James Brown Mr. Dynamite

Table of Contents: “…James Brown's Image (1:37) -- James Brown's Songwriting (1:25) -- James Brown's Childhood (2:23) -- James Brown's Break (1:30) -- Creating a Stage Persona (2:23) -- Brown Revue (0:59) -- Brown's Success Formula (1:32) -- Political Involvement (1:52) -- Poor People's Campaign (2:38) -- Ancestral Roots (5:12) -- Humble Beginnings (2:41) -- Musical Childhood (1:51) -- Taking Advantage of Prison Time (1:56) -- Forming the Flames (1:04) -- Signing to King Records (2:23) -- Playing the Apollo (1:31) -- Hard Working Performer (1:59) -- Television and Film Debuts (3:09) -- Stay in School Campaign (1:48) -- Empowering the Black Community (2:31) -- "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1:09) -- Band and Personal Changes (2:29) -- Touring Africa (0:44) -- Focusing on Family (1:40) -- Role in Hip Hop (1:11) -- Incarceration and Comeback (3:19) -- Lifetime Achievement Award (1:27) -- Musical Legacy (1:45) -- Godfather of Soul in Retrospect (1:08) -- Interviewing James Brown (2:52) -- Establishing Funk (1:30) -- Church Inspired Performances (2:56) -- "Living in America" (0:58) -- James Brown's Influences (2:18) -- Spirituality and Music (2:47) -- Dancing for a Living (1:59) -- Musical Ambitions (2:12) -- Ground Breaking Performer (2:11) -- Quelling Race Riots (5:43) -- Social Role Model (1:28) -- Brown's Entrepreneurship (2:46) -- Performing in Vietnam (1:29) -- Hope through Faith (4:18) -- Marriage Challenges (2:59) -- Brown's Parental Advice (1:10) -- Brown's Role in Rap (4:41) -- Contribution to Music (2:17) -- Message from James Brown (1:16) -- Soul Lessons (3:11) -- Motivations for Success (2:27) -- Soul's Universal Appeal (1:54) -- Fighting Racism (1:52) -- Money as the Root of Evil (2:05) -- Political Lessons (1:36) -- Spiritual Motivations (1:32) -- Greatest Satisfaction (1:00) -- Engaging Communities (3:56)…”
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Choosing Yiddish : new frontiers of language and culture

Table of Contents: “…Yiddish studies : toward a twenty-first-century mandate / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Prelude to "writing on the edge" / Anita Norich -- Der Nister's symbolist stories : adventures in Yiddish storytelling and their consequences / Dara Horn -- Writing on the verge of catastrophe : David Vogel's last work of prose / Shiri Goren -- In the pot, half-melted : Sacco-Vanzetti poems and Yiddish American identity / Jordan Finkin -- Prelude to "Yiddish and the city" / Gennady Estraikh -- The Lower East Side meets Greenwich Village : immigrant Jews, Yiddish, and the New York intellectual scene / Tony Michels -- Propaganda or fighting the myth of Pakhdones? Naye Prese, the popular front, and the Spanish Civil War / Gerben Zaagsma -- The other Polonia : Yiddish immigrant writers in Buenos Aires and New York respond to the New Polish state / Rebecca Kobrin -- Choosing Yiddish in the classroom : Montreal's national secular schools, 1910-1950 / Rebecca Margolis -- Prelude to "Yiddish goes pop" / Jeffrey Shandler -- Isaac Goldberg and the idea of obscene Yiddish / Josh Lambert -- The idealized mother and her discontents : performing maternity in Yiddish film melodrama / Zehavit Stern -- Russian militia singing in Yiddish : Jewish nostalgia in Soviet and post-Soviet popular culture / Anna Shternshis -- Prelude to "Yiddish comes to America" / Hasia Diner --My Yidishe murder : the 1876 case of Pesach Rubenstein, Hasidic Slasher / Edward Portnoy -- Race, culture, and the creation of Yiddish social science : Max Weinreich's trip to Tuskegee / Jennifer Young -- Coming to America : Max Weinreich and the emergence of YIVO's American center / Kalman Weiser -- Prelude to "Yiddish encounters Hebrew" / Barbara Mann -- A mistress, a nanny, or a maidservant : discourse on Yiddish in Fin de Siècle Hebrew newspapers in Eastern Europe / Ela Bauer -- Choosing Yiddish in Israel : Yung Yisroel between home and exile, the center and the margins / Shachar Pinsker -- Hebrew remembers Yiddish : Avot Yeshurun's poetics of translation / Adriana X. …”
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Doctor who and race

