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 Gregory Alan Thornbury, "Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1498223087, 1498223109 | PDF | pages: 222 | 13.4 mb Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e. as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of short essays and dialogues examines films phenomenologically-through the experience of the viewer as an agent having been acted upon in the functioning of the film itself. Authors were invited to take one of the main themes and creatively consider how film, in their experiences, has provided opportunities for new modes of thinking. Contributors will then engaged one another in a dialogue about the similarities and differences in their descriptions of film as spiritual phenomena. The intended aim of this text is to shift contemporary theological film engagement away from a simple mode of analysis in which theological concepts are simply read into the film itself and begin to let films speak for themselves as profoundly spiritual experiences.  Domain Decomposition Methods - Algorithms and Theory by Andrea Toselli , Olof B. Widlund English | PDF(True) | 2005 | 454 Pages | ISBN : 3540206965 | 39.6 MB This book offers a comprehensive presentation of some of the most successful and popular domain decomposition preconditioners for finite and spectral element approximations of partial differential equations. It places strong emphasis on both algorithmic and mathematical aspects. It covers in detail important methods such as FETI and balancing Neumann-Neumann methods and algorithms for spectral element methods.  Elaine M Crawley, "Doing Prison Work: The public and private lives of prison officers" English | 2004 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1843920352 | PDF | 6,0 mb This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel about their work.
 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. |
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