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The Promise of Diversity

How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work

By: Nicolas Wasser

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The Promise of Diversity

How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work

By: Nicolas Wasser

Nicolas Wasser critically examines how sexual and racial identities are currently being articulated through capitalist brands and labor. On the basis of an ethnographic case study about a Brazilian fashion enterprise, he shows how young - lesbian, gay and black - sales employees align themselves with the ambivalent promises put forward by diversity management. Their affective labor, the study argues, is at the center of new and globally unfolding regimes of the precarious. Readers will thus find a rich sociological account from the Global South on how neoliberal logics of self-optimization both traverse and fuel the aspirations of the minoritized.

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transcript Verlag

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3839437547

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Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

By: Jorge L. Sarmiento,Nicolas Gruber

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Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

By: Jorge L. Sarmiento,Nicolas Gruber

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics provides a broad theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the processes that control the mean concentration and distribution of biologically utilized elements and compounds in the ocean. Though it is written as a textbook, it will also be of interest to more advanced scientists as a wide-ranging synthesis of our present understanding of ocean biogeochemical processes. The first two chapters of the book provide an introductory overview of biogeochemical and physical oceanography. The next four chapters concentrate on processes at the air-sea interface, the production of organic matter in the upper ocean, the remineralization of organic matter in the water column, and the processing of organic matter in the sediments. The focus of these chapters is on analyzing the cycles of organic carbon, oxygen, and nutrients. The next three chapters round out the authors' coverage of ocean biogeochemical cycles with discussions of silica, dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity, and CaCO3. The final chapter discusses applications of ocean biogeochemistry to our understanding of the role of the ocean carbon cycle in interannual to decadal variability, paleoclimatology, and the anthropogenic carbon budget. The problem sets included at the end of each chapter encourage students to ask critical questions in this exciting new field. While much of the approach is mathematical, the math is at a level that should be accessible to students with a year or two of college level mathematics and/or physics.

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Princeton University Press

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0691017077

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The Wolf Man's Magic Word

A Cryptonymy

By: Nicolas Abraham,Maria Torok

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The Wolf Man's Magic Word

A Cryptonymy

By: Nicolas Abraham,Maria Torok

An innovative literary analysis of Freud's "Wolf Man.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816648581

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Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brunie,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Mioara Joldes,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Serge Torres

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Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brunie,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Mioara Joldes,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Serge Torres

Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential. This handbook aims to provide a complete overview of modern floating-point arithmetic. So that the techniques presented can be put directly into practice in actual coding or design, they are illustrated, whenever possible, by a corresponding program. The handbook is designed for programmers of numerical applications, compiler designers, programmers of floating-point algorithms, designers of arithmetic operators, and more generally, students and researchers in numerical analysis who wish to better understand a tool used in their daily work and research.

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Birkhäuser

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3319765264

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9783319765266

Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

The Work of Art in the Complex City

By: Nicolas Whybrow

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Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

The Work of Art in the Complex City

By: Nicolas Whybrow

Through its examination of five quite different art events in cities across Europe, Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe offers a compelling exploration of how public art takes place in the modern city. Roughly tracing a central horizontal trajectory from the western to the eastern edges of the continent, Nicolas Whybrow considers the Folkestone Triennial in the UK, Sculpture Projects Münster in Germany, the Venice Biennale in Italy, Belgrade's Mikser Festival in Serbia and the Istanbul Biennial in Turkey. Writing within the context of a thirty-year international 'biennial boom', Whybrow interrogates the extent to which biennial events and their artworks seek to engage with the socio-cultural and political complexity of cities, in particular the work that is involved in this relationship. With its focus on Europe, he also tells a composite story of continental difference at a moment of high tension, centering on issues of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350166987

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Gene Jockeys

Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

By: Nicolas Rasmussen

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Gene Jockeys

Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

By: Nicolas Rasmussen

The scientific scramble to discover the first generation of drugs created through genetic engineering. The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be approved for medical use in the United States: human insulin, human growth hormone, alpha interferon, erythropoietin, and tissue plasminogen activator. Drawing on corporate documents obtained from patent litigation, as well as interviews with the ambitious biologists who called themselves gene jockeys, historian Nicolas Rasmussen chronicles the remarkable, and often secretive, work of the scientists who built a new domain between academia and the drug industry in the pursuit of intellectual rewards and big payouts. In contrast to some who critique the rise of biotechnology, Rasmussen contends that biotech was not a swindle, even if the public did pay a very high price for the development of what began as public scientific resources. Within the biotech enterprise, the work of corporate scientists went well beyond what biologists had already accomplished within universities, and it accelerated the medical use of the new drugs by several years. In his technically detailed and readable narrative, Rasmussen focuses on the visible and often heavy hands that construct and maintain the markets in public goods like science. He looks closely at how science follows money, and vice versa, as researchers respond to the pressures and potential rewards of commercially viable innovations. In biotechnology, many of those engaged in crafting markets for genetically engineered drugs were biologists themselves who were in fact trying to do science. This book captures that heady, fleeting moment when a biologist could expect to do great science through the private sector and be rewarded with both wealth and scientific acclaim.

