Blindfold By John Mikhail Asfour
2011 | 106 Pages | ISBN: 077353847X | PDF | 1 MB
A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the rich and surprising possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, Blindfold relates feelings of loss, displacement, and disorientation experienced not only by the disabled but by everyone who finds themselves separated from the norm. Silver Threads He recalls the absence of sound, the impossible silence the disappearance of light. He is only aware of the movement of his mother's hand inside her purse, looking for her handkerchief. He recalls her warning not to play with unknown objects the type that explode on impact. Later, he lies in the dark remembering how she pointed out the silver threads of the morning light just the day before and he sparkles with guilt.

Black Holes: Going to Extremes by Scientific American Editors
English | July 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 9781948933216 | 180 pages | True EPUB | 4.12 MB
Once dismissed as a mathematical curiosity, black holes are so strange they almost defy belief. Since their existence was confirmed, research into the nature of black holes has opened up new vistas in physics, and in this eBook, we examine some of the most fascinating discoveries about black hole formation and behavior, the new and evolving research in gravitational wave astronomy, theoretical possibilities such as wormholes and much more.

Bioinformatics and Machine Learning for Cancer Biology
by Shibiao Wan, Yiping Fan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9783036548142 | 196 Pages | True PDF | 72 MB

Carlo Di Carlo, "Binomial Family Distribution Examples and Explanations"
English | 2019 | ASIN: B081M6RZGV | EPUB | pages: 36 | 0.9 mb
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Beyond Kant and Nietzsche: The Munich Defence of Christian Humanism By Tracey Rowland
2021 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0567703169 | PDF | 1 MB
The Christian Humanist ideas of six Catholic scholars who were based in Munich during the first half of the 20th century are profiled in this volume. They were all interested in presenting and defending a Christian humanism in the aftermath of German Idealism and the anti-Christian humanism of Friedrich Nietzsche. They were seeking to offer hope to Christians during the darkest years of the Nazi regime and the post-Second World War era of shame, guilt and reconstruction.

Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
2022 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0823299503 | PDF | 10 MB
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin's New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to Western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the United States. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends.Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin's Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular U.S. communities are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century. With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian-American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.

Paul Oyelakin, "Beginners Guide: How to Become a Cyber-Security Analyst:: Phase 2 - Security Engineering and Ethical Hacking"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1791342493 | ASIN: B07L8VPSLV | EPUB | pages: 543 | 28.4 mb
This book teaches you how to install, configure and utilize three popular security tools: SPLUNK, Nessus and Wireshark. After that we will have some fun by performing several hacking techniques. During the ethical hack labs, you will practice Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access and Covering Tracks. This book is designed to cater to beginners that are interested in but are timid about breaking into the field of IT. I counter that apprehension with simplified explanations and mentorship-style language. Rather than providing a list of theories and concepts to memorize, you will gain hands on, true-to-life cyber-security experiences . A WHITEBOARD VIDEO EXPLAINER OF THIS COURSE IS AVAILABLE ON: PJCOURSES.COM. If you're ready, let's get started!

Sean Deveney, "Before Wrigley Became Wrigley: The Inside Story of the First Years of the Cubs? Home Field"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1613216483 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.2 mb
Chicago's Wrigley Field opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park, the new North Side stadium erected for use by the Federal League's Chicago team, which would eventually be called the Whales. It was built in just 50 days, with a rectangular shape in the style of New York's Polo Grounds, designed to fit the odd dimensions of the lot-which formerly housed a seminary school-that Whales owner "Lucky" Charlie Weeghman had purchased with a 99-year lease at a little over $300,000. In all, it took $250,000 and plenty of scrambling to build the park.

Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious by Jane Esselstyn, Ann Crile Esselstyn
English | August 23rd, 2022 | ISBN: 0593328914 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 149.58 MB
The original "Julia Child of plant-based cooking" teams up with her daughter to offer a multigenerational celebration of the power of a plant-based lifestyle-with 125 recipes.

Bayesian Methods for Interaction and Design
English | 2022 | ISBN: 110883499X | 373 Pages | PDF | 66 MB
Intended for researchers and practitioners in interaction design, this book shows how Bayesian models can be brought to bear on problems of interface design and user modelling. It introduces and motivates Bayesian modelling and illustrates how powerful these ideas can be in thinking about human-computer interaction, especially in representing and manipulating uncertainty. Bayesian methods are increasingly practical as computational tools to implement them become more widely available, and offer a principled foundation to reason about interaction design. The book opens with a self-contained tutorial on Bayesian concepts and their practical implementation, tailored for the background and needs of interaction designers. The contributed chapters cover the use of Bayesian probabilistic modelling in a diverse set of applications, including improving pointing-based interfaces; efficient text entry using modern language models; advanced interface design using cutting-edge techniques in Bayesian optimisation; and Bayesian approaches to modelling the cognitive processes of users.

Kevin Revolinski, "Backroads & Byways of Wisconsin"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 168268525X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 134.0 mb
Experience Wisconsin in all its glory―beautiful lakes, gorgeous parks, delicious cheese, and happy people

BUSINESS PANCHTANTRA: 5 SIMPLE WAYS TO TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS by SIJIN B T
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8CCLC6K | 70 pages | MOBI | 0.79 Mb
Sijin B T, the renowned sports management guru, business coach and writer through Business Panchtantra shares 5 simple ways to transform any business. It also teaches some vital management lessons through simple but powerful stories.

