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Black Joy - Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
epub | 2.69 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1982176555 | Author: Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts | Year: 2022

Description:

A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy-in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today.
When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience.

With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship.

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Category:Essays, Black & African American Biographies & Memoirs, Essays

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Blackstar Theory - The Last Works of David Bowie
pdf | 2.71 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09LH3MZ5R | Author: Kardos, Leah | Year: 2021

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Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last works: his surprise 'comeback' project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist's death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon.
These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.

Category:Philosophy & Social Aspects of Music, Musical Philosophy & Social Aspects, Music History & Criticism

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Blood in the Garden - The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks
epub | 24.74 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09R86R3QJ | Author: Chris Herring | Year: 2022

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The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit.
For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. Since 2001, they've spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any other NBA team.

But during the preceding era, the Big Apple had a club it was madly in love with-one that earned respect not only by winning, but through brute force. The Knicks were always looking for fights, often at the encouragement of Pat Riley. They fought opposing players. They fought each other. Hell, they even occasionally fought their own coaches.

The NBA didn't take kindly to their fighting spirit. Within two years, league officials moved to alter several rules to stop New York from turning its basketball games into bloody mudwrestling...

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Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
pdf | 107.69 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07TLF53L5 | Author: Geoffrey Engelstein | Year: 2019

Description:

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms compiles hundreds of different mechanisms, organized by category. Each has a description of how it works, discussion of its pros and cons, how it can be implemented, and examples of specific games that use it. Building Blocks can be read cover to cover, used as a reference when looking for inspiration for a new design, help solving a specific problem, or assist in getting unstuck in the midst of a project. This book, the first to collect mechanisms like this in the tabletop game design field, aims to be a practical guide that will be a great starting point for beginning designers, a handy guidebook for the experienced, and an ideal classroom textbook.


Key Features

[*]The first compendium of its kind in the tabletop game field.[*]Covers the nuts and bolts of design to resolve specific challenges.[*]Serves as a practical guide, a great starting point for beginning designers, and a reference for seasoned professionals.[*]Contains discussion of a series of standalone mechanisms, in a standard format and style, with cross-links to related mechanics and specific examples.[*]Includes hundreds of mechanism entries with accompanying diagrams and sample games to study.[*]Ideal for professional or classroom use.

Category:Computer Programming Structured Design, Computer Games Programming, Computer & Video Game Design

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Building Electro-Optical Systems - Making it All Work
pdf | 28.8 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09PX6M8X5 | Author: Philip C. D. Hobbs | Year: 2022

Description:

Building Electro-Optical Systems In the newly revised third edition of Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work, renowned Dr. Philip C. D. Hobbs delivers a birds-eye view of all the topics you'll need to understand for successful optical instrument design and construction. The author draws on his own work as an applied physicist and consultant with over a decade of experience in designing and constructing electro-optical systems from beginning to end.
The book's topics are chosen to allow readers in a variety of disciplines and fields to quickly and confidently decide whether a given device or technique is appropriate for their needs. Using accessible prose and intuitive organization, Building Electro-Optical Systems remains one of the most practical and solution-oriented resources available to graduate students and professionals.
The newest edition includes comprehensive revisions that reflect progress in the field of electro-optical instrument design and construction since the second edition was published. It also offers approximately 350 illustrations for visually oriented learners. Readers will also enjoy:
[*]A thorough introduction to basic optical calculations, including wave propagation, detection, coherent detection, and interferometers[*]Practical discussions of sources and illuminators, including radiometry, continuum sources, incoherent line sources, lasers, laser noise, and diode laser coherence control[*]Explorations of optical detection, including photodetection in semiconductors and signal-to-noise ratios[*]Full treatments of lenses, prisms, and mirrors, as well as coatings, filters, and surface finishes, and polarization

Perfect for graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, optics, and optical engineering, Building Electro-Optical Systems is also an ideal resource for professional designers working in optics, electro-optics, analog electronics, and photonics.

Category:Laser Engineering, Physics of Light, Engineering

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Building Offline Applications with Angular
epub | 11.68 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09R3VCD63 | Author: Venkata Keerti Kotaru | Year: 2022

Description:

Get a complete overview of offline installable applications. Businesses need reliable applications that enable users to access data and their applications in spite of a bad network connection.

Traditional websites work only when connected to the network. With a large number of users depending on mobile phones and tablets for work, social interactions, and media consumption, it's important that the web applications can work on a weak network connection and even offline.

This step-by-step guide shows you how to build an Angular application that considers offline access and uses its ready-made features and configurations. Build Offline Applications with Angular helps bridge the gap between native apps and web applications.

What You Will Learn [*]Get started with an installable Angular application[*]Understand the importance of performant, reliable, and offline access of a web application[*]Discover solutions for building Angular applications for speedy response in low bandwidth scenarios[*]Use IndexedDB as an offline data store within a browser

Who Is This Book For Ideal for beginner-to-intermediate-level readers with basic understanding of JavaScript and Angular.

