The novel is a fascinating look into the inner world of the Eurasian inhabitants of the city, and their relationship with their Chinese and Portuguese legacies.
Author: David Brookshaw Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, HKU ISBN: 9789882200388 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2004 211 pages
The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.
A year after the events of METRO 2033 the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro.
Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.
The benefit of prosodic and additional spectral over exclusively cepstral feature information is investigated for the recognition of phonemes in eight different speaking styles reaching from informal to formal. As prosodic information is best analyzed on a supra-segmental level, the whole temporal context of a phoneme is exploited by application of statistical functionals. 521 acoustic features are likewise obtained and evaluated per descriptor and functional by either de-correlating floating search feature evaluation or classification performance: The classifier of choice are Support Vector Machines lately found highly suitable for this task. As database serves the open IFA corpus of 178 k hand-segmented and hand-labeled 47 Dutch phonemes. In the result, a significant gain is observed for segment-based over frame-based processing, and by inclusion of pitch and formant information for the informal styles. Overall, phonemes are recognized at 76.58% accuracy. The analysis of feature influence provides useful insight for artificial speech production in the considered speaking styles.
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Author: Sylvie Hancil; Daniel Hirst Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9789027272195 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2013 268 pages
In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. Until then, the liberation of South America had been dominated by the clash of armies, on land. But the need to move the army of General José de San Martin up the coast made it necessary to seize control of the Pacific. The new ruler of Chile, the half-Irish Bernardo O’Higgins, threw his energies into creating a navy. Short of local naval manpower, the Chileans looked to Britain and the United States for the sailors needed to man and command their squadrons, many of them unemployed veterans of the Royal Navy. As the new navy’s commander-in-chief, they recruited one of the most fearless and controversial officers of the age: Thomas, Lord Cochrane. The war brought out the best and the worst in Lord Cochrane. Its huge panorama gave ample scope for his aggression, bravery and flare. But high command also produced tensions and problems that brought out the negative side of his suspicious and troubled personality.The story of the naval war in the Pacific is an exciting one. Under Cochrane’s audacious leadership, coasts were blockaded, fortresses stormed and ships seized in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. The result was that Chile and Peru gained their freedom from Spain, while Cochrane enhanced his reputation and made a fortune in pay and prize money. For one hundred and fifty years, the accepted story of the war has been based on Cochrane’s own version of events and the allegation that all these victories were achieved in the face of disloyalty, plots and treachery. How accurate is Cochrane’s account? And what really happened in the war at sea? To answer these questions, Brian Vale goes back to the original documents, despatches, diaries and newspapers. The result is a new and vivid account of the war in the Pacific and a reassessment of one of Britain’s legendary naval heroes seen at the peak of his career.
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Author: Brian Vale Publisher: I.B.Tauris ISBN: 9780857711472 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2007 249 pages
In the magical world of Lyra, a mysterious instrument gives a minstrel undreamed-of power
When Emereck and Flindaran leave a caravan in search of adventure, it isn’t long before they stumble upon great danger. Emereck, a trained minstrel, and Flindaran, a nobleman masquerading as a tramp, have found a long-abandoned castle, and in it, one of Lyra’s most sought-after treasures: the Harp of Imach Thyssel.
Author: Patricia C. Wrede Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ISBN: 9781453233627 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2011 238 pages
Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. At the heart of each story is a character’s moment of self-realization which serves to further heighten our understanding of life in James Joyce’s Dublin.
HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author: James Joyce Publisher: HarperCollins Canada ISBN: 9781443414913 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2012 250 pages
Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics.
The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics.
Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent rapid changes in theoretical and empirical advances, in structural empirical methods, and in the media industry’s connection with the democratic process
Presents the only detailed summary of media economics that emphasizes political economy, merger policy, and competition policy
Pays special attention to the economic influences of the Internet, including developments in social media, user-generated content, and advertising, as well as the Internet’s effects on newspapers, radio, and television
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Author: Simon P. Anderson; Joel Waldfogel; David Stromberg Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9780444627247 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2016 563 pages
How would the present world order be affected by a total global economic collapse? The author asks whether a world governance system is feasible and desirable, and explores the implications depending on whether such players as China, the Russian Federation and the Islamic nations continue to make economic progress or suffer setbacks. The book first approaches the fiscal crisis that hit the United States and global economy starting in 2008 with a short historical background. It details the various aspects involved in the economic and fiscal crisis in relation to congressional efforts to produce a solution to these problems and predicts what success can be expected from these efforts. The book is written in a manner that will allow readers access, in one place, to most of the issues involved in both the recent recession, the current fiscal crisis, and the possible double-dip recession. Secondly, the author looks (from several points of view) at what effects will be seen in the global world order if we do not solve the issues at the national level. Lastly, the author considers what the effect could be if the current system of nationalism (the Westphalian system) fails in relation to international cooperation.
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Author: Raymond W. Converse Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 9780875868998 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2011 228 pages
Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues’ gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder.
English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario. The Newton Brothers’ Gang, outlaws from Texas, engage in a gunfight with bank guards on the streets of Toronto, and a former Canadian Pacific Railway engineer masterminds a sensational kidnapping in Colorado.
No matter where the atrocities were committed and no matter what the circumstances, these individuals all had one thing in common: they lived on the wrong side of the law.
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Author: Edward Butts Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 9781459709546 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2013 256 pages
