Tag: Frontiers

Free Download Ben Vinson III, "Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico "
English | ISBN: 1107026431 | 2017 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America’s modern ideology of racial mixture) and the colonial caste system is rendered. Before mestizaje emerged as a primary concept in Latin America, an earlier precursor existed that must be taken seriously. This colonial form of racial hybridity, encased in an elastic caste system, allowed some people to live through multiple racial lives. Hence, the great fusion of races that swept Latin America and defined its modernity, carries an important corollary. Mestizaje, when viewed at its roots, is not just about mixture, but also about dissecting and reconnecting lives. Such experiences may have carved a special ability for some Latin American populations to reach across racial groups to relate with and understand multiple racial perspectives. This overlooked, deep history of mestizaje is a legacy that can be built upon in modern times.

Free Download Sergio F. Ochoa, Gruia-Catalin Roman, "Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software Technology"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 038734828X | PDF | pages: 179 | 10.5 mb
On behalf of the Organizing Committee for this event, we are glad to welcome you to IWASE 2006, the First International Workshop on Advanced Software Engineering. We hope you will enjoy the traditional Chilean hospitality and, of course, please tell us how we can make your visit a pleasant and useful experience. The goal of this Workshop is to create a new forum for researchers, professionals and educators to discuss advanced software engineering topics. A distinctive feature of this Workshop is its attempt to foster interactions between the Latin-American software engineering community and computer scientists around the world. This is an opportunity to discuss with other researchers or simply to meet new colleagues. IWASE 2006 has been organized to facilitate strong interactions among those attending it and to offer ample time for discussing each paper. IWASE 2006 attracted 28 submissions from 14 countries, 8 of them outside Latin-America. Each of the 28 articles was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. As a result of this rigorous reviewing process, 13 papers were accepted: nine fiill papers and four work-in-progress papers. These papers were grouped in four tracks; software architecture, software modeling, software development process and experiences in software development.

Free Download Rebecca J. Cook, "Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1512823554 | 2023 | 616 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples.

Free Download Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031305981 | 307 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘coming together’ or ‘entanglements’ of sleep and technology and sensitizes us to various shifts in sleep-technology relations through culture, time and place. In doing so, it pays close attention to the salience and significance of these trends and transformations to date in everyday/night life, their implications for sleep inequalities and the related issues of sleep and social justice they suggest.

Free Download John M. McNamara, Olof Leimar, "Game Theory in Biology: concepts and frontiers"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0198815786, 0198815778 | PDF | pages: 353 | 27.4 mb
The principles of game theory apply to a wide range of topics in biology. This book presents the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and provides an authoritative and up-to-date account. The focus is on concepts that are important for biologists in their attempts to explain observations. This strong connection between concepts and applications is a recurrent theme throughout the book which incorporates recent and traditional ideas from animal psychology, neuroscience, and machine learning that provide a mechanistic basis for behaviours shown by players of a game. The approaches taken to modelling games often rest on idealized and unrealistic assumptions whose limitations and consequences are not always appreciated. The authors provide a novel reassessment of the field, highlighting how to overcome limitations and identifying future directions.

Free Download Amy Ludlow, "New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research"
English | ISBN: 1849466785 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited collection draws together papers delivered at a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research held at the University of Cambridge in April 2014. It contains contributions from established and emerging experts across a range of disciplines (including employment relations, industrial psychology, sociology, economics and political science) to consider four broad themes: the case for empiricism in labour law; the potential for mixed methods; methodological possibilities and insights from other disciplines; and practical challenges and words of caution for those conducting empirical research.

Free Download Frontiers in Product Innovation Strategy:
Predicting Market Outcomes and Creating Winning Products for a People and Planet-friendly Future
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031258223 | 169 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16 MB

Free Download Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – Diabetes and Obesity: Volume 7
by Anjum, Shazia;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9815123599 | 228 pages | True PDF EPUB | 24.58 MB

Free Download New Frontiers in Astronomy (Great Discoveries in Science) by Elizabeth Schmermund
English | April 26th, 2018 | ISBN: 1502619598 | 128 pages | True EPUB | 6.93 MB
New Frontiers in Astronomy describes critical discoveries that shape the way we look at our universe, such as the Big Bang Theory and the acceleration of the universe. These discoveries paved the way for more recent leaps in the field of astronomy, namely the existence of dark matter. These discoveries also demonstrate the way teams of scientists work simultaneously to prove theories and draw important conclusions.

Free Download Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPDXDVBF | 2023 | 2 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue
Narrator: Christopher de Bellaigue
Can flying be green? Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless-except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. In Flying Green, Christopher de Bellaigue meets the inventors, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who are at the frontier of new technologies, from a European startup that makes fuel out of thin air, to a California firm using hydrogen to power flight, and an airship called the Flying Whale. What will it take for a new generation of travelers to fly guilt-free? This is the story of the search for a way to fly green.