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Free Download Towards Wireless Heterogeneity in 6G Networks; 1
by George Abraham
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032438304 | 253 pages | True PDF | 14.47 MB

Free Download Towards a Theory of Development By Alessandro Minelli, Thomas Pradeu
2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0199671427 | PDF | 23 MB
Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things? What is development? Articulate answers to these seemingly innocuous questions are far from straightforward. To date, no systematic, targeted effort has been made to construct a unifying theory of development. This novel work offers a unique exploration of the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores the key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and examines the role of models and theories.The two editors (one a biologist with long interest in the theoretical aspects of his discipline, the other a philosopher of science who has mainly worked on biological systems) have assembled a team of leading contributors who are representative of the scientific and philosophical community within which a diversity of thoughts are growing, and out of which a theory of development may eventually emerge. They analyse a wealth of approaches to concepts, models and theories of development, such as gene regulatory networks, accounts based on systems biology and on physics of soft matter, the different articulations of evolution and development, symbiont-induced development, as well as the widely discussed concepts of positional information and morphogenetic field, the idea of a ‘programme’ of development and its critiques, and the long-standing opposition between preformationist and epigenetic conceptions of development.Towards a Theory of Development is primarily aimed at students and researchers in the fields of ‘evo-devo’, developmental biology, theoretical biology, systems biology, biophysics, and the philosophy of science.

Free Download Katharina Hofmann de Moura, Ania Skrzypek, Robin Wilson, "Towards a Social Democratic Century?: How European and global social democracy can chart a course through the crises"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3948314195 | PDF | pages: 200 | 2.2 mb
With the war in Ukraine, the cost-of-living crisis, the lingering pandemic and the onrushing threat of climate change, a bewildering array of transnational political challenges present themselves. Can social democrats articulate convincing solutions to these challenges, behind which progressives can rally, in Europe and globally? This volume, of interviews and chapters contributed by political thinkers and practitioners, presents a rich repertoire of ideas and proposals which offer some reasons to hope for better times ahead.

Free Download Dilip M Menon, "Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 1032727470 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 63 MB
This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.

Free Download Patrick Barron, "Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati "
English | ISBN: 1498566014 | 2018 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 19 MB
Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the "new Italian landscape" where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms "a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude." Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at times with photographer Luigi Ghirri, at others exploring on his own without predetermined itineraries, taking notes on the places he encountered, watching and listening to people in stations, fields, bars, houses, squares, and hotels. In this way the book took shape as Celati traveled and wrote, gathering and rewriting his notes into "stories of observation" (9). Celati attempts to find meaning by seeking the uncertain limits of our ability to discern everyday surroundings. "Every observation," as he puts it, "needs liberate itself from the familiar codes it carries, to go adrift in the middle of all things not understood, in order to arrive at an outlet, where it must feel lost."

Free Download Towards the Optical Control of Resonantly Bonded Materials: An Ultrafast X-Ray Study by Yijing Huang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 165 Pages | ISBN : 3031428250 | 35.3 MB

Free Download Drozdstoy St. Stoyanov, "Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health: Perspectives from Neuroscience and the Humanities"
English | ISBN: 1443876615 | 2015 | 345 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume represents the results of the Sixteenth International Conference for Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, entitled Neuroscience, Logic and Mental Development. This edited collection brings together selected plenary and keynote papers from the conference, and represents a major contribution to an interdisciplinary dialogue in mental health through the use of new philosophical tools, emerging from neuroscience, clinical psychology, phenomenology and epistemology. The papers gathered in this volume are divided into four parts, depending on their disciplinary paradigm. The papers included in Part I are focused on advances in neuroscience and neuroimaging as theoretical underpinnings for progress in psychiatric and psychological explanations. Special attention is paid here to the critical reappraisal of current approaches to the implementation of neuroscience in mental health. Some of these papers end with suggestions for modifications to contemporary research programs. The papers belonging to Part II contribute to the psychological understanding of mental disorders, particularly personality disorders. Parts III and IV trace the implications of phenomenology and epistemology for the improvement of an interdisciplinary pluralogue in psychiatry.

Free Download TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization by Rob Roggema
English | EPUB | 2021 | 356 Pages | ISBN : 3030619761 | 100.5 MB

Free Download Marx, Capital, and Education: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming (Education and Struggle) By Derek R. Ford, Curry Stephenson Malott
2015 | 165 Pages | ISBN: 1433131110 | PDF | 1 MB
With the contradictions of capitalism heightening and intensifying, and with new social movements spreading across the globe, revolutionary transformation is once again on the agenda. For radicals, the most pressing question is: How can we transform ourselves and our world into something else, something just? In Marx, Capital, and Education, Curry Stephenson Malott and Derek R. Ford develop a "critical pedagogy of becoming" that is concerned with precisely this question. The authors boldly investigate the movement toward communism and the essential role that critical pedagogy can play in this transition. Performing a novel and educational reading of Karl Marx and radical theorists and activists, Malott and Ford present a critical understanding of the past and present, of the underlying logics and (often opaque) forces that determine the world-historical moment. Yet Malott and Ford are equally concerned with examining the specific ways in which we can teach, learn, study, and struggle ourselves beyond capitalism; how we can ultimately overthrow the existing order and institute a new mode of production and set of social relations. This incisive and timely book, penned by two militant teachers, organizers, and academics, reconfigures pedagogy and politics. Educators and organizers alike will find that it provides new ammunition in the struggle for the world that we deserve.

Free Download Ewa Ziemba, "Towards a Sustainable Information Society"
English | ISBN: 1443886882 | 2016 | 405 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development. This approach is based on the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the main stakeholders of society, including individuals, enterprises, and public administration, who should use ICTs in order to build the welfare of present and future generations, ensure economic growth and socio-cultural development, increase participation in public life, permit personal development, and build the wisdom of society. As such, the book mainly focuses on the role ICTs play in transforming business, public administration and everyday life in the context of the sustainable information society. This volume will appeal to both researchers and practitioners, as it provides significant areas and directions for research on the sustainable information society, and suggests important issues for programming, building and adopting such a society. The book will allow the reader to answer such critical contemporary questions as What is the sustainable information society and what role is played by ICTs in this society?; What are the challenges and tasks of people, enterprises, and public administration that lead towards the sustainable information society?; How can ICTs support people, enterprises, and public administration in programming, building and adopting such a society?; What are the factors affecting ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration in this context?; What are the areas that should require a primary focus in order to achieve the most satisfying results of ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration?; and How can ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration be measured here?