Thursday, August 7, 2014

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus To Pornography

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Roger Shattuck, "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus To Pornography" 
1996 | ISBN: 0312146027, 0312146027 | 384 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB


Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus To Pornography

An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised by mankind's tendency to search for dangerous knowledge. He contrasts J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance of guilt for the atomic bombings with Edward Teller's dismissal of the same. In his own field of literary criticism he argues against the neutral analysis of immoral works as "pure literature," illustrating his point with a critique of the Marquis de Sade. Forbidden Knowledge is a stimulating and forceful intellectual argument against moral relativism, as well as a practical approach to difficult ethical problems, from genetic engineering to pornography.

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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction

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Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction by Matej Rojc and Nick Campbell
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1466598255 | 434 pages | PDF | 18,9 MB


Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human-machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human-machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging agenda in research and production spheres. 

Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction


The important goal of human-machine interfaces is to provide content or functionality in the form of a dialog resembling face-to-face conversations. All natural interfaces strive to exploit and use different communication strategies that provide additional meaning to the content, whether they are human-machine interfaces for controlling an application or different ECA-based human-machine interfaces directly simulating face-to-face conversation.

Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction presents state-of-the-art concepts of advanced environment-independent multimodal human-machine interfaces that can be used in different contexts, ranging from simple multimodal web-browsers (for example, multimodal content reader) to more complex multimodal human-machine interfaces for ambient intelligent environments (such as supportive environments for elderly and agent-guided household environments). They can also be used in different computing environments-from pervasive computing to desktop environments. Within these concepts, the contributors discuss several communication strategies, used to provide different aspects of human-machine interaction.

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11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

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Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, "11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing"
Springer | November 12, 2007 | ISBN: 3540730435 | PDF | 514 pages | 85.5 MB


Biomedical engineering brings together bright minds from diverse disciplines, ranging from engineering, physics, and computer science to biology and medicine. This book contains the proceedings of the 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2007, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2007. It features relevant, up-to-date research in the area. 

11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

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Intermediate Technical Japanese, Volume 1: Readings and Grammatical Patterns

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Intermediate Technical Japanese, Volume 1: Readings and Grammatical Patterns (Technical Japanese Series) by James L. Davis
Japanese, English | 2003 | ISBN-10: 0299185540 | 490 pages | PDF | 12 MB

For self-study or classroom use.
Learn how to read and translate technical manuals, research publications, and reference works. 

Intermediate Technical Japanese, Volume 1: Readings and Grammatical Patterns

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101 Knitting-To-Go Projects: All Stitched in Strips, Blocks, Sections and Motifs!

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Jeanne Stauffer "101 Knitting-To-Go Projects: All Stitched in Strips, Blocks, Sections and Motifs!"
Publisher: House of White Birches | English | 2001 | ISBN:1882138708 | 176 pages | PDF | 41 MB

Many, many knitting projects for the "knitter on the go." Includes home and holiday accents, socks, bags, scarves, shawls, kids' attire, sweaters, afghans and blankets. Filled with beautiful, full-color, full-page photographs of many of the projects. This is a gem of a knitting book!! 

101 Knitting-To-Go Projects: All Stitched in Strips, Blocks, Sections and Motifs!

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An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C-Algebras

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Huaxin Lin, "An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C-Algebras" 
2002 | ISBN-10: 9810246803 | 332 pages | PDF | 4 MB


An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C-Algebras


The theory and applications of C*-algebras are related to fields ranging from operator theory, group representations and quantum mechanics, to non-commutative geometry and dynamical systems. By Gelfand transformation, the theory of C*-algebras is also regarded as non-commutative topology. About a decade ago, George A. Elliott initiated the program of classification of C*-algebras (up to isomorphism) by their K-theoretical data. It started with the classification of AT-algebras with real rank zero. Since then great efforts have been made to classify amenable C*-algebras, a class of C*-algebras that arises most naturally. For example, a large class of simple amenable C*-algebras is discovered to be classifiable. The application of these results to dynamical systems has been established. This book introduces the recent development of the theory of the classification of amenable C*-algebras - the first such attempt. The first three chapters present the basics of the theory of C*-algebras which are particularly important to the theory of the classification of amenable C*-algebras. Chapter 4 offers the classification of the so-called AT-algebras of real rank zero. The first four chapters are self-contained, and can serve as a text for a graduate course on C*-algebras. The last two chapters contain more advanced material. In particular, they deal with the classification theorem for simple AH-algebras with real rank zero, the work of Elliott and Gong. The book contains many new proofs and some original results related to the classification of amenable C*-algebras. As well as providing an introduction to the theory of the classification of amenable C*-algebras, it is a comprehensive reference for those more familiar with the subject.


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Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

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Sergio Vinciguerra, ?Yves Bernabe - Rock Physics and Natural Hazards
Published: 2009-07-16 | ISBN: 3034601212 | PDF | 428 pages | 15 MB


Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks. 
The present book assembles unpublished contributions to the 7th Euro-Conference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics, held in 2007 in Erice, Italy. It presents new laboratory data, theoretical and numerical rock physics models and field observations relevant to the study of natural hazards. In particular, several papers are devoted to rock failure and explore the relationship between the competing deformation micro-mechanisms. Several others investigate shear-induced anisotropy of mechanical and/or transport properties, both in large-scale geologic objects and in laboratory samples. The remaining papers treat various aspects of rock physics and their industrial applications such as geothermics and reservoir characterization.
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