Gábor Gelléri, "Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World "
English | ISBN: 036752421X | 2020 | 276 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade, war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries, printed from the late sixteenth century,

Nia Parson, "Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile"
English | ISBN: 0826518958 | 2013 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never before existed. What emerged were grassroots women's rights organizations, challenging and engaging the government and NGOs to confront long-ignored problems in responding to marginalized victims.

Gordon Gates, "Trauma, Stigma, and Autism"
English | ISBN: 1785922033 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 345 KB
This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma can cause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on the autism spectrum. Gordon Gates draws on his academic research, professional knowledge as a counsellor, and lived experience with Asperger's syndrome to provide a unique framework for combating the psychological and emotional impact of stigma.

Transforming Public and Private Sector Organizations: Implementing Sustainable Purpose, Travelling Organization and Connectivity for Resilience by Peter Wollmann, Reto Püringer
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 424 Pages | ISBN : 303106903X | 31.7 MB
The book addresses an explicit demand expressed in a large number of C-Suite interviews: managing significant transformations in the private and public sector. The book describes what types of transformation have to be reflected, why transformations are crucial in our days, the triggers they have, and how they might be best managed from a theoretical and practical point of view - technically and with all people-connected soft facts. The book, which contains numerous use cases, is written by an international community of practitioners, experts, and academics from different geographies, countries, public and private organizations, industries, and cultures, which guarantees the comprehensiveness and richness of the developed insights and the value of the presented use cases.

Transforming Organizations in Disruptive Environments: A Primer on Design and Innovation by Igor Titus Hawryszkiewycz
English | EPUB | 2022 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 9811614520 | 21.5 MB
This textbook provides a design approach to the topics of innovation and disruption, by drawing on a variety of tools, techniques, and methods, and focusing on solutions that combine data and technology. The premise of the book is the creation of value for the organisations, stakeholders, and community, to enable creative transformation.

Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond By István Keul (editor)
2012 | 531 Pages | ISBN: 3110258102 | PDF | 8 MB
The essays in this volume, written by specialists working in the field of tantric studies, attempt to trace processes of transformation and transfer that occurred in the history of tantra from around the seventh century and up to the present. The volume gathers contributions on South Asia, Tibet, China, Mongolia, Japan, North America, and Western Europe. The chapters cover a wide thematic area, which includes modern Bengali tantric practitioners, tantric ritual in medieval China, the South Asian cults of the mother goddesses, the way of Buddhism into Mongolia, and countercultural echoes of contemporary tantric studies.

Transactional Memory by James R. Larus
English | PDF | 2007 | 226 Pages | ISBN : 1598291246 | 1.46 MB
The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atomicity, consistency, isolation) properties of transactions provide a foundation to ensure that concurrent reads and writes of shared data do not produce inconsistent or incorrect results. At a higher level, a computation wrapped in a transaction executes atomically either it completes successfully and commits its result in its entirety or it aborts. In addition, isolation ensures the transaction produces the same result as if no other transactions were executing concurrently.

T.R. Slater, "Towns in Decline, AD100-1600"
English | ISBN: 113827285X | 2017 | 338 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and profound economic change at least once since the height of the Roman Empire. This volume is an examination of the various causes of these changes, the results which flowed from them and the reasons why some urban centres survived, revived and eventually flourished again while others failed and died. The contributors bring to bear the techniques of history and archaeology, the perspectives of economics, agronomy, medicine, architecture and planning, geography and law, to the study. The result is a synthesis which connects the Decline of the Roman Empire to the effects of the Black Death and the economic transformation of Renaissance Florence.

Towards a Comparative Economic History of Cinema, 1930-1970
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031057694 | 356 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 31 MB
​Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Millions of People Every Day' - Cinema as part of the quotidian of life (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 2. Managing Risk - Key Concepts and Methods (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 3. How did the Department of Justice Get it so Wrong? Philadelphia 1935-36: the Stanley Warner Chain, competitive practices, and consumer welfare (Andrew Hanssen).- Chapter 4. Comparative Film Popularity in Three English Cities - Bolton, Brighton, and Portsmouth: an exercise in POPSTAT methodology (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 5. Popular films in Stockholm during the 1930s: a presentation and discussion of the pioneering work of Leif Furhammar (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 6. Dutch films in the Dutch market in the 1930s: A characteristics approach to film popularity (Clara Pafort-Overduin).- Chapter 7. Unravelling Australia's "Infamous 'contract' system." Evidence from Adelaide, 1942-3. (Dylan Walker).- Chapter 8. Film exhibition, distribution, and popularity in German-occupied Belgium (1940-1944): Brussels, Antwerp, and Liege (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 9. Five Italian Cities: Comparative analysis of cinema-types, film circulation, and relative popularity in the mid-1950s (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 10. Cinemagoers should '...learn from progressive movies, again and again.' Cinemagoing in Czechoslovakia, 1949-52 (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 11. 'It seems to me that the most popular films in the West are very harmful to us': Film Popularity in Poland during the years of 'High Stalinism' (John Sedgwick).- Chapter 12. Americanisation in reverse? Hollywood films, international influences, and US audiences, 1946-1965 (Peter Miskell)

Salvador Pacheco-Gutierrez, "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 23rd Annual Conference, TAROS 2022, Culham, UK, September 7-9, 2022, Proceedings "
English | ISBN: 3031159071 | 2022 | 339 pages | PDF | 45 MB
The volume LNAI 13546 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2022, held in Culham, UK, in September 2022.