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 16: The allegory of allegory: Race, racism and the summer of 2011Chapter 17: Doctor Who and the racial state: Fighting National Socialism across time and space -- Chapter 18: Religion, racism and the Church of England in Doctor Who -- Chapter 19: The Doctor is in (the Antipodes): Doctor Who short fiction and Australian national identity -- PART V: Race and science -- Chapter 20: “They hate each otherâ€?…”
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Individual differences and personality by Ashton, Michael Craig, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Relations between Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation -- 12.2.4. …”
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Mississippi entrepreneurs by Dement, Polly

Table of Contents: “…. & ROY ANDERSON, II; Constructing Buildings: Doing It the Right Way; JESSE BRENT; Legendary River Man: Pilots Towboat Industry; FRANK SPAIN; Exploring Frontiers of Communications: Inventing Solutions; JOHN H. …”
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Everybody writes : your go-to guide to creating ridiculously good content by Handley, Ann, 1963-

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D Web Development. by Nacke, Kai

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Your First Web Application -- Installing the D compiler and the DUB package manager -- Ubuntu and Debian -- Fedora -- OS X -- Windows -- Building from source -- Verifying your environment -- Creating your first web application -- Using DUB to set up the project structure -- Creating your first template -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Using Templates for Your Web Pages -- Benefits of using templates -- Creating your first template -- Turning the HTML page into a Diet template -- Adding inheritance -- Using includes -- Integrating other languages with blocks and filters -- Solving common tasks -- Configuring the document type -- Comments in a template -- More about tags -- Localizing your website -- Adding D code to your template -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Get Interactive -- Forms and Flow Control -- Introducing the note application -- Creating a template with a simple form -- A closer look at route matching -- Serving static files -- Storing session data -- Authenticating the user -- Using basic authentication -- Using digest authentication -- Form-based authentication -- Enabling TLS/SSL with your application -- Displaying an error page -- Uploading files -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Easy Forms with the Web Framework -- Taking advantage of unique D features -- Converting the note application -- Naming the handler functions -- Passing values of form fields -- Creating sessions and session variables -- Putting everything together -- Validating user input -- Displaying error messages with @errorDisplay -- Refining the validation -- Adding authentication -- Localizing the web content -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Accessing a Database -- Choosing the right database technology.…”
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Marketing with Social Media : 10 Easy Steps to Success for Business. by Coles, Linda

Table of Contents: “…-- Setting up your account -- Home page -- Profile page -- Finding followers and who to follow -- Spam and abuse -- Get tweeting -- Communicating on Twitter -- Lists -- Advanced and auto following tools -- Advanced search -- Tweetdeck and Hootsuite -- Listening out for your brand -- Listening online -- setting up alerts -- Listening with Tweetdeck -- Chapter 5 Online etiquette and preserving your reputation -- Getting your content right -- Working with original content -- Install a spellcheck tool -- Making connections with LinkedIn -- Send personalised connection requests -- Reply when accepting a connection request -- Keep in touch with your connections -- Consider your message content -- Ask for recommendations -- Applying good manners to Facebook -- Maintaining your online reputation -- Playing the name game -- Use your real name if you can -- Choose the same name for different sites if possible -- Secure your name on sites you're not necessarily active on -- Is your social media activity antisocial? …”
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The everyday project manager a primer for learning the principles of successful project management by Nicholls, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…. -- Planning Forward versus Planning Backward -- Fixed Date or Fixed Timeline -- The First Pass -- Identifying the Tasks -- Getting the Level of Detail Right -- The Second Pass -- Assigning the Tasks -- The Third Pass -- Scheduling the Tasks -- Increasing Schedule Maturity -- The Critical Path -- Putting the Float Back -- Estimating Tasks -- Broadly Right vs Precisely Wrong -- Planning Horizons -- Pitons and Firebreaks -- Putting in Your Failsafe Mechanisms.…”
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Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)

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Real-World Crime Scene Investigation : a Step-by-Step Procedure Manual. by Suboch, Gabriele

