Jesse Liberty, "Windows 8 XAML Primer: Your essential guide to Windows 8 development "
English | ISBN: 1430249110 | 2012 | 106 pages | EPUB | 1062 KB
Windows 8 XAML Primer is a fast-paced introduction to XAML for Windows 8 developers who are already proficient C# coders. It introduces you specifically to the world of XAML development for Windows 8 apps in a practical, hands-on way - so you'll be building apps from the very first pages.

Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More by John Allen Paulos
English | September 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1633888126 | 227 pages | True PDF | 1.38 MB
For decades, New York Times best-selling author John Allen Paulos has enlightened readers by showing how to make sense of the numbers and probabilities behind real-world events, political calculations, and everyday personal decisions. Who's Counting? features dozens of his insightful essays-original writings on contemporary issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, online conspiracy theories, "fake news," and climate change, as well as a selection of enduring columns from his popular ABC News column of the same name.

What You See Is What You Hear: Creativity and Communication in Audiovisual Texts by Dario Martinelli
English | EPUB | 2020 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 3030325938 | 152.7 MB
What You See Is What You Hear develops a unique model of analysis that helps students and advanced scholars alike to look at audiovisual texts from a fresh perspective. Adopting an engaging writing style, the author draws an accessible picture of the field, offering several analytical tools, historical background, and numerous case studies.

Brian R. Nelson, "Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology, Second Edition"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1478627638 | PDF | pages: 409 | 19.7 mb
Written simply and directly but without sacrificing intellectual depth this widely acclaimed text explores the preeminent theorists of Western political thought from the pre-Socratics to the contemporary era. The author provides an in-depth analysis of a limited number of major thinkers, which allows for a richly detailed examination of each philosopher in historical context. Western Political Thought, Second Edition, presents the fundamental terms, ideas, and dilemmas of Western political philosophy in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner. It organizes the theorists historically, explains basic concepts in depth, and draws out and analyzes the implications of various political theories. Moreover, this cohesive volume employs an overarching theme, examining each thinker in terms of the changing relationships of ethics and politics in Western political philosophy.

Water Fasting: Lose Weight, Cleanse Your Body, and Experience a New Level of Health by Thomas Rohmer
English | February 7, 2018 | ISBN: 1985140608 | 72 pages | EPUB | 0.14 Mb
Finally an Approach to Getting Healthy and Losing Weight that Actually Works!

Wartime Industry (Shire Library) by Neil R. Storey
English | 17 Mar. 2022 | ISBN: 1784425028 | True EPUB | 64 pages | 20 MB
An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

Dale Mathers, "Vision and Supervision: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0415415799, 0415415802 | PDF | pages: 219 | 1.7 mb
Supervision in analytical psychology is a topic that until recently has been largely neglected. Vision and Supervision draws on archetypal, classical, and developmental Post-Jungian theory to explore supervision from a variety of different avenues.

Virtual Product Creation in Industry: The Difficult Transformation from IT Enabler Technology to Core Engineering Competence by Rainer Stark
English | EPUB | 2022 | 676 Pages | ISBN : 3662642999 | 189.3 MB
Today, digital technologies represent an absolute must when it comes to creating new products and factories. However, day-to-day product development and manufacturing engineering operations have still only unlocked roughly fifty percent of the "digital potential". The question is why? This book provides compelling answers and remedies to that question. Its goal is to identify the main strengths and weaknesses of today's set-up for digital engineering working solutions, and to outline important trends and developments for the future.

Alok Sinha, "Vibration of Mechanical Systems"
English | ISBN: 1107694175 | 2014 | 326 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This is a textbook for a first course in mechanical vibrations. There are many books in this area that try to include everything, thus they have become exhaustive compendiums overwhelming for the undergraduate. In this book, all the basic concepts in mechanical vibrations are clearly identified and presented in a concise and simple manner with illustrative and practical examples. Vibration concepts include a review of selected topics in mechanics; a description of single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems in terms of equivalent mass, equivalent stiffness, and equivalent damping; a unified treatment of various forced response problems (base excitation and rotating balance); an introduction to systems thinking, highlighting the fact that SDOF analysis is a building block for multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) and continuous system analyses via modal analysis; and a simple introduction to finite element analysis to connect continuous system and MDOF analyses. There are more than 60 exercise problems, and a complete solutions manual. The use of MATLABВ® software is emphasized.

