Download PDF IMMANUEL KANT Theoretical philosophy, I7SS-I770 TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY DAVID WALFORD

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Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg on 22 April 1724 to Pietist parents of modest means. His precociousness attracted the attention of Franz Albert Schultz (1692-1763), who arranged for the eight-year-old boy to enter the Collegium Fridericianum, of which he was the rector. The young Kant was thus exposed to the powerful spiritual and intellectual influence of Schultz, who was both a Pietist and a follower of Wolff, under whom he had studied at Halle. Kant's eight years at the Fridericianum were devoted largely to the study of classical languages (especially Latin) and religion. His final years at school were overshadowed by the death of his mother in 1737.

In 1740, the sixteen-year-old Kant began his studies at the Herzog Albrecht University in Konigsberg. He seems to have read mathematics, natural science, and philosophy. The crucial influence on Kant during this period was that of Martin Knutzen (1713-51). Only eleven years older than Kant, Knutzen likewise was both a Pietist and a follower of Wolff. He was also a Newtonian, and he introduced Kant to the new physics. Kant attended Knutzen's lectures on mathematics, astronomy, and natural science, and it was probably Knutzen who led Kant to the theme of his first work, Living Forces (1747).

The death of his father and the completion of Living Forces in 1746 marked the end of Kant's six years as a student at Konigsberg. Straitened financial circumstances constrained the twenty-four-year-old Kant to interrupt his university career for some eight years to take employment as a tutor with a succession of families in the Konigsberg area. He clearly contrived to combine his philosophical and scientific interests with his tutorial duties, for his return to Konigsberg in 1754 was marked by the publication of two short works of considerable scientific originality and one major work of indisputable scientific genius, Universal Natural History (1755), in which Kant, with characteristic self-assurance, out-Newtoned Newton by offering a purely mechanical account of the structure and motions of the universe. The bankruptcy of the printer, however, prevented this e~traordinary work from reaching a wider public.

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Download PDF Immanuel Kant Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens or An Essay on the Constitution and the Mechanical Origin of the Entire Structure of the Universe Based on Newtonian Principles by Ian Johnston

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Outline of a general systematic arrangement among the fixed stars, derived from the phenomenon of the Milky Way. Similarity of this system of fixed stars to the planetary system. Discovery of many such systems, showing up in the expanse of the heavens in the form of elliptical shapes. New idea about the systematic arrangement of the entire creation.

Conclusion. Probable assumption about more planets beyond Saturn, deduced from the law according to which planetary eccentricity increases with distance.

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1. Basic Principles of Newtonian Philosophy
2. Systematic Arrangement of the Fixed Stars
3. Section One: Origin of the Planetary World Structure
4. Section Two: Densities of Different Planets
5. Section Three: Eccentricity of Planetary Orbits and Comets
6. Section Four: Origin of the Moon and Axial Rotation of Planets
7. Section Five: Origin of Saturn’s Ring
8. Section Six: Lights of the Zodiac
9. Section Seven: Entire Extent of Creation
10. Supplement to Section Seven: History of the Sun
11. Section Eight: Correctness of the Mechanical Doctrine
12. Comparison Between the Inhabitants of the Stars

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Download PDF Landscaping PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES Seventh Edition byy Jack E. Ingels

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When William Shakespeare posed the question What’s in a name? he could have been referring to the term landscaper. Few job titles conjure up such a variety of definitions and descriptions from well-meaning people, each certain that his or her definition is correct. Each would also probably believe that the term is not complex, because the industry itself is not complex. The same thing happens when people are asked to define the duties of a conservationist, a doctor, or a teacher. What seems so simple and straightforward at the outset grows in complexity upon realizing that there are endless things to conserve, dozens of ways to practice medicine, and students requiring educational services from nursery school through post-graduate programs.

Landscaping is a service industry. It serves people by fabricating environments where they can live, work, play, or just pass time. These environments are primarily in the outdoors or are in interior settings that seek to suggest the outdoors. Landscapers use the products of others to create habitat areas that can range from utilitarian to fantastic. Though humans are the predominant clientele, others with whom we share the planet may also benefit from the landscapers’ efforts.

