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UK Parallel ’96 Proceedings of the BCS PPSG Annual Conference, 3-5 July 1996


Free Download UK Parallel ’96: Proceedings of the BCS PPSG Annual Conference, 3-5 July 1996 By Thierry Delaitre, François Spies, Stephen Winter (auth.), Chris Jesshope PhD, MSc, BSc, Shasha Shafarenko MSc, PhD (eds.)
1996 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 3540760687 | PDF | 17 MB
Parallel processing is a key topic which is becoming more important as the technology becomes more widespread. UK Parallel ’96 – Proceedings of the BCS PPSG Annual Group is the publication of the academic programme from the first in an annual series of national conferences covering the broad area of parallel and distributed computing. It was coordinated by the BCS Parallel Processing Specialist Group and provided a focus for both research and industrial presentations. This first conference was held at the University of Surrey in July 1996, and contains work from a number of universities within the UK. The scope of the proceedings illustrates the breadth of the work being undertaken in the UK and includes a variety of papers covering a number of important areas, including: compiler development for both data-parallel and message passing languages and the development of application specific software.

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Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK Forced displacement and onward migration


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2011 | 177 Pages | ISBN: 071908430X | PDF | 3 MB
The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the U.K. since 2002. It thus provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Mauritius and Crawley (West Sussex), the six chapters explore Chagossians’ challenging lives in Mauritius, the mobilisation of the community, reformulations of the homeland, the politics of culture in exile, onward migration to Crawley, and attempts to make a home in successive locations. Jeffery illuminates how displaced people romanticise their homeland through an exploration of changing representations of the Chagos Archipelago in song lyrics. Offering further ethnographic insights into the politics of culture, she shows how Chagossians in exile engage with contrasting conceptions of culture ranging from expectations of continuity and authenticity to enactments of change, loss and revival. The book will appeal particularly to social scientists specialising in the fields of migration studies, the anthropology of displacement, political and legal anthropology, African studies, Indian Ocean studies and the anthropology of Britain, as well as to readers interested in the Chagossian case study.

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Worthy, UK Edition


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English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0063320681 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 2.07 MB
A gripping, at times painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith.

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Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, UK Edition


Free Download Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe, UK Edition by George Musser
English | November 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 0861547195 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 2.29 MB
Distant galaxies, dark matter, black holes – elusive, incomprehensible and inhospitable – these are the building blocks of modern physics. But where do we fit in this picture?

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Erebus The Story of a Ship, UK Edition


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English | September 20th, 2018 | ISBN: 1784758574 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 42.75 MB
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror

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