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Free Download Nudging Choices Through Media: Ethical and philosophical implications for humanity
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303126567X | 362 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.4 MB
This book addresses the growing use of computerized systems to influence people's decisions without their awareness, a significant but underappreciated sea-change in the way the world works. To assess these systems, this volume's contributors explore the philosophical and ethical dimensions of algorithms that guide people's behavior by nudging them toward choices preferred by systems architects. Particularly in an era of heightened awareness of bias and discrimination, these systems raise profound concerns about the morality of such activities. This volume brings together a diverse array of thinkers to critically examine these nudging systems. Not only are high-level perspectives presented, but so too are of those who use them on a day-to-day basis. While algorithmic nudging can produce benefits for users there are also many less-obvious costs to using such systems, costs that require examination and deliberation. This book is a major step towards delineating these concerns and suggesting ways to provide a sounder basis for future policies for algorithms. It should be of interest to system designers, public policymakers, scholars, and those who wonder more deeply about the nudges they receive from various websites and on their phones.
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Free Download Charlotte Kofoed Westh, "Nordic Baby Crochet: Assembly-free models for the little ones"
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1849948062 | 240 pages | PDF (conv) | 9.1 MB
Easy crochet patterns for beautiful clothes and accessories for babies and toddlers.
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Free Download Sadan Jha, "Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City"
English | ISBN: 9390252636 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 MB
'...a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.... The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects.... Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.'
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Free Download Models of Social Intervention and Constructionism: Current Narratives
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774911892 | 294 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This book takes a new, critical, and multidisciplinary look at experiences and meanings of social intervention in different social contexts, taking the approaches of social constructionism as a theoretical approach. The volume collects the results of theoretical-practical experiences that social science professionals with critical and constructionist visions linked to social work intervention have carried out in different spaces. It considers the way social work intervention models are built, their foundation, and their application. It provides the findings on tested intervention models built according to the basis of social constructionism in specific social scenarios, providing interesting findings that show intervention alternatives beyond traditional approaches. The social intervention strategies discussed take place in diverse situations, including health recovery and reconstruction in breast cancer, family abandonment issues of institutionalized adolescents, institutional care of refugee families, women caregivers of children with disabilities, men who exercise violence, and more.
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Free Download Master Builders of Byzantium By Robert Ousterhout
2008 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1934536032 | PDF | 28 MB
Examining Byzantine architecture-primarily churches built in the area of Constantinople between the ninth and fifteenth centuries-from the perspective of its masons, its master builders, Robert Ousterhout identifies the problems commonly encountered in the process of design and construction. He analyzes written evidence, the archaeological record, and especially the surviving buildings, concluding that Byzantine architecture was far more innovative than has previously been acknowledged. Ousterhout explains how masons selected, manufactured, and utilized materials from bricks and mortar to lead roofing tiles, from foundation systems to roof vaultings. He situates richly decorated church interiors, sheathed in marble revetments, mosaics, and frescoes-along with their complex iconographic programs-within the purview of the master builder, referring also to masons in Russia, the Balkans, and Jerusalem.
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Free Download Irene Sotiropoulou, "Machines Against Measures "
English | ISBN: 0755639588 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we trapped in a metrification dystopia? Can we create workspaces that can produce what we prefer in order to use our human effort in ways that support nature and our communities? And if yes, what technologies could we use?
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Free Download Stanislava Dikova, "Love and the Politics of Care: Methods, Pedagogies, Institutions"
English | ISBN: 1501387642 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal practices of professionalization and work. Each of the book's three sections interrogates a particular site of care, where the affective, political, legal, and economic dimensions of care intersect in challenging ways. These sites are located within a variety of institutionally managed contexts such as the contemporary university, the theatre hall, the prison complex, the family home, the urban landscape, and the care industry. The geographical spread of the case studies stretches across India, Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and the US and provides broad coverage that crosses the divide between the Global North and the Global South.
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Free Download Lost on Skinwalker Ranch: The True Story of a Property Guard and His Encounter with the Paranormal By Erick T. Rhetts
2014 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1502511339 | EPUB | 1 MB
Other titles by Erick T. Rhetts: Skinwalker Ranch: In the Shadow of the Ridge, The Muledeer Chronicles, The Airfield, Hungry, Sophia, Revelations: End, and now, the recently released novel The Shadow Walkers.Erick T. Rhetts, admitted aficionado of the off-beat and unusual, is the author of numerous works in the genres of historical non-fiction and fiction. Published under multiple pseudonyms, he has been trusted to maintain and protect the anonymity and confidentiality of his subjects and resources. LOST ON SKINWALKER RANCH continues his efforts to bring to the reader topics and tales that are both controversial and polarizing...Riley-the only name by which he is identified-is a member of an elite security unit hired to monitor activity upon the notorious Skinwalker Ranch property in north-east Utah. Well-documented as a center of strange and unexplained activity, he is unwittingly targeted by an element of the paranormal entities which frequently show themselves in diverse forms there on the property and lured through a dimensional portal, which up until his incredible and personal experience, had only been witnessed from a distance. Erick T. Rhetts brings to the public for the first time ever the factual and substantiated tale of one man's journey to an alternate world of lingering life force and supernatural half-life.
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Free Download Learn Concurrent Programming with Go (MEAP V06)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781633438385 | 424 Pages | PDF EPUB | 41 MB
Learn Concurrent Programming with Go teaches you how to use concurrency to improve the performance of your Go applications. Each chapter poses a new problem that can be solved using concurrency and introduces the right approach to implement it in Go. In this easy-to-read tutorial, you'll delve into concurrency patterns, learn to dodge the most common pitfalls, and take advantage of Go's innovative approach to concurrency. Practical exercises at the end of each chapter help you practice your new skills to lock in what you've learned.
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Free Download Prabha Rani, "Kannagi Through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement"
English | ISBN: 9354355315 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Kannagi and Silappatikaram are important parts of the cultural landscape of Tamil Nadu-the story has been told in many genres of literature and continues to be told. Every narrative, however, carries the imprint of the times it was released in. Kannagi through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement aims to understand the ways in which representations of Kannagi in the epic Silappatikaram differ in every new narrative. Looking at the portrayals of Kannagi in plays, commentaries and folk narratives, the book examines how representations of gender and culture have evolved over time. Focusing on the interrelationships between a text and a society as well as between society and the way it moulds the category of 'woman' at different times through symbols and icon, the author analyses the social, cultural and political processes that contributed to the emergence of Kannagi as an icon of Tamil culture and epitome of Tamil womanhood.
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