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Edicions Upc Diseno de Complejos Industriales. Fundamentos
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BDS LibrerÃa Editorial Materiales clculos hidrulicos clculos mecnicos
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Fuga, técnica e historia
Book SynopsisDe todas las formas en que a priori se puede organizar una estructura musical, la fuga parece ser la más severa y cerrada dentro de sí misma, controlando y rigiendo todo el discurso musical, desde su comienzo al escoger la base y el fundamento de toda la obra, el tema, hasta su desarrollo y conclusión a través de todas las distintas manipulaciones con que éste se ve afectado… tratamos de canalizar el análisis que permita al compositor organizar esta estructura pero también insistimos en que el elemento irracional, "oscuro" tiene que poder abrirse paso a través de esta forma aparentemente tan estricta.La fuga halló su modo de ser en la época modal y dio admirables frutos en el tiempo de la tonalidad; ahora sigue vigente y en un espacio atonal o dodecafónico también puede, y debe, expresarse como organización y como estructura.
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Antonio Madrid Vicente, Editor Itinerario del frigorista
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Almuzara Un Mundo Robot
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Big Data: Una breve introducción
Book SynopsisHoy en día generamos una cantidad ingente de datos: desde los documentos informáticos que colgamos en Internet hasta todas nuestras interacciones en las redes sociales, pasando por nuestras compras en la Red y los datos GPS de los vehículos. Al mismo tiempo, cada vez desarrollamos métodos más sofisticados para manejar toda esa información.En esta breve introducción Dawn Holmes nos explica cómo almacenan, analizan y explotan este gran volumen de datos las entidades más diversas, desde grandes empresas hasta instituciones relacionadas con la investigación médica. Los datos masivos, o big data, no solo están transformando el funcionamiento de los negocios, sino que también plantean importantes cuestiones éticas, como han puesto de manifiesto el caso Snowden y los recientes ciberataques a dispositivos inteligentes.
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Marie Curie. Genio obsesivo
Book SynopsisEl mito de Marie Curie -la pobre inmigrante polaca quien, gracias a su genio y a su obsesión por el trabajo, soportó años de vejaciones y esfuerzos para conseguir obtener radio, la luminosa panacea para todos los males de la tierra, incluido el cáncer- ha velado lo que realmente fue su vida de descubridora. La idea brillante pero controvertida de Curie fue que la radiactividad es una propiedad del átomo que podía emplearse para descubrir nuevos elementos. Aunque sus investigaciones le valieron dos premios Nobel y transformaron nuestro mundo, no consiguieron liberarla ni de los prejuicios de la comunidad cientifica, en la que las mujeres no eran bien recibidas, ni de los prejuicios de la sociedad francesa. Esta es la biografía de una mujer que intentó compatibilizar la ciencia, el amor y la familia.A partir de documentos jamás utilizados (cartas, diarios, entrevistas con la familia), Barbara Goldsmith, la aclamada escritora e historiadora, revela la mujer detrás del mito, ofreciendo un exuberante retrato de Curie, de sus sorprendentes descubrimientos y del precio que tuvo que pagar por haber alcanzado la fama.
