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Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice By Judith Andrews (editor), Derek Law (editor)
2004 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0754634485 | PDF | 4 MB
Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital and hybrid library projects, providing a stimulating and informative handbook and reference for library staff and information managers. It consists of chapters contributed by leading specialists from Europe, North America, South Africa and the Middle East, who offer their insight into the decision-making processes that have shaped a variety of different digitization programmes. Beginning with introductory overviews of the digital library context, the US Digital Library Program and the UK e-lib and hybrid library programmes, Digital Libraries then divides into two main sections on policy and planning, and implementation and practice. The first explores concerns such as financial and resource planning, digitized compared to born-digital content and related service issues, open access to scholarly research archives, policies for and against preservation and their justification, and evaluating electronic information services. The second section is based on case studies on major European and North American digital library projects, including the Glasgow Digital Library, UCEEL (University of Central England Electronic Library), the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (discussed in the context of five international projects), the Indiana University music Variations and Variations2 Project, and the beginnings of the Library of Congress digital program and its integration into core library services. The concluding chapter discusses the way forward for digital libraries in the context of experiences at Tilburg University library, and possible enabling or limiting factors in the future. The result of drawing together these varied and illuminating experiences is a book that offers useful information and comparisons for all digital library project staff, institutional administrators, educators and developers of learning technology. It also provides useful pointers for researchers and project staff involved in archive and museum projects, as well as introducing students to the key ingredients of successful digital libraries.

Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series) By Maggi Savin-Baden
2021 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0367565382 | PDF | 6 MB
Few religious leaders have examined the potential for the positive impact of digital media and digital immortality creation in religious contexts. It is evident that there have been recent moves away from traditional funeral services focusing on the transition of the deceased into the future world beyond, towards a rise of memorial content within funerals and commemorative events. This has heralded shifts in afterlife beliefs by replacing them, to all intents and purposes, by attitudes to this life. Digital Afterlife and the Spiritual Realm explores the ways in which digital media and digital afterlife creation affects social and religious understandings of death and the afterlife. Key Features: Understands the impact of digital media on those living and those working with the bereaved. Explores the impact of digital memorialisation post death. Examines ways in which digital media may be changing conceptions and theologies of death. For many people digital afterlife and the spiritual realm largely remains an area that is both inchoate and confusing. This book will begin to unravel some of this bafflement.

Colleen J. Rutherford RN MSN, "Differentiating Surgical Instruments"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0803625456 | PDF | pages: 211 | 106.9 mb
Here's a close-up look at more than 800 cutting, clamping, grasping, retracting, and other surgical instruments. Full-color photographs of the individual surgical instruments and their tips help you learn to distinguish among them. Thoroughly revised and updated, the 2nd Edition provides a more detailed analysis of the similarities and differences between instruments as well as more focused coverage of robotic, laparoscopic, arthroscopic, and thoracoscopic instruments. You'll also find a new BONUS CD-ROM and a wealth of Instructor and Student Resources online at DavisPlus. Please note: The CD packaged with this product is no longer compatible with most current operating systems.

Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes by Rita R. Kalyani
English | December 18, 2018 | ISBN: 1421426471 | 344 pages | PDF (Converted) | 8.85 Mb
A comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to understanding and managing your diabetes.

Developing Teaching and Learning in Africa: Decolonising Perspectives By Vuyisile Msila
2020 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1928480705 | PDF | 7 MB
Developing Teaching and Learning in Africa is a collection of chapters that carry on the topical discussions on indigenous knowledges and western epistemologies. African societies still aspire towards knowledge that is liberatory, enhance critical thinking and decentre Eurocentrism. The contributors explore these decolonial debates as they navigate ways of moving towards epistemic freedom and cognitive justice.

Democracy and Justice: Reading Derrida in Istanbul By Agnes Czajka
2016 | 174 Pages | ISBN: 1138910643 | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the possibilities offered by Derrida's work on democracy for interpreting contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey. The relationship between democracy and justice seems of unquestionable importance to Derrida, with democracy and justice held in tension by deconstruction. Agnes Czajka offers a qualified endorsement of a 'just democracy', grounded in the possibilities opened up by reading Derrida's work on democracy together with his work on justice. She posits that one way of imagining democracy-to-come might be to imagine it as a 'just democracy', or one poised at the intersection of the aporia of democracy and the (non)imperative to justice. In the particular context of contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey, she also explores what such comportment toward a just democracy (or a justice of/in democracy) might look like in the context of that 'particular' democracy.

Deep Fakes : Algorithms and Society
by Michael Filimowicz
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032002603 | 78 Pages | True ePUB | 2.34 MB

Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla by Maryl B. Gensheimer
English | September 4, 2018 | ISBN: 0190614781 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 12.4 MB
Across the Roman Empire, ubiquitous archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence attests to the significance of bathing for Romans' routines and relationships. Public baths were popularly viewed as necessities of daily life and important social venues. Given the importance of bathing to the Roman style of living, by endowing eight magnificent baths (the so-called imperial thermae) in the city of Rome between 25 BCE - 315 CE, imperial patrons greatly enhanced their popular and political stature.

Chelene Knight, "Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir "
English | ISBN: 1771663901 | 2018 | 120 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award

Manjula Datta-O'Connor, "Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia"
English | ISBN: 0522878253 | 2022 | 296 pages | EPUB | 874 KB
An incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversity. In the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled psychiatrist Manjula Datta O'Connor to investigate the causes of patriarchal abuse in South Asian families. As a practitioner with many decades experience in the field, Datta O'Connor questioned whether a better understanding of history and culture could help these communities implement measures to prevent family violence. But the most powerful lessons came from those she met through her practice-survivors of transnational abuse and of sexual and dowry exploitation. These women taught Datta O'Connor about human resilience and strength and the myriad ways women find the inner power to survive. These are the daughters of the goddess Durga, wielding the tools of history to produce meaningful change.