The Routledge Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, Devils and Demons
2004-08-20 | ISBN: 978 0415340182 | 352 pages | PDF | 5,4 MB l 3 Mirrors

This dictionary covers, in one volume, over 1800 of the most important deities and demons from around the world. From classical Greek and Roman mythology to the gods of Eastern Europe and Mesopotamia, from Nordic giants to Islamic jinns and Egyptian monsters, it is packed with descriptions of the figures most worshipped and feared around the world and across time.

Fully cross-referenced and featuring two handy guides to the functions and attributes shared by those featured, this dictionary is the essential resource for anyone interested in comparative religion and the mythology of the ancient and contemporary worlds.

Словарь охватывает свыше 1800 из важнейших богов и демонов различных стран мира. От классической греческой и римской мифологии до бог в Восточной Европе и Месопотамии, из северных гигантов до Исламских джиннов и монстров Египта. Словарь является важным ресурсом для тех, кто заинтересован в сравнительной религии и мифологии древних и современных миров.
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Hofmeyr, Neilson, Alfirevic, Crowther, Duley, Metin Gulmezoglu, Gillian M. L. Gyte, Ellen D. Hodnett, “A Cochrane Pocketbook: Pregnancy and Childbirth”
Wiley | 2008-08-25 | ISBN: 0470518456 | 446 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Pregnancy and Childbirth presents the best evidence for the care of pregnant women to doctors, midwives, students and parents. The logical sequence of chapters and the index give quick access to the abstracts of over four hundred Cochrane systematic reviews. The book serves both as a stand-alone reference, and as a companion to locating full reviews on the Cochrane Library.

The Cochrane Library is published by John Wiley on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration.
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Bashar Abdul-Jawad, “Groovy and Grails Recipes”
Apress | 2008-12-02 | ISBN: 143021600X | 424 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

Groovy and Grails Recipes is the busy developers’ guide for developing applications in Groovy and Grails. Rather than boring you with theoretical knowledge of “yet another language/framework,” this book delves straight into solving real–life problems in Groovy and Grails using easy–to–understand, well–explained code snippets.

Through learning by example, you will be able to pick up on Groovy and Grails quickly and use the book as an essential reference when developing applications.

What you’ll learn
Discover elegant and efficient solutions to common programming problems and web development tasks.
Get and reuse practical examples for both Groovy language and Grails framework, using the latest stable versions of each.
Perform a wide range of development tasks that cover all of the web development tiers, from View Layer to Service Layer to Domain Layer.
Access the wide range of available Grails framework plug–ins.
Obtain the recipes to integrate Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, and more with the Grails web framework.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Java and web developers who are interested to learn more about Groovy and/or Grails and are looking for real–life, working examples of how to achieve common programming tasks in Groovy and Grails.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
University of Chicago Press Staff | August 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0226104036 | PDF | 2681 pages | 9 MB

The fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style is the most extensive revision in twenty years. The Manual–more comprehensive and easier to use than ever before–remains the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers in any field.

Every aspect of coverage has been examined and brought up to date–from publishing formats to editorial style and method, from documentation of electronic sources to book design and production, and everything in between. In addition to books, The Chicago Manual of Style now also treats journals and electronic publications. All chapters are written for the electronic age, with advice on how to prepare and edit manuscripts online, handle copyright and permissions issues raised by new technologies, use the latest methods of preparing mathematical copy, and cite electronic and online sources.
A new chapter covers American English grammar and usage, outlining the grammatical structure of English, showing how to put words and phrases together to achieve clarity, and identifying common errors. And, to make it easier to search for information, each numbered paragraph throughout the Manual is now introduced by a descriptive heading.

What’s New in the Fifteenth Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style:

* Updated material throughout to reflect current style, technology, and professional practice

* New coverage of journals and electronic publications

* Comprehensive new chapter on American English grammar and usage by Bryan A. Garner (author of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage)

* Updated and rewritten chapter on preparing mathematical copy

* Reorganized and updated chapters on documentation, including guidance on citing electronic sources

* Streamlined coverage of current design and production processes, with a glossary of key terms

* New diagrams of the editing and production processes for both books and journals, keyed to chapter discussions

* Descriptive headings on all numbered paragraphs for ease of reference

* Companion website at Chicagomanualofstyle.org
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We Are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA | Pages:248 | 2005-12-15 | ISBN:0195169840 | PDF | 3 MB

Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world’s most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. Known as the “gentle revolutionary,” she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed citizens. In India, where 93 percent of the labor force are self-employed, 94 percent of this sector are women.

