Secrets in the Studio: A New Inquiry into Oil Painting Materials and Techniques by Kevin Todd
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09ZL4FDSZ | 185 pages | EPUB | 4.75 Mb
The first step in learning the art of oil painting is to understand how an oil painting is built up? What materials are used and what are the steps? An oil painting consists of four major layers: the support layer, the base layer, the painting layer and the protection layer. The base layer can be divided into a gum base layer and a painting base layer, and the painting layer can be divided into a paint layer and an overpainting layer. Whether using traditional painting methods or direct painting methods, whether classical realism or contemporary painting, it is impossible to break away from this structure. Any oil painting that goes against this structure will have various problems.

Scandinavian Dishes You Can Cook in An Hour: Easy To Prepare Scandinavian Recipes by Ava Archer
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09BB869QK | 73 pages | EPUB | 3.18 Mb
People get bored of things quickly, and food/drinks are no exception. A lot of people are used to their country's recipes such that they find these recipes bland and boring in no time!!

Geoffrey Hosking, "Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union"
English | 2006 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0674021789, 0674030532 | PDF | 11,5 mb
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged?

Round Europe in These Recipes: Quick and Easy European Dishes That You Must Try by Ava Archer
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09BBH54NX | 74 pages | EPUB | 3.49 Mb
Europe is a very large continent with various countries in it, and going around Europe might take years to achieve. However, do you know you can have a taste of all the amazing cuisines in Europe? From Italian meals to French cuisines and Scandinavian meals.

Richard H. Davis, "Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Siva in Medieval India"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0691603081, 0691632499 | PDF | pages: 217 | 13.4 mb
Saiva liturgy is performed in a world that oscillates: a world permeated by the presence of Siva, where humans live in a condition of bondage and where the highest aim of the soul is to attain liberation from its fetters. In this account of Indian temple ritual, Richard Davis uses medieval Hindu texts to describe the world as it is envisioned by Saiva siddhanta and the way daily worship reflects and acts within that world. He argues that this worship is not simply a set of ritualized gestures, but rather a daily catechism in which the worshiper puts into action all the major themes of Saiva philosophy: the cyclic pattern of cosmic emission and reabsorption, the human path of attaining liberation, the manifestation of divinity in the world, and the proper interrelationship of humanity and god. In re-creating the convictions and intentions of a well-versed worshiper of the twelfth century, Davis moves back and forth between philosophical and ritual texts, demonstrating the fundamental Saiva belief that the capacities of humans to know about the world and to act within it are two inter-related modalities of the unitary power of consciousness.

Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston
English | August 2, 2013 | ISBN: 0520217071, 0520280180 | True PDF | 352 pages | 18.7 MB
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions-most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it. She draws on both well-known sources, such as Athenian tragedies, and newer texts, such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous.

Pascal Danjou - Renault R35 / R40
Editions Du Barbotin | 2005 | ISBN: 2952098832 | Français / English | 63 pages | PDF | 81.58 MB
Trackstory No 4

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste
English | August 23, 2022 | ISBN: 1982172355 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.4 MB
For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte BrontГ«'s Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.

Real-Time Streaming with Apache Kafka, Spark, and Storm:
Create Platforms That Can Quickly Crunch Data and Deliver Real-Time Analytics to Users
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9390684595 | 230 Pages | EPUB (True) | 5.32 MB

Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race By Wendy Roth
2012 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0804777950 | PDF | 4 MB
In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race―for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an American idea about race does not mean abandoning earlier ideas. New racial schemas transfer across borders and cultures spread between sending and host countries.Behind many current debates on immigration is the question of how Latinos will integrate and where they fit into the U.S. racial structure. Race Migrations shows that these migrants increasingly see themselves as a Latino racial group. Although U.S. race relations are becoming more "Latin Americanized" by the presence of Latinos and their views about race, race in the home countries is also becoming more "Americanized" through the cultural influence of those who go abroad. Ultimately, Roth shows that several systems of racial classification and stratification co-exist in each place, in the minds of individuals and in their shared cultural understandings of "how race works."

