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Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack

Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack takes the reader step by step through the process of developing synthesizer modules beginning with the elementary and leading up to more engaging examples. Using the intuitive VCV Rack and its open-source C++ API this book will guide even the most inexperienced reader to master efficient DSP coding to create oscillators filters and complex modules. Examining practical topics related to releasing plugins and managing complex graphical user interaction with an intuitive study of signal processing theory specifically tailored for sound synthesis and virtual analog this book covers everything from theory to practice. With exercises and example patches in each chapter the reader will build a library of synthesizer modules that they can modify and expand. Supplemented by a companion website this book is recommended reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of audio engineering music technology computer science electronics and related courses; audio coding and do-it-yourself enthusiasts; and professionals looking for a quick guide to VCV Rack. VCV Rack is a free and open-source software available online.

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Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin’s proposal is applauded criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society. Samir Amin a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition died on August 12 2018. Just before his death he published along with close allies a call for ‘workers and the people’ to establish a ‘fifth international’ to coordinate support for progressive movements. Amin an Egyptian economist was an intrepid intellectual and organizer of popular movements whose scholar activism provided inspiration to the global justice movement. The essays in this volume are by other prominent scholar activists who praise critique and reconfigure Amin’s proposal in order to help humanity confront the contemporary crisis of global capitalism and move toward a more egalitarian global society. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Globalizations. | Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

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Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

The quest to evolve bibliographic control to an equal or greater standing within the current information environment is on-going. As information organizers we are working in a time where information and communication technology (ICT) has pushed our status quo to its limits and where innovation often needs the pressure of do or die in order to get started. The year 2010 was designated as the Year of Cataloging Research and we made progress on studying the challenges facing metadata and information organization practices. However one year of research is merely a drop in the bucket especially given the results of the Resource and Description and Access (RDA) National Test and the Library of Congress’ decision to investigate the possibility of transitioning the MARC21 format. This book addresses how information professionals can create a functional environment in which we move beyond just representing information resources and into an environment that both represents and connects at a deeper level. Most importantly it offers insight on transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness by reassessing our purpose re-charting our efforts reasserting our expertise in the areas that information organizer have traditionally claimed but are losing due to stagnation and lack of vision. This book was published as a double special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata. | Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45. Ho was the father of his nation a major protagonist in the Cold War and anti-colonial struggle and the promoter of a distinctive Vietnamese form of communism. This biography charts his life from his early years and education in Europe to his establishment of the revolutionary pro-communist movement the Viet Minh and his subsequent rise to power. Placing important emphasis on his role as a military organizer while stressing his preference for diplomatic solutions this book contains detailed analysis of the complex talks with France and failure to prevent the Franco-Viet Minh war in 1946. It also follows Ho’s complex relationships with America China France and Russia and explores the Vietnam War and his legacy. In addition to providing extensive coverage of the 1954 Geneva Conference the rivalry between Ho and First Secretary Le Duan and the 1968 Tet Offensive Ho Chi Minh is also the first English-language biography of Ho to pay close attention to his attitude to women and their role within the communist party. It is the perfect introduction for students of Vietnamese history and twentieth-century history more broadly.

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African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation Prospects for a reengineered partnership

Of the 54African states only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is in spite of the longstanding Africa-European Union (EU) co-operation which intends among other things to support Africa’s industrialisation endeavours. Imperatively a long road to substantive levels of industrialisation still lies ahead of most African countries. This raises the question as to what role the international community could and should play in the twenty-first century to provide the support needed to expedite Africa’s industrial transformation. This book argues that to supplement the initiatives of each African country international partnerships of both a ‘North–South’ and ‘South–South’ nature will serve better purposes if they are leveraged to develop productive capacities in African economies. In order to enable the African countries to leverage their traditional partnership with the EU for industrialisation a paradigm shift is obligatory. A feasible model should emulate the Japanese-led ‘flying geese’ model and the Chinese-led ‘bamboo capitalism’ model. | African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation Prospects for a reengineered partnership

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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

Maria Avila presents a personal account of her experience as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez to how she got involved in community organizing. She has since applied the its distinctive practices of community organizing to civic engagement in higher education demonstrating how this can help create a culture that values and rewards civically engaged scholarship and advance higher education’s public democratic mission. Adapting what she learned during her years as an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation she describes a practice that aims for full reciprocity between partners and is achieved through the careful nurturing of relationships a mutual understanding of personal narratives leadership building power analysis and critical reflection. She demonstrates how she implemented the process in various institutions and in various contexts and shares lessons learned. Community organizing recognizes the need to understand the world as it is in order to create spaces where stakeholders can dialogue and deliberate about strategies for creating the world as we would like it to be. Maria Avila offers a vision and process that can lead to creating institutional change in higher education in communities surrounding colleges and universities and in society at large. This book is a narrative of her personal and professional journey and of how she has gone about co-creating spaces where democracy can be enacted and individual institutional and community transformation can occur. In inviting us to experience the process of organizing and in keeping with its values and spirit she includes the voices of the participants in the initiatives in which she collaborated – stakeholders ranging from community partners to faculty students and administrators in higher education. | Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

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Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

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Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

Miscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge. Miscanthus also known as elephant grass is a high yielding grass crop that grows over three metres tall resembles bamboo and produces a crop every year without the need for replanting or fertiliser application . The rapid growth low mineral content and high biomass yield of Miscanthus increasingly make it a favourite choice as a biofuel outperforming switchgrass and other alternatives. There is over 20 years of research evidence to support its promotion as a second generation biomass crop. The author reviews many field measurements of yields as well as the physiology of the crop and why it is so productive while at the same time requiring low inputs to grow it. It also shows how as a key biofuel crop it can contribute to mitigating climate change and how uptake of the adoption of Miscanthus production can be promoted particularly in Europe and North America. The book will be key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Environmental Science and Engineering Climate Change Impacts Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation. It will also be of interest to researchers of second generation biomass crops and policy developers working in biofuel production and utilization. | Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

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