Tag: Limits

Free Download Robert J. Mackenzie, "Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing CLEAR, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0770436595 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 4.0 mb
In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Setting Limits author Robert MacKenzie is back with even more time-proven methods for dealing with misbehavior and creating positive, respectful, and rewarding relationships with children prone to acting out and disobedience.

Free Download Leonor Arfuch, "Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits "
English | ISBN: 1509542175 | 2020 | 180 pages | PDF | 1419 KB
This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.

Free Download Alfred Frankowski, "The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning "
English | ISBN: 1498502768 | 2015 | 150 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Ivan Illich, "Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health"
English | 2000 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 0714529931 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
"The medical establishment has become a major threat to health." This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich’s searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-industrialization, harmful to man. In this radical contribution to social thinking Illich decimates the myth of the magic of the medical profession.

Free Download Tropical Circuit Complexity: Limits of Pure Dynamic Programming by Stasys Jukna
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 138 Pages | ISBN : 3031423534 | 20.6 MB
This book presents an enticing introduction to tropical circuits and their use as a rigorous mathematical model for dynamic programming (DP), which is one of the most fundamental algorithmic paradigms for solving combinatorial, discrete optimization problems.

Free Download Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, "The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa "
English | ISBN: 1509551387 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time.

Free Download Anne Katherine, "Boundaries in an Overconnected World: Setting Limits to Preserve Your Focus, Privacy, Relationships, and Sanity"
English | 2013 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 1608681904 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Over the past decade, 24-7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, intrusions into family time, and new compulsions – from shopping to tweeting and cute cat watching. Anne Katherine, one of the first authors to bring healthy boundary setting to a mass audience, has now written a book on how to do this with technology. Rather than rejecting online life, Katherine shows readers how to make social media, smartphones, and other innovations work for, rather than against, them. Readers learn to protect themselves online – from predators and data mining as well as from time-devouring friends and acquaintances – with an emphasis on preserving and optimizing meaningful personal connections. Anyone who has ever wondered if their cute little gadget was actually an enemy invader will welcome Katherine’s strategies for ensuring that "your life is truly your own."

Free Download Break Through the Limits of the Brain: Experience Superconscious Awareness, Intuition, Vitality, Creativity, and Fulfilling Divine Joy by Joseph Selbie, Andrew Newberg MD
English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1637480040 | 256 pages | MOBI | 1.21 Mb
A life-changing guide to understanding your brain and how to change it-for good.

Free Download AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3837657329 | 291 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and social problems, and present some existing and potential solutions. At the same time, the contributors highlight the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence.

Free Download Matthew Engelke, "The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity"
English | 2006 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 1845451708, 184545507X | PDF | 1,9 mb
Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider its limits. This collection is a welcome new addition to the anthropology of religion, offering fresh debates on a classic topic and drawing attention to meaning in a way that other volumes have for key terms like "culture" and "fieldwork.