Category:Web Programming, Web Development & Design Programming

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Business Design Thinking and Doing - Frameworks, Strategies and Techniques for Sustainable Innovation
pdf | 13.36 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09R3SJMRN | Author: Ang?le M. Beausoleil | Year: 2022

Description:

This textbook aims to guide, instruct and inspire the next generation of innovation designers, managers and leaders. Building upon an evidence-based innovation development process, it introduces, explains and provides visual models and case examples of what Business Design is, how it is applied across sectors and organizations, and its impact on decision-making and value creation.

Students will read and analyze design-led innovation business cases from across the globe, discover multi-disciplinary strategies (from marketing to anthropology) and practice applying a designer's toolkit to find, frame, and solve business problems in contemporary ways. Throughout the book, students will break down the process of innovation and move from initiation to implementation, engage in iterative feedback loops, and develop concrete plans for personal and professional collaboration and workplace application.

For MBA and senior undergraduate students, this book offers a step-by-step and comprehensive reference guide to creative problem framing and solving - inside and beyond the classroom. It integrates marketing principles and management frameworks, with anthropological and design methods reflecting the diverse and in-demand skills vital to tomorrow's workforce.

For instructors, this book offers a way to confidently engage learners in the realm of design practices and strategies relevant to business decision-making. The pedagogical framework, along with a comprehensive suite of techniques and templates, offers both novice and experienced teachers a step-by-step reference guide that facilitates skills development in creative problem framing and solving.

Category:Business Management Science

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C++ Game Programming - Learn game programming with C++ step by step very easy
epub | 2.53 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07J4521M3 | Author: moh, am | Year: 2019

Description:

The second edition of the best-selling Python book in the world (over 1 million copies sold!). A fast-paced, no-nonsense guide to programming in Python. Updated and thoroughly revised to reflect the latest in Python code and practices.

Python Crash Course is the world's best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction to programming with Python will have you writing programs, solving problems, and making things that work in no time.

In the first half of the book, you'll learn basic programming concepts, such as variables, lists, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean code with exercises for each topic. You'll also learn how to make your programs interactive and test your code safely before adding it to a project. In the second half, you'll put your new knowledge into practice with three substantial projects: a Space Invaders-inspired arcade game, a set of data visualizations with Python's handy libraries, and a simple web app you can deploy online.

As you work through the book, you'll learn how to:
• Use powerful Python libraries and tools, including Pygame, Matplotlib, Plotly, and Django
• Make 2D games that respond to keypresses and mouse clicks, and that increase in difficulty
• Use data to generate interactive visualizations
• Create and customize web apps and deploy them safely online
• Deal with mistakes and errors so you can solve your own programming problems

If you've been thinking about digging into programming, Python Crash Course will get you writing real programs fast. Why wait any longer? Start your engines and code!

Category:Open Source Programming, Software Development, Python Computer Programming

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C++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmers - Connecting to C#, R, and Python Clients
epub | 65.61 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09RGWNX7F | Author: Adam Gladstone | Year: 2022

Description:

Get up-to-speed quickly and connect modern code written in C#, R, and Python to an existing codebase written in C++. This book for practitioners is about software interoperability in a Windows environment from C++ to languages such as C#, R, and Python. Using a series of example projects, the book demonstrates how to connect a simple C++ codebase packaged as a static or dynamic library to modern clients written in C#, R, and Python. The book shows you how to develop the in-between components that allow disparate languages to communicate.

This book addresses a fundamental question in software design: given an existing C++ codebase, how does one go about connecting that codebase to clients written in C#, R, and Python? How is the C++ functionality exposed to these clients? One answer may be to rewrite the existing codebase in the target language. This is rarely, if ever, feasible and this book's goal is to save you the pain and the high cost of throwing out valuable existing code by showing you how to make that older code function alongside and with the more modern languages that are commonly in use today. The knowledge you will gain from reading this book will help you broaden your architectural choices and take advantage of the growing amount of talent around newer languages.

What You Will Learn [*]Build components that connect C++ to other languages[*]Translate between the C++ type system and the type systems of C#, R, and Python[*]Write a managed assembly targeting the .NET framework[*]Create C++ packages for use in R/Studio[*]Develop Python modules based on high-performance C++ code[*]Overcome the difficulties and pitfalls involved in cross-language development

Who This Book Is For
Software developers who are looking for ways to extend existing systems written in C++ using modern languages. Readers should have some programming experience, particularly in C++. Readers should also be familiar with common development tools such as Visual Studio, R/Studio, Visual Studio Code, and CodeBlocks.

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Collaborative Damage - An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
epub | 3.16 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1501759833 | Author: Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, Morten Axel Pedersen | Year: 2022

Description:

Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention-sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South.
The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the different participants studied in the globalization processes-local workers and cadres; Chinese managers and entrepreneurs; and the authors themselves, three Danish anthropologists-are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. The authors call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts they observed in the field, but also to their own failure to agree about how to interpret the data. Via in-depth case studies and tragicomical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a wide-ranging story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century.

Category:Globalization, History of China, Economic Conditions

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