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. El remiso Mr. Darwin: Un retrato íntimo de
Book SynopsisEl remiso Mr. Darwin es un libro recomendable para cualquiera que se haya preguntado no sólo por lo que este científico dejó dicho sino también por su personalidad. A partir de sus cuadernos secretos sobre la «transmutación» y su correspondencia personal, David Quammen ha esbozado un vivo retrato de uno de los gigantes de la ciencia.La evolución era, a principios del siglo XIX, una idea que estaba en el aire. Otros pensadores ya habían apuntado en esa dirección, pero ninguno había proporcionado una explicación convincente de cuál era su mecanismo. Fue en septiembre de 1838 cuando un joven inglés llamado Charles Darwin dio con la idea de que la «selección natural» entre individuos que compiten entre sí daba lugar a adaptaciones asombrosas y a la diversidad de las especies. Entre dicho descubrimiento y la publicación de El origen de las especies iban a transcurrir veintiún años. El drama humano y las razones científicas de tal demora dan lugar a un relato intrincado y fascinante que desentraña el carácter del cauto naturalista que desencadenó la mayor revolución intelectual.El retrato de Quammen arranca con el regreso de Darwin tras su viaje de cinco años a bordo del Beagle, y analiza su empeño en reunir la información, y adquirir la confianza, para publicar el libro que habría de desbancar al hombre de su puesto privilegiado en la creación divina. Esta biografía, escrita con abundantes dosis de ingenio y astucia, destaca sobre la marea de libros que están viendo la luz con ocasión del bicentenario de Darwin. -Publishers Weekly
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. La Tierra se mueve: Galileo y la Inquisición
Book SynopsisCélebre, polémico, condenado, Galileo Galilei es una figura fundamental en la historia de la ciencia. Tanto Einstein como Stephen Hawking lo consideran el primer científico moderno. Se cumplen ahora 400 años desde que Galileo apuntó por primera vez a los cielos con su telescopio.Su juicio de 1633 ante el Tribunal de la Santa Inquisición es el principal hito del conflicto entre ciencia y religión. En aquella época, Roma era la capital de una potencia teocrática que en 1600 ya había ejecutado a Giordano Bruno por un delito parecido, y que se reservaba el derecho de torturar a Galileo.Aprovechando su profundo conocimiento de Italia, y el interés que siempre ha tenido por el Renacimiento y el Barroco, Dan Hofstadter describe este momento histórico encuadrándolo en un contexto cultural amplio, a la vez que retrata tanto al Galileo científico como al humanista.La Tierra se mueve es una crónica convincente de los inicios de la ciencia moderna y de un momento decisivo en la evolución de la libertad de pensamiento.
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Editorial Arguval Las fbricas y la ciudad Mlaga 18341930
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Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A Problemas resueltos de tecnologa de fabricacin
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Thomson International Bombas de Calor y Energias Renovables En
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Books on Demand NIMBUS Maintenance: 2. English Edition 2018
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University Press of Southern Denmark Ammonia Volatilisation from Livestock Slurries &
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Automatic Press / VIP Embodied Technics
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Youcanprint Self-Publishing Dagherrotipia, Ambrotipia, Ferrotipia
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Brill DeAutomating the Future
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Brill In the Frontiers of Computational Science:
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a collection of the lectures of the invited speakers and symposium organizers presented at the International Conference of Computational methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2005), held in Corinth, Greece, October 2005. The content of the papers bears upon new developments of Computational Science pertinent to Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Mathematics and Engineering. Molecular Science is a privileged ground for the application and evaluation of new mathematical tools and computational methods. In recent years, novelty and progress with greatest conceivable speed is common experience. This flavor of research findings carrying many consequences for distant fields is easily evidenced in the lectures collected in this volume.
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Lanasta Astronavigation: From Columbus to William
Book SynopsisTaking the height of the poleFor the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nautical handbooks on celestial navigation appeared in print with declination tables written for 1517-1520. They explained how you can find your position taking the height of the sun or the Pole Star. And which course to steer to find your port. These are techniques that have proven their value through the centuries. In this book Siebren van der Werf and Dick Huges revive this format for the modern sailor, who has a sextant and an accurate clock. There are modern declination tables for four years, 2017-2020, but which may also be used for at least twelve years, without significant loss of accuracy. Also tables that give the length of the day light period, the time between sunrise and sunset. They let you find your longitude, which in the sixteenth century was not really possible. And of course there is the "Regiment of the North Star" in a new and user-friendly version. The story of a Trans-Atlantic crossing of Dick Huges, where he used celestial navigation, at first out of necessity, later by passion, illustrates the procedures.