Mark Collins Jenkins, "Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend"
English | ISBN: 1426206070 | 2010 | 256 pages | MOBI | 569 KB
Mark Jenkins's engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. In Vampire Forensics, Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend to tease out the historical truths enshrined in the tales of terror: sherds of Persian pottery depicting blood-sucking demons; the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic archaeologist Matteo Borrini of a 16th-century Venetian grave of a plague victim and suspected vampire; and the Transylvanian castle of "Vlad the Impaler," whose bloodthirsty cruelty remains unsurpassed. Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, psychology, and science sure to engross everyone from Anne Rice's countless readers to serious students of archaeology and mythology.

Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit By Marie Laing
2021 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0367556936 | PDF | 20 MB
This book offers insights from young trans, queer, and two-spirit Indigenous people in Toronto who examine the breadth and depth of meanings that two-spirit holds. Tracing the refusals and desires of these youth and their communities, Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit expands critical conversations on queerness, Indigeneity, and community and simultaneously troubles the idea that articulating a definition of two-spirit is a worthwhile undertaking. Beyond the expansion of these conversations, this book also seeks to empower community members, educators, and young people ― both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ― to better support the self-determination of trans, queer, and two-spirit Indigenous youth. By including a research zine and community discussion guidelines, Laing demonstrates the possibility of powerful change that comes from Indigenous people creating spaces to share knowledge with one another.

Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009197134 | 249 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Why do autocrats hold political trials when outcomes are presumed known from the start? Undue Process examines how autocrats weaponize the judiciary to stay in control. Contrary to conventional wisdom that courts constrain arbitrary power, Shen-Bayh argues that judicial processes can instead be used to legitimize dictatorship and dissuade dissent when power is contested. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa since independence, Shen-Bayh draws on fine-grained archival data on regime threats and state repression to explain why political trials are often political purges in disguise, providing legal cover for the persecution of regime rivals. This compelling analysis reveals how courts can be used to repress political challengers, institutionalize punishment, and undermine the rule of law. Engaging and illuminating, Undue Process provides new theoretical insights into autocratic judiciaries and will interest political scientists and scholars studying authoritarian regimes, African politics, and political control.

Graham Reynolds, "Turner, 2nd Edition (World of Art)"
English | ISBN: 0500204594 | 2022 | EPUB | 224 pages | 226 MB
With clear writing, this is the ideal introduction to J. M. W. Turner's life and work for anyone interested in British painting in its golden age.

Charles Ess, "Trust and Virtual Worlds: Contemporary Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1433109220 | 2011 | 193 pages | PDF | 1412 KB
Trust is essential to human society and the good life. At the same time, citizens of developed countries spend more and more time in virtual environments. This collection asks how far virtual environments, especially those affiliated with В«Web 2.0В», challenge and foster trust?

Gerald O'Collins SJ, "Tradition: Understanding Christian Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0198830300 | 2019 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1368 KB
A 1963 report on tradition from the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches signalled a substantial convergence between the churches over Christian tradition and its relationship to Scripture. However, since the 1960s theologians have regularly ignored the theme of tradition. The few who have discussed this theme have not used the help provided by some sociologists towards understanding the role of tradition in human and religious life: for instance, as being all-pervasive and as shaping the identity of various societies and groups. The process and presence of Christian tradition embrace baptism and other sacraments, Bible, creeds and other doctrines, art, architecture, hymns, pilgrimages, literature, the celebration of Christmas, Easter and other feasts, and much else besides. Particular traditions can call for scrutiny and reform.

Niraj Dawar, "Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers"
English | ISBN: 1422187179 | 2013 | 240 pages | EPUB | 282 KB
Shift your strategy downstream.

Theory and Practice of CO2 Utilization in Steelmaking
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811925445 | 661 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 64 MB
This book analyzes the mechanism of the application of CO2 in steelmaking, by looking at the thermodynamics and kinetics of the reactions of CO2 with the elements present in molten steel. This book is the first academic monograph either at home or abroad on the application of CO2 in the steelmaking field. The thermodynamic conditions of the reactions of CO2 with silicon, manganese, phosphorus, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and other elements were calculated and analyzed using the FactSage thermodynamic software, and the selective oxidation law of the above multiple elements by CO2 was also analyzed. In terms of kinetics, the interfacial reaction mechanism of CO2 was analyzed via gas isotope exchange technology, and the O2 transfer process and transfer rate between the CO2, slag, and steel were studied. In terms of materials and energy balance, how to use the high-temperature characteristics of CO2 to control the temperature of the molten pool, improve the reaction conditions of molten iron, reduce the evaporation of molten iron, and reduce the amount of steelmaking dust were introduced. Based on the experimental data, theoretical models of unit operation for the application of CO2 in steelmaking were established, including decarburization, denitrification, dephosphorization, decarburization and chromium retention, vanadium extraction, and carbon preservation, and these theoretical models were applied to the steelmaking production process, which is an important step in going from theory to practice. The above research work has opened up a new solution for energy saving and liquid steel cleaning in the iron and steel production process and represents progress in steelmaking technology.