Linkedin Learning CSS Selectors UPDATE 20220825-XQZT
Size: 355 MB Type: eLearning Year: 2022 Version: 2022-08-25

J. Simon, "Quantum Point Theory"
English | 2012 | ASIN: B0095H6EUO | EPUB | pages: 3 | 0.1 mb
A short paper about a new theory of Quantum Mechanics. This theory is based on the idea (first proposed by John Wheeler) that perhaps there is only one electron. One.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Cartoon by Kevin Todd
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09ZQC5Y2K | 115 pages | EPUB | 7.58 Mb
In clinical work, we can make professional judgments and detailed explanations based on the statements of patients or families, but it is far more difficult than we think when it comes to presenting this information through words and pictures. In the process of writing this comic, we repeatedly discussed and consulted books and materials, trying to bring together our years of knowledge and experience and present it to our readers and friends with precise language and funny drawings. The drawing of the comic has been changed several times, and it took a lot of time to discuss and polish just the design style and color mixing. In addition, we have added some digital elements for easy understanding, if readers have doubts about a certain rehabilitation action, examination and nursing operation in the book.

Pro Data Mashup for Power BI:
Powering Up with Power Query and the M Language to Find, Load, and Transform Data
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1484285778 | 510 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 94 MB

Andrew Clarke, "Principles of Thermal Ecology: Temperature, Energy and Life"
English | ISBN: 0199551669 | 2017 | 464 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Temperature affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism can or cannot do. This novel textbook reveals the key principles behind the complex relationship between organisms and temperature, namely the science of thermal ecology. It starts by providing a rigorous framework for understanding the flow of energy in and out of the organism, before describing the influence of temperature on what organisms can do and how fast they can do it. With these fundamental principles covered, the bulk of the book explores thermal ecology itself, incorporating the important extra dimension of interactions with other organisms. An entire chapter is devoted to the crucially important subject of how organisms are responding to climate change. Indeed, the threat of rapid climatic change on a global scale is a stark reminder of the challenges that remain for evolutionary thermal

Szymon Rozga, "Practical Bot Development: Designing and Building Bots with Node.js and Microsoft Bot Framework"
English | 2018 | pages: 674 | ISBN: 148423541X | EPUB | 15,9 mb
Chapter 1: Introducing Bots

Politics and Poetics of Belonging By Mounir Guirat
2018 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1527503518 | PDF | 1 MB
The contributions gathered in this volume bear witness to the fact that belonging is a multi-faceted concept that necessitates different and shifting idioms of expression. It continually requires reconsideration and redefinition of our affiliations in response to the rapid social, cultural, and political changes of our world. The literary paradigms, linguistic practices, and cultural formations of belonging testify to the impossibility of confining it to conventional and established structures of knowledge. The different reflections on belonging introduced in this book are instrumental in reassessing and remodelling the general assumptions that have informed its definition and representation. The current global reality and the self-other encounter make inevitable the continuous search for new forms of belonging that are in tune with ones evolving and changing sense of self. Theoretically informed by and substantially grounded in lively and heated debates on cultural identity and belonging, this book proposes new critical directions in understanding national and transnational belonging.

Edward Dearing, "Play the Nimzo-Indian"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1857444035 | 224 pages | PDF | 5.9 MB
The Nimzo-Indian is one of Black's most universally popular and respectable answers to 1 d4. It could be said that no other opening allows Black to play for a win from such a sound positional basis, while its flexibility gives rise to a multitude of different positions rich in tactical and positional play. The list of Nimzo-Indian admirers runs like a who's who of the chess world: Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Anatoly Karpov, and Michael Adams are just a handful of top Grandmasters who have utilized it with great effect.

Joe Gallagher, "Play the King's Indian: A Complete Repertoire for Black in this most Dynamic of Openings"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1857443241 | 208 pages | PDF | 13.2 MB
The King's Indian has always been one of the sharpest, most complex, and popular openings that Black can play; it still provides the setting for many encounters at the elite level of Grandmaster chess. Straight from the start, Black fights for the initiative and in many variations, while White pursues material gains, it is Black who has the psychological advantage of trying checkmate the opponent's king.

Anne Merritt, "Plant-Based Diet for Beginners: A Guide and Cookbook with Over 100 Easy Vegan Recipes to Meet All The Nutritional Needs for a Healthy Life"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B9463FSC, B0B946RYY5, B0B92KL2CQ | EPUB | pages: 154 | 1.9 mb
Plant-Based Diet for Beginners introduces you to a healthy way of eating that you can maintain for a lifetime.

