Zachary Beckstead, "Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes"
English | 2015 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 1681230186, 1681230194 | PDF | 4,7 mb
Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaning-making processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics and linguistics, this book brings recursion and recursive processes to the foreground of psychological processes. One unifying claim among the diverse chapters in this book is that recursion and recursive processes are at the core of complex social and psychological processes. Recursion is bound up with the notion of re-turning, re-examining, re-flecting and circling back, and these processes allow for human beings to simultaneously distance themselves from the here-and-now settings (by imaging the past and future) while being immersed in them. The objective of this book is not simply to celebrate the complexity of human living, but to extend the notion of recursion, recursivity and recursive processes into the realm of social and psychological processes beyond the arenas in which these ideas have currently thrived. Cultural Psychology of Recursivity shows that in spite of the difficulty in defining recursivity, self-referencing (looping), transformation (generativity), complexity, and holism constitute its core characteristics and provide the basis for which authors in this book explore and elaborate this concept. Still, each contribution has its own unique take on recursivity and how it is applied to their phenomenon of investigation. Chapters in this book examine how recursive processes are related to and basic aspects of play and ritual, imitation, identity exploration, managing stigma, and commemorative practices. This book is intended for psychologists, sociologists, and mathematicians. Use of the book in post-graduate and graduate level of university teaching is expected in seminar format teaching occasions.

Sergio Salvatore, Tania Zittoun, "Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Synthesis"
English | 2011 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 1617355143, 1617355151 | PDF | 7,2 mb
This book explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyzes the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried to apply an enriched theoretical framework in developmental and clinical empirical work. The first section presents editors' theoretical proposition for an integration of one particular stream of psychoanalysis within sociocultural psychology, which emphasizes both the dialogical and the semiotic nature of psychological dynamics. The second section pursues this theoretical dialogue through a historical perspective. The third section pursues the implications of this parallel reasoning. It invites researchers that propose further syntheses between some strands of psychoanalysis and approaches within social and cultural psychology. The contributions collected in this section show how sociocultural psychology and psychoanalysis can complement each other, when it comes to tracing the emergence of meaning in actual interactive settings. Showing historical common roots, epistemological similarities, and theoretical complementarities, this book intends to suggests how the encounter and reciprocal contamination between cultural psychology and psychoanalysis could provide innovative theoretical and methodological syntheses. Through the various contributions three directions of development emerge as particularly promising for psychological science. Firstly, the semiotic conceptualization of affects, emerging from several of the contributors, appears to be a significant step ahead in the understanding of the dynamics of sense-making. A second promising direction of development concerns methodology. The reader will find several invitations to rethink the way of analyzing the phenomena of sense-making. Finally, the volume highlights how the connection between theory and practice in psychology is not a mere matter of application. Rather, the psychological intervention could be needs to be a theoretical object for cultural psychology, as it already is for psychoanalysis. At the same time, the intervention could be a fertile domain where a psychological practice endowed with reflexive capability generates new theoretical constructions.

Cultural Entrepreneurship: New Societal Trends
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811927707 | 326 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
Cultural entrepreneurship uses culture as a way to understand innovative business ventures. Culture in this edited book involves the beliefs and values associated with certain forms of behaviour. This means the way individuals are involved in business ventures is based on their cultural ideas. This edited book focuses on how cultural entrepreneurship is an important way to understand how cultural products and services such as art, food, music and literature influence the development of business ventures. Thereby highlighting the interesting and unique way cultural ideas are embedded in entrepreneurial activities.

Critique of the Gotha Program (Spectre) by Karl Marx
English | October 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 1629639168 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 2.71 MB
Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether Social Democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation of Marx's Critique makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of Marx's notion of life after capitalism.

Marv Aden, "Creami Ninja Ice Cream Cookbook: Complete, Easy, Simple and Tasty Ice Creams Mix-Ins, Shakes, Sorbets, and Smoothies Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B5KQSLPR, B0B61CF2FT, B0B61CF2FT | EPUB | pages: 115 | 1.9 mb
Beginner - Friendly Ninja Creami Ice Cream Cookbook with Several Options - Super Simple!

Corinne: A Novel by Rebecca Morrow
English | July 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1250279992 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 2.1 MB
"I was riveted...A modern-day Romeo & Juliet."―Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

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Dimitri P. Bertsekas, "Convex Optimization Theory"
English | 2009 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1886529310 | DJVU | 3,9 mb
An insightful, concise, and rigorous treatment of the basic theory of convex sets and functions in finite dimensions, and the analytical/geometrical foundations of convex optimization and duality theory. Convexity theory is first developed in a simple accessible manner, using easily visualized proofs. Then the focus shifts to a transparent geometrical line of analysis to develop the fundamental duality between descriptions of convex sets and functions in terms of points and in terms of hyperplanes. Finally, convexity theory and abstract duality are applied to problems of constrained optimization, Fenchel and conic duality, and game theory to develop the sharpest possible duality results within a highly visual geometric framework. The book may be used as a text for a theoretical convex optimization course; the author has taught several variants of such a course at MIT and elsewhere over the last ten years. It may also be used as a supplementary source for nonlinear programming classes, and as a theoretical foundation for classes focused on convex optimization models (rather than theory). It is an ideal companion to the books Convex Optimization Algorithms, and Nonlinear Programming by the same author.

Control Techniques Drives and Controls Handbook By Drury, Bill
2001 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 0852967934 | PDF | 17 MB
This is the first commercially published edition of this bestselling book by the Control Techniques company, a leading manufacturer of drives and control units to the electronics and manufacturing industries. The revised handbook has been extensively expanded and is well-written and illustrated. It is a very comprehensive guide to the technology underlying drives, motors and control units and contains a wealth of technical information for the practicing drives and electrical engineer. However, its practical approach will make it invaluable as a reference work on the shelf of every engineering department and library.

Tula A Connell, "Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee "
English | ISBN: 0252081420 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In the 1950s, Milwaukee's strong union movement and socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to continue and expand the New Deal. Tula Connell explores how business interests and political conservatives arose to undo that consensus, and how the resulting clash both shaped a city and helped redefine postwar American politics. Connell focuses on Frank Zeidler, the city's socialist mayor. Zeidler's broad concept of the public interest at times defied even liberal expectations. At the same time, a resurgence of conservatism with roots presaging twentieth-century politics challenged his initiatives in public housing, integration, and other areas. As Connell shows, conservatives created an anti-progressive game plan that included a well-funded media and PR push; an anti-union assault essential to the larger project of delegitimizing any government action; opposition to civil rights; and support from a suburban silent majority. In the end, the campaign undermined notions of the common good essential to the New Deal order. It also sowed the seeds for grassroots conservatism's more extreme and far-reaching future success.