Beyond Market Value: A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital By Annette Campbell-White
2019 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1477319352 | PDF | 89 MB
Beyond Market Value chronicles Annette Campbell-White's remarkable life, from a childhood spent in remote mining camps throughout the British Commonwealth, where books created an imaginary home; to her early adulthood in London, where she first discovered a vocation as a book collector; to Silicon Valley, where she built a pioneering career as a formidable venture capitalist. She recalls the impulsive purchase of the first book in her collection, T. S. Eliot's A Song for Simeon, and her pursuit of rare editions of all one hundred titles listed in Cyril Connolly's The Modern Movement. Campbell-White's collecting and career peaked in 2005, when she acquired the last of the Connolly titles and was first named to Forbes' Midas List, the annual ranking of the most successful dealmakers in venture capital.In 2007, out of concern for their preservation, Campbell-White rashly sold the Connolly titles she had spent more than twenty years assembling, leading to a new appreciation of what remained of her collection and, going forward, a broader focus on collecting modernist letters, manuscripts, and ephemera. Beyond Market Value is both a loving tribute to literary collecting and a telling account of the challenges of being a woman in the male-dominated world of finance.
Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts By Chantal Zabus
2007 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0804756872 | PDF | 13 MB
In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the Female Genital Mutilation debate. Spanning pharaonic times through classical antiquity to the onset of the twenty-first century, this unprecedented study shows how this experiential body of literature―encompassing English, Arabic, and French―goes far beyond such traditional topics as universalism and cultural relativism, by locating the female body as a site of liminality between European and African factions, subject and agent; consent and dissent; custom and human rights. Women across the African "excision belt" have broken away from the male discourses of anthropology and psychoanalysis and have fled from "the cult of culture" and from religious and patriarchal surveillance. These women have relocated their struggle to the West, where they seek empowerment and wrestle with the law. While showing the limits of autobiography, Between Rites and Rights boldly interweaves Freudian hysteria, the surgical age, the world of high fashion, male circumcision's "fearful symmetry," and Western body modification.
Between Nature And Society: Biographies Of Materials
by Bensaude-vincent, Bernadette;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811251746 | 293 pages | True PDF EPUB | 25.37 MB
Betting on Horse Racing for Dummies
by Eng, Richard;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119908922 | 387 pages | True PDF | 24.63 MB
Valerio Scarani, "Bell Nonlocality"
English | 2019 | pages: 239 | ISBN: 019878841X | PDF | 7,0 mb
The development of quantum technologies has seen a tremendous upsurge in recent years, and the theory of Bell nonlocality has been key in making these technologies possible. Bell nonlocality is one of the most striking discoveries triggered by quantum theory. It states that in some situations, measurements of physical systems do not reveal pre-existing properties; rather, the property is created by the measurement itself. In 1964, John Bell demonstrated that the predictions of quantum theory are incompatible with the assumption that outcomes are predetermined. This phenomenon has been observed beyond any doubt in the last decades. It is an observation that is here to stay, even if quantum theory were to be replaced in the future. Besides having fundamental implications, nonlocality is so specific that it can be used to develop and certify reliable quantum devices.
Behind the Scenes in Social Research: How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032386215 | 141 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
Behind the Scenes in Social Researchdiscusses the informal, adaptive, and real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the material in standard methods texts that describe the basics-how to choose topics andways of obtaining and analyzing data-but in doing so miss out on many of the obstacles and practicalities of doing research. Researchers may find themselves adrift when they start their research and discover that what confronts them doesn't precisely match exactly what is described in the basic textbooks, such as the obstacles that frequently occur, the logistical matters that must be handled, and the improvisations in research design and data gathering techniques that successful projects require. This book covers this material, while also paying attention to the ways in which the personal characteristics of those doing the research affect how projects are designed and data gathered. In addition, it explores the manner in which doing research affects the researchers themselves, affecting self-images, altering political or social views, or providing skills that extend beyond the research enterprise. Based on the author's own experiences and interviews with senior researchers in a variety of social science fields, Behind the Scenes in Social Research explores the practical problems that arise in undertaking a research project while showing how these problems can be overcome through perseverance and improvisation. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students across the social science with interests in research methods and the practical issues that arise during any research project.
Behavioral Aspects of Brand Management
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9781942585350 | 111 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Brand is not only effective marketing tool. Brand is powerful multi structural socio-economic phenomenon, which combines traditional economic postulates and practices in the introjection of psychological and sociological characteristics of consumer. Traditionally, it is characterized by paradigmatic polarization, in which theories alternate by differently accentuating the need for econometric
Beginning with Machine Learning: The Ultimate Introduction to Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Scikit-learn, and TensorFlow
by Dr. Amit Dua, Umair Ayub
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9355511043| 206 pages | True EPUB | 1.85 MB
Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users
by Nathan Haines
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1484289714 | 291 pages | True PDF EPUB | 34.05 MB
Beginning SharePoint Communication Sites
by Charles David Waghmare
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1484289595 | 253 pages | True PDF EPUB | 21.63 MB