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Start your reading journey today on DL4ALL.org and unlock a world of imagination, knowledge, and inspiration!  Speech Technologies by Ivo Ipsic English | 2011 | ISBN: n/a | ISBN: 9789533079967 | 432 pages | PDF | 25,6 MB This book addresses different aspects of the research field and a wide range of topics in speech signal processing, speech recognition and language processing. The chapters are divided in three different sections: Speech Signal Modeling, Speech Recognition and Applications.  Species. New Interdisciplinary Essays By Robert A. Wilson 1999 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 0262731231 | PDF | 43 MB "This is a fresh, well-conceived collection on one of the most persistent problems in the philosophy of biology--the species problem. Unlike most anthologies, but like many species, it is cohesive and integrated." -- Robert N. Brandon, Professor of Philsophy and Zoology, Duke UniversityThe concept of species has played a central role in both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology, and has been the focus of a number of books in recent years. This book differs from other recent collections in two ways. It is more explicitly integrative and analytical, centering on issues of general significance such as pluralism and realism about species. It also draws on a broader range of disciplines and brings neglected cognitive, anthropological, and historical dimensions to philosophical debates over species.The chapters are organized around five themes: unity, integration, and pluralism; species realism; historical dimensions; cognitive underpinnings; and practical import. The contributors include prominent researchers from anthropology, botany, developmental psychology, the philosophy of biology and science, protozoology, and zoology.Contributors: Scott Atran, Richard Boyd, Kevin de Queiroz, John Dupré, Marc Ereshefsky, Paul E. Griffiths, David L. Hull, Frank C. Keil, Brent D. Mishler, David L. Nanney, Daniel C. Richardson, Kim Sterelny, Robet A. Wilson.  Speaking, Actually:: Towards a New 'Fluid' Common-Sense Understanding of Relational Becomings by Everything is Connected Press English | October 18, 2016 | ISBN: 0993072348 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 0.488 Mb This is a philosophy book for psychotherapists, psychologists, organisational consultants and scholars who are interested in the construction of each other and our social worlds, how we make meaning together and move along with people in dialogue. It is a book written to get beyond superficial and fake talking practices. John Shotter goes further than a purely cognitive understanding of what it means to be human and shows us different ways of appreciating the nuanced movements in acts of developing relational know-how to create new ways of being - and becoming.Ann L. Cunliffe, Professor of Management, University of Bradford: "It is impossible to capture in a few words all the fine detail and nuances of this beautifully crafted book, it invites careful reading. The title brings together the key themes of John's work across time, themes that invite and challenge us to go beyond taken-for-granted ways of thinking to engage differently with our social world, our place within it, and our ways of generating knowledge. Crucially, he argues we need to develop a discursive consciousness, to make a difference that matters by 'humanifying' ourselves as practitioners and scholars."Harlene Anderson, PhD, Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute, USA: "Shotter develops his challenge of our dependence on existing theoretical perspectives and their representations suggesting these orient us to, and reinforce, the familiar, blinding us to the nuances, uniqueness, and previously unseen or ignored details of our everyday lives and the people in it. His illuminated challenge draws on his remarkable grasp and interpretation of classic philosophers such as Bakhtin, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and contemporary critical thinkers such as Barad, Bertau, and Lipari." Peter Rober, Professor of Family Therapy, KU Leuven, Nederlands: "John Shotter is a thinker. Thinking has become quite unusual in academic psychology nowadays, dominated as it is by a narrow empirical perspective, and a distrust of philosophical reflection. This book is required reading for all family therapists who are interested in the dialogical perspective. But be warned: this is far from a manual. It is food for reflection. This book of Shotter's is important, as it urges us to be careful with the language we use. The words we casually speak can keep us captive in our usual, individualistic-rationalistic-mechanistic ways of dealing with things, resulting in a world of fragmentation and separation. It is a rich book, that (not withstanding its urgency) should be savored slowly. Like a good wine." Jim Wilson, Systemic Psychotherapist & past Chair, The Family Institute, Cardiff: "Take this book, read it and ponder on how it influences your ways of meeting in social relations in your life. Shotter's strong and committed voice of dissent towards academic modernist psychology rings throughout the text. Instead of grand claims toward generalised truths, he emphasises the significance of local, proximal and familial, as the sites of fresh beginnings and new possibilities. In Shotter's eyes we can see optimism in achieving important human connections in the apparently ordinary ways of being and becoming. In this comprehensive text, he sets out to challenge the over-emphasis in the fields of modernist research that would have us believe that science will provide the necessary answers to complex matters of human livingness." Kenneth Gergen, Senior Research Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College and Taos Institute USA: "John Shotter generously shares with us his rich and illuminating conversations with a host of textual friends. Indeed, these conversations - with their flowing forms without formulations, disclosings without closings - exemplify the major thrust of this inspiring work. Life and love are to be found in sensitive, sensual, and unceasing dialogue."  Rafael Orozco, "Spanish in Colombia and New York City: Language contact meets dialectal convergence " English | ISBN: 9027200378 | 2018 | 209 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume fills a void in language variation and change research. It is the first to provide an empirical, comparative study of Spanish in Colombia and New York City. Remarkable similarities in the linguistic conditioning on language variation in both communities contrast with interesting differences in the effects of social predictors. The book provides a window into the effects of language and dialect contact on change and serves as a model for studies comparing diasporic populations to their home speech communities.  Spaces of Capital. Towards a Critical Geography By David Harvey 2001 | 221 Pages | ISBN: 0415932408 | PDF | 46 MB David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era, possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities. Spaces of Capital, a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades, demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact. The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the relationship between geographical thought and political power as well as the capitalist production of space. In addition, he chips away at geography's pretenses of "scientific" neutrality and grounds spatial theory in social justice. Harvey also reflects on the work and careers of little-noticed or misrepresented figures in geography's intellectual history-Kant, Von Thünen, Humboldt, Lattimore, Hegel, Heidegger, Darwin, Malthus, Foucault and many others.  Dan Linehan, "SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History" English | ISBN: 0760339880 | 2011 | 160 pages | PDF | 120 MB "One of the most remarkable accomplishments in our conquest of gravity." - Sir Arthur C. Clarke  Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy: Brains Before Bullets by George A. Dunn, Jason T. Eber Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 1118641574 | 264 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of ...  Something Warm from the Oven: Baking Memories, Making Memories by Eileen Goudge English | November 29th, 2011 | ISBN: 9781453223062 | 490 pages | True EPUB | 3.02 MB A trove of classic recipes from the New York Times bestselling novelist Eileen Goudge  Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East by Stephanie Cronin English | ISBN: 1107190843, 1316641252 | 316 pages | EPUB | January 28, 2021 | 2.51 Mb Histories of Iran, as of the wider Middle East, have been dominated by the twin narratives of top-down modernization and methodological nationalism. In this book, Stephanie Cronin problematizes both of these narratives. Its attention is firmly fixed on subaltern social groups: the 'dangerous classes' and their constructed contrast with the new and avowedly modern bourgeois elite created by the infant Pahlavi state; the hungry poor pitted against the deregulation and globalization of the late nineteenth century Iranian economy; rural criminals of every variety, bandits, smugglers and pirates, and the profoundly ambiguous attitudes towards them of the communities from which they came. In foregrounding these groups, the book also seeks to move beyond a narrow national context, demonstrating, through a series of case-studies, the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the study of the social history of the Middle East.  Hartmut Rosa, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, "Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0231148356 | 512 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. |
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