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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?

Free Download Jan Roubal, "Towards a Research Tradition in Gestalt Therapy "
English | ISBN: 1443807346 | 2016 | 380 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Gestalt therapy is well-grounded in its daily practice, but is a field which is still in the process of developing a research tradition to support this practice. Gestalt practitioner researchers devote themselves to the generation of interest in the field, the enlargement of capacities and expertise, and the sharing of research projects and their findings. The larger Gestalt community realises that such research has begun to take place, but it requires more information and to be brought into the conversation through a book that speaks of philosophy and method and actually shares some of the research that emerges. This volume fills this lacuna, collecting for the first time the theoretical grounds for research in Gestalt therapy, and introduces useful research methods and presents actual research projects to provide inspiration to Gestalt practitioner researchers. The book will be helpful not only to Gestalt therapists interested in research, but also to students of Gestalt therapy involved in training, as it will serve to bolster their own academic performance. It will also be of interest to the larger field of psychotherapy research, in demonstrating how a clinical school based on principles such as existential dialogue, phenomenology and field theory is responding to the need for evidence-based practice, and is keeping pace with the needs of a twenty-first century professional community.

Free Download From Intervals to -?: Towards a General Description of Validated Uncertainty (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 1041) by Vladik Kreinovich
English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 3031205685 | 129 pages | MOBI | 9.68 Mb
This book is about methodological aspects of uncertainty propagation in data processing. Uncertainty propagation is an important problem: while computer algorithms efficiently process data related to many aspects of their lives, most of these algorithms implicitly assume that the numbers they process are exact. In reality, these numbers come from measurements, and measurements are never 100% exact. Because of this, it makes no sense to translate 61 kg into pounds and get the result―as computers do―with 13 digit accuracy.

Free Download A Systems View of Planning: Towards a Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning Process (2nd Edition) by George F. Chadwick
English | 1978 | ISBN: 0080206255 | 440 Pages | PDF | 45.7 MB
A Systems View Of Planning: Towards A Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning sets out to be a special kind of theory of the process known as town and regional planning, which is based upon the broader theory of General Systems and its allied field of Cybernetics.

Free Download Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, "Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel "
English | ISBN: 1032472901 | 2023 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 775 KB + 6 MB
Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead, the book re-integrates aesthetics – a much fraught concept in cultural studies that long favoured ‘popular’ over ‘high culture’ – into cultural studies as aisthetics in the word’s root sense of ‘perception’. Zooming in on period shifts and changes in taste spanning realism, sensation fiction and aestheticism, aisthetics reveals how these shifts also pertain to new ways of perceiving in selected novels by George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Vernon Lee. Connecting Victorian and current literary theories, aisthetics helps explore the way in which the novel can shape the way we perceive the world, what remains excluded from the realm of the perceivable and how our conduct is consequently always also influenced by the dominant genres of our time.

Free Download Towards Digitally Transforming Accounting and Business Processes
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031461762 | 1428 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 34 MB
This conference volume discusses the findings of the iCAB 2023 conference that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg (UJ School of Accounting and Johannesburg Business School) in collaboration with Alcorn State University (USA), Salem State University (USA) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (Malaysia) hosted the iCAB 2023 conference with the aim to bring together researchers from different Accounting and Business Management fields to share ideas and discuss how new disruptive technological developments are impacting the field of accounting. The conference was sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants AICPA & CIMA.

Free Download Leonardo Cohen, "The Early Modern Jesuit Attitude Towards Hindu and Ethiopian Strains of Asceticism "
English | ISBN: 9004538550 | 2023 | 284 pages | PDF | 100 MB