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 Doing Church as a Team: The Miracle of Teamwork and How It Transforms Churches by Wayne Cordeiro English | July 19, 2022 | ISBN: 0764240730 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2.06 Mb "I for one am learning that I cannot be fulfilled apart from other people. In fact, the bottom line of this book is this: You can't do it alone. If you want to be a successful leader-if you plan to have a successful ministry-then you must develop not only your gifts but also the gifts of those around you." -Wayne Cordeiro  Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions By John Farndon 2014 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 1848310838 | EPUB | 3 MB A wonderful collection of oddly brilliant questions and answers taken from the infamously challenging Oxbridge interviews.a 'What happens if I drop an ant?' 'What books are bad for you?' 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?'a The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are.a Cambridge-educated John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem.a Oxford graduate Libby Purves lends her own thoughts and reflections on what it's like to have your mind stretched in unusual ways in a thorough introduction.a This is a book for everyone who likes to think they're clever, or who thinks they'd like to be clever. And cleverness is not just knowing stuff, it's how laterally, deeply and interestingly you can bend your brain. Guesstimating the population of Croydon, for example, opens a chain of thought from which you can predict the strength of a nuclear bomb ... and that's just the start of it."  Divided Politics, Divided Nation: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era By Darrell M. West 2019 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0815736916 | EPUB | 1 MB Why are Americans so angry with each other?The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities--and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting inferno. This polarization has become so intense that many people no longer trust anyone from a differing perspective.Drawing on his personal story of growing up as a fundamentalist Christian on a dairy farm in rural Ohio, then as an academic in the heart of the liberal East Coast establishment, Darrell West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. He takes advantage of his experiences inside both conservative and liberal camps to explain the views of each side and offer insights into why each is angry with the other.West argues that societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy. Unless people can bridge these divisions and forge a new path forward, it will be impossible to work together, maintain a functioning democracy, and solve the country's pressing policy problems.  Distributed Economic Operation in Smart Grid: Model-Based and Model-Free Perspectives English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811985936 | 413 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB This book aims to work out the distributed economic operation in smart grids in a systematic way, which ranges from model-based to model-free perspectives. The main contributions of this book can be summarized into three folds. First, we investigate the fundamental economic operation problems in smart grids from model-based perspective. Specifically, these problems can be modeled as deterministic optimization models, and we propose some distributed optimization algorithms by integrating the multi-agent consensus theory and optimization techniques to achieve the distributed coordination of various generation units and loads. Second, due to the randomness of the large-scale renewable energies and the flexibility of the loads, we further address these economic operation problems from a model-free perspective, and we propose learning-based approaches to address the uncertainty and randomness. At last, we extend the idea of model-based and model-free algorithms to plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging/discharging scheduling problem, the key challenge of which involves multiple objectives simultaneously while the behavior of PEVs and the electricity price are intrinsically random. This book presents several recent theoretical findings on distributed economic operation in smart grids from model-based and model-free perspectives. By systematically integrating novel ideas, fresh insights, and rigorous results, this book provides a base for further theoretical research on distributed economic operation in smart grids. It can be a reference for graduates and researchers to study the operation and management in smart grids. Some prerequisites for reading this book include optimization theory, matrix theory, game theory, reinforcement learning, etc.  Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, 8th Edition English | 2019 | ISBN: 125967651X | 1118 Pages | PDF (True) | 35 MB Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and its Applications presents a precise, relevant, comprehensive approach to mathematical concepts. This world-renowned best-selling text was written to accommodate the needs across a variety of majors and departments, including mathematics, computer science, and engineering. As the market leader, the book is highly flexible, comprehensive and a proven pedagogical teaching tool for instructors. Digital is becoming increasingly important and gaining popularity, crowning Connect as the digital leader for this discipline.  Discrete Choice Analysis With R English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031207181 | 332 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 88 MB 1. Data, Models, and Software.- 2. Exploratory Data Analysis.- 3. Fundamental Concepts.- 4. 4 Logit.- 5. Practical Issues in the Specification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Models.- 6. Behavioral Insights from Choice Models.- 7. Non-Proportional Substitution Patterns I: Generalized Extreme Value Models.- 8. Non-Proportional Substitution Patterns II: The Probit Model.- 9. Dealing with Heterogeneity I: The Latent Class Logit Model.- 10 Dealing with Heterogeneity II: The Mixed Logit Model.- 11. Models for Ordinal Responses.- Epilogue.- References  Robert F. Trager, "Diplomacy: Communication and the Origins of International Order" English | 2017 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1107627125, 1107049164 | PDF | 2,5 mb How do adversaries communicate? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling: choosing the scope of demands on another state, risking a breach in relations, encouraging a protégé, staking one's reputation, or making a diplomatic approach all convey specific sorts of information. Through rich history and analyses of diplomatic network data from the Confidential Print of the British Empire, Trager demonstrates the lasting effects that diplomatic encounters have on international affairs. The Concert of Europe, the perceptions of existential threat that formed before the World Wars, the reduction in Cold War tensions known as détente, and the institutional structure of the current world order were all products of inferences about intentions drawn from the statements of individuals represented as the will of states. Diplomacy explains how closed-door conversations create stable orders and violent wars.  Digital Technologies in Logistics and Infrastructure English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031244338 | 597 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 70 MB Methods of Recognition and Classification of Objects in Digital Logistics.- Prospects and Opportunities for Green Logistics Development in Russia.- Ice Reconnaissance Data Processing under Low Quality Source Images.- Assessment of the Impact of the Level of Railway Tariffs on the Evolution of Cargo Supply Chains.- Stochastic Operational Logic for Berths Throughput Modelling of Export Coal Terminal.- New Approaches to the Economic Assessment of Transport Projects in the Context of Changing Urban Mobility.- Digitalization and Data Driven Logistics at Dutch Logistic SMEs.- Conventional and Digital Technologies Convergence as an Additional Advantage in Ensuring of Supply Chain Counterparties Economic Growth.- Development of Rail Container Transportation Based on Mobility and Logistics Efficiency.- Two-level Algorithms as Part of Digital Logistics Platforms.- Digitalization of Oil Refining Process (Fuel Gas Flow Rate for Hydrotreatment).- Prospects of Multimodal Container Transportation in Russia.- Application of Digital Twins for Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas Enterprises.- The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Healthcare Logistic: Risks and Opportunities.- Improvement of Information and Communication Activities of Participants in Supply Chains Using Corporate Portals.  Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography By Jonas Larsen (editor), Mette Sandbye (editor) 2014 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 178076331X | EPUB | 13 MB Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typical, vernacular, everyday practices: the development of the family photo album from a physical object in the living room to a digital practice on the Internet; the use of mobile phones in everyday life; photo communities on the Internet; photo booth photography; studio photography; and fine arts' appropriation of amateur photography. They explore how this media convergence transforms the media ecology - the networks, objects, performances, meanings and circulations - of vernacular photography, as we research it through ordinary people's use of such new cameras and interactive Internet spaces as part of their everyday lives.  Adam Rosenblatt, "Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity" English | 2015 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 0804788774, 080479491X | PDF | 3,5 mb The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. |
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