Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outli…
This book discusses a short historical introduction of the foreign relations with China and Japan. The book consists of 13 chapters about the development of the Eastern trade, the opening of the gates, the westernizers, the European Empires, the railway across Asia, the battle of the concessions, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the repulse of Russia, the eviction of Germany, the Washington Treatie…
This book about is detailed instructions to running desktop applications and setting up more than a dozen server types, this book also features new section on shell scripting, encryption techniques, setting up RAID disks, using yum, and much more.