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Fundamentals of Probability: With Stochastic Processes

CRC Press, 2018

"The 4th edition of Ghahramani's book is replete with intriguing historical notes, insightful comments, and well-selected examples/exercises that, together, capture much of the essence of probability. Along with its Companion Website, the book is suitable as a primary resource for a first course in probability. Moreover, it...

Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (Media Origins)

MIT Press, 2019

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.

Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death...

McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

Springer, 2019

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media:

- it considers the relations between the senses and...

Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848–1934 (Volume 17) (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas’ removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, which...

Transboundary Water Issues in Israel, Palestine, and the Jordan River Basin: An Overview (SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development)

Springer, 2019

This book highlights the search for permanent freshwater agreements between Israel, Palestine, and the western portions of Jordan, and underscores the benefits of shared water management among the three countries. Throughout the book, efforts are made to share transboundary water in ways that are simultaneously physically feasible,...

Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity (Ancient Textiles Series)

Oxbow Books, 2017

"Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron,...

THE SILK ROAD ENCYCLOPEDIA

Seoul Selection, 2016

Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. History. Since the concept of the Silk Road as an avenue of inter- civilizational exchange emerged more than 130 years ago, scholars from both Eastern and Western societies have conducted persistent research to advance the field. Still, however, not nearly enough research has been...

Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns - Second Edition

Packt Publishing, 2016

Key Features

Learn how to use tried and true software design methodologies to enhance your JavaScript code

Discover robust JavaScript implementations of classic and advanced design patterns

Packed with easy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and...

The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been...

Energy Justice Across Borders

Springer, 2019

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap;...

Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Genders and Sexualities in History)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the...

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

William Morrow, 2019

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not.

"AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon •...

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