Yet self-employed women have historically enjoyed few legal protections or worker’s rights. In fact, most are illiterate and subject to exploitation and harassment by moneylenders, employers, and officials. Witnessing the terrible conditions faced by women working as weavers, stitchers, cigarette rollers, and waste collectors, Ela Bhatt began helping these women to organize themselves. In 1972, Ela Bhatt founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) to bring poor women together and give them ways to fight for their rights and earn better livings. Three years after SEWA was founded, it had 7,000 members. Today it has a total membership of 700,000 women, making it the largest single primary trade union in India. Bhatt lead SEWA to form a cooperative bank in 1974 - with a share capital of $30,000 - that offered microcredit loans to help women save and become financially independent. Today the SEWA Cooperative Bank has $1.5 million in working capital and more than 30,000 depositors with a loan return rate of 94 percent. Through years of organization and strategic action, Ela Bhatt developed SEWA from a small, often ignored group into a powerful trade union and bank with allies around the world. During the last three decades, SEWA’s efforts to increase the bargaining power, economic opportunities, health security, legal representation, and organizational abilities of Indian women have brought dramatic improvements to hundreds of thousands of lives and influenced similar initiatives around the globe. We Are Poor but So Many is a first-hand account of the vision, rise, and success of SEWA, in India as well as internationally. The book begins with a history of the early days of SEWA and an exploration of the Ghandian philosophy that helped shape SEWA’s formation and vision. It follows with an account of the struggles and challenges that SEWA faced in its journey and describes how these were addressed and overcome. It then explores the freedom that SEWA has facilitated for women working in the informal economy by presenting several inspirational stories of individual SEWA members. The final chapter describes the international extension of SEWA’s work, the challenges that women face in the informal economy worldwide, and how SEWA can be effectively replicated in other parts of the world. This volume is unique in that it will elaborate the specific experience and knowledge of Ela Bhatt in her and SEWA’s journey and provide insights and knowledge that no outside researcher would ever be in a position to replicate.

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Accounting for Non-Accounting Students
580 pages | Financial Times Management; 6 edition (January 2004) | 0273683853 | PDF | 10 Mb

This book has firmly established itself over five editions as the market leading text in its field. This highly regarded text offers a clear and non-technical introduction to the basic principles of both financial and management accounting. Building on the success of previous editions, the sixth edition places even more emphasis on helping students understand the concepts of accounting and applying what they learn to the real world.

The new edition includes a wide selection of news articles and real-world accounts allowing students to relate their learning to practice. It encourages a confident but critical approach to the range of accounting statements non-specialists are likely to encounter in their professional careers via a range of questions and thought-provoking activities.

This text is ideal for students from a broad range of disciplines taking a first course in accounting and offers a clear and non-technical introduction to the basic principles of both financial and management accounting. Building on the success of previous editions, the sixth edition places even more emphasis on helping students understand the concepts of accounting and applying what they learn to the real world. It includes a wide selection of news articles and real-world accounts allowing students to relate their learning to practice. It encourages a confident but critical approach to the range of accounting statements non-specialists are likely to encounter in their professional careers via a range of questions and thought-provoking activities.
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Premier Press Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Fast and Easy
400 pages | English | ISBN: 978 1592000791 | PDF | 13.5 MB

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Chemical Modelling: v.1: Applications and Theory
Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing | ISBN: 0854042547 | November 30, 2000 | PDF | 500 pages | 23 Mb

This volume comprises critical literature reviews of molecular modelling, both theoretical and applied. Molecular modelling in this context refers to modelling the structure, properties and reactions of atoms, molecules and materials.

Each chapter is compiled by experts in their fields and provides a selective review of recent literature, incorporating sufficient historical perspective for the non-specialist to gain an understanding.

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Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, “Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion”
Addison-Wesley Professional | 2008 | ISBN: 0137135599 | 384 pages | PDF | 21,7 MB

“If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading.”
–Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

“There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the next steps.”

–Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School and Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

“Blown to Bits will blow you away. In highly accessible and always fun prose, it explores all the nooks and crannies of the digital universe, exploring not only how this exploding space works but also what it means.”
–Debora Spar, President of Barnard College, Author of Ruling the Waves and The Baby Business

“This is a wonderful book–probably the best since Hal Varian and Carl Schultz wrote Digital Rules. The authors are engineers, not economists. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish.”
–David Warsh, Author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

“Blown to Bits is one of the clearest expositions I’ve seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. Its remarkably clear explanations of how the Net actually works lets the hot air out of some seemingly endless debates. You’ve made explaining this stuff look easy. Congratulations!”
–David Weinberger, Coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.

