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Author : Susan Kantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936669639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)
Download or read book What Is Soft? written by Susan Kantor and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place of publication from publisher's website.
Author : David Sim
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830186
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Soft City written by David Sim and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites—separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources—to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.
Author : Kiana Azizian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Soft written by Kiana Azizian and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are great awakenings that come from loving and losing. It is in these moments that we really know and understand who we are. In soft, Kiana Azizian uses the repetition of being in love and suffering through heartbreak to heal, forgive, move on, and fall in love again. Self-discovery and reflection are powerfully, yet vividly portrayed in a way that only those who have been loved will understand.
Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416979174
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Tiny Seed written by Eric Carle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations relate the growth of a small seed that survives the winter cold to become a beautiful spring flower.
Author : Mina Waheed
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781072890492
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Soft on Soft written by Mina Waheed and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary romance where one homebody and one extrovert make one hell of a love story.June Bana might post nearly daily makeup looks that gain thousands of likes but Real Life June has built a wall behind which she exists with her two cats.But with messy feelings getting in a way of an early hermit life, June begins to realize that she wants more. She wants model/actress, Sunshine Reincarnated Selena Clarke. It doesn't hurt that Selena is amazing with cats and quiets down June's anxiety to bearable levels.June is given the choice of facing her anxieties about relationships to gain not only a girlfriend but also a better understanding of how far she'd go for love. But would she take it? Would she leave her comfort zone for something softer?Soft on Soft is a character-driven without an intense plot or conflict! For fans of something low on the angst and high on the fluff.Content warning for a discussion of a passed-away parent in chapter 2, a depiction of a panic attack in chapter 8, mention of anti-ace language used against LI in the past, and usage of gendered slur "bitch" not in a menacing manner.
Author : Tanmoy Som
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819905974
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Applied Analysis, Optimization and Soft Computing written by Tanmoy Som and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains select contributions presented at the International Conference on Nonlinear Applied Analysis and Optimization (ICNAAO-2021), held at the Department of Mathematics Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, from 21–23 December 2021. The book discusses topics in the areas of nonlinear analysis, fixed point theory, dynamical systems, optimization, fractals, applications to differential/integral equations, signal and image processing, and soft computing, and exposes the young talents with the newer dimensions in these areas with their practical approaches and to tackle the real-life problems in engineering, medical and social sciences. Scientists from the U.S.A., Austria, France, Mexico, Romania, and India have contributed their research. All the submissions are peer reviewed by experts in their fields.
Author : Oluwaseun Tella
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100040224X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Africa's Soft Power written by Oluwaseun Tella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya’s sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt’s Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria’s Omolúwàbí, South Africa’s Ubuntu, Kenya’s Harambee, and Egypt’s Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003176022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author : Yasushi Watanabe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459652
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Soft Power Superpowers written by Yasushi Watanabe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership, the book brings together anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, diplomats, and others to explore the multiple axes of soft power that operate in the U.S.-Japanese relationship, and between the United States and Japan and other regions of the world.The contributors move beyond an "either-or" concept of hard versus soft power to a more dynamic interpretation, and demonstrate the important role of non-state actors in wielding soft power. They show how public diplomacy on both sides of the Pacific - bolstered by less formal influences such as popular cultural icons, product brands, martial arts, baseball, and educational exchanges - has led to a vibrant U.S.-Japanese relationship since World War II despite formidable challenges. Emphasizing the essentially interactive nature of persuasion, the book highlights an approach to soft power that has many implications for the world today.
Author : Therese J Bocklage
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907816224
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors written by Therese J Bocklage and published by JP Medical Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of orthopaedic oncology with case presentations illustrating how each tumor would be diagnosed and managed in a clinical setting.
Author : Helmut Hauser
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889637808
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Current Advances in Soft Robotics: Best Papers From RoboSoft 2018 written by Helmut Hauser and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stéphanie Lagoutte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508938
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights written by Stéphanie Lagoutte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties. This is especially true in the area of human rights. While relatively few human rights treaties have been adopted at the UN level in the last two decades, the number of declarations, resolutions, conclusions, and principles has grown significantly. In some areas, soft law has come to fill a void in the absence of treaty law, exerting a degree of normative force exceeding its non-binding character. In others areas, soft law has become a battleground for interpretative struggles to expand and limit human rights protection in the context of existing regimes. Despite these developments, little attention has been paid to soft law within human rights legal scholarship. Building on a thorough analysis of relevant case studies, this volume systematically explores the roles of soft law in both established and emerging human rights regimes. The book argues that a better understanding of how soft law shapes and affects different branches of international human rights law not only provides a more dynamic picture of the current state of international human rights, but also helps to unsettle and critically question certain political and doctrinal beliefs. Following introductory chapters that lay out the general conceptual framework, the book is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on cases that examine the role of soft law within human rights regimes where there are established hard law standards, its progressive and regressive effects, and the role that different actors play in the incubation process. The second part focuses on the role of soft law in emerging areas of international law where there is no substantial treaty codification of norms. These chapters examine the relationship between soft and hard law, the role of different actors in formulating new soft law, and the potential for eventual codification.
Author : Andrea K. Bjorklund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178100322X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book International Investment Law and Soft Law written by Andrea K. Bjorklund and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book examines the development of soft law instruments in international investment law and the feasibility of a 'codification' of the present state of this field of international economic law. It draws together the views of international experts on the use of soft law in international law generally and in discrete fields such as WTO, commercial, and environmental law. The book assesses whether investment law has sufficiently coalesced over the last 50 years to be 'codified' and focuses particularly on topical issues such as most-favoured-nation treatment and expropriation. This timely book will appeal to academics interested in the development of international law and legal theory, to those working in investment law, Government investment treaty negotiators and arbitration practitioners.
