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Sacred Ancestral Memory
And why we need to preserve it
2024 || Hardcover || Nana Fofi || Bookmundo
I made a conscious decision to educate myself upon realizing the influence of Western education on our thinking. Unknowingly, I found myself immersed in the teachings of the occult mystery university. It wasn't until two decades later, while pursuing my bachelor's degree, that I fully comprehended my journey into this realm. I have now mastered the study of ancestral memory and am eager to share this wisdom with the world.
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Safety by Design
Engineering Products and Systems
2020 || Paperback || Mohammad Rajabali Nejad || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The human, the technical system, and the environment are the three elements for safety or three axes for the safety coordinate system. They have three mutual interactions. These form the six fundamental aspects for safety assessment system, represented by the Safety Cube. The Safety Cube is a theory, a method, and a game-changer for engineering safer products and systems.
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Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages
15 June 2023
2023 || Paperback || Dimitar Shterionov || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL 2023), hosted by the 24th Annual Con- ference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). This workshop is a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages.
The Global Casino
An Introduction to Environmental Issues
2018 || Paperback || Nick Middleton || Taylor & Francis
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues, and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment i...
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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City
2023 || Hardcover || Hall || SAGE
Tackling the questions raised by twenty-first century urbanization, this handbook engages with contemporary debates and contributions to policy as well as looking at recent empirical and methodological shifts in the area
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Geographies of Embodiment Critical Phenomenology and the World of Strangers
2023 || Hardcover || Simonsen || SAGE
Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.
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Statistical Methods for Geography / Druk 5
2023 || Hardcover || Rogerson || SAGE
Statistical Methods for Geography is the essential introduction for geography students looking to fully understand and apply key statistical concepts and techniques.
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Fighting Sargas in Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya I
A translation of Sargas XV-XVII under the guidance of Mallinātha’s Ghaṇṭāpatha by JAN MARCUS ZWAAN
2022 || Paperback || Jan Marcus Zwaan || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Indian poetry of the classical style, kāvya, has been long ignored by western Indologists. Nowadays opinion slowly tends to change in favour of this rather extreme poetry. Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya, the poem treated in this volume is part of the tradition of epic poems or mahākāvyas. Six are recognized. The Kirātārjunīya marks the beginning of a new style of Indian poetry and represents one of the best written in this tradition. The plot is taken from the Mahābhārata.
The authors of...
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Cognitive Communication - its theory introduced
Part 3 Relationship between Energy, Entropy, and Information Level
2023 || Paperback || Werner Rupprecht || Bookmundo || met inkijkexemplaar
The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.
This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...
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Water in Times of Climate Changes
A Values-driven Dialogue
2021 || Hardcover || Jan Jorrit Hasselaar e.a. || AUP Wetenschappelijk
This book on water and climate change goes beyond the usual and predictable analyses, by bringing religion and values into a discussion that is often dominated by technocratic solutions. The three case studies of Jakarta, Cape Town, and Amsterdam demonstrate the challenges of water management in urban areas and the role religion can play in addressing them. With representatives from science, politics, economics, and religion, as well as young voices, the book stimulates a values-driven dialog...