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Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering


Free Download Srinivas Peeta, "Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems: Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering"
English | 2010 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 3642114040 | PDF | 6,2 mb
Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considerations. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of civil and other interdependent infrastructure systems (electric power, energy, cyber-infrastructures, etc.) require inter- and multidisciplinary expertise required to engineer, monitor, and sustain these distributed large-scale complex adaptive infrastructure systems. This edited book is motivated by recent advances in simulation, modeling, sensing, communications/information, and intelligent and sustainable technologies that have resulted in the development of sophisticated methodologies and instruments to design, characterize, optimize, and evaluate critical infrastructure systems, their resilience, and their condition and the factors that cause their deterioration.

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Engaging Agnes Heller A Critical Companion


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English | ISBN: 0739122568 | 2009 | 278 pages | PDF | 31 MB
This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, journalists, and political scientists contextualize, compare and assess different elements of Heller’s work; the collection as a whole highlights relevant shifts within that work as well as its intrinsic consistency. Essays in the collection address the relationship between philosophy, political practice and everyday life, Heller’s theory of modernity and her ethical theory, her recent scholarship on comedy and the Biblical book of Genesis, her theories of radical needs and radical politics, her aesthetic theory, and questions about her relationship to feminist theory. The collection includes Heller’s reflections on the collected essays, as well as an early essay on her mentor Lukács that exposes her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and philosophical issues throughout her life’s work.

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At the Vanishing Point in History Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War


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English | November 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1350438324, 1350438316 | True PDF | 360 pages | 3.5 MB
Putin’s war has prompted a deep analysis and reevaluation of the forces driving this deadly confrontation. At the Vanishing Point in History brings together renowned humanities scholars and prominent novelists to explore the roots and causes of the ongoing catastrophe in Eastern Europe.

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Transforming Economics Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project


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English | 2004 | pages: 326 | ISBN: 0415369665 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use of mathematical modelling. On the other hand, there are economists who believe passionately that in order for economics to be useful it needs to take account of its history, its impact on society and its real world applications.

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Theatre of the Ridiculous A Critical History


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English | November 23, 2018 | ISBN: 1476674035 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 4.5 MB
Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important practitioners, along with critical commentary of their work.

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