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 Rob Stone, "Auditions: Architecture and Aurality " English | ISBN: 0262028867 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 66 MB A radical rethinking of architectural space in terms of its acoustic dimensions, exploring aural-architecture moments ranging from silent cinema to the sound of water.
 Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts By David Gerard 2017 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 1974000060 | PDF | 12 MB An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage.A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.Fully automated contractual systems are proposed to make business and the law work better; the contracts people actually write are unregulated penny stock offerings whose fine print literally states that you are buying nothing of any value.The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts $150 million on the promise that it will embody "the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code"; upon release it is immediately hacked, and $50 million is stolen.How did we get here?David Gerard covers the origins and history of Bitcoin to the present day, the other cryptocurrencies it spawned including Ethereum, the ICO craze and the 2017 crypto bubble, and the attempts to apply blockchains and smart contracts to business. Plus a case study on blockchains in the music industry.Bitcoin and blockchains are not a technology story, but a psychology story.Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.  Atlas of Esophageal Surgery, 2nd Edition edited by Marco G. Patti, Fernando A. M. Herbella English | November 9, 2022 | ISBN: 3031127897 | True EPUB | 174 pages | 287 MB This Atlas focuses on surgical techniques used to treat the entire spectrum of esophageal diseases. Surgical "pearls" and tips on how to select and perform the correct operation are included and based both on evidence-based data and the experience of the Editors.  Atlas of Anorectal Anomalies: Diagnostic and Operative Perspectives by Amr Abdelhamid Zaki AbouZeid, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad English | October 21, 2022 | ISBN: 3031102819 | True EPUB | 221 pages | 300 MB This volume provides an in-depth analysis of abnormal pelvic anatomy in various forms of anorectal anomalies, often with multiple associations. The anatomy of the pelvis is one of the most complex in the body, and anatomists have provided detailed descriptions of normal anatomy based on cadaver dissections. However, congenital abnormalities present a spectrum of deviations from normal, which can be difficult to perceive with surgical practice alone. The advent of cross-sectional imaging has fortunately provided a powerful tool, allowing clinicians to study these anomalies in depth and on multiple planes.  Become Rich And Famous On Youtube Doing What You Love Last updated 7/2019 MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz Language: English | Size: 4.71 GB | Duration: 4h 11m  1995 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0898705258 | EPUB | 1 MB If you are struggling with fear, grief, loss of a loved one, hurt, anger or anything that makes life difficult--or the road through it dark--then this book was written for you. If offers practical suggestions on how to keep going and to grow with God's grace.  Seth Hudson, "Approaching a Pedagogy of Game Writing" English | ISBN: 1032231459 | 2022 | 124 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book examines the practices of writers in the AAA video game industry, to provide a model for game writing pedagogy that highlights the roles and skills utilized by these innovative storytellers.  Applied Wisdom: 700 Witticisms to Save Your Assets by Alexander Ineichen English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 1635768144 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.66 Mb Applying wisdom and avoiding foolishness are two sides of the same coin. Slipping away from either can lead to risky and uncertain situations. Luckily, author Alexander Ineichen has been collecting witticisms for thirty-five years that have made him successful in his career and life.  Applied Geography: A World Perspective by Antoine Bailly, Lay James Gibson English | PDF | 2004 | 313 Pages | ISBN : 140202441X | 1.6 MB Applied Geography, A World Perspective reviews progress in applied geography in different regions of the world. It does this through the eyes of an international panel of highly regarded academic practitioners. The book offers new prospects on the use of established approaches and explores exciting new territories. Together, the contributors provide a comprehensive picture of applied geography today.  Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa By Marshall David Sahlins 2004 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0226734005 | PDF | 28 MB Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history-including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history.Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great sea power (like Athens) and a great land power (like Sparta). Sahlins draws parallels between the conflicts with an eye to their respective systems of power and sovereignty as well as to Thucydides' alternation between individual (Pericles, Themistocles) and collective (the Athenians, the Spartans) actors in the making of history. Characteristic of most histories ever written, this alternation between the agency of "Great Men" and collective entities leads Sahlins to a series of incisive analyses ranging in subject matter from Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" for the 1951 Giants to the history-making of Napoleon and certain divine kings to the brouhaha over Elián Gonzalez. Finally, again departing from Thucydides, Sahlins considers the relationship between cultural order and historical contingency through the recounting of a certain royal assassination that changed the course of Fijian history, a story of fratricide and war worthy of Shakespeare.In this most convincing presentation yet of his influential theory of culture, Sahlins experiments with techniques for mixing rich narrative with cultural explication in the hope of doing justice at once to the actions of persons and the customs of people. And he demonstrates the necessity of taking culture into account in the creation of history-with apologies to Thucydides, who too often did not. |
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