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IAEA The Chernobyl Accident: Updating of INSAG-1: A
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group's Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1), published in September 1986, in the light of further information that has been revealed since that meeting. INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident's causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, the new information, which derives from studies made in the then USSR on the physical origins of the accident, has led INSAG to shift the emphasis of its conclusions from the actions of the operating staff to faulty design of the reactor's control rods and safety systems. Deficiencies in the regulation and management of safety matters throughout the Soviet nuclear power industry have also been revealed and are discussed. Two detailed Soviet reports on the causes and circumstances of the Chernobyl accident, translated into English by the IAEA, and a statement of measures that have been taken to enhance the safety of RBMK reactors are included.
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United Nations Zambia: science, technology and innovation policy
Book SynopsisThe Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review of Zambia has three fundamental goals. Its first goal is to offer Zambia an assessment of activities and institutions that make up its innovation ecosystem. The second goal is to draw attention to important socio-economic development questions for Zambia. Special attention has been placed on four such questions: gender, food, mining and digital transformation. The third goal is to provide recommendations for strengthening STI policy and propose measures that may improve national technological capacities and encourage innovation
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International Labour Office Small-scale Brickmaking (Technology Series. Technical Memorandum No. 6)
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International Labour Office Small-scale Production of Stabilized Soil Blocks
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Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd Digital Electronics
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Pearson Education India Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts
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Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd PThreads Programming
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Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd Murach's ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012
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Random Publications Bleaching of Textile Fibres Darshan
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OM Books International Steam : My First Technology Library: (Set of 6
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Juggernaut Publication The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to
Book SynopsisTechnology lawyer and privacy expert Rahul Matthan presents an original view of the role technology can play in data governance.
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Alpha Edition A handbook on the steam engine, with especial
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BPB Publications MultiCloud Kubernetes
Book SynopsisThis book equips you with the knowledge and skills to leverage the strengths and unique features offered by various cloud providers. It enables you to design a cohesive deployment strategy that spans multiple cloud platforms. You will learn how to deploy Kubernetes across multiple clouds with this guide. It will help you plan your project, including team needs, and costs. While seeing the pros and cons of this approach, you will also explore different designs for stateful and stateless applications, using a global service mesh (Istio) to connect them. Understanding how service mesh works and how to keep it secure, is also one of the objectives of this book. After reading this book, you will discover GitOps for easy workload and policy deployment across many clusters and use open-source tools to monitor and see everything. This will help you create a strong security plan using the 4 C''s framework and zero trust principles. Finally, this book will aid in applying your knowledge to real-world examples by deploying a highly available application on a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform using tools like EKS and GKE.
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New India Publishing Agency Extension Techniques for Livestock Development
Book SynopsisLivestock sector plays a significant role in the Indian economy particularly in reducing poverty among the weaker sections of the society. Livestock not only provides a continuous stream of income but also acts as natural capital assets for the poor in adverse conditions. India is having huge population of livestock but their production potential is below the global average. Besides this, a continuous rise in the demand of livestock products opens door for dissemination of latest innovative methods among livestock owners, farmers, farm women, etc in order to enhance livestock production potential. This requires a strong extension support with trained extension professionals, who may help farmers in identifying their problems, help them to find out solutions to these problems and provide them the required technical know-how with plenty of information. The primary objective of this book is to increase the proficiency of extension workers as well as improve their proficiency competence by acquainting them with the latest developments in livestock sector and enabling them in better understanding of the existing problems in the villages. This book is also helpful for graduate, postgraduate and doctorate students pursuing studies in veterinary dairy, agriculture, fisheries, and other related sciences and provides them a first hand information on important aspects related to contribution of livestock to national income, community development, panchayati raj, livestock development programmes, audio-visual aids, extension teaching methods, programme planning, adoption and diffusion process, livestock marketing as well as animal husbandry management and administration. We are sure that this book will be beneficial for professors, teachers, trainers, researchers and extension professionals engaged in veterinary and animal husbandry extension and other professional courses.Table of Contents01. Contributions of Livestock to National Income 02. Community Development and Panchayati Raj 03. Animal Husbandry and Rural Development Programmes 04. Animal Husbandry Cooperatives & Operation Flood 05. Audio-Visual Aids 06. Extension Teaching Methods 07. Diffusion and Adoption of Livestock Innovations 08. Animal Husbandry Programme Planning 09. Farming 10. Livestock Marketing 11. Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Management and Administration
