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Free Download Barbara Laine, Don Laine, "Frommer’s Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks (Park Guides)"
English | 2010 | pages: 196 | ISBN: 0470551275 | PDF | 4,4 mb
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Free Download Computer Engineering and Technology: 16th National Conference, NCCET 2012, Shanghai, China, August 17-19, 2012, Revised Selected Papers By Zhuo Ma, Zhenyu Zhao, Yang Guo, Lunguo Xie, Jinshan Yu (auth.), Weixia Xu, Liquan Xiao, Pingjing Lu, Jinwen Li, Chengyi Zhang (eds.)
2013 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 3642358977 | PDF | 10 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in August 2012. The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: microprocessor and implementation; design of integration circuit; I/O interconnect; and measurement, verification, and others.

Free Download John Gaventa, Rosemary McGee, Rabéa Naciri, "Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1848133863 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.5 mb
How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?

Free Download Six Stops on the National Security Tour by Miriam Pemberton
English | July 18, 2022 | ISBN: 036725767X | 234 pages | MOBI | 3.50 Mb
The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This is the first book to connect our national security apparatus to the local level via deeply reported portraits of six carefully selected locations, including military Meccas and out-of-the-way places. They are woven into the warfare economy by bases, nuclear weapons labs, and production sites. The book includes an invaluable overview of how the military is structured, how its budget is made, and what it costs. It also shows how the military economy perpetuates itself. In on-the-ground reporting, Pemberton traces the lines of connection between the tour stops presented here and our country’s foreign policy, industrial policy, and budget priorities. She examines the meaning of national security in the current moment, as climate change becomes what the military itself calls "an urgent and growing threat." And she dramatically demonstrates how redirecting our militarized foreign and industrial policy toward climate security can help these communities become part of the solution. For students, scholars, public servants, and all concerned citizens, this book is essential reading.

Free Download Big Data: 29th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2013, Oxford, UK, July 8-10, 2013. Proceedings By Dan Suciu (auth.), Georg Gottlob, Giovanni Grasso, Dan Olteanu, Christian Schallhart (eds.)
2013 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 3642394663 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2013. The 20 revised full papers, presented together with three keynote talks, two tutorials, and one panel session, were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Special focus of the conference has been "Big Data" and so the papers cover a wide range of topics such as query and update processing; relational storage; benchmarking; XML query processing; big data; spatial data and indexing; data extraction and social networks.

Free Download Six Stops on the National Security Tour by Miriam Pemberton
English | July 18, 2022 | ISBN: 036725767X | 234 pages | MOBI | 3.50 Mb
The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This is the first book to connect our national security apparatus to the local level via deeply reported portraits of six carefully selected locations, including military Meccas and out-of-the-way places. They are woven into the warfare economy by bases, nuclear weapons labs, and production sites. The book includes an invaluable overview of how the military is structured, how its budget is made, and what it costs. It also shows how the military economy perpetuates itself. In on-the-ground reporting, Pemberton traces the lines of connection between the tour stops presented here and our country’s foreign policy, industrial policy, and budget priorities. She examines the meaning of national security in the current moment, as climate change becomes what the military itself calls "an urgent and growing threat." And she dramatically demonstrates how redirecting our militarized foreign and industrial policy toward climate security can help these communities become part of the solution. For students, scholars, public servants, and all concerned citizens, this book is essential reading.

Free Download National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, "The National Plant Genome Initiative: Objectives for 2003-2008"
English | 2002 | pages: 92 | ISBN: 0309085217 | PDF | 3,7 mb
The National Plant Genome Initiative was launched in 1998 as a long-term project to explore DNA structure and function in plants so that useful properties of plants can be understood, improved, and ultimately harnessed to address national needs, including agriculture, nutrition, energy and waste reduction. Experts in the community were asked to consider how to build on current accomplishments in order to address major questions in plant biology and to make recommendations for objectives for the next five-year phase of the Initiative.

Free Download Michael Mulqueen, "Re-evaluating Irish national security policy: Affordable threats?"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0719080274 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.4 mb
On the afternoon of September 11 2001 the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), Bertie Ahern ordered the ‘heads of the security services of key government departments’ to undertake a complete re-evaluation of measures to protect the state from attack. Hence, underway within hours of the 9/11 outrage in the United States was potentially the most far-reaching review of Irish national security in decades.

Free Download Jonathan B. Jarvis, "National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence"
English | ISBN: 0226819086 | 2022 | 247 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty years-and offer a bold vision for the parks’ future.

Free Download Federica Prina, "National Minorities in Putin’s Russia"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138476056 | PDF | pages: 281 | 3.6 mb
Using a human rights approach, the book analyses the dynamics in the application of minority policies for the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia. Despite Russia’s legacy of ethno-cultural and linguistic pluralism, the book argues that the Putin leadership’s overwhelming statism and promotion of Russian patriotism are inexorably leading to a reduction of Russia’s diversity. Using scores of interviews with representatives of national minorities, civil society, public officials and academics, the book highlights the reasons why Russian law and policies, as well as international standards on minority rights, are ill-equipped to withstand the centralising drive toward ever greater uniformity. While minority policies are fragmented and feeble in contemporary Russia, they are also centrally conceived, which is exacerbated by a growing democratic deficit under Putin. Crucially, in today’s Russia informal practices and networks are frequently utilised rather than formal channels in the sphere of diversity management. Informal practices, the book argues, can at times favour minorities, yet they more frequently disadvantage them and create the conditions for the co-optation of leaders of minority groups. A dilution of diversity, the book suggests, is not only resulting in the loss of Russia’s rich cultural heritage but is also impairing the peaceful coexistence of the individuals and groups that make up Russian society.