Strategic Planning for Project Management Using a Project Management Maturity Model by Harold R. Kerzner
English | January 16, 2001 | ISBN: 0471400394 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.75 Mb
"It has often been said that 'to improve, one must be prepared to measure the improvement' and 'one must inspect what one expects.' The Kerzner Project Management Maturity Model has provided this tangible measure of maturity. The rest is up to a company to set the expectations and to inspect the results."-Bill Marshall, Nortel Global Project Process Standards (from the Foreword)

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1492086894 | 773 Pages | True MOBI | 11 MB
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts-difficult problems or issues with no best practices-that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.

Smart Photos: 52 Ideas To Take Your Smartphone Photography to the Next Level by Jo Bradford
English | October 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 0711265461 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 8.57 MB
Packed with projects and inspirational ideas you can do any time, any place, become an accomplished photographer while feeding your creativity with this guide that reveals what just what your smartphone camera is capable of.

Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad By Hil Malatino
2022 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1517912083 | PDF | 9 MB
How the "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days-or weeks, or months, or even years-being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening.In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the "wrong body." Posttransition, trans individuals-especially trans people of color-are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair.By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing-and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.

Sex More Than A Technique: Redefining sex and building genuine intimacy Forever. by John T. Parks
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9YRJCDM | 55 pages | EPUB | 0.12 Mb
The complete guide to creating the sex life of your greatest fantasies with advanced knowledge from sexpert John T. Parks

Secularism: The Basics By Jacques Berlinerblau
2021 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0367691574 | PDF | 5 MB
Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe. "Secularism" must be the most confused and convoluted term in the entire global political lexicon. From New York, to Paris, to Istanbul, to Addis Ababa, to New Delhi, to Montevideo, there are countless examples of politicians, religious leaders and journalists, invoking the S-word in heated debates about public education, gender, sex, national symbols, and artistic freedom. In this lively and lucid book, Jacques Berlinerblau addresses why secularism is defined in so many ways and why it so ignites people's passions. In so doing, he explores the following important questions: What does secularism mean? Why should we care about this idea? What are the different types of secularism and what are their histories? What are the basic principles of political secularisms? Why are secularism and Atheism often confused? What is the relationship between secularism and LGBTQ rights? What opposition are secularisms up against? What does the future hold for a concept millennia in the making, but only really operationalized in the twentieth century? With a glossary of key terms, case studies, informative tables, and suggestions for further reading throughout, the book considers key philosophical, religious, anti-religious, post-modern and post-colonial arguments around secularism. This book is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a readable introduction to the often-conflicting interpretations of one of our era's most complex and controversial ideas.

Science for a Green New Deal : Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice
by Eric A. Davidson
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1421444348 | 264 Pages | True ePUB | 2.06 MB

SECOND STAGE: THE CLASSICAL COGNITIVE MODEL by Erick Jaimes
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9Y2W4XS | 260 pages | MOBI | 0.41 Mb
Using the example of the machine to read English texts, an important difference between the connectionist and the Symbolist models can be shown. In the connectionist model, as soon as the printed letters enter the system, they are transformed into a series of patterns of activation and deactivation and transmission of signals by the components of the network; It does not become a symbol, nor is it possible to linearly follow its path of transformations as it happens in the sequential architecture of the classical cognitivist model. In connectionism, symbols or representations disappear or serve no function. Thus, the traditional perspective of various psychologies and other disciplines, expressed in that the mind works with symbols, is left without place.

Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture By Beth Lynch, Anne Dunan-Page (editor)
2008 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0754658007 | PDF | 23 MB
Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable, significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England. Whilst there has been regular, if often cursory, scholarly interest in his activities as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is the first sustained book-length study of the man for almost a century. L'Estrange's engagement on the Royalist side during the Civil war, and his energetic pamphleteering for the return of the King in the months preceding the Restoration earned him a reputation as one of the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the Press under Charles II, he was charged with preventing the printing and publication of dissenting writings; his additional role as Surveyor of the Press authorised him to search the premises of printers and booksellers on the mere suspicion of such activity. He was also a tireless pamphleteer, journalist, and controversialist in the conformist cause, all of which made him the bГѓВЄte noire of Whigs and non-conformists. This collection of essays by leading scholars of the period highlights the instrumental role L'Estrange played in the shaping of the political, literary, and print cultures of the Restoration period. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the volume covers all the major aspects of his career, as well as situating them in their broader historical and literary context. By examining his career in this way the book offers insights that will prove of worth to political, social, religious and cultural historians, as well as those interested in seventeenth-century literary and book history.