Landscapers serve residential clients, civic clients, corporate clients, and others. They work as one-person, part-time operations and as international corporate giants, and in companies that fit somewhere in between those extremes. Landscape firms are listed in the yellow pages of small villages, cities, and world capitals. In short, there is no one way to be a landscaper or to practice landscaping. There are many different levels of practice and differing degrees of educational preparation required, depending upon how a person opts to work within the industry.

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1. Using Drawing Instruments
2. Lettering
3. Graphic Materials and Techniques
4. The Site
5. The Landscape Process
6. The Outdoor Room Concept
7. Plant Selection
8. The Principles of Design
9. Flowers
10. Xeriscaping
11. Hardscape
12. Enrichment
13. Landscaping in the Age of Technology
14. Pricing the Proposed Design
15. Presenting a Proposal
16. Landscape Calculations
17. Understanding Contracts and Contractors
18. Contract Documents
19. Specifications
20. Human Resources: The Needs and the Opportunities
21. Installing Landscape Plants
22. Selecting the Proper Grass
23. Lawn Construction
24. Landscape Irrigation
25. Interior Plantscaping
26. Water Gardens
27. Maintaining Landscape Plants
28. Plant Injuries: Identification and Care
29. Care of the Lawn
30. Winterization of the Landscape
31. Pricing Landscape Maintenance
32. Safety in the Landscape Industry

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Downloaad PDF Learning Laravel 4 Application Development Develop real-world web applications in Laravel 4 using its refined and expressive syntax by Hardik Dangar

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In this chapter we are going to look at what MVC is and how it fits in web development. We will also look into some of the unique features of the Laravel framework, and we will see later what Laravel 4 offers us and how it is helpful to the developers.

There comes a time in every developer's life where you really want to change the way you work. You want to organize your code; you really care about how you are dividing things and try to refactor your code. You try to learn advanced patterns so that you can manage things, and as you move project-by-project, you develop a framework around your code, which you will use each time you create a new project. You are beginning to realize there are other options too such as Frameworks.

Frameworks are developed by the community, and you start to explore them and realize that there are some really good patterns. You also realize that a lot of the grunt work, which you have to do at the time of project initiation, has been done in the framework so that you can enjoy the experience of coding. You think you were stupid enough to not use this in your projects in the first place. You start thinking about objects, classes, patterns, and procedures.

Then it strikes to you, the moment of truth, and you decide to put yourself in the shoes of the framework. This is where this book helps you by guiding you step-by-step through the real-world application development via Laravel 4 Framework. I have chosen to walk you carefully through the real-world application development where scopes change, and you have to be ready for constantly changing your code. I will show you how you can effectively use Laravel to minimize the impact of changes and how you can develop applications that take away the pain you feel as a developer when changes constantly evolve in your application.

Content

1. Welcome to the World of Laravel
2. Let's Begin the Journey
3. Creating a Simple CRUD Application in Hours 
4. Building a Real-life Application with Laravel 4 – The Foldagram
5. Creating a Cart Package for Our Application
6. User Management and Payment Gateway Integration
7. The Admin Section
8. Building a RESTful API with Laravel – Store Locator
9. Optimizing and Securing Our Applications
10. Deploying Laravel Applications
11. Creating a Workflow and Useful Laravel Packages and Tools

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Download PDF Learning Devise for Rails Use Devise to make your Rails application accessible, user friendly, and secure by Hafiz

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It was around 2 months ago that I started to dig deep into Ruby on Rails, when I needed a plugin to handle authentication. That time, Ruby on Rails 3 was newly published, when so many gems still hadn't updated their compatibility to Rails update, including Authlogic. Authlogic was the first authentication gem that I used as an authentication plugin, but I couldn't use it anymore since I had to use Rails 3 in my project. That moment brought me to Devise. Devise was already compatible to Rails 3 and so my research began. The research concluded:

• Devise was very easy to use. The modules were developed in a verygood structure.

• Devise provided 11 modules that I could use to authenticate my application.

• Devise allowed me to customize some of its modules to meet my application requirement.

