Rights from Wrongs: The Origins of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice By Alan M. Dershowitz
2004 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0465017134 | PDF | 1 MB
A completely original answer to one of the most difficult questions in legal philosophy: what is the source of human rights? This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are 'natural', where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than the product of human law, what argument is there for allowing the 'rights' of a few people to outweigh the preferences of the majority? In this book, renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz offers a fresh resolution to this age-old dilemma. Rights, he argues, do not come from God, nature, logic or law alone, they arise out of particular experiences with injustice. While justice is an elusive concept, hard to define and subject to conflicting interpretations, injustice is immediate, intuitive, widely agreed upon and very tangible. This is a timely book that will have an immediate impact on political dialogue, from the intersection of religion and law to quandaries surrounding the right to privacy, voting rights etc. It is also a passionate case for the recognition of human rights in a rigorously secular framework. Rights from Wrongs is the first book to propose a theory of rights that emerges not from some theory of perfect justice but from its opposite: from the bottom up, from trial and error, and from our collective experience of injustice.
Riding Jane Crow : African American Women on the American Railroad
by Miriam Thaggert
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0252044525 | 210 Pages | True PDF | 8.8 MB
Return to China One Day: The Learning Life of Qian Xuesen by Chengdong Lv
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 195 Pages | ISBN : 9811957541 | 68.6 MB
This book is intended for common readers who are interested in the life story of Qian Xuesen (also know as Tsien Hsue-Shen). Based on a large number of original archives and historical materials, this book focuses on Qian Xuesen's years of seeking knowledge from his birth in 1911 to his return to China in 1955 and describes how he grows into a world-known scientist from the aspect of humanity. This book can be used as reference material for Qian Xuesen's earlier years.
Retinal Detachment Surgery and Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy:
From Scleral Buckling to Small Gauge Vitrectomy
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031119452 | 315 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB
Restoring Nature
by Dilsaver, Lary M.;Babalis, Timothy J.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1496233557 | 427 pages | True PDF EPUB | 26.43 MB
José L. Zalabardo, "Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0198743947, 019882274X | PDF | pages: 272 | 3.0 mb
José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation in Russell's theories of judgment, arguing that the picture theory is Wittgenstein's solution to some of the problems that he found in Russell's position. Zalabardo defends the view that, for Wittgenstein, facts in general, and the facts that play the role of propositions in particular, are not composite items, arising from the combination of their constituents. They are ultimate, irreducible units, and what we think of as their constituents are features that facts have in common with one another. These common features have built into them their possibilities of combination with other features into possible situations. This is the source of the Tractarian account of non-actual
Reliability-Based Optimization of Floating Wind Turbine Support Structures
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303096888X | 549 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 48 MB
This book pursues the ambitious goal of combining floating wind turbine design optimization and reliability assessment, which has in fact not been done before. The topic is organized into a series of very ambitious objectives, which start with an initial state-of-the-art review, followed by the development of high-fidelity frameworks for a disruptive way to design next generation floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) support structures. The development of a verified aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled numerical model of dynamics for FOWTs and a holistic framework for automated simulation and optimization of FOWT systems, which is later used for the coupling of design optimization with reliability assessment of FOWT systems in a computationally and time-efficient manner, has been an aim of many groups internationally towards implementing a performance-based/goal-setting approach in the design of complex engineering systems. The outcomes of this work quantify the benefits of an optimal design with a lower mass while fulfilling design constraints. Illustrating that comprehensive design methods can be combined with reliability analysis and optimization algorithms towards an integrated reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) can benefit not only the offshore wind energy industry but also other applications such as, among others, civil infrastructure, aerospace, and automotive engineering.
Jeremy Greenberg, "Relative Discomfort: The Family Survival Guide, The Essential Tool For Living Through and Laughing At All of Our Family "
English | ISBN: 0740773763 | 2008 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Seeing family is like catching a head cold: a temporary discomfort relieved by a snifter or four of brandy." -Jeremy GreenbergRelative Discomfort is a sidesplitting, guffaw-inducing guide to living through and laughing at all of our family encounters. You know that knot you get in your stomach when you're about to come face-to-face with your Uncle Drunk and Aunt Enabler, or the brother-in-law who always wants to show you his gun collection? This book unties that knot.If your family more closely resembles the Simpsons as opposed to the Tanner, Keaton, or Huxtable clans, then chances are this book is for you. International headlining comedian Jeremy Greenberg writes from the premise that although we love our families, many of us don't particularly love spending time with those who share our dysfunctional DNA.To liven up the holidays, bar mitzvahs, funerals, and other family gatherings, Greenberg offers a collection of tips, tricks, games, and helpful hints that will not
Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible By Richard Sandbrook
2014 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 1107421098 | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic Left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the Left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-confident progressive movements. This 'new' democratic Left includes parties and social movements that not only are avoiding the familiar pitfalls that ensnared socialists and social democrats in the twentieth century, but also are coping with the realities of the twenty-first century, especially neoliberal globalization. In analyzing and illustrating three innovative strategies - moderate social democracy, radical social-democratic transition to socialism, and Left populism - this study nudges the debate about the Left out of the well-worn grooves into which it has fallen in recent decades.
Regularization in Deep Learning (MEAP V04)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781633439610 | 323 pages | PDF,EPUB | 19.56 MB
Make your deep learning models more generalized and adaptable! These practical regularization techniques improve training efficiency and help avoid overfitting errors.