“Blown to Bits is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences.”
–Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google, Inc.

“This book gives an overview of the kinds of issues confronting society as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Every informed citizen should read this book and then form their own opinion on these and related issues. And after reading this book you will rethink how (and even whether) you use the Web to form your opinions…”
–James S. Miller, Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation

“Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. In Blown to Bits, experts in computer science address authoritatively the practical issues in which we all have keen interest.”
–Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of Multiple Intelligences and Changing Minds

“Regardless of your experience with computers, Blown to Bits provides a uniquely entertaining and informative perspective from the computing industry’s greatest minds.
A fascinating, insightful and entertaining book that helps you understand computers and their impact on the world in a whole new way.
This is a rare book that explains the impact of the digital explosion in a way that everyone can understand and, at the same time, challenges experts to think in new ways.”
–Anne Margulies, Assistant Secretary for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

“Blown to Bits is fun and fundamental. What a pleasure to see real teachers offering such excellent framework for students in a digital age to explore and understand their digital environment, code and law, starting with the insight of Claude Shannon. I look forward to you teaching in an open online school.”
–Professor Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School, Founder, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

“To many of us, computers and the Internet are magic. We make stuff, send stuff, receive stuff, and buy stuff. It’s all pointing, clicking, copying, and pasting. But it’s all mysterious. This book explains in clear and comprehensive terms how all this gear on my desk works and why we should pay close attention to these revolutionary changes in our lives. It’s a brilliant and necessary work for consumers, citizens, and students of all ages.”
–Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia and author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity

“The world has turned into the proverbial elephant and we the blind men. The old and the young among us risk being controlled by, rather than in control of, events and technologies. Blown to Bits is a remarkable and essential Rosetta Stone for beginning to figure out how all of the pieces of the new world we have just begun to enter–law, technology, culture, information–are going to fit together. Will life explode with new possibilities, or contract under pressure of new horrors? The precipice is both exhilarating and frightening. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, together, have ably managed to describe the elephant. Readers of this compact book describing the beginning stages of a vast human adventure will be one jump ahead, for they will have a framework on which to hang new pieces that will continue to appear with remarkable speed. To say that this is a ‘must read’ sounds trite, but, this time, it’s absolutely true.”
–Harvey Silverglate, criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and writer

Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can’t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to–the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation.
But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries-old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data.
Can you control who sees all that personal information about you? Can email be truly confidential, when nothing seems to be private? Shouldn’t the Internet be censored the way radio and TV are? Is it really a federal crime to download music? When you use Google or Yahoo! to search for something, how do they decide which sites to show you? Do you still have free speech in the digital world? Do you have a voice in shaping government or corporate policies about any of this?
Blown to Bits offers provocative answers to these questions and tells intriguing real-life stories. This book is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion.

Preface xiii

Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? 1

Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned 19

Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents 73

Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar 109

Chapter 5: Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable 161

Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits? 195

Chapter 7: You Can’t Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression 229

Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech 259

Conclusion: After the Explosion 295

Appendix: The Internet as System and Spirit 301

Endnotes 317

Index 347
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Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition. (Value Inquiry Book)
Publisher: Rodopi | ISBN: 9042022167 | edition 2007 | PDF | 336 pages | 2,76 mb

This book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues. It includes debate within cognitive science among explanations of social and moral phenomena from philosophy, evolutionary and cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, and computer science.

Cognitive Science (CS) provides an original corpus of scholarly work that makes explicit the import of cognitive-science research for philosophical analysis. Topics include the nature, structure, and justification of knowledge, cognitive architectures and development, brain-mind theories, and consciousness.

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mastering foreign exchange & currency options: a practical guide to the new marketplace (2nd Edition)
432 pages | FT Press; 2 edition (August 27, 2004) | 0273662953 | PDF | 4 Mb

The floating exchange rate environment has created a need for banks and their corporate customers to arrange their currency exposure on an active and commercial basis. This book addresses current practice and future issues and is written for both new entrants into the markets and for seasoned professionals seeking to refresh or broaden their knowledge.

