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 Moha Ennaji, "Managing Cultural Diversity in the Mediterranean Region" English | ISBN: 1527549046 | 2020 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book highlights the various cultures and religions of Mediterranean countries, and discusses issues related to managing diversity and minority rights, and the role of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. It centers on the interconnectedness between culture, politics, religion, gender, race, migration, and language. To promote a fruitful exchange, the volume considers approaches that integrate social, economic, cultural, religious and political dimensions, and surveys the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of multiculturalism. The contributions gathered here also debate issues relating to history, modernity, cultural specificities of the region, and their role in the consolidation of peace, democracy, social justice, and development. The book uses an analytic framework coupled with a synthetic method, while providing a roadmap to achieve a better management of pluralism in the Mediterranean area, which will help different populations to live together in harmony and to continue their battle for broadmindedness, acceptance, and coexistence.  Melody Beattie, "Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1439102163, 1439102155 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.8 mb A simple practice taking ten minutes a day that will transform you and your life  Mainstream Polygamy: The Non-Marital Child Paradox In The West By Dominique Legros (auth.) 2014 | 113 Pages | ISBN: 1461483069 | PDF | 2 MB This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a system imposing universal monogamy and generating annual cohorts of illegitimate children. Then, the essay considers the case of France, which, starting in the 1970's, changed its laws regarding children born out of wedlock. Such children have now become legitimate. Unwittingly, this has allowed for polygyny or polyandry to become legal options for French males and females. The analysis is further extended to Western Europe, two Latin American nations and to the contemporary U.S.A. with its polyamory movement, where legal outcomes similar to those of France have occurred.The volume examines monogamy by using the epistemological approach that is typically used in the anthropological study of cultures other than one's own, showing how exotic and strange the system of monogamy can look, when observed from afar, from the eyes of many non-Westerners. It gives insight into planes of the human Western experience that would normally remain invisible. Students and teachers will delight in the close-to-home debates stimulated by this evocative thought-provoking essay.  Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (Roman Culture in an Age of Civil War) by Kathryn Welch English | December 1, 2012 | ISBN: 1905125445 | True PDF | 350 pages | 20.2 MB Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily into narratives of Rome's civil war of 49-31BC. Ronald Syme, father of international orthodoxy, stated that Sextus was 'in reality an adventurer' who was 'easily represented as a pirate'. He was wrong.  Kate Berridge, "Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0060528486 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 4.2 mb Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity.  Macrocyclic Receptors for Environmental and Biosensing Applications English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367856328 | 475 Pages | PDF (True) | 39 MB The book is designed to highlight the utility of supramolecular systems in diverse areas such as sensing of ionic and molecular analytes, aggregation, artificial molecular machines, biology, and medicine. The synthetic chemistry of a diverse set of supramolecules encompassing various supramolecular interactions involved in driving macrocyclic architectures is discussed. Attempts have been made to cover unique features of macrocycles viz. control over shape, size, and valency along with supramolecular interactions, which direct complex supramolecular systems. The book also provides a discussion on the similarity between macrocyclic host-guest systems and biomolecules, which lay the foundation of building modern artificial molecular motors and switches like protein machines for application in diverse areas. The authors hope that the book will appeal to a wider audience of students and researchers in academics and/or industries.  Machine Learning with Apache Spark Quick Start Guide: Uncover patterns, derive actionable insights, and learn from big data using MLlib by Jillur Quddus  Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 4th International Workshop, MLMI 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013. Proceedings By Minjeong Kim, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen (auth.), Guorong Wu, Daoqiang Zhang, Dinggang Shen, Pingkun Yan, Kenji Suzuki, Fei Wang (eds.) 2013 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 3319022660 | PDF | 11 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2013, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013, in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2013. The 32 contributions included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They focus on major trends and challenges in the area of machine learning in medical imaging and aim to identify new cutting-edge techniques and their use in medical imaging.  Machine Learning Algorithms: Popular algorithms for data science and machine learning, 2nd Edition by Giuseppe Bonaccorso  MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics By Ningning Du, George F. Raiser, W. Carter Ralph (auth.), Gordon Shaw III, Barton C. Prorok, LaVern Starman, Cosme Furlong (eds.) 2014 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 3319007793 | PDF | 7 MB MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including: Microelectronics PackagingSingle Atom/Molecule Mechanical TestingMEMS Devices & FabricationIn-Situ Mechanical TestingNanoindentationExperimental Analysis of Low-Dimensional Materials for Nanotechnology |
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