Proceedings of International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and their Applications: ICBMA 2019 by Shailesh Tiwari
English | PDF | 2021 | 407 Pages | ISBN : 9811583765 | 15.2 MB
This book contains high-quality peer-reviewed papers of the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and their Applications (ICBMA 2019) held at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, during 29-31 May 2020.

Politics, Philosophy, Terror By Dana Villa
1999 | 277 Pages | ISBN: 069100935X | PDF | 2 MB
Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of the Cold War. As Dana Villa shows, however, Arendt's thought is often poorly understood, both because of its complexity and because her fame has made it easy for critics to write about what she is reputed to have said rather than what she actually wrote. Villa sets out to change that here, explaining clearly, carefully, and forcefully Arendt's major contributions to our understanding of politics, modernity, and the nature of political evil in our century. Villa begins by focusing on some of the most controversial aspects of Arendt's political thought. He shows that Arendt's famous idea of the banality of evil--inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann--does not, as some have maintained, lessen the guilt of war criminals by suggesting that they are mere cogs in a bureaucratic machine. He examines what she meant when she wrote that terror was the essence of totalitarianism, explaining that she believed Nazi and Soviet terror served above all to reinforce the totalitarian idea that humans are expendable units, subordinate to the all-determining laws of Nature or History. Villa clarifies the personal and philosophical relationship between Arendt and Heidegger, showing how her work drew on his thought while providing a firm repudiation of Heidegger's political idiocy under the Nazis. Less controversially, but as importantly, Villa also engages with Arendt's ideas about the relationship between political thought and political action. He explores her views about the roles of theatricality, philosophical reflection, and public-spiritedness in political life. And he explores what relationship, if any, Arendt saw between totalitarianism and the ''great tradition'' of Western political thought. Throughout, Villa shows how Arendt's ideas illuminate contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and democracy and how they deepen our understanding of philosophers ranging from Socrates and Plato to Habermas and Leo Strauss. Direct, lucid, and powerfully argued, this is a much-needed analysis of the central ideas of one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

Jeremy Wyatt, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Nathan Kellen, "Pluralisms in Truth and Logic"
English | 2018 | pages: 483 | ISBN: 3319983458 | PDF | 5,2 mb
This edited volume brings together 18 state-of-the art essays on pluralism about truth and logic. Parts I and II are dedicated to respectively truth pluralism and logical pluralism, and Part III to their interconnections. Some contributors challenge pluralism, arguing that the nature of truth or logic is uniform. The majority of contributors, however, defend pluralism, articulate novel versions of the view, or contribute to fundamental debates internal to the pluralist camp. The volume will be of interest to truth theorists and philosophers of logic, as well as philosophers interested in relativism, contextualism, metaphysics, philosophy of language, semantics, paradox, epistemology, or normativity.

Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods: 9th International Conference, ICPRAM 2020, Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020, Revised Selected Papers by Maria De Marsico
English | PDF | 2020 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 3030661245 | 22.4 MB
This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. The 7 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 initial submissions.

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Pediatrics 5, Fifth Edition
by Jeffrey E. Martus M.D. M.S.
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1975123751 | 642 Pages | PDF | 297 MB

Nonlinear Analysis of Thin-Walled Smart Structures by Shun-Qi Zhang
English | PDF | 2021 | 191 Pages | ISBN : 9811598568 | 6 MB
This book focuses on nonlinear finite element analysis of thin-walled smart structures integrated with piezoelectric materials. Two types of nonlinear phenomena are presented in the book, namely geometrical nonlinearity and material nonlinearity.

John N. Hawkins, Aki Yamada, Reiko Yamada, "New Directions of STEM Research and Learning in the World Ranking Movement: A Comparative Perspective"
English | 2018 | pages: 187 | ISBN: 3319986651 | PDF | 2,3 mb
This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly, although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important, chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Danny Hoffman, "Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia"
English | ISBN: 0822358840 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 17 MB
In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare of the 1990s from symbols of the modernist project of nation-building to reminders of the challenges Monrovia's residents face. The transient lives of these buildings' inhabitants, many of whom are ex-combatants, prevent them from making place-based claims to a right to the city and hinder their ability to think of ways to rebuild and repurpose their built environment. Featuring nearly 100 of Hoffman's color photographs, Monrovia Modern is situated at the intersection of photography, architecture, and anthropology, mapping out the possibilities and limits for imagining an urban future in Monrovia and beyond.

Modern Cryptography: Applied Mathematics for Encryption and Information Security
by William Easttom
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030631141 | 375 Pages | EPUB | 24 MB

Modern Applications of Geotechnical Engineering and Construction (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Book 112)
by Mahdi O. Karkush
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811593981 | 381 Pages | PDF | 32 MB