Christoph Reuter, "My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing"
English | ISBN: 0691126151 | 2006 | 208 pages | PDF | 32 MB
What kind of people are suicide bombers? How do they justify their actions? In this meticulously researched and sensitively written book, journalist Christoph Reuter argues that popular views of these young men and women-as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons-fall short of the mark. In many cases these modern-day martyrs are well-educated young adults who turn themselves into human bombs willingly and eagerly-to exact revenge on a more powerful enemy, perceived as both unjust and oppressive. Suicide assassins are determined to make a difference, for once in their lives, no matter what the cost. As Reuter's many interviews with would-be martyrs, their trainers, friends, and relatives reveal, the bombers are motivated more by how they expect to be remembered-as heroic figures-than by religion-infused visions of a blissful life to come.

Ajay Skaria, Shail Mayaram, M. S. S. Pandian, "Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1905422113, 1905422121 | PDF | pages: 348 | 47.7 mb
How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables'? Taking a subaltern approach - the view from below - Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History explores a wide range of issues across history. The essays range across: the creation of the concept of 'the Musalman' through the work of Hindi writers and publicists in the late nineteenth century; how the re-imaginings of the Mappila peasant 'uprisings' in the early twentieth century constructed a popular image of the fanatic Musalman; GandhiВґs attempt to rethink political relations between Hindus and Muslims; the anomalous position of Kabir within the frameworks of caste and canonicity; the history, politics, and legal aspects of the case of the Dalit murdered on the steps of a Hanuman temple; how authority, property and matriliny in Malabar helped to shape colonial law-making; the rhetoric of the bardic tradition; the nationalist imagination.

Oliver Scharbrodt, "Muhammad 'Abduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity"
English | ISBN: 1838607307 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 7 MB
How to approach the complex intellectual legacy of a modern Muslim thinker like Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)? This book offers an answer to this question by providing a new complete intellectual biography of him. It delineates 'Abduh's formation as a reformer and activist and embeds his varied intellectual contributions in a culture of ambiguity which has marked the intellectual life of Muslim societies throughout their history.

Pierre Manent, "Montaigne: Life without Law "
English | ISBN: 0268107815 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 18 MB
In Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manent provides a careful reading of Montaigne's three-volume work, Essays. Although Montaigne's writing resists easy analysis―Montaigne includes seven essays before he even explicitly states the purpose of the Essays―Manent finds in it a subtle unity, and demonstrates both the philosophical depth of Montaigne's reflections and the distinctive and even radical character of his central ideas. To show Montaigne's unique contribution to political discourse, Manent compares his work to other influential modern philosophers, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Pascal, and Rousseau. For example, whereas Hobbes proposed the modern state as necessary because of humanity's supposedly natural condition in a "war of all against all," Montaigne did not see the state as the remedy to civil-religious discord. But in fact, speculation on the state does not play a large role in the Essays. Rather, Montaigne's philosophical reflection focuses on the concept of what he calls

Modern Bayesian Statistics in Clinical Research by Ton J. Cleophas
English | PDF | 2018 | 193 Pages | ISBN : 3319927469 | 5.9 MB
The current textbook has been written as a help to medical / health professionals and students for the study of modern Bayesian statistics, where posterior and prior odds have been replaced with posterior and prior likelihood distributions. Why may likelihood distributions better than normal distributions estimate uncertainties of statistical test results? Nobody knows for sure, and the use of likelihood distributions instead of normal distributions for the purpose has only just begun, but already everybody is trying and using them.

Mission Vegan: Wildly Delicious Food for Everyone by Danny Bowien, JJ Goode, EdD.
English | August 23rd, 2022 | ISBN: 0063012987 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 34.65 MB
From the author of The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook, a fresh take on vegan cooking that emphasizes freewheeling exploration and big flavor

Gerald L. Posner, John Ware, "Mengele: The Complete Story"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0815410069, 0070505985 | 408 pages | EPUB | 2.3 MB
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.

Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, "Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0822341395, 082234162X | PDF | pages: 359 | 6.2 mb
Music videos are available on more channels, in more formats, and in more countries than ever before. While MTV-the network that introduced music video to most viewers-is moving away from music video programming, other media developments signal the longevity and dynamism of the form. Among these are the proliferation of niche-based cable and satellite channels, the globalization of music video production and programming, and the availability of videos not just on television but also via cell phones, DVDs, enhanced CDs, PDAs, and the Internet. In the context of this transformed media landscape, Medium Cool showcases a new generation of scholarship on music video. Scholars of film, media, and music revisit and revise existing research as they provide historically and theoretically expansive new perspectives on music video as a cultural form.

Materia Medica of New and Old Homeopathic Medicines
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030659194 | 264 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
David S. Riley's interest in the research and subsequently the history and methodology of homeopathic drug provings began with his medical school training in 1979 and a residency in Internal Medicine. He was exposed to homeopathy in 1988 followed by study at the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy in Albany, California. He has investigated the interplay between contemporary research methods and the research methods associated with homeopathic drug provings. Dr Riley has developed research tools for data collection, symptom selection criteria and blinding; primarily to address the risk of bias.The homeopathic drug provings published here are the result of this work. For the 3rd edition twelve homeopathic drug provings, conducted by a number of internationally renowned proving directors, have been added. These homeopathic drug provings all follow good clinical practice (GCP) research guidelines and incorporate the guidelines suggested by Dr Samuel Hahnemann more than 200 years ago.

Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome By Genaro Castro-VГЎzquez
2020 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0367340577 | PDF | 5 MB
Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-VГЎzquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret their experiences concerning bodyweight control.Based on an extensive ethnographic investigation, this book offers a compelling analysis of male obesity and overweight in Japan from a symbolic interactionism perspective to delve into structure, meaning, practice and subjectivity underpinning the experiences of a group of middle-aged, Japanese men grappling with body weight control. Castro-VГЎzquez frames obesity and overweight within historical and current global and sociological debates that help to highlight the significance of the Japanese case. By drawing on evidence from different locations and contexts, he sustains a comparative perspective to extend and deepen the analysis.A valuable resource for scholars both of contemporary masculinity and of medical sociology, especially those with a particular interest in Japan.

Making, Makers, Makerspaces: The Shift to Making in 20 Schools by anette Hughes
English | PDF | 2022 | 206 Pages | ISBN : 3031098188 | 7.8 MB
This book is about makers and makerspaces in education. It furnishes and analyzes case studies from sixty teachers working in twenty different school districts in Ontario, Canada. Each author provides research and analyzes data about the process of establishing makerspaces and implementing maker pedagogies with students in grades K-8.

Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, "Making Archaeology Happen: Design versus Dogma"
English | ISBN: 1611320240 | 2011 | 184 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
'Archaeology is for people' is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffocating creativity in fieldwork. He'd like to see us bring much more diversity and technical ingenuity to every opportunity, and maintains this is more a matter of getting ourselves free of dogma than needing more time and money. This has many implications for the way archaeology is designed and procured - moving archaeologists up the professional ladder from builder to architect, with contracts based on quality of design, not the price.

Nick Redfern, "MAN-MONKEY - In Search of the British Bigfoot"
English | ISBN: 1905723164 | 2007 | 164 pages | AZW3 | 655 KB
In her 1883 book, Shropshire Folklore, Charlotte S. Burne wrote: 'A very weird story of an encounter with an animal ghost arose of late years within my knowledge. On the 21st of January 1879, a labouring man was employed to take a cart of luggage from Ranton in Staffordshire to Woodcock, beyond Newport in Shropshire, for the ease of a party of visitors who were going from one house to another. He was late in coming back; his horse was tired, and could only crawl along at a foot's pace, so that it was ten o'clock at night when he arrived at the place where the highroad crosses the Birmingham and Liverpool canal. 'Just before he reached the canal bridge, a strange black creature with great white eyes sprang out of the plantation by the roadside and alighted on his horse's back. He tried to push it off with his whip, but to his horror the whip went through the thing, and he dropped it on the ground in fright.' The creature duly became known to superstitious and frightened locals as the Man-Monkey. Between 1986 and early 2001, Nick Redfern delved deeply into the mystery of the strange creature of that dark stretch of canal. Now,published for the very first time, are Nick's original interview notes, his files and discoveries; as well as his theories pertaining to what lies at the heart of this diabolical legend. Is Britain really home to a Bigfoot-style entity? Does the creature have supernatural origins? Or is it something else entirely? Nick Redfern addresses all of these questions in Man-Monkey and reveals a story that is as bizarre as it is macabre.

Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture), 20th Anniversary Edition by Eric Lott
English | August 9, 2013 | ISBN: 0195320557 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 4.7 MB
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America."

Kim Forss, "Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility "
English | ISBN: 0367525143 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation is the first book to advocate the virtues of a long-term perspective for policy evaluation as well as to show how evaluations can take a longer time perspective than they usually do. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of evaluations and study the obstacles and the resistance toward long-term perspectives - as knowledge of that will lay the ground for more effective advocacy.

Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp by John Wood
English | March 28, 2015 | ISBN: 1511541709 | 127 pages | EPUB | 2.15 Mb
Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A personal account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.A. T.D. a senior British Army officer who participated in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Berney went on to oversee the evacuation of the ex-prisoners to the vast Rehabilitation Camp that the British Army set up, and was then appointed as the Commandant of that Camp until its management was handed over to the United Nations. He went on to give evidence against the SS guards at the Belsen War Crimes Trial. This is the only book to be published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army's uncovering of the Nazi Concentration Camp and its 60,000 prisoners. It describes how the Army dealt with the unprecedented horror that existed in the camp, how the surviving inmates were evacuated and how the Royal Army Medical Corps established the world's largest ever hospital to care for the many thousands of sick and emaciated ex-inmates. It continues with how the survivors were rehabilitated and cared for, how they were repatriated to their own countries, why many thousand refused to return 'home', and the eventual establishment of the Belsen Displaced Persons camp, the largest DP camp in Germany. Forewords by Nanette Blitz Konig, Belsen survivor and former classmate of Anne Frank, and by Major-General Nicholas Eeles CBE, with the introduction by the OscarВ®-nominated film director, Joshua Oppenheimer.

Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts by Martin Kemp, Margaret Dalivalle, Robert B. Simon
English | January 19, 2020 | ISBN: 019881383X | True EPUB/PDF | pages | 8.7/255 MB
The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch. In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the collection of Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Robert E Bacharach, "Legal Writing: A Judge's Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word"
English | ISBN: 1641056592 | 2020 | pages | AZW3 | 632 KB
"A magnificent book on writing. Drawing on the lessons from psycholinguistics and rhetoric, Judge Bacharach has written a remarkably practical book on how to write effectively. Judge Bacharach illustrates his points with very specific suggestions and countless examples from briefs from top lawyers and opinions of judges. I learned so much from this wonderful book." - Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law "Effective legal writing calls not only for artistry but also for scientific understanding." In this synthesis of his experience on the bench and his own research into the science and art of written communications, Robert E. Bacharach, a federal court judge, shares his insights on ways language can determine different responses - and how to use this knowledge to craft a powerful and persuasive message. Judge Bacharach follows a logical progression in crafting effective legal writing, beginning with the importance of an introduction that provides a context for the argument. At this stage, it is important to consider clarity, context, identification of the underlying legal issues, the structure of your argument, and stating the rationale for the optimum outcome.

Learning Git (Second Early Release)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781098133900 | 97 pages | True EPUB, MOBI | 3.63 MB
Learn the basics of Git in a simple, visual, and tangible manner. With this practical book, author Anna Skoulikari helps you build a mental model of how Git version control works so that you can get the most out of this powerful tool. Whether you're a developer, data professional, technical writer, designer, or product manager, you'll learn the basics of Git in a straightforward and approachable way.

