Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium by María Guadalupe Arenillas
English | July 8, 2016 | ISBN: 1137495227 | 319 pages | EPUB | 1.29 Mb
Nearly two decades into the new millennium, Latin American documentary film is experiencing renewed vibrancy and visibility on the global stage. While elements of the combative, politicized cinema of the 1960s and 1970s remain, the region's production has become increasingly subjective, reflexive, and experimental, though perhaps no less political. At the same time, Latin American filmmakers both respond to and shape global tendencies in the genre. This book highlights the richness and heterogeneity of Latin American documentary film, surveys a broad range of national contexts, styles, and practices, and expands current debates on the genre. Thematic sections address the "subjective turn" of the 1990s and 2000s and the move beyond it; the ethics of the encounter between the filmmaker and the subject/object of his or her gaze; and the performance of truth and memory, a particularly urgent topic as Latin American countries have transitioned from dictatorship to democracy.

Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights From Sign Language Research By Karen Emmorey
2002 | 402 Pages | ISBN: 0805833986 | PDF | 8 MB
Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human language and language processing, the relation between cognition and language, and the neural organization of language. The value of sign languages lies in their modality. Specifically, for perception, signed languages depend upon high-level vision and motion processing systems, and for production, they require the integration of motor systems involving the hands and face. These facts raise many questions: What impact does this different biological base have for grammatical systems? For online language processing? For the acquisition of language? How does it affect nonlinguistic cognitive structures and processing? Are the same neural systems involved? These are some of the questions that this book aims at addressing. The answers provide insight into what constrains grammatical form, language processing, linguistic working memory, and hemispheric specialization for language. The study of signed languages allows researchers to address questions about the nature of linguistic and cognitive systems that otherwise could not be easily addressed.

Ladies Get Paid: The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career by Claire Wasserman
English | January 12th, 2021 | ISBN: 1982126906 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 3.73 MB
From career coach and founder of the startup Ladies Get Paid-the eponymous organization leading the fight for equality in the workplace-comes an empowering guide to provide you with the tools to strategically navigate the workplace, achieve success, and become a true leader.

Carol Mastrangelo Bové, "Kristeva in America: Re-Imagining the Exceptional "
English | ISBN: 3030599116 | 2020 | 133 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies. Chapters consider this influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers's and Jack Halberstam's to Paule Marshall's fiction and Bram Stoker's Dracula, respectively. The book also considers how critics in the United States receive Kristeva's work on French feminism, semiotics, and psychoanalytic writing in complex, controversial ways, especially on the question of marginalized populations. Examples include Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo on Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil as well as Frances Restuccia on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Carol Mastrangelo Bové also examines Kristeva's take on the US in her essays and fiction, which provide a vital part of the dialogue with American critics. Like them, Bové incorporates Kristeva's thought in her own creative readings of little-known authors and directors including Christiane Rochefort, Nancy Savoca, and Frank Lentricchia.

Biomechanics of Movement: The Science of Sports, Robotics, and Rehabilitation by Thomas K. Uchida, Scott L Delp, David Delp
English | ISBN: 026204420X | 400 pages | EPUB | January 12, 2021 | 19 Mb
An engaging introduction to human and animal movement seen through the lens of mechanics.

Ignacio Rojas, Olga Valenzuela, Fernando Rojas, "Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, Part II"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030179346 | PDF | pages: 605 | 61.4 mb
The two-volume set LNBI 11465 and LNBI 11466 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2019, held in Granada, Spain, in May 2019.

Benoit Leclerc, Jesse Cale, "Big Data (Criminology at the Edge)"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1138492787 | 148 pages | EPUB / MOBI / PDF | 5.84 MB
The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data are

Ron Jackson Suresha, "Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way"
English | ISBN: 1560236140 | 2006 | 352 pages | PDF | 11 MB
A moving and pioneering celebration of the male bisexual self that addresses biphobia in our society

Laurie Ruettimann, "Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career"
English | ISBN: 1250269806 | 2021 | EPUB | 240 pages | 1 MB
An essential guide for how to snap out of autopilot and become your own best advocate, with candid anecdotes and easy-to-adopt steps, from veteran HR specialist and popular podcast host Laurie Ruettimann

Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey by Paul C. Pasles
English | ISBN: 0691129568 | 272 pages | EPUB | January 12, 2021 | 27 Mb
Few American lives have been as celebrated-or as closely scrutinized-as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Numbers, Paul Pasles reveals a side of the iconic statesman, scientist, and writer that few Americans know-his mathematical side.