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 Sport and Brexit: Regulatory Challenges and Legacies (Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management) by Jacob Kornbeck 2022 | ISBN: 036775519X | English | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB This is the first book to investigate the significance of Brexit for sport, with a particular focus on the regulatory and legal challenges that it poses, and the economic and political stresses that are likely to follow in its wake.  Speaking Management: How to Spot Language Traps and Resolve Contested Management Terms English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811622124 | 572 Pages | PDF EPUB | 8 MB This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications of this method are given throughout.  Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial By Kenji Yoshino 2015 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0385348800 | EPUB | 1 MB A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry,the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equalitySpeak Nowtells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage in our most populous state. A trial that interrogated the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the ability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. A trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equality this nation has ever seen. In telling the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the groundbreaking federal lawsuit against Proposition 8, Kenji Yoshino has also written a paean to the vanishing civil trial--an oasis of rationality in what is often a decidedly uncivil debate. Above all, this book is a work of deep humanity, in which Yoshino brings abstract legal arguments to life by sharing his own story of finding love, marrying, and having children as a gay man. Intellectually rigorous and profoundly compassionate, Speak Now will stand as the definitive account of a landmark civil-rights trial.  Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish (Hugo in 3 Months) by DK English | April 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 0744051649, 0241537428 | 258 pages | True PDF | 11.53 MB Learn to speak Spanish in just three months with this practical and comprehensive self-study language course.  Cory Peyton Graff & Patrick Thomas Devine, "Southern California's World War II Aircraft" English | 2016 | ISBN: 146712446X | EPUB | pages: 128 | 37.3 mb The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego were boomtowns during World War II. California aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. An astounding 41 percent of all US warplanes came from California drawing boards during the war. These planes saw combat service everywhere-from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen tundra of Alaska. Southern California planes were the first to bomb Japan. They turned the tide at the Battle of Midway and dropped paratroopers behind enemy lines on D-Day. They flew tons of fuel, ammunition, and supplies over the treacherous Himalayan Mountains, relentlessly hounded enemy submarines and ships, and helped smash Nazi Germany's war-making industry with "thousand plane raids."  Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds By Jean-François Augoyard (editor), Henri Torgue (editor) 2005 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0773525483 | PDF | 2 MB In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-François Augoyard, Henry Torgue, and their associates at the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment (CRESSON) in Grenoble, France, provide an alphabetical sourcebook of eighty sonic/auditory effects. Their accounts of sonic effects such as echo, anticipation, vibrato, and wha-wha integrate information about the objective physical spaces in which sounds occur with cultural contexts and individual auditory experience. Sonic Experience attempts to rehabilitate general acoustic awareness, combining accessible definitions and literary examples with more in-depth technical information for specialists.  Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030670104 | 257 Pages | PDF EPUB | 35 MB This edited book presents scientific results of the 21st ACIS International Winter Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2021-Winter) which was held on January 28-30, at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The aim of this conference was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, computer users, and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science and to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and information in a meaningful way and research results about all aspects (theory, applications, and tools) of computer and information science, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them.  Sobolev Maps to the Circle: From the Perspective of Analysis, Geometry, and Topology English | 2021 | ISBN: 1071615106 | 561 Pages | PDF EPUB | 65 MB The theory of real-valued Sobolev functions is a classical part of analysis and has a wide range of applications in pure and applied mathematics. By contrast, the study of manifold-valued Sobolev maps is relatively new. The incentive to explore these spaces arose in the last forty years from geometry and physics. This monograph is the first to provide a unified, comprehensive treatment of Sobolev maps to the circle, presenting numerous results obtained by the authors and others. Many surprising connections to other areas of mathematics are explored, including the Monge-Kantorovich theory in optimal transport, items in geometric measure theory, Fourier series, and non-local functionals occurring, for example, as denoising filters in image processing. Numerous digressions provide a glimpse of the theory of sphere-valued Sobolev maps.  Smart Structures in Energy Infrastructure: Proceedings of ICRTE 2021, Volume 2 English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811647437 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB | 47 MB This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Renewable Technologies in Engineering (ICRTE 2021) organized by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India, during 15-16 April 2021. The book includes conference papers on the theme "Computational Techniques for Renewable Energy Optimization", which aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of renewable energy integration, planning, control and optimization. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of smart structures in energy infrastructure.  Pauline McGovern, "Small Voluntary Organisations in the 'Age of Austerity': Funding Challenges and Opportunities" English | 2016 | pages: 127 | ISBN: 1137521864 | PDF | 4,6 mb This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK. Using Bourdieu's later work on state power, the author argues that these competitions for grants, loans and contracts are neoliberal funding 'games'. Such games tempt grassroots organisations, she demonstrates, not just because they provide funding but because they confer a symbolic profit by defining the 'winner' and improving status. Taking part in these neoliberal funding games, however, can adversely affect the structure and development path of these organisations. Yet her conclusion is upbeat, focusing on the opportunities as well as the challenges that neoliberalism offers grassroots organisations in recompense for the moral weight that they hold within state discourse. Within supportive coalitions and with a robust evidence base that re-politicises neoliberal orthodoxy, in fact, they can choose to negotiate alternative futures within state policy or to withdraw from these funding games altogether. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and researchers of sociology and social policy, along with scholars of Bourdieu, civil society and the voluntary sector. |
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