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White Space Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing


Free Download Jennifer De Leon, "White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing "
English | ISBN: 1625345674 | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn’t been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return-to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family’s history, and begin to make her own way.

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Minutes to Midnight Twelve Essays on Watchmen


Free Download Richard Bensam, Timothy Callahan, Patrick Meaney, "Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 146635089X | EPUB | pages: 180 | 2.2 mb
MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT examines WATCHMEN from a variety of perspectives and uncovers surprising answers about the history of scientific theory, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, WATCHMEN’s murder mystery, Rorschach and Steve Ditko, the secrets of Captain Metropolis and the Minutemen, whether the Comedian was right, who shouldn’t read WATCHMEN, and how the motion picture adaptation illuminates the original text. From Sequart Research & Literacy Organization.

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Discourse, Tools and Reasoning Essays on Situated Cognition


Free Download Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition By Lauren B. Resnick, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Roger Säljö (auth.), Lauren B. Resnick, Roger Säljö, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Barbara Burge (eds.)
1997 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 3642083374 | PDF | 12 MB
Not long ago, projections of how office technologies would revolutionize the production of documents in a high-tech future carriedmany promises. The paper less office and the seamless and problem-free sharing of texts and other work materials among co-workers werejust around the corner, we were told. To anyone who has been involved in putting together a volume of the present kind, such forecasts will be met with considerable skepticism, if not outright distrust. The diskette, the email, the fax, the net, and all the other forms of communication that are now around are powerful assets, but they do not in any way reduce the flow of paper or the complexity of coordinating activities involved in producing an artifact such as a book. Instead, the reverse seems to be true. Obviously, the use of such tools requires considerable skill at the center of coordination, to borrow an expression from a chapter in this volume. As editors, we have been fortunate to have Ms. Lotta Strand, Linkoping University, at the center of the distributed activity that producing this volume has required over the last few years. With her considerable skill and patience, Ms. Strand and her work provide a powerful illustration of the main thrust of most of the chapters in this volume: Practice is a coordination of thinking and action, and many things had to be kept in mind during the production of this volume.

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Aspects of Molecular Computing Essays Dedicated to Tom Head, on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday


Free Download Aspects of Molecular Computing: Essays Dedicated to Tom Head, on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday By Artiom Alhazov, Carlos Martín-Vide, Linqiang Pan (auth.), Nataša Jonoska, Gheorghe Păun, Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)
2004 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 3540207813 | PDF | 4 MB
Molecular computing is a rapidly growing subarea of natural computing. On the one hand, molecular computing is concerned with the use of bio-molecules for the purpose of actual computations while, on the other hand, it attempts to understand the computational nature of molecular processes going on in living cells.The book presents a unique and authorative state-of-the-art survey on current research in molecular computing: 30 papers by leading researchers in the area are drawn together on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Tom Head, a pioneer in molecular computing. Among the topics addressed are molecular tiling, DNA self-assembly, splicing systems, DNA-based cryptography, DNA word design, gene assembly, and membrane computing.

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Verification Theory and Practice Essays Dedicated to Zohar Manna on the Occasion of His 64th Birthday


Free Download Verification: Theory and Practice: Essays Dedicated to Zohar Manna on the Occasion of His 64th Birthday By Nachum Dershowitz (auth.), Nachum Dershowitz (eds.)
2004 | 788 Pages | ISBN: 3540210024 | PDF | 3 MB
This festschrift volume constitutes a unique tribute to Zohar Manna on the occasion of his 64th birthday. Like the scientific work of Zohar Manna, the 32 research articles span the entire scope of the logical half of computer science. Also included is a paean to Zohar Manna by the volume editor.The articles presented are devoted to the theory of computing, program semantics, logics of programs, temporal logic, automated deduction, decision procedures, model checking, concurrent systems, reactive systems, hardware and software verification, testing, software engineering, requirements specification, and program synthesis.

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Rethinking Holocaust Justice Essays across Disciplines


Free Download Norman J. W. Goda, "Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays across Disciplines"
English | ISBN: 1785336975 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendt’s work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.

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Editing Lives Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr


Free Download Jesse G. Swan, "Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr."
English | ISBN: 1611485401 | 2013 | 302 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.

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Licht, Raum und Zeit Essays über Fotografie und Kreativität


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Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3988890251 | 179 Pages | EPUB | 20 MB
Beim Fotografieren formen wir Bilder aus Licht, Raum und Zeit. Dies erfordert nicht nur handwerkliches Wissen – vor allem anderen müssen wir lernen, wie unsere Kamera zu sehen. Dies ist der Ausgangspunkt dieses Buches. David duChemin zeigt darin in 20 Essays, wie Sie Ihre ganz persönliche Ausdrucksweise finden, indem Sie Ihre Wahrnehmung schulen, lernen, fokussierter zu arbeiten, mit Einschränkungen umzugehen und an Herausforderungen zu wachsen. Packend und auf den Punkt geschrieben, ist dieses Buch eine große Inspiration und ein wertvoller Leitfaden für Ihre kreative Reise zu persönlichen Bildern.

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