These are the reasons that strongly influenced me to develop an application with Devise. It saved my time from developing new authentication modules from scratch. Now, we have reached Ruby on Rails 4; Devise was quickly updated so that developers could use it within the new Rails environment

Content

1. Devise – Authentication Solution for Ruby on Rails
2. Authenticating Your Application with Devise
3. Privileges
4. Remote Authentication with Devise and OmniAuth
5. Testing Devise

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Download PDF Leadership in Chaordic Organizations by Beverly G. McCarter

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We use the term complex to describe people, their perceptions, motivations, mindsets, personalities, and so forth, but primarily their behaviors. People’s actions, as expressed by verbal, written, and body language and physical activities, are what impact others directly. Organizations include people and thus are also complex. However, as Covey states, “In a very real sense there is no such thing as organizational behavior. There is only individual behavior collectivized in organizations” (Covey, 2004, p. 102). Typical organizations try to utilize people, processes, and technologies to accomplish specific goals. Often there are “systems” involved. A system can be thought of as a collection of elements (e.g., people, processes, and technologies) that is intended to achieve a purpose that is greater than any subset of the elements. When systems include people, they are also complex.

Content

1. Definition of Complexity and Its Impact on Organizations
2. The Nature of Being Human
3. How to Build Trust
4. Collective Group Dynamics: A New View of High-Performance Teams
5. Application of Theory
6. Wicked Problems and MUVEs: Understanding Human Interactions through Multiuser Virtual Environments

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Download PDF Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL Create and animate stunning 3D graphics using the open source Three.js JavaScript library by Jos Dirksen

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Modern browsers are slowly getting more powerful features that can be accessed directly from JavaScript. You can easily add video and audio with the new HTML5 tags and create interactive components through the use of the HTML5 canvas. A rather new addition to this feature set is the support of WebGL. With WebGL you can directly make use of the processing resources of your graphics card and create high-performance 2D and 3D computer graphics. Programming WebGL directly from JavaScript to create and animate 3D scenes is a very complex and error-prone process. Three.js is a library that makes this a lot easier. The following list shows some of the things that Three.js makes easy:

• Creating simple and complex 3D geometries
• Animating and moving objects through a 3D scene
• Applying textures and materials to your objects
• Loading objects from 3D modeling software
• Creating 2D sprite-based graphics

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1. Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js
2. Working with the Basic Components That Make Up a Three.js Scene
3. Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js
4. Working with the Three.js Materials
5. Learning to Work with Geometries
6. Using Advanced Geometries and Binary Operations
7. Particles and the Particle System
8. Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries
9. Animations and Moving the Camera
10. Loading and Working with Textures
11. Custom Shaders and Render Post Processing
12. Adding Physics to Your Scene with Physijs

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DownloPDF Learning OMNeT++ Make realistic and insightful network simulations with OMNeT++ Thomas Chamberlain

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This book is intended for a whole range of people, from network engineers who want to create reliable networks to budding simulation enthusiasts. I know I would have benefited from a book like this when I was in my final year of University. That's when I realized I needed to simulate networks to solve the problems I had. This book would have been useful for me, because once I realized I wanted to simulate a network, I also realized that I had no idea how to do it. Once I discovered OMNeT++, I also found the learning curve for using it to be steep to start with, and I really wanted the network simulations that I would soon create to be up and running as quickly as possible. I wish for this book to be useful, interesting and also fun.

This book will show you how you can get OMNeT++ up and running on your Windows or Linux operating system. This book will then take you through the components that make up an OMNeT++ network simulation. The components include models written in the NED (Network Description) language, initialization files, C++ source files, arrays, queues, and then configuring and running a simulation. This book will show you how these components make up a simulation using different examples, which can all be found online. At the end of the book, I will be focusing on a method to debug your network simulation using a particular type of data visualization known as a sequence chart, and what the visualization means.

OMNeT++ stands for Objective Modular Network Testbed in C++. It's a component-based simulation library written in C++ designed to simulate communication networks. OMNeT++ is not a network simulator but a framework to allow you to create your own network simulations.

