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 Neuroscience Data in the Cloud : Opportunities and Challenges: Proceedings of a Workshop by The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine  Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent By Alberto A. Martinez 2005 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0691123098 | PDF | 3 MB A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded though it may seem?Few books in the field of mathematics encourage such creative thinking. Fewer still are engagingly written and fun to read. This book succeeds on both counts. Alberto Martinez shows us how many of the mathematical concepts that we take for granted were once considered contrived, imaginary, absurd, or just plain wrong. Even today, he writes, not all parts of math correspond to things, relations, or operations that we can actually observe or carry out in everyday life.Negative Math ponders such issues by exploring controversies in the history of numbers, especially the so-called negative and "impossible" numbers. It uses history, puzzles, and lively debates to demonstrate how it is still possible to devise new artificial systems of mathematical rules. In fact, the book contends, departures from traditional rules can even be the basis for new applications. For example, by using an algebra in which minus times minus makes minus, mathematicians can describe curves or trajectories that are not represented by traditional coordinate geometry.Clear and accessible, Negative Math expects from its readers only a passing acquaintance with basic high school algebra. It will prove pleasurable reading not only for those who enjoy popular math, but also for historians, philosophers, and educators.Key Features?Uses history, puzzles, and lively debates to devise new mathematical systemsShows how departures from rules can underlie new practical applicationsClear and accessibleRequires a background only in basic high school algebra  Natural Surfactants: Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030785475 | 51 Pages | PDF | 2 MB This book focuses on the use of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, providing an overview of surfactants, their types, and different physical-chemical properties used to analyse the efficiency of surfactants.  Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir By Cherríe L. Moraga 2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0374219664 | EPUB | 3 MB From the celebrated editor ofThis Bridge Called My Back, Cherre Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.Native Country of the Heart: AMemoiris, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherre Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother's journey--from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer's--she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother's memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss.Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma,Native Country of the Heartis a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.  Mosul after Islamic State: The Quest for Lost Architectural Heritage by Karel Nováček English | PDF | 2021 | 379 Pages | ISBN : 3030626350 | 14.3 MB The book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul's urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.  Mobility Makes States: Migration and Power in Africa By Vigneswaran, D.;Quirk, J. 2015 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 0812247116 | PDF | 3 MB Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how African states have sought to harness these movements toward their own ends.While border control and intercontinental migration policies remain important topics of study, Mobility Makes States demonstrates that immigration control is best understood alongside parallel efforts by states in Africa to promote both long-distance and everyday movements. The contributors challenge the image of a fixed and static state that is concerned only with stopping foreign migrants at its border, and show that the politics of mobility takes place across a wide range of locations, including colonial hinterlands, workplaces, camps, foreign countries, and city streets. They examine short-term and circular migrations, everyday commuting and urban expansion, forced migrations, emigrations, diasporic communities, and the mobility of gatekeepers and officers of the state who push and pull migrant populations in different directions. Through the experiences and trajectories of migration in sub-Saharan Africa, this empirically rich volume sheds new light on larger global patterns and state making processes.Contributors: Eric Allina, Oliver Bakewell, Pamila Gupta, Nauja Kleist, Loren B. Landau, Joel Quirk, Benedetta Rossi, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Simon Turner, Darshan Vigneswaran.  Julian Templeman, "Microsoft Visual C++/CLI Step by Step" English | 2013 | ISBN: 0735675171 | EPUB | pages: 540 | 4.1 mb Your hands-on guide to Visual C++/CLI fundamentals  Itzik Ben-Gan, "Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals" English | 2012 | ISBN: 0735658145 | PDF | pages: 442 | 6.1 mb Gain a solid understanding of T-SQL-and write better queries
 Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully; How to Help the Comprehend, Cope and Connect Way; First Edition by Isabel Clarke English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367533669 | 191 pages | True PDF | 8.32 MB  Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News by Schiffrin, Anya; English | 2021 | ISBN: 0231188838 | 326 pages | True PDF | 6.13 MB |
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