Henry Hill, Gus Russo, "Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 159077129X, 1590770293 | 286 pages | EPUB | 1.7 MB
"At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." ― Henry Hill

From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
English | ISBN: 9463725458 | 2021 | 254 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB
The narrative of the birth of internet culture often focuses on the achievements of American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, but there is an alternative history of internet pioneers in Europe who developed their own model of network culture in the early 1990s. Drawing from their experiences in the leftist and anarchist movements of the '80s, they built DIY networks that give us a glimpse into what internet culture could have been if it were in the hands of squatters, hackers, punks, artists, and activists. In the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squatting. Untethered from profit motives, these artists and activists aimed to create a decentralized tool that would democratize culture and promote open and free exchange of information.

Free France's Lion: The Life of Phillippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General By William Mortimer Moore
2011 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1612000800 | EPUB | 6 MB
Aside from a fast-paced narrative covering combat at all levels of command, Leclerc's story will make fascinating reading for any serious student of the full scope of World War II.

Jorge Barros-VelГЎzquez, "Foodomics: Omic Strategies and Applications in Food Science "
English | ISBN: 1788018842 | 2021 | 514 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Presenting an up-to-date review of the state-of-the-art and main applications of omics technologies to current hot topics in food sciences, this book is divided into four convenient sections. The first section represents an introduction to the development of foodomics and will provide a general overview of DNA-based and protein-based methods. The second section is focused on the main applications of omics to food safety issues, such as chemical hazards, foodborne pathogens, phages, food authentication or GMO detection. The third section is focused on specific food groups and how omics have revolutionized the investigation of dairy and meat products, seafood, agricultural and fermented food products. Finally, the fourth section is devoted to the link between foodomics and health: hot topics such as nutrimetabolomics, food allergy or probiotics are reviewed here.

Fodor's, "Fodor's Chicago "
English | ISBN: 0770432689 | 2014 | 336 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Chicago, including architectural tours, happening music venues, and top pizza joints and steak houses. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth.

Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast By Mark Doyle
2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0719079527 | PDF | 20 MB
This fascinating book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland's most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. This study provides a vivid example of how a society can come apart at the seams - and how it can stay that way for generations. Through a series of steadily escalating riots, working-class Protestants and Catholics forged a tradition of violence that profoundly shaped their own identities and that of the city itself, setting the stage for the bitter conflicts of the next century. Fighting like the Devil for the Sake of God describes that foundational moment, offering a new analysis of Belfast's violence that is rooted in the social lives of those who constructed this bitter rivalry and those who were forced to endure it.This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Irish and Modern History. -- .

Peter John, "Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy: Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery"
English | 2017 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 1138776831 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Field experiments - randomized controlled trials - have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders, welfare policies and international aid programs to name just a few of the interventions tested in this way. Field experiments have become successful because they assess causal claims in ways that other methods of evaluation find hard to emulate.

Patrizia Calefato, "Fashion as Cultural Translation: Signs, Images, Narratives "
English | ISBN: 178527242X | 2021 | 158 pages | AZW3 | 398 KB
The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main reference), the book crosses some of the main aspects of the contemporary culture of the clothed body: from time and space, to gender, to fashion as cultural translation, to the narratives included in the media convergence of our age. According to Jurji Lotman, fashion introduces the dynamic principle into seemingly inert spheres of the everyday. Fashion's unexpected function of overturning received meaning is conveyed through its collocation within the dynamic storehouse of what Lotman calls the "sphere of the unpredictable." In this horizon, the concept of fashion as a worldly system of sense (Benjamin) generates different "worlds" through its signs.

Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths by Scientific American Editors
English | July 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 9781466842526 | 180 pages | True EPUB | 0.72 MB
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this eBook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American's "Fact or Fiction" and "Strange But True" columns, we've selected 58 of the most surprising, fascinating, useful and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.

F.U. Money - Fuck You Money : Make As Much Money As You Damn Well Want And Live Your Life As You Damn Well Please! By Dan Lok
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1599325748 | PDF | 10 MB
Are you TIRED of the RAT RACE? Do you wish you had MORE TIME and MORE MONEY? Would you like to NEVER WORK AGAIN? If you answered "YES!", then you need to look no further than Dan "The Man" Lok's new book - F.U. MONEY.If you have ever thought to yourself: How come I have to keep back to this DEAD-END JOB? How can I make enough money to afford to STOP WORKING and START HAVING FUN?? When will it be MY TURN to live the GOOD LIFE???Imagine how your life would become if you knew what it really takes to make more money that you have ever dreamed possible.For instance, can you imagine that... All the money stress in your life suddenly vanishes? You get to fire your boss and tell him where to shove it? Take holidays whenever you want and for as long as you want? You are living in the house of your dreams, driving the car of your dreams and also have a boat and a cabin and even a plane if you want? You can afford to give your children the perfect, healthy, fun and fulfilling childhood that you always wanted to give them?In this no-nonsense, no-holds-barred guide, international entrepreneur, best-selling author, and self-made multi-millionaire Dan Lok shows you how to live the lifestyle you reallywant without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Adults (Respiratory Medicine)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031052986 | 565 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
This new edition presents an evidence-based review of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for adults, with a particular focus on veno-venous (VV) ECMO. Due to the dramatic impact of COVID-19, the number of institutions offering ECMO, thus the number of clinicians performing ECMO (or referring their patients for ECMO), has exploded in a truly unprecedented way. While the pandemic may fade, programs built in response will survive by extending the application of ECMO to previously overlooked populations.

