Don Swenson, "Alleluia: An Ethnographic Study"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1498546633 | EPUB | pages: 190 | 5.3 mb
The Alleluia Community is a unique Christian community of over three hundred committed charismatic Christians in Augusta, Georgia, who live a covenant and ecumenical lifestyle. Emerging from the Charismatic Renewal Movement of the 1960s, members of Alleluia have maintained a lively charismatic dimension of the Christian tradition with a willingness to make a life-time covenant commitment to each other. Since 1973, this group of people has exhibited heroic virtue, self-sacrifice, humility, deference for one another, and service to others outside their boundaries. They claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Their leaders lead with a strong sense of service and Christian love and a willingness to lay down their own agendas. A major feature of these covenant makers is that they strive for daily Christian unity while being committed to one of the twelve-plus various denominations and fellowships. Swenson had the opportunity of living among these people for twenty months. During this time, he used a mixed method approach involving over one hundred interviews and three hundred instruments to create both qualitative and quantitative measures of the lives of these people. To structure their story, he used the dilemmas of the institutionalization of religion from the scholarship of Thomas O'Dea and secularization theory. The data gathered give abundant evidence that these Alleluia faithful have substantively resisted the secular influence so common in Western culture.

Lisa Speranza, Nancy Foley, "Allegheny Cemetery"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1467117382, 1540201961 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 64.7 mb
It is easy to look at a place such as Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood and think that it encompasses strictly the dead. But a closer look reveals many lives and stories told throughout the pages of time by those who have lived them. To define Allegheny Cemetery as simply a place does not do it justice. It is not only a physical location, but a crossroads in history, and a point in time where each of these lives converge. Images of America: Allegheny Cemetery shares these legacies with the hope that present and future generations will do the same.

All-in-One Electronics Guide: Your complete ultimate guide to understanding and utilizing electronics! by Cammen Chan
English | November 3, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00P80IR98 | 370 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
The semiconductor industry is a big business. The electronics industry is even bigger. The semiconductor industry alone was a US $300 billion plus industry in 2012. The long-term trend of electronics is bright and promising. With increasing use of electronic devices in consumer, commercial, and industrial products and systems, the electronics industry is always growing. If you are considering becoming an electronics engineer, this book gives you the technical skills needed to "pass" the technical parts of interviews and the confidence to increase your chances of getting employed. If you are already an electronics technician or engineer, this book improves your ability to perform at the highest level at work in the electronics field. If you want to be a microelectronics engineer or are already one, you will find the microelectronics-related contents in this book applicable to your work. If you are an educator teaching electronics, this book is the perfect reference for you and your students with step-by-step technical examples and quizzes. If you are an electronics hobbyist, this book offers sampled electronic circuits (electronic components connected with each other by wires or traces) you can apply to your design. For everyone else interested in learning about electronics, this book provides a strong foundation of what you need to know when working with electronics.

All Hands: The Evolution of a Volunteer-powered Disaster Response Organization By David Campbell; Catherine Fredman
2015 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 1632990628 | EPUB | 9 MB
David Campbell's personal and professional life changed course in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. A chance remark to a friend about the tragedy led his companion to reveal that he had dined, just a week prior to the tsunami, on a hotel patio where everyone had been killed. "In that moment," Campbell remembers, "a faraway event was brought much closer." That meeting launched Campbell into action. After researching travel and lodging, he packed everything he thought he would need in a major disaster zone and boarded a plane to Thailand. But his most important asset was his vast network of friends in the technology industry and his decades of experience in businesses management. His colleagues and friends wanted to help and he wanted to help them do it. Campbell didn't realize it at the time but he had stumbled on the key elements of what would become All Hands Volunteers, an entirely new kind of disaster relief organization: his own credibility, creative use of the Internet to make connections, and most importantly, the immeasurable power of "being there." ALL HANDS: THE EVOLUTION OF A VOLUNTEER-POWERED DISASTER RESPONSE ORGANIZATION shares the story of how, over the past ten years, Campbell and thousands of dedicated volunteers have personally and profoundly impacted the lives of people reeling in the wake of natural disaster.

Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema By Annette Kuhn
1999 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 1859842593 | PDF | 39 MB
Science fiction, more than any other film genre, allows cinema to exhibit its own distinctive matters of expression. Whether these be the state-of-the-art special effects technologies of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the symbolic imagery of ruined cityscapes in Blade Runner, they allow the spectator to experience the totality of the audiovisual thrill. While this remains in many ways the core defining feature of the genre, recent trends in the study of science fiction cinema have seen a shift of focus away from the specifically cinematic towards the more broadly cultural. New technologies of communication and vision, revolutionary developments in the delivery and reception of moving-image media, the increasing importance of the notion of space: all are forcing new and different ways of thinking about the genre. Alien Zone II presents some of the most exciting new voices in the current debates. A companion volume to Alien Zone, it continues to pursue the critical and theoretical issues opened up in the earlier book and energetically explores fresh territory with an eye which is both reflective and interventionist: visionary cities, psycho-cybernetics, internet fandom, the convergence of science fiction literature and science action film, the body and its limits are just some of the subjects brought under its gaze.

Alexander Gibson, "Algorithms and Auguries"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00EHLAG6G | EPUB | pages: 32 | 0.7 mb
Many call ancient Egyptian mathematics merely a recipe book for calculations; this belies a fundamental ignorance of sentential logic systems. This book draws links between the world of ancient number theory and modern programming languages, as well as posits a foundation for the investigation of synchronicity. Investigate the underlying meaning of number theory through the hidden discussion of mathematics and spirituality permeating society from Pythagoras to Pascal.

Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification: Engineering Methods with Flight-Test Examples by Mark B. Tischler
English | PDF | 2012 | 560 Pages | ISBN : 1600868207 | 10.6 MB
Presenting proven methods, practical guidelines, and real-world flight-test results for a wide range of state-of-the-art flight vehicles, "Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification, Second Edition" addresses the entire process of aircraft and rotorcraft system identification from instrumentation and flight testing to model determination, validation, and application of the results. In this highly anticipated second edition, authors Tischler and Remple have added dedicated in-depth chapters presenting extended model structures and identification results for large flexible transport aircraft, and the detailed methodology to develop a continuous full flight envelope simulation model from individual system identification models and trim test data. Topics Discussed include: Frequency-response methods that are especially well suited for system identification of flight vehicle models from flight-test data; specific guidelines for flight testing, data analysis, and the proper selection of model structure complexity; and emphasis on the importance of physical insight in model development and applications.

University of Washington J. Mattingly, U.S. Air Force Academy W. Heiser, University of Washington and D. Pratt, "Aircraft Engine Design, Second Edition"
English | 2003 | pages: 716 | ISBN: 1563475383 | PDF | 5,4 mb
This text presents a complete and realistic aircraft engine design experience. From the request for proposal for a new aircraft to the final engine layout, the book provides the concepts and procedures required for the entire process. It is an expanded and updated version of the first edition that emphasizes contemporary developments impacting engine design such as theta break/throttle ratio, life management, controls, and stealth. The key steps of the process are detailed in ten chapters that encompass aircraft constraint analysis, aircraft mission analysis, engine parametric (design point) analysis, engine performance (off-design) analysis, engine installation drag and sizing, and the design of inlets, fans, compressors, main combustors, turbines, afterburners, and exhaust nozzles.

Air Transport and its Subsidies
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3658388986 | 156 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 0.7 MB
The book deals with the subsidies of air transport. It shows which subsidies are used to promote air transport and how the subsidies influence the various segments of air transport. The types of subsidies dealt with correspond to the OECD's delimitation. In addition to tax breaks and transfers, capital subsidies, infrastructure subsidies, regulatory deficits and non-internalised externalities are also included. The areas of air transport in which subsidies are identified are airports, airlines and air traffic control. Furthermore, aircraft manufacturers and research as well as air transport regulation, the behaviour of MPs and airport-related infrastructure are dealt with. The subject is of general and long-term interest. The book is the most comprehensive and systematic compilation of subsidies available. The result is that air transport is permeated by a largely uncoordinated system of subsidies in all its areas, the overall effects of which have not been recorded until today.

After Identity: A Reader In Law And Culture By Dan Danielsen; Karen Engle
1995 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 0415909961 | PDF | 7 MB
Authored by the leading voices in critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, critical race theory and queer legal theory, After Identity explores the importance of sexual, national and other identities in people's lived experiences while simultaneously challenging the limits of legal strategies focused on traditional identity groups. These new ways of thinking about cultural identity have implications for strategies for legal reform, as well as for progressive thinking generally about theory, culture and politics.