Nicholas Brown

In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown looks beyond the clichés to illuminate the colourful history of Australia's capital.

A History of Canberra

This book is a guide on how to create a smart home with Amazon Echo Dot and the Alexa app. The first part of the book helps you learn what the Amazon Echo Dot and the Alexa app are. The book also guides you on how to setup these so that you can begin to use them for a number of different tasks. You will learn how to identify the best location to place the Echo Dot. The process of connecting the Echo Dot to your WiFi network is discussed in detail. Note that this is a necessity for the Echo Dot to work. The book also guides you on how to use the Echo Dot and the Alexa app so as to listen to audiobooks. The Echo Dot can also be used as an alarm. This is the alarm which will help you to wake up in the morning, or remind you of certain important tasks which you are expected to accomplish. You can also set the Echo Dot so that it wakes you up to a certain radio station, probably the radio channel which you like. This book guides you on how to setup this with the Echo Dot. A thermostat is a good device for a smart home. It can help you to control the temperature of your house to the degree that you need. With the Alexa app and the Echo Dot, this process can be made much easier. You will only have to issue voice commands and your temperature will be adjusted to what you want. This book guides you on how to do this. You are also guided on how to use smart lights with Echo Dot and the Alexa app. The Alexa app can help you command a robot which will clean the house on your behalf. This book guides you on how to do this. You are also guided on how to use a smart fan as well as plugins and outlets with the Alexa app and the Echo Dot. The following topics are discussed in this book: - Understanding the Amazon Echo Dot - Setting up the Amazon Echo Dot - Listening to AudioBooks with Echo Dot - Using Echo Dot as an Alarm - Thermostat Control - Smart Light Bulbs - Home Security - Home Cleaning - Plugins and Outlets - Smart Fan

How to Build a Smart Home Simple Guide Book

Echo Dot with Alexa

Imre Szeman

The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production.

Fieldwork in Culture

Pierre Bourdieu

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural production. Though Bourdieu's own work has illuminated diverse cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume extend to new cultural forms and to national situations outside France. Far from simply applying Bourdieu's concepts and theoretical tools to these new contexts, the essays in this volume consider both the possibility and limits of Bourdieu's sociology for the study of culture.

This book is an excellent guide for you on how to use SQL (Structured Query Language) in relational database management systems. Everything related to SQL has been explored, making it the best book for those in need of learning SQL for both academic and commercial purposes. The author helps you understand what SQL is and how you can use it to manage your data. You will learn how to create a new database and create tables within the database. SQL supports and discusses the various data types. You store data for future retrieval. The process and the viewing of table data have been discussed. You will also learn the various SQL statements that you can cause to filter the data that you get for viewing. Examples of these statements include unions, intersections, limits, ordering, comparisons etc. You will also learn how to create and impose constraints on the table columns to restrict the kind of data that can be stored. The author uses many examples in the book and these have been accompanied by thorough explanations. The use of images makes this book the best for SQL Beginners. The following topics are discussed in this book: - SQL Basics - Creating a Database - SQL Data Types - Creating a Table - SQL Constraints - SQL Operators - Inserting Records - Retrieving Data - SQL Joins - SQL Unions - Creating Subqueries - Time and Date - Views - Cloning Tables - Creating Temporary Tables Subjects include: ms access, sql basics, sql for dummies 2019, ms access sql, mysql, sql server, sql practice problems, sql for dummies, database sql, sybase, mongodb, oracle sql, linux sql, sql quickstart guide

All You Need to Know

MySQL

The north-country wedding, and The fire, 2 poems [by N. Brown].

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Neil Larsen

Josh Robinson

Marxism and the Critique of Value aims to complete the critique of the value-form that was initiated by Marx. While Marx's "esoteric" critique of value has been rediscovered from time to time by post-Marxists who know they've found something interesting but don't quite know which end is the handle, Anglophone Marxism has tended to bury this esoteric critique beneath a more redistributionist understanding of Marx. The essays in this volume attempt to think the critique of value through to the end, and to draw out its implications for the current economic crisis; for violence, Islamism, gender relations, masculinity, and the concept of class; for revolutionary practice and agency; for the role of the state and the future of the commons; for the concepts that come down to us from Enlightenment thought: indeed, for the manifold phenomena that characterize contemporary society under a capitalism in crisis.

Marxism and the Critique of Value

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman's photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and capitalism.

The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism

Autonomy

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list. A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.

10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order

Russian Learners' Dictionary

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.? Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice. The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture.

The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature

Utopian Generations

Linda Cardinal

Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas less at the macro-level of state intervention and more at the level of community partnership and empowerment. In related but distinct ways, each state is being challenged to devise policies and offer outcomes that address an unfolding and unsteady synthesis of issues relating to citizenship, the role of nation-states in a 'borderless' world, and the management of economic change while preserving an enabling sense of national identity and social cohesion. Analyzing issues ranging from urban planning and the provision of broadcasting services for minority languages, to principled debates over basic rights and entitlements, these essays offer penetrating summaries of each political culture while also prompting comparative reflection on the broad theme of "democracy and difference."