Table of Contents: “…1.4.1 Fingerprint Detection Kit1.4.2 Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Kit; 1.4.3 Blood Detection Kit; 1.5.1 Toolbox; 1.5.2 Metal Detector; 1.5.3 Excavation Kit; 1.5.4 Accessory Lights; 1.5.5 Laser Trajectory Kit; 1.5.6 Shoe and Tire Impression Casting; 2.1.1 Digital Cameras; 2.1.2 Lenses; 2.1.3 Filters; 2.1.4 Storage Media; 2.2.1 Light and Photography; 2.2.2 Capture an Image; 2.3.1 Luminol and Bluestar Photography; 2.3.2 Bluestar Photography; 2.3.3 Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography; 2.3.4 Infrared Photography; 2.3.5 Identification Photographs; 2.4.1 Document the Photos; 2.4.2 Scene Photography.…”
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Teach yourself visually iLife '09 by Wooldridge, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Delete a PhotoChapter 5: Editing Photos; Use the Edit View; Rotate a Photo; Crop a Photo; Enhance a Photo; Remove Red Eye; Retouch a Photo; Apply Effects to a Photo; Adjust Lighting in a Photo; Adjust Colors in a Photo; Compare Multiple Photos; Chapter 6: Sharing Photos; Print a Photo; Share by E-mail; Create a MobileMe Gallery; Share with Facebook; Share with Flickr; Create an Instant Slideshow; Create a Slideshow Project; Create a Book; Create a Travel Map in a Book; Create a Calendar; Export Photos; Burn to a Disc; Part III: Working with iMovie '09…”
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Flow visualization : techniques and examples

Table of Contents: “…PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; 1 INTERPRETATION OF FLOW VISUALIZATION; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Critical Points in Flow Patterns; 1.3 Relationship between Streamlines, Pathlines, and Streaklines; 1.4 Sectional Streamlines; 1.5 Bifurcation Lines; 1.6 Interpretation of Unsteady Flow Patterns with the Aid of Streaklines and Streamlines; 1. 7 Concluding Remarks; 1.8 References; 2 HYDROGEN BUBBLE VISUALIZATION; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Hydrogen Bubble Generation System; 2.2.1 Safety; 2.3 Bubble Probes; 2.4 Lighting; 2.5 Unique Applications; 2.6 References.…”
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Aircraft Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition by Eismin, Thomas K.

