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Free Download Martha Doyle, "The politics of old age: Older people’s interest organisations and collective action in Ireland"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719090474 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 0.4 mb
The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life. An important aspect is the manner in which older people and their representative groups are given the opportunity to articulate their interests in the policy-making process. Drawing upon key literature in political science, social gerontology and cultural sociology, The politics of old age explores the relationship between ageing, politics and representation. It reveals the complexity of older people’s representation and how the power the organisations exercise, their legitimacy and existence remain highly contingent on government policy design, political opportunity structures and the prevailing cultural and socioeconomic milieu.

Free Download The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War
by Lucian Staiano-Daniels
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009428403 | 247 Pages | PDF | 2.15 MB

Free Download P. Ashton, H. Kean, "People and their Pasts: Public History Today"
English | 2008 | pages: 319 | ISBN: 0230546692 | PDF | 3,2 mb
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present.Chapters explore forms of public history in which people’s experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

Free Download People and Computers XVIII – Design for Life: Proceedings of HCI 2004 By Jennifer G Sheridan, Alan Dix, Simon Lock, Alice Bayliss (auth.), Sally Fincher BA, MA, LHG, FSEDA, Panos Markopoulos MSc, MSc, PhD, David Moore PhD, Roy Ruddle BSc, PhD, CEng, MBCS (eds.)
2005 | 382 Pages | ISBN: 1852339004 | PDF | 6 MB
The eighteenth annual British HCI Conference chose as its theme Design for Life. ‘Life’ has many facets, from work (of course, or should we say inevitably!) to travel, fun and other forms of leisure. We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation – including games, tourism and certain types of work – and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly. These papers were complemented by others that described more traditional aspects of research in the field of human-computer interaction. In putting together the programme we followed a three-stage process. First each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Then a member of the committee conducted a meta-review. Finally, all sets of reviews were considered by the technical chairs who assembled a programme that was submitted to, and approved by, the full committee. This process was greatly assisted by the use of the Precision Conference Solutions web-based submission system. Even more important, of course, were the volunteer reviewers themselves. In recognition, this year we have made an award for the best reviewer as well as one for the best paper.

Free Download Steven Sloman, "Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives"
English | 2005 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 0195183118, 0195394291 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our world? A revolution is occurring in how statisticians, philosophers, and computer scientists answer this question. Those fields have ushered in new insights about causal models by thinking about how to represent causal structure mathematically, in a framework that uses graphs and probability theory to develop what are called causal Bayesian networks. The framework starts with the idea that the purpose of causal structure is to understand and predict the effects of intervention. How does intervening on one thing affect other things? This is not a question merely about probability (or logic), but about action. The framework offers a new understanding of mind: Thought is about the effects of intervention and cognition is thus intimately tied to actions that take place either in the actual physical world or in imagination, in counterfactual worlds. The book offers a conceptual introduction to the key mathematical ideas, presenting them in a non-technical way, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. It tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things and why thinking not only about the world as it is but the world as it could be is so central to human action. The book reviews the role of causality, causal models, and intervention in the basic human cognitive functions: decision making, reasoning, judgment, categorization, inductive inference, language, and learning. In short, the book offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms, in terms of action and manipulation.

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by Cara Brezina
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1648412874 | 190 pages | True EPUB | 9.68 MB

Free Download People and Computers XIX – The Bigger Picture: Proceedings of HCI 2005 By Ylva Fernaeus, Jakob Tholander (auth.), Tom McEwan MSc, PgCert, MBCS, CITP, Ceng, ILTM, Jan Gulliksen MSc, PhD, David Benyon BSc, MSc, PhD (eds.)
2006 | 510 Pages | ISBN: 184628192X | PDF | 8 MB
This volume contains the full papers presented at HCI 2005, the 19th Annual Conference of the British HCI Group, a specialist group of the BCS. The conference has become the premiere annual conference on human-computer interaction in Europe, attracting a global audience.People and Computers XIX includes leading edge discussions outlining the latest research results and novel systems from the foremost research and development groups and laboratories throughout the world. In keeping with our theme, The Bigger Picture, this year our authors collectively construct a broad canvas, though we can focus on HCI at three distinct levels: * The Human Scale – exploring the relationships between individuals mediated by tangible interfaces, ways of capturing their requirements and eliciting their needs, and considering the user in their immediate, local situations* The Cultural Context – zooming out to gain a perspective on HCI’s place in the world and its relationship with external communities across different countries and cultures, seeing patterns in social networks both within the HCI community and with other stakeholders* Interactivity at the Interface – here we zoom back in to the detailed level, the traditional territory of HCI, with analysis of interface components and human senses, and the fit between them.We conclude with the call to action by our closing keynote, Professor Alistair Sutcliffe, who makes the connections to enable the HCI community to meet grand challenges in computer science.The papers presented in this volume include contributions from leading figures in both the research and business sectors.

Free Download Painting People and Portraits: A Practical Guide for Watercolour and Oils by Hazel Soan
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1849948739 | 144 pages | MOBI | 102 Mb
The definitive guide to painting people and portraits, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.

Free Download The Making of London: The People and Events That Made it Famous (UK Edition) by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
English | 6 Mar. 2023 | ISBN: 1399084674 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 14.2 MB
An accessible and intriguing account of the city of London, from Roman origins through to the 21st Century.

Free Download Renal Nursing: Care and Management of People with Kidney Disease by Nicola Thomas, Helen Noble
English | July 29, 2024 | ISBN: 139417876X | 368 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
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