Integrating the Human Sciences
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032230177 | 195 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
What if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a human science that would seek to stitch its understandings of this system of phenomena into a coherent whole? If so, what would that look like?
Innovating Business for Sustainability
by Beate Sjfjell;Carol Liao;Aikaterini Argyrou;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839101318 | 327 pages | True PDF | 8.47 MB
Information Theory and Selected Applications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031212754 | 390 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 34 MB
This book focuses on analysing the applications of the Shannon Measure of Information (SMI). The book introduces the concept of frustration and discusses the question of the quantification of this concept within information theory (IT), while it also focuses on the interpretation of the entropy of systems of interacting particles in terms of the SMI and of mutual information. The author examines the question of the possibility of measuring the extent of frustration using mutual information and discusses some classical examples of processes of mixing and assimilation for which the entropy changes are interpreted in terms of SMI. A description of a few binding systems and the interpretation of cooperativity phenomena in terms of mutual information are also presented, along with a detailed discussion on the general method of using maximum SMI in order to find the "best-guess" probability distribution. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of information theory and will be of great interest to any scientist who is interested in IT and in its potential applications.
India and World War II: War, Armed Forces, and Society, 1939-45 By Kaushik Roy
2016 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0199463530 | PDF | 9 MB
The Second World War remains a defining chapter in modern world history. Colonial India's involvement in the war has often been studied against the backdrop of the ongoing freedom struggle, the varying attitudes of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, and the formation of theAzad Hind Fauj under Subhas Chandra Bose. Moving beyond the claims of how Indian resources and soldiers aided the Allies in winning the war, this volume explores the complex interrelationship between the Indian armed forces, the Indian society, and the war. Drawing on archival data, this book focuses on understanding the impact of large-scale mobilization of manpower and resources on an underdeveloped agrarian society; the communities which joined the Indian armed forces; why the Indian soldiers remained loyal to the Raj; and how they defeated theJapanese in Burma and the Italians and the Germans in Africa and Italy. Rather than merely providing a chronological account of military operations, Roy fuses ideas and institutions of violence with the prevalent social and cultural contexts. He further asserts that nationalism was not a strong sentiment among the Indian soldiers involved in the war, who were quitecontent with the British military service.
Mr Leif Norgaard Gregersen, "Inching Back To Sane: My Life With Mental Illness Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1543178510 | 2017 | 182 pages | EPUB | 225 KB
This is the second edition of my memoir, "Inching Back to Sane." It tells the story of my life dealing with anxiety, bipolar and schizoaffective disorder and the many things I did and went through. I have written 12 other books but in a lot of ways I feel this book is my finest. I spent most of the past six months working towards getting this second edition to print and I have had a lot of great feedback.
Andrew K. Koch, "Improving Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Success in Gateway Courses: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 180 "
English | ISBN: 1119468434 | 2018 | 120 pages | EPUB | 673 KB
As long as there have been U. S. colleges and universities, there have been entry courses that pose difficulties for students courses that have served more as weeding-out rather than gearing-up experiences for undergraduates.
Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media By Robin Wilson
2015 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1472414438 | PDF | 8 MB
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The Architectural Review, 1940, an early project by French architects Lacaton & Vassal published in the journal 2G, 2001, and recent photography by Hisao Suzuki for the Spanish journal El Croquis. At the intersection of image and text the book also reveals the role of the utopian impulse within the architectural media, drawing on theories of utopian discourse from the work of the French semiotician and art theorist Louis Marin, and the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Through this it builds a fresh theoretical approach to journal studies, revealing a hitherto unexplored dimension of "latent" or "unconscious" discourse within the media portrait of architecture. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight moments where a different type of critical voice emerges on the architectural journal page, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical and speculative thinking about architecture, and to rethink the journals' role within architectural history.
Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature By Dimitrios Kassis
2016 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 1443890871 | PDF | 2 MB
This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country's national framework. In particular, it investigates the ways in which five nineteenth-century travellers define their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland during the Victorian period, during which European nationalism emerges as an idea of paramount importance. Owing to the gradual contemplation of this peripheral word as the cradle of the Germanic nations, Victorian travel writers endeavoured to reconstruct the image of Iceland in accordance with the racial theoretical framework that underlay the nineteenth-century British nation-building agenda.
Richard Lewis, "Iceberg Slim: A Biography of America's Most Notorious Pimp"
English | ISBN: 1098634349 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 213 KB
Immerse yourself in the role of one of the most famous and proliferous pimps of 20th century America.
Karyn Sharp, "Hunting Caribou: Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest"
English | ISBN: 0803274467 | 2015 | 344 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denésuliné, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denésuliné.