Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Visions and by J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Humans have constantly imagined larger futures. From the need to beat loss of life to the aspiration to dominion over the realm, imaginations of the technological destiny demonstrate the commitments, values, and norms of these who build them. this day, the human destiny is thrown into query by way of rising applied sciences that promise radical keep watch over over human lifestyles and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary quantity assembles students of technology and expertise experiences, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and background to envision imaginations of technological growth that gives you to go beyond the limitations of human physique and being. Attending specifically to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the quantity breaks new flooring through exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them inside a broader context of rules, associations, and practices of innovation. the quantity invitations experts and normal readers to discover the stakes of up to date imaginations of technological innovation as a resource of development, a strength of social and old transformation, and because the defining essence of human life.

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Squid Proxy Server 3.1 - Beginner's Guide by Kulbir Saini

By Kulbir Saini

Squid Proxy Server 3.1 - Beginner's Guide
Publisher: Pa..ckt Publ..ishing 2011 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 1849513902 | writer: Packt Publishing | PDF | eleven MB

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Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in by Thomas Fox

By Thomas Fox

It doesn't take a farm to have the center of a farmer. Now, as a result of a burgeoning sustainable-living stream, you don't need to personal acreage to satisfy your dream of elevating your individual meals. pastime Farms city Farming, from pastime Farm Press and a similar those who convey you pastime Farms and past-time Farm domestic journal, will stroll each urban and suburban dweller down the trail of self sustainability. city Farming will introduce readers to the thoughts of gardening and farming from a high-rise residence, engaging in a group backyard, vertical farming, and changing terraces and different small urban areas into fruitful, vegetableful genuine property. This entire quantity will resolution each up and coming city farmer's questions about how, what, the place and why--a new eco-friendly ebook for the devoted citizen trying to lessen his carbon footprint and grocery bill.
Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award in domestic & backyard from the self sustaining publication Publishers organization (IBPA).

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Dynamic Vision for Perception and Control of Motion by Ernst Dieter Dickmanns

By Ernst Dieter Dickmanns

The appliance of computer imaginative and prescient to self sustaining automobiles is an more and more vital sector of study with fascinating functions in undefined, protection, and transportation most probably in coming decades.

Dynamic imaginative and prescient for belief and keep an eye on of street Vehicles has been written by means of the world's prime specialist on self sustaining road-following autos and brings jointly two decades of innovation within the box by means of Professor Dickmanns and his colleagues on the college of the German Federal militia in Munich.

The booklet uniquely info an method of real-time computer imaginative and prescient for the certainty of dynamic scenes, seen from a relocating platform that starts off with spatio-temporal representations of movement for hypothesized gadgets whose parameters are adjusted by way of famous prediction mistakes suggestions and recursive estimation techniques.

A coherent and up to date insurance of the subject material is gifted, with the desktop imaginative and prescient and keep an eye on facets distinctive, besides reviews at the venture functionality of the 1st automobiles utilizing those cutting edge options equipped at Munich. tips to the longer term improvement and certain functions of this highly vital box of analysis are presented.

Dynamic imaginative and prescient for conception and keep an eye on of street Vehicles could be a key reference for technologists operating in self sustaining cars and cellular robotics mostly who desire to entry the best learn during this box, in addition to researchers and scholars operating in computing device imaginative and prescient and dynamic keep watch over drawn to probably the most attention-grabbing and promising functions of those techniques.

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Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of by Joost Van Loon

By Joost Van Loon

The query to whether we're now getting into a possibility society has turn into a key debate in modern social thought. possibility and Technological tradition offers a severe dialogue of the most theories of possibility from Ulrich Becks foundational paintings to that of his contemporaries comparable to Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the level to which chance has impacted on smooth societies. during this dialogue van Loon demonstrates how new applied sciences are remodeling the nature of probability and examines the connection among technological tradition and society via substantive chapters on issues resembling waste, rising viruses, communique applied sciences and concrete issues. In so doing this cutting edge new ebook extends the controversy to surround theorists corresponding to Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard.

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Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells: by Ruud E.I. Schropp, Miro Zeman

By Ruud E.I. Schropp, Miro Zeman

Amorphous silicon sun mobile know-how has advanced significantly because the first amorphous silicon sunlight cells have been made at RCA Laboratories in 1974. Scien­ tists operating in a couple of laboratories all over the world have constructed superior alloys in accordance with hydrogenated amorphous silicon and microcrystalline silicon. different scientists have built new tools for becoming those skinny motion pictures whereas but others have constructed new photovoltaic (PV) equipment constructions with im­ proved conversion efficiencies. within the final years, numerous businesses have built multi-megawatt production crops which may produce large-area, multijunction amorphous silicon PV modules. progressively more humans be­ lieve that thin-film photovoltaics might be built-in into structures on a wide scale within the following couple of a long time and may have the capacity to make a big contribution to the world's power wishes. during this publication, Ruud E. I. Schropp and Miro Zeman offer an authoritative evaluate of the present prestige of skinny movie sunlight cells in response to amorphous and microcrystalline silicon. They evaluation the numerous advancements that experience happened throughout the evolution of the know-how and likewise speak about the main im­ portant fresh concepts within the deposition of the fabrics, the knowledge of the physics, and the fabrication and modeling of the devices.

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Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, by Yevgeniy Brikman

By Yevgeniy Brikman

This publication is the "Hello, World" educational for construction items, applied sciences, and groups in a startup surroundings. It's according to the studies of the writer, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, in addition to interviews with programmers from probably the most winning startups of the decade, together with Google, fb, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and lots of others.

Hello, Startup is a realistic, how-to advisor that contains 3 elements: items, applied sciences, and groups. even though at its center, this can be a publication for programmers, by way of programmers, in basic terms half II (Technologies) is considerably technical, whereas the remainder will be available to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

If you’re in any respect attracted to startups—whether you’re a programmer at first of your profession, a pro developer tired of huge corporation politics, or a supervisor trying to inspire your engineers—this ebook is for you.

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Materials Technology in Steam Reforming Processes. by C. Edeleanu

By C. Edeleanu

Fabrics expertise in Steam Reforming procedures is a suite of papers that covers development within the a number of parts of experiences in steam reforming approaches. The identify offers the reports of authors who're excited about the advance of a specific technique.
The insurance of the textual content comprises the basic elements of the creep deformation of metals; elements affecting number of fabrics and layout of devices for strain steam reforming; and the learn history of the thermalloy grades of chromium-nickel-iron heat-resisting alloys. the choice additionally covers corrosion difficulties on finned air-cooled warmth exchanger tubing; and thermal insulation for steam-reforming crops.
The ebook could be of serious use to scientists, engineers, and technicians eager about fabrics technology.

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