Category: Ebook

A School Like Mine – A Unique Celebration of Schools Around the World By DK

General:

Name: A School Like Mine – A Unique Celebration of Schools Around the World By DK
Format: pdf
Size: 35.93 MB

Book:

Title: Children Just Like Me
Author: DK
Language: English
Year: 2007
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 0756629136
Total pages: 82

Description:

In ‘Rattlesnakes’ how do three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, and why does one find himself performing fellatio on another while being watched by the bare-breasted Madeline and two armed Mexicans?

Who is the mysterious Korean chef who has moved upstairs to Chicago socialite Kendra Cross, in ‘The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park’, and what does he have to do with the disappearance of her faithful pooch Toto?

In the title story, can Mickey Baker – an expat English bar-owner ducking and diving on the Costa Brava – manage to keep all his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid Cynthia’s body weight at the sexual maximum while attending to the youthful Persephone and dodging his persistent ex-wife and a pair of Spanish gangsters?

By what train of events does Raymond Wilson Butler, writing a biography of a legendary US film director in ‘Miss Arizona’ come to end up as a piece of movie memorabilia?

And how, in the novella ‘The Kingdom of Fife’ will Jason King – diminutive ex-trainee jockey and Subbuteo star of Cowdenbeath – fare in the world of middle-class female equestrians, and will he ever enjoy the tender and long-anticipated charms of Jenni Cahill and her remarkable jodhpurs?

All of these questions are posed, and answered, in these five extraordinary stories: stories that remind us that Irvine Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller, and – unarguably – one of the funniest and filthiest writers in Britain.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/e29c3880c19abec43082216855ea436c/wggtb9m627i5p2b3799bny.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/049613D9D29E9DF/wggtb9m627i5p2b3799bny.zip

A Savage Conflict – The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

General:

Name: A Savage Conflict – The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
Format: pdf
Size: 4.25 MB

Book:

Title: A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (Civil War America)
Author: Sutherland, Daniel E.
Language: English
Year: 2010
Subjects: History, Military, Nonfiction
Publisher: University of North Carolina Pre
ISBN: 0807866032
Total pages: 454

Description:

While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/4f52cff6d5c3b8431574429083e6361e/0b4kd95955wwbem5nv5v9m.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/1BA5336CD7A4A08/0b4kd95955wwbem5nv5v9m.zip

A Rotten Crowd – America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby

General:

Name: A Rotten Crowd – America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby
Format: pdf
Size: 5.03 MB

Book:

Title: A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby
Author: Marsh, John
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Politics, Sociology, Nonfiction
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1685900836
Total pages: 126

Description:

A look at how much, and how little, has changed about class in America
One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the "rotten crowd," Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In "A Rotten Crowd": America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, John Marsh welcomes us back to Fitzgerald’s world to examine the rich and their reckless approach to human relationships, their poor taste in friends, and the harm they cause. Marsh leads us to wonder: What kinds of waste-economic, environmental, emotional-accompany a culture of wealth? What kinds of relationships do the wealthy form with those they rely upon to maintain their power-and how does capitalism and the need for the accumulation of wealth influence the bonds the rest of us form? On a surface level, how do the clothes people wear signal their status-and how do those fashions trickle down to the rest of us? And on a deeper level, how does racism drive a wedge between those who might otherwise stand up to the rich? As we move between 2025 and 1925 to consider how much-or little-has changed in the interim, A Rotten Crowd helps us discover what we can do about the obscene concentration of wealth in America today.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/820e6f09d893a92bd71faa4d5730e873/707itn7a54pnth611rwu4l.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/076F54AE6C9276D/707itn7a54pnth611rwu4l.zip

A Revolution in Arms – A History of the First Repeating Rifles

General:

Name: A Revolution in Arms – A History of the First Repeating Rifles
Format: epub
Size: 6.36 MB

Book:

Title: A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles
Author: Joseph G. Bilby
Language: English
Year: 2006
Subjects: Firearms, History, Non-Fiction, Rifles
Publisher: Westholme
ISBN: 9781594165801
Total pages: 496 str.