Pipeline Populism : Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Kai Bosworth
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1517911052 | 287 Pages | True PDF | 2.96 MB

Donald Smythe, "Pershing: General of the Armies"
English | 2007 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 0253219248, 025334381X | PDF | 56,9 mb
The product of nearly 25 years of research, Pershing: General of the Armies remains one of the most authoritative biographies of the man known as "Black Jack." Newly appointed head of the American Expeditionary Forces, Pershing sailed for Europe in May 1917. Once in France, he set about the task of building an army. By October the Americans were at the front and over the next year became involved in increasingly significant battles, all vividly recounted here: Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and the 47-day slugfest in the Meuse-Argonne. Although the impact of the American forces on the outcome of the war has been much debated, there is no question that the troops acquitted themselves well under Pershing's command. Pershing's postwar life included an unsuccessful run for president, a stint as Chief of Staff, and a secret romance with a French woman 34 years younger than he; nonetheless, his influence as a leader extended into World War II.

People Skills for a Virtual World Collection (6 Books) (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B3FBJZWS | 556 Pages | True MOBI EPUB | 11 MB
HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master and demonstrate in a virtual or hybrid workplace. This specially priced, six-volume set includes the EI series books:

Operationalizing Machine Learning Pipelines:
Building Reusable and Reproducible Machine Learning Pipelines Using MLOps
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9355510233 | 203 Pages | True EPUB | 2 MB

Christof Sielecki, "Opening Repertoire: Nimzo and Bogo Indian"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1781941092 | 440 pages | PDF | 9.6 MB
International Master Christof Sielecki presents a repertoire for Black based on the Nimzo-Indian and Bogo-Indian defenses. The Nimzo-Indian has always enjoyed a reputation as a dynamic, reliable defense against 1 d4 and continues to be as popular as ever at all levels. When White avoids the Nimzo-Indian with 3 Nf3 or 3 g3, however, Black needs to find another solution. Sielecki solves this perennial problem by also offering a repertoire with the Bogo-Indian Defense. In both the Nimzo and the Bogo-Indian, Sielecki focuses on lines in which Black adopts a dark-square strategy. This creates a system-type approach which links the variations to a common theme, making the repertoire much easier to learn and understand. Using illustrative games, Sielecki examines the typical tactics and strategies for both sides, and highlights key move order issues. This book tells you all you need to know about playing the Nimzo and Bogo-Indian.

Dag Sebastian Ahlander, "Older and Wiser: Inspiration and Advice for Retiring Baby Boomers"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1629144177 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.0 mb
Older and Wiser! is the inspiring new sequel to Older and Happier! , Dag Sebastian Ahlander's joyful guide to turning retirement into a time of self-exploration. For many men, the years after sixty-five become the best of their lives-and with good reason. The office is left behind, the children have grown up, and you're healthy, alert, and free to do what you want. Still, as with any big life change, you may be looking for some words of advice and hope.

Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky : Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis
by Stephen R. Jones
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1496230272 | 171 Pages | True PDF | 2.82 MB

Adobe After Effects 2022 v22.6.0.64 Multilingual-m0nkrus
Size: 2.75 GB Type: Apps Year: 2022 Version: v22.6.0.64

Not Cancelled: Canadian Kindness the Face of COVID-19 By Heather Down
2020 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1989664024 | EPUB | 3 MB
This heartwarming collection of 49 reflections and narratives paint a beautiful picture of Canadian kindness during an unsettling time. From a talking schnauzer to a dancing Sikh, this book makes people proud to be Canadian.

Norse Mythology Creatures: Mythical Spirits, Monsters and Beasts from folktales by Trident Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9422BRK | 52 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb
It has significantly impacted modern literature, television, and video games with its gripping tales, complex characters, and terrible monsters. Many of these were nighttime creatures, and they were ominous, terrifying spiritual beings that intended to eradicate humanity and bring about the end of the planet. Most of the monsters from Norse mythology were much more potent than the Vikings, but the Gods were on their side in every conflict and other circumstance. The world of Norse mythology also revealed that the Vikings commonly interacted with benign beings like elves and dwarfs. This book is a compilation of wisdom from extraordinary mythological creatures. In Uncovering Norse Mythology creatures, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:Norse CreaturesNorse DragonsNorse SpiritsNorse Mythical Beastsand many more