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Artists of the Floating World - Rob Burton - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Artists of the Floating World - Rob Burton - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This work analyzes the fiction of four contemporary multicultural writers who render a ''floating world'' in which cultures converge or collide in unexpected, exciting, and dangerous ways. The novels and short stories of Kazuo Ishiguro, Bessie Head, Bharati Mukherjee, and Salman Rushdie explore a literal and metaphorical floating world (adapted from the Japanese concept of ''ukiyo''-a still-point between briefly-held earthly pleasures and spiritual immutability) where the characters, like their authors, are poised between conflicting worlds, cultures, and traditions. The manner in which these four authors articulate such a ''floating'' experience, Burton argues, enriches our understanding and appreciation of the increasingly interconnected world around us.

DKK 397.00
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Formal Verification of Floating-Point Hardware Design - David M. Russinoff - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Formal Verification of Floating-Point Hardware Design - David M. Russinoff - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This is the first book to focus on the problem of ensuring the correctness of floating-point hardware designs through mathematical methods. Formal Verification of Floating-Point Hardware Design advances a verification methodology based on a unified theory of register-transfer logic and floating-point arithmetic that has been developed and applied to the formal verification of commercial floating-point units over the course of more than two decades, during which the author was employed by several major microprocessor design companies. The book consists of five parts, the first two of which present a rigorous exposition of the general theory based on the first principles of arithmetic. Part I covers bit vectors and the bit manipulation primitives, integer and fixed-point encodings, and bit-wise logical operations. Part II addresses the properties of floating-point numbers, the formats in which they are encoded as bit vectors, and the various modes of floating-point rounding. In Part III, the theory is extended to the analysis of several algorithms and optimization techniques that are commonly used in commercial implementations of elementary arithmetic operations. As a basis for the formal verification of such implementations, Part IV contains high-level specifications of correctness of the basic arithmetic instructions of several major industry-standard floating-point architectures, including all details pertaining to the handling of exceptional conditions. Part V illustrates the methodology, applying the preceding theory to the comprehensive verification of a state-of-the-art commercial floating-point unit. All of these results have been formalized in the logic of the ACL2 theorem prover and mechanically checked to ensure their correctness. They are presented here, however, in simple conventional mathematical notation. The book presupposes no familiarity with ACL2, logic design, or any mathematics beyond basic high school algebra. It will be of interest to verification engineers as well as arithmetic circuit designers who appreciate the value of a rigorous approach to their art, and is suitable as a graduate text in computer arithmetic.

DKK 689.00
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Unpacking IKEA - Pauline (national University Of Ireland Maynooth Garvey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Unpacking IKEA - Pauline (national University Of Ireland Maynooth Garvey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic popularity of this one iconic transnational store. Based on a year of participant observation in Stockholm’s Kungens Kurva store – the largest in the world - this book places the retailer squarely within the realm of the home-building efforts of individuals in Stockholm and to a lesser degree in Dublin. Ikea, the world’s largest retailer and one of its most interesting, is the focus of intense popular fascination internationally, yet is rarely subject to in-depth anthropological inquiry. In Unpacking Ikea, Garvey explores why Ikea is never ‘just a store’ for its customers, and questions why it is described in terms of a cultural package, as everyday and classless. Using in-depth interviews with householders over several years, this ethnographic study follows the furniture from the Ikea store outwards to probe what people actually take home with them.

DKK 486.00
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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China - Guanglun Michael Mu - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China - Guanglun Michael Mu - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as health and psychological, outcomes, there is a great urgency to help floating children and left-behind children beat the odds. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these children. It also delves into child and youth resilience in this unique migration context, examining what can be done to build up resilience of floating and left-behind children. In this vein, the book will complement current knowledge and advance context- and culture-specific understandings of child and youth resilience through both school-based and community-based approaches. The book aims to answer a fundamental question: How to help floating children and left-behind children become responsive and resilient to structural deficiencies and dynamics in the migration context of China? This is important reading for scholars, school professionals, community workers, and policy makers to better address the social and educational resilience and wellbeing of floating and left-behind children.

DKK 468.00
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Small Arms Survey 2015 - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Small Arms Survey 2015 - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity''s appropriation of the earth''s wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the world. In addition to presenting updates on the UN small arms process and the top arms importers and exporters, the volume assesses how recent technological developments affect weapons marking, record-keeping, and tracing; reviews small arms flows to Egypt, Libya, and Syria; and evaluates a stockpile management initiative in south-east Europe. The ''armed actors'' section sheds light on the arms and ammunition used by insurgents in northern Mali, the decline of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, and the use of floating armouries by private security companies in the Indian Ocean. This edition also analyses conditions that are driving young people to adopt high-risk coping strategies in Burundi.

DKK 486.00
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Very Large Floating Structures - Rob Phillips - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Very Large Floating Structures - Rob Phillips - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Groundbreaking and comprizing articles by expert contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive treatment of VLFSs and their relationship with the sea, marine habitats, the pollution of costal waters and tidal and natural current flow. It looks in-depth at: - - VLFS and the colonization of ocean space with their appearance in the waters off developed coastal cities - wave properties, which is essential for estimating the loading on the VLFS as well as for modelling structure-fluid interactions - hydroelastic and structural analysis of VLFS at an overall level and the cell level - the analysis and design of breakwaters - simulation models to understand the actual flow of water through the VLFS and to determine the drift forces for the mooring systems - anti-corrosion and maintenance systems - new research and developments, with emphasis on the Mega-Float, a 1 km long floating test runway. Well-illustrated with photographs, drawings, equations for mathematical modelling and analysis and extensively referenced, Very Large Floating Structures is ideal for professionals, academics and students of civil and structural engineering.

