Paul Anthony Haigh, "Visible Light Communications: Data Communications and Applications Beyond "
English | ISBN: 0750316780 | 2021 | 250 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This book offers an overview of the state-of-the-art of visible light communication systems across emerging areas of increasing importance within the field. It is divided into two parts, with the first describing the latest developments in data communication using VLC technologies. It includes the fundamental mechanics of the semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) used in academic and commercial systems, areas of high-speed circuit design including circuit diagrams and small-signal analysis. Exotic modulation formats and digital signal processing including machine learning architectures are then covered before the book looks at emerging areas within the VLC research community, including colour balancing and colour-based modulation. The second part of the book looks at applications that do not consider indoor data communication in general, such as localisation/positioning, sensing and the intelligent transport systems paradigm. Finally, the completely new area of oxygen sensing is also included with the aim of inspiring researchers to test news fields and apply ideas across domains.
Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism by Geraldine Hall
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 191 Pages | ISBN : 3031140265 | 4.2 MB
This book is an exploration of Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on virtue ethics and John Pearce's reformist and radical forms of social enterprise. Although Pearce's work has had academic impact, by his own admission, his ideas lack the necessary philosophical underpinnings. In Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism, Geraldine Hall draws on MacIntyre to provide such underpinnings. Through a novel synthesis of the works of these two authors, a philosophical grounding is given to Pearce's radical form of social enterprise. In turn, MacIntyre's views on virtue are given greater scope to address global issues created by the capitalist paradigm.
Pamela Cox, "Victims' Access to Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0367750422 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little success? How have those initiatives unfolded differently in different global jurisdictions over different periods of time? This book aims to address these questions.
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1913183483 | True EPUB | 316 pages | 0.9 MB
The gripping and untold story of how Global Witness have uncovered a worldwide network of highly organized criminality, kleptocracy and corruption and exposed the people behind it
Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson, Zé Nuno Fraga
English | July 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1250270952 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 179 MB
In the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson's Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Vanished Villages of Elgin By Jennifer Grainger
2008 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 155002812X | EPUB | 6 MB
Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like Thomas Talbot.Jennifer Grainger chronicles the rise and fall of Elgin's crossroad hamlets, lakeports and rail depots with contemporary photos, archival shots, and postmarks that remind us of the pioneers.
Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032022663 | 191 Pages | PDF (True) | 22 MB
Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change.
Derek S. Reveron, "US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower"
English | ISBN: 1626160910 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post-World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States started on a path to global hegemony.
Two's Company: Simple: Fast & fresh recipes for couples, friends & roommates by Orlando Murrin
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 1788794672 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 42.18 MB
'We're all looking for quick routes to great dishes and Orlando Murrin does it so well in this beautiful cookbook.'Tom Kerridge
Lisa Shaw, "Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race"
English | ISBN: 1477312781 | 2018 | 246 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits-inter-American and transatlantic-from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultural production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new ideas about, and representations of, "racial" identity in Brazil.