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A Face Like a Chicken’s Backside An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948-71


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English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 0750964375 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 6.39 MB
In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them ‘under the jungle canopy’. He amassed a wealth of experience fighting against Communist Revolutionary Warfare, and training others to do so. As a result he was called upon to work in many formidable situations, and twice found himself on an army short-list of one for difficult tasks.

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50 Unconventional Clinical Careers for Physicians Unique Ways to Use Your Medical Degree Without Leaving Patient Care


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English | March 22, 2024 | ISBN: 1960762176 | 348 pages | PDF | 4.34 Mb
50 Unconventional Clinical Careers for Physicians: Unique Ways to Use Your Medical Degree Without Leaving Patient Care is a comprehensive guide to exploring alternative paths in clinical medicine.

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Unconventional Computation 4th International Conference, UC 2005, Sevilla, Spain, October 3 – 7, 2005. Proceedings


Free Download Unconventional Computation: 4th International Conference, UC 2005, Sevilla, Spain, October 3 – 7, 2005. Proceedings By Thomas Bäck, Ron Breukelaar (auth.), Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Gheorghe Păun, Mario J. Pérez-Jímenez, Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)
2005 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 3540291008 | PDF | 3 MB
The Fourth International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2005, organized under the auspices of EATCS by the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science and the Department of C- puter Science and Arti?cial Intelligence of the University of Seville, was held in Seville, October 3-7, 2005. Seville, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, is at its best in October. An explosion of colour and contrast: ?amenco, bull?ghting, and a lively at- sphere in the streets due to the open and friendly nature of its people. The river Guadalquivir, the Cathedral and the Golden Tower are all places full of magic where the visitor can feel the spirit of a city which is eternally romantic. The series of International Conferences Unconventional Computation (UC),https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/conferences/uc/isdevoted to all aspects of unconventional computation, theory as well as experiments and applications. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular,molecular, neural and evolutionarycomputing; chaosand – namical systems based computing; and various proposals for computations that go beyond the Turing model. The ?rst venue of the Unconventional Computation Conference (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium in 2000 and Kobe, Japan in 2002. The titles of the proceedings volumes from past UC Conferences are as follows: 1. C.S. Calude, J. Casti, M.J. Dinneen (eds.). Unconventional Models of C- putation, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1998, viii + 426 pp. ISBN: 981-3083- 69-7.

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Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 21st International Conference


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English | June 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D54RNRHF | 309 pages | PDF | 4.03 Mb
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2024, held in Pohang, South Korea, during June 17-21, 2024.

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50 Unconventional Clinical Careers for Physicians Unique Ways to Use Your Medical Degree Without Leaving Patient Care


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English | March 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1960762176 | 348 pages | True EPUB | 2.01 MB
50 Unconventional Clinical Careers for Physicians: Unique Ways to Use Your Medical Degree Without Leaving Patient Care is a comprehensive guide to exploring alternative paths in clinical medicine.

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Guide to Unconventional Computing for Music


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English | ISBN: 3319842641 | 2017 | 295 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. This work includes coverage of electronic music compositions and performances that incorporate unconventional interfacing, hacking and circuit bending. Features: presents an introduction to unconventional computing in music; discusses initiatives involving biophysical electronic music, the work of self-styled silicon luthiers, and the intersection of music and quantum computing; introduces the memristor, a new electronic component with the potential to revolutionize how computers are built; reviews experiments and practical applications of biological memristors in music; describes IMUSIC, an unconventional tone-based programming language, which enables the programming of computers using musical phrases; includes review questions at the end of each chapter.

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Unconventional Success A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D9KX33GZ | 2024 | 14 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 426 MB
Author: David F. Swensen
Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

From The best-selling author, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with an audiobook that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets. In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent churning of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including pay-to-play product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges. Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual-fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain.

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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip


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English | 2010 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1441106855, 082642984X | PDF | 0,9 mb
For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world’s most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson’s closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. This is as close as we’re ever likely to get to one of America’s most ingenious and intriguing figures – and it’s the fascinating story of an intrepid author’s search for him, too.

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