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Free Download Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale By PATRICK BARRON, Manuela Mariani
2013 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 041582768X | PDF | 6 MB
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city — the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse group of planners, geographers, and urban designers. Terrain Vague is a cooperative effort to redefinethese marginal spacesas a central concept for urban planning and design. Presenting innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, and focusing on its positive uses and aspects, the book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand our increasingly complex everyday surroundings, from planners, cultural theorists, and academics, to designers and architects.

Free Download Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science edited by John Brockman
English | April 19, 2016 | ASIN: B00PQR9MP6, ISBN: 0062296051 | True AZW3 | 384 pages | 0.8 MB
The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists-including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.

Free Download Edge Intelligent Computing Systems in Different Domains (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) by Benedetta Picano, Romano Fantacci
English | January 11, 2024 | ISBN: 3031494717 | 104 pages | MOBI | 7.07 Mb
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of next-generation Edge Intelligence (EI) Networks. It delves deep into the critical design considerations within this context, emphasizing the necessity for functional and dependable interactions between networking strategies and the diverse application scenarios. This should help assist to encompass a wide range of environments.

Free Download Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society"
English | ISBN: 0773559221 | 2019 | 408 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of animal metaphors in a non-Western society, Gregory Forth focuses on how the Nage understand metaphor and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. Based on extensive field research, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path explores the meaning and use of over 560 animal metaphors employed by the Nage. Investigating how closely their indigenous concept of pata péle corresponds to the Greek-derived English concept of metaphor, Forth demonstrates that the Nage people understand these figures of speech in the same way as Westerners – namely as conventional ways of speaking about people and objects, not expressions of an essential identity between their animal vehicles and human referents. Theoretically engaging with anthropology’s recent ontological turn, the book considers whether metaphors reveal significant differences in conceptions of human-animal relations, the human-animal contrast, and human understanding of other humans in different parts of the world. An incredible catalogue of animal-based linguistic art and Nage verbal conventions, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path illuminates essential features of metaphorical thought everywhere.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing for Sustainable Ocean Health by Debashis De, Diganta Sengupta, Tien Anh Tran
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 459 Pages | ISBN : 303164641X | 69.4 MB
Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing for Sustainable Ocean Health explores the transformative role of AI and edge computing in preserving and enhancing ocean health. The growing influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with the Internet of Things (IoT) in generating wide coverage of sensor networks, and Edge Computing (EC) has paved the way for investigation of underwater as well as massive marine data, thereby generating huge potential for credible research opportunities for these domains. This book’s journey begins with a broad overview of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Ocean Health, setting the foundation for understanding AI’s potential in marine conservation. The subsequent chapter, Role of Artificial Intelligence and Technologies in Improving Ocean Health in Promoting Tourism, illustrates the synergy between technological advancements and sustainable tourism practices, demonstrating how AI can enhance the attractiveness and preservation of marine destinations. The identification, restoration, and monitoring of marine resources along with the utilization of technology continues in Utilization of Underwater Wireless Sensor Network through Supervising a Random Network Environment in the Ocean Environment has been extensively dealt with. The technical challenges of underwater imaging, essential for accurate data collection and analysis has been discussed.

Free Download The Story Edge: How Leaders Harness the Power of Stories to Win in Business by Kindra Hall
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1400228573 | 256 pages | PDF | 2.36 Mb
A holistic approach to innovation, connection, and problem-solving that has no expiration date.

Free Download The Predictive Edge: Outsmart the Market using Generative AI and ChatGPT in Financial Forecasting by Alejandro Lopez-Lira
English | July 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1394242719 | 272 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 0.63 MB
Use ChatGPT to improve your analysis of stock markets and securities

Free Download Team Coaching Edge: The ultimate guide to coaching teams to high performance by Alison Grieve, Jenni Miller
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1788605845 | 242 pages | PDF | 3.67 Mb
The ultimate guide to coaching a team to high performance.

Free Download Job Crafting (Management on the Cutting Edge) by Benjamin Laker, Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, Adeyinka Adewale
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0262048884 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 0.68 MB
A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting.

Free Download Frank S. Ravitch, "Freedom’s Edge: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and the Future of America"
English | ISBN: 1107158877 | 2016 | 246 pages | AZW3 | 919 KB
Freedom’s Edge takes the reader directly into the heart of the debate over the relationship between religious freedom and LGBT and reproductive rights. The book explains these complex areas of law, and what is at stake in the battle to protect each of these rights. The book argues that religious freedom and sexual freedom share some common elements and that in most contexts it is possible to protect both. Freedom’s Edge explains why this is so, and provides a roadmap for finding common ground and maximizing freedoms on both sides. The book will enable anyone with an interest in these issues to understand what the law actually teaches us about religious freedom, sexual freedom, and how they interact. This is important because what is often argued by partisans on both sides distorts the legal and cultural stakes, and diminishes the possibility of compromise.