Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation: Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Action (Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences) By Szymon Wrobel
2014 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 3631650914 | PDF | 2 MB
This book is a collection of essays, weaving together cognitive psychology, psycho-linguistics, developmental psychology, modern philosophy and behavioural sciences. It raises the question: how does grammar relate to our remarkable ability to cooperate for future needs? The author investigates the interconnections between the mechanisms governing cooperation and reciprocal altruism on the one hand and the capacity to generate an infinite range of expressions from a finite set of syntactically structured elements on the other. Based on these premises, the specific character of cognitive explanations, possible architectures of mind, non-formal grammar and tacit knowledge are explored. Furthermore the author deals with the role of conceptual representations in explaining grammar, the modular structure of mind and the evolutionary origins of human language ability and moral authority.

Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715) (Medieval and Early Modern French Studies) By Nicholas Hammond
2011 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 3034307063 | PDF | 5 MB
This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have concentrated on the relationship between gossip and women, none has explored the crucial link between gossip and same-sex desire. Using material that has never been published before and touching on different social spheres, from valets to the immediate circle of Louis XIV, the author reveals a world radically different from the traditional image of France under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. An in-depth analysis of the theory and practice of gossip is followed by an examination of songs, poems, memoirs, letters and anecdotes from the time, bringing the milieu of what was known as 'the Italian vice' vividly to life. The book concludes by bringing these insights on gossip to a refreshing new reading of one of the period's groundbreaking novels, Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves.

Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain by Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming
English | October 18, 2001 | ISBN: 0195134796, 0195174038 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.99 MB
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths.

A.M. Haddad, "Global Water Crisis and Desalination Technology"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08L6ZWNPP | EPUB | pages: 267 | 10.2 mb
This book shows global water and consumption during 2014 - 2040, and which countries with the highest number of people living without household access to safe water in 2017. Also, cities with the best and safest drinking Water in America and countries with best water quality versus ten worst countries for access to clean water. Water shortage could affect 5bn people by 2050.Secondly, the figure that shows the water cycle (natural water cycle).Finally, simple explanation of desalting technologies: Thermal Processes(Multi-Stage Flash Distillation Multi-Effect Distillation, Vapor Compression Distillation) - Membrane Process (Electrodialysis, and Reverse Osmosis) - Other Processes (Freezing, Membrane Distillation, and Solar Humidification. Hybrid Desalination. Advantages and Disadvantages of Desalination. The world's largest desalination plants. Desalination Plants of: Years 2020, 2019, 2016, and 2015.

Global Risks: Constructing World Order through Law, Politics and Economics (Dresdner Schriften zu Recht und Politik der Vereinten Nationen / Dresden Papers on Law and Policy of the United Nations) By Jana Hertwig (editor), Sylvia Maus (editor), Almut Meyer zu Schwabedissen (editor), Matthias Schuler (editor)
2010 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 3631592914 | PDF | 2 MB
Over the last decades and especially in the new millennium, global society is increasingly facing new risks and challenges on a global scale, demanding global solutions. With their articles on global risks, the authors have contributed to a topic that suffers from severe under-specification. Their contributions can be summoned up under three headings: Identification and Assessment, Normative Reflections and Alternative Modes of Governance. Each of the assembled articles shows, from very different academic perspectives, how international actors - states as well as regional and international organisations - deal with global risks that in today's globalised world affect not only one state or region, but the international community as a whole.

Giving Bodies Back to Data : Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology
by Silvia Casini
English | 2021 | ISBN: 026204529X | 321 Pages | True PDF | 22 MB

Thomas K Dover, Kenneth Law, "Gigabit Ethernet Backhaul for Wireless Technicians"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00OYVYUBQ | EPUB | pages: 91 | 2.3 mb
Gigabit Ethernet (Gig-e) has become the standard for wireless backhaul in 4G and LTE applications and fiber to the premise internet service. Gigabit or 1000mb/seconds is 10X faster than Ethernet transmission of any data in just the past few years. Almost all new computing and wireless devices now come standard with Gig-e hardware installed.

Gifts to a Magus: Indo-Iranian Studies Honoring Firoze Kotwal (Toronto Studies in Religion) By Jamsheed K. Choksy (editor), Jennifer Dubeansky (editor)
2012 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 1433120518 | PDF | 4 MB
This fascinating volume consists of articles by world-renowned scholars of Zoroastrian, Iranian, Parsi, and Jewish studies. The topics covered range from the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) and the ancient Indo-Iranians to the modern Zoroastrians and Jews of Iran and India. Insightful descriptions of divinities and demons, priests and laity will capture the attention of readers as will absorbing discussions of good and evil, rituals and documents, and of communities past and present.

Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture: Revisitations in Modern and Contemporary Creative Media (Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity) By Erica Segre (editor)
2013 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 3034307020 | PDF | 7 MB
The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 provided scholars with an opportunity to consider memorialization and its legacies and 'afterimages' in the twentieth century through to the present time. This collection of new essays, commissioned from experts based in Mexico, Europe and the United States, plays on the interrelated notions of 'revisitation', haunting, residual traces and valediction to interrogate the Revolution's multiple appearances, reckonings and reconfigurations in art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry, examining key constituencies of creative media in Mexico that have been involved in historicizing, contesting or evading the mixed legacies of the Revolution. The interplay of themes, practices and contexts across the chapters (ranging from the 1920s through to the present day) draws on interdisciplinary thinking as well as new findings, framing the volume's discourse with a deliberately multi-dimensional approach to an often homogenized topic. The contributors' scholarly referencing of artists, novelists, poets, photographers, foreign correspondents, critics, filmmakers and curators is detailed and wide-ranging, creating new juxtapositions that include some rarely studied material.

Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages (Medieval Interventions) By Brian J. Reilly
2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1433157527 | PDF | 8 MB
Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary study of medieval color. By integrating scientific and literary approaches, it revises our current understanding of how people in medieval Europe experienced color and what it meant to them. This book insists that the past perception of the world can be recovered by joining timeless universal constraints on human experience (discovered by science) to the unique cultural expressions of that experience (revealed by literature).The Middle Ages may evoke images of the multicolored stained glass of gothic cathedrals, the motley garb of minstrels, or the brilliant illuminations of manuscripts, yet such color often goes unnoticed in scholarly accounts of medieval literature. Getting the Blues restores some of the most important literary works of the Middle Ages to their full living color. Particular consideration is given to the twelfth-century Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes and the thirteenth-century Lancelot-Grail Cycle.Getting the Blues engages debates within the humanities and the sciences over universalist and relativist approaches to how humans see and name color. Scholars in the humanities often insist that color is a strictly cultural phenomenon, eschewing as irrelevant to the Middle Ages recent developments in cognitive science that show universal constraints on how people in all cultures see and name color. This book contributes to the recent cognitive turn in the humanities and sheds new light on some of the most frequent and meaningful cultural experiences in the Middle Ages: the perception, use, and naming of color.