Content

1. Getting Started with OMNeT++
2. Installing OMNeT++
3. OMNeT++ Simulations
4. Creating and Running a Simulation
5. Learning from Your Simulations

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Download PDF Liquid-State Physical Chemistry : Fundamentals, Modeling, And Applications by Gijsbertus de With

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Download PDF Life After Death by Damien Echols

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Download PDF Lehninger PRINCIPLES OF BIOCHEMISTRY by David L. Nelson And Michael M Cox

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About fifteen billion years ago, the universe arose as a cataclysmic eruption of hot, energy-rich subatomic particles. Within seconds, the simplest elements (hydrogen and helium) were formed. As the universe expanded and cooled, material condensed under the influence of gravity to form stars. Some stars became enormous and then exploded as supernovae, releasing the energy needed to fuse simpler atomic nuclei into the more complex elements. Thus were produced, over billions of years, Earth itself and the chemical elements found on Earth today. About four billion years ago, life arose—simple microorganisms with the ability to extract energy from chemical compounds and, later, from sunlight, which they used to make a vast array of more complex biomolecules from the simple elements and compounds on the Earth’s surface.

Biochemistry asks how the remarkable properties of living organisms arise from the thousands of different biomolecules. When these molecules are isolated and examined individually, they conform to all the physical and chemical laws that describe the behavior of inanimate matter—as do all the processes occurring in living organisms. The study of biochemistry shows how the collections of inanimate molecules that constitute living organisms interact to maintain and perpetuate life animated solely by the physical and chemical laws that govern the nonliving universe.

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1. The Foundations of Biochemistry
2. STRUCTURE AND CATALYSIS
3. Water
4. Amino Acids,Peptides, and Proteins
5. The Three-Dimensional Structure of Proteins
6. Protein Function
7. Enzymes
8. Carbohydrates and Glycobiology
9. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
10. DNA-Based Information Technologies
11. Lipids
12. Biological Membranes and Transport
13. Biosignaling
14. BIOENERGETICS AND METABOLISM
15. Bioenergetics and Biochemical Reaction Types
16. Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
17. Principles of Metabolic Regulation
18. The Citric Acid Cycle
19. Fatty Acid Catabolism
20. Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea
21. Oxidative Phosphorylation and Photophosphorylation
22. Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Plants and Bacteria
23. Lipid Biosynthesis
24. Biosynthesis of Amino Acids, Nucleotides, and Related Molecules
25. Hormonal Regulation and Integration of Mammalian Metabolism
26. INFORMATION PATHWAYS
27. Genes and Chromosomes
28. DNA Metabolism
29. RNA Metabolism
30. Protein Metabolism
31. Regulation of Gene Expression

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Download PDF Living with Bipolar Disorder Strategies For Balance And Resilience by Lynn Hodges

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Did you know that one in four people in the United Kingdom will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime, and on average 1.3 percent of the population of the UK will at some point develop manic depression, now known as bipolar disorder?

Most people first become unwell with bipolar disorder when they are in their mid-teens and twenties. However, as bipolar is so difficult to diagnose, it is common for many people to go a decade or more without receiving a formal medical diagnosis. Some ten percent of all teenagers with recurring depression will go on to develop bipolar disorder during their lives.

The illness can affect anyone—from the young to the very old, male or female. It is important to know about and understand the condition, so you feel better equipped to deal with the illness. Information is power in dealing with this disease.

Content

1. What is Bipolar Disorder ?
2. Depression: The Black Cloud
3. A Personal Journey into a Psychiatric Ward
4. Family and Friends
5. Positive Images
6. The Recovery Process
7. Disabling Aspects of Bipolar Disorder - Case Studies
8. Enabling Aspects of Bipolar Disorder
9. Networking with Health Professionals
10. Transformation

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Download PDF A Textbook Of Machine Design by R.S Khurmi And J.K. Gupta

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Download PDF The Great Historic Disasters The Black Death by Louise Chipley Slavicek

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I n 1346, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Generally believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the length and breadth of Europe from Sicily to Norway, from Ireland to Russia, for five terrible years. Scholars can only speculate regarding how many people perished in the lethal pandemic, which also swept across parts of western Asia and North Africa during the late 1340s and early 1350s. Most historians, however, agree that the Black Death killed anywhere from 33 to 60 percent of Europe’s total population—roughly 25 million to 45 million men, women, and children. (A pandemic is a disease outbreak that affects a large geographical area and a high percentage of the population.)

