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English | January 17, 1973 | ISBN: 0811204812 | True EPUB | 177 pages | 2.3 MB
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.

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by Laura Neack
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1538168014 | 240 Pages | True ePUB/PDF | 0.55 MB

Free Download Paul T. Jaeger, Natalie Greene Taylor, Ursula Gorham, "Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and Promoting Inclusion"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442250518 | PDF | pages: 174 | 0.8 mb
Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and Promoting Inclusion examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communities to successfully participate in the information society. It is the first large-scale consideration of digital literacy and digital inclusion as policy problems and provides policy recommendations to promote digital literacy and digital inclusion.

Free Download Lee C. Barrett Lancaster Theological Seminary, "Kierkegaard on God's Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy "
English | ISBN: 1666914924 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 1458 KB
Søren Kierkegaard's authorship exhibits two different trajectories concerning the relation of responsible human agency to sovereign divine agency: one trajectory stresses free human striving, while the other trajectory emphasizes the dominance of divine agency. The first theme led to the view of Kierkegaard as the champion of autonomous existential "leaps," while the second led to the construal of Kierkegaard as a devout Lutheran who trusted absolutely in God's gracious governance. Lee C. Barrett argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant's critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life, making use of literary strategies to foster the different passions and dispositions that are associated with the themes of human responsibility and divine governance. Kierkegaard on God's Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy offers an incisive account of what makes Kierkegaard's conception of theology as a matter of edification rather than speculation so distinctive and enduringly worthwhile.

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English | 2022 | ISBN: 9815036408 | 211 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 106 MB
Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond: Advances Towards Smart and Interconnected Environments is a 2-part book set which presents discoveries, innovative ideas, concepts, practical solutions, and novel applications of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and related disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, computer vision, and natural language processing. The book provides readers with information about HCI trends which are shaping the future of smart, interconnected urban and industrial environments.

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English | 2012 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 3642343465 | PDF | 18,3 mb
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2012, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2012.

Free Download Bent Greve, "Human Needs and the Welfare State"
English | ISBN: 1035314266 | 2024 | 146 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This unique and forward-thinking book explores how we understand needs in relation to the welfare state and to what extent we can, if at all, measure need.

Free Download Sakae Yamamoto, "Human Interface and the Management of Information: Information and Interaction for Learning, Culture, Collaboration and Business, Part III"
English | 2013 | pages: 677 | ISBN: 3642392253 | PDF | 36,3 mb
The three-volume set LNCS 8016, 8017, and 8018 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in July 2013. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. This volume contains papers in the thematic area of human interface and the management of Information, addressing the following major topics: learning, education and skills transfer, art and cultural heritage, collaborative work, business integration and decision support.

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English | 2010 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 904818536X, 9400732538 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Many debates about the moral status of things―for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals―eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question―for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human's capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status; and thus all human beings have the same sort of serious moral status as you and I. Beginning from what our common intuitions tell us about situations involving "temporary incapacitation"―where a human organism has, then loses, then regains a certain capacity―this book argues for substantive conclusions regarding human fetuses and embryos, humans in a permanent vegetative state, humans suffering from brain diseases, and humans born with genetic disorders. Since these conclusions must have some impact on our ongoing moral and political debates about the proper treatment of such humans, this book will be useful to professionals and students in philosophy, bioethics, law, medicine, and public policy.

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Heather B. Thakar, Carola Flores Fernandez
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0813069580 | 295 Pages | PDF | 2.67 MB