Free Download Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time: Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3111696499 | 132 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
From the viewpoint of social history, is time itself a plural entity or are there multiple forms of engagement in and with it? Pivoted around this question, Sinha attempts to rethink the current theory and practice of history writing by pointing the pitfalls of the growing fetishisation of plurality and the 'plural time' framework. Engaging a range of studies in History, Anthropology, and Sociology, Sinha provides a critical assessment of some of the leading frameworks on time studies, questions their foundational premises, highlights their limitations, and proposes an alternative framework that is attuned to privileging the approach of social history. The purposes of the latter, the book argues, is best served when time's irreversible character is not diluted under the weight of plurality. Plurality in time is an outcome of practices and their historicisation; plurality of time can become an empty statement. Rather than defining what time is, the book casts that inquiry into the historical mould to explore how time, as a contestatory resource, becomes part of social relationships and what it does to them when scripts of power align themselves with the control of time.

Free Download Advances in Nanomaterials for Detection, Control, and Removal of Environmental Pollutants
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031874080 | 484 Pages | PDF (True) | 23 MB
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the latest research in nanomaterial development for environmental pollution control. It delves into various themes, including the utilization of nanosensors in environmental monitoring, the creation of nano adsorbents and nanocatalysts for pollutant removal and degradation, and the potential application of nanomaterials and nanotechnology in remediating contaminated sites. The book also addresses potential risks associated with using nanomaterials in environmental pollution control, discussing nanotoxicology and the potential environmental and health impacts of nanomaterials. Furthermore, it explores the existing regulatory framework for nanomaterial usage in environmental pollution control and outlines future directions for developing and implementing nanomaterials in this domain.

Free Download Addiction and Art edited by Patricia B. Santora, Margaret L. Dowell, Jack E. Henningfield
English | June 1, 2010 | ISBN: 0801894816 | True EPUB | 184 pages | 7.8 MB
Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is one of the major public health issues of our time. It accounts for one of every five deaths in the United States and costs approximately one-half trillion dollars per year in health care expenditures and lost productivity. Its human costs are untold and perhaps uncountable. Addiction and Art puts a human face on addiction through the creative work of individuals who have been touched by it.

Free Download Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama By Ignacio Ramos Gay; Ignacio Ramos Gay
2013 | 181 Pages | ISBN: 1443847003 | PDF | 1 MB
This book aims to explore which plays were deemed 'suitable' to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations - linguistic, semiotic, theatrical - were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences.