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The Dears: Lost in the Plot (Bibliophonic #1)
Par Lorraine Carpenter. 2011
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of…
the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their creative vision and gang dynamic intact. The Dears: Lost in the Plot looks at how The Dears survived the fallout, and helped launch the acclaimed mid-aughts music scene in their hometown of Montréal. The Dears: Lost in the Plot is the first book in Invisible Publishing’s new Bibliophonic series. The Bibliophonic Series is a catalogue of the ongoing history of contemporary music. Each book is a time capsule, capturing artists and their work as we see them, providing a unique look at some of today’s most exciting musicians.The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
Par Rick Mercer. 2023
THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLERRick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoirAt the end of his memoir…
Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer was poised to make the biggest leap yet in his extraordinary career. Having overcome a serious lack of promise as a schoolboy and risen through the showbiz ranks—as an aspiring actor, star of a surprisingly successful one-man show about the Meech Lake Accord, co-founder of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, creator and star of the dark-comedy sitcom Made in Canada—he was about to tackle his biggest opportunity yet. The Road Years picks up the story at that exciting point, with the greenlighting of what would become Rick Mercer Report. Plans for the show, of course, included political satire and Rick’s patented rants. But Rick and his partner, Gerald Lunz, were also determined to do something that comedy tends to avoid as too challenging: they would emphasize the positive. Rick would travel from coast to coast to coast in search of everything that’s best about Canada, especially its people. He found a lot to celebrate, naturally, and was rewarded with a huge audience and a run of 15 seasons. The Road Years tells the inside story of that stupendous success. A time when Rick was heading to another town—or military base, sports centre, national park—to try dogsledding, chainsaw carving, and bear tagging; hang from a harness (a lot); ride the “Train of Death;” plus countless other joyous and/or reckless assignments. Added to the mix were encounters with the country’s great. Every living prime minister. Rock and roll royalty from Rush to Randy Bachman. Olympians and Paralympians. A skinny-dipping Bob Rae. And Jann Arden, of course, who gets a chapter to herself. Along the way he even found the time to visit several countries in Africa and co-found and champion the charity Spread the Net, which has gone on to protect the lives of millions. Join the celebration, and revive a wealth of happy memories, with what is Rick Mercer’s funniest, most fascinating book yet.Take Control of Your Paperless Office
Par Joe Kissell. 2023
The paperless office doesn't have to be a myth! Turn paper into usable digital files, reducing clutter and increasing convenience.…
This book helps you assess your situation, develop a strategy, and learn clever techniques for keeping more paper at bay—with detailed discussion of the hardware, software, and processes needed to get the job done.Take Control of Your Digital Legacy
Par Joe Kissell. 2023
How do you want to be remembered? A will takes care of your physical possessions, but what about your digital…
life—photos, email, files, and the like? If you want to pass your electronic ephemera on as part of your digital legacy, turn to tech expert Joe Kissell for advice on dealing with large quantities of data, file formats, media types, the need for a “digital executor,” and more.The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained
Par Douglas Comer. 2021
This latest textbook from bestselling author, Douglas E. Comer, is a class-tested book providing a comprehensive introduction to cloud computing.…
Focusing on concepts and principles, rather than commercial offerings by cloud providers and vendors, The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained gives readers a complete picture of the advantages and growth of cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, automation and orchestration, and cloud-native software design.The book explains real and virtual data center facilities, including computation (e.g., servers, hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and containers), networks (e.g., leaf-spine architecture, VLANs, and VxLAN), and storage mechanisms (e.g., SAN, NAS, and object storage). Chapters on automation and orchestration cover the conceptual organization of systems that automate software deployment and scaling. Chapters on cloud-native software cover parallelism, microservices, MapReduce, controller-based designs, and serverless computing. Although it focuses on concepts and principles, the book uses popular technologies in examples, including Docker containers and Kubernetes. Final chapters explain security in a cloud environment and the use of models to help control the complexity involved in designing software for the cloud.The text is suitable for a one-semester course for software engineers who want to understand cloud, and for IT managers moving an organization’s computing to the cloud.Data Science for Wind Energy
Par Yu Ding. 2019
Data Science for Wind Energy provides an in-depth discussion on how data science methods can improve decision making for wind…
energy applications, near-ground wind field analysis and forecast, turbine power curve fitting and performance analysis, turbine reliability assessment, and maintenance optimization for wind turbines and wind farms. A broad set of data science methods covered, including time series models, spatio-temporal analysis, kernel regression, decision trees, kNN, splines, Bayesian inference, and importance sampling. More importantly, the data science methods are described in the context of wind energy applications, with specific wind energy examples and case studies. Please also visit the author’s book site at https://aml.engr.tamu.edu/book-dswe.Features Provides an integral treatment of data science methods and wind energy applications Includes specific demonstration of particular data science methods and their use in the context of addressing wind energy needs Presents real data, case studies and computer codes from wind energy research and industrial practice Covers material based on the author's ten plus years of academic research and insightsCold War Photographic Diplomacy: The US Information Agency and Africa
Par Darren Newbury. 2024
The emergence of newly independent African nations onto the world stage in the mid-twentieth century precipitated a contest for influence…
among Cold War superpowers, leading the United States to mount an international campaign of photographic diplomacy underpinned by a faith in the medium’s capacity to cross cultural boundaries. However, the increasing global visibility of racial injustice undermined US claims that the nation had transcended colonial racism.Drawing on extensive research in the archives of the United States Information Agency (USIA) and concentrating on the period from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, Darren Newbury traces the role of photography in the United States’ appeal to Africa. Newbury shows how photographing the political, cultural, and educational visits of Africans to the United States provided a space for the imagination of international cooperation and friendship; how the United States presented the civil rights struggle as an example of democracy in action; and how it pictured a world of integration and racial coexistence. Cold War Photographic Diplomacy chronicles this careful scripting of images and picture stories and details the cultural and pedagogical work that photography was expected to perform as it was inserted into the visual culture of African cities through magazines, posters, pamphlets, and window displays.Locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War, this study will especially appeal to students and scholars of the history of photography, American studies, and Africana studies.Über den Apple Store kann man zurzeit Millionen mobiler Anwendungen herunterladen. Die Einsatzmöglichkeiten sind vielfältig und die Bandbreite der Anwendungsszenarien bewegt sich…
von komplexen Computerspielen bis hin zu Geschäftsanwendungen. In den vergangenen Jahren wurden unterschiedliche Entwicklungsparadigmen bereitgestellt, die hinsichtlich verschiedener Aspekte wie zum Beispiel Plattformunabhängigkeit, Performanz, Kosten sowie dem Zugriff auf gerätespezifische, native Funktionen sowohl Vor- als auch Nachteile besitzen. Die Kapitel gehen didaktisch in die Breite und stellen die Entwicklungsparadigmen vor dem Hintergrund einer zentralen Fallstudie gegenüber. Es werden Techniken zur Entwicklung von mobilen Webanwendungen, hybriden Anwendungen, nativen Anwendungen für Android sowie Cross-Plattform-Anwendungen vorgestellt, ohne innerhalb eines Paradigmas zu sehr in die Tiefe zu gehen. Eine Ausnahme bildet das von Google bereitgestellte Flutter-Framework, das sowohl die Entwicklung auf Android- als auch iOS-Geräten unterstützt.Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studentinnen und Studenten, die bereits mit einer objektorientierten Programmiersprache vertraut sind und wesentliche Aspekte der Programmierung kennen und einen Einblick in das Mobile Computing erlangen möchten.ETHICS: Cross-disciplinary Strategies (Designing Environments)
Par Alessandra Battisti, Serena Baiani. 2024
This book outlines, within the Italian national framework, the current and potential paths oriented towards a new concept of Architectural…
Heritage, through actions referring to Innovation and Experimentation and Protection and Transformation of the Architectural Heritage. The development of the themes is articulated in two sessions dealing with the aspects related to the analysis and mapping of Architectural Heritage to face the context of the current Climate Crisis and the development of projects and experimentations oriented to the Green and Digital Transition. The evolution of the concept of Heritage, as conceived by the United Nations 2030 Agenda and in the Green Deal and New European Bauhaus, aimed at constructing an inclusive and universally recognised definition to support supranational objectives of sustainable human development, gives rise to innovative strategies, methodologies and technologies that—in a direction of mitigation, contrast and adaptation to climate change—allow for the safeguard, renewed management and a hope for valorisation of Heritage on a national scale. In this direction, the understanding of Architectural Heritage as a 'non-renewable resource' determines the need to activate design experimentation laboratories oriented towards regeneration, articulated and complex, which require, in order to respond to the challenges posed by our era, a sensitive and dialogic multidisciplinary vision of a holistic type. In fact, on the one hand, it