Exploring Edinburgh: Six Tours of the City and its Architecture by Robin Ward
English | January 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1913025578 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 49.1 MB
A Guide to the rich architectural landscape of Scotland's capital, its World Heritage Site and history -300 buildings and monuments- maps and suggested routed for walking, cycling and public transport or car.

Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031069315 | 561 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
Clients enter therapy grappling with a range of difficulties. They don't speak in diagnostic terms, but instead focus on the everyday problems that confront them. Their struggles may include isolation, loneliness, anxiety, guilt and regret, and problems making decisions in a world that offers seemingly endless choice. In contrast, the cognitive-behavior therapist is trained in the language of conditioning and extinction, avoidance and safety behaviors, behavioral activation and attentional biases. This book explores the ideas of the existentialist philosophers as a bridge between the suffering client and technically trained clinician. The volume is not a rejection of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), but seeks to place CBT in the broader context of the most popular philosophic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Everyday Metaphysical Explanation By Kristie Miller, James Norton
2022 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0198857306 | PDF | 11 MB
The philosophical notion of metaphysical explanation has been subject to an increased level of attention in the previous decade. Despite tantalising claims about how metaphysical explanations are part of everyday life, the everyday notion has not been explored. In Everyday Metaphysical Explanation, Kristie Miller and James Norton take up the task of developing an account of the everyday notion of metaphysical explanation: the notion that we all use in ordinary contexts when we ask for, and receive, explanations of a certain sort. Building on the striking results of their empirical investigation of folk judgements regarding what metaphysically explains what, together with evidence of our ordinary practices surrounding the notion, they build three unique accounts of the phenomenon.

European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals by Michael Kaeding
English | EPUB | 2022 | 181 Pages | ISBN : 3030865363 | 0.6 MB
This book sheds light on how member states and EU neighbours reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of European solidarity, what they expect from the EU, and other member states, and how they are ready to contribute to common action. The volume reveals how European countries experience and perceive solidarity from the EU and towards the EU in different policy dimensions, such as intra-EU mobility, healthcare and financial and economic aspects of Europe's recovery.The book offers national perspectives and perceptions of solidarity and concrete aspects in different policy areas. It includes a Foreword by the Vice-presidents of the European Parliament Katarina Barley and Othmar Karas.

Euripides : Alcestis (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
by Niall W. Slater
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1780934726 | 152 Pages | True PDF | 4.14 MB

Patricia Fara, "Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity"
English | ISBN: 0199582661 | 2012 | 322 pages | AZW3 | 1497 KB
Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him.

Engineered Biochar: Fundamentals, Preparation, Characterization and Applications
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811924872 | 598 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 19 MB
This book systematically covers the fundamentals and applications of modified biochar. The 19 chapters are divided into 3 sections that provide a holistic overview for researchers from all related fields. Section 1 and 2 present the pyrolysis process, including the advantages and limitations of the physical, chemical, and biological modification methods and characterization of modified biochar. Section 3 highlights the wide spectrum of applications of modified biochar in fuel cells and batteries, remediation of organic and inorganic contaminants from soil and water and soil fertilization. Given its scope, the book appeals to a broad readership in various fields of chemical engineering, materials science, and environmental science.

Embodying Adaptation: Character and the Body
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031085329 | 255 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.2 MB
This book explores the impact of the body on the mediation of character in adaptations. Specifically, it thinks about how identity is shaped by the body and how this alters meanings of adaptations. With an increasingly digital world, the importance of the body may be seen as diminishing. However, the book highlights the different political and social meanings the body signifies, which in turn renders character. Through a discussion of adaptations of sexuality, race, and mental difference, the mediation of character is shown to be tied to the physical. The book challenges the hierarchies in place both for the understanding of character, which privileges the actor, and in adaptations, which privileges the original. The discussion of the body, character, and adaptation asserts that the meanings the physical has in its shaping of, and by, character in adaptations reflect the way in which we position our own bodies in the world.

