Henri Bergson, Cloudesley Brereton M.A., Fred Rothwell B.A., "Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1719521182 | ASIN: B00A62YHWO | EPUB | pages: 90 | 0.4 mb
In this great philosophical essay, Henri Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter means. Written at the turn of the twentieth century, Laughter explores what it is in language that makes a joke funny and what it is in us that makes us laugh.

Last trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England By Charles Loft
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1849545006 | EPUB | 3 MB
During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric - or even atomic - express trains. But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure and on the roads traffic ground to a halt.Along came Dr Beeching, forensically analysing the railways' problems and delivering an expert's diagnosis a third of the nation's railways must go. This was the point at which the reality of modernisation dawned and rural England fell victim to the road and car - at least that is how Dr Beeching is remembered today. Last Trains examines why and how the railway system contracted, exposing the political failures that bankrupted the railways and examining officials' attempts to understand a transport revolution beyond their control.It is a story of the increasing alienation of bureaucrats from the public they thought they were serving, but also of a nation that thinks it lives in the countryside trying to come to terms with modernity.

Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism By Richard Gaskin
2013 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0199657904 | PDF | 6 MB
According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world and make statements about that world which are of cognitive as well as aesthetic value; the two kinds of value are indeed intimately connected. Richard Gaskin offers a defence of literary humanism, so understood, against assault from two directions. On the one hand, some analytic aestheticians have argued that works of literature do not bear referentially on the world and do not make true statements about it; others hold that such works do not make a contribution to knowledge; others again allow that works of literature may have cognitive value, but deny that this depends on their having truth or reference. On the other hand, reception-theorists and deconstructionists have rejected the humanist's objectivist conception of literary meaning, and typically take a pragmatist and anti-realist approach to truth and meaning. This latter, poststructuralist treatment of literature has often been accompanied by a radical politicization of its study. In defending literary humanism against these various forms of attack, Gaskin shows that the reading and appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation, and that we can and should engage in it disinterestedly for the sake of what can be learnt about the world and our place in it.

Language Processing and Knowledge in the Web: 25th International Conference, GSCL 2013, Darmstadt, Germany, September 25-27, 2013. Proceedings By Noëmi Aepli, Martin Volk (auth.), Iryna Gurevych, Chris Biemann, Torsten Zesch (eds.)
2013 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 3642407218 | PDF | 6 MB
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge in the Web, GSCL 2013, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in September 2013. The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions and cover topics on language processing and knowledge in the Web on several important dimensions, such as computational linguistics, language technology, and processing of unstructured textual content in the Web.

Ken Porter, Stephen Wynn, "Laindon in the Great War"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1783463651 | 224 pages | EPUB | 10.5 MB
Laindon in the Great War is a detailed account of how the war impacted on Laindon and the surrounding district, known today as Basildon, from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, to the long-awaited peace of 1918.

Knowledge Discovery from Multi-Sourced Data
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811918783 | 162 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This book addresses several knowledge discovery problems on multi-sourced data where the theories, techniques, and methods in data cleaning, data mining, and natural language processing are synthetically used. This book mainly focuses on three data models: the multi-sourced isomorphic data, the multi-sourced heterogeneous data, and the text data. On the basis of three data models, this book studies the knowledge discovery problems including truth discovery and fact discovery on multi-sourced data from four important properties: relevance, inconsistency, sparseness, and heterogeneity, which is useful for specialists as well as graduate students. Data, even describing the same object or event, can come from a variety of sources such as crowd workers and social media users. However, noisy pieces of data or information are unavoidable. Facing the daunting scale of data, it is unrealistic to expect humans to "label" or tell which data source is more reliable. Hence, it is crucial to identify trustworthy information from multiple noisy information sources, referring to the task of knowledge discovery. At present, the knowledge discovery research for multi-sourced data mainly faces two challenges. On the structural level, it is essential to consider the different characteristics of data composition and application scenarios and define the knowledge discovery problem on different occasions. On the algorithm level, the knowledge discovery task needs to consider different levels of information conflicts and design efficient algorithms to mine more valuable information using multiple clues. Existing knowledge discovery methods have defects on both the structural level and the algorithm level, making the knowledge discovery problem far from totally solved.

Sanders Marble, "King of Battle: Artillery in World War I"
English | 2016 | pages: 395 | ISBN: 9004305246 | PDF | 5,0 mb
In King of Battle: Artillery in World War I a distinguished array of authors examines the centrepiece of battle in the Great War, artillery. Going beyond tables of calibres and ranges, they look at organization, training, personnel, doctrine, and technologies.

Gerben Van den Berg, Paul Pietersma, "Key Management Models, 3rd Edition: The 75+ Models Every Manager Needs to Know"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1292016272 | EPUB | pages: 344 | 6.5 mb
This best selling management book is a true classic. If you want to be a model manager, keep this new, even better 3rd edition close at hand.

Kama sutra Sex Guide for Couples: Ignite the passion and the intimacy in your bedroom
with these 200 illustrated positions. Revolutionize your sex life with the secrets of tantric sex and dirty talk
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B4GRHYKX | 70 Pages | PDF EPUB | 2.29 MB

Patrick Bruskiewich, "Johannes Kepler, the Keplerian Revolution and his Three Planetary Laws"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00DC2Z8Y6 | EPUB | pages: 48 | 0.2 mb
The great 17th century German mathematician and natural philosopher Johannes Kepler was in the truest sense a Pythagorean. He believed, as Pythagoras did many centuries before, that the world around us could be measured and understood in terms of numbers. Measurement was the key.