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![]() Free Download Julia for Data Science (MEAP V03) English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781633438699 | 228 pages | MOBI | 1.47 Mb Julia for Data Science tests and improves your Julia skills on the kind of tasks data scientists perform every day. These challenging projects will work out your Julia skills for importing, cleaning, manipulating, and visualizing data. As you read, you'll learn to take advantage of Julia's full potential, as you develop high-performance deep learning algorithms and tackle supervised and unsupervised learning. ![]() Free Download Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants By Susan A. Ambrose; Barbara B. Lazarus 1997 | 461 Pages | ISBN: 1566395275 | PDF | 87 MB Today the image of the scientist is still that of a white man in a white lab coat. This book questions this stereotype and the assumption that the practitioners of science and engineering have a uniform look and follow one particular path through life. The scientists and engineers featured in this book are all women. They come from different races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. They have different sexual orientations. Some have disabilities.The core of this important book is 88 profiles with photographs of women scientists and engineers whose diversity is stunning. Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering includes research scientists and engineers in areas from biochemistry to mathematics, from neuroscience to computer science, from animal science to civil engineering. It includes those who have made careers in public service-people like Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the recent U.S. Surgeon General; Dr. Susan Love, the breast cancer activist; and Rhea L. Graham, the first woman and first African American director of the Bureau of Mines. It includes Nobel Prize winners, beginning assistant professors, division directors of corporations, and even an engineering school dean.The indexes by field of speciality make it easy for the reader to compare the life stories of, for example, all the chemical engineers or all the mathematicians. There is also an index by employment sector. The book begins with a thorough introduction to the history of women in science and engineering. ![]() Free Download Islam At The Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks By Diane Moczar 2011 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 1933184256 | PDF | 2 MB Historian Diane Moczar pulls back the curtain on one of the most important acts in the drama of Muslim aggression against the West: the 500-year-long siege of Europe by the Ottoman Turks. Tracing the rise of the Turkish people from wandering Asian tribe to mighty pan-continental empire, Islam at the Gates chronicles the heroes and villains, the battles and atrocities, the tragic errors and timely miracles, that marked the Ottomans incursions from Europe s borders to the very heart of Christendom; and then, by the grace of God, their eventual repulsion and final defeat.In these pages you'll encounter:The bold sultans, timid emperors, and vile traitors who aided the Turkish advance and the popes who tirelessly preached Crusade against itBrave saints who rallied Christian forces against the invaders including the hardy warrior-monk who died in battle at the age of sixty-oneThe island fortress whose rag-tag defenders continually thwarted superior numbers of Ottoman attackers defying even the great sultan SuleimanThe suffering of millions of Christian families in occupied lands their children kidnapped and forced into Muslim armies and haremsFolk heroes from the hills of Hungary and Albania who rose up against their Ottoman overlords and whose guerilla tactics inspired their peopleThe tragic fall of Constantinople, seat of Eastern Christianity its people slaughtered, its treasures plundered, its sacred places befouled Europe s pivotal, improbable pair of victories at Lepanto and Vienna, and the defeat of the last great Turkish offensive on September 11, 1697Solid history and dramatic narrative make Islam at the Gates a moving look at Europe s long struggle against the Turks.But the author s shrewd Catholic outlook also makes it an edifying one. Had these events unfolded just a little differently, Christian civilization might have been conquered by the sword of Allah. If we fail to learn the lessons of history, Dr. Moczar warns, the West may yet fall.Table of Contents:-1. The Ottomans Come on the Scene2. Ottoman Success in the Fifteenth Century3. The City Falls and the Heroes Die4. The Suffering of the Balkans5. Albania, Rhodes, Otranto6. A Semi-Peaceful Interlude7. Jihad at Sea8. Hungary's Passion9. The Anti-Jihad Victorious: Lepanto to Vienna and After10. Islam at the Gates Once More
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