The book covers issues such as: A radical new settlement system for FX will be going live in the 3rd quarter - named continuous linked settlement or CLS for short, Foreign Exchange Portals Atriax and FXAII, Electronic Broking EBS, The increased profile of the spreadbetting agencies in the FX markets e.g. IG Index, Emerging Markets, and New Exotic Currency Options.
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Henri Benisty, Jean-Michel Gerard, Romuald Houdre, John Rarity, Claude Weisbuch, “Confined Photon Systems: Fundamentals and Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics)”
Springer | 1999-11-23 | ISBN: 3540664351 | 496 pages | PDF | 4.1 MB

This set of lecture notes provides a detailed and up-to-date description of a field undergoing explosive growth, that of confined photon systems in the shape of microcavities or photonic crystals. Bringing together world leaders in the field, it provides all the basic tools needed to master a subject which will have both major impact in fundamental studies and widescale applications.

Confined photon systems enable the study of low-dimensional photonic systems, modified light-matter interaction, e.g. between excitons and photons in all-solid-state semiconductor microcavities, and of many phenomena of quantum optics, including single photon generation, squeezed light, quantum state entanglement, non-local quantum measurements, and, potentially, quantum computation. They are also on the verge of yielding new, high performance optical devices for large-scale industries such as telecommunications and display technology.

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Stress, Trauma, and Children’s Memory Development: Neurobiological, Cognitive, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 019530845X | edition 2008 | PDF | 432 pages | 1,74 mb

Few questions in psychology have generated as much debate as those concerning the impact of childhood trauma on memory. A lack of scientific research to constrain theory has helped fuel arguments about whether childhood trauma leads to deficits that result in conditions such as false memory or lost memory, and whether neurohormonal changes that are correlated with childhood trauma can be associated with changes in memory.

Scientists have also struggled with more theoretical concerns, such as how to conceptualize and measure distress and other negative emotions in terms of, for example, discrete emotions, physiological response, and observer ratings. To answer these questions, Mark L. Howe, Gail Goodman, and Dante Cicchetti have brought together the most current and innovative neurobiological, cognitive, clinical, and legal research on stress and memory development. This research examines the effects of early stressful and traumatic experiences on the development of memory in childhood, and elucidates how early trauma is related to other measures of cognitive and clinical functioning in childhood. It also goes beyond childhood to both explore the long-term impact of stressful and traumatic experiences on the entire course of “normal” memory development, and determine the longevity of trauma memories that are formed early in life. Stress, Trauma, and Children’s Memory Development will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in early experience, childhood trauma, and memory research.

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Portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
The Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing | ISBN: 978 0854045525 | 2008 | PDF | 304 pages | 5.5 Mb

A portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometer apparatus comprising a housing; a high voltage energized x-ray source operably secured within the housing; and an unheated electron cathode, operably linked to the high voltage energized x-ray source, thereby eliminating the need for a cathodic electron power supply for spectrometric analysis.

Another embodiment comprises a portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometer having a housing, an integrated x-ray tube, a high voltage power supply operably linked to the integrated x-ray tube, and a mechanism for controlling the x-ray emissions of the x-ray tube and power supply including an electron suppression grid operably positioned between a filament cathode and a target anode of the x-ray tube.

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Matthew Hancock, “The Rough Guides’ Algarve Directions”
Publisher: Rough Guides | 2005-06-20 | ISBN 1843534193 | PDF | 208 pages | 4.5 MB

Compact and pocketable Algarve Directions is full of ideas for a holiday to one of Europe’s most popular beach destinations, richly illustrated with hundreds of specially commissioned photos. The full-colour introduction features nineteen themed spreads – including the best beaches to inland attractions, museums, restaurants and cafés. The main section of the guide gives an area-by-area account of the sights, restaurants, hotels, transport, shops and nightlife – all supported by evocative photographs.

There are detailed maps of each chapter area and all the main resorts, in which every listing and review is pinpointed.
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Hendrik Siegmund, Werner Hand, Wolfram Titz, “Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Systembetreuer: Workstation”
HERDT-Verlag für Bildungsmedien | 2004-10-25 | ASIN: B000HKCRB8 | 190 pages | PDF | 31,1 MB

Wir vermitteln Ihnen praxisnah und leicht verständlich, wie Sie Windows auf Arbeitsplatzcomputern installieren, konfigurieren und warten:; - Sie erhalten einen Überblick über das Betriebssystem sowie die wichtigsten

Konfigurationsarbeiten.; - Informieren Sie sich über Installation, Konfiguration, das Hinzufügen von Hardware und die Installation von Druckern.; - Erfahren Sie alles Wissenswerte über die lokale Benutzerverwaltung mit Windows XP.; - Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie eine Workstation in ein vorhandenes Netzwerk integrieren und wie Sie Hilfsprogrammme zur Verwaltung und Fehlerbehebung nutzen können.
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Greg Ward, “The Rough Guides’ Maui Directions 1 “
Publisher: Rough Guides | 2005-10-17 | ISBN 1843535122 | PDF | 192 pages | 3.4 MB

