The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature By Suzanne Bost, Frances R. Aparicio
2012 | 584 Pages | ISBN: 0415666066 | EPUB | 2 MB
Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration. The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses: Regional, cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literature Worldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural creation Latino/a literature in different international contexts The impact of differing literary forms of Latino/a literature The politics of canon formation in Latino/a literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of this literary culture.

The Role of Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 9001 in Corporate Management: A Plan for Integration of Governance and Operations By William A. Stimson
2011 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 078646657X | PDF | 6 MB
At the turn of the 21st century, corporate scandals at major companies like Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom cost investors billions of dollars and shook public confidence in the securities market. In 2002, in direct response to these scandals, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a sweeping set of new standards for the operation of all U.S. public company boards, management, and public accounting firms. Among its many reforms was the requirement that senior officials take personal responsibility for corporate finances. This book's exploration of the relationship between corporate governance and operations uses the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley law as a guide and the internal controls of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System as the interface medium to unite the strategic and tactical functions of the corporation. In the process, it introduces new concepts of process liability and materiality and stresses management ethics and responsibility, as well as efficient and effective governance.

The Road to General Intelligence
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303108019X | 182 Pages | PDF EPUB | 7 MB
Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed cycles of hubris and despair. The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry worth billions and transform the range of viable automation tasks.The recent notable successes of Machine Learning has lead to conjecture that it might be the appropriate technology for delivering General Intelligence. In this book, we argue that the framework of machine learning is fundamentally at odds with any reasonable notion of intelligence and that essential insights from previous decades of AI research are being forgotten. We claim that a fundamental change in perspective is required, mirroring that which took place in the philosophy of science in the mid 20th century.We propose a framework for General Intelligence, together with a reference architecture that emphasizes the need for anytime bounded rationality and a situated denotational semantics. We given necessary emphasis to compositional reasoning, with the required compositionality being provided via principled symbolic-numeric inference mechanisms based on universal constructions from category theory.* Details the pragmatic requirements for real-world General Intelligence.* Describes how machine learning fails to meet these requirements.* Provides a philosophical basis for the proposed approach.* Provides mathematical detail for a reference architecture.* Describes a research program intended to address issues of concern in contemporary AI.The book includes an extensive bibliography, with ~400 entries covering the history of AI and many related areas of computer science and mathematics.The target audience is the entire gamut of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning researchers and industrial practitioners. There are a mixture of descriptive and rigorous sections, according to the nature of the topic. Undergraduate mathematics is in general sufficient. Familiarity with category theory is advantageous for a complete understanding of the more advanced sections, but these may be skipped by the reader who desires an overall picture of the essential concepts

Christopher Bryan, "The Resurrection of the Messiah"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199752095 | PDF | pages: 451 | 3.2 mb
In The Resurrection of the Messiah, Christopher Bryan combines literary, historical, and theological approaches in a study of the doctrine of the Resurrection. The book is divided into three parts. The first section provides a careful and sympathetic description of first-century Jewish and

The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria By Brigitte Hamann
2011 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 0571271308 | EPUB | 5 MB
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as Sisi, belongs to a famous love story of European royalty - in 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was fifteen; they were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairytale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her death signalled the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire.At the time of its first publication in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's biography, which tells Elisabeth's story from her birth as a member of the Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist, led to a revised and deeper understanding of Elisabeth. During her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; now, for the first time, the Empress was portrayed as a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie. Researched by a respected historian, this is the definitive account of Elisabeth's life, death and legacy.

Christopher Buckley, "The Relic Master: A Novel"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1501125761, 1501125753 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 5.0 mb
Christopher Buckley's "hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale" about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ's burial shroud reads "like Indiana Jones gone medieval" (USA TODAY).

Andrew Cracknell, "The Real Mad Men: The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising"
English | ISBN: 0762440902 | 2012 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Advertising is a business rooted in art, an art rooted in business, and it reached its peak in a specific place at a specific time: New York City at the end of the 1950s and through the '60s.

Paul B. Moyer, "The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America"
English | ISBN: 0801454131 | 2015 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visionaries and prophets established new religious sects throughout the emerging nation. Among the most influential and controversial of these figures was Jemima Wilkinson. Born in 1752 and raised in a Quaker household in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Wilkinson began her ministry dramatically in 1776 when, in the midst of an illness, she announced her own death and reincarnation as the Public Universal Friend, a heaven-sent prophet who was neither female nor male. In

Lesley Hiding, "The Prepper's Ultimate Survival Bible - Are You Ready for the Worst Case Scenario?: Natural Disaster Survival, Emergency Sanitation, Grid Down Disaster, Water Management, House Safety, Self-Defence"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B1YY2W61, B0B1FM5RCH | EPUB | pages: 143 | 1.5 mb
★ BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO★

The Politics of Third Countries in EU Security and Defence: Norway, Brexit and Beyond by Øyvind Svendsen
English | EPUB | 2022 | 83 Pages | ISBN : 303100938X | 0.2 MB
"This timely, short yet comprehensive volume offers a unique perspective on the evolving relations between the EU, Norway and the United Kingdom in the field of Security and Defence. An absolute must-read for both researchers and practitioners working on this moving target".