Edited by Andreas Lammer, "Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World "
English | ISBN: 9004504443 | 2022 | 428 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography, in order to investigate and present shared contexts and questions, and to initiate future collaboration among the fields of classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.

Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory: Theorizing the Other By John Solomos
2022 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1857286324 | PDF | 9 MB
In Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory John Solomos provides a critical and comprehensive overview of recent theorising and debate about the role of race and ethnicity in contemporary societies. Written in an accessible style and drawing on a wide range of both theoretical and empirically focused materials this is a book that seeks to explore the evolution of race and ethnicity as subjects of both scholarly and political debate. It includes detailed analysis of key themes in contemporary scholarly research and provides case studies and examples that will be of interest to students and scholars of race and ethnicity alike.Key chapters include:race and racismanti-semitism, racism and modernityrace, difference and identityfeminism, race and cultural politicsnationalisms and racismsrace and ethnicity in a changing world.

James S. Williams, "Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema "
English | ISBN: 0367209381 | 2020 | 278 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees.

Python Programming: The Complete Course by Prof. Lisa Latour
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9XZXNX6 | 145 pages | EPUB | 0.81 Mb
Welcome to this training for the Kindle edition of Python for Intermediates. This book is going to go more in depth than the previous beginner's book did in showing you how you can use Python to its fullest advantage.

Political Leadership Between Democracy and Authoritarianism : Comparative and Historical Perspectives
by Jerzy J. Wiatr
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3847425382 | 206 Pages | True PDF | 3.76 MB

Ally Lazare, "Plant-Based Diet in 30 Minutes: 100 Fast & Easy Recipes for Busy People"
English | ISBN: 1647399092 | 2021 | 186 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
Fresh and flavorful plant based cooking in 30 minutes

Pandas in 7 Days: Utilize Python to Manipulate Data, Conduct Scientific Computing,
Time Series Analysis, and Exploratory Data Analysis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9355512139 | 541 Pages | EPUB (True) | 6 MB

Gail Braybon, "Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars"
English | ISBN: 0415752450 | 2014 | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.

Robert A. Geake, "New England Citizen Soldiers of the Revolutionary War: Minutemen & Mariners "
English | ISBN: 1467142603 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Many of the leaders and heroes of the Revolutionary War are well known to most Americans. Lesser known are those unsung heroes or citizen soldiers who first enlisted with local militias before being assigned to units of the Continental Line and sent away to fight in states and regions far removed from their homes and families. In New England, these also included men of the sea who signed aboard privateers or became part of the Mariner brigades that became indispensable in navigating waterways and ferrying troops into position. It is also the larger story of their struggle to maintain their loyalty to their home states, property and family. Author and historian Robert Geake uncovers the untold story of ordinary citizens who became united in the cause for freedom.

Adam Zamoyski, "Napoleon: A Life"
English | ISBN: 0465055931 | 2018 | 784 pages | AZW3 | 9 MB
The definitive biography of Napoleon - hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist.

Allison Margaret Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World "
English | ISBN: 1469654385 | 2020 | 376 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism.

Erasmo Coronado Gamboa, "Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 "
English | ISBN: 029597849X | 2000 | 208 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
"Although Mexican migrant workers have toiled in the fields of the Pacific Northwest since the turn of the century, and although they comprise the largest work force in the region's agriculture today, they have been virtually invisible in the region's written labor history. Erasmo Gamboa's study of the bracero program during World War II is an important beginning, describing and documenting the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and contributing to our knowledge of farm labor."―Oregon Historical Quarterly

Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity, and the Maternal By Nowak, Katarzyna
2007 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 3631556276 | PDF | 28 MB
The book analyzes traveling post-colonial subjects in recent prose by women writers of South Asian origin, tracing the links between thetropes of femininity, silence, loss, and migration. Traveling is understood as an act of generating meaning out of movement, displacement andmigration, while the position of traveling subjects is seen as that of a paradoxical liminality, yet carrying the insurgent potential of finding newmodes of agency. The argument evolves from crossing boundaries of one's own body towards radical transgression of borders of identity.Before the traveler is able to transgress the limitations exhorted by forces beyond a single person's grasp, she has to establish the boundariesof her own identity - only in order to shed its steadiness and discover liberating instability.

