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 Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte English | ISBN: 0961392177 | 2006 | PDF | 196 pages | 26 mb "Science and art," according to Tufte, "have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information." This book is about how that seeing turns into showing.  R. Muthusubramanian, "Basic Electrical And Electronics Engineering" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0070146128 | PDF | pages: 627 | 30.2 mb [center]  M. Waltz, "Autism: A Social and Medical History" English | 2013 | pages: 199 | ISBN: 0230527507 | PDF | 1,0 mb This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends. Exploring the individuals and events in the history of this condition, Waltz blends research and personal perspectives to examine social narratives of normalcy, disability and difference.  Gérard Bailly, Pascal Perrier, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, "Audiovisual Speech Processing" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1107006821 | PDF | pages: 508 | 9.4 mb When we speak, we configure the vocal tract which shapes the visible motions of the face and the patterning of the audible speech acoustics. Similarly, we use these visible and audible behaviors to perceive speech. This book showcases a broad range of research investigating how these two types of signals are used in spoken communication, how they interact, and how they can be used to enhance the realistic synthesis and recognition of audible and visible speech. The volume begins by addressing two important questions about human audio-visual performance: how auditory and visual signals combine to access the mental lexicon and where in the brain this and related processes take place. It then turns to the production and perception of multimodal speech and how structures are coordinated within and across the two modalities. Finally, the book presents overviews and recent developments in machine-based speech recognition and synthesis of AV speech.  Atlas of Dentistry in Cats and Dogs by Markus Eickhoff 2020 | ISBN: 3132432822 | English | 468 pages | PDF | 63.5 MB Dentistry at its finest  Atlas of Adolescent Dermatology by Patricia Treadwell English | PDF | 2021 | 112 Pages | ISBN : 3030586332 | 7.8 MB Valuable to dermatologists, adolescent medicine specialists, family medicine practitioners, and primary care physicians, the Atlas of Adolescent Dermatology presents a concise and practical guide to the diagnosis and management of adolescent skin diseases. Each chapter follows a similar format, to assist in ease of reference, and contains information on diagnosis and management. The various chapters include conditions such as Acne, Seborrheic Dermatitis, Eczema, Scabies, Contact Dermatitis, and selected Genodermatoses.
 Juan Carlos Oyanedel, "Assessing Judicial Reforms in Developing Countries: Trust in Law and Criminal Procedure Reform in Chile" English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030142477 | PDF | pages: 177 | 3.4 mb This book examines how judicial reform can be effectively assessed through a procedural justice approach. It provides a practical framework for assessment of judicial reform, examining a successful reform in Chile through large scale surveys and longitudinal research.
 Ingeborg Reichle, Gloria Custance, Robert Zwijnenberg, "Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art" English | 2009 | pages: 442 | ISBN: 3211781609 | PDF | 22,3 mb Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book fascinating responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific and technological advances. In the last two decades a growing number of artists has left the traditional artistic playground to work instead in scientific contexts such as the laboratories of molecular biology, robotics, and artificial life. New art forms like "Transgenic Art" and "Bio-Art" have emerged from the laboratory. These art forms differ dramatically from traditional artistic approaches that explore the natural: they have crossed the boundaries between the artificial and the natural, and thus provoke passionate debates about the growing influence of science and technology. This first comprehensive survey presents a well-selected number of significant artworks and with over 280 colour illustrations provides a broad overview of this new and relevant development in art.  Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 By Stephen Kotkin 2003 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0195168941 | PDF | 4 MB In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, without global conflagration. In this brilliantly compact, original, engaging book, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for ''socialism with a human face.'' The neo-liberal reforms in post-Soviet Russia never took place, nor could they have, given the Soviet-era inheritance in the social, political, and economic landscape. Kotkin takes us deep into post-Stalin Soviet society and institutions, into the everyday hopes and secret political intrigues that affected 285 million people, before and after 1991. He conveys the high drama of a superpower falling apart while armed to the teeth with millions of loyal troops and tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. Armageddon Averted vividly demonstrates the overriding importance of history, individual ambition, geopolitics, and institutions, and deftly draws out contemporary Russia's contradictory predicament.
 Anthony Celano, "Aristotle's Ethics and Medieval Philosophy: Moral Goodness and Practical Wisdom" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1107134854 | PDF | pages: 276 | 7.1 mb Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. In this book, Anthony Celano explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals. He argues that the moral standard for the Ethics is a human one, which is based upon the ethical tradition and the best practices of a given society. In the Middle Ages, this human standard was replaced by one that is universally applicable, since its foundation is eternal immutable divine law. Celano resolves the conflicting accounts of happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, demonstrates the importance of the virtue of phronesis (practical wisdom), and shows how the medieval view of moral reasoning alters Aristotle's concept of moral wisdom. |
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