Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 19th International Conference, QEST 2022, Warsaw, Poland, September 12-16, 2022, Proceedings by Erika Ábrahám, Marco Paolieri
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 406 Pages | ISBN : 3031163354 | 47.4 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation Systems, QEST 2022, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022.

Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031090535 | 280 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life.

Digby Tantam, "Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework"
English | ISBN: 0521479630 | 2002 | 334 pages | PDF | 1403 KB
This important and timely book gives a balanced synthesis, based on actual cases, evidence, practice, and experience, to describe the process of psychotherapy and identify the fundamental elements that lead to good outcome across all its schools. In the course of developing a consistently reliable, effective, practical psychotherapy, Digby Tantam pinpoints four essential principles to provide essential reading for psychiatrists or clinical psychologists looking for a straightforward framework for short-term psychotherapy and anyone working long-term with patients using a psychotherapy model.

Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice By Anne Caldwell (editor), Oz Hardwick (editor)
2022 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 1032058617 | PDF | 30 MB
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry's distinctive features and explore how this outsider form can offer a unique way of viewing and describing the uncertainties and instabilities which shape our identities and our relationships with our surroundings in the early twenty-first century. Combining insights on the theory and practice of prose poetry, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice offers a timely and valuable contribution to the development of the form, and its appreciation amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Largely approached from a practitioner perspective, this collection provides vivid snapshots of contemporary debates within the prose poetry field while actively contributing to the poetics and craft of the form.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, August 31-September 2, 2022, Proceedings by Goreti Marreiros, Bruno Martins, Ana Paiva, Bernardete Ribeiro, Alberto Sardinha
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 818 Pages | ISBN : 3031164733 | 131.1 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2022, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in August/September 2022.The 64 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI4IS - Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies; AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law; AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; AIPES - Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems; AITS - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems; AmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments; GAI - General AI; IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics; KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence; KRR - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; MASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications; TeMA - Text Mining and Applications.

John M. Owen, "Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0367719088 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Program Evaluation 3rd edition has the hallmarks of thoroughness, insight and fluency of other editions but brings us up to date with a map of the evaluation territory new travelers will find invaluable.'

Jack C. Richards, "Professional Development for Language Teachers: Strategies for Teacher Learning "
English | ISBN: 0521613833 | 2005 | 214 pages | PDF | 1306 KB
Professional Development for Language Teachers examines ten different techniques that can be used to facilitate professional development in language teaching. These effective teaching tools are: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroom observation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The book begins with a conceptual framework for professional development. All chapters contain practical examples in the form of vignettes written by teachers using the techniques, as well as reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context.

George Economou, Paul Blackburn, "Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1681370301 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.3 mb
It was out of medieval Provence-Proensa-that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical.

Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 : CSCE21 Structures Track Volume 1
by Scott Walbridge, Mazdak Nik-Bakht
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981190510X | 657 Pages | True ePUB | 147 MB

Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 : CSCE21 Materials Track
by Scott Walbridge, Mazdak Nik-Bakht
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811910030 | 689 Pages | True ePUB | 109 MB