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 Subatomic quantification By Marcin Wągiel 2021 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 398554011X | PDF | 2 MB The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The monograph aims to investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories, e.g., partitives, whole-adjectives, and multipliers, encoding different kinds of part-whole structures both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It is envisioned to inspire radical rethinking of the ontology of models accounting for nominal semantics. Specifically, it provides novel evidence for a mereotopological approach to meaning, i.e., a theory of wholes that captures not only parthood but also topological relations holding between parts. This evidence comes from the phenomenon of subatomic quantification, i.e., quantification over parts of referents of concrete count nouns.  Stress Less, Sell More by Riseley, Jeff; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394153392 | 291 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.6 MB  Spring Boot Persistence Best Practices: Optimize Java Persistence Performance in Spring Boot Applications by Anghel Leonard English | April 30, 2020 | ISBN: 1484256255 | 1057 pages | MOBI | 13 Mb This book is a collection of developer code recipes and best practices for persisting data using Spring, particularly Spring Boot. The book is structured around practical recipes, where each recipe discusses a performance case or performance-related case, and almost every recipe has one or more applications. Mainly, when we try to accomplish something (e.g., read some data from the database), there are several approaches to do it, and, in order to choose the best way, you have to know the implied trades-off from a performance perspective. You'll see that in the end, all these penalties slow down the application. Besides presenting the arguments that favor a certain choice, the application is written in Spring Boot style which is quite different than plain Hibernate.  David Alvarez, "Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (Modern War Studies " English | ISBN: 0700612149 | 2002 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1269 KB Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, David Alvarez's fascinating study throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage in one of the most sacred places on earth.  Barbara Teller Ornelas, "Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today" English | ISBN: 099905175X | 2018 | 144 pages | EPUB | 32 MB Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.  Gareth Fry, "Sound Design for the Stage " English | ISBN: 1785005537 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 37 MB This book walks through the process of creating a show, from first contact to press night, with examples from high-profile productions. Topics include analyzing a script to develop ideas; discussing your work with a director; telling the emotional story; working with music; how to record, create, process, and abstract sound; key aspects of acoustics and vocal intelligibility; the politics of radio mics and vocal foldback; designing a sound system; and what to do when things go wrong.  Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea By Nicholas Harkness 2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0520276523 | PDF | 9 MB Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody the social transformations promised by their religion: from superstition to enlightenment; from dictatorship to democracy; from sickness to health; from poverty to wealth; from dirtiness to cleanliness; from sadness to joy; from suffering to grace. Tackling the problematic of voice in anthropology and across a number of disciplines, Songs of Seoul develops an innovative semiotic approach to connecting the materiality of body and sound, the social life of speech and song, and the cultural voicing of perspective and personhood.  Sol-Gel Synthesis Strategies for Tailored Catalytic Materials English | 2023 | ISBN: 303120722X | 141 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB This book discusses the synthesis of catalytic materials with improved and tailored functionalities via the sol-gel method. Beginning with a general outline of traditional sol-gel chemistry, the book gradually explores surrounding topics, such as the formation of porous structures, while guiding the overall discussion toward the synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts and focusing throughout on the structure-activity relationship in catalytic materials. Featuring several case studies covering major current industrial applications, the book is an ideal guide for researchers looking to tailor catalytic materials for a specific catalytic process and thus exploiting the versatility of the "traditional" sol-gel method.  David C. Falcaro, "Sogobujutsu: Psychology, Philosophy, Tradition" English | ISBN: 1475936346 | 2012 | 484 pages | EPUB | 17 MB David C. Falcaro, a longtime martial arts expert, presents this textbook exploring the history, philosophy, codes of conduct, psychology, and traditions of the Neji Gekken Ryu. Falcaro is a Sodenke-that is, he has received scrolls after attainin  Social Policies in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (7) (Social Policies in Small States Series) By Biman Chand Prasad, Paul Kausimae 2012 | 90 Pages | ISBN: 1849290830 | PDF | 2 MB SOCIAL POLICIES IN SMALL STATES SERIESThe country case studies and thematic papers in this series examine social policy issues facing small states and the implications for economic development. They show how, despite their inherent vulnerability, some small states have been successful in improving their social indicators because of the complementary social and economic policies they have implemented. CASE STUDY - SOLOMON ISLANDS AND VANUATU Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are two small states that have struggled to develop successful social policies since gaining independence. This final study in the series traces the history of social development in both countries, examining closely the factors that have hindered progress: the colonial legacy, poor economic development, high population growth, political instability, the lack of social cohesion, mismanagement of resources and natural disasters. The authors argue that for progress to continue both countries need to move away from a reliance on their traditional social structures and focus on political stability and economic growth. |
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