Content

1. Setting the Stage for the Black Death
2. What Was the Black Death?
3. The Path of the Black Death
4. The Black Death Psyche
5. Medieval Medicine and the Black Death
6. Social and Economic Impact of the Black Death
7. Religion, Culture, and the Black Death
8. The End of the Black Death

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Download PDF Machine Drawing Third Edition by K.L Narayana

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Download Make: Electronics Learning by Discovery by Charles Platt

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If you want to limit your number of shopping trips or online purchases, look ahead in the book for additional shopping lists, and combine them to make one bulk purchase. In this first chapter, I will give you part numbers and sources for every tool and component that we’ll be using. Subsequently, I won’t expect you to need such specific information, because you will have gained experience searching for items on your own.

Content

1. Experiencing Electricity
2. Switching Basics and More
3. Getting Somewhat More Serious
4. Chips, Ahoy!
5. What Next?

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Download PDF MAKING SENSE OF SEX A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger’s Syndrome by SARAH ATTWOOD

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Download PDF Making Out in Tagalog (Making Out Books) by Renato Perdon

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Download PDF The Enlightened Sex Manual Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover by David Deida

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Download PDF Managing Your Money ALL-IN-ONE FOR DUMMIES by Ted Benna

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This book tackles a lot of big topics, but we’ve tried to keep things simple, clear, and to-the-point. We’ve culled the best, juiciest information from a good sampling of For Dummies books on personal finance and compiled them into one fat volume. It’s absolutely packed with easy-to-grasp advice on all things having to do with managing your money. Whether you’re a homemaker, truck driver, burger flipper, or CEO whether you’re interviewing for your first job or you retired ten years ago we bet you’ll find scads of great tips and sound advice in these pages that will help you get a handle on everything from your credit cards to your health insurance, from your groceries to your taxes to your will.

If it has something to do with your personal relationship to your own money, it’s a good bet we talk about it in this book. Managing Your Money All-in- One For Dummies offers money-management and personal-finance tips to help assess your true financial situation and take charge of your economic life. You’ll find information on getting the best mortgage, saving for the future (whether for college or retirement), paying off debt, scaling back on expenses, managing home and personal budgets, repairing and improving your credit rating, planning an estate, banking online, saving and investing, and protecting your money and other assets.

The facts on the ground aren’t pretty at the moment. Real wages have been stagnant or declining for nearly 40 years in America. And in the current climate of economic uncertainty, skyrocketing home foreclosures, job cuts, bank failures, and unaffordable health insurance, many people feel more powerless than ever against mighty and faceless institutions that seem designed for nothing but to confuse and rip off. We’re here to tell you: It doesn’t have to be that way. By doing a little homework and taking a renewed interest in your own situation, you can reclaim many rights and advantages you probably didn’t know you had.

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1. Taking Charge of Your Finances
2. Managing Home and Personal Finances
3. Dealing with Debt
4. Saving and Investing
5. Protecting Your Money and Assets
6. Retiring Comfortably
7. Planning Your Estate and Will

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Download PDF MARCH’S ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY REACTIONS, MECHANISMS, AND STRUCTURE SEVENTH EDITION by Michael B. Smith

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Localized chemical bonding may be defined as bonding in which the electrons are sharedby two and only two nuclei. Such bonding is the essential feature associated with the structure of organic molecules.1 Chapter 2 will discuss delocalized bonding, in which electrons are shared by more than two nuclei.

Content

1. Localized Chemical Bonding
2. Delocalized Chemical Bonding
3. Bonding Weaker Than Covalent
4. Stereochemistry and Conformation
5. Carbocations, Carbanions, Free Radicals, Carbenes, and Nitrenes
6. Mechanisms and Methods of Determining them
7. Irradiation Processes in Organic Chemistry
8. Acids and Bases
9. Effects of Structure and Medium on Reactivity
10. Aliphatic Substitution, Nucleophilic and Organometallic
11. Aromatic Substitution, Electrophilic
12. Aliphatic, Alkenyl, and Alkynyl Substitution, Electrophilic and Organometallic
13. Aromatic Substitution: Nucleophilic and Organometallic
14. Substitution Reactions: Radical
15. Addition to Carbon–Carbon Multiple Bonds
16. Addition to Carbon–Hetero Multiple Bonds
17. Eliminations
18. Rearrangements
19. Oxidations and Reductions