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Khanna Publishers Essentials of Metallurgical Thermodynamics
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Khanna Publishers Instrumentation and Process Control
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S Chand & Co Ltd Engineering Chemistry-II (Anna University)
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Universities Press The Chemistry of the p-Block Elements::
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I K International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd Fundamentals of Automata Theory and Compiler
Book SynopsisThis book divided in eleven chapters, in the first chapter describes basics of a compiler, its definition and its types. It also includes the need of a compiler. The second chapter deals with phases of compiler, frontend and book end of compiler, single pass and multiphase compiler; Chapter three covers role of logical analyzer, description of tokens, automata, the fourth chapter presents syntax analyzer, grammar, LMD, RMD, passing techniques. Fifth chapter gives syntax directed translation, syntax tree, attributes such as synthesis and inherited. Chapter six deals with type checking, its definition, dynamic type checking and equivalence of it, function overloading and parameter passing. Chapter seven covers run time environment storage allocation techniques, symbol table. Chapter eight presents intermediate code generators, techniques of ICG, conversion. Chapter nine deals with code generation, basic blocks, flow graph, peephole optimization while chapter ten is on code optimization, that contains optimization of basic blocks, reducible flow graph, data flow analysis and global analysis. Chapter eleven one-pass compiler, compiler, its structure, STD rules and passing are described.Table of Contents 1. Basics of Compiler 2. Phases of Writing a Compiler 3. Lexical Analyzer 4. Syntax Analyzer 5. Syntax Directed Translation 6. Type Checking 7. Run Time Environment 8. Intermediate Code Generators 9. Code Generations 10. Code Optimization 11. Pass Compiler Index
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PHI Learning Technology and Innovation Management
Book SynopsisTechnology and Innovation Management is one of the most sought-after courses offered like MBA or PGDM in Business Schools and various Technology Institutes, today. This book, written with deep ingrained practical insights and well-researched theoretical foundations integrates people, processes and technology to achieve maximum economic benefits to society. The book is designed to be a compendium for students and managers, who wish to understand technology and innovation management to the core. The book explains the relationship between technology innovation and strategy in a simplified manner. Keeping Indian education framework in mind, this book details on practices and principles that are easy to implement. The theories are simple to grasp, and anecdotal stories on Technology and Innovation implementations make it a student-friendly edition, to help achieve success in exams as well as in the professional front. It further explains the core principles of Technology and Innovation Management. S-Curve and the Segment Zero Principle, adopting industry 4.0 and innovation 4.0 to make India a smart and intelligent manufacturing hub in the era of fourth industrial revolution, design thinking for solving complex business problems along with the role and contribution of Government in Technology Development.
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Springer Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in
Book SynopsisThis volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul’s diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological society, the notion of efficiency, the process of symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues Ellul saw as crucial – such as energy, propaganda, applied life sciences and communication – continue to be so. In fact they have grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of human existence, as well as “revealed knowledge,” in the mystical and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions enables us to look at Ellul’s work as a whole, but above all it opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological society. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ellul returns; Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia and Carl Mitcham.- Part I. Civilization of Technique.- Chapter 1. How The Technological Society Became More Important in the United States than in France; Carl Mitcham.- Chapter 2. The Technological Society: Social Theory, McDonaldization and the Prosumer; George Ritzer.- Chapter 3. Are We Still Pursuing Efficiency? Interpreting Jacques Ellul’s Efficiency Principle; Wha-Chul Son.- Chapter 4. Technological Acceleration and the “Ground Floor of Civilization”; Daniel Cérézuelle.- Chapter 5. Technological System and the Problem of Desymbolization; Yuk Hui.- Chapter 6. Against Environmental Protection? Ecological Modernization as “Technician Ecology”; Isabelle Lamaud.- Part II. Autonomous Technology.- Chapter 7. Propaganda and Dissociation from Truth; Langdon Winner.- Chapter 8. An Unseasonable Thinker: How Ellul Engages Cybercultural Criticism; Andoni Alonso.- Chapter 9. Fukushima: A Tsunami of Technological Order; José Luís Garcia and Helena Mateus Jerónimo.- Chapter 10. From the Contaminated Blood Affair to the Mediator Scandal: Public Health, Political Responsibility and Democracy; Patrick Troude-Chastenet.- Chapter 11. Homo Energeticus: Technological Rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands; Nathan Kowalsky and Randolph Haluza-DeLay.- Part III. Reason and Revelation.- Chapter 12. The Reception of Jacques Ellul’s Thought in French Protestantism; Frédéric Rognon.- Chapter 13. Radically Religious: Ecumenical Roots of the Critique of Technological Society; Jennifer Karns Alexander.- Chapter 14. Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone; Virginia W. Landgraf.- Chapter 15. Social Intolerability of the Christian Revelation: A Comparative Perspective on the Works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger; Andrei Ivan.- Chapter 16. Postmodernity, the Phenomenal Mistake: Sacred, Myth and Environment; Gregory Wagenfuhr.
