Stalinism revisited : the establishment of communist regimes in East-Central Europe

Table of Contents: “…-- Hope died last : the Czechoslovak road to Stalinism / Bradley Abrams -- Propaganda and culture in Romania at the beginning of the communist regime / Cristian Vasile -- Varieties of Stalinism in light of the Yugoslav case / Svetozar Stojanovic -- Community building and identity politics in Gheorghiu-Dej's Romania (1956-1964) / Dragoș Petrescu.…”
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Human drama Inc. : emotional intelligence in the workplace by Mohla, Neeta

Table of Contents: “…-- Scene 1 Looking into the mirror -- Scene 2 Recognising your reflection -- Scene 3 Getting in sync with reality -- Scene 4 Becoming your own best friend -- Act 2. Lights! camera! action! : are you staying on track? …”
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100 ideas that changed film by Parkinson, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 100 ideas that changed film : Magic lanterns ; Persistence of vision ; The kinetoscope ; The cinématographe ; Projection ; Trick films ; Close-ups ; Optical transitions ; Point-of-view shots ; Tracking shots ; Chase sequences ; Continuity editing ; Match shots ; Nickelodeons ; Film d'art ; Feature films ; Dream palaces ; Shooting scripts ; In-camera effects ; Serials ; Slapstick ; Stunts ; The star system ; Hollywood ; Movie Moguls ; Block booking ; The studio system ; Genre ; Presold sources ; Child stars ; Fan magazines ; The Oscars ; Monochrome ; Process shots ; Artificial lighting ; Expressionism ; The narrative avant-garde -- Film schools ; Montage ; Typage ; Surrealism ; Experimental cinema ; Sound ; Musical scores ; Dubbing ; Subtitles ; Newsreels ; Censorship ; Propaganda ; Poetic realism ; Studio realism B movies ; Series ; Shorts ; Animation ; Models Neorealism ; Flashbacks ; Voice-over ; Film noir ; The Blacklist ; Method acting ; Television ; The Academy ratio ; Color ; 3-D ; Coproduction ; Epics ; Exploitation ; Trailers ; Safety film ; The Cinémathèque Française ; Cannes ; Criticism ; Mise en scène ; Offscreen space ; Auteur theory ; Handheld camera ; Cinéma vérité ; Free cinema ; Third cinema ; Zoom ; Road movies ; Blaxploitation ; Pornography ; Feminist film theory ; Blockbusters ; Effects makeup ; Kidpics ; Teenpics ; Sequels ; Remakes ; Multiplexes ; Video ; Home entertainment ; US independent cinema ; Queer cinema ; Heritage films ; Digital video ; Computer-generated imagery.…”


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The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction : readings and writings from a novelist's perspective by Madden, David, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…-- Rediscovering a major Civil War novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell's History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters -- The innocent stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones's Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light -- O. Henry's Civil War surprises -- The last American epic: the Civil War novels of father and son, Michael and Jeff Shaara -- The simultaneous burning of nine bridges in East Tennessee -- Lincoln's Second Gettysburg Address -- The sinking of the Sultana: a meditation on loss and forgetfulness -- Part II. …”
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Lessons from a Successfully Export-Oriented, Resource-Rich Economy Quantitative Adventures into Canada’s Past by Altman, Morris

Table of Contents: “…-- 10 Manufacturing Growth in Canada and the Canadian Wheat Boom: New Light on an Old Question -- 11 New Historical Canadian Output Estimates: Implications for an Understanding of Canadian Economic Development, 1870-1926 -- 12 How Long Did Canadian Workers Actually Work? …”
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3D Modeling in AutoCAD : Creating and Using 3D Models in AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002, and 2004 by Wilson, John E.