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2012)

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble, 2003)

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Complete Works (v1.1, Sept. 2013)

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim & Nostromo (Modern Library, 1999)

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Download PDF A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION Joseph Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS AUTHORITATIVE TEXT BACKGROUNDS AND CONTEXTS CRITICISM FOURTH EDITION Edited by PAUL B. ARMSTRONG

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By now, more than a century after its first publication in 1899, Heart of Darkness is indisputably a “classic” text. This is both good and bad. The advantages are clear: a “classic” continues to be read, if only because it has already been read again and again and has thereby become part of the cultural air we breathe. If authors generally intend anything, it is that their works survive beyond their passing. Demonstrating a capacity to be interpreted in many different ways (some of these perhaps not imaginable at the time of writing) is how a text lives on. Heart of Darkness is a “classic” not because it has an immutable meaning that has endured for several generations but because readers have been able to attribute so many different meanings to it. The disadvantages of “classic” status may be less obvious but are nevertheless real and demonstrable, and Heart of Darkness has suffered from them as well. A text that has been read and analyzed and discussed as thoroughly as has Conrad’s short novel runs the risk of becoming so familiar that it grows tired, losing its ability to surprise, please, or give rise to thought. A classic text also sets itself up as a target to be shot down—to be demystified for its complicity with prevailing ideologies whose interests are served by its preservation (and may, in the view of suspicious-minded critics, be the reason for its veneration). Especially after Marlon Brando’s performance as Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the once resounding words “the horror, the horror” have become a cliché. For that very reason (and perhaps ironically), some of the scathing attacks that have recently been directed at Heart of Darkness—exposing it as a racist, sexist, or imperialist text—have made it more interesting by showing new and unexpected ways of reading it and by revivifying the critical debates through which it is preserved. Attacking and demystifying a classic text can, paradoxically, give it a new lease on life.

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Download PDF OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS JOSEPH CONRAD Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard Edited with an Introduction and Notes by JACQUES BERTHOUD and MARA KALNINS

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Conrad is acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, but neither in his lifetime nor after have his works been available in authoritative texts. This was partly because Conrad himself revised his writings at several stages (in manuscript, typescript, and proofs), partly because many of his works appeared in different versions (slightly so in the English and American editions, significantly so in serial and book form), and partly because he himself continued to revise them for subsequent publication. Moreover he was involved in still further revision of the texts when his works were issued in the collected editions of Doubleday and Heinemann in 1921, though the extent of his involvement varied considerably from work to work. Like many authors, he also suffered from the well-meant, but often misguided, editorial efforts of his publishers who not only imposed their own house styling but sometimes changed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and even altered whole phrases. The textual history of Conrad’s works—the revisions they underwent and their transmission and publication—is therefore an intricate and complicated one. A scholarly edition of the Letters and Works is currently being prepared by Cambridge University Press and eight volumes of the Letters as well as two novels have been published to date.

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Download PDF JOSEPH CONRAD Lord Jim A Tale Edited with an Introduction by ALLAN H. SIMMONS

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Never out of print since its publication in 1900, Lord Jim in some sense requires little introduction. It is one of the high points in the development of the English novel, marking the transition from the Victorian novel of social concern to Modernist experiments with form that culminated in the writings of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Lord Jim confirmed Conrad's authorial genius and ushered in his greatest creative phase. The novels that followed included the great trio of political novels: Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) 

and Under Western Eyes (1911).

Published at the height of Empire, when the British Merchant Service dominated the world's shipping-trade, Lord Jim is a very British novel. It tells the story of a young English officer in the Merchant Service who disgraces himself before becoming the benevolent ‘virtual ruler’ of a remote Malay state. The English narrator, Marlow, is one of Conrad's most celebrated and enduring creations. To Virginia Woolf, ‘Conrad was compound of two men; together with the sea captain dwelt that subtle, refined, and fastidious analyst whom he called Marlow.’¹ Through Marlow, Conrad brings an English perspective to bear upon social codes of comportment and inclusion, together with the public and private responsibilities these entail. Coming after ‘Youth’ (1898) and Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim completes a trilogy of Marlow narratives.

