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Free Download John Ó Maoilearca, "Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson "
English | ISBN: 0197613918 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 13 MB
Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson covers a fascinating yet little known moment in history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson and his sister, Mina Bergson (also known as Moina Mathers), were both living in Paris and working on seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary and even correlated approaches to questions about the nature of matter, spirit, and their interaction. He was a leading professor within the French academy, soon to become the most renowned philosopher in Europe. She was his estranged sister, already celebrated in her own right as a feminist and occultist performing on theatre stages around Paris while also leading one of the most important occult societies of that era, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. One was a respectable if controversial intellectual, the other was a notorious mystic-artist who, together with her husband and fellow-occultist Samuel MacGregor Mathers, have been described as the "neo-pagan power couple" of the Belle Époque.

Free Download The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision By Hughes, Francesca
2014 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 0262526360 | PDF | 10 MB
When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has reconfigured itself. In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect’s acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries — from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication — that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material testing, and the rhetorical obstacles that blighted cybernetics. Why is it, she asks, that the more we cornered physical error, the more we feared it? Hughes’s analysis of redundant precision exposes an architecture of fear whose politics must be called into question. Proposing error as a new category for architectural thought, Hughes draws on other disciplines and practices that have interrogated precision and failure, citing the work of scientists Nancy Cartwright and Evelyn Fox Keller and visual artists Gordon Matta-Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Rachel Whiteread, and others. These non-architect practitioners, she argues, show that error need not be excluded and precision can be made accountable.

Free Download Subject Matter: The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown (Short Circuits) by Aron Vinegar
English | November 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0262546361 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 2.7 MB
A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.

Free Download Sparks of Bright Matter by Leeanne O’Donnell
English | 11 April 2024 | ISBN: 1804184128, 1804185078 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 0.7 MB
When ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed.

Free Download Patients Matter Most: How Healthcare Is Becoming Personal Again by Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg
English | August 8, 2023 | ISBN: 195588417X | 208 pages | PDF | 2.16 Mb
Understanding the inevitable changes that technology has brought ― and will continue to bring ― to the healthcare industry will help all of us take more control over our well-being, prevent chronic diseases, and pursue care at the right time, at the right place, in the right way, from the right people. Diagnoses and treatments that once required highly specialized knowledge and equipment are becoming more widely available. Procedures and devices that existed only in large medical centers have shifted into community clinics, stores, and people’s living rooms. Today’s healthcare consumers have more autonomy than yesterday’s passive patients did.

Free Download Dambarudhar Mohanta, "Nanoscale Matter and Principles for Sensing and Labeling Applications "
English | ISBN: 9819978475 | 2024 | 599 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This book is a compilation of carefully chosen chapters that cover the subjects of nanoscale matter, sensing, and labelling applications. It is aimed primarily at scientists and researchers who are already involved in theme-based research or who are just starting their careers. Despite the diverse nature of the topics covered, which include a range of materials in various forms and uses, the emphasis is primarily on sensing and labelling phenomena. The book begins with materials quantification in nanoscale systems by using an innovative technique like "molecular secondary ion mass spectrometry without calibration standards". Subsequently, the book features an array of materials such as inorganic semiconductor nanoscale particles, carbon dots, rare-earth oxides, polymer nanocomposites, and a few biomaterials, all of which illustrate their functionality and potential for deployment in a wide variety of sensing applications. Although the book delves into the technical aspects of fabrication workouts to some extent, the focus is predominantly on the physical principles, mechanisms, and relevance involved in sensing and labelling applications.

Free Download Timandra Harkness, "Big Data: Does Size Matter? "
English | ISBN: 1472920058 | 2016 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking wolves through Minnesota by GPS to predicting which crimes are likely to happen where. Mega data has led to scientific and social achievements that would have been impossible just a few years ago. But being too dazzled by the scale, the speed, and the geeky jargon can lead us astray. It’s big, but it’s not always clever.

Free Download Alex Capus, "A Matter of Time"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1907822038 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.4 mb
A little known backwater of the history of the Great War is vividly rendered by a great story-teller -the central characters and events of this book are based on fact, but their surroundings and experiences are richly drawn from the author’s imagination and detailed research.

Free Download Call It Home: The Details That Matter by Amber Lewis, Shade Degges, Cat Chen
English | October 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0593235525 | 288 pages | MOBI | 113 Mb
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Free Download Stephen Goss, "Making Research Matter"
English | ISBN: 0415636639 | 2015 | 230 pages | PDF | 1427 KB
Making Research Matter is an original contribution to the growing field of work-based learning with a focus on research aimed at developing the practice of counselling and psychotherapy addressing the practice-research gap. Stephen Goss, Christine Stevens and their contributors explore the links between research and professional practice and show how this can impact on practice to make a genuine, demonstrable contribution to the development of therapeutic services, good practice and the understanding of psychological and social issues.