DKK 662.00
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Small Arms Survey 2007 - Geneva Small Arms Survey - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Small Arms Survey 2007 - Geneva Small Arms Survey - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, and as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists. The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City offers new and updated information on small arms production, stockpiles, transfers, and measures, including a special focus on transfer controls. This year''s thematic section explores the complex issue of urban violence with case studies on Burundi and Brazil as well as a photo essay by award-winning combat photographer Lucian Read. This edition also features chapters on lessons learned from the tracing of ammunition, the relationship between gun prices and conflict, and the role of small arms in South Sudan.

DKK 561.00
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That Floating Bridge - Benj Demott - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

That Floating Bridge - Benj Demott - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama''s presidency and Lyndon Johnson''s, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Wall Street and "America Beyond Capitalism." It presents essays, poems, and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal imagination. The title, That Floating Bridge, evokes Representative John Lewis'' line—"Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma"—as it quotes a track on Gregg Allman''s Low Country Blues , which Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages. That Floating Bridge''s peerless range of contributors includes Amiri Baraka, Gar Alperovitz, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Bill Ayers, Paul Berman, John Chernoff, Mark Dudzic, Carmelita Estrellita, Henry Farrell, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, David Golding, Eugene Goodheart, Lawrence Goodwyn, Lisa Guenther, Alec Harrington, Malcolm Harris, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes, Patterson Hood, Roxane Johnson, Ben Kessler, Bob Levin, Philip Levine, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Scott McLemee, Judy Oppenheimer, Jedediah Purdy, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, Violet Socks, A. B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Richard Torres, Jesmyn Ward, and Pablo Yglesias. An account of how Franz Boas "did more to combat race prejudice than any other person" anchorsone section, but the volume also addresses devolutions of "diversity" linked with careerism in the art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled "Criticism of Life"celebrates older and younger critics/poets. Songs are key to this volume''s good times. Music writing—ranging from Eddie Hinton''s Very Extremely Dangerous to Berlioz''s Romeo and Juliet— enhances the pleasures of this text.

DKK 558.00
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Floating Bones - Cynthia Roses Thema - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Floating Bones - Cynthia Roses Thema - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology.

DKK 569.00
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Small Arms Survey 2012 - Geneva Small Arms Survey - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Small Arms Survey 2012 - Geneva Small Arms Survey - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Small Arms Survey 2012 seeks to increase our scrutiny of what is changing, and not changing, in relation to armed violence and small arms proliferation. Chapters on firearm homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, drug violence in selected Latin American countries and non-lethal violence worldwide illustrate that security is a moving target; armed violence, both lethal and non-lethal, continues to undermine the security and wellbeing of people and societies around the world. The goal of curbing small arms proliferation, embodied in the UN Programme of Action, appears similarly elusive. Chapters on illicit small arms in war zones, trade transparency, Somali piracy and the 2011 UN Meeting of Governmental Experts highlight some of the successes, but also the continuing challenges, in this area. Country studies on Kazakhstan and Somaliland, along with the final instalment of the authorized transfers project, round out the 2012 edition.

DKK 675.00
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The Performance of Small Firms - Kevin Keasey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Performance of Small Firms - Kevin Keasey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail. Guidance is given on how to spot the signs of impending failure in a small business, which is of use to accountants small business PR actioners and government grant providers.

DKK 391.00
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Small Town Economic Development - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Small Town Economic Development - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

We tend to associate small town economic development with the decline of the rural United States--empty houses, shuttered shops and rusting factories. A common diagnosis of sluggish small town recovery is their lack of lifestyle amenities that attract new residents and businesses. Yet many small towns have shown progress and potential in recent years. This collection of recent articles by experts presents stories of small-town America''s struggle and describes innovations and practices behind successful revivals.

DKK 429.00
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Small Island and Small Destination Tourism - Robertico (university Of Central Florida Croes - Bog - Apple Academic Press Inc. - Plusbog.dk

Small Island and Small Destination Tourism - Robertico (university Of Central Florida Croes - Bog - Apple Academic Press Inc. - Plusbog.dk

This unique and thoughtful book considers the tourism specialization, economic growth, and tourism competitiveness of a very specific type of tourism: small islands practicing warm water island tourism. This new book thoroughly examines the phenomenon of why some small island destinations have been more successful than others. The main premise applied is that success and survival of small island tourism hinges on resolving the mystery regarding the relationship between competitiveness and quality of life. In addressing this question, the book reviews four relevant and interconnected concepts: tourism, competitiveness, quality of life, and scale (or size). In doing so, the book enhances understanding of the potential of tourism for the improvement of the quality of life of the residents of small islands. In the last chapter of the book, the author assesses the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and specifically its ramifications for small island destinations. Whether small island populations can rise from beneath the COVID -19 burden that threatens their economic future is yet to be seen. Small Island and Small Destination Tourism: Overcoming the Smallness Barrier for Economic Growth and Tourism Competitiveness is written from a sustainable perspective that combines tourism dynamics, development, competitiveness, quality of life, and business. As such, it is aimed at a broad but higher-level audience including graduate students, academicians and researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and international organizations.

DKK 542.00
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