Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture

Mardia Bishop, Ann C. Hall, "Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture"

Praeger (September 30, 2007) | English | 0275999203 | 208 pages | PDF | 1.00 MB

There is a new wave of pornographic entertainment in contemporary American culture. Liberated from X-rated bookstores and strip clubs, porn is everywhere, and Pop-Porn seeks to examine this phenomenon in some of its most striking manifestations. Written from a variety of perspectives and on a variety of topics representing the widespread increase of soft-core porn in our culture, Pop-Porn offers a detailed and complex approach to the porn industry in America. Rather than focusing on the current polarity of basic pro and con views on this topic - a polarity that ultimately hinders discussion - these essays show that pornographic content is subtly and profoundly embedded in our cultural fabric. This current state of affairs raises questions beyond what's right and what's wrong. It demands that we examine what these representations mean in the first place and what effects they have upon the way we live our lives.

The content of this volume is not limited to the usual porn sites and practices, such as video, prostitution, sex sales, magazines, and the Internet. The essays here go further, examining porn in places many would not expect, such as in grooming practices of pubic hair and the self-promotional strategies of Paris Hilton. The authors who do examine the conventional sites for porn do so in a unique way. Ultimately, these essays collectively demonstrate that Americans are addicted to porn, but are forced to disguise it as fashion, hygiene, class commentary, or other forms of entertainment. Contributors to Pop-Porn come from a wide variety of disciplines - including English, Women's Studies, Communication, Psychology, and Theatre - and their essays address a wide range of porn-infiltrated sites, from magazines to radio to film to television to fashion. While each contributor may perceive porn differently, they all address its pervasiveness in America's current, conservative state.

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Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara

Roland Baumhauer, Jürgen Runge, "Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara: Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 29, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments"

CRC; 1 edition (February 27, 2009) | English | 0415482569 | 274 pages | PDF | 7.50 MB

The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene.

Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific morphological, chemical and mineralogical properties. The project"s focus is to ascertain new and established data on climate variations and associated palaeoenvironmental changes within the Central Sahara and to systematically collate and correlate them to results obtained from the Afro-Asian dry land belt and adjacent areas. The joint analysis of Late Quaternary landscape development and present environmental conditions in the Central Sahara will result in the modelling of Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments, emphasising various aspects.

This book will be of interest to all concerned with environmental changes in desert ecosystems in the past and at present and related development problems of Saharan countries, especially Ecologists, Botanists, Earth scientists and Climatologists. It will be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts on the topic of Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the lower latitudes of Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists, Geomorphologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work.

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Advances in Nanoscale Magnetism: Proceedings of the ICNM-2007

Bekir Aktas, Faik Mikailov, "Advances in Nanoscale Magnetism: Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanoscale Magnetism ICNM-2007, June 25 -29, Istanbul, Turkey (Springer Proceedings in Physics)"

Springer; 1 edition (November 17, 2008) | English | 3540698817 | 330 pages | PDF | 6.71 MB

The book aims to provide an overview of recent progress in the understanding of magnetic properties in nanoscale through recent results of various theoretical and experimental investigations. The papers describe a wide range of physical aspects, together with theoretical and experimental methods. It is of central interest to researchers and specialists in magnetism and magnetic materials science, both in academic and industrial research, as well as advanced students.

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Награды России

Награды России

2009 | С.В. Потрашков | Эксмо | ISBN: 978 5699341351 | русский | PDF or DjVu | 290 pages | 73 Mb or 13.7 Mb

На протяжении долгих веков награды служат неотъемлемыми атрибутами каждого общества и государства. Меняются виды и символика наград, но и по сей день они остаются главными знаками отличия, которыми общество отмечает исключительные заслуги выдающихся граждан за мужество в минуту опасности, усердие в труде, мудрость в управлении.

О знаменитых знаках отличия в многовековой истории нашей страны, об учреждении наград, их сложной символике, о людях, их удостоившихся, рассказывается на страницах этого богато иллюстрированного издания. При этом наградная система государства рассматривается в комплексе: ордена, медали, коллективные награды, почетные знаки и пожалования, знаки отличия, наградное оружие и т.д. Отдельно представлена информация о наградах иностранных государств, прямо или косвенно относящихся к событиям российской истории.



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Hawker Tempest Mks. II to VI (Warpaint Series No. 55)

Hawker Tempest Mks. II to VI (Warpaint Series No. 55) by Richard J. Caruana

Warpaint Books Ltd | 2000 | ASIN: B000VMESHS | English | 36 Pages | PDF | 63,8 MB

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World Cups. Все чемпионаты мира по футболу. Том 3. 1966, 1970

Талиновский Б.Х., Франков А.В. "World Cups. Все чемпионаты мира по футболу. Том 3. 1966, 1970"

2010 | ООО "Издательский Дом Украинский Медиа Холдинг" | ISBN: 978 9662320022, 978 9662320053 | русский | PDF | ст. 240 | 43.3 Mb

Авторы, известные футбольные журналисты, представляют новый проект - 9-томную книжную коллекцию "World cups. Все чемпионаты мира", Она посвящена надвигающемуся чемпионату ,мира в ЮАР и содержит рассказы обо всех 18-ти мировых футбольных форумах, состоявшихся доселе, и 19-м, который назначен на июнь 2010 г. В третьем томе - повествование об английском и мексиканском чемпионатах мира, подаривших футболу немало истинных шедевров мастерства, любопытнейших героев, детективных поворотов сюжета и комических историй. Повествование ведется в увлекательной, но в то же время статистически и футбольно точной форме, сопровождается большим объемом справочной информации. Издание рассчитано на широкий круг болельщиков и всех, кто интересуется футболом.

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Enterprise Development with Flex

Yakov Fain,Victor Rasputnis,Anatole Tartakovsky"Enterprise Development with Flex"

O'Reilly Media (3-2010) | PDF | 688 pages | ISBN:059615416X | 9.9Mb

Enterprise Development with Flex: Best Practices for RIA Developers. If you want to use Adobe Flex to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications for the enterprise, this groundbreaking book shows you exactly what's required. You'll learn efficient techniques and best practices, and compare several frameworks and tools available for RIA development -- well beyond anything you'll find in Flex tutorials and product documentation. Through many practical examples, the authors impart their considerable experience to help you overcome challenges during your project's life cycle. Enterprise Development with Flex also suggests proper tools and methodologies, guidelines for determining the skill sets required for the project, and much more.

* Choose among several frameworks to build Flex applications, including Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and Clear Toolkit

* Apply selected design patterns with Flex

* Learn how to extend the Flex framework and build your own component library

* Develop a sample AIR application that automatically synchronizes local and remote databases to support your sales force

* Get solutions for leveraging AMF protocol and synchronizing Flex client data modifications with BlazeDS-based servers

* Determine the actual performance of your application and improve its efficiency

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