Tag: Foundations

Free Download J.M. Beach, "How Do You Know?: The Epistemological Foundations of 21st Century Literacy"
English | ISBN: 113809806X | 2017 | 268 pages | EPUB | 527 KB
This book defines the concept and practices of literacy through a discussion of knowledge, information media, culture, subjectivity, science, communication, and politics. Examining the ways in which the spread of literacy and education have caused culture wars in pluralist societies since the 16th century, the author reviews an interdisciplinary array of scholarly literature to contend that science, and more broadly evidence-based inductive arguments, offer the only reliable source information, and the only peaceful solution to cultural conflict in the 21st century. With a focus on the multifaceted practice of literacy-as-communication as embedded within larger social and political processes, this book offers a comprehensive study of literacy through five core topics: knowledge, psychology, culture, science, and arguing over truth in pluralist democracies. The central thesis of the book argues that we require a

Free Download Paul O’Connor, "Home: The Foundations of Belonging "
English | ISBN: 0367332825 | 2019 | 198 pages | EPUB | 853 KB
Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the twentieth century – the nation-state and the suburban nuclear household – are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal and political aspirations.

Free Download Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations – The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky: Essays Dedicted to Samson Abramsky on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday by Bob Coecke, Luke Ong, Prakash Panangaden
English | 2013 | ISBN: 3642381634 | 384 Pages | PDF | 14.2 MB
Published in honor of the 60th birthday of Samson Abramsky, this book offers contributions by some of his colleagues, former students and friends, representing his manifold contributions to the disciplines of semantics, logic, games and quantum mechanics.

Free Download Global Business Management Foundations By Leslie Willcocks
2016 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0956414532 | PDF | 3 MB
Despite the flattening effects of globalization, international business demonstrates huge diversity and complexity. This book is about understanding global business contexts, threats and opportunities, the drivers and nature of globalization, multilateral organizations, and the political, economic, social, technological, and legal differences that regions and countries exhibit. This book addresses how businesses devise strategies that work internationally, in different parts of the globe, plan entry strategies for new markets, and decide on alliances, evolution and growth.To compete globally, businesses also need to work hard at the detail of managing – designing structure and organization, devising sourcing and supply chain arrangements, establishing information systems that perform globally, and managing international human resources. In eleven chapters, this book provides a foundation to these subjects based on teaching undergraduate and masters degree courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and running executive programmes around the globe over many years. Specifically the book:* Gives a research-based grounding to international business.* Discusses cultural, ethical, and social issues for international business and policies on corporate social responsibility.* Introduces international trade and investment, multilateral organizations, regional integration and the global financial system.* Details how firms develop international business and marketing and R&D strategies, enter markets and alliances, and evolve on the global stage.* Gives insight through frameworks, studies and examples of how businesses manage organization structure and architecture, sourcing and the supply chain, information systems and human resources, globally, regionally and domestically.

Free Download Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X: Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics by Emilio Frazzoli, Tomas Lozano-Perez, Nicholas Roy, Daniela Rus
English | 2013 | ISBN: 3642362788 | 626 Pages | PDF | 25.3 MB
Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems. Robot algorithms process inputs from sensors that provide noisy and partial data, build geometric and physical models of the world, plan high-and low-level actions at different time horizons, and execute these actions on actuators with limited precision.

Free Download Foundations and Practice of Security: 15th International Symposium, FPS 2022, Ottawa, ON, Canada, December 12-14, 2022, Revised Selected Papers by Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Laurent Mounier, Carlisle Adams, Florence Sèdes, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
English | PDF | 2023 | 478 Pages | ISBN : 3031301218 | 34.7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2022, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, during December 12-14, 2022.

Free Download Anthony T Flood, "The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union"
English | 2018 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 0813234204, 0813231205 | PDF | 2,6 mb
The Root of Friendship addresses the connections between self-love and self-governance in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and defends three related theses. First, Aquinas’s account of proper self-love is a description of the nature and importance of a person’s subjective self- experience. Second, his notion of self-governance cannot be under- stood fully unless we grasp its basis in self-love. Finally, his account both satisfies contemporary conditions of relevance for self-governance and offers attractive solutions to issues raised in analytic discussions on such matters. Accordingly, the book provides a systematic account of Aquinas’s thoughts on the nature of a person’s self-experience and the role that experience plays in self-governance. Self-love, especially as fully actualized in self-friendship, constitutes a person’s experience of himself. In turn, it is the subjective pole both for a person’s ongoing experiences of the world, including goods, and for acting in the world, particularly in terms of consciously responding to the good. Since a person’s fundamental awareness of and response to the good are found in the self-experience that results from self-love, particularly insofar as self-love includes the desire for and activity of pursuing goods and avoiding evils, self-governance naturally derives from it. In addition, a person (who?) loves himself wickedly fails to seek and acquire the goods perfective of his personal nature. Lastly, the book provides an argument to the conclusion that once we attend to the connections between self-love and self-governance, we find attractive features of Aquinas’s overall account that make it relevant to contemporary discussions on self-governance, particularly those in the analytic tradition. The key features are examined in light of these discussions.

Free Download Evolutionary Multi-Task Optimization: Foundations and Methodologies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811956499 | 371 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
A remarkable facet of the human brain is its ability to manage multiple tasks with apparent simultaneity. Knowledge learned from one task can then be used to enhance problem-solving in other related tasks. In machine learning, the idea of leveraging relevant information across related tasks as inductive biases to enhance learning performance has attracted significant interest. In contrast, attempts to emulate the human brain’s ability to generalize in optimization – particularly in population-based evolutionary algorithms – have received little attention to date.

Free Download Thomas Petri, "Aquinas and the Theology of the Body: The Thomistic Foundations of John Paul II’s Anthropology"
English | 2018 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0813231507, 0813228476 | PDF | 3,9 mb
"Readers interested in the origin and development of Wojtyła’s early thought on marriage, sexuality and the family, or on Aquinas’s metaphysical, moral and teleological suppositions, or on his teaching on marriage, will find rich resources, clear prose and illuminating exegesis, calmly and accessibly presented. The treatment of Aquinas’s theology of marriage is the best I have read." – Theology

Free Download Sharon Stein, "Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 1421445042 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past.