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Springer Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in
Book SynopsisThis volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul’s diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological society, the notion of efficiency, the process of symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues Ellul saw as crucial – such as energy, propaganda, applied life sciences and communication – continue to be so. In fact they have grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of human existence, as well as “revealed knowledge,” in the mystical and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions enables us to look at Ellul’s work as a whole, but above all it opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological society. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ellul returns; Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José Luís Garcia and Carl Mitcham.- Part I. Civilization of Technique.- Chapter 1. How The Technological Society Became More Important in the United States than in France; Carl Mitcham.- Chapter 2. The Technological Society: Social Theory, McDonaldization and the Prosumer; George Ritzer.- Chapter 3. Are We Still Pursuing Efficiency? Interpreting Jacques Ellul’s Efficiency Principle; Wha-Chul Son.- Chapter 4. Technological Acceleration and the “Ground Floor of Civilization”; Daniel Cérézuelle.- Chapter 5. Technological System and the Problem of Desymbolization; Yuk Hui.- Chapter 6. Against Environmental Protection? Ecological Modernization as “Technician Ecology”; Isabelle Lamaud.- Part II. Autonomous Technology.- Chapter 7. Propaganda and Dissociation from Truth; Langdon Winner.- Chapter 8. An Unseasonable Thinker: How Ellul Engages Cybercultural Criticism; Andoni Alonso.- Chapter 9. Fukushima: A Tsunami of Technological Order; José Luís Garcia and Helena Mateus Jerónimo.- Chapter 10. From the Contaminated Blood Affair to the Mediator Scandal: Public Health, Political Responsibility and Democracy; Patrick Troude-Chastenet.- Chapter 11. Homo Energeticus: Technological Rationality in the Alberta Tar Sands; Nathan Kowalsky and Randolph Haluza-DeLay.- Part III. Reason and Revelation.- Chapter 12. The Reception of Jacques Ellul’s Thought in French Protestantism; Frédéric Rognon.- Chapter 13. Radically Religious: Ecumenical Roots of the Critique of Technological Society; Jennifer Karns Alexander.- Chapter 14. Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone; Virginia W. Landgraf.- Chapter 15. Social Intolerability of the Christian Revelation: A Comparative Perspective on the Works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger; Andrei Ivan.- Chapter 16. Postmodernity, the Phenomenal Mistake: Sacred, Myth and Environment; Gregory Wagenfuhr.
