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Free Download Research Techniques for Computer Science, Information Systems and Cybersecurity by Uche M. Mbanaso, Lucienne Abrahams, Kennedy Chinedu Okafor
English | May 25, 2023 | ISBN: 3031300300 | 196 pages | MOBI | 5.68 Mb
This book introduces impact-driven research paths in computer science, information systems and cybersecurity with practical insights, effective instructions, and examples. The book takes the students through the full cycle of research until the point of submission and evaluation. The book begins by providing postgraduate research students with the foundational concepts and techniques to simplify the complexities associated with choosing topics in the computer science (CS), information systems (IS) and cybersecurity (CY) research domains. The authors furnish readers with fundamentals that facilitate active quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research enquiries. The content offers important perspectives on how to think about deepening research in CS, IS and CY, noting that these subjects can be studied from computational sciences, engineering sciences, health sciences, social sciences, or interdisciplinary perspectives. This unique and contemporary book aims to benefit researchers, graduate students and engineers in the fields of computer science, information systems and cybersecurity in particular, in addition to other engineering and technology disciplines.

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Free Download Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture By Maria Pia Di Bella, James Elkins
2012 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0415530377 | PDF | 4 MB
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the Passion to the representations of bloody martyrdoms. The remnants of this tradition are evident in contemporary images from Abu Ghraib. In the last forty years, the body in pain has also emerged as a recurring theme in performance art. Recently, authors such as Elaine Scarry, Susan Sontag, and Giorgio Agamben have written about these themes. The scholars in this volume add to the discussion, analyzing representations of pain in art and the media. Their essays are firmly anchored on consideration of the images, not on whatever actual pain the subjects suffered. At issue is representation, before and often apart from events in the world. Part One concerns practices in which the appearance of pain is understood as expressive. Topics discussed include the strange dynamics of faked pain and real pain, contemporary performance art, international photojournalism, surrealism, and Renaissance and Baroque art. Part Two concerns representations that cannot be readily assigned to that genealogy: the Chinese form of execution known as lingchi (popularly the "death of a thousand cuts"), whippings in the Belgian Congo, American lynching photographs, Boer War concentration camp photographs, and recent American capital punishment. These examples do not comprise a single alternate genealogy, but are united by the absence of an intention to represent pain. The book concludes with a roundtable discussion, where the authors discuss the ethical implications of viewing such images.

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Free Download Repainting the Walls of Lunda: Information Colonialism and Angolan Art By Delinda Collier
2016 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0816694486 | PDF | 7 MB
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola. These reproductions were adapted in postindependence Angolan nationalist art and post-civil war contemporary art. As Delinda Collier recounts, the pictorial narrative foregrounds the complex relationships between content, distribution, and politicization. The result is a nuanced look at the practices of art entangled in political economies as much as in issues of aesthetics.After historicizing the drastic changes in media for the Chokwe images, from sand and dwelling to book and from analog to digital, Collier analyzes the formal and infrastructural logic of the two-dimensional images in their subsequent formats, from postindependence canvas paintings to Internet images. Collier does not view any of these iterations as a negation or obliteration of the previous one. Instead, she argues that the logic of reproductive media envelops the past: each mediation adds another layer of context and content. As Collier sees it, the images' historicity is embedded within these media layers, which many Angolan postindependence artists speak of in terms of ghosts or ancestors when describing their encounter with reproductions of the Chokwe art.If, as Collier contends, "Africa troubles media," this book troubles facile theories and romantic constructions of "analog Africa," boundaries between art and cybernetics, and the firewall between the colonial and the postcolonial.

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English | 2021 | ISBN: B093NCC5Z6 | 490 pages | PDF | 4.37 Mb
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Free Download Religion in the Handmaid's Tale: A Brief Guide By Colette Tennant; Tennant
2019 | 130 Pages | ISBN: 1506456308 | PDF | 3 MB
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale captivates readers with its disturbingly prescient vision of the future and haunting insights into the world as we know it. Religion--especially elements of the Christian faith--pervades every inch of the world as Atwood imagines it. Gilead's leaders use perverse forms of Christianity to sustain their authority and privilege, making understanding religion an integral part of understanding Gilead. In the face of the inextricable role of religion in the novel, readers are left to puzzle out religious references and allusions on their own.From the significance of names to twisted uses of religion to the origins of the Ceremony, this book answers all the questions you might have about religion in this prophetic novel. For anyone who's ever googled a biblical precedent or religious phrase after encountering Atwood's dystopia, this essential guide explains it all and gives readers a fascinating look into the novel and its world. Read it and understand The Handmaid's Tale like never before.