Practices of Citizenship

Managing Diversity

This book is an exploration of TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript. The first part of the book explains to you what TypeScript is and what it is used for. You will also learn how it is related to JavaScript. The book also guides you on how to install TypeScript on Windows and on other platforms. Type annotations, which are very good in defining how the program is indented, are discussed, and thus, you will learn how to work with them. Interfaces, which are good and compatible with most objects, are discussed in detail. Understanding the scope of objects such as "this" is very difficult. This book examines arrow functions which are a good mechanism to help you understand the scope of this keyword. Expressions are also used widely in TypeScript, and these have been explored in detail. Classes which are very important in object-oriented programming and for creation of large apps are also covered, along with features such as inheritance which are associated with classes; Iterators have also been explored in detail. The "for...of" loop is widely used in TypeScript. This is discussed in this book, along with how to implement it. The spread operator, which is used for the purpose of spreading the elements of an array, is also examined. The following topics are discussed in this book: - A Brief Overview of TypeScript - Installing TypeScript - Type Annotations - Interfaces - Arrow Function Expressions - Classes - Destructuring - for...of - Iterators - Template Strings - Spread Operator - Enums - let

Javascript Development Guide

Typescript

What goes in here stays in here... until now. The infamous champagne rooms of gentleman's clubs are filled with stories of carnal sins. Usually you gotta be in one or among close company knowing who did what, with you know who. VIP Confessions: What Really Goes Down in the Champagne Room brings you into the realm of 12 women from various backgrounds, looking to find their way out of the life. The combination of beautiful illustrations showing each character's appearance, along with their freaky tales, and lustful tidbits shall keep your special someone happy each time you read it. This book is based on real life events, and it also suggests over 25 different moves, tips, or tricks you can do in your own bedroom-- tips given from the women themselves. So come, take a seat and enjoy what really goes down behind those velvet curtains.

What Really Goes Down in the Champagne Room

VIP Confessions

Steve Eddy

Sea urchins and sea cucumbers are highly sought after delicacies growing in popularity globally. The demand for these species is rapidly outpacing natural stocks, and researchers and seafood industry personnel are now looking towards aquaculture as a means of providing a sustainable supply of these organism. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference on the basic biology and current culture practices for a wide range of geographically diverse echinoderm species. Echinoderm Aquaculture begins by examining the basic ecology and biology of sea urchins and sea cucumbers as well as the breadth of uses of these organisms as a source of food and bioactive compound. Subsequent chapters delineate the specific species of interest invarious geographic regions from around the world. Together, chapters provide a comprehensive coverage of culture practices. Echinoderm Aquaculture is a practical reference for researchers and industry personnel, and will serve as an invaluable resource to this rapidly growing segment of the aquaculture industry.

Echinoderm Aquaculture

For the past year, not a day had gone by when Evan hadn't thought about this exact moment, the moment he and Ben would be reunited. It was frozen in his time and memory, much like this cabin by the sea - or so it seemed. There was the possibility that what was about to happen one weekend in Janus was in fact a very bad idea, that the loving reunion he'd so hoped for, would be dashed by their divided realities. Reunited by a love and longing that tethers them to one another, Ben and Evan must struggle with their history, in order to accept the present. Can Evan ask the right questions and get the answers he needs to move forwards? Or, is their history enough to save them both?

Another Life

This book is a guide on how to create chatbots for Facebook Messenger. These chatbots can be used to respond to queries from customers in the absence of the business owner. Facebook Mesenger Chatbots should be trained well so that customers may get relevant answers to their questions. This book guides you on how to do this. Other than responding to responding to customer queries, Facebook Messenger Chatbots can be used for other tasks like broadcasting messages to customers, showing product images to customers, allowing customers to place orders, order processing, payment processing etc. The author guides you on how to implement these features on your chatbot. The author guides you on how to use various platforms to create chatbots with the above features in a step-by-step manner. The following topics have been discussed in this book: - Designing a Facebook Extension - Creating a Bot with Chatfuel - Creating a Chatbot with Botsify - Creating a Bot with ManyChat - Creating a Chatbot with API.ai - Creating a Chatbot with Chattypeople - Creating a Chatbot with Bot Libre

Create and Develop Your Own ChatBot

Designing Bots for Facebook

This book is an exploration of User Experience Design (UXD). It helps you learn and understand how to design your applications in order to improve the user experience. The UX principles have been discussed. These are the principles that you should stick to when designing an app in order to improve the user experience. Interaction Design principles have also been explored. These are the principles that are concerned with the design of human-computer systems. You are guided on how to design such systems so that they can be friendly to the users. Before designing any app, whether mobile, web etc, it is good for one to know the requirements of users. The requirements define what the users are expecting from the app, and these can only be obtained through research. The author guides you on the best ways and approaches on how to conduct such a research. You are also guided on how to apply the user experience when designing web applications. The author also guides you on how to apply user experience when designing mobile applications for both Android and iOS. The following topics have been discussed in this book: - UX Principles - Interaction Design Principles - User research - How to Apply User Experience for Websites - How to Apply User Experience for Mobile Apps: iOS/Android

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