is necessary to redefine the usability and management methods of built heritage through the adoption of digital, mobility, energy, ecological, social, green and blue infrastructures; on the other hand, it is necessary to introduce new qualitative and quantitative parameters and performance indicators, adequate to verify the validity of the implemented strategies in a perspective of adaptation to climate change, able to clarify contents, processes and tools to contrast future risks. The pursuit of these objectives refers to the innovation of training paths, professionalising procedures, administrative regulations, and public policies that involve citizens and the private partnership towards a different project qualification and empowerment of stakeholders, inhabitants, professionals, and clients. The Technological Project makes it possible to activate different interventions aimed at acting, in an integrated manner, on assets, context and communities, according to an approach that reinterprets them on a common score, as proposed by the European Next Generation programme in three priority aspects: digitalisation and innovation, environmental transition, increased resilience and social sustainability of national economies. In this scenario, the interventions aimed at outlining sustainable development actions will have to place these concepts at the centre in a harmonious vision that starts from the recognition and enhancement of the Architectural Heritage, recognising it as a fundamental asset of the territories.Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering: 13th International Conference, SPACE 2023, Roorkee, India, December 14–17, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14412)
Par Francesco Regazzoni, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Sri Parameswaran. 2024
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2023,…
held in Roorkee, India, in December 2023.The 14 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They focus on various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering.Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: 18th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2023, Harbin, China, August 18–20, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2013)
Par Yuqing Sun, Tun Lu, Tong Wang, Hongfei Fan, Dongning Liu, Bowen Du. 2024
This two-volume set constitutes the revised selected papers of the 18th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social…
Computing, ChineseCSCW 2023 held in Harbin, China, in August 2023. The 54 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Social Media and Online Communities; Collaborative Mechanisms, Models, Approaches, Algorithms and Systems; Crowd Intelligence and Crowd Cooperative Computing; Cooperative Evolutionary Computation and Human-like Intelligent Collaboration; Domain-Specific Collaborative Applications.This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th EAI International Conference on Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification…
of Emerging Information Technologies, TridentCom 2023, which was held in Nanjing, China, during November 11-13, 2023. The 9 full papers were selected from 30 submissions and deal the emerging technologies of big data, cyber-physical systems and computer communications. The papers are grouped in thematical sessions on blockchain and its applications; emerging applications; AI and its security.Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: 18th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2023, Harbin, China, August 18–20, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2012)
Par Yuqing Sun, Tun Lu, Tong Wang, Hongfei Fan, Dongning Liu, Bowen Du. 2024
This two-volume set constitutes the revised selected papers of the 18th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social…
Computing, ChineseCSCW 2023 held in Harbin, China, in August 2023. The 54 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Social Media and Online Communities; Collaborative Mechanisms, Models, Approaches, Algorithms and Systems; Crowd Intelligence and Crowd Cooperative Computing; Cooperative Evolutionary Computation and Human-like Intelligent Collaboration; Domain-Specific Collaborative Applications.Multidimensional Signals, Augmented Reality and Information Technologies: Proceedings of 3DWCAI 2023 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #374)
Par Roumen Kountchev, Srikanta Patnaik, Wenfeng Wang, Roumiana Kountcheva. 2024
This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at Second 'World Conference on Intelligent and 3-D Technologies'…
(WCI3DT 2023), held in China during May 26–28, 2023. The book provides an opportunity to researchers and academia as well as practitioners from industry to publish their ideas and recent research development work on all aspects of 3D imaging technologies and artificial intelligence, their applications and other related areas. The book presents ideas and the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world from institutions and industries.Blockchain in Healthcare: Analysis, Design and Implementation (Future of Business and Finance)
Par Chang Lu, Mohan Tanniru. 2023
This books brings readers a holistic understanding of blockchain adoption in healthcare by not only considering the technical fundamentals of…
