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Free Download Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, "Traces: Generating What Was There"
English | ISBN: 3110534789 | 2017 | 122 pages | EPUB | 41 MB
Traces keep time and make the past visible. As such, they continue to be a fundamental resource for scientific knowledge production in modernity. While the art of trace reading is a millennia-old practice, tracings are specifically produced in the photographic archive or in the scientific laboratory. The material traces of the forms represent the objects and causes to which they owe their existence while making them invisible at the moment of their visualization. By looking at different techniques for the production of traces and their changes over two centuries, the contributions show the continuities they have, both in the laboratories and in large colliders of particle physics. This volume, inspired by Carlo Ginzburg's early works, formulates a theory of traces for the 21st century.

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Free Download Toxicology of Biological Communication: Lessons from Endocrine Disruptors and the Exposome
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031830180 | 109 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
Communication is vital for biological systems. This book covers how environmental stressors can disrupt these communications leading to adverse outcomes and goes beyond endocrine disruption. Since the endocrine system is primarily a communication system, endocrine disruption is the clearest example of communication toxicology. However, other physiological systems rely heavily on communication and therefore its disruption by toxicants can have considerable impacts. This is illustrated with the effects of toxicants on the nervous and the immune system. The exposome concept has considerably changed the field of toxicology as it tends to integrate different exposures and highlights their interactions. This book discusses how it has also fueled the relevance of communication between different systems to better understand the mechanisms of toxicity. The dialogue between chemicals and the dietary imbalance as well as between chemicals and psycho-social stress is further discussed and integrated into the global communication disruption concept. This book is intended for researchers, scientists, students, NGO experts, and all interested citizens with some biological background.

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Free Download Towards a Digital Renaissance: The evolution of creativity, values and business from cyberspace to the metaverse by Jeremy Silver
English | December 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1800815158 | 288 pages | EPUB | 0.57 Mb
Towards a Digital Renaissance traces the excitement and optimism of the early internet, the outsider cyberpunk ethic and open access. But it also monitors the more complex but ultimately more commercialised online world of today, a world dominated by corporate business in which many feel that surveillance has become overwhelming.

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Free Download Peter K. Kresl, "Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City"
English | ISBN: 1839107472 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness.

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Free Download Rong Chen, "Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics "
English | ISBN: 311078758X | 2022 | 346 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.

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Effect of Inclination and Anteversion Angle on the Performance of Epoxy-UHMWPE Acetabular Cup
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819609747 | 111 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 29 MB

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Free Download Bingchuan Bian, "Topological Optimization of Buckling"
English | ISBN: 3110461161 | 2018 | 351 pages | EPUB | 71 MB
This book discusses the application of independent continuous mapping method in predicting and the optimization of the mechanical performance of buckling with displacement, stress and static constrains. Each model is explained by mathematical theories and followed by simulation with frequently-used softwares. With abundant project data, the book is an essential reference for mechanical engineers, structural engineers and industrial designers.

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Free Download Top Stocks 2025: A Sharebuyer's Guide to Leading Australian Companies by Martin Roth
English | November 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1394248830 | 224 pages | PDF | 3.81 Mb
Australia's best-selling guide for smart investing in the sharemarket

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Free Download Tools, Totems, and Totalities: The Modern Construction of Hegemonic Technology
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819787076 | 231 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer-anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer questions not only about why modern societies have great expectations of technology, but also of why these technologies often fail to meet expectations. Modern societies often search for technological solutions ("technofixes") to what are institutional problems, which include border crossings or urban mobility, or improvements in productivity or improved communication. It is disappointing when technofixes, whether border walls or driverless cars or social media, fail to live up to their promises of greater personal autonomy (such as afforded by driverless cars) or improved social harmony through social media. Examining technology from the perspectives of instrumentality ("tools"), identity ("totems"), and world-defining systems ("totalities") develops a comprehensive perspective that is at once historically informed and cross-culturally accurate. Although instrumentality is obvious and is at the core of any understanding of technology, identity is less so; yet many modern "tribes" create their identity in terms of technological objects and systems, whether transport systems (cars and airplanes) or social media or weapons (guns). Further, modern technologies span the globe, so that they exert imperative coordination over distant populations; the use of cell phones around the world is testimony to this fact. Such a critical perspective on technology can be useful in policy discussions of numerous issues affecting contemporary institutions.

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Free Download Stefan Kostka, "Tonal Harmony Ed 9"
English | ISBN: 1264094752 | 2023 | 704 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Post-Tonal Music is intended for a two-year course in music theory/harmony. It offers a clear and thorough introduction to the resources and practice of Western music from the seventeenth century to the present day. Its concise, one-volume format and flexible approach make the book usable in a broad range of theory curricula. For a generation of professionals in the musical community, Tonal Harmony has provided a comprehensive, yet accessible and highly practical, set of tools for understanding music. With McGraw Hill's Connect®, students are better equipped to understand and master the vocabulary of music efficiently, allowing them to move on more quickly to advanced musical skill-building.

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