Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society by Steven A. Barnes
English | April 24, 2011 | ISBN: 0691151121 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.5 MB
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag-the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons-in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive.

David Hume and Contemporary Philosophy By Ilya Kasavin
2012 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 1443841315 | PDF | 2 MB
David Hume bridges a gap between classical and non-classical philosophy. Two major approaches in the XX century systematic philosophy - naturalism and relativism - have been both basically inspired by Hume and build the strongest controversy of nowadays. The dethroning of the knowing agent and the spiritual substance from their privileged place opens way to the death of God (F. Nietzsche) or the death of the Author (R. Barthes). His criticism of causality corresponds to the indeterminism of the quantum mechanics (B. Russell). K. Popper's falsificationism would be hardly possible without Hume's account of induction. L. Wittgenstein's considerations on rule following reveals similarities with Hume's idea of habit (S. Kripke) as well as with P. Bourdieu's concept of habitus. D. Bloor likes to think of Hume as Edinburgh's great sociologist of knowledge. The present collection is also not a mere contribution to the history of philosophy, though it covers many problems of the contemporary Humean scholarship and contains the articles written by the leading researchers in the field (B. Straud, R. Harre, J. Bricke, E. Radcliffe etc.). Its aim is rather to demonstrate the 'vivacity' of Hume for the contemporary philosophy. Their considerations range from the subtlest questions of the development of his thought and its impact on the contemporaries to the most recent and controversial topics in epistemology, philosophy of science, political theory and ethics

Data Structures the Fun Way: An Amusing Adventure with Coffee-Filled Examples
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1718502605 | 298 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 7.4 MB
This accessible and entertaining book provides an in-depth introduction to computational thinking through the lens of data structures - a critical component in any programming endeavor. You'll learn how to work with more than 15 key data structures, from stacks, queues, and caches to bloom filters, skip lists, and graphs. You'll also master linked lists by virtually standing in line at a cafe, hash tables by cataloging the history of the summer Olympics, and Quadtrees by neatly organizing your kitchen cabinets, all while becoming familiar with basic computer science concepts, like recursion and running time analysis.

Darwin's Historical Sketch: An Examination of the 'Preface' to the Origin of Species by Curtis N. Johnson
English | December 19, 2019 | ISBN: 019088293X | True EPUB | 472 pages | 4.1 MB
Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch" has appeared as a preface to nearly every authorized edition of Darwin's Origin of Species since the second English edition was published in 1860.

Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece by Matthew Landauer
English | November 14, 2019 | ISBN: 022665401X, 022665379X | True PDF | 256 pages | 2.7 MB
We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an important structural feature of Athenian democracy. Like the tyrant, the Athenian demos was an unaccountable political actor with the power to hold its subordinates to account. And like the tyrant, the demos could be dangerous to counsel since the orator speaking before the assembled demos was accountable for the advice he gave.

Sonjah Stanley Niaah, "Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life "
English | ISBN: 1032071257 | 2022 | 160 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security.

DK Reader Level 2: Cats and Kittens by Caryn Jenner
English | October 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1465499857 | 50 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
Does your child love cute kittens and friendly cats? This children's reading book will teach them how to read while learning amazing facts about cat breeds.

DK Eyewitness Delhi, Agra and Jaipur (Travel Guide) by DK Eyewitness
English | December 17, 2019 | ISBN: 0241368847 | 272 pages | PDF | 68 Mb
Shrouded in myth and legend, the Golden Triangle is bursting with an array of adventures.

DIY Pool Maintenance for Beginners: How to Keep a Crystal Clear Pool All Season Spending Few Minutes a Week by Benjamin Rennicks
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9V1WWSV | 85 pages | EPUB | 1.36 Mb
How to Take Care of Your Own Pool or Know the Right Way to Do it Without Spending Plenty of Time and Resources...

Culture Won: How culture propelled Arm from start-up to global technology phenomenon by Keith Clarke
English | August 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 1803811420 | 282 pages | True EPUB | 5.37 MB
This book is about the company culture that helped drive Arm Limited's spectacular growth to become the world's leading semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) company. Its extremely power-efficient processor technology has been licensed to hundreds of semiconductor chip manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Arm is still largely unknown to the broader public, yet Arm's technology is nearly ubiquitous and has been a foundational building block of the global rise of the smartphone. Arm-based microprocessors power over 95% of the world's mobile phones.