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 Najeeb M.A. Rasul, Ian C.F. Stewart, "Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea" English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319994077 | PDF | pages: 788 | 81.2 mb This book gathers invited contributions from active researchers to provide an up-to-date overview of the geological setting of the Red Sea. It discusses aspects ranging from historical information to modern research in the Red Sea, and presents findings from rapidly advancing, emerging fields. This semi-enclosed young ocean basin provides a unique opportunity to study the development of passive continental margins in order to examine the current status of that region. In addition to studies on the Sea itself, it includes those from related fields on the littoral zone. The book is of interest to geoscientists and non-specialists alike.
 From Catastrophe to Power: The Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel By Idith Zertal 1998 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 0520215788 | PDF | 3 MB In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after World War II. Events that captured the attention of the world, such as the Exodus affair in the summer 1947, are seen here in a strikingly new light. At the center of Zertal's book is the Mossad, a small, unorthodox Zionist organization whose mission beginning in 1938 was to bring Jews to Palestine in order to subvert the British quotas on Jewish immigration. From Catastrophe to Power scrutinizes the Mossad's mode of operation, its ideology and politics, its structure and history, and its collective human profile as never before. Zertal's moving story sweeps across four continents and encompasses a range of political cultures and international forces. But underneath this story another darker and more complex Description unfolds: the special encounter between the Zionist revolutionary collective and the mass of Jewish remnant after the Holocaust. According to Zertal, this psychologically painful yet politically powerful encounter was the Zionists' most effective weapon in their struggle for a sovereign Jewish state. Drawing on primary archival documents and new readings of canonical texts of the period, she analyzes this encounter from all anglespolitical, social, cultural, and psychological. The outcome is a gripping and troubling human story of a crucial period in Jewish and Israeli history, one that also provides a key to understanding the fundamental tensions between Israel and the Jewish communities and Israel and the world today.  Ms Lekha Kumar, Dr Anjali Kaushik, "Fresh Fingerprints: Cases of Innovations in Public Service Delivery" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1259061280 | PDF | pages: 257 | 6.4 mb "While the challenges faced in public service delivery are well known, the solutions are not. Innovation and technology have risen to become the fortified spine of the system, with their span and scope widening with each sunset. Such is the power of technology combined with the spark of ideation that the world has become the world we see today from the primeval basics. Fresh Fingerprints acknowledges and documents the innovative initiatives undertaken by the Indian Government, both state and central, leveraging the platform of e-Governance. The 14 projects in the book are the handpicked choices made after a review of almost 1000 e-Governance initiatives from diverse sectors that include education, health, agriculture, tax administration, to name a few. This book analyzes the projects and explores the challenges faced in governance. It demystifies the process of innovation-driven transformations by emphasizing critical dilemmas and opportunities, using real-life examples. Its insightful analyses of the use of strategic innovations in resolving these conflicts, helps formulate a strong and pragmatic approach for ushering transformations in the delivery of public services. It offers authentic data and facts not easily available in the public domain. The unique features the book offers are: * 14 case studies of recognized innovative projects of the Indian Government in a variety of sectors. * Experiences shared directly by the project champions, supported by authentic data not easily available. * Documentation of the inventive spirit of the Government, in its efforts to improve delivery of public services. * Keen and incisive review by experts in the e-Governance domain. A compelling read for policy makers, public administrators, practitioners, social entrepreneurs, academicians and scholars, this book would also be of great value to the e-Governance community at large which believes in the transformative potential of emerging technologies."  Christopher Yeomans, "Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199794529 | PDF | pages: 292 | 1.7 mb There are many insightful discussions of Hegel's practical philosophy that emphasize the uniqueness of his expressivist and social theory of agency, but few recognize that these two aspects of Hegel's theory of the will are insufficient to avoid the traditional problem of free will. In fact, the problem can easily be shown to recur in the very language used to express why Hegel's theory is a theory of freedom at all. In part, this lack of recognition results from the fact that there has not yet been a study of Hegel's theory of the will that has formulated the problem against the background of the contemporary literature on free will, where basic concerns about the explicability of action loom large. By using the continuity between the contemporary concerns and those of Hegel's predecessors (particularly Kant), Yeomans shows the necessity of reference to the Logic in order to supplement Hegel's own practical philosophy and the scholarship based on it. In addition to adding significantly to our understanding of Hegel's theory of agency and recapturing its significance with respect to continuing modern reflection on free will, this study also shows that Hegel's Logic can do some real philosophical work on a specific problem.
 Lenore Skenazy, "Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had without Going Nuts with Worry: Giving Our Kids the Freedom We En" English | ISBN: 0470471948 | 2009 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 515 KB FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your child's everyday life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence.
 Micael Couceiro, "Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization: Applications and Evaluation of an Evolutionary Algorithm " English | ISBN: 3319196340 | 2016 | 88 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB This book examines the bottom-up applicability of swarm intelligence to solving multiple problems, such as curve fitting, image segmentation, and swarm robotics. It compares the capabilities of some of the better-known bio-inspired optimization approaches, especially Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) and the recently proposed Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (FODPSO), and comprehensively discusses their advantages and disadvantages. Further, it demonstrates the superiority and key advantages of using the FODPSO algorithm, such as its ability to provide an improved convergence towards a solution, while avoiding sub-optimality. This book offers a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of robotics, sports science, pattern recognition and machine learning, as well as for students of electrical engineering and computer science.  William Shakespeare, "Four Great Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0671601059 | EPUB | pages: 976 | 6.6 mb [center]  Daniel Veit, Jan Huntgeburth, "Foundations of Digital Government: Leading and Managing in the Digital Era" English | 2013 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 3642385109 | PDF | 1,5 mb Digital government consists in the purposeful use of information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the internet, to transform the relationship between government and society in a positive manner. This book focuses on the current status, prospects and foundations of digital government. Integrating examples and cases from administrative practice, it covers all important aspects of digital government management. Learning outcomes include  FORMIDABLE CHESS STYLES: The BERLIN WALL Style by Alekhine Misak English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B085HPH8PW | 189 pages | PDF | 12 Mb Formidable Chess Styles
 Detlev Richter, "Flash Memories: Economic Principles of Performance, Cost and Reliability Optimization" English | 2013 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 9400760817 | PDF | 10,6 mb The subject of this book is to introduce a model-based quantitative performance indicator methodology applicable for performance, cost and reliability optimization of non-volatile memories. The complex example of flash memories is used to introduce and apply the methodology. It has been developed by the author based on an industrial 2-bit to 4-bit per cell flash development project. For the first time, design and cost aspects of 3D integration of flash memory are treated in this book. |
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