use cases, but also the regulatory, informational and organizational challenges and solutions. The book also provides frameworks and toolkits to manage the entire life cycle of adoption, including analysing the environment and feasibility, application design from a user-centred perspective, and implementation strategies that would overcome organizational and informational barriers. Specific issues addressed include but are not limited to: How to analyse the value propositions in healthcare and which distributed actors should be engaged to fulfil these propositions? What policies and practices need to be reviewed to ensure security and privacy of the information shared? How to design blockchain systems that seamlessly integrate with other stakeholder applications, while only the needed information is in the distributed architecture? How can blockchain implementation be managed from governance and risk mitigation perspectives, especially when multiple actors are involved?By reading this book, blockchain enthusiasts, health informatics professionals and healthcare executives will be better prepared to leverage the transformative potential of blockchain for healthcare.Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, CALDAM 2024, Bhilai, India, February 15–17, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14508)
Par Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, Anil Maheshwari. 2024
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2024, held in…
Bhilai, India during February 15–17, 2024. The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithms and Complexity; Computational Geometry; Discrete Applied Mathematics; Graph Algorithms; Graph Theory.Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics: Proceedings of ICMCSI 2021 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #68)
Par Subarna Shakya, Robert Bestak, Ram Palanisamy, Khaled A. Kamel. 2022
This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics (ICMCSI 2021) organized…
by Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, during 29–30 January 2021. The book discusses recent developments in mobile communication technologies ranging from mobile edge computing devices, to personalized, embedded and sustainable applications. The book covers vital topics like mobile networks, computing models, algorithms, sustainable models and advanced informatics that supports the symbiosis of mobile computing and sustainable informatics.Natur filmen und fotografieren für Dummies (Für Dummies)
Par Svenja Schieke, Ralph Schieke. 2024
Fangen Sie spannende Motive in der Natur ein – mit Ihrer Kamera Schon mit wenig Ausrüstung können Sie wunderbare Momente…
festhalten – nicht nur in Einzelbildern, sondern auch im Film. Wie Sie Landschaften und Tiere filmen und fotografieren, lernen Sie in diesem Buch. Svenja und Ralph Schieke zeigen Ihnen Schritt für Schritt von der Planung bis zur Veröffentlichung, wie spannende und interessante Naturfotografien und Naturfilme mit dem gewissen Etwas entstehen. Sie erfahren, wie Sie Motive finden, welche Ausrüstung Sie benötigen, was Sie bei den Aufnahmen beachten müssen und wie Sie Ihre Ergebnisse weiter bearbeiten. Sie erfahren Wie Sie auch mit Ihrem Smartphone gelungene Aufnahmen machen Warum sich die Stadt nicht verstecken muss, wenn es um Naturaufnahmen gehtWie Sie einen Film planen und in der Natur Schritt für Schritt umsetzenWo Sie Ihre Aufnahmen präsentieren könnenWordPress All-in-One For Dummies
Par Lisa Sabin-Wilson. 2024
The no-nonsense guide to building your own WordPress site With the help of WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, you can get…
your first WordPress blog or website set up in no time. Fully updated for the latest WordPress releases, this 8-books-in-1 guide walks you through all the features of this powerful web builder. You’ll discover how to choose and customize a theme, pick the perfect web host and URL, and manage multiple websites with multiple authors. Use WordPress as a content management software (CMS) platform, work with multimedia formats, and add plugins to your site. With state-of-the-art features, WordPress has become the go-to platform for website owners and bloggers who want to be noticed. This beginner-friendly Dummies guide gives you the know-how to make WordPress work for you. Build a website or blog with WordPress, the leading open-source web builder Discover the powerful, customizable features of the latest versions of WordPress Allow multiple people to contribute to your site and keep your content organized Easily make changes and modifications with the WordPress interface Both WordPress novices and more experienced users looking to dive into new features will love the easy-to-follow instructions and tips in WordPress All-in-One For Dummies.Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future)
Par Sarah Phillips Casteel. 2024
In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to…
ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the relationship between creative expression and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory.This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history. Emphasizing Black agency, Sarah Phillips Casteel examines both testimonial art by victims of the Nazi regime and creative works that imaginatively reconstruct the wartime period. Among these are the internment art of Caribbean painter Josef Nassy, the survivor memoir of Black German journalist Hans J. Massaquoi, the jazz fiction of African American novelist John A. Williams and Black Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, and the photomontages of Scottish Ghanaian visual artist Maud Sulter. Bridging Black and Jewish studies, this book identifies the significance of African diaspora experiences and artistic expression for Holocaust history, memory, and representation.