How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
by Samantha Cole
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1523513845 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 37.63 MB
From the moment there was an "online," there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was "Lena," taken fromPlayboy'sNovember 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate "hot or not" Harvard co-eds. In fact, virtually every significant development that defines the Internet we know and love (and hate) today-privacy issues, online payments and online banking, dating, social media, streaming technology, mass data collection-came out the meeting of sexuality and technology.

Housing for Hope and Wellbeing
by FLORA SAMUEL
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367469022 | 245 pages | True PDF | 15.31 MB
Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing system and why it is in 'crisis' while acting as an important reminder of how housing contributes to social value, defined as community, health, self development and identity. It argues for a holistic digital map-based planning system that allows for the sensitive balancing of the triple bottom line of sustainability: social, environmental and economic value. It sets out a vision of what our housing system could look like if we really put the wellbeing of people and planet first, as well as a route map on how to get there.

Historical Dictionary of the United States
by Kenneth J. Panton;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 153812419X | 783 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.3 MB
U.S. foreign relations in the Middle East has remained crucial through many decades and the complications facing the United States in the Middle East have become even more acute. While the United States downgraded its military operations in Iraq, that country failed to achieve a stable, democratic footing and instead experienced schism and civil strife. Israeli-Palestinian disputes over land, the status of refugees, and control of Jerusalem intensified, and international conflicts between Arab states and Israel escalated for the first time since the 1980s. The Arab Spring protest movements of 2011 and after ignited political turmoil across the region, leading to revolutionary change in several states and triggering persistent unrest and violence in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. During the recent decade, in short, the Middle East has become the most unstable, dangerous, and complicated region of the world and the United States remains near the center of the maelstrom.

Handbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines
by Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Jabier Martinez, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção, Tewfik Ziadi, Mathieu Acher, Silvia Vergilio
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031116852 | 535 pages | True PDF EPUB | 55.14 MB
This handbook distils the wealth of expertise and knowledge from a large community of researchers and industrial practitioners in Software Product Lines (SPLs) gained through extensive and rigorous theoretical, empirical, and applied research. It is a timely compilation of well-established and cutting-edge approaches that can be leveraged by those facing the prevailing and daunting challenge of re-engineering their systems into SPLs. The selection of chapters provides readers with a wide and diverse perspective that reflects the complementary and varied expertise of the chapter authors. This perspective covers the re-engineering processes, from planning to execution.

Handbook of Medical Leadership and Management
by Murphy, Paula;Lachman, Peter;Hillier, Bradley;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 019284900X | 213 pages | True EPUB | 5.25 MB
The Handbook of Medical Leadership and Management couples the essentials of clinical leadership with a practical approach to help readers be effective clinical leaders and managers. Beginning with a theoretical analysis it then focuses on practical ways of being a good manager and leader and the day-to-day requirements of a consultant working within a multi-professional clinical team.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
by Harvard Business Review
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1647824605 | 257 pages | True EPUB | 7.75 MB
Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.

Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers
by Saverio Mannino
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031117239 | 170 pages | True PDF EPUB | 19 MB
This useful and extensive set of guidelines is designed to assist food control laboratories in gaining accreditationfrom an internationally recognized external body, providing all of the necessary information and practices in an easy-to-read, step-by-step fashion. Authored by an experienced consultant for laboratory accreditation in many different countries, with this text food control lab owners now have all of the up-to-date information they need to gain accreditationin a single source.

Git
by Öggl, Bernd;Kofler, Michael;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1493222899 | 415 pages | True EPUB | 9.4 MB
Get started with Git―today! Walk through installation and explore the variety of development environments available. Understand the concepts that underpin Git's workflows, from branching to commits, and see how to use major platforms, like GitHub. Learn the ins and outs of working with Git for day-to-day development. Get your versioning under control!

Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor PMU for IoT Nodes
by Ricardo Madeira, João Pedro Oliveira, Nuno Paulino
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031147006 | 174 pages | True PDF EPUB | 95.54 MB
This book provides a step-by-step methodology and system design that can be used to design a fully integrated PMU using SC DC-DC converters, for any CMOS technology. The authors discuss trade-offs between power density and efficiency of the methodology for the 130 nm CMOS technology, and how to implement it on other CMOS technologies. The book describes the state-of-the-art of fully or near-fully integrated SC DC-DC converters with multiple conversion ratios and the techniques used to enhance the overall performance of these converters. Coverage includes the trade-off between the number of conversion ratios and overall extracted efficiency from a supercapacitor, as well as the sizing of the converter cells according to the desired output power and maximum clock frequency. The authors also describe in detail the design of the fundamental blocks for the converter operation, which includes a secondary control loop using capacitance modulation by sensing the clock frequency.

Full Stack Quarkus and React
by Felix, Marc Nuri San;Bueno, Alex Soto;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 180056273X | 324 pages | True PDF | 21.53 MB
Create and deploy standalone, fully functional, web applications using Quarkus and React