Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Cam"
English | ISBN: 1789206987 | 2020 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1070 KB
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). However, since the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and the later obliteration of the Oslo accord, public manifestations of dissent on Israeli campuses have been remarkably mute. This chronicle of AD KAN is explored in view of the ongoing theoretical discourse on the role of the intellectual in society and is compared with other account of academic involvement in different countries during periods of acute political conflict.

Philip VanderMeer, Alfredo Gutierrez, "Burton Barr: Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona"
English | 2015 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0816531951, 0816530572 | PDF | 2,9 mb
Politics, like poker, requires timing and risk, and Burton Barr of Arizona knew it. The deal maker of Arizona politics would say, "You gotta know when to hold them." For more than two decades, Barr played his political cards with skill as he led Arizona through an era of enormous growth and success.

Building Your Self-Confident: How to Be Confident in Yourself: How To Improve Confidence by Joshua Gilberto
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6ZTBH6S | 60 pages | EPUB | 5.27 Mb
One of the most important things for you to understand about self confidence is that it is a great and useful thing to have, but not the 'right' thing to have. Indeed, just like it's neither right nor wrong for a glass to be full of water or for a glass to be empty, it's neither right nor wrong to be full of self confidence or to lack self confidence. Rather, it's a question of how do you want to be and why. This means that if you currently have low self confidence (or even no self confidence at all), this is a completely valid and acceptable way of being, so don't spend even a second feeling bad about it.

Paul Wilkinson, "British Perspectives on Terrorism (RLE: Terrorism & Insurgency) "
English | ISBN: 1138899240 | 2015 | 200 pages | EPUB | 291 KB
When originally published in 1981 this was the first book to bring together in one volume some of the most thoughtful work by British academics and specialists studying the political violence and terrorism which had recently challenged Britain and other Western democracies. Four chapters consider the strategy and tactics of the IRA and the problems of the Northern Ireland conflict. Other articles discuss the phenomena of international terrorism.

Theodore D Papanghelis, Antonios Rengakos, "Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius"
English | 2008 | pages: 495 | ISBN: 9004161856 | PDF | 25,9 mb
This 2nd edition of the Companion to Apollonius Rhodius, comprising now nineteen articles by leading scholars from Europe and America, aims at giving an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful to students of Hellenistic poetry.

Jessica Sklair, "Brazilian Elites and their Philanthropy: Wealth at the Service of Development "
English | ISBN: 0367442175 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 784 KB
This book explores the philanthropy of Brazilian elites during a key period in recent Brazilian history, from Workers Party president Lula's last term in office through to the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.

Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics, Innovations that Changed the World by Dr. Robert M. Krim
English | February 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1623545358 | 210 pages | PDF | 37 Mb
A fascinating look at how Boston became and remains a global center for innovation-told through 50 world-changing inventions.

Christina Getrich, "Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics"
English | 2019 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0816541094, 0816538999 | PDF | 6,5 mb
Some 16.6 million people nationwide live in mixed-status families, containing a combination of U.S. citizens, residents, and undocumented immigrants. U.S. immigration governance has become an almost daily news headline. Yet even in the absence of federal immigration reform over the last twenty years, existing policies and practices have already been profoundly impacting these family units.

John Cannan, "Bloody Angle: Hancock's Assault On The Mule Shoe Salient, May 12, 1864 "
English | ISBN: 0306811510 | 2002 | 160 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
On the morning of May 12, 1864, the site of the daring Union assault on the center of the Confederate line became the scene of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat of the Civil War, and thereafter was known as the "Bloody Angle." Da Capo's new "Battleground America" series offers a unique approach to the battles and battlefields of America. Each book in the series highlights a small American battlefield-sometimes a small portion of a much larger battlefield-and tells the story of the brave soldiers who fought there. Using soldiers' memoirs, letters and diaries, as well as contemporary illustrations, the human ordeal of battle comes to life on the page.All of the units, important individuals, and actions of each engagement on the battlefield are described in a clear and concise narrative. Detailed maps complement the text and illustrate small unit action at each stage of the battle. Then-and-now photographs tie the dramatic events of the past to the modern battlefield site and highlight the importance of terrain in battle. The present-day historical site of the battle is described in detail with suggestions for touring.

Biomechanics of Injury and Prevention
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811642680 | 813 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 106 MB
This book summarizes the recent advancements for biomechanics of injury and prevention in mechanism, application and developing frontiers. Biomechanics plays an important role in achieving safety, health, comfort, and a high quality of life by revealing injury mechanism and providing prevention methods. The book covers injury and prevention to the entire human body, from head to toe, including injury and prevention in sports, traffic, accident, clinic and so on. In addition, bionics prevention method inspired by woodpecker is also introduced. The book provides the reader with not only the mechanism of injury but also the advanced injury diagnosis, treatment, and prevention devices based on biomechanics.

