Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979
Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 | ISBN 1403986541 | 368 pages | PDF Ocr | 16.7 MB
What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of governmentality characterises the present world and what revisions of liberal government has it given rise to? This is the diagnostic task addressed by Foucault’s study of the two major twentieth century schools of neo-liberalism: German ordo-liberalism and the neo-liberalism of the Chicago School.

In the years he taught at the Collège de France, this was Michel Foucault’s sole foray into the field of contemporary history. This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of homo oeconomicus.

Foucault’s analysis also highlights the paradoxical role played by “society” in relation to government. “Society” is both that in the name of which government strives to limit itself, but it is also the target for permanent governmental intervention to produce, multiply, and guarantee the freedoms required by economic liberalism. Far from being opposed to the State, civil society is thus shown to be the correlate of a liberal technology of government.

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The Canadian Home
Dundurn Press | ISBN: 1550022024 | 1996-07-25 | PDF | 832 pages | 28 Mb
Would you want to live in a factory-moulded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an “H-bomb shelter” and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonise with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of “colonial” homes, why “Tudor” is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong.

But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of bureaucrats, developers, architects, and financiers and how they affect the quality, affordability, and choice of our housing today. Fiery debates over the sublime and the ridiculous (e.g. 1940s architectural articles on whether Toronto should be bombed) are set against the backdrop of Canadian politics and industrial history. Whether the reader’s interest is in construction, politics, or home decor, this book explains why the roof over our heads is the way it is.” Pierre Berton “In his fascinating study of Canadian shelter, Marc Denhez takes us on a 20,000-year journey from the days of the cave, the tipi, and the igloo, to the H-bomb shelter and the mobile home. This is, in short, a lively as well as an erudite study of the development of housing . [It] deserves a permanent position on any library shelf.” “If you live in a house or own one or build one if you have a roof over your head read this book. A housing book with punch and humour immensely enjoyable.” Charles Lynch author, journalist and former governor of Heritage Canada.
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Infinitesimal Analysis (Mathematics and Its Applications)
Springer | ISBN: 1402007388 | 2002-06-30 | PDF | 436 pages | 3 Mb
Infinitesimal analysis, once a synonym for calculus, is now viewed as a technique for studying the properties of an arbitrary mathematical object by discriminating between its standard and nonstandard constituents. Resurrected by A. Robinson in the early 1960’s with the epithet ‘nonstandard’, infinitesimal analysis not only has revived the methods of infinitely small and infinitely large quantities, which go back to the very beginning of calculus, but also has suggested many powerful tools for research in every branch of modern mathematics.

The book sets forth the basics of the theory, as well as the most recent applications in, for example, functional analysis, optimization, and harmonic analysis. The concentric style of exposition enables this work to serve as an elementary introduction to one of the most promising mathematical technologies, while revealing up-to-date methods of monadology and hyperapproximation. Audiences: This volume is intended for classical analyst seeking new powerful tools and to model theorist in search of challenging applications of nonstandard models. This is a companion volume to the earlier works on nonstandard methods of analysis by A.G. Kusraev and S.S. Kutateladze (1999), ISBN 0-7923-5921-6 and Nonstandard Analysis and Vector Lattices edited by S.S. Kutateladze (2000), ISB
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Pr: Fifty Years in the Field
Dundurn Pr Ltd | ISBN: 1550021648 | 1993-08 | PDF | 192 pages | 8 Mb
I were born in the same 24-hour period, 33 years apart. We are th Aquarians.
It has been said that those who are born under this fixed air sign will labour with love if they select a profession that is always changing and which involves the intellect. Labour with love we do. We are both now senior public relations consultants in Calgary, Jack in semi-retirement and I at mid-career.

This book is partly about the evolution of our profession and partly about Jack’s evolution as a professional. As one in the public relations profession, I read this book straight through, cover to cover. But you can also read a chapter here and a chapter there, somewhat like a book of short stories. Each chapter can stand
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Modern Polymer Spectroscopy
Wiley-VCH | ISBN: 3527296557 | 1999-04-27 | PDF | 304 pages | 18 Mb
Modern Polymer Spectroscopy provides a ‘guided tour’ to the state of the art in polymer analysis by vibrational spectroscopy. Five renowned experts describe new experimental and theoretical techniques.

