http://englishtips.org/ ru Non-Fiction - Englishtips.org: Learning English Together DataLife Engine http://englishtips.org/1150871125-bebop-to-the-boolean-boogie-third-edition-an.html http://englishtips.org/1150871125-bebop-to-the-boolean-boogie-third-edition-an.html Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Third Edition: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics This entertaining and readable book provides a solid, comprehensive introduction to contemporary electronics. It's not a "how-to-do" electronics book, but rather an in-depth explanation of how today's integrated circuits work, how they are designed and manufactured, and how they are put together into powerful and sophisticated electronic systems. In addition to the technical details, it's packed with practical information of interest and use to engineers and support personnel in the electronics industry. It even tells how to pronounce the alphabet soup of acronyms that runs rampant in the industry. Non-Fiction, Science literature wepr Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:21 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871124-medical-education-for-the-future-identity-power.html http://englishtips.org/1150871124-medical-education-for-the-future-identity-power.html Medical Education for the Future: Identity, Power and Location The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. Non-Fiction, Medicine wepr Thu, 23 May 2013 02:02:24 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150865684-muscle-memory.html http://englishtips.org/1150865684-muscle-memory.html Muscle Memory Muscle Memory by Alexander Hope While seated, use these fourteen Muscle Memory exercises to tone your muscles and reboot your brain. REUPLOAD NEEDED       E-Books, Self-Improvement, Reupload Needed saimoh76 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:19:34 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871116-revolutionary-france.html http://englishtips.org/1150871116-revolutionary-france.html revolutionary france The French Revolution of 1789 was followed by a century of upheaval, rebellion, and change. Napoleonic dictatorship, monarchical restoration, Second Republic, and Second Empire all rapidly succeeded one Non-Fiction hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 21:50:25 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871113-the-art-of-loving.html http://englishtips.org/1150871113-the-art-of-loving.html The Art Of Loving Fromm presents love as a skill that can be taught and developed. He rejects the idea of loving as something magical and mysterious that cannot be analyzed and explained, and is therefore skeptical about popular ideas such as "falling in love" or being helpless in the face of love. Because modern humans are alienated from each other and from nature, we seek refuge from our aloneness in romantic love and marriage (pp. 79–81) Non-Fiction hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 21:48:51 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871112-to-have-or-to-be-continuum-impacts.html http://englishtips.org/1150871112-to-have-or-to-be-continuum-impacts.html To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts) About the Author Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Erich Fromm (1900-1980) studied sociology and psychoanalysis. In 1933, he emigrated as a member of the Frankfurt School of social thinkers to the United States, moved to Mexico in 1950, and spent his twilight years between 1974 and 1980 in Switzerland. His books Fear of Freedom (1941) and The Art of Loving (1956) made him famous. Other well-known books are Marx's Concept of Man, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, and The Essential Fromm. Non-Fiction hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:31 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871111-anarchism-a-beginners-guide.html http://englishtips.org/1150871111-anarchism-a-beginners-guide.html Anarchism: A Beginners Guide What do anarchists stand for? In this clear and penetrating study, Ruth Kinna goes directly to the heart of this controversial ideology,... Non-Fiction hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 17:52:55 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871109-demanding-the-impossible-a-history-of-anarchism.html http://englishtips.org/1150871109-demanding-the-impossible-a-history-of-anarchism.html Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism Lively and authoritative, this study of a widely misunderstood subject skillfully navigates the rough waters of anarchistic concepts—from Taoism to Situationism, ranters to punk rockers, individualists to communists, and anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists. Exploring key anarchist ideas of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power, the record investigates the successes and failures of anarchist Non-Fiction hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 17:52:29 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871101-on-cosmopolitanism-and-forgiveness.html http://englishtips.org/1150871101-on-cosmopolitanism-and-forgiveness.html On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness The two essays in this volume are telling examples of Jacques Derrida’s recent work on ethical and political issues. Both deal with pressing contemporary problems. First, Derrida discusses the dilemmas of reconciliation and amnesty in situations where the bloody traumas of history demand forms of forgiveness, such as Apartheid in South Africa, the Vichy Regime in France, or the current situation in Algeria. Second, Derrida addresses the dilemma of refugee and asylum rights, which is a theme also addressed, in a different mode, by Sir Michael Dummett in another volume in this series. Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 16:45:17 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871100-the-animal-that-therefore-i-am.html http://englishtips.org/1150871100-the-animal-that-therefore-i-am.html the animal that therefore I am This article represents the first part of a ten-hour address Derrida gave at the thirdCerisy-la-Salle conference devoted to his work, in July 1997. The title of the conference was ''LAnimal autobiographique"; see J:Animal autobiographique: Autour deJacques Derrida, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (Paris, 1999); Derrida's essay appears on pp. 251-301. Later segments of the address dealt with Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Lévinas, as note 4 explains and as other allusions made by  Derrida suggest. The Lacan segment will appear in Zoo­ Ontologies: The Question of the Animal in Contemporary Theory and Culture, ed. Cary Wolfe (Min­ neapolis, 2002). Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 16:44:06 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871099-derrida-and-the-end-of-history.html http://englishtips.org/1150871099-derrida-and-the-end-of-history.html Derrida and the End of History Questioning History ‘How can one be late to the end of history? A question for today.’1 Jacques Derrida’s fame rests  largely on his ability to devise eccentric approaches to philosophical and cultural problems, and he might well be thought to have excelled himself with this particular question. Assuming, that is, that one felt ‘the end of history’ made any sense as a concept, given that, as some thinkers would have it, history is the equivalent of humankind’s memory Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 15:36:31 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871098-metaphor-and-continental-philosophy-from-kant-to.html http://englishtips.org/1150871098-metaphor-and-continental-philosophy-from-kant-to.html Metaphor and Continental Philosophy From Kant to Derrida There has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a subject of study in recent decades. While literature and the arts, as far back as Plato, have always recognized metaphor as a source of poetic meaning, this new  interest in metaphor is part of a shift in thinking which asserts that the metaphorical creation of meaning holds significance for the way we understand the construction of knowledge and the world. The following works give a good indication of the scope of metaphor Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:51 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871096-shakespeares-bawdy.html http://englishtips.org/1150871096-shakespeares-bawdy.html Shakespeare’s Bawdy In tThe apparently pro­vocative title is merely a convenient abridgement of 'Sexuality, Homosexuality, and Bawdiness in the Works of William Shakespeare'. If Shakespearean criticism had not so largely been in the hands of academics and cranks, a study of Shakespeare's attitude towards sex and his use of the broad jest would probably have appeared at any time since 1918. The academic critics (except Professors Dover Wilson and G. Wilson Knight) have, in the main and for most of the time, ignored the questions of homosexuality, sex, bawdiness. Coursebooks, Linguistics arcadius Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:17 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871103-the-archeology-of-knowledge.html http://englishtips.org/1150871103-the-archeology-of-knowledge.html The Archeology of Knowledge `Michel Foucault is a very brilliant writer ... he has a remark-able angle of vision, a highly disciplined and coherent one, that informs his work to such a high degree as to make the work sui generis original.' Edward W. Said `The Archaeology of Know/edge ... provides an unusually sharp outline of [Foucault's] theoretical stance as well as a focused critique of the history of ideas.' Jean Claude Guedon 'A necessary guide to Foucault's often difficult ideas ... and to his overall historical ambition, which is to define the "soil" out of which contemporary events in a given period grow.' The Times Literary Supplement Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 04:49:29 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150871102-the-birth-of-the-clinic.html http://englishtips.org/1150871102-the-birth-of-the-clinic.html THE BIRTH OF THE CLINIC One of the characteristics of Foucault’s language is his repeated use of certain key words. Many of these present no difficulty to the translator. Others, however, have no normal equivalent. In such cases, it is generally preferable to use a single unusual word rather than a number of familiar ones. When Foucault speaks of la clinique, he is thinking of both clinical medicine and the teaching hospital. So if one wishes to retain the unity of the concept, one is obliged to use the rather odd-sounding ‘clinic’. Similarly Literature Studies hmimi Wed, 22 May 2013 04:46:35 +0400