Elasticity in Healthcare Communication: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108842399 | 284 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings of words, depending on the context in which they are used - for example many, about 20, perhaps, could be. This study looks specifically at elastic language in the fields of medicine and healthcare, showing how it is used to serve both the patient's and the professional's needs. It explores the pragmatics and metapragmatics of elasticity in the delivery of online medical information as a way of avoiding miscommunication. Based on data from Chinese and English sources, it takes a cross-cultural perspective, to present an account of harmony and disharmony between professional medical websites and their users. Adding exciting new dimensions to the fields of health communication and pragmatics, it is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and interactional linguistics, as well as professionals involved in healthcare and communication.

Adel Iskandar, "Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution"
English | ISBN: 9774165969 | 2013 | 194 pages | EPUB | 734 KB
No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution has been neither victorious nor defeated. Egypt in Flux is a collection of essays on the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of change in the country's ongoing revolutionary current. While written over a span of several years, the essays are timeless in the historical context they provide and their ability to chart the country's trajectory in the period ahead. From the conditions that precipitated the uprising and the eruption of national dissent to the derailing of the revolution, the author reflects on the pressing topics of the day while being mindful of the counterrevolutionary movements and the continuation of the unending uprising. From discussions about the illusion of fair and free elections, social inequities, and labor disparities to examinations of religion, sports, literature, and sexuality, the essays in this valuable and intellectually stimulating volume chart both the broad lines and the nuances of an unfinished revolution.

Joshua Cutchin, "Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume One"
English | ISBN: 1733980857 | 2022 | 372 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
We live our entire lives knowing that death awaits us. The hopeful believe-they insist-that some part of us endures after we make our final transition. Their convictions are corroborated by eyewitnesses who swear to have seen spirits of the dead haunting the living... and even appearing during alien abductions.

Easy Zucchini Cookbook: 50 Delicious and Easy Zucchini Recipes by Chef Maggie Chow
English | February 5, 2016 | ISBN: 1523887974 | 136 pages | EPUB | 0.44 Mb
A spring time vegetable with so many options. These are easiest and most unique Zucchini recipes. . .

Easy European Cookbook Box Set: Easy English Cookbook, Easy Greek Cookbook, Easy French Cookbook, Easy Irish Cookbook, Easy German Cookbook, Easy Portuguese ... Portuguese Recipes, Irish Recipes) by Chef Maggie Chow
English | February 4, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01BHGSCL4 | 660 pages | EPUB | 0.83 Mb
Learn Every Style of European Cooking with 1 Box Set: French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Irish, and English!

Early Rome : Myth and Society (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History)
by Jaclyn Neel
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1119083796 | 338 Pages | True PDF | 26.7 MB

Dynamic Airbrush By David Miller
1996 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0891346996 | PDF | 26 MB
Offers step-by-step descriptions of nineteen projects and discusses airbrushes, texture effects, materials, mediums, and special techniques

Zen Master Seung Sahn, Stephen Mitchell, "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn"
English | 1994 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0802130526 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of "instant dialogue" between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Kaylie Kay, "Ditched: Some people have needed to be rescued their whole lives..."
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08KFGKRNP, B08KFYXMP8 | EPUB | pages: 314 | 0.3 mb
Ditch ~ verb~ to abandon or discard; of an aircraft landing on water.Flight Manager Julie Margot has been Ditched before, but never in this sense of the word! Whilst she is well accustomed to landing at international airports around the world, the rippling waters of North Hudson Bay are a new, and utterly terrifying, destination for her and everyone else on board.Finding themselves deep within the pages of their safety manuals, Julie and her crew draw on the drills and procedures that they never dreamed they would need, evacuating everyone into rafts and setting up camp on the shore as they wait to be rescued... but will they be found before tragedy strikes?On this most bizarre of layovers a new family is forming, and even a reluctant Julie cannot avoid 'caring,' that one emotion she has worked so hard to eliminate from her life. Without 'caring,' loneliness was a comfortable place, a place where the voices were quiet; but now they are back and standing firmly in the way of her happiness, which for once, she might dare to dream she can see on the horizon...Will anyone rescue her from them...?

Karen Soldatic, "Disability and Neoliberal State Formations"
English | 2018 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 1472460189, 0367587696 | PDF | 4,6 mb
Disability and Neoliberal State Formations explores the trajectory of neoliberalism in Australia and its impact on the lives of Australians living with disability, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It examines the emergence, intensification and normalisation of neoliberalism across a 20-year period, distilling the radical changes to disability social security and labour-market law, policy and programming, and the enduring effects of the incremental tightening of disability eligibility carried out by Australian governments since the early 2000s.

Development of Biopharmaceutical Drug-Device Products by Feroz Jameel
English | EPUB | 2020 | 888 Pages | ISBN : 3030314146 | 100.30 MB
The biotechnology/biopharmaceutical sector has tremendously grown which led to the invention of engineered antibodies such as Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs), Bispecific T-cell engager (BITES), Dual Variable Domain (DVD) antibodies, and fusion proteins that are currently being used as therapeutic agents for immunology, oncology and other disease conditions.