David C. Bellusci, "Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9042036869 | PDF | pages: 188 | 1.8 mb
Amor Dei, "love of God" raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God's love. The work begins with Augustine's Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine's confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God's love and free will. In the sixteenth-century the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini introduces the notion of "divine amplitude" to demonstrate how God's goodness is manifested in the human agent. Pierre de BГ©rulle, Guillaume Gibieuf, and Nicolas Malebranche show connections with Contarini in the seventeenth-century controversies relating free will and divine love. In response to the free will dispute, the Scottish philosopher, William Chalmers, offers his solution. Cornelius Jansen relentlessly asserts his anti-Pelagian interpretation of Augustine stirring up more controversy. John Norris, Malebranche's English disciple, exchanges his views with Mary Astell and Damaris Masham. In the tradition of Cambridge Platonism, Ralph Cudworth conveys a God who "sweetly governs." The organization of sections represents the love of God in ascending-descending movements demonstrating that, "human love is inseparable from divine love."

Jere Longman, "Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0060099097, 0060099089 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"A powerful reconstruction of the flight's final moments. . . . Made me think of John Hersey's Hiroshima." - New York Times Book Review

Ben Carson M.D., Candy Carson, "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0310341981, 0310346223 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 2.1 mb
What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? Join Dr. Ben Carson as he explores what made this nation great and discovers how we can find our way back.

Paul Kamolnick, "Al Qaeda & the Islamic State"
English | ISBN: 1544917708 | 2017 | 342 pages | EPUB | 1467 KB
The al-Qaeda Organization (AQO) and the Islamic State Organization (ISO) are transnational adversaries that conduct terrorism in the name of Sunni Islam. It is declared U.S. Government (USG) policy to degrade, defeat, and destroy them. The present book has been written to assist policymakers, military planners, strategists, and professional military educators whose mission demands a deep understanding of strategically-relevant differences between these two transnational terrorist entities. In it, one shall find a careful comparative analysis across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and specific implications and recommendations for current USG policy and strategy. Key questions that are addressed include: How is each terrorist entity related historically and doctrinally to the broader phenomenon of transnational Sunni "jihadism"? What is the exact nature of the ISO? How, if at all, does ISO differ in strategically relevant ways from AQO? What doctrinal differences essentially define these entities? How does each understand and operationalize strategy? What critical requirements and vulnerabilities characterize each entity? Finally, what implications, recommendations, and proposals are advanced that are of particular interest to USG strategists and professional military educators?

Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis "
English | ISBN: 036734923X | 2019 | 196 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
How has 'agency' - or the ability to define and act upon one's goals - contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the potential of a society to generate economic growth and improve its institutions.

Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Usability and User Experience, Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design, and Human Factors and Assistive Technology, July 25-29, 2021, USA by Tareq Z. Ahram
English | EPUB | 2021 | 1165 Pages | ISBN : 3030800903 | 167.5 MB
This book addresses emerging issues in usability, interface design, human-computer interaction, user experience and assistive technology. It highlights research aimed at understanding human interactions with products, services and systems and focuses on finding effective approaches for improving the user experience

Advances in Digital Forensics XVIII: 18th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference, Virtual Event, January 3-4, 2022, Revised Selected Papers by Gilbert Peterson
English | PDF | 2022 | 209 Pages | ISBN : 3031100778 | 10 MB
Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Computer networks, cloud computing, smartphones, embedded devices and the Internet of Things have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence in legal proceedings. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications; furthermore, it has a vital role in cyber security - investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure and resilient systems.

Advances in Automation II: Proceedings of the International Russian Automation Conference, RusAutoConf2020, September 6-12, 2020, Sochi, Russia by Andrey A. Radionov
English | EPUB | 2021 | 1008 Pages | ISBN : 3030711188 | 114 MB
This book reports on innovative research and developments in automation. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, including communication engineering, power engineering, control engineering, instrumentation, signal processing and cybersecurity, it focuses on methods and findings aimed at improving the control and monitoring of industrial and manufacturing processes as well as safety.

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series By Shanglei Li, Anish Poudel (auth.), Helena Jin, Cesar Sciammarella, Sanichiro Yoshida, Luciano Lamberti (eds.)
2014 | 387 Pages | ISBN: 331900767X | PDF | 19 MB
Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of optical methods ranging from traditional photoelasticity and interferometry to more recent DIC and DVC techniques, and includes papers in the following general technical research areas: Optical metrology and displacement measurements at different scales Digital holography and experimental mechanics Optical measurement systems using polarized light Surface topology Digital image correlation Optical methods for MEMS and NEMSThree-dimensional imaging and volumetric correlation Imaging methods for thermomechanics applications3D volumetric flow measurement Applied photoelasticityOptical residual stress measurement techniquesAdvances in imaging technologies

Advanced Python Programming:
Accelerate your Python programs using proven techniques and design patterns, 2nd Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801814015 | 795 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB

Advanced Earthquake Engineering Analysis by Alain Pecker
English | PDF(True) | 2007 | 218 Pages | ISBN : 3211742131 | 4.8 MB
During the last decade, the state of the art in Earthquake Engineering Design and Analysis has made significant steps towards a more rationale analysis of structures. Scientists have long recognized that earthquake design is guided by displacements and deformations rather than forces. However due to the historical background of structural engineers in static analyses, effects of earthquake on structures have been viewed as forces acting on the structures.