Sheila Murnaghan, "Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0739129538 | EPUB | pages: 150 | 1.4 mb
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's Description, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of honor, privilege, status, and fame. Odysseus' identity is seen to be rooted in his family relations, geographical origins, control of property, participation in the social institutions of hospitality and marriage, past actions, and ongoing reputation. At the same time, Odysseus' dependence on the acknowledgement of others ensures attention to multiple viewpoints, which makes the Odyssey more than a simple celebration of one man's preeminence and accounts in part for the poem's vigorous afterlife. The theme of disguise, which relies on plausible lies, highlights the nature of belief and the power of falsehood and creates the mixture of realism and fantasy that gives the Odyssey its distinctive texture. The book contains a pioneering analysis of the role of Penelope and the questions of female agency and human limitation raised by the critical debate about when exactly she recognizes that Odysseus has come home.

Niccolo Machiavelli, "Discourses"
English | 1984 | ISBN: 0140444289, 9568356398 | 544 pages | EPUB | 4.3 MB
"It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community"

Desk Therapy
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 3h 6m | 1.57 GB
Instructor: Dylan Werner

Death, Burial, and the Afterlife: Dublin Death Studies (Carysfort Press Ltd.) By Philip Cottrell (editor), Wolfgang Marx (editor)
2020 | 14 Pages | ISBN: 178997044X | PDF | 13 MB
The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration. The disciplines represented are as diverse as art history, classics, history, music, languages and literatures, and the approaches taken reflect various aspects of contemporary death studies. These include the fear of death, the role of death in shaping human identity, the 'taming' of death through ritual or aesthetic sublimation, and the utilization of death - particularly dead bodies - to manipulate social and political ends.The topics covered include the exhumation and reburial of Cardinal John Henry Newman;the funerary monument of John Donne in his shroud; the funeral of Joseph Stalin; the theme of mutilation and non-burial of the corpse in Homer's Iliad; the individual's encounter with death in the work of the German Philosopher Josef Pieper; the Requiem by the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford; the imagery of death in Giovanni Verga's novel Mastro-don Gesualdo, and the changing attitudes toward death in the writings of Michel Foucault.

J. Poolos, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, "Darius the Great"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0791096335 | ASIN: B005MVKE8K | PDF | pages: 126 | 5.6 mb
In ancient history, Darius I stands alone as an administrator with unparalleled insight into the workings of an empire. Under his leadership, the Persian Empire grew to be the largest and most powerful diplomatic and economic force in the world. After he cleverly seized the throne and quelled a series of revolts, Darius undertook a radical reorganization of the different peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau, instituting the practices of religious tolerance, widespread economic reform, and a fair system of law that would later be adopted by the generations that followed him in the Middle East and Europe. At the time of his death in 486 BCE, he had transformed the entire Middle East into a dominion of progressive government. In Darius the Great, read the story of his surprising ascendance to the throne, his clever diplomacy, and the military blunders that marked his ultimate place not as a conqueror, but as a governor of the people.

DNA Photodamage : From Light Absorption to Cellular Responses and Skin Cancer
by Roberto Improta and Thierry Douki
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839161965 | 360 Pages | True ePUB | 12.3 MB

Cross-Platform Modern Apps with VS Code: Combine the power of EF Core,
ASP.NET Core and Xamarin.Forms to build multi-platform applications on Visual Studio Code
English | 2022 | ISBN: 935551042X | 437 Pages | EPUB (True) | 7.45 MB

Prashant Kidambi, "Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire"
English | 2019 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0198843135, 0198843143 | EPUB | 4,2 mb
'Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English,' it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an independent nation.

Ryan Holiday, "Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave "
English | ISBN: 0593191676 | 2021 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal,and USA TodayBestseller!