The novel is shaped by its concern with the life-giving properties of danger, the dark voids that gape under the most polished of surfaces and the problem, once these have been perceived, of going on living. In his ‘Author's Note’, Conrad identified his subject as ‘the acute consciousness of lost honour’. Marlow views it as one of ‘those struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of what his moral identity should be’ (VII). Published in the same year as Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the novel shares Freud's concern with identity, questioning whether the self is ultimately public or private property.

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Download PDF Why Now Is The Time To Crush It! Cash In On Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk

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How badly do you want to crush it? Is it an all-consuming feeling? Do you stay awake at night, your brain swimming with ideas and dreams? Are you willing to do whatever it takes for the chance to live entirely on your own terms? If so, you’re lucky. You’re lucky because you live in an age of unmatched opportunity for anyone with enough hustle, patience, and big dreams. I should know, since that’s all I had to work with.

Three years ago I was an anomaly, a guy with very limited technology skills who used social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr to build a highly fulfilling and profitable personal brand. Back then, a lot of people were unwilling to accept that the business world—that society—was changing, and if I had tried to tell you that you could build a business that creates wealth and the most happiness you’ve ever known with nothing more than passion and a willingness to work your face off, you might not have believed me. Now, though, the opportunities are endless—I don’t think enough people have yet grasped just how much society and business and even the Internet have changed—and my story is about to become a lot less unusual. If you want it badly enough, it can become your story, in a lot less time and for a lot less money.

Here’s how fast change has taken hold: I helped take my dad’s local liquor store, Shopper’s Discount Liquors, and blew it up from four million dollars to fifty million dollars in eight years (1998–2005). I’m proud of that. But aside from a ton of hard work, it took millions of dollars in advertising with the New York Times, Wine Spectator, and other publications as well as radio stations and local TV. Compare that with when I started building my personal brand in February 2006—to this day it has cost me far less in money (less than $15,000) than in sweat, and I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had in my life. You’ve got sweat, right? You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

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Download PDF Joseph Conrad Secret Agent Modern Library 1993

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Download PDF The Philosophy of Software Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry

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Whilst we are dead to the world at night, networks of machines silently and repetitively exchange data. They monitor, control and assess the world using electronic sensors, updating lists and databases, calculating and recalculating their models to produce reports, predictions and warnings. In the swirling constellations of data, they oversee and stabilise the everyday lives of individuals, groups and organisations, and remain alert for criminal patterns, abnormal behaviour, and outliers in programmed statistical models. During our waking hours, a multitude of machines open and close gates and doors, move traffic-lights from red to green, and back to red again, monitor and authorise (or fail to authorise) our shopping on credit and debit cards, and generally keep the world moving. To do this requires millions, if not, billions of lines of computer code, many thousands of man-hours of work, and constant maintenance and technical support to keep it all running. These technical systems control and organise networks that increasingly permeate our society, whether financial, telecommunications, roads, food, energy, logistics, defence, water, legal or governmental. The amount of data that is now recorded and collated by these technical devices is astronomical. For example, ‘Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1 million customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes – the equivalent of 167 times the books in America’s Library of Congress’ and Facebook, a social-networking website, has collected 40 billion photos in its databases from the individual uploading of its users (The Economist 2010c). Search engines scour the web and deal with massive amounts of data to provide search results in seconds to users, with Google alone handling 35,000 search queries every second (The Economist 2010e).

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1. The Idea of Code
2. What Is Code?
3. Reading and Writing Code
4. Running Code
5. Towards a Phenomenology of Computation
6. Real-Time Streams

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1. RULES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF OUR NATIVE POWERS
2. First Edition title-page of the DISCOURSE
3. DISCOURSE ON METHOD
4. Theory of Vision as expoutuled in the DIOPTRIC
5. First Edition title-page of the MEDITATIONS
6. MEDITATIONS ON fiRST PHILOSOPHY
7. LETTERS on the Mind-Body Problem, to Regius, to Princess Eliwbeth, and to Arnauld; and REPLEIS TO THE SIXTH OBJECTIONS
8. THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL
9. THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH (extract)

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