Alan Block, "East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50" English | ISBN: 1138522554 | 2017 | 265 pages | EPUB | 6 MB Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930-1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective, one based on racial and ethnic stereotypes. The book provides a penetrating look at one of the most misunderstood aspects of American society, important for historians, criminologists and sociologists.
Dispelling Misconceptions About English Language Learners : Research-Based Ways to Improve Instruction by Barbara Gottschalk English | 2019 | ISBN: 1416628282 | 186 Pages | True PDF | 4.28 MB Dirty Talk: Talk Dirty to Get in the Mood for Love by Charlotte A. Rose English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01N41L3IU | 91 pages | EPUB | 0.25 Mb Do you have the balls to talk dirty to your woman? Do you think you can talk like a whore and not end up being treated like one? Do you want to know how to talk dirty without feeling like a complete fool? Then it must be fate that you've found this book! Digitalisation in Mobility Service Industry: A Survey-based Expert Analysis English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031071506 | 151 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB This book focuses on the implications of digitalisation in the mobility service industry. Based on an analysis of more than 450 survey responses, it explores and assesses mobility in the age of digitalisation. The content covers both changes in the relationship between the company and its customers and a potential paradigm shift among leading companies. The findings suggest that a shift from traditional mobility management to a more customer-centred management perspective is both widely accepted and increasingly necessary. Nevertheless, the inclusion of services that are not primarily concerned with overcoming spatial distances is considered to be less attractive. Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics English | 2023 | ISBN: 3030985458 | 466 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing for studying human behavior and planning innovative e-healthcare interventions. The respective chapters, written by authoritative researchers, cover both theoretical perspectives and good scientific and professional practices related to the use and development of these technologies. They share novel insights into established applications of mobile sensing, such as predicting personality or mental and behavioral health on the basis of smartphone usage patterns, and highlight emerging trends, such as the use of machine learning, big data and deep learning approaches, and the combination of mobile sensing with AI and expert systems. Important issues relating to privacy and ethics are analyzed, together with selected case studies. This thoroughly revised and extended second edition provides researchers and professionals with extensive information on the latest developments in the field of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing. It gives a special emphasis to trends in diagnostics systems and AI applications, suggesting important future directions for research in public health and social sciences. Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction by Wilhelm Burger English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031057430 | 937 Pages | PDF (True) | 96 MB Designing Software Intensive Products: Integrating Engineering and Intellectual Property Management to the Development of Innovative Products English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031088921 | 143 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB Miriam Forman-Brunell, "Deconstructing Dolls: Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play" English | ISBN: 1800731027 | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB | 6 MB In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. Deconstructing Dolls pushes the boundaries of doll studies by expanding the definition of dolls, ages of doll players, sites of play, research methods, and application of theory. By utilizing a variety of new approaches, this collected volume seeks to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls and girlhood play, particularly as they relate to social meanings in the lives of girls and young women across race, age, time, and culture.
Daidalos at Work: A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture by Clairy Palyvou English | November 2, 2018 | ISBN: 1931534942 | True EPUB/PDF | 260 pages | 48.4/647 MB The Bronze Age was a time of affluence and innovation for Crete, a unique "moment" in the early history of architecture that, in a bizarre way, echos the modern world of the 20th century AD. The mythical Daidalos, with his many attributes and tasks, stands for the protoype of "an architect at work," following orders and desires set by his clients and by society. The labyrinth, as a paradigm of order, stands for the primordial idea of architeccture and a metaphor of human existence. DK Eyewitness Top 10 Budapest (Pocket Travel Guide) by DK Eyewitness English | ISBN: 024146286X | 128 pages | EPUB | July 21, 2022 | 172 Mb Cut through by the famous blue Danube, Budapest is blessed with enthralling architecture and healing thermal baths, art-filled museums, and leafy green parks and gardens. |