Atlas of Non-Gynecologic Cytology by Xin Jing
English | EPUB | 2018 | 306 Pages | ISBN : 3319896733 | 350.09 MB
Cytology is a unique subspecialty in anatomic pathology, and plays a critical role in the diagnosis of a variety of benign and malignant lesions by using minimally invasive procedures, such as fine needle aspiration, brushing, washing and lavage. Cytology not only provides an accurate diagnosis of the lesion based on the cytomorphological evaluation at cellular level, but also provides material for molecular characterization of a tumor for targeted therapy. In the era of personalized medicine, cytology has continued to grow and evolve as an important diagnostic tool. For example, some types of procedures are routinely used, diagnostic criteria have become more refined, and certain terminology has been changed based on current WHO classifications. Therefore, it is necessary to update our knowledge and terminology in cytology.

Asymptotics in Statistics: Some Basic Concepts by Lucien Cam, Grace Yang
English | PDF | 1990 | 189 Pages | ISBN : 1468403796 | 18.5 MB
In the summer of 1968 one of the present authors (LLC) had the pleasure of giving a sequence of lectures at the University of Mon treal. Lecture notes were collected and written out by Drs. Catherine Doleans, Jean Haezendonck and Roch Roy. They were published in French by the Presses of the University of Montreal as part of their series of Seminaires de Mathematiques Superieures. Twenty years later it was decided that a Chinese translation could be useful, but upon prodding by Professor Shanti Gupta at Purdue we concluded that the notes should be updated and rewritten in English and in Chinese.

Erica L. Ball, "As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas"
English | ISBN: 1108493408 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 10 MB
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes - migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation - through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.

Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia Signal Processing
by Byung-Gyu Kim and Dongsan Jun
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9783036549651 | 212 Pages | True PDF | 27.3 MB

Apache Wars: A History from Beginning to End (Native American History) by Hourly History
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B092TCXVDS | 48 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
Discover the remarkable history of the Apache Wars...

Craig E. Stephenson, "Anteros: A Forgotten Myth"
English | 2011 | pages: 174 | ISBN: 0415572312 | PDF | 12,2 mb
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the successive cultural experiences that formed and inform the myth and also how the myth sheds light on individual human experience and the psychoanalytic process.

Analytical Methods for Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern
English | 2022 | ISBN: 111976386X | 417 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
Most contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) -such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, sunscreens, perfluorinated compounds, and microplastics-have been present in the environment for years, yet some have only recently been identified, and many of these organic compounds remain unregulated. Analytical methods have been developed to determine the toxicity and risk of different families of CECs.

An Introduction to the Rasch Model With Examples in R By Rudolf Debelak, Carolin Stobl, Matthew D. Zeigenfuse
2022 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 1032265582 | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides a concise introduction to the topic of the Rasch model, which has become relatively well-known since it was used in the PISA study. In addition to a clear presentation of the underlying theory, the book also offers a practical introduction to fitting Rasch models by means of the freely available statistical software R.

Afred S. Thygesen, "American Mahjong the Complete Guide: Full Guide on American Mahjong; the Winning Strategies, Rules & Settings; Plus How to Play the Game Effectively"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B5PXH322, B0B5KNTNCF | EPUB | pages: 31 | 0.2 mb
American Mahjong the Complete Guide:

Julie Kratz, "Allyship in Action: 10 Practices for Living Inclusively"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1736515926, 1736515950 | ASIN: B09VNT8RDX | EPUB | pages: 204 | 0.7 mb
Allyship in Action

Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math's Least-Loved Subject by G. Arnell Williams
English | August 23rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1541600681 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 18.47 MB
Amathematicianrevealsthehiddenbeauty,power,and-yes-funofalgebra

Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair edited by Robin Dunbar, Kimberley Hockings
English | February 5, 2020 | ISBN: 0198842465 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 7.2 MB
Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a 'social problem' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a 'hedonic' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To understand alcohol use, as a complex social practice that has been exploited by humans for thousands of years, requires cross-disciplinary insight from social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, psychologists, primatologists, and biologists.

Advancing the Legal Status of Women in Islamic Law By Mona Samadi
2021 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 9004446931 | PDF | 3 MB
Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic tradition, with particular focus on guardianship, and describes the opportunities and challenges for advancing the legal status of women.

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2017: 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Harbin, China, September 28-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, Part II By Bing Zeng
English | PDF | 2018 | 1029 Pages | ISBN : 3319773828 | 153.37 MB
The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017.

Advances in Energy Storage: Latest Developments from R&D to the Market
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119239354 | 927 Pages | EPUB (True) | 195 MB
Advances in Energy Storage: Latest Developments from R&D to the Market is a comprehensive exploration of a wide range of energy storage technologies that use the fundamental energy conversion method. The distinguished contributors discuss the foundational principles, common materials, construction, device operation, and system level performance of the technology, as well as real-world applications. The book also includes examinations of the industry standards that apply to energy storage technologies and the commercial status of various kinds of energy storage.

Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics by Luciano Lamberti
English | EPUB | 2018 (2019 Edition) | 260 Pages | ISBN : 3319974807 | 102 MB
Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Acute Abdomen During Pregnancy, Second Edition by Goran Augustin
English | EPUB | 2018 | 853 Pages | ISBN : 3319729942 | 107.4 MB
This is the second edition of a well-received book that reflects the state of the art in diagnosis and treatment of acute abdominal disorders in the pregnant patient. It addresses a wide range of conditions - whether associated with or incidental to pregnancy - ranging from very rare to more common ones, such as acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis.

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, "Accelerated Life Testing of One-shot Devices: Data Collection and Analysis"
English | ISBN: 1119664004 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Provides authoritative guidance on statistical analysis techniques and inferential methods for one-shot device life-testing