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction -- part SECTION 1: Working with Wireframe Models in 3D Space -- chapter 1 The World Coordinate System and 3D Space -- chapter 2 Managing AutoCAD’s User Coordinate System -- chapter 3 Using Multiple Viewports -- chapter 4 2D Wireframe Objects in 3D Space -- chapter 5 3D Curves -- part SECTION 2: Building Surface Models -- chapter 6 Extruded and Planar Surfaces -- chapter 7 Visualizing Surface Models -- chapter 8 3D Polygon Mesh Surfaces -- chapter 9 Modifying Polygon Mesh Surfaces -- part SECTION 3: Building Solid Models -- chapter 10 Getting Started in Solid Modeling -- chapter 11 Primitive Solid Objects -- chapter 12 Using Boolean Operations -- chapter 13 Modifying 3D Solids -- chapter 14 Visualizing and Using 3D Solid Models -- part SECTION 4: 2D Output and Paper Space -- chapter 15 Paper Space and Floating Viewports -- chapter 16 2D Drawings from 3D Solid Models -- part SECTION 5: Renderings from 3D Models -- chapter 17 Renderings -- chapter 18 Lights in Renderings -- chapter 19 Rendering Materials -- chapter 20 Landscape Objects and Depth Perception.…”
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The Dark Ages

Table of Contents: “…Eternal City Under Siege (3:52) -- Weak Roman Empire (3:32) -- Dark Ages Begin (2:06) -- Decay of Roman Civilization (2:52) -- Hope for Eternal Peace (2:59) -- Christianity in Roman Empire (1:59) -- Holy Wars and Murdered Relatives (2:42) -- Legacy of Frankish King (2:32) -- The Empire Strikes Back (2:15) -- Byzantine Empire (3:28) -- Saving the Byzantine Empire (2:50) -- Reconquering the West (2:21) -- Bubonic Plague (3:04) -- The Black Plague (3:41) -- Realities of Village Life (2:33) -- Light in the Darkness (3:09) -- Rule of Saint Benedict (3:14) -- Christianity in the Dark Ages (1:44) -- Religious Mission to Conquest (2:10) -- Charles "The Hammer" Martell (2:07) -- Battle of Tours (3:41) -- New Holy Roman Empire (2:04) -- Bloody Verdict of Verdun (2:49) -- New Age of Learning (4:44) -- Vikings Enter the Dark Ages (4:05) -- The Great Heathen Army (3:20) -- Alfred the Great (2:39) -- Medieval Knights (2:08) -- Peace and Truce of God (2:45) -- Out of the Dark Ages (1:51) -- After the Dark Ages (3:16) -- Conclusion & Credits: The Dark Ages (0:51)…”
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The self-evolving cosmos : a phenomenological approach to nature's unity-in-diversity by Rosen, Steven M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Individuation and the quest for unity -- The obstacle to unification in modern physics -- Does contemporary mathematical physics actually -- Depart from the classical formulation -- Apparent concretization of mathematical physics via symmetry breaking --The implicit attempt to maintain the classical formula and its ultimate failure -- The phenomenological challenge to the classical formula -- Topological phenomenology -- Phenomenological intuition, topology, and the klein bottle -- The physical significance of the Klein bottle -- Spin -- Vorticity -- The dimensional family of topological spinors -- Generalization of intuitive topology -- Topodimensional spin matrix -- Basic principles of dimensional transformation -- Synsymmetry and the self-transformation of space -- From symmetry breaking to dimensional generation -- The three basic stages of dimensional generation -- Kleinian topogeny -- Waves carrying waves: the co-evolution of lifeworlds -- The forces of nature -- The phenomenon of light -- Phenomenological Kaluza-Klein theory -- Summary comparison of conventional and topo-phenomenological approaches to kaluza-klein theory -- Cosmogony, symmetry, and phenomenological intuition -- Conventional view of the evolving cosmos -- The problem of symmetry -- A new kind of clarity -- The self-evolving cosmos -- Introduction to the cosmogonic matrix -- Overview of cosmic evolution -- The role of the fermions in dimensional generation -- Projective stages of cosmogony : dimensional divergence -- Stage 1 -- Stage 2 -- Stages 3 and 4 -- Proprioceptive stages of cosmogony : dimensional convergence -- Conclusion: Wider horizons of cosmic evolution -- The psychophysics of cosmogony -- Psychical aspects of the fundamental particles -- Toward a reflexive physics -- Concretization of the self-evolving cosmos.…”
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Photonic crystals : physics and technology