Robert J. Topmiller, "Binding Their Wounds: America's Assault on Its Veterans"
English | ISBN: 1594515727 | 2011 | 230 pages | EPUB | 548 KB
The victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians in far away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiers so often used and then discarded by the establishment. Binding Their Wounds is a book about US veterans written by a US veteran - Bob 'Doc' Topmiller. Topmiller fought in Vietnam, founded a school for orphans there, and become a professor of history before he tragically committed suicide. Close friend and scholar Kerby Neill stepped in to complete the book. The result is a history of US veterans and their treatment by the US establishment from the early republic to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Binding Their Wounds offers policy recommendations to improve post-conflict treatment and care for veterans which are long overdue.

Sara Rich Dorman, "Beyond the Gatekeeper State "
English | ISBN: 0367373602 | 2020 | 166 pages | EPUB | 724 KB
Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

Emma Lundgren Jörum, "Beyond Syria's Borders: A History of Territorial Disputes in the Middle East "
English | ISBN: 1784539732 | 2017 | 232 pages | EPUB | 914 KB
Lebanon, together with the province of Hatay in Turkey (containing Antakya) and the Golan Heights were all part of French mandate Syria, but are now all outside the boundaries of the modern Syrian state. The policies and reactions of Syria both to the loss of these territories and to the states that have either absorbed, annexed or emerged from them (Lebanon, Turkey and Israel) are the focus of Emma Jorum's book. Jorum uses the differences in policy and discourse when it comes to each of these three cases to highlight the nature of territorial dispute in the region, and the processes of state-building and nationalism more generally. Through the examination of Syria's policies concerning these lost territories, Jorum Descriptions and analyses Syrian-Turkish, Syrian-Lebanese and Syrian-Israeli relations, explaining why some losses have been pushed to one side and others remain at the forefront in Syria's international relations and diplomacy efforts.

David Holt, "Beginner's Guide to Winning No Limit Hold'em Poker Tournaments"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004UHSCVI | EPUB | pages: 147 | 0.2 mb
Win freeroll & low buy in online tournaments with tips from a multiple tournament winner.

BeagleBone Robotic Projects by Richard Grimmett
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1783559322 | 244 Pages | PDF | 14.0 MB
Thanks to new, inexpensive microcontrollers, robotics has become far more accessible than it was in the past.

Richard Gillespie, "Barcelona, the Left and the Independence Movement in Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1857439627 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 274 KB
Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en ComГє, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won control of the city council of Barcelona in May 2015. The ensuing municipal government gave the city its first ever female mayor in the form of former housing rights campaigner Ada Colau. The Comuns' administration proceeded to undertake ambitious initiatives, attempting to regenerate democracy by changing the relationship between municipal authority and citizen, addressing social inequality issues and seeking to curb the hitherto unbridled tourist expansion in the name of improving the environment for those who live in the Catalan capital.

W.K. Stratton, "Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1400051118 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.6 mb
It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it's finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football game. And in the football-obsessed state that is Texas, no single game resonates more.

Automatic Nonuniform Random Variate Generation by Wolfgang Hörmann, Josef Leydold, Gerhard Derflinger
English | PDF | 2004 | 439 Pages | ISBN : 3540406522 | 39.1 MB
Non-uniform random variate generation is an established research area in the intersection of mathematics, statistics and computer science. Although random variate generation with popular standard distributions have become part of every course on discrete event simulation and on Monte Carlo methods, the recent concept of universal (also called automatic or black-box) random variate generation can only be found dispersed in literature.

Authoritative Democracies: Need or capitalistic greed?
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811920605 | 396 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead. It asks if some degree of authoritarianism is the need of the hour to address potentially existential issues facing the human race. Readers are encouraged to analyse the state of democracy in their own countries and verify if it meets their expectations, or if it is just a myth or an imposter, or a necessary but imperfect compulsion in the absence of a perfect alternative. The book presents a commentary on the state of democracy in some of the world's leading democracies. It aims to challenge the human mind, which seems to be getting accustomed to not having to think, thanks to a constant bombardment of information-real and fake and in-between-that it receives through social and print media, which is freely accessible through smartphone to which it has become addicted. It discusses how the drivers of capitalism - through their business-like connections with powerful and influential politicians and celebrities-could be cleverly manipulating the gullible human mind and exploiting the system to their own material benefit.

