This text explores the relationship between technology and inequality through
social and cultural theory and case studies of the application of ICTs, in
particular in media, education and training.
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Brian Belle-Fortune, "All Crews: Journey's Through Jungle / Drum and Bass
Culture"
Gardners Books | ISBN 0954889703 | 2004 Year | PDF | 12,07 Mb | 272 Pages[cut]
Whether it was hanging out in DJ Hypes BMW or at home with Shy FX and his mom...
This book gets so personal with the DnB/Jungle gods from England, you end up
feeling like you know them yourself. Also, the structure of the book helps the
reader feel as though they are on a time journey through the history of this
music. There was so much that I never knew about - the early to mid 90s when
Jungle broke and started to be co-opted by outsiders etc. Growing up in the US
it's hard to grasp the idea that Jungle was on the charts in the UK... but it
was... and is.
To put it bluntly, if you have even a mild interest in Jungle / Drum n Bass you
should check out this book. It brings home the fact that this music has played
and continues to play a major role in an important movement across the world.
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Josef Meri, "The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria"
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0199250782 | 2003 Year | PDF | 3,62 Mb | 350
Pages[cut]
This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints
among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies
of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments,
examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of "holiness", Meri
depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of
these two faiths.
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Prabhat Mishra, Nikil D. Dutt, "Functional Verification of Programmable Embedded
Architectures: A Top-Down Approach"
Springer | ISBN 0387261435 | 2005 Year | PDF | 7,64 Mb | 180 Pages[cut]
Validation of programmable architectures, consisting of processor cores,
coprocessors, and memory subsystems, is one of the major bottlenecks in current
System-on-Chip design methodology. A critical challenge in validation of such
systems is the lack of a golden reference model. As a result, many existing
validation techniques employ a bottom-up approach to design verification, where
the functionality of an existing architecture is, in essence, reverse-engineered
from its implementation. Traditional validation techniques employ different
reference models depending on the abstraction level and verification task,
resulting in potential inconsistencies between multiple reference models. This
book presents a top-down validation methodology that complements the existing
bottom-up approaches. It leverages the system architect’s knowledge about the
behavior of the design through architecture specification using an Architecture
Description Language (ADL). The authors also address two fundamental challenges
in functional verification: lack of a golden reference model, and lack of a
comprehensive functional coverage metric. Functional Verification of
Programmable Embedded Architectures: A Top-Down Approach is designed for
students, researchers, CAD tool developers, designers, and managers interested
in the development of tools, techniques and methodologies for system-level
design, microprocessor validation, design space exploration and functional
verification of embedded systems.
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Brita Immergut, "Master Math: Solving Word Problems"
Thomson Delmar Learning | ISBN 1564146782 | 2003 Year | linked PNG-files | 23,3
Mb | 192 Pages[cut]
Students throughout the world fear and dread solving word problems. As students?
reading skills have declined, so have their abilities to solve word problems.
This book offers solutions to the most standard and non-standard word problems
available. It follows the suggestions of the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM) and incorporates the types of problems usually found on
standardized math tests (PSAT, SAT, and others).
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David Giles, "Media Psychology"
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | ISBN 0805840494 | 2003 Year | linked PNG-files |
25,22 Mb | 256 Pages[cut]
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Donna Falvo, "Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and
Disability" (3rd Edition)
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. | ISBN 0763731668 | 2005 Year | PDF | 2 Mb |
475 Pages[cut]
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Brandon/Hill Allied Health List selection
(#344). Details common chronic illnesses and disabilities and discusses how
these conditions impact function capacity. Edition includes expanded sections on
the nervous system and added case studies for discussion. Previous edition:
c1999. DNLM: Chronic Disease.
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David Marker, "Model Theory: An Introduction"
Springer | ISBN 0387987606 | 2002 Year | linked PNG-files | 21,85 Mb | 360
Pages[cut]
This book is a modern introduction to model theory which stresses applications
to algebra throughout the text. The first half of the book includes classical
material on model construction techniques, type spaces, prime models, saturated
models, countable models, and indiscernibles and their applications. The author
also includes an introduction to stability theory beginning with Morley's
Categoricity Theorem and concentrating on omega-stable theories. One significant
aspect of this text is the inclusion of chapters on important topics not covered
in other introductory texts, such as omega-stable groups and the geometry of
strongly minimal sets. The author then goes on to illustrate how these
ingredients are used in Hrushovski's applications to diophantine geometry. David
Marker is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His
main area of research involves mathematical logic and model theory, and their
applications to algebra and geometry. This book was developed from a series of
lectures given by the author at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in
1998.
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Richard A. Deyo, Donald L. Patrick, "Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical
Advances and the High Cost of False Promises"
American Management Association | ISBN 0814408451 | 2005 Year | PDF | 2,05 Mb |
335 Pages[cut]
Armed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Deyo and Patrick
make a well-documented -- if depressing -- argument that doctors, scientists,
and laypersons alike are far too easily seduced by industry hype for merely new
(as opposed to truly better) drugs and medical devices. Deyo and Patrick are
appropriately tough on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) drug approval
process, in part because the agency's mission does not include weighing one drug
against another but, rather, merely approving a new drug if it works at all,
even if it has no advantages over cheaper drugs already on the market. The
authors are even tougher on the FDA's process for approving medical devices,
deftly hanging the agency by its own quotes, such as this gem: "New devices are
less likely than drugs to have their safety established clinically before they
are marketed." And, of course, they note that it is not part of the FDA's
mission to regulate surgical procedures. But the basic message from Deyo and
Patrick, both professors at the University of Washington, is that we are all too
ready to believe that new, expensive, or aggressive care must be better than
older, cheaper, or milder treatments. It is a cultural thing, they argue, citing
one study that showed that whereas 34 percent of Americans believe that modern
medicine can cure almost anything, only 27 percent of Canadians and 11 percent
of Germans do. There is little that is new in this book for anyone who has
followed the medical journals and the mainstream press over the past decade. But
it is an excellent reference for the reader who wants details of the horror
stories that have grabbed headlines: the rise and fall of the fenfluramine-
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