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 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" English | ISBN: 080717176X | 2020 | 312 pages | MOBI | 2 MB In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," "mixed-bloods," or simply "free people of color." From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted―praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors.  V Kishore Ayyadevara, "Neural Networks with Keras Cookbook: Over 70 recipes leveraging deep learning techniques across image, text, audio, and game bots" English | 2019 | pages: 568 | ISBN: 1789346649 | EPUB | 25,2 mb Implement neural network architectures by building them from scratch for multiple real-world applications.  Mieke Bal, "Narratology in Practice" English | ISBN: 1442650362 | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which the examples focus almost exclusively on literary studies, this new book offers more elaborate analyses of visual media, especially visual art and film. Read independently or in parallel withits companion, enables readers to use the suggested concepts as tools to assist them in practising narrative analysis.  Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811674825 | 499 Pages | PDF | 12 MB This book provides an overview of the use of nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications. This book explains the chemical and physical properties of the surface of these materials that allow their use in diagnosis, biosensing and bioimaging devices, drug delivery systems, and bone substitute implants. The toxicology of these particles is also discussed in the light of a new field referred to as nanotoxicology in this book. This book will be useful for engineers, researchers and industry professionals primarily in the fields of polymer science and engineering, materials science, surface science, nanocatalysis, biotechnology and biomedicine.  Nanostructured Biomaterials: Basic Structures and Applications English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811683980 | 460 Pages | PDF | 14 MB This book presents recent advances in nanostructured biomaterials. It covers the structures and applications of advanced nanostructured biomaterials. The topics covered include overview on biological activities of thiazole derivatives, imidazole derivatives, pyrazole derivatives, tetrazole derivatives, benzimidazole derivatives, oxazole, isoxazoles, etc. The book also covers the topic of nanocarriers as drug delivery vectors. Given the contents, the book will be useful for students, researchers and professionals working in the area of biomaterials and nanomaterials.  Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife: The Pleasures and Risks of Adaptation By Ewa Mazierska 2010 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0786445432 | PDF | 2 MB This book offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over ten books adapted for cinema), his works are full of quirky and forbidden romance, and his writing is renowned for its cinematic qualities (e.g., frames, stage directions, and descriptions suggesting specific camera positions and movements). Films discussed include Lolita (both Kubrick's 1962 and Lyne's 1997 versions), Richardson's Laughter in the Dark (1969), Skolimowski's King, Queen, Knave (1972), Fassbinder's Despair (1978), Foulon's Mademoiselle O (1994), Kuik's An Affair of Honor (1999), Gorris' The Luzhin Defence (2000), and Rohmer's The Triple Agent (2004). A final chapter discusses similarities between Nabokov and Jean-Luc Godard.
 NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet by Piers Bizony English | March 8th, 2022 | ISBN: 0760373140 | 205 pages | True PDF | 86.77 MB Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 x 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps toward the fourth planet to the 2021 landing of rover Perseverance and beyond.  Blair Davis, "Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page" English | ISBN: 0813572266 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 27 MB As Christopher Nolan's Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the "comic book movie" is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own.  Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland: Searching for Home by Erik Smalhout English | ISBN: 149683920X | 280 pages | EPUB | March 10, 2022 | 10 Mb Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout's father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister's life forever. Serendipity followed him through induction in the WWII Dutch military, his postwar service on merchant ships circling the globe, and eventually to the most southern place on earth: the Mississippi Delta.  Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic By Thomas Waugh, Jason Garrison 2010 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1551523647 | PDF | 3 MB A Queer Film Classic: this brilliant 1974 Canadian cinema verité film, set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed at its Whitney Museum debut, is a fascinating take on social mores and relationships in the 1970s and a twentysomething photographer's attraction for the teenaged son of acquaintances. |
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