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Philosophy: a Crash Course

By: ZARA. FERNER BAIN (DR. ADAM. MEHDI, NADIA.),Adam Ferner,Nadia Mehdi

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Philosophy: a Crash Course

By: ZARA. FERNER BAIN (DR. ADAM. MEHDI, NADIA.),Adam Ferner,Nadia Mehdi

Why do philosophers ask "why"? Because they want to know. Because they love knowledge. Taken literally, philosophy is nothing more (nor less) than the love (philo) of wisdom (sophia)--and who doesn't love wisdom? All human societies have developed systems of knowledge to help them understand our place in the universe and to satisfy our distinctively human curiosity. However, while standard histories of philosophy tend to focus on canonical figures and their "big ideas," ideas don't spontaneously come into existence in isolation from a context. They occur in relation to other ideas, had by other people. This book emphasizes the collaborative nature of philosophy, showcasing the way that thinkers' thoughts become intertwined, and focuses on how philosophy--even in its most abstract form--intersects with everyday concerns, integrating older philosophical discussions with newer debates.

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1782408657

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9781782408659

The Syria-Iran Axis

Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East

By: Nadia von Maltzahn

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The Syria-Iran Axis

Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East

By: Nadia von Maltzahn

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the close alliance between Syria and Iran has endured for over three decades, based on geopolitical interests between the two states and often framed in the language of resistance. In view of their strong relationship at a state-level, what have Syria and Iran each been doing to foster popular exchange and employ cultural tools to build an image in the other country? The Syria-Iran Axis examines the motivations, content and reach of cultural diplomacy between Syria and Iran to determine to what degree the two partners have been successful in bridging their world views and political outlooks. By analysing the extent to which a state-directed cultural exchange can foster bilateral relations in the Middle East, Nadia von Maltzahn offers a unique analysis of the formation of foreign policy and diplomacy in the region.

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319

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857733745

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9780857733740

Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control

A Dynamical Systems Approach

By: Aude Billard,Sina Mirrazavi,Nadia Figueroa

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Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control

A Dynamical Systems Approach

By: Aude Billard,Sina Mirrazavi,Nadia Figueroa

Methods by which robots can learn control laws that enable real-time reactivity using dynamical systems; with applications and exercises. This book presents a wealth of machine learning techniques to make the control of robots more flexible and safe when interacting with humans. It introduces a set of control laws that enable reactivity using dynamical systems, a widely used method for solving motion-planning problems in robotics. These control approaches can replan in milliseconds to adapt to new environmental constraints and offer safe and compliant control of forces in contact. The techniques offer theoretical advantages, including convergence to a goal, non-penetration of obstacles, and passivity. The coverage of learning begins with low-level control parameters and progresses to higher-level competencies composed of combinations of skills. Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control is designed for graduate-level courses in robotics, with chapters that proceed from fundamentals to more advanced content. Techniques covered include learning from demonstration, optimization, and reinforcement learning, and using dynamical systems in learning control laws, trajectory planning, and methods for compliant and force control . Features for teaching in each chapter: applications, which range from arm manipulators to whole-body control of humanoid robots; pencil-and-paper and programming exercises; lecture videos, slides, and MATLAB code examples available on the author’s website . an eTextbook platform website offering protected material[EPS2] for instructors including solutions.

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425

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MIT Press

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0262367017

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9780262367011

Cultural Globalization and Music

African Artists in Transnational Networks

By: Nadia Kiwan,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

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Cultural Globalization and Music

African Artists in Transnational Networks

By: Nadia Kiwan,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.

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279

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Springer

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0230305385

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9780230305380

Customizable and Adaptive Quantum Processors

Theory and Applications

By: Nadia Nedjah,Luiza De Macedo Mourelle

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Customizable and Adaptive Quantum Processors

Theory and Applications

By: Nadia Nedjah,Luiza De Macedo Mourelle

The book describes state-of-the-art advances in simulators and emulators for quantum computing. It introduces the main concepts of quantum computing, defining q-bits, explaining the parallelism behind any quantum computation, describing measurement of the quantum state of information and explaining the process of quantum bit entanglement, collapsed state and cloning. The book reviews the concept of quantum unitary, binary and ternary quantum operators as well as the computation implied by each operator. It provides details of the quantum processor, providing its architecture, which is validated via execution simulation of some quantum instructions.

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137

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CRC Press

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1000838528

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9781000838527

The Gulf Tanker War

Iran and Iraq's Maritime Swordplay

By: Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly

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The Gulf Tanker War

Iran and Iraq's Maritime Swordplay

By: Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly

In the 1984 Tanker War, Iraq used its superiority in airpower as an instrument in naval warfare, in a strategy designed to end combat. Iraq hoped to weaken Iran's economy and internationalize the war to force it to cease fighting, or remove the government; negotiations would follow, with Baghdad in a position of strength. Although the Iran-Iraq War was first and foremost a ground war, an argument can be made that the Tanker War contributed to the 1988 ceasefire.

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Springer

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1349263044

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9781349263042

Everyday Lived Islam in Europe

By: Nathal M. Dessing,Nadia Jeldtoft,Linda Woodhead

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Everyday Lived Islam in Europe

By: Nathal M. Dessing,Nadia Jeldtoft,Linda Woodhead

This book offers a new direction for the study of contemporary Islam by focusing on what being Muslim means in people’s everyday lives. It complements existing studies by focusing not on mosque-going, activist Muslims, but on how people live out their faith in schools, workplaces and homes, and in dealing with problems of health, wellbeing and relationships. As well as offering fresh empirical studies of everyday lived Islam, the book offers a new approach which calls for the study of ’official’ religion and everyday ’tactical’ religion in relation to one another. It discusses what this involves, the methods it requires, and how it relates to existing work in Islamic Studies.

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206

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Routledge

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1317138368

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9781317138365

Philosophy: a Crash Course

By: ZARA. FERNER BAIN (DR. ADAM. MEHDI, NADIA.),Adam Ferner,Nadia Mehdi

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By: ZARA. FERNER BAIN (DR. ADAM. MEHDI, NADIA.),Adam Ferner,Nadia Mehdi

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The Last Girl

My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

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The Last Girl

My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.

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Crown

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1524760447

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9781524760441

Book's by Nadia Mehdi

Philosophy: a Crash Course

Philosophy: a Crash Course

The Syria-Iran Axis

The Syria-Iran Axis

Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control

Learning for Adaptive and Reactive Robot Control

Cultural Globalization and Music

Cultural Globalization and Music

Customizable and Adaptive Quantum Processors

Customizable and Adaptive Quantum Processors

The Gulf Tanker War

The Gulf Tanker War

Everyday Lived Islam in Europe

Everyday Lived Islam in Europe

Philosophy: a Crash Course

Philosophy: a Crash Course

The Last Girl

The Last Girl

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