African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil By Scott Ickes
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0813044782 | PDF | 4 MB
Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as "Brazil's Black Rome." Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet despite representing a majority of the population, African-Bahians remain a marginalized racial group within the state as a whole. InAfrican-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil, Scott Ickes examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, African-Bahian cultural practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé during carnival and other popular religious festivals came to be accepted as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices were repressed in favor of more European traditions and a more "modern" vision. Newfound acceptance of these customs was a democratic move forward, but it also perpetuated the political and economic marginalization of the black majority. Ickes argues that cultural-political alliances between African-Bahian cultural practitioners and their dominant-class allies nevertheless helped to create a meaningful framework through which African-Bahian inclusion could be negotiated-a framework that is also important in the larger discussions of race and regional and national identity throughout Brazil.

Tim R. Johnston, "Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity"
English | ISBN: 113759408X | 2016 | 114 pages | EPUB | 942 KB
In this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces. Using the work of feminist care ethics and the thinking of French philosopher Henri Bergson to examine responses to school bullying and abuses faced by LGBT older adults, he provides the theoretical analysis and practical tools LGBT people and their allies need to make all spaces, public and private, spaces in which we can live openly as members of the LGBT community.

Jennifer Cole, "Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration"
English | ISBN: 022640515X | 2016 | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary life. Affective Circuits brings together essays by an international group of well-known anthropologists to place the migrant family front and center. Moving between Africa and Europe, the book explores the many ways migrants sustain and rework family ties and intimate relationships at home and abroad. It demonstrates how their quotidian efforts-on such a mass scale-contribute to a broader process of social regeneration.

Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery by Springer
English | September 2, 2008 | ISBN: 3211100547 | 274 pages | PDF | 7.91 Mb
Targeted at clinicians and residents, this series has already become a classic, with one volume published each year. The Advances section presents fields of neurosurgery and related areas in which important recent progress has been made. The Technical Standards section features detailed descriptions of standard procedures to assist young neurosurgeons in their post-graduate training. The contributions have been written by experienced clinicians and are reviewed by all members of the editorial board.

Advanced Blockchain Technology: Frameworks and Enterprise-Level Practices
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811935955 | 677 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 24 MB
The first section provides a brief overview of blockchain technology, including its concepts, history, technology genre, major related companies and typical application scenarios, and presents an ecological map for the blockchain industry by comparing and analyzing some mainstream platforms.

Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation by David E. Wazer
English | August 31, 2008 | ISBN: 354081406X | 275 pages | PDF | 5.43 Mb
This text is a concise handbook designed to assist the clinician in the implementation of Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI). It includes a review of the principles that underlie APBI, a practical and detailed description of each technique for APBI, a review of current clinical results of APBI, and a review of the incidence and management of treatment related complications. The book encompasses a number of different techniques and approaches that include brachytherapy, intraoperative, and external beam techniques. There is currently no single source that describes these techniques and their clinical implementation.

AP World History: Modern 2022 (5 Steps to a 5), Elite Student Edition by Beth Bartolini-Salimbeni, Wendy Petersen
English | August 13th, 2021 | ISBN: 1264268092 | 624 pages | True EPUB | 26.25 MB
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AI, Ethical Issues and Explainability - Applied Biometrics
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811939349 | 108 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
AI has contributed a lot and biometrics is no exception. To make AI solutions commercialized/fully functional, one requires trustworthy and explainable AI (XAI) solutions while respecting ethical issues. Within the scope of biometrics, the book aims at both revisiting ethical AI principles by taking into account state-of-the-art AI-guided tools and their responsibilities i.e., responsible AI. With this, the long-term goal is to connect with how we can enhance research communities that effectively integrate computational expertise (with both explainability and ethical issues). It helps combat complex and elusive global security challenges that address our national concern in understanding and disrupting the illicit economy.

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
English | October 18, 2011 | ISBN: 0547572174 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 6.8 MB
Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a semi-autobiographical novel of drug addiction set in a future American dystopia - and the basis for the Hugo Award finalist film starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr.

Alan J. Reid, "A Philosophy of Gun Violence"
English | ISBN: 303111003X | 2022 | 212 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book uses a philosophy of technology to demonstrate that guns are predisposed for an intentional use, making them inherently non-neutral artifacts. This argument rejects the often-cited value neutral thesis and instrumentalist view that "guns don't kill people; people kill people", and instead, explains the lethality of the gun through the lenses of affordance theory, behavioral design, and choice architecture. Ultimately, this book proposes an ethical and value-sensitive model for gun reform, which embodies the perspective of French philosopher Bruno Latour, who said, "You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different with you holding it."