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 Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference By Frederick J. Antczak, Cinda Coggins, Geoffrey D. Klinger 2002 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0805841369 | PDF | 19 MB Representing current theory and research in rhetoric, this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical, critical, historical, and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work that has previously been silenced or unrecognized, including Native American, African American, Latino, and women's rhetorics. Others explore rhetoric's relationship to performance and to the body, or to revising canons, stases, topoi, and pisteis. Still others are reworking the rhetorical lexicon to comprise contemporary theory. Among these diverse interests, rhetoricians find common themes and share intellectual and pedagogical enterprises that hold them together even as their institutional situations keep them apart. Topics discussed in this collection include: *Rhetoric as figurality; comparative and contrastive rhetorics; rhetoric and gender; and rhetorics of science and technology; *Rhetoric and reconceptions of the public sphere; rhetoric and public memory; and rhetorics of globalization and social change, including issues of race, ethnicity, and nationalism; *Rhetoric's institutionalized place in the academy, in relation to other humanities and to the interpretive social sciences; and *The place of rhetoric in the formation of departments and the development of pedagogy With its origins in the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference, this volume represents the range and vitality of current scholarship in rhetoric. The conversations contained herein indicate that professing rhetoric is, at the turn of the millennium, an intellectual activity that engages with and helps formulate the most important public and scholarly questions of today. As such, it will be engaging reading for scholars and students, and is certain to provoke further thought, discussion, and exploration.  Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy: A Transatlantic Perspective By Nathalie Greenan, Yannick L'Horty, Jacques Mairesse 2002 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 0262072335 | PDF | 2 MB The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and Europe have seen increased wage inequalities between skilled and unskilled workers.This book explores the computer's puzzling effects on the economy, at both the micro and macro levels. The contributions include data from field work, small samples of firms, and national surveys of management practice; econometric studies; and macroeconomic theoretical analysis.  Production LLM Systems: A Complete Guide to Building, Deploying, and Operating Reliable Large Language Model Applications English | December 19, 2025 | ASIN: B0G94BHK2F | 139 pages | PDF | 1.82 MB Production LLM Systems is not about experimenting with language models, it is about making them work, reliably, at scale, in the real world. This book is a practical, engineering-first guide to building, deploying, and operating Large Language Model applications in production environments. It focuses on what actually breaks after the demo succeeds: data pipelines, retrieval systems, prompt stability, latency, cost control, security, observability, and long-term maintainability. Rather than chasing hype, it shows how production LLM systems are designed, hardened, and operated by teams that need predictable behavior, measurable performance, and business-grade reliability. Inside, you will learn how to move from fragile prototypes to resilient systems. You will understand how to prepare and govern data for LLM use, design Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that scale, engineer prompts and workflows that remain stable under load, and choose between prompting, fine-tuning, and model adaptation with clarity. You will see how modern deployment stacks are assembled, how inference is optimized for cost and latency, and how LLMOps practices bring observability, security, and governance into everyday operations. This book stands apart because it treats LLMs as production systems, not research artifacts. It connects architecture decisions to operational consequences. It explains why certain patterns fail in real deployments and how to design alternatives that last. Every concept is grounded in real engineering constraints, modern tooling, and lessons learned from deploying LLMs in enterprise and product environments. If you are an ML engineer, software engineer, data scientist, architect, or technical leader responsible for putting LLMs into production, this book gives you a clear path forward. You will gain the confidence to design systems that scale, control costs, reduce risk, and survive beyond the first release. If you are ready to stop treating LLMs as experiments and start operating them as dependable systems, this book was written for you.  Procreate for Digital Artists: Sharpen your digital art skills with over 50 expert-led walkthroughs by Mellisa Aning English | September 12, 2025 | ISBN: 183508298X | 316 pages | EPUB | 53 Mb Turn your iPad and iPhone into professional art studios with step-by-step instructions to enhance your creativity and overcome digital art challenges  Process Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, and Tolerant Control for Complex Industrial Systems: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Steven X. Ding on the ... in Control and Information Sciences, 148) by Hao Luo, Zhiwen Chen, Linlin Li English | November 28, 2025 | ISBN: 9819690323 | 772 pages | PDF | 50 Mb This open access book details fault diagnosis, prognosis, and tolerant control for complex industrial systems. It is also dedicated to Professor Steven X. Ding for his retirement. This book proposes data-driven quality-related fault diagnosis schemes based on space projection for linear/nonlinear systems. It also introduces credible and efficient fault prognosis techniques for complex industrial systems. It combines fault detection and re-configuration toward the design of fault-tolerant control methods. It will be a useful reference for students and researchers working on fault diagnosis.  Nat Gopalswamy, "Proceedings of the United Nations/Germany Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative: ISWI 2024, 10-14 June, Neustrelitz, Germany" English | ISBN: 9819511208 | 2025 | 324 pages | EPUB | 64 MB This book presents peer reviewed articles from the United Nations/Germany Workshop on International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI 2024) held from 10 to 15 June at Neustrelitz, Germany. It highlights the current status of global space weather research, especially in developing countries. The topics of the workshop cover the entire Sun Earth system starting from the Sun where most space weather originates and the impact at various points in the inner heliosphere including those on Earth's surface.  Proceedings of the Ninth International Scientific Conference "Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry" (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems) by Sergey Kovalev, Igor Kotenko, Andrey Sukhanov English | December 19, 2025 | ISBN: 3032136148 | 766 pages | PDF | 69 Mb The book is written by the experts in the field of applied artificial intelligence including topics such as machine learning, explainable AI, decision-making, fuzzy logic, multi-agent, and bioinspired systems including their modern applications. The following industrial implementations were touched: railway automation, cyber security, intelligent medical systems, navigation systems. The editors believe that this book will be helpful for all scientists and engineers interested in the modern state of applied artificial intelligence.  Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2024, Volume 9: Hydrotechnical (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 709) by Amir H. Azimi, Clare Robinson English | November 23, 2025 | ISBN: 3031951069 | 407 pages | PDF | 27 Mb This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2024. The contents of this volume focus on a specialty conferences in hydrotechnical engineering. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.  Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2024, Volume 14: Structural Engineering (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 731) by Ehab Elsalakawy, Ahmed Elshaer, Ayman El Ansary English | November 23, 2025 | ISBN: 3032010772 | 417 pages | PDF | 50 Mb This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2024. The contents of this volume focus on specialty conferences in structural engineering. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.  Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering―Volume 11; ICONE 2025, 22-26 June, Weihai, China: Computational Fluid Dynamics ... I (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 338) by Sichao Tan, Weiqiang Xu, Yanyan Zhu English | November 23, 2025 | ISBN: 9819534003 | 613 pages | PDF | 64 Mb This is the 11th volume of the proceeding papers from the 32nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE 32). This book covers the topics of Track 8: computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and applications. |
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