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JHU Press

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1421413418

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Introducing MLOps

By: Mark Treveil,Nicolas Omont,Clément Stenac,Kenji Lefevre,Du Phan,Joachim Zentici,Adrien Lavoillotte,Makoto Miyazaki,Lynn Heidmann

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Introducing MLOps

By: Mark Treveil,Nicolas Omont,Clément Stenac,Kenji Lefevre,Du Phan,Joachim Zentici,Adrien Lavoillotte,Makoto Miyazaki,Lynn Heidmann

More than half of the analytics and machine learning (ML) models created by organizations today never make it into production. Some of the challenges and barriers to operationalization are technical, but others are organizational. Either way, the bottom line is that models not in production can't provide business impact. This book introduces the key concepts of MLOps to help data scientists and application engineers not only operationalize ML models to drive real business change but also maintain and improve those models over time. Through lessons based on numerous MLOps applications around the world, nine experts in machine learning provide insights into the five steps of the model life cycle--Build, Preproduction, Deployment, Monitoring, and Governance--uncovering how robust MLOps processes can be infused throughout. This book helps you: Fulfill data science value by reducing friction throughout ML pipelines and workflows Refine ML models through retraining, periodic tuning, and complete remodeling to ensure long-term accuracy Design the MLOps life cycle to minimize organizational risks with models that are unbiased, fair, and explainable Operationalize ML models for pipeline deployment and for external business systems that are more complex and less standardized

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O'Reilly Media

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1098116445

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MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond

Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval

By: Hyoung-Gook Kim,Nicolas Moreau,Thomas Sikora

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MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond

Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval

By: Hyoung-Gook Kim,Nicolas Moreau,Thomas Sikora

Advances in technology, such as MP3 players, the Internet and DVDs, have led to the production, storage and distribution of a wealth of audio signals, including speech, music and more general sound signals and their combinations. MPEG-7 audio tools were created to enable the navigation of this data, by providing an established framework for effective multimedia management. MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval is a unique insight into the technology, covering the following topics: the fundamentals of MPEG-7 audio, principally low-level descriptors and sound classification and similarity; spoken content description, and timbre, melody and tempo music description tools; existing MPEG-7 applications and those currently being developed; examples of audio technology beyond the scope of MPEG-7. Essential reading for practising electronic and communications engineers designing and implementing MPEG-7 compliant systems, this book will also be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working with multimedia database technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470093358

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9780470093351

The Kitchen Book ; The Cook Book

By: Nicolas Freeling

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The Kitchen Book ; The Cook Book

By: Nicolas Freeling

Nicolas Freeling, best known for producing some of the finest of modern crime fiction, began his working life as an apprentice cook in a large French hotel, and continued cooking professionally for many years. Here is his memoir drawn from these experiences, a blend of the culinary and the literary, and includes recipes.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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0879238623

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From Imperial Splendour to Internment

The German Navy in the First World War

By: Nicolas Wolz

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From Imperial Splendour to Internment

The German Navy in the First World War

By: Nicolas Wolz

This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict.?The impact of this impotence had a far-reaching effect upon the service. Germany, indeed most of Europe, was in the grips of a spirit of militant nationalistic fervour, and the inactivity of the great Imperial Navy caused deep frustration, particularly among the naval officers. Not only were they unable to see themselves as heroes, they were also ridiculed on the home front and felt profoundly humiliated. With the exception of the one sea battle at Jutland, their ships saw little or no action at sea and morale slowly collapsed to a point where, at the end of the war, the crews were in a state of mutiny. The seemingly ludicrous order that forced the fleet to go to sea against the British in 1918 was driven by a sense of humiliation, but coming at the war's end it triggered a revolution because the German sailors wanted no part in such madness. The internment at Scapa Flow was the ultimate shaming. ?This is a fascinating and perceptive analysis of a whole era, and it contributes substantially to our understanding of the war and its consequences _ consequences, sadly, that helped pave the way for the Third Reich.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848322283

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9781848322288

Literature Redeemed

"Neo-Modernism" in the Works of the Post-Soviet Russian Writers Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov, and Aleksandr Khurgin

By: Nicolas Dreyer

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"Neo-Modernism" in the Works of the Post-Soviet Russian Writers Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov, and Aleksandr Khurgin

By: Nicolas Dreyer

In the post-Soviet period, discussions of "postmodernism" in Russian literature have proliferated. Based on close literary analysis of representative works of fiction by three post-Soviet Russian writers – Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin – this book investigates the usefulness and accuracy of the notion of "postmodernism" in the post-Soviet context. Classic Russian literature, renowned for its pursuit of aesthetic, moral and social values, and the modernism that succeeded it have often been seen as antipodes to postmodernist principles. The author wishes to dispute this polarity and proposes "post-Soviet neo-modernism" as an alternative concept. "Neo-modernism" embodies the notion that post-Soviet writers have redeemed the tendency of earlier literature to seek the meaning of human existence in a transcendent realm, as well as in the treasures of Russia's cultural past.