Table of Contents: “…Zheltikov -- Photonic crystal and photonic band-gap structures for light extraction and emission control / Richard M. …”
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Landscape planning : practical techniques for the home gardener by Adam, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Raised edges and retaining walls -- Fences and gates -- Steps -- Pathways -- Driveways and parking spaces -- Patios and decks -- Garden sheds -- Pools and ponds -- Irrigation -- Lighting -- 4. Soft landscaping. Trees -- Shrubs -- Temporary plantings -- Foundation plantings -- Ground covers and lawns -- Ten steps to a better lawn -- Beds and borders -- Hills and steep inclines -- Berms -- 5. …”


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Modern Sensing Technologies

Table of Contents: “…Non-Invasive Monitoring of Glycogen in Real-Time Using an Electromagnetic Sensor -- Sensors for Implants: Real-Time Failure Detection on the Arabin Pessary -- Development and Application of an Orthodontic Photometer and Thermometer to Monitor the Effect of Near Infrared Light on Root Resorption and Orthodontic Tooth Movement -- Wide Band Antennae System For Remote Vital Signs Detecting Doppler Radar Sensor -- Smart Sensing and Biofeedback for Vertical Jump in Sports -- Spontaneous Facial Expression Analysis Using Optical Flow Technique -- Heart Sound: Detection and Analytical Approach Towards Diseases -- Serious Games Based on Kinect and Leap Motion Controller for Upper Limbs Physical Rehabilitation -- Microwaves and functional materials: a novel method to continuously detect metal ions in water -- Reusable Surface Acoustic Wave Immunosensor for Monitoring of Mite Allergens -- Performance Enhancement of Polypyrrole Based Nano-Biosensors by Different Enzyme Deposition Techniques -- Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors for Applications in Harsh Environments -- Noncontact Temperature Sensing of Heated Cylindrical Rod by Laser-Ultrasonic Method -- Development of a PVDF multi-resonance vibration sensor with a wide range of frequency resolution -- Unique and Unclonable Capacitive Sensors for Nature-Inspired Secure Sensing -- Internet of Things Scalability: Communications and Data Management -- Internet of Things: Vision, Future Directions and Opportunities -- A Novel Unobtrusive Vibration Sensing System for Machine Inspection -- Compensation Techniques for Vibration Sensors with Application in Structural Health Monitoring.…”
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Systems Research II Essays in Honor of Yasuhiko Takahara on Systems Management Theory and Practice

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Social/Organizational Theory and Application -- Chapter 1: Complex Systems and Postmodernism: A New Perspective for Society in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2: A Retrospective on the University-Industry Innovation Nexus in Japan: Empirical Assessment of Coauthorship in the Light of New Data -- Chapter 3: Consideration of Organization Model Based on Dynamic Equilibrium Theory -- Chapter 4: A Process for a Conceptual Design and its Simulation Toward New Business Model Creation -- Chapter 5: Virtual Organization, Organizational Intelligence, and Imperfect Information Processing -- Chapter 6: Composite: A Model of Virtual Organization -- Part 2: Systems Management -- Chapter 7: What Should be Added to Science for Solving Wicked Problems? …”
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Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities 17th International Conference, NooJ 2023, Zadar, Croatia, May 31–June 2, 2023, Rev...

Table of Contents: “…Morphological and Lexical Resources -- SANTI-Network Prototype of an Indonesian Multi-Level Tagger -- Deciphering the Nomenclature of Chemical Compounds in NooJ -- NooJ Dictionary for Rromani: Importing of an Editorial Dictionary to the NooJ System -- Latin Pronouns, Numerals and Prepositions in the NooJ Tool -- Towards a Linguistic Annotation of Arabic Legal Texts: A Multilingual Electronic Dictionary for Arabic -- Recognition of Frozen Expressions in Belarusian NooJ Module -- Syntactic and Semantic Resources -- A Proposal for the Processing of the Nucleus Verb Phrase of Pronominal (SVNPr) Verbs in Spanish -- German selbst-Compounds: Towards a NooJ Grammar -- Disambiguation Grammars for the Ukrainian Module -- Automatic Disambiguation of the Belarusian-Russian Legal Parallel Corpus in NooJ -- Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Perception Verbs in the Croatian Language -- NooJ Grammars for Morphophonemic Continuity and Semantic Discontinuity -- Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis -- Explicit Language in English Song Lyrics: Should We Be Concerned? -- Immigrant in the Light of Language Production -- Semantic Analysis of Migrants’ Self-Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Narratives -- Natural Language Processing Applications -- NooJ Linguistic Resources for Paraphrase Generation of Italian Support Verb Construction -- Spelling Error Detection and Correction for Arabic Using NooJ -- Automatic Translation of Continuous and Fixed Arabic Frozen Expressions Using the NooJ Platform -- The Automatic Translation of Arabic Psychological Verbs Using the NooJ Platform.…”
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Applied process thought. I, Initial explorations in theory and research

