Chris Zepeda-Millán, "Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism"
English | ISBN: 1107076943 | 2017 | 306 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The immigrant rights movement is one of the most dynamic socialmovements in the United States. In the spring of 2006, across thecountry millions of mostly Latino immigrants participated in some of the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history. In this timely and highly anticipated book, Chris Zepeda-Millán analyzes thebackground, course, and impacts of this unprecedented wave of protests,highlighting their unique local, national, and demographic dynamics. Hefinds that because of the particular ways the issue of immigrantillegality was racialized, federally proposed anti-immigrant legislation (H.R. 4437) helped transform Latinos' sense of latent group membershipinto a racial group consciousness that incited their engagement inlarge-scale collective action. Zepeda-Millán shows how nativist policythreats against disenfranchised undocumented immigrants can provoke apolitical backlash-on the streets and in the ballot box-from not only"people without papers," but also naturalized and U.S.-born citizens. Latino Mass Mobilization is an important intervention into contemporary debates about race, immigration policy, Latino politics, and immigrant activism in the U.S.

John Howe, "Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America "
English | ISBN: 1558494227 | 2004 | 288 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Between the Declaration of Independence and the federal constitution, the American revolutionary generation produced an enormous body of writing on political matters. Using the written word as an instrument of political action, they articulated ideologies, negotiated conflicts, and charted the future of a new nation. In the process, John Howe argues, American writers effected a fundamental transformation in the nature and expressive purposes of political language. Turning away from earlier assumptions about the capacity of language to capture universal truths and contain human behavior, they fashioned a new discursive practice based on the recognition that the language of politics, far from being fixed or even stable in structure and meaning, evolves over time. Securely in place by 1790 and clearly evident in the Federalist papers, this new language of political experimentation was well suited to the rapidly changing, open ended circumstances of American life. More than that, it proved essential to the emergence of a democratic politics. As Howe shows, only when language came to be used for the continuing exploration of political truth, only when it served to further popular discussion of contested ideas, could the construction of a genuinely democratic dialogue proceed. By challenging the notion that the founders of the republic were fully confident about the clarity or permanence of their language, this book also has implications for the ongoing debate over the doctrine of "original intent." According to Howe, the framers understood the constitution to be the product of a hurried and contentious process, reflective of the limitations of human intellect and the imperfections of human language. They saw it, in short, as but an approximation of universal truth, an approximation that future generations were certain to improve.

H. Douglas Brown, "Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0134860225 | 2018 | 400 pages | PDF scan | 153 MB
Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices is designed to offer a comprehensive survey of essential principles and tools for second language assessment. Its first and second editions have been successfully used in teacher-training courses, teacher certification curricula, and TESOL master of arts programs. As the third in a trilogy of teacher education textbooks, it is designed to follow H. Douglas Brown's other two books, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (sixth edition, Pearson Education, 2014) and Teaching by Principles(fourth edition, Pearson Education, 2015). References to those two books are made throughout the current book.

John D. Rockefeller: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Business Leaders) by Hourly History
English | October 25, 2017 | ISBN: 1976381517 | 45 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.63 Mb
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller, the wealthiest man of all time, amassed a fortune as he led the Standard Oil Company to an unprecedented position of power in the industrial markets. In addition to being a successful businessman, he was also a generous philanthropist. But somewhere between the money he earned and the money he gave away lies a mystery that remains unsolved. How could someone so generous have been so hated in his time? How could someone so successful have been so despised by the public, the press, and the government? Was Rockefeller a villain or a hero? The truth is that he was both.

Pang-Ning Tan, "Introduction to Data Mining (2nd Edition) Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0133128903 | 2018 | 864 pages | PDF conv | 26 MB
Introducing the fundamental concepts and algorithms of data mining

Inside the FFT Black Box: Serial and Parallel Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms By Eleanor Chu, Alan George
1999 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0849302706 | PDF | 7 MB
Personally, I am satisfied with what I bought. I wrote an uninspired fast fourier transform from its mathematical formula and it took 30 seconds to execute. I knew I could do better. After buying the book I learn to play close attention to the bit reversal on the twiddles (trig functions). I also learned how to do the split-radix. I also learned that each calculation yields two terms. Also, I gained emough of a sense of how the fft works that I was able to successfully create threads and try parallel processing. All totalled, I reduced the run time from 30 seconds to 1 second.The book was not as well written as I would have liked. The formula for the split-radix was screwed up. Using the form of the formula and the suggestion of what it represented I was able to derive the formula. It would have been nice if they had written out each term of each iteration for a 64-term fft. That is what I did to see with my own eyes what was happening. The text is too abstract.All-in-all it was worth the $100.

Deborah A. Boehm, "Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People"
English | ISBN: 1479861073 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 536 KB
The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth

Michael Mercier, "Human Geography Ed 10"
English | ISBN: 0199032939 | 2019 | 528 pages | PDF | 29 MB
International in scope and written for Canadians - an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to Human Geography

How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine by Derek Tremain, Pauline Tremain
English | January 21st, 2021 | ISBN: 0008404887 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 15.23 MB
As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes.

How to Control Your Finances: Save Money, Increase Income, Invest, & Grow your Networth by Stephen Berkley
English | January 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 9783985224951 | 29 pages | True EPUB | 0.40 MB
Financial responsibility is necessary to keep your finances in balance. Keeping your finances in balance means that you should only spend amount which is less or equal to what you earn in a specific period of time.