Mastering Roblox Coding:
The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming
English | 2022 | ISBN: 180181404X | 424 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 21 MB

Magnetic Monopole Noise by Ritika Dusad
English | PDF | 2021 | 83 Pages | ISBN : 3030581926 | 4.7 MB
This thesis presents the first ever measurement of the noise emitted by magnetic monopoles and the development of an exquisitely sensitive magnetic-field-noise spectrometer based on a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that enabled it. Magnetic monopoles are highly elusive elementary particles exhibiting quantized magnetic charge.

MODELS OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY by Shawn Mann
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BBRZGJ4N | 275 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb
The volume is a concise introduction to political philosophy, presented through its concepts, problems and main theories. The first part of the book traces a map of some of the fundamental questions that political philosophy has tried to answer in the course of its long history: what is the best political order, what relations are there between morality and politics, on the one hand? , and between politics and force, on the other hand, what is the nature of political action.

Mike Cox, "Legends & Lore of the Texas Capitol"
English | ISBN: 1540216756 | 2017 | 226 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed large in Texas lore. The iconic landmark rests on a foundation of election rigging, an unsolved murder, land swaps and pre-dedication blackmail. It bore witness to the first meeting between LBJ and Lady Bird, as well as a bizarre resolution honoring the Boston Strangler. Mike Cox digs up a quarry's worth of the capitol's untold history, cataloguing everything from its ghost stories to its public art and collectible tourist kitsch.

Learning Tableau 2022: Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics,
and improve your data storytelling capabilities, 5th Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801072329 | 905 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 99 MB

Java: The 1-Step At A Time Java Programming For Beginners Guide To Learn Java by Matthew Adams
English | January 17, 2017 | ISBN: 1542663628 | 72 pages | EPUB | 0.12 Mb
Have You Been Thinking Seriously About Digging into Programming? Are You Tired of Your Java Code Turning Out Wrong? Yes, you can easily catch up with the technologically evolving world with this simple yet elegantly crafted guide! While some people are scared that coding will be too hard for them, Java is an easy language to learn and you will be able to learn all the Java basics with the help of this guidebook! This book is the secret to unlocking your programming potentials within a very short amount of time! It will provide all the information you need to learn some of the Java for beginners basic and yet very powerful parts of the Java program so that you are able to write out some great codes. These fun and easy tips transform the dreaded chore of learning programming code into a fun hobby. You'll be proud to show off your creations to your friends, coworkers, and family! As you work through "Java: The 1-Step At A Time Java Programming For Beginners Guide to Learn Java", you will be able to rapidly get a strong grasp ofThe Basics of Programming JavaWorking with Variables in the Java LanguageWorking with Conditional StatementsIteration Statements and Looping Statements in JavaWhat are Arrays and How Do They Work in Java?Functions and Methods Inside JavaWorking with Classes and ObjectsThis book is especially written for absolute programming beginners who have no previous knowledge of Java or other programming languages. Whether you are an expert, looking to discover something new, or an amateur yet thriving programmer hoping to excel in the field of Java Programming, this book is for you! Learn how to program using Java, and carve your own bright future! What Are You Waiting For? Download your copy of "Java: The 1-Step At A Time Java Programming For Beginners Guide to Learn Java" and change the whole course of your destiny!

Inertial Quasi-Velocity Based Controllers for a Class of Vehicles: With Simulation Applications for Underwater Vehicles, Hovercrafts, and Indoor Airships by Przemyslaw Herman
English | EPUB | 2022 | 394 Pages | ISBN : 3030946460 | 55 MB
This book offers a timely overview of nonlinear control methods applied to a set of vehicles and their applications to study vehicle dynamics. The first part on the book presents the mathematical models used for describing motion of three class of vehicles such as underwater vehicles, hovercrafts and airships. In turn, each model is expressed in terms of Inertial Quasi-Velocities. Various control strategies from the literature, including model-free ones, are then analyzed. The second part and core of the book guides readers to developing model-based control algorithms using Inertial Quasi-Velocities. Both non-adaptive and adaptive versions are covered. Each controller is validated through simulation tests, which are reported in detail.

Helena Hamerow, "Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain: Essays in honour of Rosemary Cramp"
English | ISBN: 1842170511 | 2001 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honor by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in Lincolnshire; Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental sculpture from St David's in South Wales; Martin Carver reviews the politics of monumental sculpture and monumentality; and Catherine Hills reassesses the significance of imported ivory found in graves. Richard Bailey, Christopher Morris and Derek Craig top and tail the book with tributes to Rosemary Cramp and a bibliography of her work.