Woody Bing Liu, "Convergent Journalism: Chinese Approaches "
English | ISBN: 1032010177 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Convergent Journalism is an online news system that uses a range of media and methods to collect and present information. With the advent and growth of the Internet, this form of news has been flourishing globally and has become the mainstream in China. In 2014, the Chinese Government established media convergence as a national strategy.
Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning: Predicting Changing Demand Patterns in the New Digital Economy (Wiley and SAS Business) by Charles W. Chase
English | July 27th, 2021 | ISBN: 111980986X | 272 pages | True EPUB | 14.73 MB
Discover a new, demand-centric framework for forecasting and demand planning
Constructing democratic governance in Latin America By Domínguez, Jorge I.; Shifter, Michael
2003 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 0801871190 | PDF | 7 MB
Since the first edition of the acclaimed Constructing Democratic Governance was published in 1996, the democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean have undergone significant change. This new, one-volume edition, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, offers a concise update to current scholarship in this important area of international studies.The book is divided into two parts: "Themes and Issues" and "Country Studies." Countries not covered by individual studies are discussed in the introduction, conclusion, and thematic chapters. In the introduction, Michael Shifter provides an overview of new developments in Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on civil society and problems of governance. The conclusion, by Jorge I. Domínguez, ties together the themes of the various chapters and discusses the role of parties and electoral politics.
Conservatism: Dream & Reality By Robert A. Nisbet
2001 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 0765808625 | DJVU | 1 MB
The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power.Nisbet holds that although political philosophers are often conceived in terms of their views of the individual and the state, a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups or communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society. Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to call modernity.From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as Bonald, de Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer More, and Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political conservatism remained the same. They are centered upon history, tradition, property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack equally the political collectivism and radical individualism that have the same irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at present, conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large measure by mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and welfare state socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.
Connections, sprays and Finsler structures By Kertész, Dávid Cs; Lovas, Rezső L.; Szilasi, József
2014 | 709 Pages | ISBN: 9814440094 | PDF + DJVU | 23 MB
La 4ème de couverture indique "This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Finsler geometry in the language of present-day mathematics. Through Finsler geometry, it also introduces the reader to other structures and techniques of differential geometry. Prerequisites for reading the book are minimal: undergraduate linear algebra (over the reals) and analysis. The necessary concepts and tools of advanced linear algebra (over modules), point set topology, multivariable calculus and the rudiments of the theory of differential equations are integrated in the text. Basic manifold and bundle theories are treated concisely, carefully and (apart from proofs) in a self-contained manner. The backbone of the book is the detailed and original exposition of tangent bundle geometry, Ehresmann connections and sprays. It turns out that these structures are important not only in their own right and in the foundation of Finsler geometry, but they can be also regarded as the cornerstones of the huge edifice of Differential Geometry. The authors emphasize the conceptual aspects, but carefully elaborate calculative aspects as well (tensor derivations, graded derivations and covariant derivatives). Although they give preference to index-free methods, they also apply the techniques of traditional tensor calculus. Most proofs are elaborated in detail, which makes the book suitable for self-study. Nevertheless, the authors provide for more advanced readers as well by supplying them with adequate material, and the book may also serve as a reference."
Concurrency and Nets: Advances in Petri Nets By Klaus Voss; Hartmann J. Genrich; Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)
2011 | 622 Pages | ISBN: 3642728243 | DJVU | 7 MB
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Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images. Fundamentals, Methods and Applications: Proceedings of the International Symposium Compimage 2006 (Coimbra, Portugal, 20-21 October 2006) By Jorge, Renato M. Natal; Tavares, João Manuel R. S
2018 | 462 Pages | ISBN: 0415433495 | PDF | 94 MB
This book contains keynote lectures and full papers presented at the International Symposium on Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images (CompIMAGE), held in Coimbra, Portugal, on 20-21 October 2006. International contributions from nineteen countries provide a comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in the fields of:- Image Processing and Analysis;- Image Segmentation;- Data Interpolation;- Registration, Acquisition and Compression;- 3D Reconstruction;- Objects Tracking;- Motion and Deformation Analysis;- Objects Simulation;- Medical Imaging;- Computational Bioimaging and Visualization.Related techniques also covered in this book include the finite element method, modal analyses, stochastic methods, principal and independent components analyses and distribution models. Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images will be useful to academics, researchers and professionals in Computational Vision (image processing and analysis), Computer Sciences, and Computational Mechanics.
Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis By Salman Akhtar
2009 | 420 Pages | ISBN: 1855758601 | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and so is the name of its originator. The attempt is made to demonstrate how the meanings of the term under consideration might have changed, with new connotations accruing with the passage of time and with growth of knowledge. Where indicated and possible, the glossary includes diverse perspectives on a given idea and highlights how different analysts have used the same term for different purposes and with different theoretical aims in mind.
John D. Hurth, "Combat Tracking Guide"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0811710998 | 288 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The first book on tracking in a combat situation that includes suggestions for integrating visual tracking operations into existing military doctrine in addition to the boots-on-the-ground detail necessary for soldiers who perform those operations
Nani Gopal Mahanta, "Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA: Assam and the Politics of History"
English | ISBN: 9391370055 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book argues that citizenship debate over NRC and CAA in India is a legacy of partition, and not a crisis of secularism.