Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, "Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1137583762 | PDF | pages: 271 | 2.4 mb
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire's blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.

Politics of Quality Improvement in English Further Education: Policies and Practices
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031240073 | 416 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book offers a rich account of how quality improvement agendas, informed by neoliberalism, create contradictory and complex contexts in which teachers produce different types of practices for specific purposes. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analytical tools, archaeology and genealogy, this book weaves together findings from classroom observations, field notes and interviews to explore the dichotomies between practices focussing on day-to-day pedagogies and practices concerned with performance management and accountability initiatives. By attending to a Foucauldian conception of power and counter conduct, it explores new means of defining quality in teaching spaces. After considering existing quality assurance judgements, the book illuminates the significance of moving slightly away from an institutionalised enterprise culture and loosing relations with reductionist approaches as a starting point. While doing so, it reworks the idea of quality by presenting other ways of looking at the complex character of pedagogical real(s) with new insights into an emergentist and process-oriented conception of teaching practices.

Politics of European Integration: Political Union or a House Divided? By Andrew Glencross
2014 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1405193948 | PDF | 12 MB
This is a systematic, up-to-date exploration of the politics of European integration that includes balanced coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union. Examines European integration as a contested political process that continues to divide and inspire nations, citizens, and politicians Provides students with the analytical tools to consider why the EU functions as it currently does, whether the EU is sufficiently democratic, the politics behind EU legislation, debates over foreign policy, proposals for institutional reform, and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis Brings together the latest scholarly research from comparative politics, international relations, law, and democratic theory Accompanied by a range of student resources including chapter-level flashcards and independent study questions - available at www.wiley.com/go/glencross

Nicola Alexander, "Policy Analysis for Educational Leaders: A Step-by-Step Approach"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 013701600X | PDF | pages: 244 | 2.7 mb
Methodological in focus and educational in context, Policy Analysis for Educational Leaders: A Step-by-Step Approach presents a guide to the study of educational policy analysis. This text not only discusses and evaluates existing educational policy and relevant literature, but offers a walk through that leads readers through the stages of successful policy analysis while providing the background and foundational knowledge that educational administrators need to understand and implement. This text offers instruction for aspiring school leaders on not only how to understand and study educational policy, but how to do it themselves.

Rough Guides, "Pocket Rough Guide Copenhagen"
English | 2016 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 0241238536 | EPUB | 99,4 mb
Pocket Rough Guide: Copenhagen is your essential guide to this cultural hot spot, with information on all the key sights in an easy-to-use, pocket-size format, and with a full-color, pull-out map.

Dmitry Budker, Alexander O. Sushkov, Vasiliki Demas, "Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions: or Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life!"
English | 2015 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 0199681651, 019968166X | PDF | 84,7 mb
Physics on Your Feet gives a collection of physics problems covering the broad range of topics in classical and modern physics that were, or could have been, asked at oral PhD exams at Berkeley. The questions are easy to formulate, but some of them can only be answered using an out-of-the-box approach. Detailed solutions are provided, from which the reader is guaranteed to learn a lot about the physicists' way of thinking. The book is also packed full of cartoons and dry humour to help take the edge off the stress and anxiety surrounding exams. This is a helpful guide to students preparing for their exams, as well as to University lecturers looking for good instructive problems. No exams are necessary to enjoy the book!

Russell Kuhtz, "Physical Science "
English | ISBN: 1508104255 | 2016 | pages | EPUB | 10 MB
This comprehensive volume provides an authoritative treatment of three major areas of study in physical science: astronomy, physics, and chemistry. Students learn about astronomy's origins in Egypt, the physical theories that emerged in ancient Greece, the influence of Ptolemy and Aristotle, and the discoveries of the scientific revolution, including Galileo's telescopic explorations and scientists' findings in mechanics and optics. Readers consider the impact of Newtonian theory, developments in electricity and magnetism, the Big-Bang model, evolution of stars and formation of chemical elements, radioactivity, quantum mechanics, black holes, and the identification of the Higgs boson by the Large Hadron Collider in 2013.

Petroleum Refining Design and Applications Handbook, Volume 4:
Heat Transfer, Pinch Analysis, and Process Safety Incidents
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119827523 | 1076 Pages | PDF | 334 MB

Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0785228381 | 271 Pages | EPUB (True) | 11.4 MB
As a bilingual correspondent for NBC News, Fusion TV, and Univision, Mariana holds a unique perspective-having immigrated from Venezuela to America as a young adult, having overcome challenges to graduate from Columbia University and eventually become a national news correspondent, and having seen firsthand the humanity that is ever so present in the midst of both adversity and opportunity.

Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision: 4th Chinese Conference, PRCV 2021, Beijing, China, October 29 - November 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) By Huimin Ma (editor), Liang Wang (editor), Changshui Zhang (editor), Fei Wu (editor), Tieniu Tan (editor), Yaonan Wang (editor), Jianhuang Lai (editor), Yao Zhao (editor)
2021 | 600 Pages | ISBN: 3030880125 | PDF | 97 MB
The 4-volume set LNCS 13019, 13020, 13021 and 13022 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2021, held in Beijing, China, in October-November 2021. The 201 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 513 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition; Computer Vision, Theories and Applications, Multimedia Processing and Analysis; Low-level Vision and Image Processing; Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis; Machine Learning, Neural Network and Deep Learning, and New Advances in Visual Perception and Understanding.