarians, who struggle against an epidemic: more than sixty percent of the civilian population suffers from depression, anxiety, PTSD, or acute stress. Drawing on encounters between medical providers and patients in an array of settings, Varma reveals how colonization is embodied and how overlapping state practices of care and violence create disorienting worlds for doctors and patients alike. Varma shows how occupation creates worlds of disrupted meaning in which clinical life is connected to political disorder, subverting biomedical neutrality, ethics, and processes of care in profound ways. By highlighting the imbrications between humanitarianism and militarism and between care and violence, Varma theorizes care not as a redemptive practice, but as a fraught sphere of action that is never quite what it seems.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Download The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck(.PDF)

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The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
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Overview: This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form. Natural language abounds in these apparently incomplete expressions, such as I laughed but Ed didn’t, in which the final portion of the sentence, the verb ‘laugh’, remains unpronounced but is still understood. The range of phenomena involved raise general and fundamental questions about the workings of grammar, but also constitute a treasure trove of fine-grained points of inter- and intralinguistic variation.

The volume is divided into four parts. In the first, authors examine the role that ellipsis plays and how it is analysed in different theoretical frameworks and linguistic subdisciplines, such as HPSG, construction grammar, inquisitive semantics, and computational linguistics. Chapters in the second part highlight the usefulness of ellipsis as a diagnostic tool for other linguistic phenomena including movement and islands and codeswitching, while part III focuses instead on the types of elliptical constructions found in natural language, such as sluicing, gapping, and null complement anaphora. Finally, the last part of the book contains case studies that investigate elliptical phenomena in a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, Japanese, Persian, and Finnish Sign Language.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Anthropology and Modern Life by Franz Boas
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Overview: The great anthropologist’s classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.
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