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Lannoo Publishers Homo Digitalis: How digitalisation is making us
Book Synopsis‘All new technology is accompanied with great expectations on the one hand and great fear on the other. Thierry Geerts reduces the digital revolution to its true proportions and shows that we control the impact of technology ourselves: technology becomes what we make of it. Few are better placed than the author to clearly define the potential, the tasks, and the responsibility that awaits each and every one of us.’ – Caroline Pauwels, rector of the VUB ‘After Digitalis drew up the contours of the new digital world, Homo digitalis now describes how we can appropriate it so that digitalisation will benefit humanity. But instead of trying to convince at all costs, Thierry Geerts puts things in perspective. With great expertise, he guides us through numerous groundbreaking initiatives that start-ups and companies in Europe have often developed.‘– Alain Gerlache, journalist ‘This book couldn't have come out at a better time. Change can be scary for many, but above all, it brings many opportunities. Thierry Geerts fantastically explains how Digitalis can be an inclusive place where social mobility and equality are self-evident. Now it’s up to our entrepreneurs, policymakers, and each of us as individuals to gear up and resolutely opt for the digital future.’ – Yasmien Naciri, entrepreneur and marketer ‘Think about the reasons for technology. That is the challenge that Thierry Geerts takes on with gusto and enthusiasm in this fascinating book.’ – Laurent Hublet, co-founder and CEO of BeCentral, the largest digitalis campus in Europe In Homo digitalis, Thierry Geerts, CEO of Google Belgium and Luxembourg, looks at the dangers and opportunities of the digital revolution. Without taboos and with an eye to the future, he offers thoughtful examples of how digitalisation affects us as people and as a society. His conclusion is clear: technology is neutral, and it’s up to people to use it consciously and confidently. If we do that, digitalisation will make us happier, with more time for creativity, personal development, healthcare, and the things that really matter. Then we’ll become more human and we homo sapiens will turn into homo digitalis.
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Springer Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case
Book SynopsisNew biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately address the question of what it means to be human in an age of biotechnology. Not because they belong to rival political camps, but because they are grounded in a humanist ontology that presupposes a radical separation between human subjects and technological objects.The volume offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches—two humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, to new configurations of biopower, questioning what role technology plays in defining the boundaries of the human, the subject and nature for each. Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel perspective, mediated posthumanism, that brings together insights in the philosophy of technology, the sociology of biomedicine, and Michel Foucault’s work on ethical subject constitution. In this framework, technology is neither a neutral tool nor a force that alienates humanity from itself, but something that is always already part of the experience of being human, and subjectivity is viewed as an emergent property that is constantly being shaped and transformed by its engagements with biotechnologies. Mediated posthumanism becomes a tool for identifying novel ethical modes of human experience that are richer and more multifaceted than current posthumanist perspectives allow for.The book will be essential reading for students and scholars working on ethics and technology, philosophy of technology, poststructuralism, technology and the body, and medical ethics.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Cartography of the Posthuman.- Chapter 3. The Human Enhancement Debate: For, Against and from Human Nature.- Chapter 4. Towards a Non-Humanist Posthumanism: The Originary Prostheticity of Radical and Methodological Posthumanism.- Chapter 5. From Molar to Molecular Bodies: Posthumanist Frameworks in Contemporary Biology.- Chapter 6. Posthuman Subjectivity: Beyond Modern Metaphysics.- Chapter 7. Technologically Produced Nature: Nature Beyond Schizophrenia and Paranoia.- Chapter 8. New Modes of Ethical Selfhood: Geneticization and Genetically Responsible Subjectivity.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij World of Our Grandchildren
Book SynopsisThe future looks brighter than most people think! That is the conclusion of this book after a thorough investigation of present facts, trends and promises of science and technology. The world population will soon stop growing. The consequences of climate change will be far-reaching, but surmountable. Science and technology will, in the 21st century, make enormous progress. They are the shaping forces of the future. This book clearly explains the potential benefits and dangers of innovations from many area of research. Special attention is paid to the question whether and how mankind will try to improve itself beyond its natural capacities. The author is by profession a physicist. He worked at CERN and other research institutes in Europe and North America. His present primary interest is in historical research.