Areas of focus include:
- two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
- segmental mobility of liquid crystalline polymers under external fields
- dynamics and structure of polymers with chemical and structural disorder
- spectra of polyconjugated conducting polymers
- theoretical calculations on biopolymers.
Readers learn experimental techniques and theoretical tools essential for obtaining more valuable information from their vibrational spectra, in order too solve problems that would otherwise be impossible.
An essential reference for all professionals who need to keep abreast at the latest developments in the field, graduate students in polymer science, material science and the biosciences using spectroscopic techniques will profit from the wealth of information provided in this state-of-the-art guide.
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Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Wiley-VCH | ISBN: 3527298312 | 1999-06-15 | PDF | 427 pages | 21 Mb
The study of ferroelectricity is a branch of solid state physics which has shown rapid growth during the recent years. Ferroelectric materials exhibit unusual electric properties which make them useful in modern (opto)electronic technology, esp. display technology.

Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals, including also various polymer forms, are the hottest research topic today in liquid crystals.
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Soft Matter under Exogenic Impacts (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
Springer | ISBN: 1402058713 | 2007-05-14 | PDF | 480 pages | 7 Mb
‘Soft Matter Under Exogenic Impacts’ is fairly unique in supplying a comprehensive presentation of high pressures, negative pressures, random constraints and strong electric field exogenic (external) impacts on various soft matter systems. These are: (i) critical liquids, (ii) glass formers, such as supercooled liquids including water, polymers and resins, (iii) liquid crystals and (iv) bio-liquids. It is, because of this, an excellent guide in this novel and still puzzling research area. Besides new results, the identification of new types of physical behavior, new technological materials, ultimate verification of condensed and soft matter physics models, new applications in geophysics, biophysics, biotechnology, are all discussed in this book.

‘Soft Matter Under Exogenic Impacts’ comes as a result from the ARW NATO brainstorming discussion in Odessa, Ukraine (8-12 Oct. 2005). It contains 31 papers prepared by key specialists in the field, which include amongst others: H. E. Stanley (USA), K. L. Ngai (USA), C. M. Roland (USA), M. A. Anisimov (USA), G. P. Johari (Canada), M.-C. Bellisent (France), A. R. Imre (Hungary), G. Floudas (Greece), Th. Kraska (Germany), A. Chalyi (Ukraine), E. E. Ustjuzhanin (Russia), J. L. Tamarit (Spain) and S. Kralj (Slovenia).
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Discover’s 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Lab Accidents, Sex in Space…and More!
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers | ISBN: 0061435643 | edition 2008 | PDF | 336 pages | 1,86 mb

From the files of “Discover Magazine”, a leading source of popular science, with over 5 million monthly readers, “Discover” is one of the foremost journals of popular science, pitched to a layman’s level. One of the most eagerly awaited monthly features is the 20 Things You Didn’t Know About column, which occupies the last page of the magazine. This book takes the best of these columns, but more than just that, the editors at “Discover” have expanded each one into a book-length chapter, telling the story behind the science in a lively, appealing way.

The writing in the 25 subject areas is witty and chock-full of little known, quirky facts. The topics are broad, and sometimes unexpected (like sex in space). Using quotes from famous people from all walks of life, and many informative sidebars, readers will surely find out more than 20 things they didn’t know about science. It is drawn from a wide variety of scientific fields, including: space disasters; garbage; sleep; meteors; death; ancient weapons; rats; aliens; bees; sperm banks; internet; birth; sex in space; weather; duct tape; germs; your body; milk; mosquitoes; and airport security.
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Anthony J. Guttmann, “Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes (Lecture Notes in Physics)”
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1402099266 | 518 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB

This unique book gives a comprehensive account of new mathematical tools used to solve polygon problems.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, many problems in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry – and more recently in molecular biology and bio-informatics – can be expressed as counting problems, in which specified graphs, or shapes, are counted.

One very special class of shapes is that of polygons. These are closed, connected paths in space. We usually sketch them in two-dimensions, but they can exist in any dimension. The typical questions asked include “how many are there of a given perimeter?”, “how big is the average polygon of given perimeter?”, and corresponding questions about the area or volume enclosed. That is to say “how many enclosing a given area?” and “how large is an average polygon of given area?” Simple though these questions are to pose, they are extraordinarily difficult to answer. They are important questions because of the application of polygon, and the related problems of polyomino and polycube counting, to phenomena occurring in the natural world, and also because the study of these problems has been responsible for the development of powerful new techniques in mathematics and mathematical physics, as well as in computer science. These new techniques then find application more broadly.

The book brings together chapters from many of the major contributors in the field. An introductory chapter giving the history of the problem is followed by fourteen further chapters describing particular aspects of the problem, and applications to biology, to surface phenomena and to computer enumeration methods.
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Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media (Commerce and Mass Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press | ISBN: 0816637873 | edition 2002 | PDF | 312 pages | 1,63 mb
It all comes down to sex and money: how the media are organized, how they work, what they say, who gets to say it, and to whom. That is the message this book delivers-and then parses for its meaning to society and culture. Forcefully and persuasively, this groundbreaking volume uses the media to show how questions of gender and economics are inextricably linked to issues of power in Western capitalist societies.