Clarke Ching, "CorkScrew Solutions: How Great Leaders Solve (Seemingly) Impossible Problems"
English | ASIN : B0915VCXMJ | 2021 | 150 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
What separates good leaders from great leaders?Their ability to think outside the box and find ingenious solutions to gnarly dilemmas.Great thinkers like Winston Churchill, Eli Goldratt and Roger L. Martin, aside from being hugely influential people, all had one thing in common. When faced with a perplexing professional dilemma, they used two simple techniques to make all their important decisions. Author Clarke Ching calls these techniques 'Corkscrew Solutions.' Winston Churchill employed Corkscrew Solutions just as WW1 was about to begin. He was faced with a huge professional dilemma; preparing the British Navy to win a war against Germany. He had to decide whether Britain's navy should (a) stick with coal-powered ships or (b) switch to new, more powerful oil-fueled ships. From the outside, it looked like a lose/lose situation. Oil-powered ships would be more powerful, but at the time there wasn't a reliable and secure fuel supply. Britain would almost certainly lose the coming war. On the other hand, coal was a reliable fuel source, but the German navy was almost certainly switching to oil. For Britain to stick with coal power, as the movie line goes, would be like 'bringing a knife to a gunfight.' If they went with coal, Britain would almost certainly lose the coming war. So what was Winston to do? By thinking outside of the box, and using the strategies outlined in this book, he came up with a Corkscrew Solution. An ingenious third option which combined the best of both oil and coal. Unresolved professional dilemmas are the #1 cause of work related stress. This book will show you how to find clever solutions to (seemingly) impossible quandaries. You will solve problems that flummox other people. And your CorkScrew Solutions will turn problems into opportunities. Through Clarke Ching's humorous personal stories and real life examples you'll learn:- The 'Evaporating Cloud' Formula for describing any dilemma and finding its solution- How to combine seemingly conflicting ideas and find the 'third solution' - What all highly successful leaders have in common - How to develop and use everyday integrative thinking- A simplified, easy to implement version of Eli Goldratt's 'Theory of constraints'- The right questions to ask yourself when mulling over any dilemma (Ching's signature 'Upthinking' strategy) - An introduction to The Pattern Maker, The Editor and The Why Finder - and how to put them to work when you're facing a dilemma. Corkscrew Solutions is for clever people who want to become more effective leaders, make better decisions and learn a proven process for thinking 'outside the box.'

Contemporary Dance Lighting The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003227397 | 271 pages | True PDF | 48.33 MB
Contemporary Dance Lighting: The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty dynamically guides students toward aesthetically, creatively, and skillfully becoming lighting designers for dance in the 21st century.

Conceptual Review of Radiology, 3rd Edition
English | 2020 | ISBN: 8194578345 | 340 Pages | PDF (True) | 100 MB
Image gallery of classical IMAGING SIGNS in Radiology

Computer Vision - ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23-28, 2020, Proceedings, Part XIX by Andrea Vedaldi
English | PDF | 2020 | 831 Pages | ISBN : 303058528X | 235.4 MB
The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing 24th International Workshop
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031147871 | 412 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 53.05 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2022, which took place in Gebze, Turkey, in August 2022. The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They focus on the theory of symbolic computation and its implementation in computer algebra systems as well as all other areas of scientific computing with regard to their benefit from or use of computer algebra methods and software.

Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003181668 | 260 pages | True PDF | 40.44 MB
This book will help readers to understand the concepts of computational intelligence in automation industries, industrial IoT (IIOT), cognitive systems, data science, and Ecommerce real time applications.

Communication Electronic Circuits by Zhiqun Cheng
English | July 20, 2020 | ISBN: 3110595389 | 350 pages | MOBI | 5.42 Mb
The book presents fundamentals of communication electronic circuits, including structure, principle, analyzing methodology, design and design software. Radio frequency amplifier, sinusoidal oscillator, amplitude modulation and demodulation, angular modulation and demodulation are described in detail. The book serves for learning and teaching but can also help researchers and professionals as reference.

Elliot Davis, "Coding for Beginners: Blockchain Development: A Step-By-Step Guide To Create Your Own Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies and NFTs"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1777737745 | ASIN: B09P2NZVFZ | EPUB | pages: 146 | 2.2 mb
Take your first step into the Blockchain Revolution!

Charles Petzold, "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0137909101 | 2022 | 480 pages | PDF | 34 MB
The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics

Michael Jago, "Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1785902369, 1849546835 | EPUB | pages: 388 | 2.4 mb
Attlee has been labelled the accidental Prime Minister, but, as this biography demonstrates, Labours longest-serving leader lacked neither ambition nor ability, and his partys landslide victory in 1945 was not merely due to a temporary wave of populism. Jago traces Attlees rise to power, including his role as Churchills wartime deputy, and shows how his relentless quest for a more egalitarian society inspired far-reaching reforms, not least the creation of the NHS.

