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September 18, 2024

Foucault A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Free Download Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Gary Gutting
English | December 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0198830785 | 160 pages | PDF | 2.01 Mb
Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity, knowledge, and power. From aesthetics to the penal system; from madness and civilisation to avant-garde literature, Foucault was happy to reject old models of thinking and replace them with versions that are still widely debated today. A major influence on Queer Theory and gender studies (he was openly gay and died of an AIDS-related illness in 1984), he also wrote on architecture, history, law, medicine, literature, politics, and of course philosophy.

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September 16, 2024

Surveillance A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Free Download Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by David Lyon
English | August 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 0198796846 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 1.25 MB
Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Once a more limited and often remote aspect of social life, today surveillance is central to political, economic, and everyday life. Every click on the keyboard, every call, text or email, every purchase, every contact with a doctor or the police or a government department, each time you walk under a video camera or pass through a security check, and in many other ways, you are recorded, identified, traced, and tracked. Who processes this free-flowing data, how, and with what consequences, is a critical question affecting everyone.

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September 15, 2024

Advances in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (AAPS Introductions in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9)

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Free Download Advances in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (AAPS Introductions in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9) by Panos Macheras
English | May 27, 2023 | ISBN: 3031295404 | 215 pages | MOBI | 8.68 Mb
This book provides a concise overview of recent advances in Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Pharmacodynamics (PD). The pharmacokinetics section covers the state of the art in Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling (Chapter 1) as well as the assessment of food effect on drug absorption using PBPK modeling (Chapter 2). Chapters 3 and 4 describe the recent development of Physiologically Based Finite Time Pharmacokinetic (PBFTPK) models and their applications to pharmacokinetic data. The pharmacodynamics section focuses on PK/PD modeling. Chapter 5 provides an overview of PK/PD modeling and simulation in clinical practice and studies. Chapter 6 deals with the subject/physiology variability issue encountered in PK/PD studies, while Chapter 7 reviews the influence of clinical pharmacology in the modernization of drug development and regulation. This book is an essential reference for pharmaceutical scientists.

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January 30, 2024

The Gulag A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Free Download The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Alan Barenberg
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0197548229 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 2.43 MB
A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime. it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. From its creation in 1930 to its partial dismantling in the mid-1950s, approximately 25 million people passed through the Gulag.

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