Table of Contents: “…A WhiteheadianMetaphysics of LightBogdan OgrodnikVIII. Water as a Metaphoric Model inProcess ThoughtJan B.F.N. …”
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Contemporary influences of C.G. Jung's thought

Table of Contents: “…; 8 Jung and Social Thought: ""The Undiscovered Self; 9 In a Secular Age: Weber, Taylor, Jung; 10 Non-fixed Multiple Perspectives in the Japanese Psyche: Traditional Japanese Art, Dream and Myth; 11 Subject Drop and the Japanese Ego; 12 Developing Jung's Theory of Mind in the Light of Evolutionary Psychology…”
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Echoes from the caves : Qumran and the New Testament

Table of Contents: “…Schiffman -- Learning from sectarian responses : windows on Qumran sects and emerging Christian sects / Jutta Jokiranta -- Wealth and sectarianism : comparing Qumranic and early Christian social approaches / Eyal Regev -- Family relationships in 4QInstruction and in Eph 5:21-6:4 / Jean-Sébastien Rey -- Priests on earth as in heaven : Jewish light on the book of Revelation / Torlief Elgvin -- Revelation's plague septets : new exodus and exile / Benjamin G. …”
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The improbable swervings of atoms by Bursk, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…1: Carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe -- Freedom train -- Army hearings -- One more victory for the children of light -- Dr. Livingstone, i presume -- My brother and i drop the bomb on Hiroshima -- Nothing more dangerous than boredom -- Woodcraft manual for boys -- Coffee -- Fourteen and under singles championship -- Sex education -- The barbarians -- De Rerum Natura, Book five -- Irreconcilable differences -- One nation, indivisible, under God -- E. …”
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The History and Future of Technology Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? by Ayres, Robert U.

Table of Contents: “…The history of artifiicial light -- Chapter 16. Electronic broadcast media: radio and TV -- Chapter 17. …”
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Intelligent Transport Systems 6th EAI International Conference, INTSYS 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, December 15-16, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…-- Adaptive Dimming of Highway Lights using Recurrent Neural Networks -- Berth Allocation Problem in Export Tidal Bulk Ports with Inventory Control -- Intelligent Transportation and Electric Vehicle -- Bus Journey Time Prediction: A Comparison of Whole Route and Segment Journey Time Predictions using Machine Learning -- Detection of Distracted Driving: a Smartphone-based Approach -- Detection of Invisible/Occluded Vehicles Using Passive RFIDs -- Predictive Energy Management for Battery Electric Vehicles with Hybrid Models -- Vehicle Routing Problem for an Integrated Electric Vehicles and Drones System -- Integrated Passenger–Freight Transportation Model: Metro of Quito (Ecuador) as a Case Study.…”
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Handbook of research on food processing and preservation technologies. Volume 5, Emerging techniques for food processing, quality, and safety assurance

Table of Contents: “…Mestri, and Abila Krishna -- Hypobaric Processing of Food / Sharanabasava Kumbar and Menon Rekha Ravindra -- Viability of High-Pressure Technology in the Food Industry / Mohona Munshi, Madhusudan Sharma, and Saptashish Deb -- Potential of Pulsed Electric Fields in Food Preservation / Pranali Nikam, Suvartan Ranvir, John David, Thejus Jacob, and Raman Seth -- Pulsed Light Technology in Food Processing and Preservation / Mahendra Gunjal, Humeera Tazeen, Pavan M. …”
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