Clan-Albin: A National Tale by Christian Isobel Johnstone
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003306665| 282 pages | True PDF | 1.95 MB
Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott's Waverley; or 'tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh's literary scene. But her works and her reputation have long been overshadowed by Scott's. In Clan-Albin, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan England's economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in public life. This rare novel, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of much interest to students of British Literature.

Christians in Caesar's Household: The Emperors' Slaves in the Makings of Christianity (Inventing Christianity) by Michael Flexsenhar III
English | February 21, 2019 | ISBN: 027108233X, 0271082348 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 5 MB
In this volume, Michael Flexsenhar III advances the argument that imperial slaves and freedpersons in the Roman Empire were essential to early Christians' self-conception as a distinct people in the Mediterranean and played a multifaceted role in the making of early Christianity.

Chinese Law of Personality Rights II Codification Experience
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003320401 | 205 pages | True PDF | 4.20 MB
This volume is a collection of articles on the codification experience of China's Law of Personality Rights, explaining the design of the Law as well as its innovations.

China's Economic and Political Presence in the Middle East and South Asia
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003269175 | 251 pages | True PDF | 7.13 MB
This book explores a range of key issues connected to China's relations with countries in the Middle East and South Asia. It discusses economic and political connections, and projects which have arisen as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. It covers both important countries in the Middle East, and also Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It examines current contentious issues including Iranian sanctions and the war in Syria, and assesses the roles of other powers such as Russia, Turkey and Israel insofar as they affect China's relationships. Overall, the book presents many new perspectives on the subject, with many of the perspectives representing the view from the countries of the Middle East and South Asia.

Chess Puzzles : 900-1300 Beginner: Chess Book by Theo Poirier
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09J5B3JK4 | 145 pages | EPUB | 10 Mb
Chess Puzzle Book: Beginner 2

Sarah Edelman, "Change Your Thinking: Positive and Practical Ways to Overcome Stress, Negative Emotions and Self-Defeating Behaviour Using CBT"
English | 2013 | pages: 537 | ISBN: 0733332242 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
The bestselling practical and reassuring guide to overcoming self-defeating thoughts and behaviours, using cognitive behavioural therapy.

Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Nicolas Hayoz (editor), Alexander Filippov (editor), Jens Herlth (editor)
2020 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 3034327056 | PDF | 12 MB
Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre-periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction for the understanding of political, economic, and cultural realities in the post-Soviet space. Case studies provided by scholars from different countries of the former Soviet Union explore the potential of the distinction in historical as well as in economic and political perspectives

Cancer, Complexity, Computation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031043782 | 280 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 59 MB
This book presents unique compendium of groundbreaking ideas where scientists from many different backgrounds are united in their interest in interdisciplinary approaches towards origins and development of cancers, innovative ways of searching for cancer treatment and the role of cancer in the evolution. Chapters give an unequivocal slice of all areas that relate to a quest for understanding cancer and its origin as many-fold nonlinear system, complexity of the cancer developments, a search for cancer treatment using artificial intelligence and evolutionary optimisation, novel modelling techniques, molecular origin of cancer, the role of cancer in evolution of species, interpretation of cancer in terms of artificial life and artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, computational systems biology, genetic networks, cellular computing, validation through in vitro/vivo tumour models and tumour on chip devices. The book is an inspiring blend of theoretical and experimental results, concepts and paradigms.

S. K. Sinha, "CNC Programming Skills: Understanding G73 on a Fanuc Lathe"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B00SSFWH5A | EPUB | pages: 21 | 0.3 mb
This is the second e-book in the series, "CNC Programming Skills." The first book which was published in December 2014 dealt with the program entry and editing procedures on Fanuc machines. Its successful launch encouraged the author to bring out another book on a topic which is not clearly understood by most CNC programmers. And, that is the canned cycle G73 on a Fanuc lathe. Most people do not use it even when it has got a perfect application just because its intricacies are not properly understood.

Eric John Abrahamson, "Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0520273753 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 3.2 mb
Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary success of the savings and loan business in Los Angeles reflects much of the cultural and economic history of Southern California. Finally, it is a personal story, a biography of one of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy ―Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson's rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and the growth of L.A. during the same period.

Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and the Doctrine of Selflessness
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003303893 | 236 pages | True PDF | 3.35 MB
This book examines the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and scientific psychology by focusing on the doctrine of No-self.