Geoffrey Brahm Levey, "Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism "
English | ISBN: 1138845213 | 2015 | 212 pages | EPUB | 487 KB
The concept of "authenticity" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called "cultural authenticity"). In each case, the authenticity idea is called on to anchor or legitimate claims to some kind of public recognition. The considerable work asked of this concept raises a number of vital questions: Should "authenticity" be accorded the importance it holds in multicultural politics? Do its pitfalls outweigh its utility? Is the notion of "authenticity" avoidable in making sense of and evaluating cultural claims? Or does it, perhaps, need to be rethought or recalibrated?

Alexander Lanoszka, "Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation "
English | ISBN: 1501729187 | 2018 | 216 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies.

Ching Yau, "As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong"
English | 2010 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 9622099874, 9622099866 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exciting challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. The essays here showcase the work of emerging and established scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focus on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. This book is one of the first sustained collections on Chinese non-normative sexual subjectivities and contemporary sexual politics published in English. It highlights the various ways in which different individuals and communities--including male sex workers, transsexual subjects, lesbians and Indonesian migrants--negotiate with notions of normativity and modernity, fine-tuned according to the different power structures of each context, and making new and different meanings.

Eduardo Carriazo Paz, Luis Fernando RodrГ­guez Caro, "Arithmetic operations without tables"
English | 2012 | ASIN: B008HUP1U4 | EPUB | pages: 48 | 1.4 mb
As promised on its name, this book provides the tools to learn the basic arithmetical operations without the need to learn by heart any table. Instead it teaches how to use your imagination to achive this goal in a ludical and faster way. This volume, present the general principles under wich imaginativ maths works.

Anti-Consumption: Exploring the Opposition to Consumer Culture
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367420759 | 257 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
In this edited volume, the leading scholars in the field engage with consumers, marketers, corporations and policymakers as well as space dynamics and network formation to provide an in-depth examination of anti-consumption: a voluntary behavioural inclination to minimise rather than grow, to decelerate and simplify and to reduce the unnecessary exploitation of resources fuelled by consumer culture. This book does not place anti-consumption on the high moral ground but rather demonstrates its complexity to spur innovative and critical thinking on how people, organisations, businesses and governments can treat consumption more as a necessity for survival than as a tool for self-expression, pleasure and economic growth.

T. D. van Basten, "Ancient Greece: The Legacy of Leonidas I (Volume 2)"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1533653135 | 80 pages | EPUB | 0.78 MB
The King of Sparta

Algebra, Revised Third Edition by Serge Lang
English | PDF | 2002 | 923 Pages | ISBN : 038795385X | 66.1 MB
This book is intended as a basic text for a one-year course in Algebra at the graduate level, or as a useful reference for mathematicians and professionals who use higher-level algebra. It successfully addresses the basic concepts of algebra. For the revised third edition, the author has added exercises and made numerous corrections to the text.

R.W. Sharples, "Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780933681 | PDF | pages: 152 | 9.7 mb
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has been a central text in moral philosophy since the fourth century BC. The Ethical Problems attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias - the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle - not only shows us how Aristotle's work was discussed in Alexander's own day (c. 200 AD) but offers interpretations and insights that are valuable in their own right. Topics discussed include pleasure and distress, moral virtue, the criteria for judging actions voluntary, the development of moral understanding, and the place in ethics of utility, political community and a sense of shame.

Advanced Nanocatalysts for Biodiesel Production
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036763824X | 319 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
Advanced Nanocatalysts for Biodiesel Production is a comprehensive and advanced book on practical and theoretical concepts of nanocatalysts dealing with future processing techniques towards environmental sustainability. The book critically discusses on latest emerging advanced nanocatalysts for biodiesel production aimed at reducing complexities and cost in the quest to meet future energy demands. Efforts have been made at clarifying the scope and limitations of biodiesel production in large-scale commercialization. The book discusses the size-dependent catalytic properties of nanomaterials and their working mechanisms in biodiesel production. Life cycle assessment of optimized viable feedstock from domestic as well as industrial waste is also addressed to improve the efficiency of biodiesel production.

Tracy Wolff, "Addicted: An Ethan Frost Novel"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00IHMEBR6 | EPUB | pages: 241 | 0.3 mb
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *Ethan Frost returns in another breathtaking novel by Tracy Wolff, theNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Ruined.

Natasha Simone Alexenko, "A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1503943410 | EPUB | pages: 154 | 0.6 mb
An inspiring true story of love, hope, and victory―and of one woman who was determined to make a difference in the wake of a crime.