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 Reviews in Plasmonics 2017 by Chris D. Geddes English | PDF | 2019 | 323 Pages | ISBN : 3030188337 | 18.3 MB Reviews in Plasmonics is a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines. It summarizes the years progress in Plasmonics and its applications, with authoritative analytical reviews specialized enough to be attractive to professional researchers, yet also appealing to the wider audience of scientists in related disciplines of Plasmonics.
 Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, "Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate" English | ISBN: 1138331465 | 2019 | 242 pages | PDF | 4 MB Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts situates and problematizes identity interaction, campus life, student experiences, and the effectiveness of services, programs, and policies affecting LGBTQIA college students at both two- and four-year institutions. This volume draws from intersectional and critical perspectives to explore the complex ways in which LGBTQIA identities are shaped, discussed, and researched in higher education spaces. Chapters provide student affairs and higher education scholars with theory and practice perspectives on sociopolitical and historical contexts, student learning and development, support services, and explore how higher education reflects society's pervasive stereotypes and lack of awareness of LGBTQIA students' identity development and needs.  Reformulation as a Strategy for Developing Healthier Food Products: Challenges, Recent Developments and Future Prospects by Vassilios Raikos English | PDF | 2019 | 318 Pages | ISBN : 303023620X | 5.2 MB This work introduces the concept of reformulation, a relatively new strategy to develop foods with beneficial properties. Food reformulation by definition is the act of re-designing an existing, often popular, processed food product with the primary objective of making it healthier. In recent years the concept of food reformulation has evolved significantly as additional benefits of re-designing food have become apparent.  Recent Developments on Industrial Control Systems Resilience by Emil Pricop English | PDF | 2019 | 333 Pages | ISBN : 3030313271 | 13.4 MB This book provides profound insights into industrial control system resilience, exploring fundamental and advanced topics and including practical examples and scenarios to support the theoretical approaches. It examines issues related to the safe operation of control systems, risk analysis and assessment, use of attack graphs to evaluate the resiliency of control systems, preventive maintenance, and malware detection and analysis. The book also discusses sensor networks and Internet of Things devices.
 React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices: Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications using industry-standard practices, 3rd Edition English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800560443 | 394 Pages | PDF EPUB MOBI | 85 MB  Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019: Volume 1 by Kohei Arai English | PDF | 2019 | 1080 Pages | ISBN : 3030325199 | 93.3 MB This book presents state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems and offers a vision of future research. Featuring 143 papers from the 4th Future Technologies Conference, held in San Francisco, USA, in 2019, it covers a wide range of important topics, including, but not limited to, computing, electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, security and communications and their applications to the real world.
 Prester John: The History of the Legendary Patriarch and His Fabled Christian Kingdom in Africa by Charles River Editors English | March 27, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07Q46BGRP | 71 pages | EPUB | 2.55 Mb *Includes pictures
 Pornography, Ideology, and the Internet: A Japanese Adult Video Actress in Mainland China By Mei Zhang 2018 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 1498560881 | EPUB | 9 MB This book starts from the discussion of a pornography, but does not end with pornography. Rather, it suggests that a pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product which obtains rich cultural meanings. It contributes to the debate between the global homogenization paradigm and the creolization paradigm which predominates in multiple disciplines, through a thorough examination of the entire process of the cross-cultural migration of Aoi Sola, a Japanese adult video (AV) actress who has achieved amazing popularity in mainland China since 2010. Through fifteen-month participant observation inside the two Chinese agencies of Sola, this study reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of the cultural product in the Chinese context, even though their operations are usually invisible to outsiders. The findings challenge the conventional scholarly assumption that foreign products produced by global producers are consumed "directly" by local consumers or that the significance of these intermediaries can be ignored. This study further extends the participant observation inside the realistic field to the virtual space of media in different countries, which can be called the second field. It demonstrates that multiple local groups, including intermediaries, Chinese commercial news portals, Party media, and Chinese Internet users, respond to the dominant ideologies in Chinese society by reinterpreting Sola in different, even contradictory, ways. Thus, this research refutes the presumption that a local society is a coherent monolith in the acceptance of foreign cultural products. The book also deepens the reader's understanding of Chinese Internet usage.  Piano Guides for Beginners: Learn to Play Piano Step by Step: Piano Guide Book by Mr FOUNTAIN KERDESUA English | July 17, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B099BWTB3J | 81 pages | EPUB | 7.61 Mb You want to learn piano, but don't know where to start?  Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity By Walter Bauer 1996 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0962364274 | PDF | 2 MB Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy & Heresy has established itself as a classic refutation of the "myth" that "in the beginning" orthodoxy was there first & heresy was a deviation from the norm. Whatever one thinks of the thesis, one cannot bypass Bauer on early heresy any more that one can bypass Bultmann on Form Criticism or Harnack on the development of dogma. Today, it remains a good introduction to Christianity at the end of the 1st century & the beginning of the 2nd century.--Gerald Christianson, Church History, Gettysburg Lutheran SeminaryThis brilliant & pioneering monograph inaugurated a new era of scholarship in the study of the New Testament & Christian origins, especially in America. It argued that early Christianity did not begin with a unified orthodox belief, from which heresies broke off at a later time. Rather, Bauer demonstrated that diversity stood at the beginning, while an orthodox church emerged only after long controversies during the early centuries. During recent decades, the investigation of newly discovered texts, such as the Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, have fully confirmed Bauer's insights. There may be numerous details, which scholars today would see differently than Walter Bauer, whose word was 1st published in Germany 60 years ago. Nevertheless, Bauer's book has remained the foundation for all modern scholarship in this field, & it's must-reading for all who want to explore early Christian Communities. It's still challenging, fresh, fascinating & thought-provoking--without any question one of the truly great masterpieces of New Testament scholarship.--Helmut Koester,New Testament Studies & Ancient Church History, Harvard Divinity School |
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