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 Manuel DeLanda, "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy " English | ISBN: 1780937997 | 2013 | 248 pages | PDF | 1446 KB First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory and chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of a scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence.  Integrated Procedures in Facial Cosmetic Surgery by Seied Omid Keyhan English | PDF | 2021 | 975 Pages | ISBN : 3030469921 | 145 MB Physical attractiveness of the face has a significant impact on the social life and daily interaction of individuals as well as one's general perception of life. Proper surgical planning for aesthetic facial surgery requires a meticulous analysis of the patient's current and desired facial features from the perspective of both soft and hard tissues. Significantly greater changes to facial aesthetics can be made via the alteration of the main bony structures of the face than by alteration of soft tissue and skin alone. Various surgical and clinical techniques are available for the augmentation, reduction or refinement of the most prominent aspects of facial aesthetics, such as alterations to the cheek, chin, nose, para-nasal area, as well as the angle of the jaw.
 Inorganic Radicals, Metal Complexes and Nonconjugated Carbon Centered Radicals. Part 2 By H. Fischer (auth.), H. Fischer (eds.) 2006 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 3540432779 | PDF | 3 MB Volume II/26 supplements the previous compilations II/l, II/9 and II/17 of the magnetic properties of free radicals. Due to the still rapid growth of the field and the necessary inclusion of new subjects the volume is divided into subvolumes which will appear in fast succession. Together with the earlier publications volume II/26 offers an up-to-date and comprehensive survey and collection of structures and data on the important chemical intermediates, namely radicals, polyradicals and related species such as carbenes. As before the species have been grouped according to chemical aspects. For each group of substances the literature has been compiled and extracted by experts in the fields. For the reader's convenience an index of substances follows in the last subvolume.  Brian Hayes, "Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0393349837 | 568 pages | PDF | 137.9 MB "Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book." ―Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American  Charles Kupfer, "Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway" English | ISBN: 0826410685 | 2012 | 456 pages | PDF | 15 MB Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American people faced a barrage of bad news and accounts of defeats and retreats. Yet if they were shocked and dismayed, they showed little panic.
 Indoctrination to Hate: Recruitment Techniques of Hate Groups and How to Stop Them by Edward W. Dunbar 2022 | ISBN: 1440857008 | English | 351 pages | PDF | 23 MB This book details the solicitation and indoctrination of members into extremist hate groups. Using theoretical, empirical, and field studies, experts explain the psychological processes of bias formation, hate identity, and the stages of extremism, and detail first-person accounts of hate group membership and critical incidents of hate violence. Contributors draw significantly upon the current wave of reactionary political and racial intolerance witnessed in the United States and Europe in addressing specific groups and forms of hate extremism as found across different cultural and geographic regions.  Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History by Lisa Trever 2022 | ISBN: 1477324275, 1477324267 | English | 344 pages | PDF | 92 MB Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of "archaeo art history" to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology.
 ICAOS '96: 12th International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems Images, Wavelets and PDEs Paris, June 26-28, 1996 By Luis Alvarez (auth.), Dr. Marie-Odile Berger, Dr. Rachid Deriche, Dr. Isabelle Herlin, Dr. Jérome Jaffré, Professor Jean-Michel Morel (eds.) 1996 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 3540760768 | PDF | 28 MB This volume contains the proceedings of ICAOS '96 the 12th International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems. This conference was co-organized by INRIA and the CEREMADE and was dedicated to Images, Wavelets and PDE's. The aim of the conference was to discuss the impact on image analysis of recent mathematical developments in multiscale analysis, partial differential equations, variational methods and so on. ICAOS '96 provided a forum for image processing researchers and mathematicians to interact and to exchange their technical knowledge and experience, theoretical or practical, in this emerging and exciting domain. The selected papers have been organized according to the following sessions, each session corresponding to a section of the book: 1. Active Contours; 2. Image Enhancement and Restoration, Scale-Spaces; 3. Wavelets; 4. Image Segmentation; 5. Image Restoration; 6. Coding; 7. Applications.
 Human Perception of Visual Information : Psychological and Computational Perspectives by Bogdan Ionescu English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 297 Pages | ISBN : 3030814645 | 32.2 MB Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions. Concurrently, computational models of objective visual properties such as semantic labelling and geometric relationships have made significant breakthroughs using the latest achievements in machine learning and large-scale data collection. There has also been limited but important work exploiting these breakthroughs to improve computational modelling of subjective visual properties. The time is ripe to explore how advances in both of these fields of study can be mutually enriching and lead to further progress.  Human Fungal Pathogens By 2014 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 3642394310 | PDF | 7 MB Whereas plant and insect infections are commonly caused by fungi, only a small minority of the vast diversity of fungal species is pathogenic to humans. Despite this, fungal infections cause considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. This volume is dedicated to the biology, clinical presentation and management of invasive fungal infections. Major pathogenic fungi are introduced by world-leading experts and the basic principles of fungal virulence are reviewed in the light of new results and experimental technologies that offer unprecedented insights into invasive infections caused by Aspergillus, Candida, Cryptococcus, Pneumocystis and Mucorales. In parallel, the clinical presentation of invasive fungal infections and current approaches to their diagnosis and treatment are summarized to provide an overview of human pathogenic fungi, linking pathogen biology to the clinical presentation of disease. |
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