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 Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture By Andy Cohen 2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0805095837 | EPUB | 2 MB The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own television showFrom a young age, Andy Cohen knew one thing: He loved television. Not in the way that most kids do, but in an irrepressible, all-consuming, I-want-to-climb-inside-the-tube kind of way. And climb inside he did. Now presiding over Bravo's reality TV empire, he started out as an overly talkative pop culture obsessive, devoted to Charlie's Angels and All My Children and to his mother, who received daily letters from Andyat summer camp, usually reminding her to tape the soaps. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that everyone didn't know that Andy was gay; still, he remained in the closet until college. Finally out, he embarked on making a career out of his passion for television. The journey begins with Andy interviewing his all-time idol Susan Lucci for his college newspaper and ends with him in a job where he has a hand in creating today's celebrity icons. In the witty, no-holds-barred style of his show Watch What Happens Live, Andy tells tales of absurd mishaps during his ten years at CBS News, hilarious encounters with the heroes and heroines of his youth, and the real stories behind The Real Housewives. Dishy, funny, and full of heart, Most Talkative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of television, from a fan who grew up watching the screen and is now inside it, both making shows and hosting his own.  Matt Massie, Bernard Li, Brad Nicholes, "Monitoring with Ganglia: Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale" English | 2012 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 1449329705 | PDF | 11,8 mb Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x.  Steve Francia, "MongoDB and PHP: Document-Oriented Data for Web Developers" English | 2012 | pages: 76 | ISBN: 1449314368 | PDF | 7,3 mb What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You'd arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.  R. H. Sigward - Modern Self Defense William C. Copp and Associates | 1958 | ISBN: N/A | English | 225 pages | PDF | 145.82 MB Contents:  T. M. Helliwell, "Modern Classical Mechanics" English | ISBN: 1108834973 | 2021 | 704 pages | PDF | 21 MB In this modern and distinctive textbook, Helliwell and Sahakian present classical mechanics as a thriving and contemporary field with strong connections to cutting-edge research topics in physics. Each part of the book concludes with a capstone chapter describing various key topics in quantum mechanics, general relativity, and other areas of modern physics, clearly demonstrating how they relate to advanced classical mechanics, and enabling students to appreciate the central importance of classical mechanics within contemporary fields of research. Numerous and detailed examples are interleaved with theoretical content, illustrating abstract concepts more concretely. Extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter further reinforce students' understanding of key concepts, and provide opportunities for assessment or self-testing. A detailed online solutions manual and lecture slides accompany the text for instructors. Often a flexible approach is required when teaching advanced classical mechanics, and, to facilitate this, the authors have outlined several paths instructors and students can follow through the book, depending on background knowledge and the length of their course.  Modern Analytic Methods for Computing Scattering Amplitudes: With Application to Two-Loop Five-Particle Processes by Simone Zoia English | EPUB | 2022 | 221 Pages | ISBN : 303101944X | 9.6 MB This work presents some essential techniques that constitute the modern strategy for computing scattering amplitudes. It begins with an introductory chapter to fill the gap between a standard QFT course and the latest developments in the field. The author then tackles the main bottleneck: the computation of the loop Feynman integrals. The most efficient technique for their computation is the method of the differential equations.  Modeling and Python Simulation of Magnetics for Power Electronics Applications English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030967670 | 382 Pages | PDF EPUB | 18 MB This book describes the role of magnetism in electrical engineering, starting from the most basic laws of physics, converted into simulation models such that electrical engineering students can learn by example and practice. The author demystifies a topic that many electrical engineers take for granted, providing readers the tools to be able to understand how any magnetic component works. He describes magnetic components like inductors and transformers in simple understandable language. Mathematical equations related to the basic laws of physics are described in detail along with the physical significance of the equations. Every application is supported by a simulation. All simulations are performed using free and open source software based on Python making the material in this book universally accessible.  Jon Lee, Sven Leyffer, "Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming" English | 2011 | pages: 712 | ISBN: 1461419263 | PDF | 6,3 mb Many engineering, operations, and scientific applications include a mixture of discrete and continuous decision variables and nonlinear relationships involving the decision variables that have a pronounced effect on the set of feasible and optimal solutions. Mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems combine the numerical difficulties of handling nonlinear functions with the challenge of optimizing in the context of nonconvex functions and discrete variables. MINLP is one of the most flexible modeling paradigms available for optimization; but because its scope is so broad, in the most general cases it is hopelessly intractable. Nonetheless, an expanding body of researchers and practitioners - including chemical engineers, operations researchers, industrial engineers, mechanical engineers, economists, statisticians, computer scientists, operations managers, and mathematical programmers - are interested in solving large-scale MINLP instances.  Donald Quataert, "Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920" English | 2006 | ISBN: 1845451333, 1845451341 | PDF | pages: 288 | 10.0 mb The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians―most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in these large processes. This book examines such major issues through the actual experiences of coal miners in the Ottoman Empire. The encounters of mine workers with state mining officials and private mine operators do not follow the expected patterns of labor-state-capital relations as predicted by the major explanatory paradigms of modernization or dependency. Indeed, as the author clearly shows, few of the outcomes are as predicted. The fate of these miners has much to offer both Ottoman and Middle East specialists as well as scholars of the developing world and, more generally, those interested in the connections between economic development and social and political change.  Roger R. Jackson, "Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism " English | ISBN: 1614295778 | 2019 | 752 pages | EPUB | 6 MB A definitive study of one of the most important practices in Tibetan Buddhism, with translations of a number of its key texts. |
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