Maui Directions explores the island in its entirety, capturing the very best the island has to offer along the way: from the golden sand beaches of South Maui and historic Lahaina to magnificent Haleleakala Crater and the legendary road to Hana. The guide includes practical detail for outdoor enthusiasts - surfers, mountain bikers, divers and snorkellers. The full-colour ”ideas” section with themed spreads of hidden beaches, great cafes, children’’s attractions and other themes are all cross-referenced with the main part of the guide.

Having this guide at your side is like having a local friend plan your trip.
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Understanding Radio (Studies in Culture and Communication)
Routledge | 260 pages | 1994 | ISBN: 0415103150 | PDF | 1.6 mb

The second edition of Understanding Radio gives the reader a comprehensive look at radio ands its element. Andrew Criswell gives an extensive history of the medium, brought up to date for this edition, and explains how radio, perhaps more than television, has played such a crucial role in the development of popular culture.

The book also explores how the different genres of radio (news, drama, comedy, music) are programmed and processed in very different ways, and how those who listen to radio have important implications for audience studies. Included in the revised edition is an examination of the new “talk-and-music” format, and the changes in programming which have occured.
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Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember
Routledge | 138 pages | 1993 | ISBN: 0415088062 | PDF | 2.6 mb

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the Revolution first-hand, this collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique and moving record of life in imperial and Bolshevik Russia.

The accounts give a deeply personal insight into how the revolution devastated the aristocracy, the intelligensia and foreigners of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the few weeks after the October 1917 upheaval.

The memories of the women in this book have remained very sharp, with a volume and precision of detail, and intensity of recall, found in those whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the traumas of revolution.
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Foreign Direct Investment: Research Issues (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
Routledge | 280 pages | 2001 | ISBN: 0415238145 | PDF | 2 mb

The collection draws together key articles on the topic and is the most up-to-date examination of foreign direct investment on the market.

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Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet
Routledge | 392 pages | 1998 | ISBN: 0415142296 | PDF | 1.2 mb

How are media born? How do they change? And how do they change us?

Media Technology and Society offers a comprehensive account of the history of communications technologies, from the printing press to the internet.

Brian Winston argues that the development of new media, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited. Winston’s fascinating account examines the role played by individuals such as Alexander Graham Bell, Gugliemo Marconi, John Logie Baird, Boris Rozing and Charles Babbage, and challenges the popular myth of the present-day “information revolution.”
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Journeys In A Small Canoe: The Life And Times Of a Solomon Islander
Pandanus Books | 318 pages | 2004 | ISBN: 1740760328 | PDF | 1.6 mb

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The Legacy of the Golden Age: The 1960s and their Economic Consequences
Routledge | 216 pages | 1992 | ISBN: 0415071542 | PDF | 2 mb

From the perspective of the 1990s, the 1960s seem to have been a golden age for economics. National income was growing even faster than in the 1950s, unemployment remained at about 2% of the labor force, and inflation was at 4% for most of the decade. The long boom that had begun at the end of World War II and was to continue until the oil crisis of 1973 was at its peak.

Economic success was the backdrop to a number of economic and social experiments, including the founding of many new universities in the United Kingdom and the first attempts to join the European Community.

In this study, a uniquely qualified team of economists and policy-makers examine the economic experience of the 1960s. They examine the conditions which enabled the boom to last for such a long time, and the factors which finally brought it to an end. The decade of the 1960s was rich in policy experiments–many that tried to curb inflation, and others that aimed to increase productivity. In retrospect, neither strategy proved to be successful, and the late sixties were marked by the rising inflation and falling productivity that were to persist throughout the seventies. The economic problems that emerged are still on the agenda, and this book concludes by assessing the extent to which policy mistakes of the sixties were responsible for these conflicts.
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Lysimachus: A Study in Early Hellenistic Kingship
Routledge | 304 pages | 1992 | ISBN: 0415070619 | PDF | 1 mb

Among Alexander’s successors, Lysimachus is the forgotten man; when he is recalled it is usually as brutal oppressor of the Greeks, or conversely, as a mediocre little man spurred into action only late in life by a domineering woman. As the first full-length study of Lysimachus in the English language, this book aims to reassess Lysimachus’ achievements, which although ephemeral, foreshadowed the growth of the Pergamene and Byzantine empires.