The Witch's Guide to the Paranormal: How to Investigate, Communicate, and Clear Spirits by J. Allen Cross
English | September 8th, 2022 | ISBN: 0738772089 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.65 MB
Flex Investigative Methods That Only Witches Can Wield

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) by Vernon Lee, edited by Aaron Worth
English | August 25, 2022 | ISBN: 0198837542 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 2.5 MB
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead...

Isabelle Graw, "The Value of Critique: Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour "
English | ISBN: 3593510103 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Value of Critique casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art-critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor of evaluation, which advocates alternate modes of judgment aimed at finding the intrinsic "value" of a given work rather than picking apart its intentions and relative success. This book's contributors explore the relationship between these two practices, finding that one cannot exist with the other. As soon as a critic decides an object is worthy enough of their interest and time to critique it, they have imbued that object with a certain value. Similarly, theories of value are typically marked by a critical impetus: as much as critique takes part in the construction of evaluations, bestowing something with value can then trigger critiques. Assembling essays from an international array of authors, this book is the first to put value, critique, and artistic labor in conversation with one another, making clear just how closely all three are related.

Naomi Wolf, "The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0743249771, 074324978X | 288 pages | True EPUB | 0.47 MB
The feminist author of Misconceptions and The Beauty Myth shares life lessons taught by her father, poet Leonard Wolf, in a personal portrait that traces his Depression-era youth and offers insight into his beliefs about the learned quality of happiness. 75,000 first printing.

Terry Ryan, "The Toolbox for Building a Great Family Dog"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1929242794 | 160 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Terry Ryan is one of the most well-known figures in the world of positive dog training. She has been a mentor to a generation of trainers world-wide. In The Toolbox for Building a Great Family Dog, Terry presents a complete guide to help families raise a happy and well-mannered dog using techniques and games that are both fun and effective. Though this is a new book with a new focus, some will recognize parts from several of Terry's previous books, the original Toolbox For Remodeling Your Problem Dog, Coaching People To Train Their Dogs and The Bark Stops Here.

The Survival Guide: Top 10 Skills to be Prepared in Any Emergency or Disaster - Nuclear scenarios, emergency medicine, self-defense and the 50 things that will disappear first in a crisis by Boots Livingston
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BDMZM4R7 | 107 pages | MOBI | 0.23 Mb
Most people associate survival preparedness with stockpiling resources or buying weapons. The #1 most important survival skill is not what people expect - and anyone can develop this skill. Yes, this book will address supplies and self-defense and many other critical topics, but the #1 most important survival skill has nothing to do with a fall out shelter full of canned goods and potassium iodide tablets.

The Strategy Activation Playbook: A Practical Approach to Bringing Your Strategies to Life by Aric Wood
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 1637741820 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 20.96 MB
Organizations spend over $160 billion a year hiring consultants to develop and execute strategies, and yet 80 percent of corporate strategies fail.

The Secret of a Happy Relationship: You can Conquer Anxiety and Depression, Overcome Conflicts and Insecurity in your Relationship, Let go of Ill-Thinking and Jealousy, Be in Love and Happy too. by Mark Jeff
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B51WS7SH | 64 pages | MOBI | 0.18 Mb
Falling in love, staying in love, and being happy, are all possible. You too can be happy in your relationship amid all odds. Get the secrets to healthy happy marriage.

Margaret Reynolds, "The Sappho Companion"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0312239246, 0312295103 | EPUB | pages: 422 | 4.0 mb
Born around 630 BC on the Greek Island of Lesbos, Sappho is the greatest lyrical poet of Greece, and one of the greatist artists of any age. Her poems exist only as fragments, and her life is not much more than speculation, but Sappho's pull-as writer, voice, and image-affects every era. Ovid, Baudelaire,and Jeanette Winterson are just a few of the writers who, each generation, claim Sappho as their own. Who is Sappho? Lesbian, mother poet, lover, suicide warning, and icon. In this innovative blend of personal reflection and cultural history Margaret Reynolds illuminates Sappho's genius, her life, her sexuality, and the extraordinary influence she has had across centuries. Built on key themes, this book features a rich offering of poems, plays, essays, and stories by leading writers that bring Sappho's legacy to life.

