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Dirt, Sweat, and Diesel A Family Farm in the Twenty-first Century

Dirt, Sweat, and Diesel A Family Farm in the Twenty-first Century
Steven L. Hilty, "Dirt, Sweat, and Diesel: A Family Farm in the Twenty-first Century "
English | ISBN: 0826220797 | 2016 | 368 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern farmers face. This book provides readers a glimpse into life on a modern Missouri farm where a variety of grains, grass seed, corn, and cattle are produced. All of the conversations, events, and descriptions are drawn from the author's experience working alongside and observing this father and son family farm operation during the course of a year.

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Digital Image Quality in Medicine

Digital Image Quality in Medicine
Oleg S. Pianykh, "Digital Image Quality in Medicine"
English | 2013 | pages: 137 | ISBN: 3319017594 | PDF | 4,7 mb
Making a good diagnostic image is only the beginning; keeping it good and diagnostically sound is a much more difficult proposition, one that is often neglected or forgotten by clinical practitioners. With anything digital, the assumption of persistent original quality opens a Pandora's box of medical fiascos. Poorly selected image interpolation, thoughtlessly used compression, confused image enhancement options and the like can transform a good original into a useless clutter of pixels. This book is dedicated to learning better options. Intended for physicians, clinical practitioners and applications specialists, it provides a well-rounded introduction to meaningful diagnostic image housekeeping. The book presents the most important aspects of safe digital image workflows, starting from the basic practical implications and gradually uncovering the underlying concepts and algorithms. With an easy-to-follow, down-to-earth presentation style, the text helps you to optimize your diagnostic imaging projects and connect the dots of medical informatics.​

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Diary of a Drag Queen

Diary of a Drag Queen
Crystal Rasmussen, "Diary of a Drag Queen"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1785039504, 1785039490 | 433 pages | EPUB | 0.91 MB
"This book changed my life. Tom Rasmussen's honesty, vulnerability, and fearlessness jump out of every page and every word. It is the queer bible I've always needed." -Sam Smith, singer and songwriter

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Decolonizing African Knowledge Autoethnography and African Epistemologies

Decolonizing African Knowledge Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Toyin Falola, "Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies "
English | ISBN: 1316511235 | 2022 | 524 pages | PDF | 134 MB
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.