Integrating political economy and feminism, it offers a new understanding of communication at the personal, experiential, institutional, and structural levels-and exposes all the subtle and complex ways in which sex and money are sutured into individuals’ daily lives.
Contributors: Robin Andersen, Fordham U; Ellen Balka, Simon Fraser U; Amy Beer; Carolyn M. Byerly, Ithaca College; Ramona Curry, U of Illinois; Fred Fejes, Florida Atlantic U; Nancy Hauserman, U of Iowa; Michèle Martin, Carleton U, Canada; Stana Martin, Central Missouri State U; Lisa McLaughlin, Miami U, Ohio; Roopali Mukherjee, Indiana U; Angela R. Record; Karen Ross, Coventry U; H. Leslie Steeves, U of Oregon; Angharad N. Valdivia, U of Illinois; Janet Wasko, U of Oregon; and Justin Wyatt.
Eileen R. Meehan is associate professor of media arts at the University of Arizona. Ellen Riordan is assistant professor of mass communication at Miami University, Ohio.
Commerce and Mass Culture Series
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Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde, “The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development”
Addison-Wesley Professional | 2008 | ISBN: 0321562992 | 784 pages | CHM | 1 MB

C# is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language that combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Written by the language’s architect and design team members, The C# Programming Language is the definitive technical reference for C#.

Moving beyond the online documentation, the book provides the complete specification of the language along with descriptions, reference materials, and code samples from the C# design team.

The first part of the book opens with an introduction to the language to bring readers quickly up to speed on the concepts of C#. Next follows a detailed and complete technical specification of the C# 1.0 language, as delivered in Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003. Topics covered include Lexical Structure, Types, Variables, Conversions, Expressions, Statements, Namespaces, Exceptions, Attributes, and Unsafe Code.The second part of the book provides an introduction to and technical specification of the four major new features of C# 2.0: Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Types.

Reference tabs and an exhaustive print index allow readers to easily navigate the text and quickly find the topics that interest them most. An enhanced online index allows readers to quickly and easily search the entire text for specific topics.With the recent acceptance of C# as a standard by both the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ECMA, understanding the C# specification has become critical. The C# Programming Language is the definitive reference for programmers who want to acquire an in-depth knowledge of C#.
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Isaac Amidror, “The Theory of the Moiré Phenomenon: Volume I: Periodic Layers”
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1848821808 | 551 pages | PDF | 24,8 MB

This book presents the most comprehensive and methodical work on the theory of the moiré phenomenon, providing a full general-purpose and application-independent exposition of this fascinating effect. Based on the Fourier theory, it leads the reader through the various phenomena which occur in the superposition of repetitive layers, both in the image and in the spectral domains.

The first chapters of the book present the basic theory, covering the superposition of monochrome, periodic layers. In later chapters, the theory is extended to the even more interesting cases of polychromatic moirés and moirés between repetitive, non-periodic layers. Throughout the whole text the book favours a pictorial, intuitive approach, which is supported by mathematics, and the discussion is accompanied by a large number of figures and illustrative examples.

The prerequisite mathematical background is limited to an elementary familiarity with the Fourier theory.
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Statistical Methods, Second Edition
Publisher: Academic Press | Pages: 673 | 2002-12-23 | ISBN 0122676513 | PDF | 3 MB

This broad text provides a complete overview of most standard statistical methods, including multiple regression, analysis of variance, experimental design, and sampling techniques. Assuming a background of only two years of high school algebra, this book teaches intelligent data analysis and covers the principles of good data collection.

* Provides a complete discussion of analysis of data including estimation, diagnostics, and remedial actions
* Examples contain graphical illustration for ease of interpretation
* Intended for use with almost any statistical software
* Examples are worked to a logical conclusion, including interpretation of results
* A complete Instructor’s Manual is available to adopters

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G. H. Hardy, “A Course Of Pure Mathematics (1921)”
Kessinger Publishing | 2007 | ISBN: 0548641757 | 460 pages | DJVU | 14,5 MB
There can be few textbooks of mathematics as well-known as Hardy’s Pure Mathematics. Since its publication in 1908, it has been a classic work to which successive generations of budding mathematicians have turned at the beginning of their undergraduate courses.

In its pages, Hardy combines the enthusiasm of a missionary with the rigor of a purist in his exposition of the fundamental ideas of the differential and integral calculus, of the properties of infinite series and of other topics involving the notion of limit.
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