Table of Contents: “…Design and Maintenance of Aircraft Electrical Systems -- CHAPTER PRELIMINARIES -- REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS -- AIRCRAFT LIGHTS -- LARGE-AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS -- MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING OF ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.…”
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Advanced Graphics Programming Using OpenGL. by McReynolds, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Color, Shading, and Lighting; 3.1 Representing Color; 3.2 Shading; 3.3 Lighting; 3.4 Fixed-Point and Floating-Point Arithmetic; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4. …”
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Advances in Computer Graphics 39th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2022, Virtual Event, September 12–16, 2022, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…IMAGE ANALYSIS & PROCESSING -- Multi-granularity feature attention Fusion network for Image-Text Sentiment Analysis -- Toward efficient image denoising: A lightweight network with retargeting supervision driven knowledge distillation -- A pig pose estimation model for measuring pig’s body size -- Topology-aware Learning for Semi-supervised Cross-domain Retinal Artery/Vein Classification -- Face Super-Resolution with Better Semantics and More Efficient Guidance -- GRAPHS & NETWORKS -- Layout and Display of Network Graphs on a Sphere -- Joint Matrix Factorization and Structure Preserving for Domain Adaptation -- Graph Adversarial Network with Bottleneck Adapter Tuning for Sign Language Production -- ESTIMATION & FEATURE MATCHING -- Facial Landmarks based Region-Level Data Augmentation for Gaze Estimation -- An Efficient Dense Depth Map Estimation Algorithm Using Direct Stereo Matching For Ultra-wide-angle Images -- Ad-RMS: Adaptive Regional Motion Statistics for Feature Matching Filtering -- 3D RECONSTRUCTION -- Mobile Augmented Realty Based Visual Indoor Navigation -- Cost Volume Pyramid Network with Multi-strategies Range Searching for Multi-view Stereo -- Reconstructing the Surface Mesh Representation for Single Neuron -- WEmap: Weakness-enhancement mapping for 3D reconstruction with sparse image sequences -- RENDERING & ANIMATION -- Comparing Traditional Rendering Techniques to Deep Learning based Super-Resolution in Fire and Smoke Animations -- Real-Time Light Field Path Tracing -- Crowd Simulation with Detailed Body Motion and Interaction -- Towards Rendering the Style of 20th Century Cartoon Line Art in 3D Real-time -- DETECTION & RECOGNITION -- Face detection algorithm in classroom scene based on deep learning -- GRVT: Toward Effective Grocery Recognition via Vision Transformer -- A Transformer-based Cloth-irrelevant Patches Feature Extracting Method for Long-Term Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification -- Learning Unified Binary Feature Codes For Cross-illumination Palmprint Recognition -- COLORS, PAINTINGS & LAYOUT -- SemiPainter: Learning to draw semi-realistic paintings from the manga line drawings and flat shadow -- Hierarchical Bayesian Network Modeling and Layout of Huizhou Traditional Villages in Geographic Environment -- AE-GAN: Attention Embedded GAN For Irregular and Large-area Mask Face Image Inpainting -- SYNTHESIS & GENERATION -- Procedural Generation of Landscapes with Water Bodies Using Artificial Drainage Basins -- High-fidelity Dynamic Human Synthesis via UV-guided NeRF with Sparse Views -- Rec2Real: Semantics-Guided Photo-Realistic Image Synthesis Using Rough Urban Reconstruction Models -- 3D Digital City Structure Model Based on Image Modeling Technology -- AR & USER INTERFACES -- Augmented Reality-Based Home Interaction Layout and Evaluation -- LiteAR: A Framework to Estimate Lighting for Mixed Reality Sessions for Enhanced Realism -- Personalized User Interface Elements Recommendation System -- MEDICAL IMAGING -- A feature point extraction method for capsule endoscope localization -- Automated Diagnosis Of Retinal Neovascularization Pathologies From Color Retinal Fundus Images -- SEGMENTATION -- DDCNet: A lightweight network with variable receptive field for real-time portrait segmentation in complex environment -- A chromosome segmentation method based on corner detection and watershed algorithm -- Voxel-based 3D shape segmentation using deep volumetric convolutional neural networks -- OBJECT DETECTION -- Few-shot detection based on an enhanced prototype for outdoor small forbidden objects -- Research on real-time forestry pest detection based on improved YOLOv5 -- Power Line Detection Based on Feature Fusion Deep Learning Network -- IMAGE ATTENTION & PERCEPTION -- Wider and Higher: Intensive Integration and Global Foreground Perception for Image Matting -- Authenticity Identification of Qi Baishi’s Shrimp Painting with Dynamic Token Enhanced Visual Transformer -- MODELING & SIMULATION -- An Optimized Material Point Method for Soil-Water Coupled Simulation -- SlimFliud-Net: Fast Fluid Simulation Using Admm Pruning. .…”
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. by Laplante, Phillip A.

