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 Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well By Lydia S. Dugdale MD (editor) 2015 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 026202912X | PDF | 2 MB Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church published the Ars moriendi texts, which established prayers and practices for an art of dying. In the twenty-first century, physicians rely on procedures and protocols for the efficient management of hospitalized patients. How can we recapture an art of dying that can facilitate our dying well? In this book, physicians, philosophers, and theologians attempt to articulate a bioethical framework for dying well in a secularized, diverse society.Contributors discuss such topics as the acceptance of human finitude; the role of hospice and palliative medicine; spiritual preparation for death; and the relationship between community, and individual autonomy. They also consider special cases, including children, elderly patients with dementia, and death in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when doctors could do little more than accompany their patients in humble solidarity.These chapters make the case for a robust bioethics -- one that could foster both the contemplation of finitude and the cultivation of community that would be necessary for a contemporary art of dying well.ContributorsJeffrey P. Bishop, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Daniel Callahan, Farr A. Curlin, Lydia S. Dugdale, Michelle Harrington, John Lantos, Stephen R. Latham, M. Therese Lysaught, Autumn Alcott Ridenour, Peter A. Selwyn, Daniel Sulmasy  Sam Jacoby, "Drawing Architecture and the Urban" English | 2016 | pages: 328 | ISBN: B09L78M24C | EPUB | 34,8 mb Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach to drawing, especially computer-generated drawings; it outlines how drawings should be used to convey clear and analytical information in the process of design, as well as the communication and discussion of a project. In depth examples are provided how to communicate effectively. The final section demonstrates how to transform case-studies, directly connecting an analytical approach with the design process.  Peter Bearman, "Doormen: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries" English | 2005 | ISBN: 0226039706, 0226039692 | PDF | pages: 305 | 9.9 mb Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, whether they drink too much, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. In Doormen, Peter Bearman untangles this unusual dynamic to reveal the many ways that tenants and doormen negotiate their complex relationship.
 Doing Social Research and Publishing Results: A Guide to Non-native English Speakers English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811937796 | 664 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 99 MB This book provides a guide to such budding social researchers, who are non-native English speakers drawing examples from literature to show how to conduct a research, present research results, integrate with existing literature to draw conclusions through real-world examples. Existing English books teaching research methods and philosophy of academic research are written in 'academic English' and, it is hard for non-native English-speaking budding researchers to study and understand those books. Also, this book uses examples to show how to communicate with journal editors and peer reviewers to get published the research results as journal articles, book chapters or conference papers.  Gregori A. Margulis, "Discrete Subgroups of Semisimple Lie Groups" English | 1991 | pages: 399 | ISBN: 3642057217, 038712179X | DJVU | 2,8 mb A detailed treatment of the geometric aspects of discrete groups was carried out by Raghunathan in his book "Discrete subgroups of Lie Groups" which appeared in 1972. In particular he covered the theory of lattices in nilpotent and solvable Lie groups, results of Mal'cev and Mostow, and proved the Borel density theorem and local rigidity theorem ofSelberg-Weil. He also included some results on unipotent elements of discrete subgroups as well as on the structure of fundamental domains. The chapters concerning discrete subgroups of semi simple Lie groups are essentially concerned with results which were obtained in the 1960's. The present book is devoted to lattices, i.e. discrete subgroups of finite covolume, in semi-simple Lie groups. By "Lie groups" we not only mean real Lie groups, but also the sets of k-rational points of algebraic groups over local fields k and their direct products. Our results can be applied to the theory of algebraic groups over global fields. For example, we prove what is in some sense the best possible classification of "abstract" homomorphisms of semi-simple algebraic group over global fields.  Admire Mare, "Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa: Policies, Politics and Practices" English | ISBN: 3031166353 | 2022 | 237 pages | PDF | 5 MB This book critically examines the manifest and latent practices of surveillance in the southern African region, using case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. The book demonstrates the growing role of super-powers in the construction and normalization of the surveillance state. It traces the digitization of surveillance practices to the rapid adoption of smart CCTV, facial recognition technologies and EMSI catchers. Through predictive policing mechanisms, state security agencies have appropriated digital media technologies for sentiment analysis, constant monitoring of digital footprints of security targets, and even deploying cyber-troops on popular social media platforms.
 DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu by Pandit, Parth;Hardt, Robert; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1803241349 | 436 pages | True PDF | 59.57 MB  Ana Cristina Mendes, "Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery" English | ISBN: 3031202856 | 2023 | 268 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies ― one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots ― from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It takes the University of Lisbon as a point of departure to explore broader questions of how the field can be rethought from within, through Anglophone (post)coloniality and an institutional location in a department of English, while also considering forces from without, as the arguments in this book issue from a specific, liminal positionality outside the Anglosphere. The first half of the book examines the critical practice of and the political push for decolonising the university and the curriculum, advancing existing scholarship with this focus on semi-peripheral perspectives. The second half comprises two theoretically-informed and classroom-oriented case studies of adaptation of the literary canon, a part of model syllabi that are designed to raise awareness of and encourage an understanding of a global, pluriversal literary history.
 Data Analytics Using Splunk 9. x by Shillingford, Nadine; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1803249412 | 336 pages | True PDF | 45.05 MB  Virginie Degryse, "Crave and Cook: Home Cooking During the Holidays" English | 2015 | pages: 114 | ISBN: 1540363546 | EPUB | 6,7 mb Home cooking during the holidays: recipes and advice from a Belgian mother in a California kitchen. |
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