Advanced Journey with Ada
A Flight in Progress
This textbook provides an in-depth technical reference on Ada’s advanced features. It builds upon core fundamentals by delving into intricate language details through rigorous but accessible explanations and examples. Key topics include advanced data types, controlled visibility, OO, contracts, generics and exception handling. Developers learn how to optimize programs and solve sophisticated [...]
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China
From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai
This book examines how older adults in Shanghai, China are engaging with digital technologies like smartphones as they age. It is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Shanghai.
Ancient Knowledge Networks
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels and is shared in ancient societies. It focuses specifically on the cuneiform scholarly networks that existed in first millennium Assyria and Babylonia.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
This textbook by Peterson and Davie serves as a comprehensive guide to fundamental computer networking concepts, algorithms, protocols, and technologies. It uses a layered systems model to provide context for how discrete components interconnect. It begins with an overview of OSI and TCP/IP networking models before thoroughly covering physical transmission media, signals, [...]
Heritage Dynamics
Understanding and adapting to change in diverse heritage contexts
This book develops a new theoretical framework called “heritage dynamics” to analyse heritage as an adaptive and transformative socio-cultural practice rather than something fixed. Through case studies, it applies this framework to examine how heritage responds to change in various contexts. The book aims to reorient heritage management thinking towards approaches embracing [...]
Introduction to Embedded Systems Programming
This in-depth technical course teaches programmers how to effectively use Ada for developing safety-critical and resource-constrained embedded software. It provides a comprehensive overview of low-level programming techniques, multi-language interfacing, interrupt handling, and interacting with common peripherals from an Ada-oriented perspective. Real code samples demonstrate techniques using the Ada Drivers Library. Recommended for: [...]
Introduction to Networking
How the Internet works
This intro book aims to explain the key concepts, design, protocols, and infrastructure behind today’s Internet connectivity in plain language that anyone can understand. Originally coming from a popular online networking course it shows the clever way global digital networks are put together through topics like TCP/IP, hardware pieces, and a quick [...]
Introduction to Spark
This tutorial introduces the SPARK language and its associated analysis tools. It explains key differences from Ada that enable formal verification. Readers learn about adding basic contracts and analyzing code with tools like GNATprove. Advanced topics like state abstraction and ghost code are demonstrated. Numerous examples of varying complexity cement understanding. Recommended [...]
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materializing the Roman Empire is a book that looks at using archaeology to understand the Roman Empire better. It’s edited and has different authors explore how stuff and objects – material culture – shaped how the Empire worked as it got bigger and eventually fell apart. There are three main sections: First [...]
On the Formation of Marxism
Karl Kautsky’s Theory of Capitalism, the Marxism of the Second International and Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
This book by Jukka Gronow talks about how Karl Kautsky played a big role in shaping how people in the European social democratic labor movement understood and interpreted Marxism in the years before World War I. As the main authority on Marx and Engels’ ideas during this time, Kautsky’s specific analysis of [...]
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts
The book challenges traditional notions of knowledge flowing mainly from centers to peripheries during the early modern and modern periods. It examines cultural and intellectual exchanges between places as uneven and multi-directional rather than following a simple center-periphery hierarchy.
The discipline of organizing
The Discipline of Organizing by Glushko is a popular textbook for figuring out how groups organize information and connections in different situations. It sets up something called the Organizing System to look at how collections arrange resources and interactions no matter where they show up. It gives both theoretical basics and practical [...]