Author : Dehong Xu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119602556
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters written by Dehong Xu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters Discover foundational and advanced topics in soft-switching technology, including ZVS three-phase conversion In Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters, an expert team of researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of soft-switching three-phase converters for applications including renewable energy and distribution power systems, AC power sources, UPS, motor drives, battery chargers, and more. The authors begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of the technology, providing the basic knowledge necessary for readers to understand the following articles. The book goes on to discuss three-phase rectifiers and three-phase grid inverters. It offers prototypes and experiments of each type of technology. Finally, the authors describe the impact of silicon carbide devices on soft-switching three-phase converters, studying the improvement in efficiency and power density created via the introduction of silicon carbide devices. Throughout, the authors put a special focus on a family of zero-voltage switching (ZVS) three-phase converters and related pulse width modulation (PWM) schemes. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to soft-switching techniques, including the classification of soft-switching for three phase converter topologies, soft-switching types and a generic soft-switching pulse-width-modulation known as Edge-Aligned PWM A comprehensive exploration of classical soft-switching three-phase converters, including the switching of power semiconductor devices and DC and AC side resonance Practical discussions of ZVS space vector modulation for three-phase converters, including the three-phase converter commutation process In-depth examinations of three-phase rectifiers with compound active clamping circuits Perfect for researchers, scientists, professional engineers, and undergraduate and graduate students studying or working in power electronics, Soft-Switching Technology for Three-phase Power Electronics Converters is also a must-read resource for research and development engineers involved with the design and development of power electronics.
Author : C. Walker-Tisdale
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447487699
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Soft Cheesemaking - A Guide to the Manufacture of Soft Cheese and the Preparation of Cream for the Market written by C. Walker-Tisdale and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1903 and updated and revised in 1915, this scarce early instruction book on soft cheesemaking is both expensive and hard to find in its first editions. We have now republished it in an affordable, high quality, modern edition, using the original text and artwork. Ninety five pages contain detailed chapters on: The Production and Handling of Milk. - Cream: Its Production, Composition and Properties. - Principles of the Manufacture of Soft Cheese. - Varieties of Soft Cheese and Their Process of Manufacture. - Cream Cheese. - Double Cream Cheese. - Rennetted Cream Cheese. - Gervais. - Bondon. - Coulommier. - Cambridge or York. - Sour Milk or Lactic Acid Cheese. - Pont L'Eveque. - Camembert. - Little Wensleydale. - Colwick. - Ripening. - Packing and Marketing. - Dairy Terms. - Regulations. - Preservatives and Colouring. - Measures. - etc. The book is illustrated with full page vintage photos and various line drawings. Twelve pages of advertisements for dairy equipment and associated items have been reproduced for their historical interest. This fascinating little book will be of much interest to anyone with an interest in dairy farming or the production of dairy products on a large or small scale. "The book is a model of conciseness and clearness. The instructions given as to the handling of milk are admirable, and the particulars of making all kinds of soft and cream cheese leave nothing to be desired." - FARMING PRESS.
Author : Ahmad Lotfi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540408567
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Applications and Science in Soft Computing written by Ahmad Lotfi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the theory and application of soft computing techniques namely; neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and complex systems. The book is a collection of selected, edited papers presented at the 4th conference RACS Recent Advances in Soft Computing held in Nottingham, December 2002. It provides the latest developments in applications of soft computing techniques as well as advances in theoretical aspects of soft computing.
Author : R. Lieu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402025645
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Soft X-Ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies and Related Phenomena written by R. Lieu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the discovery of the cluster soft excess (CSE) over eight years ago, its properties and origin have been the subject of debate. With the recent launch of new missions such as XMM-Newton and FUSE, we are beginning to answer some of the complex issues regarding the phenomenon. This conference proceedings is an attempt to bring together the latest research results and covers both observational and theoretical work on the CSE and related topics. One of the main topics is the possible relationship between the CSE and the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), which is believed to harbor 50% of the baryons in the near Universe. New data from both XMM-Newton and FUSE have indicated a possible causal link between the WHIM and CSE. Evidence is based on the apparent detection of O VII emission lines in the soft excess spectrum of the outskirts of several clusters, as well as reports of absorption lines at local and higher redshifts (seen in the spectra of distant sources) as signature of the WHIM. However, while there has been considerable optimism in attributing a substantial fraction of the cluster soft excess flux to WHIM emission, other work shows that, for example, the amount of WHIM material predicted by theoretical simulations falls way short of that necessary to account for the CSE. Other work indicates that at the cores of some cluster this excess emission is so strong, it is impossible to invoke the thermal model without at the same time enlisting radically new physics. Thus alternative interpretations involving non-thermal processes are also reported and being pursued in earnest. Whatever the origin of CSE may turn out to be, results in this book show that it has become beyond reasonable doubt that the phenomenon itself is observationally established. This book reports the scientific progress made by bringing together scientists from a wide range of disciplines. It clearly demonstrates the importance of such meetings and participants if we are to solve this puzzle. This volume is aimed at scientists and graduate students in astronomy who want to learn about the latest results on cluster soft excess observations and theoretical implications.
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hard Power and Soft Power written by Colin S. Gray and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2011 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : rust on the mailed fist? -- 11 propositions -- Conclusion.
