Aesthetics East and West: Philosophy, Music and Art By Hans-Christian Günther
2017 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 3959482531 | PDF | 37 MB
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference in Meran in October 2015 on intercultural aesthetics with the addition of some external contributions. Two general papers on the topic concerned (Ram Adhar Mall, Giusi Strumiello) are followed by contributions on music (H.-C. Günther on Mahler and on Busoni, Yoon Young Serena Kim on Yun Isang), Indian and Chinese art (Ram Adhar Mall, Harro von Senger, Gabriele Kiesewetter), urban planning (Thilo Hilpert) and film (Udo Steinbach). The contributions on art and urban planning are amply illustrated. The appendix contains colour reproductions of an exhibition of watercolours by the Chinese artist Hong Yi with an introduction to the artist's work and detailed explanations of the painting by Gabriele Kiesewetter.

AI for Diversity (AI for Everything)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032074442 | 131 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people's lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions. While AI has great potential, it also holds great peril depending on how it is designed and used. AI for Diversity questions how AI technology can lead to inclusion or exclusion for diverse groups in society. The way data is selected, trained, used, and embedded into societies can have unfortunate consequences unless we critically investigate the dangers of systems left unchecked, and can lead to misogynistic, homophobic, racist, ageist, transphobic, or ableist outcomes. This book encourages the reader to take a step back to see how AI is impacting diverse groups of people and how diversity-awareness strategies can impact AI.

A Roadmap for Enabling Industry 4. 0 by Artificial Intelligence
by Chatterjee, Jyotir Moy;Garg, Harish;Thakur, R. N.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119904854 | 339 pages | True PDF | 14.48 MB

A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets By Igor Golomstock
2019 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1788312953 | PDF | 3 MB
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union.His writings on his 43 years in the Soviet Union offer a rare insight into life as a quietly subversive art historian and the post-Stalin dissident community. In vivid prose Golomstock shows the difficulties of publishing, curating and talking about Western art in Soviet Russia and, with self-deprecating humour, the absurd tragicomedy of life for the Moscow intelligentsia during Khruschev's thaw and Brezhnev's stagnation. He also offers a unique personal perspective on the 1966 trial of Sinyavsky and Yuri Daniel, widely considered the end of Khruschev's liberalism and the spark that ignited the Soviet dissident movement.In 1972 he was given 'permission' to leave the Soviet Union, but only after paying a 'ransom' of more than 25 years' salary, nominally intended to reimburse the state for his education. A remarkable collection of artists, scholars and intellectuals in Russia and the West, including Roland Penrose, came together to help him pay this astronomical sum. His memoirs of life once in the UK offer an insider's view of the BBC Russian Service and a penetrating analysis of the notorious feud between Sinyavsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Nominated for the Russian Booker Prize on its publication in Russian in 2014, The Ransomed Dissident opens a window onto the life of a remarkable man: a dissident of uncompromising moral integrity and with an outstanding gift for friendship.

A Practical Approach to Quantitative Validation of Patient-Reported Outcomes
by Bushmakin, Andrew G.;Cappelleri, Joseph C.;, Joseph C. Cappelleri
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119376378 | 351 pages | True EPUB | 36.06 MB

Georg Morgenstierne, Josef Elfenbein, D N MacKenzie, "A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik)"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 3895003646 | PDF | pages: 148 | 2.9 mb
Pashto is one of the national languages of Afghanistan, which is also spoken by a significant minority in Pakistan. An archaic language of the Iranian family, it offers a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. As well as retaining many words inherited from Old Iranian and ultimately from proto-Indo-European, Pashto has also absorbed a great deal of foreign vocabulary, from Classical Greek to Persian and modern Indian. Georg Morgenstierne's Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto, published in Oslo in 1927, was the first work to explore these multiple relationships in a systematic and comprehensive way. Soon after its publication, Morgenstierne began collecting material for a revised and expanded version, but thisremained unfinished when he died more than half a century later in 1978. After the lapse of another quarter of a century, it is at last possible to present the long-awaited New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto, a completely new work compiled from Morgenstierne's handwritten notes by three leading scholars in the field of Iranian linguistics. In all essentials it remains Morgenstierne's work, though considerably augmented by additional references which take into account the greatly increased information available today on modern Indo-Aryan as well as on Middle Iranian languages such as Bactrian and Khwarezmian. This work supersedes Morgenstierne's earlier Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto and will take its place beside the same author's Etymological Vocabulary of the Shughni Group (Reichert Verlag, 1974) as a standard modern work of reference on the history of the languages of Afghanistan. Complete indexes of all words cited from Iranian, Indo-Aryan and other languages help to make the contents accessible to those who are not specialists in Pashto or other Iranian languages.

A Little Bit of Zen: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara
English | October 6, 2020 | ISBN: 145494059X | 128 pages | PDF | 1.63 Mb
This entry in the popular Little Bit of series introduces the ancient practice of Zen Buddhism.

I.M Bocheński, "A History of Formal Logic"
English | 1961 | ISBN: 1330376501, 1528353943 | PDF | pages: 591 | 13.2 mb
Excerpt from A History of Formal Logic (Classic Reprint)

G. A. Tokaty, "A History and Philosophy of Fluid Mechanics"
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0486681033, 0854291180 | 272 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Through the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics - the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion - have occupied many of history's greatest minds. In this pioneering account, a distinguished aeronautical scientist presents a history of fluid mechanics focusing on the achievements of the pioneering scientists and thinkers whose inspirations and experiments lay behind the evolution of such disparate devices as irrigation lifts, ocean liners, windmills, fireworks and spacecraft.

A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting By Elree I. Harris, Shirley R. Scott
1997 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0815300409 | PDF | 9 MB
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.