Lead From the Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century, Revised & Updated Edition by Mark C. Crowley
English | August 23rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1401967604 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 2.46 MB
Leadership and engagement expert Mark C. Crowley shows how trading in the old business playbook for heart-led leadership strategies will create purpose-driven, dedicated employees and higher levels of performance. Revised and updated to address the needs of those managing Gen Z and millennial employees in addition to the latest global research on employee engagement.

Lasers in Dermatology and Medicine: Dermatologic Applications, Second Edition by Keyvan Nouri
English | EPUB | 2018 | 558 Pages | ISBN : 3319761161 | 129.5 MB
Along with its sister dermatologic volume, this comprehensive textbook of laser technology covers the use of lasers to treat vascular anomalies and lesions, control of pigmented lesions and tattoos, hair removal, acne, facial rejuvenation, Psoriasis, hypopigmented lesions and Vitiligo. Chapters are formatted in an easy to follow format with clear concise sections with bulleted summaries to highlight key points.

Korean Food and Foodways: The Root of Health Functional Food by Cherl-Ho Lee
English | PDF | 2022 | 326 Pages | ISBN : 9811900221 | 6.4 MB
This book offers an excellent introduction to Korean functional foods and shares latest important information for food scientists and nutritionists, including accurate, up-to-date information on Korean food science together with background information, archeological findings, as well as food methods and research on Korean fermented foods (e.g., grain wine, kimchi, jeotgal, and soybean sauces). It also discusses historical backgrounds and manufacturing method details of traditional food categories, such as rice cakes, sweets, fermented sauces, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and helps us understand the full science behind Korean traditional food.

Kale Recipes: 22 healthy and delicious dishes by Brendan Rivera
English | August 15, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08FP7QD8J | 122 pages | PDF | 2.40 Mb
Kale Recipes

John Hume:Peacemaker By George Drower
1995 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0575062177 | PDF | 9 MB
This biography of John Hume, based on interviews with friends, foes and colleagues, charts his political career from his early years in the Derry civil rights movement, to his decisive role in the Peace Process.

Java for Beginners: A Crash Course to Learn Java Programming in 1 Week
By Brady Ellison
English | 2022 | ASIN : B09ZVFLT3C | EPUB | 185 pages | 0.6 MB

Java Interview Guide: How to Build Confidence With a Solid Understanding of Core Java Principles by Anthony DePalma
English | September 16, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B015HF9SJQ | 120 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb
A Java interview can be a harrowing experience. You only have a short time to convince someone that you're worth hiring, so you can't afford to be unprepared. A technical interview is a rare opportunity to show potential employers what you're worth. Unfortunately, memorizing the answers to interview questions just doesn't cut it. You need to understand the underlying concepts.

Miltiades Varvounis, "Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1462880800, 1462880819 | 276 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB
Jan Sobieski was one of the most extraordinary and visionary monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 until his death. He was a man of letters, an artistic person, a dedicated ruler but above all the greatest soldier of his time. Popular among his subjects, he won considerable fame for his decisive victory over the Ottomans at the walls of Vienna (1683). For defeating the Muslim invaders, Pope Innocent XI hailed Sobieski as the saviour of Christendom.

Simon Rae, "It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0571215823 | EPUB | 7 MB
An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game.

Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections By Lauren Rosewarne
2016 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1138824178 | PDF | 3 MB
The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections―be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising) present two very distinct pictures of the use of the Internet as related to intimacy. From news reports about victims of online dating, to the presentation of the desperate and dateless, the perverts and the deviants, a distinct frame for the intimacy/Internet connection is negativity. In some examples however, a changing picture is emerging. The ubiquitousness of Internet use today has meant a slow increase in comparatively more positive representations of successful online romances in the news, resulting in more positive-spin advertising and a more even-handed presence of such liaisons in narrative television and film. Both the positive and the negative media representations are categorised and analysed in this book to explore what they reveal about the intersection of gender, sexuality, technology and the changing mores regarding intimacy.

International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993 by B. R. Mitchell
English | PDF | 1998 | 1127 Pages | ISBN : 1349147400 | 90.3 MB
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available. Fully updated to 1993, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 250 years. The volume includes both hard to find historical data, and the latest figures available.