The Product Launch Checklist: A step-by-step guide to preparing and launching products in the 21st Century by Dominic FrГєges
English | August 27, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BC6BXLBR | 105 pages | EPUB | 1.86 Mb
К»The Product Launch ChecklistКј is the culmination of years of hands-on work with product launches in high-tech, software, and a consumer brand launch. Dominic J. FruМЃges is a Strategist, Innovator, Executive for Entrepreneurs, Small & Mid-Size, and Enterprise businesses. A thought leader who uses strategic, market, and situational analysis to assess strengths or areas for improvement. Expert at developing value propositions, strategic messaging, features & benefits that position products.

The Practice of Tui Na: Principles, Diagnostics and Working with the Sinew Channels by Robert Aspell
English | July 18, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07TWCMNL2 | 298 pages | PDF | 4.55 Mb
Tui Na is one of the 'Four Pillars' of Chinese medicine (alongside Acupuncture, herbal medicine and Qi Gong) and is a form of bodywork that includes acupressure, massage techniques, assisted stretching, and joint mobilisations or adjustments that are all based on the key medical principles and diagnostics of the Classics of Chinese medicine. This book is an accessible clinical handbook of Tui Na principles and practice.

The Polish Food Express: The Best Compilation of Polish Recipes by Heston Brown
English | May 6, 2019 | ISBN: 1097151867 | 95 pages | EPUB | 3.09 Mb
If you are reading this, chances are that you are a polish food enthusiast; you had experienced it once or more and want to have more experience of it, only this time, you want to do everything from the scratch.

Sully Erna, "The Paths We Choose: A Memoir"
English | ISBN: 0910155984 | 2016 | 278 pages | EPUB | 579 KB
With over ten million albums sold and multiple Grammy nominations, the hard rock band Godsmack has become one of the most successful groups of the last decade. The band's driving beats and searing lyrics have garnered widespread acclaim, while their well-known work ethic has earned the industry's respect. Fans who attend Godsmack concerts are sure to be rewarded with a fiercely energetic show. The force behind the band comes largely from founder and front man Sully Erna. Onstage, growling into the microphone with characteristic intensity, he appears perfectly at home, and it's no wonder. Erna has been immersed in the world of rock ever since he got his first drum set at the age of five. Given his achievements, that early start might suggest that his career was a straight shot to the top. The truth is, Erna took so many detours during the years between his first drums and Godsmack's first contract that, more than once, he nearly forgot his destination. In The Paths We Choose, he relates the turbulent story of his life before the platinum albums and packed arenas. "The Lawrence I remember was full of murderers, thieves, and rapists and half the time those people were your next-door neighbors," Erna writes of his childhood hometown in the gritty Boston suburbs. Although the danger of the streets was a constant reality, young Sully's world really revolved around music. From the day he convinced his mom to pay for drum lessons, "beating the skins" was all he ever wanted to do. As he grew older, Erna began devoting all his energy to one band after another. Life as a marginally successful (and sometimes downright unsuccessful) musician was always unpredictable, and Sully's good times were equally matched by his frustrations. He learned that talent and passion were not enough; he also had to know who to trust. Beautiful blondes attracted Erna like a moth to an open flame, and his affairs with them were intense and often unstable. Outwardly hardened, yet privately vulnerable, he couldn't open up. This, combined with his high-adrenaline lifestyle, seemed bound to catch up with him and did. Here, Sully delves with surprising sensitivity into the emotional struggles that almost forced him to abandon his ambitions. Musical fame was never a given for Sully Erna. He could easily have continued to be "just another punk on the streets." The extraordinary success he now enjoys with Godsmack only came by an unlikely combination of talent, sweat, lucky breaks, and hard falls. Any one of the decisions he made along the way could have brought him to a dead end. But that just might be the whole point. Sully's story shows us that whatever hardship we may face, ultimately, our choices determine our destiny. He's made the most of every advantage and obstacle he has faced, and reminds us that we can, too. But for Sully, career success is not an ultimate destination. Every day brings a new fork in the road another path to choose.