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Free Download Religion and Popular Culture in America By Bruce David Forbes (Editor); Jeffrey H. Mahan (Editor)
2017 | 446 Pages | ISBN: 0520291441 | PDF | 3 MB
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume* gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture* provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives* contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools

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Free Download Rekrutierung - Bindung - Zugehörigkeit: Eine biografieanalytische Studie zur sozialen Welt der Gewerkschaften By Kirstin Bromberg (auth.)
2009 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 3531164449 | PDF | 3 MB
Weshalb treten Menschen einer Organisation bei, und unter welchen Bedingungen entwickelt ein zahlendes Mitglied partizipatorisches Interesse und freiwilliges Engagement? Diesen Fragen, auf die sowohl kleine Vereine als auch große Verbände nach Antworten suchen, geht Kirstin Bromberg in ihrer qualitativen Studie nach. Deren Befunde weisen nicht nur die Begrenztheit zweckrationaler Theorien zur Erklärung von verbandsbezogenen Mitgliedschaften nach. Vielmehr wird entlang empirischer Beispiele gezeigt, dass Zugehörigkeiten stets das Ergebnis einer interaktiven Aushandlung zwischen Akteuren (potenziellen Mitgliedern) und Organisationen sind. Anhand eines eigens entwickelten Theoriemodells zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Individuum und Gruppe stellt die Autorin heraus, dass kollektive Identität als verhandelbares und ausgehandeltes Konstrukt zugleich nicht nur für die hier untersuchten deutschen Gewerkschaften, sondern gleichermaßen für jede organisatorische Form mit Mitgliederbezug gilt. Hiermit stellt sich die Untersuchung in die interaktionstheoretische Tradition der Chicago-Soziologie und erbringt zugleich eine zentrale Transferleistung für andere mitgliederbezogene Verbände und Organisationen.

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Free Download Reichtum und Vermögen: Zur gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der Reichtums- und Vermögensforschung By Dr. Wolfgang Lauterbach, Miriam Ströing M.A. (auth.), Dr. Thomas Druyen, Dr. Wolfgang Lauterbach, Dr. Matthias Grundmann (eds.)
2009 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 3531159283 | PDF | 2 MB
Die jüngsten finanz- und gesellschaftspolitischen Ereignisse rücken Fragen zur Bedeutung von Wohlstand, Reichtum und Vermögen in ein neues Licht. So ist in den letzten Jahren in vielen Gesellschaften der Anteil Wohlhabender und Reicher gestiegen und damit auch die Notwendigkeit, ihre gesellschaftliche Teilhabe transparent zu machen. Diese globale Entwicklung erfordert ein neues Denken über die Bedeutung dieser Gruppen in und für die Gesellschaft. Auch wenn Reichtum ein „scheues Wild" ist, sind die Anstrengungen verstärkt worden, diesen Mythos zu enträtseln. Neben die etablierte Reichtumsforschung trat die Vermögensforschung. Gemeinsam wurden theoretische Positionen überdacht und Begriffe wie beispielsweise Verantwortung, Engagement, Ungleichheit, Erbschaften und Generationen neu diskutiert. Im Anschluss an eine zu diesem Thema durchgeführte Tagung gibt der vorliegende Band einen umfassenden Überblick zu derartigen Fragen. Vorgestellt werden neue empirische Ergebnisse und theoretische Positionen zum gesellschaftlichen Engagement Vermögender, dem Sozialprofil sowie dem Lebensstil von Reichen und der Genese von Wohlstand und Reichtum.

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Free Download Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective By Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson (auth.), Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson (eds.)
2013 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 9400730179 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to psychometric measurement, and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing that enable comparison across time and place, at both individual and population levels. The second is the interest among anthropologists and others in the lived experience of chronic illness and disability, including the unpredictable fluctuations in perceived health and capability. Chronic conditions and physical impairments are assumed to impact negatively on people's quality of life, affecting them psychologically, socially and economically. While some of these conditions have declined in prevalence, as a result of prenatal diagnosis, early successful interventions, and changes in medical technology and surgery, many of these conditions are on the increase as a consequence of improved life-saving medication and technology, and greater longevity. 'Quality of life' is often used as an indicator for successful and high quality health services, and good access to medical attention and surgery - for hip replacements or laser surgery to improve vision, for instance. But it is also used as an argument against interventions, when such interventions are seen to prolong life for its own sake. Yet we also know that people vary their idea of quality as a result of the context of fluctuations in their own health status, the presence or absence of pain or discomfort, and as a result of variations in social and economic contextual factors. In exploring these questions, this volume contributes to emerging debates related to individual health outcomes, but also to the social and other individual determinants that influence everyday life. Understanding these broader contextual factors will contribute to our knowledge of the kinds of services, support systems, and infrastructure that provide people with good 'quality of life' and a sense of wellbeing, regardless of their physical health, capability and functioning. The volume includes scholars from all continents who have been encouraged to think critically, and to engage with the descriptive, methodological, social, policy and clinical implications of their work.

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Free Download Reflexiver Sprachgebrauch: Diktumscharakterisierung aus Gricescher Sicht By Jörg Hagemann (auth.)
1997 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 3531130846 | PDF | 6 MB
Dr. Jörg Hagemann ist wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Germanistischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg.

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