Tag: Memory

Formal Systems Specification The RPC-Memory Specification Case Study


Free Download Formal Systems Specification: The RPC-Memory Specification Case Study By Manfred Broy, Leslie Lamport (auth.), Manfred Broy, Stephan Merz, Katharina Spies (eds.)
1996 | 543 Pages | ISBN: 3540619844 | PDF | 9 MB
The RPC-memory specification problem was proposed by Broy and Lamport as a case study in the formal design of distributed and concurrent systems. As a realistic example typical for operating systems and hardware design, the RPC-memory problem was used as the basis for comparing various approaches to formal specification, refinement, and verification.Preliminary solutions were discussed during a workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in September 1994. Then an extensive discussion took place between the referees and authors. Finally 15 thoroughly revised papers were accepted for inclusion in this volume in full detail together with the problem statement and a synopsis.

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Backfields of My Memory


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English | ISBN: 0983238278 | 2012 | pages | EPUB | 3 MB
I lived in a very special time and place that most of those who lived there have forgotten. Or, due to time and age, they cannot remember how wonderful it was. And those who have come since do not realize what happened, how it happened and how very special this time and place really was. It was a time before electricity, running water, indoor bathrooms and telephones. Before I forget, I want to I tell my stories for the benefit and education of my children, grandchildren and all the generations that are to come. The message I want to pass on is that the essence of life and happiness has absolutely nothing to do with material things but has everything to do with loving and caring for each other.

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In Memory of Times to Come Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea


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English | ISBN: 1800731167 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 43 MB
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw "globalization" come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active participants in the Second World War. In Memory of Times to Come offers a nuanced account of how people assess their own experience of change over the course of a critical century. It asks two key questions: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future, and what does it mean to claim that one has lost one’s culture, but not because anyone else took it away or destroyed it?

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Postcolonial Nostalgias Writing, Representation and Memory


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English | 2010 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0415445337 | PDF | 2,2 mb
This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition ― nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. Through a series of comparative reflections upon the representation in literary and related cultural forms of memory, he shows how admitting the past into the present through nostalgia enables former colonial or diasporic subjects to gain a deeper understanding of the networks of power within which they are caught in the modern world, and beyond which it may yet be possible to move. Considering authors as varied as V.S Naipaul, J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as well as versions of "Bushman" song, Walder pursues the often wayward, ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented beyond, but also within, Europe, so as to identify some of those processes of communal and individual experience that constitute the present and, by implication, the future.

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Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context


Free Download Viktorija L.A. Ceginskas, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Nina Sääskilahti, "Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032138955 | EPUB | pages: 114 | 0.7 mb
This book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20th and early 21st centuries as well as the cultural, political and institutional backgrounds against which they function.

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The Rest Is Memory A Novel


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English | December 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1324095725 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 0.7 MB
The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.

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