Table of Contents: “…part, 10 3-D Graphics: Texture Mapping -- chapter 13 D Graphics -- chapter 2 3-D Graphics: Bump Mapping -- chapter 3 3-D Graphics: Coordinate Spaces -- chapter 4 3-D Graphics: High Level Shading Language (HLSL) -- chapter 5 3-D Graphics: Light Sources -- chapter 6 3-D Graphics: Polygon Meshes -- chapter 7 3-D Graphics: Real-Time Graphics Pipeline -- chapter 8 3-D Graphics: Skeletal Animation -- chapter 93 D Graphics: Standard Local Lighting Model -- chapter 11 3-D Graphics: Viewing -- chapter 12 Access Methods -- chapter 13 Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies -- chapter 14 Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) -- chapter 15 Algorithms -- chapter 16 Algorithms: Rendering -- chapter 17 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -- chapter 18 Animation: Facial -- chapter 19 Artificial Intelligence -- chapter 20 Authentication and Authorization: Policy-Based -- chapter 21 Big Data -- chapter 22 Bioelectronics -- chapter 23 Bluetooth Systems -- chapter 24 CDMA Networks -- chapter 25 Cellular Systems -- chapter 26 Classes: NP and NP-Complete -- chapter 27 Coding Theory: History -- chapter 28 Computer Organization -- chapter 29 Concurrency: Concepts -- chapter 30 Counting: Basics -- chapter 31 Cryptography -- chapter 32 Cryptography: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) -- chapter 33 Data Mining: Geographic -- chapter 34 Data Mining: Privacy-Preservation Techniques -- chapter 35 Digital Arithmetic -- chapter 36 Digital Arithmetic: Division Algorithms -- chapter 37 Digital Geometry -- chapter 38 Disabilities, Users with -- chapter 39 Disabilities: Assistive Technology Design -- chapter 40 Discrete Fourier Transform -- chapter 41 Distributed Sensor Actuator Networks -- chapter 42 Ethics -- chapter 43 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) -- part, Encyclopedia of Computer Science andTechnologySecond EditionVolume II -- chapter 44 Fuzzy Set Theory -- chapter 45 Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic -- chapter 46 Genetic Algorithms -- chapter 47 Hash Algorithms -- chapter 48 Human–Robot Interaction -- chapter 49 Image Processing and Measurement -- chapter 50 Internet Security -- chapter 51 Languages -- chapter 52 Languages: Domain-Specific -- chapter 53 LDPC Decoders: Acceleration -- chapter 54 Learning and Teaching Programming -- chapter 55 Locality Sensitive Hashing -- chapter 56 Location-Based Services -- chapter 57 Mathematics of Computer Security -- chapter 58 Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 59 Modeling and Simulation -- chapter 60 Modeling: Sparse -- chapter 61 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- chapter 62 Parallel Algorithms -- chapter 63 Pedestrian Detection and Trackin -- chapter 64 Predictive and Anticipatory Computing -- chapter 65 Privacy Preserving Cryptographic Protocols -- chapter 66 Programming Languages: Concurrency -- chapter 67 Securing Software -- chapter 68 urity Risks: Managing Software -- chapter 69 Semantics: Learning -- chapter 70 Sentiment Analysis -- chapter 71 Set Theory -- chapter 72 Social Context Computing: Wireless Networking -- chapter 73 Social Media: Trends, Events, and Influential Users -- chapter 74 Steganography -- chapter 75 Turing Machines -- chapter 76 Turing Machines: Completeness -- chapter 77 Ubiquitous Computing Systems -- chapter 78 Undecidability -- chapter 79 Undecidability and Reducibility -- chapter 80 Virtual Worlds: Design -- chapter 81 Viruses: History -- chapter 82 Wireless Embedded Systems: Secure Design -- chapter 83 Wireless LANs (WLANs) -- chapter 84 Wireless LANs (WLANs): IEEE 802.11 -- chapter 85 Wireless Networks: VoIP Service -- chapter 86 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) -- chapter 87 Women in Computer Science: Deterrents -- chapter 88 XML and Other Metadata Languages.…”
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Das Nikon D7100 Handbuch. by Gradias, Michael

Table of Contents: “…6.2 Einstellungen zurücksetzen6.3 Den Ordner festlegen; 6.4 Funktion der Karte in Fach 2; 6.5 Die Bildqualität variieren; 6.6 Weißabgleich; 6.7 Bildoptimierung; 6.8 Konfigurationen verwalten; 6.9 Farbraum; 6.10 Aktives D-Lighting; 6.11 HDR; 6.12 Auto-Verzeichnungskorrektur; 6.13 ISO-Empfindlichkeit; 6.14 Mehrfachbelichtungen; 6.15 Intervallaufnahmen; 6.16 Videoeinstellungen; Betrachten Sie Ihre Bilder; 7.1 Die Bildwiedergabe; 7.2 Bilder löschen; 7.3 Ausblenden; 7.4 Infos bei Wiedergabe; 7.5 Bilder kopieren; 7.6 Bildkontrolle; 7.7 Nach dem Löschen; 7.8 Hochformat; 7.9 Diaschau anzeigen.…”
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Arab-American faces and voices : the origins of an immigrant community by Boosahda, Elizabeth, 1926-2017

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Turnaround challenge : business and the city of the future by Blowfield, Mick

Table of Contents: “…Colliding Mega-trends: Rising Chinese Labour Costs ... and Decreasing Costs of Local Manufacturing; Structural or Surface Change; Drogba and D. Light; Lessons for Business: Innovation Aligned with the Market; Innovators and Incumbents; Scanning for the Disruptors; Business Implications: Resolving the Crises of the Quadrilemma; 8. …”
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