E-Books

Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy By Gary Paul Green, Ann Goetting
2010 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1439900868 | PDF | 1 MB
As communities face new social and economic challenges as well as political changes, the responsibilities for social services, housing needs, and welfare programs are being placed at the local government level. But can community-based organizations address these concerns effectively? The editors and contributors to "Mobilizing Communities" explore how these organizations are responding to these challenges, and how asset-based development efforts can be successful. Asset-based development, rather than needs assessment, has become a new paradigm in the community development field over the last fifteen years. Although the approach is widely used by practitioners and promoted by foundations, asset-based development has not been examined critically by researchers until now. "Mobilizing Communities" provides a conceptual framework and practical guidance to community development practitioners. The editors solicited case studies from a variety of geographic settings, regions and racial/ethnic groups. The communities in the case studies mobilize residents around different forms of community capital (e.g., financial, cultural, and environmental capital). The contributors examine the role of public participation, the organizational and institutional structure, relationships with governmental officials, and the outcomes and impacts of the asset-based development projects. Contributors include: Lionel J. 'Bo' Beaulieu, Emily Blejwas, Sarah Dewees, Michael L. Dougherty, Mark H. Harvey, John (Jody) Kretzmann, Rocio Peralta, Rhonda Phillips, Deborah Puntenney, Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, Gordon E. Shockley, and the editors.

Mobile User Research: A Practical Guide (Synthesis Lectures on Mobile & Pervasive Computing) by Sunny Consolvo, Frank R. Bentley, Eric B. Hekler
English | May 5, 2017 | ISBN: 3031013573 | 216 pages | PDF | 4.89 Mb
This book will give you a practical overview of several methods and approaches for designing mobile technologies and conducting mobile user research, including how to understand behavior and evaluate how such technologies are being (or may be) used out in the world. Each chapter includes case studies from our own work and highlights advantages, limitations, and very practical steps that should be taken to increase the validity of the studies you conduct and the data you collect.

Mobile Technologies of the City By Mimi Sheller (ed.), John Urry (ed.)
2006 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415374340 | PDF | 2 MB
Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.

Can Bilgin, "Mobile Development with .NET: Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.Forms 5 and ASP.NET Core 5, 2nd Edition"
English | ISBN: 1800204698 | 2021 | 572 pages | AZW3 | 14 MB
A .NET developer's guide to leveraging .NET and C# skills for mobile development using Xamarin, Visual Studio 2019, and Azure

Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) By SanSan Kwan, Kenneth Speirs, Naomi Zack
2004 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0292705859 | PDF | 2 MB
The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum of questions raised by this rich new cultural landscape, "Mixing It Up" brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism first-hand.From Naomi Zack's "American Mixed Race: The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues" to Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger's "Keeping Up Appearances: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance," this diverse collection spans the realities of multiculturalism in compelling new analysis. Arguing that society's discomfort with multiracialism has been institutionalized throughout history, whether through the 'one drop' rule or media depictions, SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs reflect on the means by which the monoracial lens is slowly being replaced. Itself a hybrid of memoir, history, and sociological theory, "Mixing It Up" makes it clear why the identity politics of previous decades have little relevance to the fluid new face of contemporary humanity.

Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) By Hazel M. McFerson
2001 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0313307911 | PDF | 2 MB
Invidious distinctions on the basis of race and overt racism were central features in American colonial policy in the Philippines from 1898 to 1947, as America transported its domestic racial policy to the island colony. This collection by young Filipino scholars analyzes American colonialism and its impact on administration and attitudes in the Philippines through the prism of American racial tradition, a structural concept which refers to beliefs, attitudes, images, classifications, laws, and social customs that shape race relations and racial formation in multiracial and colonial societies. The dominance of this tradition was manifested in the wanton prerogatives of the U.S. Congress and others who helped to carry out colonial policy in the region.The Spanish flexible racial tradition had resulted in a system based on ethnicity and class as determinants of social and economic structure, while the rigid U.S. racial tradition assigned race the more dominant role. The cultural affinity between the early individual American administrators and the Filipino elite, however, meant that class-based distinctions in the islands were not broken up. Thus, the extreme elitist character of the Philippines' economy and society persisted and became impervious to the influences which in other Asian countries led to a progressive weakening of elite structures as the 20th century advanced.

Mittelalter. 100 Seiten (Reclam 100 Seiten) (German Edition) by Thomas Frenz
German | March 18, 2022 | ISBN: 3150205891 | 101 pages | EPUB | 4.65 Mb
Wie dunkel war das ›finstere Mittelalter‹ wirklich? Und warum heißt es ›Mittel‹alter? Begann es tatsächlich im Jahre 476? Und wann hörte es auf?

Mitochondria in Pathogenesis By John J. Lemasters (Editor), Anna-Liisa Nieminen (Editor)
2001 | 540 Pages | ISBN: 0306464330 | PDF | 45 MB
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Provides an overview of recent major advances in the understanding of mitochondria's roles in pathophysiology. DNLM: Mitochondria--physiology.

Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning by Carlotta A. Berry, Brandeis Hill Marshall
English | October 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1264922442 | 304 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
This practical guide shows, step by step, how to use machine learning to carry out actionable decisions that do not discriminate based on numerous human factors, including ethnicity and gender. The authors examine the many kinds of bias that occur in the field today and provide mitigation strategies that are ready to deploy across a wide range of technologies, applications, and industries.

Mithridates VI Eupator: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History
English | October 6, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FV311888 | 60 pages | EPUB | 1.12 Mb
Discover the remarkable life of Mithridates VI Eupator...