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Amsterdam University Press Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital
Book SynopsisIn a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in their features of instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and continually improved speed. They construct temporal infrastructures that affect the rhythms of lived experience and shape social relations and practices of cooperation. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities - Kyle Stine and Axel Volmar Part I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning 1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media – John Durham Peters 2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care - Gabriele Schabacher 3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch - Yuk Hui 4. Suspending the “Time Domain” : Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures - Wolfgang Ernst Part II Microtimes 5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds : The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media - Isabell Otto 6. Life at the Femtosecond - Geoffrey C. Bowker 7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images - Andrew R. Johnston 8. Intervals of Intervention : Micro-Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars - Florian Sprenger Part III Lifetimes 9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure - Nicole Starosielski 10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time - Marisa Leavitt Cohn 11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation - James J. Hodge 12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch - Sumanth Gopinath Part IV Futures 13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy - Alexander Monea 14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon’s Anticipatory Shipping Method - Eva-Maria Nyckel 15. Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality - Andreas Sudmann 16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development - Britt S. Paris Index
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Gefen Publishing House Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Software Literacy: Education and Beyond
Book SynopsisThis book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand. Software literacy involves a critical understanding of how the affordances and conceptual approaches of everything from operating systems, creative apps and media editors, to software-based platforms and infrastructures work to inform and shape the ways we think and act. As a cultural artefact, programing code plays a role in reproducing, reinforcing, and augmenting existing cultural practices, as well as generating completely new coded practices. A proposed three-tier framework for software literacy is the focus for a two-year empirical investigation into how tertiary students become more literate about the nature and implications of software they encounter as part of their tertiary studies. Two case studies of software learning and use in university-level engineering and screen & media studies courses are presented, investigating the mapping of students’ trajectory of the learning of desktop applications against this framework for software literacy. Though the book’s focus is primarily educational, its content also has implications for any field that makes use of software and information & communication technology systems and applications. As such, the book will be of interest to all readers whose work involves the challenges and opportunities presented by software-based teaching and learning; and to those interested in how software impacts the workplace and leisure activities that make up our day-to-day lives.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Software and other literacies.- Chapter 2 A genealogy of software applications.- Chapter 3 The learning, use and critical understanding of software in Media Studies.- Chapter 4 The learning, use and critical understanding of software in Engineering.- Chapter 5 Comparing the cases: What do they tell us about Software Literacy?.- Chapter 6 Software Literacy: Education and beyond.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Fundamental and Applied Sciences in Asia:
Book SynopsisThis book gathers selected science and technology papers presented at the 2018 International Conference on Science Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS 2018), organised bi-annually by Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang, Malaysia. Based on the theme “Redesigning Education for Industrial Revolution”, the papers in this book address a broad range of topics in the fundamental and applied sciences, including computer science, engineering, environmental and management, furniture, forestry, health and medicine, material science, mathematics, plantation and agrotechnology, sport science and statistics, covering theoretical, numerical and experimental studies. The book serves as a platform for disseminating research findings by academicians of local, regional and global prominence, as a catalyst to inspire positive innovations in the development of the region. It provides a significant point of reference for academicians and students: for academicians, it is a good source of information to conduct further research; for students, it is the latest point of reference on research conducted in their fields of study. The carefully reviewed papers intend to facilitate the creation of new knowledge through the exchange of ideas, strategies and innovations in various science and technology disciplines, and to contribute towards enhancing the learning environment. Table of ContentsPart I Plantation.- 1.Effect of Manure and Bio-compost Obnoxious Weed toward Growth Performance of Oil Palm Seedling [Anisah Mohammed, Mohamad Amir Shah Yusop, Muhamad Rizuan Borhanuddin].- 2. Nutrients in By-Product Waste of Poaceae Family as Source of Organic Compost [Mohamad Amir Shah Yusop, Anisah Mohammed].- 3. Physicochemical Characteristics of Soilless Media Mixture and Their Effects on Brassica rapa Sp. Growth in Hydroponics System [Nurul Shahida Osman, Suzana Yusup, Ashri Mohd Hanifah, Zahari Bahari].- Part II Material Science.- 4. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dried Leaves Composite Board [Nurul Husna Mohd Hassan, Rose Farahiyan Munawar, Shaari Daud, Siti Noorbaini Sarmin, Nur Afiqah Israruddin].- 5. Effect of Wax at Different Resin Content Ratio on The Properties of Particleboard Manufactured from Bambusa vulgaris var. striata [Siti Zalifah Mahmud, Nurul Zaima Yazmin Mat Yazid, Wan Mohd Nazri Wan Abd Rahman, Nurrohana Ahmad, Noorshashillawati Azura Mohammad].- Part III Biology.- 6. A Preliminary Study on COD Reduction of Real Textile Wastewater Using Consortia of Acinetobacter sp. and Cellulosimicrobium sp. [Nor Habibah Mohd Rosli, Wan Siti Atikah Wan Omar, Wan Azlina Ahmad].- Part IV Chemistry.- 7. Utilisation of Coconut Shell Ash (Cocos nucifera) as Lime Replacement in Agricultural Soil [Wan Noni Afida Ab Manan, Anis Iz’zati Ghazali].- Part V Environmental Science.- 8. Radon Gas Assessment of Selected Buidings at Universiti Teknologi MARA Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia [Nur Sha’adah Zainuddin, Wan Nur Adila Wan Deraman, Hisyam Abdul Rahman, Mohd Ruzaini Rosli, Siti Fatimah Saipuddin, Fairuzdzah Ahmad Lothfy, Junaidah Md Sani, Ahmad Saat].- Part VI Engineering.- 9. Parking System Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology [Neo Wei Sheng, Wan Mariam Wan Muda, Ahmad Zaki Annuar, Wan Hafiza Wan Hassan].- 10. Basic Properties of Granitic Residual Soil on Slope [Noraida Mohd Saim, Anuar Kasa, Mohd Khairudin Mohamed, Rohaya Alias].- Part VII Information System/Information Technology.- 11. College Registration Management System (CoReMS): A Proposed CoReMS Model for UiTM Raub College Management Unit [Mohd Khairul Ikhwan Zolkefley, Muhd. Eizan Shafiq Abd. Aziz, Mohd Ikhsan Md Raus].- 12. Sentiment Analysis on Mixed Language Facebook Comments: A Food and Beverages Case Study [Lim Kong Hua, Lim Tong Ming, Kathleen Tan Swee Neo, Tan Li Peng].- 13. University Event Notification System with SMS Technology [Jiwa Noris Hamid, Hawa Mohd Ekhsan, Nur Aina Aifa Mohammad Ali].- 14. Remote Monitoring of Elderly via Web-based Technological Approach to Promote Health and Wellbeing Living [Suriana Ismail, Khairunnisa Hamzah, Roslan Ismail].- 15. Hadith Text Classification on Sanad Part using Edge List [Nursyahidah Alias, Nurazzah Abdul Rahman, Normaly Kamal Ismail, Zulhimi Mohamed Nor, Muhammad Nazir Alias, Mohd. Sham Kamis].- 16. Critical Factors Affecting Learning Management Systems (LMS) Success in Technical & Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Malaysia [Nor Azlan Ahmad, Nur Fazidah Elias, Noraidah Sahari@Ashaari].- Part VIII Mathematics.- 17. Solving Queuing Problem at Fast Food Restaurant in Shah Alam Using Simulation [Norani Amit, Nurdia Azlin Ghazali, Nur Hidayah Mohd Razali, Noor Aisyah Idris, Noor Hidayah Mohd Zaki, Busyra Latif].- 18. Comparing the Efficiency of Two Queuing Models for a Fast Food Restaurant using Analytical Queuing Theory [Nurdia Azlin Ghazali, Norani Amit].- 19. Sinusoidal Curve in Floral Motifs of Malay Woodcarving: A Preliminary Study [Marina Mohamed, Syafiza Saila Samsudin, Nazihah Ismail, Norhuda Mohammed].- 20. Kuala Lumpur Female Population Projection by Age Group Using Leslie Model [Hamidah Ayub, Roselah Osman, Nora Zakaria, Siti Norashidah Sumaryono, Nurul Syajaratul Aini Mohd Zin].
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