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 Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze By Maria Cristina Fumagalli 2009 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0813928575 | PDF | 2 MB Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universal, Maria Cristina Fumagalli shows how the Caribbean's contributions to the modern world not only provide a more accurate account of the past but also have the potential to change the way in which we imagine the future. Fumagalli uses the myth of Medusa's gaze turning people into stone to describe the way North Atlantic modernity freezes its "others" into a state of perpetual backwardness that produces an ethnocentric narrative based on homogenization, vilification, and disempowerment that actively ignores what fails to conform to the story it wants to tell about itself. In analyzing narratives of modernity that originate in the Caribbean, the author explores the region's refusal to succumb to Medusa's spell and highlights its strategies to outstare the Gorgon.Reflecting a diversity of texts, genres, and media, the chapters focus on sixteenth-century engravings and paintings from the Netherlands and Italy, a scientific romance produced at the turn of the twentieth century by the king of the Caribbean island Redonda, contemporary collections of poetry from the anglophone Caribbean, a historical novel by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, a Latin epic, a Homeric hymn, ancient Egyptian rites, fairy tales, romances from England and Jamaica, a long narrative poem by the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and paintings by artists from Europe and the Americas spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity offers an original and creative contribution to what it means to be modern.  Careers in Robotics English | 2020 | ISBN: 1508188122 | 80 Pages | EPUB (True) | 12 MB Robotics is one of the most exciting career fields of the twenty-first century. This stimulating volume introduces readers to robotics makerspaces and describes how student makerspace experiences and robotics competitions can lead to a career in robotics. It captures the breadth of the robotics industry, describing recent robotics research in home control, medicine, industry, and the military and outlines the skills, education, and degrees required to work in robotics, and the process of finding a robotics job. Informative profiles of several makerspaces as well as day-in-the-life scenarios of roboticists in the space program and the service industry, among others, will keep readers engaged.  Careers in Machine Maintenance English | 2020 | ISBN: 1508188068 | 80 Pages | EPUB (True) | 13 MB Machines drive our world. Mechanical devices in assembly lines churn out all our products, from candy bars to cars. Engines power our vehicles and factories. Our homes depend on appliances like washers and water heaters. The work of machine maintenance professionals is crucial to keep these devices humming. Careers in this field are rewarding because they involve problem-solving and hands-on work. Makerspaces give young people the opportunity to explore and develop the skills needed for machine maintenance careers. This instructive resource reveals how sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge through makerspaces can open doors to a wide range of opportunities in machine maintenance.  CCNA in 21 Hours '640-802' syllabus English | 2013 | ISBN: 978-8740304763 | 243 pages | EPUB | 5.73 MB This book offers a basic illustration for CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), '640-802' syllabus, which is a pre-requisite certificate for most Cisco certifications. This CCNA Course will give you the basic knowledge to operate a computer network. You will learn about computer network basics, the devices that exist in a computer network, and how to configure them. In addition, you will learn the basics of network security, wireless networks, and IPv6. Enjoy!  C# 9: GUI programs with WPF: Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740335798 | 259 pages | EPUB | 8.61 MB The book is about development of programs with a graphical user interface and presupposes an introduction to WPF as dealt with in C# 2, but also topics like DataGrid and data binding dealt with in C# 6. The book deals with details regarding WPF and how to draw and manipulate geometric shapes in the window.  C# 8: Threads and LINQ: Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740335361 | 248 pages | EPUB | 10.71 MB The book deals with two subjects, which have nothing directly to do with each other, and the two parts of the book can be read independently of each other. The first part deals with multi-threaded programs and how to synchronize threads. The second part of the book deals with LINQ which primarily is extensions methods defined for collection classes.  C# 7: About system development: Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740335354 | 227 pages | EPUB | 5.07 MB The book focuses is primarily on system development and method, but does not focus directly on a specific system development method, but addresses a number of principles which are general and can be applied in all system development projects. In addition, the book contains more about database programming which are concepts that were not accommodated in the previous book.  C# 5: Assemblies, class libraries and IO: Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740335088 | 236 pages | EPUB | 10.94 MB The book describes the use of binary operations in C#, and another topic is assemblies and including class libraries. Both private and shared assemblies are treated. The book provides an introduction to reflection and how, at runtime, to retrieve information about types and there members. There is a chapter on IO, and finally, the book ends with an appendix on binary and hexadecimal numbers.  C# 4: Important Classes and More Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740334654 | 216 pages | EPUB | 8.88 MB This book is about OOP in C# and is a continuation of the previous book, and the current book assumes a knowledge of OOP corresponding to the content of C# 3. The book deals with the implementation of strings in C# and else describes generic types and in relation to that, collection classes, but also concepts as delegates, lambda expressions and operator overriding.  C# 3: Object Oriented Programming Software Development English | 2020 | ISBN: 978-8740334647 | 236 pages | EPUB | 9.39 MB The book deals with object-oriented programming in C# and how a running program consists of coop-erating objects and how these objects are defined and created on basis of the program's classes. The book has focus on classes and how classes are used as the basic building blocks for developing a pro-gram. It is assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of C# corresponding to the books C# 1 and 2 in this series. |
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