The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications

The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 1441916733 | edition 2010 | PDF | 452 pages | 11,9 mb

This book presents a selection of papers submitted to the 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop, which took place in September 2009 in Sardinia, Italy. The workshop focused on the "Internet of Things." This subject is quickly emerging in the wireless technology arena. It describes the pervasive presence of a variety of devices—such as sensors, actuators, and mobile phones—which, through unique addressing schemes, are able to interact and cooperate with each other to reach common goals. This novel paradigm, which originated from the idea of "smart" environments, will be sure to impact the future of logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, business and process management, assisted living, E-health, and other applications.
The Internet of Things covers a wide array of essential topics related to this emerging paradigm, including infrastructures and applications, communication systems and network architectures, embedded systems, and location and tracking through navigation sensors. It also addresses the technological and social implications of this technology, as well as challenges that may arise.

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Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency

W. Thomas Smith Jr., "Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency"
Facts on File | 2003 | ISBN: 0816046662, 0816046670 | 282 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

This A-Z reference provides detailed descriptions and definitions of key CIA terms, players, equipment, operations and parallel organizations. It also discusses perceptions of the agency in popular culture, including its portrayal in film, television and fiction.

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The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings

Michael Newton, "The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings"
Checkmark Books | 2002 | ISBN: 0816044872, 0816044864 | 373 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB

From Viking raids to Aztec sacrifices, from sexual slavery to terrorist attacks, kidnappings have been committed for profit, politics, religious beliefs, and sometimes for even for savage reasons. This volume studies this sinister branch of criminal activity. More than 900 entries survey kidnappings from Biblical times to the present, detailing notorious kinappers, well-known victims, infamous cases as well as numerous other examples of this crime. Featured cases include: "The Disappeared" - a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died at the hands of Latin American governments and military juntas; Robert Franks (1924) - the teenage victim of wealthy "thrill killers" Nathan Leopold, Jr and Richard Loeb; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr (1932) - the son of legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh who was kidnapped and murdered at 20 months old; Etan Patz (1979) - the six-year-old New York City boy whose disappearance galvanized the city and led to the declaration of National Missing Children's Day by former president Ronald Reagan; and "Truck Stop Killer" - an elusive kidnapper-murderer rumoured to have claimed numerous victims while haunting the US highways - but who may not even exist.

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Encyclopedia of the World's Nations And Cultures

George Thomas Kurian, «Encyclopedia of the World's Nations And Cultures»
Facts on File | ISBN: 0816063079 | September 30, 2006 | PDF | 2816 pages | 53.81 MB

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"Encyclopedia of the World's Nations and Cultures" comprises an extensive overhaul of the original "Encyclopedia of the World's Nations". It provides concise and objective descriptions of the dominant political, economic, social, and cultural systems of the countries of the world. The encyclopedia features 193 country-by-country surveys in 40 separate categories, as well as tables, charts, and lists that are linked with narrative accounts of each nation's peoples, history, government, society, and culture. This edition includes articles on three additional countries and 14 new sections on culture and society with each entry. Both the text and the extensive statistical data have been fully updated. New coverage includes: East Timor; Marshall Islands; and The Federated States of Micronesia. New sections in each entry include: Culture; Entertainment and recreation; Etiquette; Family life; Flora and fauna; Folklore and mythology; Food; Health; A list of modern rulers; Living conditions; Personal appearance; Science and technology; Sports; and Work.

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The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

Ira B. Nadel, "The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound"
Cambridge University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 052164920X | 352 pages | PDF | 16,5 MB

This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and publication history of Pound's entire corpus, and also situate Pound's work in the context of Modernism, illustrating his influence on contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.

Contents:

Introduction : understanding Pound / Ira B. Nadel
Pound and the making of modernism / George Bornstein
Early poetry 1908-1920 / Hugh Witemeyer
Early cantos I-XLI / Daniel Albright
Middle cantos XLII-LXXI / Ian F. A. Bell
Late cantos LXXII-CXVII / Ronald Bush
Beyond The cantos : Pound and American poetry / Peter Nicholls
The texts of The cantos / Richard Taylor
Pound as critic / Massimo Bacigalupo
Pound as translator / Ming Xie

Pound and the visual arts / Reed Way Dasenbrock
Pound and music / Michael Ingham
Pound's politics and economics / Tim Redman
Pound, women and gender / Helen M. Dennis
Pound and antisemitism / Wendy Flory.

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton, "The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage"
Cambridge University Press | 2002-06-10 | ISBN: 052179711X, 0521792959 | 340 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of the plays and to accompany the increasing number of courses devoted to the history of Shakespeare in performance. It addresses both British and international performance, from subjects such as British performing tradition, and Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns, tragic and comic acting, women performers of Shakespeare, and touring companies, among others.

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Leo Tolstoy (Twayne's World Authors Series)

Leo Tolstoy (Twayne's World Authors Series)
Twayne Publishers | March 1986 | 143 pages | English | ISBN : 0805766235,0805766233 | PDF | 1.1MB

To do justice within the sensible confines of a Twayne book to a person whose complete collected works number ninety volumes is no easy task. It was impossible to cover all of Tolstoy's writings in depth, as it was to acknowledge fully all the valuable critical commentaries devoted to these writings. My primary aim has been to present a picture of Tolstoy the man, thinker, and writer, as well as to offer careful readings of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection, and some of his more important shorter works.

Writing about reading Tolstoy, Yury Olesha has suggested that just as there are scientific miracles, so there are "miracles of literature." As an example, he cites Tolstoy's description of the night sky in one of his Caucasian stories. It would be worthwhile, Olesha declares, to collect a hundred such miracles in order to demonstrate how some people can think and see: "even those who cannot so think and see would respect themselves at that moment, understanding that inasmuch as they are also people, they are capable of much."1 I have tried, in the pages that follow, to collect some Tolstoyan miracles, to make them available to the English reader, and to relate their individual spendor to the overall pattern of his art.

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