Helen Lund sets Lysimachus’ actions against the background of the early Hellenistic world, marked by extreme political instability and constant warfare, but also by great developments in city building, portraiture and numismatics. Lysimachus’ practice in warfare, kingship, and government is compared and contrasted with that of his contemporaries, his predecessors, and his successors in order to set his achievements in the context of a continuum of imperial rule in Asia Minor. The evidence for Lysimachus’s rule is set in its literary, political and social context. Covering Lysimachus’s rise from governor of the obscure satrapy of Thrace to ruler of a vast Hellespont-centered kingdom, this book analyzes his skills as warrior and diplomat, and examines the factors which motivated him at each stage of his career.

Helen Lund discusses images of Lysimachus in literature, his contribution to early Hellenistic kingship ritual and royal propaganda, offering a completely fresh approach to the dynastic struggle which ended his career. The book is written in a clear and lively style, and it is of interest to all students of ancient Greek history.
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Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
Routledge | 299 pages | 1997 | ISBN: 0415112133 | PDF | 2 mb

Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around the world in order to examine how health issues have interacted with ideas of ethnicity and race. The essays explore the historical origins and contemporary power of stereotypical views–of immigrants as importers of disease, for instance, or of minorities as sources of infection in the host society.

They also show how ideas of ethnicity and race have shaped, and have in turn been influenced by, the construction of medical ideas.
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Japan and Britain after 1859: Creating Cultural Bridges
RoutledgeCurzon | 304 pages | 2002 | ISBN: 0700717471 | PDF | 2 mb

In the years following Japan’s long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which underpinned them.

At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the 20th century.
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Denis J. Evans, “Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Liquids”
Anu E Press | 2007 | ISBN: 1921313226 | 302 pages | PDF | 12,8 MB

In recent years the interaction between dynamical systems theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics has been enormous. The discovery of fluctuation theorems as a fundamental structure common to almost all non-equilibrium systems, and the connections with the free energy calculation methods of Jarzynski and Crooks, have excited both theorists and experimentalists. This graduate level book charts the development and theoretical analysis of molecular dynamics as applied to equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems.

Designed for both researchers in the field and graduate students of physics, it connects molecular dynamics simulation with the mathematical theory to understand non-equilibrium steady states. It also provides a link between the atomic, nano, and macro worlds. The book ends with an introduction to the use of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to justify a thermodynamic treatment of non-equilibrium steady states, and gives a direction to further avenues of exploration.
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Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power
Univ of California Pr | 587 pages | 1995 | ISBN: 0520078330 | PDF | 2 mb

1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with himself as president.

Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews, and an examination of published memoirs and documents, David G. Marr has written a richly detailed and descriptive analysis of this crucial moment in Vietnamese history. He shows how Vietnam became a vortex of intense international and domestic competition for power, and how actions in Washington and Paris, as well as Saigon, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh’s mountain headquarters, interacted and clashed, often with surprising results. Marr’s book probes the ways in which war and revolution sustain each other, tracing a process that will interest political scientists and sociologists as well as historians and Southeast Asia specialists.
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Gary Walker - It Problem Management (Harris Kern’s Enterprise Computing Institute)
Pages:260 | PDF | Prentice Hall (März 2001) | ISBN 013030770X | 1,6 MB

Whether you manage in-house or outsourced IT operations, your problem resolution processes may be the #1 factor that will determine your ultimate success or failure. What’s more, help desks are increasingly called upon to “move up the food chain,” becoming true service centers capable of delivering complex, strategic solutions. Finally, there’s a single source for all the information you need to build world-class problem management processes — and deliver the value today’s enterprises are demanding.

Drawing upon extensive real-world consulting experience, Gary Walker presents specific process improvements IT organizations and outsourcers can make to achieve breakthrough results in their help desks and service centers. Walker reviews every key element of the problem management process, including problem identification, customer validation, problem logging, service delivery, knowledge capture and sharing, and finally, management review and oversight. Walker introduces the Immediate Response Model, which gives IT managers a formal way to account for request variability, complexity, and volume; shows how to use metrics to measure your progress; and offers guidance on creating and using service level agreements. The book includes a detailed chapter on tools for communications with customers, service delivery, and proactive monitoring, as well as opportunities to use the Internet and Integrated Voice Response (IVR) systems to empower customers. Finally, Walker addresses the human side of help desks and service centers, offering practical guidance on motivation.

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