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 Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks: The How and Why of Bird Names (Pelagic Monographs) by Ray Reedman English | October 15, 2016 | ISBN: 178427092X | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 46.99/66.4 MB The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack. Why do bird names, both common and scientific, change over time and why do they vary so much between different parts of the English-speaking world? Wandering through the scientific and cultural history of ornithology takes us to the heart of understanding the long relationship between birds and people.  Wallace D. Best, "Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1479847399, 1479834890 | PDF | pages: 310 | 13.1 mb Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion  Landscapes of Inequity: Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region By Nicholas A. Robins; Barbara J. Fraser 2020 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1496208021 | PDF | 7 MB The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered.Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamental questions that inform the debate in the western Amazon basin, from the Andes Mountains to the tropical lowlands. Beginning with an examination of the divergent conceptual interpretations of environmental justice, the volume explores the issue from two interlocking perspectives: of indigenous peoples and of economic development in a global economy. The volume concludes by examining the efficacy of laws and policies concerning the environment in the region, the viability and range of judicial recourse, and future directions in the field of environmental justice.  Senior Teaching Staff of Kripalu Center, Robert Bull, "Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat" English | 2005 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0553380974 | EPUB | 13,0 mb "Over an extraordinary thirty year history, Kripalu Center has been a pioneer in combining authentic yoga with a contemporary Western lifestyle." -John Abbott, President, Yoga Journal  Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 2022 English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031175824 | 347 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 28 MB This book contains extended versions of the works and new research results presented at the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering (JCKBSE2022). JCKBSE2022 was originally planned to take place in Larnaca, Cyprus. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to be rescheduled as an online conference.  Richard Cust, Andrew Thrush, "King James VI/I and his English Parliaments" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0198205066 | PDF | pages: 250 | 5.4 mb King James VI and I and his English Parliaments is a posthumously published work by Conrad Russell, the foremost historian of his generation working on early Stuart parliaments, and is based on the Trevelyan lectures which he delivered at the University of Cambridge. It provides a chronological narrative of the early English Parliaments of James VI and I, covering in detail the four sessions of the 1604-1610 Parliament and the Addled Parliament of 1614, with a final chapter looking towards the parliaments of the 1620s.  Karen L Smith, Sherry Roberts, Gary Cavanah, "Killing Heel Pain: Your Final Freedom from Plantar Fasciitis" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0998167533 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 2.1 mb Written by a foot expert, Killing Heel Pain is the "how-to" guide for getting rid of plantar fasciitis as quickly and effectively as possible! The user-friendly layout features: helpful anatomical illustrations, a "cut-to-the chase" question-answer format and easy-to-follow "key points" and "action steps" for final freedom from this life-intrusive condition. Straightforward answers to all of a plantar fasciitis sufferer's burning questions:  Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" English | ISBN: 147801895X | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 8 MB In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts where marginally housed youth regularly lived beginning in the late 1800s, Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present. He draws on archival, ethnographic, oral history, and public humanities research to outline the queer kinship networks, religious practices, performative storytelling, and migratory patterns that allowed these kids to foster social support and mutual aid. He shows how they collectively and creatively managed the social trauma they experienced, in part by building relationships with johns, bartenders, hotel managers, bouncers, and other vice district denizens. By highlighting a politics where the marginal position of street kids is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity, Plaster excavates a history of queer life that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride.  Key Issues for Mountain Areas By Libor F. Jansky; Martin F. Price 2004 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 9280811029 | PDF | 3 MB Mountain areas cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface, with 26 percent of the global population living in them or very close by. Mountain people and mountain environments are particularly threatened by global environmental change and economic and political forces. A disproportionate number of conflicts occur in mountain regions, and their inhabitants include many of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. How can we preserve fragile mountain ecosystems that provide critical goods and services, while improving the conditions of those who live there? This book explores these issues, with particular emphasis on appropriate institutions and policies for sustainable mountain development. The book includes information from the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, the concluding global event of the International Year of Mountains 2002.
 Kernel Based Algorithms for Mining Huge Data Sets: Supervised, Semi-supervised, and Unsupervised Learning by Te-Ming Huang , Vojislav Kecman , Ivica Kopriva English | PDF(True) | 2006 | 266 Pages | ISBN : 3540316817 | 5.2 MB "Kernel Based Algorithms for Mining Huge Data Sets" is the first book treating the fields of supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning collectively. The book presents both the theory and the algorithms for mining huge data sets by using support vector machines (SVMs) in an iterative way. It demonstrates how kernel based SVMs can be used for dimensionality reduction (feature elimination) and shows the similarities and differences between the two most popular unsupervised techniques, the principal component analysis (PCA) and the independent component analysis (ICA). The book presents various examples, software, algorithmic solutions enabling the reader to develop their own codes for solving the problems. |
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