Mobility and Pottery Production Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives By Heitz, Caroline; Stapfer, Regine
2017 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 908890460X | PDF | 22 MB
For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as social life itself. Humans organise their lives not only by engaging with materials and things but also by oscillating between movement and stasis. In these various rhythms of mobility - from daily subsistence-based movements to long-term migrations - things like ceramic vessels are crafted, but also act as consumer goods. From their production until their deposition as waste, grave-goods, collectibles etc. pottery vessels can move with their owners or be passed on and may thus shift between spatial, temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts.This volume unites contributions addressing such phenomena from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Evolved from an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences (University of Bern) in 2015, the aim is not to promote one single epistemic approach or any elaborated empirical findings but to trigger thoughts and foster discussions.While the first part of the book contains introductory texts, the second part includes archaeological contributions that address mobility and social ties by focussing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Taking a more object-centred perspective, they comprise attempts to think beyond established concepts of 'archaeological cultures' and chronological issues. The third part unites anthropological and archaeological texts that take more actor-centred perspectives of making, distributing and using pottery. These texts examine how humans and things are intertwined though practices and various rhythms of movement and mobility. Thereby it can be shown how cultural forms are reproduced but also transformed by humans and things, like pots, potters, pottery mongers and pottery users that are intermittently on the move.

Michael Muhammad Knight, "Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community "
English | ISBN: 0271087099 | 2020 | 314 pages | PDF | 53 MB
The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it spread through the prolific production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous for continuously reinventing its belief system. In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367698390 | 301 pages | True PDF | 16.07 MB
Due to increasing industry 4.0 practices, massive industrial process data is now available for researchers for modelling and optimization. Artificial Intelligence methods can be applied to the ever-increasing process data to achieve robust control against foreseen and unforeseen system fluctuations. Smart computing techniques, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, for example, will be inseparable from the highly automated factories of tomorrow. Effective cybersecurity will be a must for all Internet of Things (IoT) enabled work and office spaces.
This book addresses metaheuristics in all aspects of Industry 4.0. It covers metaheuristic applications in IoT, cyber physical systems, control systems, smart computing, artificial intelligence, sensor networks, robotics, cybersecurity, smart factory, predictive analytics and more.

Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting by Curt Smith
English | ISBN: 1642506753 | 318 pages | EPUB | August 3, 2021 | 4.66 Mb
Voices of the Game

Medicinal Mushrooms: A Clinical Guide - 2nd Edition By Martin Powell
2010 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 0956689825 | EPUB | 4 MB
This work is a highly accessible primer on the pharmacology, applications, and Chinese medical uses of over 20 commonly prescribed mycological medicinals. As such it admirably meets the needs of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practitioners as well as a more general complementary medicine readership. The author makes full use of his versatile background in both Chinese medicine and biochemistry. Concise textual presentation, helpful overviews, and a good balance of research evidence with practical clinical applications are features that make this useful as well as absorbing reading.

Mathematical Ideas By Charles D. Miller; John Hornsby; Vern E. Heeren
1998 | 864 Pages | ISBN: 0673998932 | PDF | 93 MB
Nearly thirty years after its first appearance, Mathematical Ideas remains one of the most popular texts in college mathematics. This eighth edition, like its predecessors, has been designed with a variety of students in mind. It is well-suited for several types of courses, including mathematics for liberal arts students, survey courses in mathematics, finite mathematics, and mathematics for prospective and in-service elementary and middle school teachers. Ample topics are included for a two-term course, yet the variety of topics and flexibility of sequence make the text suitable for shorter courses as well.In this edition we have attempted to retain many of the features of the seventh edition, and at the same time introduce new ones that will appeal to a new generation of instructors and students. Our main objectives continue to be comprehensive coverage of topics appropriate for a mathematics survey course,logical and flexible organization, clear exposition, an abundance of examples, and well-planned exercise sets with numerous applications.

Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers By Stuart G. Walesh
2004 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0784406758 | PDF | 18 MB
This book offers useful ideas on ways in which engineers can more effectively approach the nontechnical or soft-side aspects of working with colleagues, clients, customers, the public, and other stakeholders. Reflecting upon 40 years of engineering and management experience, Walesh shares in his often-humorous style lessons learned that will advance your management and leadership skills.Each of the 52 quick essays offers an idea or principle for engineers to improve their managing and leading skills. Each essay is followed by pragmatic suggestions for ways to immediately apply and test the ideas using application tools such as action items, guidelines, dos and don'ts, checklists, forms, and resource materials such as articles, papers, and books. Plus, more than 60 e-newsletters and websites are referenced. Examples of managing and leading topics treated in this book are distinctions between managing and leading, goal formulation and achievement, improving personal and organizational productivity, courage, asking and listening, presenting papers, coaching, power of the subconscious mind, meetings, delegation, teamwork, project management, marketing, style, and effecting change.Anyone interested in advancing management and leadership skills will gain from the experience of the author and the valuable tools offered in this book.

Lola Berry's Little Book of Smoothies and Juices: 60 Super-fast Recipes for Radiance and Wellbeing by Lola Berry
English | October 27, 2015 | ISBN: 1743538839 | EPUB | 160 pages | 33.6 MB
A collection of easy and delicious recipes from Lola Berry, author of The 20/20 Diet and The Happy Cookbook.

Lines of the Nation : Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self. By Bear, Laura
2012 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0231511515 | PDF | 2 MB
Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. She then traces their influence on the formation of contemporary Indian nationalism, personal sentiments, and popular memory. Her probing study challenges entrenched beliefs concerning the institutions of modernity.

Like: Poems By A.E. Stallings
2018 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0374187320 | EPUB | 1 MB
A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translatorLike, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume's conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character. Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performanceLost and Found, a meditation inottava rimaon a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.