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 Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources) by Sarah Barber 2020 | ISBN: 0815364814, 0815364806 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 21 MB In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis.  Bogdan Belean, "Application-Specific Hardware Architecture Design with VHDL" English | 2017 | ISBN: 3319650238, 3319650246 | 254 pages | True PDF | 3.1 MB This book guides readers through the design of hardware architectures using VHDL for digital communication and image processing applications that require performance computing. Further it includes the description of all the VHDL-related notions, such as language, levels of abstraction, combinational vs. sequential logic, structural and behavioral description, digital circuit design, and finite state machines. It also includes numerous examples to make the concepts presented in text more easily understandable.  Asa Boholm, "Anthropology and Risk " English | ISBN: 0415745632 | 2015 | 190 pages | PDF | 1512 KB Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience. It provides an account of how interpretations of risk in society are conditioned by knowledge claims and cultural assumptions and by the orientationof actors based on roles, norms, expectations, identities, trust and practical rationality within a lived social world. By focusing on agency, social complexity and the production and interpretation of meaning, the book offers a comprehensive and holistic theoretical perspective on risk, based on empirical case studies and ethnographic enquiry.  An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models By Annette J. Dobson; Adrian G Barnett 2018 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 1138741515 | PDF | 4 MB An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, Fourth Editionprovides a cohesive framework for statistical modelling, with an emphasis on numerical and graphical methods. This new edition of a bestseller has been updated with new sections on non-linear associations, strategies for model selection, and a Postface on good statistical practice.Like its predecessor, this edition presents the theoretical background of generalized linear models (GLMs) before focusing on methods for analyzing particular kinds of data. It covers Normal, Poisson, and Binomial distributions; linear regression models; classical estimation and model fitting methods; and frequentist methods of statistical inference. After forming this foundation, the authors explore multiple linear regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA), logistic regression, log-linear models, survival analysis, multilevel modeling, Bayesian models, and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.Introduces GLMs in a way that enables readers to understand the unifying structure that underpins themDiscusses common concepts and principles of advanced GLMs, including nominal and ordinal regression, survival analysis, non-linear associations and longitudinal analysisConnects Bayesian analysis and MCMC methods to fit GLMsContains numerous examples from business, medicine, engineering, and the social sciencesProvides the example code for R, Stata, and WinBUGS to encourage implementation of the methodsOffers the data sets and solutions to the exercises onlineDescribes the components of good statistical practice to improve scientific validity and reproducibility of results.Using popular statistical software programs, this concise and accessible text illustrates practical approaches to estimation, model fitting, and model comparisons.  Amazon Relational Database Service: User Guide by Amazon Web Services English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07647QNMN | 2602 pages | MOBI | 9.55 Mb This is the official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS is a platform for running DB Instances in the cloud. You can create DB instances that run Amazon Aurora, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. This guide explains how to create and manage DB instances.  Amazon Cognito: Developer Guide by Amazon Web Services English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07644VJN7 | 558 pages | MOBI | 2.19 Mb This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Cognito. Amazon Cognito is a service that you can use to sign in users, federate with identity providers, control permissions to access your backend resources, and save mobile user data in the AWS Cloud. This guide provides an overview of Amazon Cognito and includes development instructions for its features.  Hannah Bacon, "Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular" English | ISBN: 1472579941 | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories.  A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval by Daniel Ian Rubin, Faith Agostinone Wilson 2021 | ISBN: 9004499997, 9004500006 | English | 199 pages | PDF | 0.9 MB The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted a chaotic political and social landscape within the United States. Its arrival revealed cracks in longstanding neoliberal narratives. In this book, the authors utilize critical theory to analyze the collapse of these hyper-individualistic narratives within the media, in the broad areas of economics, the nuclear family, and authoritarian populism and through the topics of scapegoating China, capitalist class economic messaging, the essential worker, the family under shutdown, the spread of conspiracy theories, and the ideologies of the COVID-19 protests. The book conclude with commentary on the significance of the George Floyd protests and their connection to the pandemic.
 A Multifaceted Approach to Trade Liberalisation and Investment Protection in the Energy Sector by Elena Cima, Makane Moïse Mbengue 2021 | ISBN: 900446347X | English | 261 pages | PDF | 2 MB In A Multifaceted Approach to Trade Liberalisation and Investment Protection in the Energy Sector, Elena Cima and Makane Moïse Mbengue bring together leading academics and practitioners to discuss the most significant challenges faced by trade liberalization and investment protection in the energy sector. At the same time, they address the environmental and human rights issues that often underlie these challenges, in a skillful attempt to bridge the gap between these different perspectives and ultimately pave the way to a multi-faceted and comprehensive approach to the subject matter.
 A Chef's Book of Favorite Culinary Quotations: An Inspired Collection for Those Who Love to Cook and Those Who Love to Eat by Susi Gott Seguret 2021 | ISBN: 1578268540 | English | 112 pages | EPUB | 0.2 MB A Chef's Book of Favorite Culinary Quotations features over 200 fun and inspirational quotes for anyone who loves to cook, eat, and entertain, or simply loves to dream about all of the above. |
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