Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest by Brian Coleman, William Wright
English | September 7, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0962XNJG5 | 325 pages | EPUB | 148 Mb
An exclusive retreat into the verdant, lush residential gardens of the Pacific Northwest.

Charles Bartholomew, "Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Public Health Approach for School Psychologists, Counselors, and Social Work"
English | ISBN: 1032256516 | 2023 | 164 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the first book written to provide school psychologists and other K-12 mental health professionals with knowledge and strategies intended to help them disrupt the criminalization of historically oppressed learners in today's classrooms. A phenomenon of the United States' intersecting education and criminal justice systems, the school-to-prison pipeline is the process by which school staff punish already marginalized or at-risk students―primarily Black youth―in ways that enable a lifetime of targeting by police, court, and carceral operations. Exploring the unmet needs of students with mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders, the effects of implicit and explicit bias, adverse school and court policies, and other biopsychosocial factors, this powerful book offers a preventative, public-health approach to providing clinical care to vulnerable students without compromising school safety. School psychologists, counselors, and social workers will come away with urgent and actionable insights into advocacy, collaboration, preventive interventions, alternative discipline measures in schools, and more.

Rotem Rozental, "Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement "
English | ISBN: 1032182385 | 2023 | 250 pages | PDF | 12 MB
By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date.

Practical Python Artificial Intelligence Programming
English | 2023 | ISBN: n/a | 129 Pages | PDF EPUB | 7 MB
We will cover Deep Learning, old fashioned symbolic AI, broad coverage of data sources as well as wide range of tips and techniques for using Python both in experiments and in production.

Practical Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python: Concise Implementation of Algorithms, Simplified Maths, and Effective Use of TensorFlow and PyTorch (English Edition) by Ivan Gridin
English | July 15, 2022 | ISBN: 9355512058 | 398 pages | PDF (Converted) | 8.76 Mb
Introducing Practical Smart Agents Development using Python, PyTorch, and TensorFlow

Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness: Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland, Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD By Martin Carver, Justin Garner-Lahire, Cecily Spall
2016 | 554 Pages | ISBN: 1908332093 | PDF | 36 MB
Drawing on contributions to the field investigation and record by Fred Geddes, Jill Harden, Madeleine Hummler, Martin Jones, Annette Roe and Nicky Toop; and to the post-excavation analysis from Steve Allen, Steve Ashby, Mark Blackburn, Lawrence Butler, Ewan Campbell, Shirley Curtis-Summers, Claire Ellis, Ian Freestone, Allan Hall, Derek Hall, Mark Hall, Derek Hamilton, Mhairi Hastie, Andy Heald, George Haggarty, Tim Holden, Matilda Holmes, Nick Holmes, Fraser Hunter, Richard Jackson, Harry Kenward, Sarah King, Monica Maleszka-Ritchie, Kellie Meyer, Janet Montgomery, Catherine Mortimer, Anthony Newton, James Peake, Nigel Ruckley, Krish Seetah, Clare Thomas, Nicky Toop, Lauren Walther, Becca Walters, Penelope Walton Rogers and Hugh Willmott.Portmahomack on the Tarbat peninsula overlooking the Dornoch Firth is a fishing village with a 1,500-year-old history. In the sixth and seventh century it was a high-ranking centre with monumental cist burials and links to the equestrian class in England. In the eighth century it was a monastery, creating manuscripts and making church vessels and a stunning repertoire of carved stone monuments, its monks looking to Ireland, western Scotland and Northern England for their intellectual alliances. Around 800 AD the monastery came to an end following a Viking raid, but swiftly revived as a manufacturing and trading centre, now serving the protagonists of the Norse-Scottish wars. By the eleventh century the site was abandoned, but was remembered again in the early twelfth century when it became the parish church of St Colman. In the later middle ages it experienced an upsurge of activity with fishermen and metalsmiths settling beside an enlarged community church. When the Reformation arrived at Portmahomack about 1600, the village moved to the harbour and the old church of St Colman remained on its own, acting for another four hundred years as a weathervane of local society and its beliefs. Rediscovered by archaeologists in the 1980s, from 1994 to 2007 the site at Portmahomack saw one of the largest research excavations to have taken place in Scotland.

Populism and Accountability: Interdisciplinary Researches on Active Citizenship
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031200314 | 588 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book takes into consideration the development of different forms of populism in various countries with democratic political systems over the past two decades. Despite the diversity existing between current populisms, common elements have emerged: the tendency to diminish the role of political representation, the centrality of the "charismatic leader," the nationalistic idealization of "people" that undermine international agreements. How do these phenomena affect the instruments, rules, and culture of democracy? Why does populism receive strong acclaim? How can leaders respond to the real needs that can be at the basis of populisms without abandoning democratic principles?

Christina M. Knopf, "Politics in the Gutters: American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media"
English | ISBN: 1496834232 | 2021 | 306 pages | PDF | 40 MB
From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for president during America's bicentennial in 1976, the politics of comics have overlapped with the politics of campaigns and governance. Pop culture opens avenues for people to declare their participation in a collective project and helps them to shape their understandings of civic responsibility, leadership, communal history, and present concerns.

Deniz Yonucu, "Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul "
English | ISBN: 1501762168 | 2022 | 222 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones.

Police Use of Force: Global Perspectives and Policy Implications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031227042 | 673 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This volume provides a comprehensive examination and analysis of the concepts and issues related to police use of force, particularly the use of deadly force with a firearm, from multi-faceted and international perspectives. It explores innovative training, protocols, policies, tactical options for de-escalation, and recommendations for the restriction of the use of force by law enforcement officers in an effort to reduce the likelihood of injury to police, the pubic and criminal suspects. Additionally, it outlines tactics for effective crowd control at demonstrations and during riots. This book specifically delineates practical policy implications suggested from highly recognized professionals with extensive experience in policing, training and related research. It is ideal for graduate and upper level undergraduate students, scholars, academics, researchers, government and community leaders, and criminal justice and law enforcement administrators and policy makers.