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Böhlau Köln

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3412500097

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9783412500092

The Story Of Naxos

The extraordinary story of the independent record label that changed classical recording for ever

By: Nicolas Soames

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The Story Of Naxos

The extraordinary story of the independent record label that changed classical recording for ever

By: Nicolas Soames

In 1987, a budget classical record label was started in Hong Kong by Klaus Heymann, a German businessman who loved classical music. Swiftly, it gained a world wide reputation for reliable new digital recordings of the classics at a remarkably low price. Despite opposition from the classical record establishment, it grew at a remarkable pace, and soon expanded into opera, early music, contemporary music and specialist repertoire so that it became appreciated by specialist collectors as well as the general music lover. It is now the leading provider of classical music and as an innovator in digital delivery. At the heart of Naxos is one man: Klaus Heymann. The combination of his broad knowledge of classical music and his acute business acumen has enabled him to build the most varied classical music label in the world, but also the most effective distribution network to ensure that his recordings are available everywhere. This fascinating story explains how it happened, how a one-time tennis coach in Frankfurt became a classical recording mogul in Hong Kong and how, at the age of 75, he still holds the reins as firmly as ever.

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Piatkus

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0748131108

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The Promise of Diversity

How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work

By: Nicolas Wasser

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The Promise of Diversity

How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work

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transcript Verlag

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

By: Nicolas Slonimsky

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

By: Nicolas Slonimsky

This 6-volume set of Bakers covers all musical genres, with entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles of Nicolas Slonimsky. More than 15, 000 biographies span the medieval ages to the present.This work continues the tradition of offering the most comprehensive and authoritative information on the musicians, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world. Bakers remains the most affordable, comprehensive and readable of all music reference works, providing everyone from the student to scholar a one-stop resource for all their music biographical needs. Some of the artists featured include: Louis Armstrong Johann Sebastian Bach The Beatles Ludwig van Beethoven James Brown John Cage Maria Callas Johnny Cash Miles Davis Claude Debussy Marvin Gaye Philip Glass George Frideric Handel Charlie Parker Luciano Pavarotti Arturo Toscanini Tom Waits And many more

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New York : Schirmer Books

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0028655257

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Nikolski

By: Nicolas Dickner

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Nikolski

By: Nicolas Dickner

Nikolski" ist ein ungemein charmantes, fliegend leicht lesbares Buch, das von der ersten Seite an bezaubert. Tausende Kilometer voneinander getrennt und doch - ohne es zu wissen - derselben Familie angehörig, leben drei Jugendliche, drei in jeder Hinsicht grundverschiedene Charaktere. Es sind zwei Söhne und eine Nichte des ruhelosen Matrosen Jonas Doucet. Diesem in seiner Rastlosigkeit in nichts nachstehend, verlassen sie - gerade volljährig geworden - ihr jeweiliges Zuhause und ziehen nach Montréal. Da ist der namenlose Erzähler, der für kleines Geld in Montréal als Buchhändler jobbt. Die einzige Erinnerung an seinen Vater Jonas ist ein alter Kompass mit einer "magnetischen Anomalie", den er den "Nikolski-Kompass" getauft hat, weil er nicht exakt nach Norden weist, sondern stur auf den kleinen, hinter Alaska auf den Aleuten gelegenen Ort Nikolski... Noah ist der Halbbruder des Erzählers, seine Mutter ist eine von ihrem Stamm verstoßene Indianerin. Zwischen Manitoba und Alberta bringt er seine gesamte Kindheit damit zu, in einem Wohnmobil die Prärie zu durchkreuzen. Als Noah das Nomadentum seiner Mutter eines Tages reicht, bricht er nach Montréal auf, um dort ein Archäologiestudium zu beginnen. In seinem Gepäck ist das "dreiköpfige Buch", das auf geheimnisvolle Weise mit seiner Herkunft verbunden zu sein scheint... "Nikolski", der faszinierende Debütroman von Nicolas Dickner, ist das Lieblingsbuch der kanadischen Buchhändler und gilt bereits jetzt - wie Yann Martels "Schiffbruch mit Tiger"Nikolski" - als Klassiker der neuen kanadischen Literatur.

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Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt

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3627021576

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The Promise of Diversity

The Promise of Diversity

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

The Wolf Man's Magic Word

The Wolf Man's Magic Word

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe

Gene Jockeys

Gene Jockeys

Introducing MLOps

Introducing MLOps

MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond

MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond

The Kitchen Book ; The Cook Book

The Kitchen Book ; The Cook Book

From Imperial Splendour to Internment

From Imperial Splendour to Internment

Literature Redeemed

Literature Redeemed

The Story Of Naxos

The Story Of Naxos

The Promise of Diversity

The Promise of Diversity

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Nikolski

Nikolski

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