Apple Watch for Dummies
by Saltzman, Marc;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119912601 | 451 pages | True PDF | 62.65 MB

App Development Using iOS iCloud: Incorporating CloudKit with Swift in Xcod
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781484287583 | 515 pages | True EPUB | 22.7 MB
Create a professional looking app from start to finish that takes advantage of iCloud technology. Rather than working with Storyboarding for building your UI, you'll use code to build professional looking screens. Using code is standard for professional developers to fit form factor alignment across multiple screen sizes and other design constraints.

Aniconism in Greek Antiquity By Milette Gaifman
2012 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0199645787 | PDF | 18 MB
In this volume, Milette Gaifman explores a phenomenon known as aniconism - the absence of figural images of gods in Greek practiced religion and the adoption of aniconic monuments, namely objects such as pillars and poles, to designate the presence of the divine. Shifting our attention from the well-known territories of Greek anthropomorphism and naturalism, it casts new light on the realm of non-figural objects in Greek religious art. Drawing upon a variety of material and textual evidence dating from the rise of the Greek polis in the eighth century BC to the rise of Christianity in the first centuries AD, this book shows that aniconism was more significant than has often been assumed. Coexisting with the fully figural forms for representing the divine throughout Greek antiquity, aniconic monuments marked an undefined yet fixedly located divine presence. Cults centered on rocks were encountered at crossroads and on the edges of the Greek city. Despite aniconism's liminality, non-figural markers of divine presence became a subject of interest in their own right during a time when mimesis occupied the center of Greek visual culture. The ancient Greeks saw the worship of stones and poles without images as characteristic of the beginning of their own civilization. Similarly, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the existence of aniconism was seen as physical evidence for the continuity of ancient Greek traditions from time immemorial.

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks
by William Moylan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367546310 | 446 pages | True PDF | 16.84 MB

An illustrated history of Cordoba By José Manuel Ventura Rojas
2005 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 8496416232 | PDF | 59 MB
The present literary work offers a brief biographical sketch of the extensive history of Cordoba, one of those cities capable of snatching and dazzling not only to those souls on alert for the passage of time, but also to the followers of the poetical evocation and the sensitive pleasure. A rigorous and pleasant story illustrated with a beautiful selection of photographies and with determined intention of style, but achieving to interest to a wide audience. From its prehistoric origins up to the thresholds of the XXI century, each chapter approaches the different epochs lived by a city with one of the most illustrious, rich and varied past in the world. Cordoba is the result of the coexistance, antagonisms and interchanges of different cultures: small settlement by the river, emulation of the imperial Rome as the capital of the Andalusia. Pioneer of the oriental luxury and exoticism as court of the omeyas emirs and caliphs, Border city with the Nazary kingdom, full of prestigious nobility heraldries and innumerable convents acting as islands and archipelagoes extensively spread in its Renaissance and Baroque urban fabric - now fed by the wealth of The Indies, now destroyed by crisis and epidemics. And, finally, modest and engrossed capital of provinces of the inner Spain. We do not know its future, but its past remains magnificently summarized in this book. After the reading one understands the secret soul of Cordoba.

An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity
by Gunawardana, Kushantha;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801810214 | 322 pages | True PDF | 41.72 MB

American Foreign Policy and National Security By Paul R. Viotti
2020 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 1621965015 | PDF | 4 MB
*This book is in theRapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series(General Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn).This book seeks explanation for the making and implementation of American foreign policy-the decisions and actions the United States takes vis-à-vis state and non-state actors abroad. The latter includes international (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other groups and, in some cases, powerful individuals.In this effort we are drawn to the decisionmakers themselves. Although precise or point predictions are elusive, deeper understandings of how policymakers tend to operate in the processes of making and implementing foreign policy can lead to greater accuracy in the practical expectations we develop for what may happen. Rather than presenting a theory of foreign policy, this study identifies factors or essential elements that likely would be part of such a theory. These structural and ideational factors (both domestic and international) influence the choices policymakers make-the ways and means by which they make and implement American foreign policy.The book focuses on the nationalist or internationalist orientations of decisionmakers that affect the way they see the US role in making and implementing foreign policy. In this regard, nationalists are domestically focused and tend to deemphasize international involvement, minimizing to the extent possible government actions abroad. By contrast, I also identify three kinds of internationalist orientation-liberal, conservative, and militant. Broadly speaking, the range or spectrum of foreign policy options includes (1) diplomacy and other forms of peaceful or constructive engagement not just with allies, coalition partners and other friendly countries, but also vis-à-vis adversaries; (2) containment of adversaries-deterrence, coercive diplomacy, and other negative measures short of war; and (3) armed intervention or warfare with adversaries.Divided into three parts, Part 1 examines peaceful engagement, containment, and armed intervention. Part Two takes a look back on the American experience since the 18th century. Part Three explores how domestic politics affect the making and implementation of American foreign policy-dubbed politics on the Potomac River where the executive, legislative, and judicial branches and private-sector actors operate.The last two chapters address in greater detail the domestic political milieu and elite understandings of power that drive the making and implementation of American foreign policy.

America's Civil War Lie: Anomalies in its Reporting by Steve Preston
English | May 14, 2014 | ISBN: 1499536658 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4.34 Mb
What you have been told about the Civil War is not the complete story. I know there are hundreds of books on the Civil War, so every viewpoint imaginable has been provided to you. Well, there is still more to be told and it isn't pretty. The war should not have been fought and the instigators should not have been honored as they have been through the years. We follow the money in this saga to find out more about what really happened and why.

Ambient Intelligence in Health Care: Proceedings of ICAIHC 2022
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811960674 | 490 Pages | PDF (True) | 16 MB
The book is a collection of research papers presented at the First International Conference on International Conference on Ambient Intelligence in Health Care (ICAIHC 2021) organized by Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University) University, Bhubaneswar, India, during April 15-16, 2022. It includes papers in the research area of e-health care, telemedicine, other medical technologies, life support systems, fast detection and diagnoses, developed technologies and innovative solutions, bioinformatics, and solutions for monitoring smart intelligent systems in health care.

All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor By Donald Stratton; Ken Gire
2016 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0062645358 | EPUB | 5 MB
THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers a "powerful"and"intimate"* eyewitnessaccountof Pearl Harborandhisunforgettable return to the fightAt 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart.In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack-the only memoir ever written by a survivor of theUSS Arizona-ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight.Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates-approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America's Second World War.As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable-and remarkably inspiring-memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years.*Library Journal