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 Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora By David A. Phillips 2013 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0857283030 | PDF | 3 MB "Development Without Aid" aims to opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up inAfrica the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique ofaid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as aresource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. The key point is that diaspora initiatives are a type of indigenous resource flowing through private initiative, not an alien resource flowing through public bureaucratic organizations. The book usesextensive research evidence to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world's diasporas.
 Designing Aeration Systems Using Baseline Mass Transfer Coefficients : For Water and Wastewater Treatment by Johnny Lee English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367617617 | 229 Pages | True PDF | 35 MB  Desert Combat by Robert Jackson English | August 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0708944302 | 250 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb North Africa, 1941: In one last futile attempt to stop Rommel's newly formed Panzer Army advancing further, the British Eighth Army is making a stand at the coastal fortress of Tobruk. If they are unsuccessful, the Germans will have a clear path to the strategically important Suez Canal.  Derrida and Technology: Life, Politics, and Religion By Björn Sjöstrand 2021 | 365 Pages | ISBN: 3030834069 | PDF | 3 MB This book is the first monograph that takes a comprehensive approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology. It refines and complements his mainstream image as a philosopher of language and deconstructionist of classical literary and philosophical texts. This volume outlines the key features of Derrida's alternative philosophy of technology, a philosophy which Sjöstrand argues, avoids the problems associated with, on the one hand, a Heideggerian orientation, which completely separates thinking and technology and, on the other, an empirically oriented "post-phenomenology" that can be said to be hegemonic within the field today.Based on a sustained interpretation of Derrida, and a robust, coherent philosophy of technology, aphenomenology of technologyis developed that, in a radical way, extends the concept of technology to cover the entire field of phenomenology. This placesthe technologicalnot in opposition to humanity, but rather always already in close proximity to man and, consequently, to life, ethics, politics, democracy and religion. Strikingly, this important aspect of Derrida's thinking is only rarely analyzed or discussed by his many exegetes. This text appeals to graduates and researchers working on Derrida, phenomenology, and the philosophy of technology.
 Democratic Vanguardism: Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine By Michael Harland 2013 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0739179691 | EPUB | 1 MB The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, transformed the way in which Americans and their leaders viewed the world. The tragic events of that day helped give rise to a foreign policy strategy commonly referred to as the "Bush Doctrine." At the heart of this doctrine lie a series of claims about the need to encourage liberal democracy as the antidote to jihadist terrorism. President George W. Bush proclaimed in a variety of addresses that democracy now represented the "single surviving model" of political life to which all people aspired. In the course of making this argument, President Bush linked his policies to an overarching "teleology" of progress. This discourse suggested that the United States might use force to hasten the emergence of liberal norms and institutions in rogue states. With a sense of irony, some commentators soon referred to the Bush administration's position as "Leninist" because of its determination to bring about the so-called "end of history" today. Yet, surprisingly, these critics had little more to add. This book assesses in greater depth the Bush administration's claim to comprehend the purpose of historical progress. Developing a concept termed "democratic vanguardism," this study investigates the idea of liberal modernity, the role of the United States as a force for democracy, and the implications of using military intervention in the service of idealistic ends. It examines disputes among political theorists, public intellectuals, and elected statesmen that help to enrich our understanding of the United States' efforts under President Bush to bend history to its will.  Lord George Gordon Byron, "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)" English | 2014 | ASIN: B00MQESR7Q | EPUB | pages: 4911 | 7.6 mb "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know", Lord Byron was a leading figure of the Romantic movement, infamous for his flamboyant lifestyle, yet incredibly influential in the diverse range of his accomplished verse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Lord Byron, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material.
 Data-Driven Learning for the Next Generation: Corpora and DDL for Pre-tertiary Learners By Peter Crosthwaite 2019 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 1138388009 | PDF | 6 MB Despite advancements in and availability of corpus software in language classrooms facilitating data-driven learning (DDL), the use of such methods with pre-tertiary learners remains rare. This book specifically explores the affordances of DDL for younger learners, testing its viability with teachers and students at the primary and secondary years of schooling. It features eminent and up-and-coming researchers from Europe, Asia, and Australasia who seek to address best practice in implementing DDL with younger learners, while providing a wealth of empirical findings and practical DDL activities ready for use in the pre-tertiary classroom. Divided into three parts, the volume's first section focuses on overcoming emerging challenges for DDL with younger learners, including where and how DDL can be integrated into pre-tertiary curricula, as well as potential barriers to this integration. It then considers new, cutting-edge innovations in corpora and corpus software for use with younger learners in the second section, before reporting on actual DDL studies performed with younger learners (and/or their teachers) at the primary and secondary levels of education. This book will appeal to post-graduate students, academics and researchers with interests in corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, primary and secondary literacy education, and language and educational technologies.  Data-Driven Iterative Learning Control for Discrete-Time Systems English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811959498 | 245 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 35 MB This book belongs to the subject of control and systems theory. It studies a novel data-driven framework for the design and analysis of iterative learning control (ILC) for nonlinear discrete-time systems. A series of iterative dynamic linearization methods is discussed firstly to build a linear data mapping with respect of the system's output and input between two consecutive iterations. On this basis, this work presents a series of data-driven ILC (DDILC) approaches with rigorous analysis. After that, this work also conducts significant extensions to the cases with incomplete data information, specified point tracking, higher order law, system constraint, nonrepetitive uncertainty, and event-triggered strategy to facilitate the real applications. The readers can learn the recent progress on DDILC for complex systems in practical applications. This book is intended for academic scholars, engineers, and graduate students who are interested in learning control, adaptive control, nonlinear systems, and related fields.  Winifred E. Newman, "Data Visualization for Design Thinking: Applied Mapping" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138958352 | PDF | pages: 300 | 257.6 mb Data Visualization for Design Thinking helps you make better maps. Treating maps as applied research, you'll be able to understand how to map sites, places, ideas, and projects, revealing the complex relationships between what you represent, your thinking, the technology you use, the culture you belong to, and your aesthetic practices. More than 100 examples illustrated with over 200 color images show you how to visualize data through mapping. Includes five in-depth cases studies and numerous examples throughout.
 Data Science at the Command Line: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools by Jeroen Janssens English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1492087912 | 282 pages | MOBI | 2.12 Mb This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You'll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens provides a Docker image packed with over 100 Unix power tools-useful whether you work with Windows, macOS, or Linux.You'll quickly discover why the command line is an agile, scalable, and extensible technology. Even if you're comfortable processing data with Python or R, you'll learn how to greatly improve your data science workflow by leveraging the command line's power. This book is ideal for data scientists, analysts, engineers, system administrators, and researchers. |
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