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Free Download Launching IFMBE into the 21st Century: 50 Years and Counting By Herbert Voigt, Ratko Magjarević (auth.), Herbert Voigt, Ratko Magjarevic (eds.)
2014 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 3642301592 | PDF | 12 MB
This book has been created for the 50th anniversary of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Enineering and Computing IFMBE. The IFMBE is primarily a professional organization of national and transnational societies representing interests in medical and biological engineering. In six parts, this book presents an overview on the federation, its activities and the characters who shaped IFMBE. In the last part, all member societies give a short presentation.

Free Download Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner, Alice M. Rivlin, "Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century"
English | 2008 | pages: 383 | ISBN: 0815715412, 0815715420 | PDF | 1,7 mb
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Free Download Evangelos Alexiou, "Greek Rhetoric of the 4th Century BC: The Elixir of Democracy and Individuality"
English | ISBN: 311055979X | 2020 | 377 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 3 MB
The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual’s struggle as an advisor and political leader, these are the quintessential elements of 4th century rhetoric. As an individual personality, the orator draws strength from his audience, while the rhetorical texts mirror his own thoughts and those of his audience as part of a two-way relationship, in which individuality meets, opposes, and identifies with the masses. For the first time, this volume systematically compares minor orators with the major figures of rhetoric, Demosthenes and Isocrates, taking into account other findings as well, such as extracts of Hyperides from the Archimedes Palimpsest. Moreover, this book provides insight into the controversy surrounding the art of discourse in the rhetorical texts of Anaximenes, Aristotle, and especially of Isocrates who took up a clear stance against the philosophy of the 4th century.

Free Download Prof Richard Godden, "Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century: Punctuating Capital "
English | ISBN: 019286775X | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives-and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely, fictional narrative may expose the historical structures that determine literary language use, and that of language more generally. The study, the fourth in a quartet of studies addressing the emergence and decline of a Fordist regime of capitalist accumulation, offers an account of ‘the sub-semantic whispering’ that haunts the literature of the financial turn-which is to say, an account of how the complexities of words and their histories register an expanding industrial economy’s organizing contradictions and failures. Reading in the light of deindustrialization and the rise of US finance capital after 1973, it deploys and elaborates on a materialist theory of language that explains how syntactic as well as semantic structures register a financializing economy’s core contradictions, those associated particularly with debt, risk, and volatility. The volume listens for the under-heard syntactical breaks that punctuate language under the global hegemony of finance, breaks that express the unuttered in all utterance, taking as its exemplary texts primarily works by Bret Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips, and David Foster Wallace.

Free Download National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, "Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States: Tasks for University, Industry, and Government"
English | 2003 | pages: 29 | ISBN: 0309088569 | PDF | 0,5 mb
At the request of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents in this brief paper her views of the challenges of the 21st century for the science and engineering workforce. Dr. Jackson identifies factors that she believes are contributing to a declining science and engineering workforce, describes the risks and consequences of this decline, and proposes specific, short-term tasks for universities, industry, and the federal government to strengthen and revitalize the workforce.

Free Download Criminal Justice Technology In The 21st Century By Laura J. Moriarty
2005 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 0398075603 | PDF | 2 MB
Criminal Justice Technology in the 21st Century describes the ways that technology is impacting criminal justice. It is the first academic volume of its kind, and because of that, it serves as a significant primer in the literature. The book represents the concerns of criminal justice teachers, practitioners, and students, and it is presented in four parts: criminal justice education and technology, law enforcement technology, corrections technology, and criminality and technology. Students, educators, and practitioners will find this edition useful as it provides practical knowledge about different technology that is useful on many levels. The second edition contains nine new chapters. Several chapters explore the level to which faculty are using computers in their teaching. Other chapters enlighten the reader on the ways that criminal justice agencies are using the World Wide Web and automation to inform and interact with the public, hire and train staff, collect and manage data better, share data ‘seamlessly,’ solve field problems, and classify and track offenders. Chapters also discuss how the digital age is producing new techno-crimes whose effects are beyond comprehension. This book is inspiring reading for everyone in criminal justice. Whether one’s area of interest or work is police, courts, or corrections, the essence of each chapter can be thought about and discussed as an issue being faced elsewhere in the criminal justice system.

Free Download Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff, Kent Anderson, "Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation"
English | 2009 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 1847209238 | PDF | 1,7 mb
The ‘lost decade’ of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a ‘found decade’ for regulatory and institutional reform. Nowhere is this more evident than in corporate law. In 2005, for example, a spate of reforms to the Commercial Code culminated in the new Company Act, a statute promising greater organisational flexibility and shareholder empowerment for Japanese corporations competing in a more globalised economy. But does this new law herald a more ‘Americanised’ system of corporate governance? Has Japan embraced shareholder primacy over its traditional loyalty to other key stakeholders such as ‘main banks’, core employees, and partners within diffuse corporate (keiretsu) groups? This book argues that a more complex ‘gradual transformation’ is unfolding in Japan – a process evident in many other post-industrial economies.

Free Download Christian Muslim Dialogue in the Twentieth Century By Ataullah Siddiqui
1997 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0333673581 | PDF | 14 MB
The book describes the challenge of modernity faced by Muslims and Christians and the issue of religious pluralism. It describes Muslims’ encounters with Christianity in the first half of this century and their participation in organised dialogues initiated by the Churches in the second half. It highlights their apprehensions and expectations in dialogue and issues of co-existence in the world today. The book focuses on six prominent Muslim personalities who represent a wide spectrum of Muslim opinion and three international organizations and their attitude towards dialogue.

Free Download Audrey L. Mayer, "Bird versus Bulldozer: A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot"
English | ISBN: 0300247907 | 2021 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher

Free Download Asia’s Rise in the 21st Century By Scott B. MacDonald, Jonathan Lemco
2011 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0313393702 | PDF | 4 MB
Asia’s Rise in the 21st Century is a wake-up call to the West, offering a sophisticated assessment of a group of nations that are becoming essential markets for U.S. trade, industry, and finance, even as they increasingly represent fierce competition for global markets. The work traces changes that launched the region down the path to potential economic and political ascendancy, and it looks at various factors, from politics to economics to demographics that affect Asia now and will continue to do so in the future.China’s prominence is explored in the context of how it complements and competes with the rest of Asia, especially Japan and India, and how it interacts with other major emerging-market countries, such as Brazil, Russia, and Turkey. The book also looks at the challenge China’s ascendancy poses to the assertion that a successful capitalist system must be accompanied by political democracy. Finally, the authors suggest ways in which Asia’s rise can be accommodated in the West and elsewhere and offer thoughts on where Asia, and especially China, will be in 2030.