Description:

"Mr. Bilby takes us through Gettysburg, among other places, showing how the Spencer and Henry rifle played a decisive role." –The Wall Street Journal
"A valuable study…his research is balanced and thorough, his writing is lively and clear…his approach gives the book broad appeal." –Journal of Military History
"This is an outstanding book-accurate, judicious, highly readable." –North & South
"A Revolution in Arms is written in such a good, readable way of a very important time in the history of firearms."-Rifle Magazine
"Well written and researched…certainly should be an addition to your library."-Civil War Times
Historians often call the American Civil War the first modern war, pointing to the use of observation balloons, the telegraph, trains, mines, ironclad ships, and other innovations. Although recent scholarship has challenged some of these "firsts," the war did witness the…

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/dbb43ecbdc4bb8e4736aed47b8ece1a4/xpht14i53e33e0rer92bz2.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/6FF86A4FD5E60BE/xpht14i53e33e0rer92bz2.zip

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy – Dispatches from Arizona By Richard Grant

General:

Name: A Race to the Bottom of Crazy – Dispatches from Arizona By Richard Grant
Format: epub
Size: 4.47 MB

Book:

Title: A Race to the Bottom of Crazy
Author: Richard Grant
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: History, Politics, Travel, Nonfiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1668011026
Total pages: N/A

Description:

The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona.
When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth.

In A Race…

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/3975fd5e6d26ddd9125110a09e913333/mt2m1t7a38898aaj1jl2tb.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/94AFBE84CE7E197/mt2m1t7a38898aaj1jl2tb.zip

A Quick Guide to becoming a Super Learner – How to get ridiculously good, at just about anything, fast!

General:

Name: A Quick Guide to becoming a Super Learner – How to get ridiculously good, at just about anything, fast!
Format: epub
Size: 2.29 MB

Book:

Title: A Quick Guide to becoming a Super Learner
Author: Bell, Amy
Language: English
Year: 2021
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: The MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262029230
Total pages: 226 str.

Description:

Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn’t try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults.

Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages-gained from experience-of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language.

Learning a language takes effort. But if adult learners apply the tools acquired over a lifetime, it can be enjoyable and rewarding.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/2d7eb656abb672c3643d0de4d361b25c/9i8d4ipo30umel56e56f2k.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/AA201719057578C/9i8d4ipo30umel56e56f2k.zip

A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms – Li Hao (351-417), Ruler of Western Liang

General:

Name: A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms – Li Hao (351-417), Ruler of Western Liang
Format: pdf
Size: 5.25 MB

Book:

Title: A Prince of Martial Splendour in the Sixteen Kingdoms
Author: Dominik Declercq
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9004716432
Total pages: 218

Description:

Biblioteka Fundacji Wiktora hr. Baworowskiego we Lwowie, założona przez znanego tłumacza literatury zachodnioeuropejskiej na język polski oraz bibliofila Wiktora hr. Baworowskiego (1826-1894),należała do najważniejszych bibliotek okresu zaborów, a po udostępnieniu publiczności (w 1900 r.) stała się znaczącym ośrodkiem życia naukowego Lwowa. Na kolekcję składało się ponad 15 tys. druków oraz ponad tysiąc rękopisów, zwłaszcza z zakresu literatury pięknej, politycznej, prawniczej, liturgicznej, teologicznej, matematyczno-przyrodniczej, pochodzących m.in. z włączanych księgozbiorów prywatnych. Powiększały ją zakupy, m.in. w 1914 r. nabyto bibliotekę Zygmunta hr. Czarneckiego, zawierającą liczne, niejednokrotnie cenne i unikatowe rękopisy i druki, dotyczące prawa, historii, literatury astronomiczno-matematycznej, a także polskich i zagranicznych kwestii religijnych. Od 1945 r. zasadniczy zrąb kolekcji jest przechowywany w Lwowskiej Narodowej Naukowej Bibliotece Ukrainy im. W. Stefanyka. Stanowi on cenne świadectwo znaczenia oraz roli historii i kultury polskiej dawnych wieków, obecnie element wspólnego dziedzictwa.

Zespół autorów podjął rekonstrukcję, opis i analizę XVI-wiecznego lwowskiego zasobu Bavorovianum. Prezentowany katalog rejestruje 275 druków pierwszej połowy XVI w. Wszystkie opisy starych druków uzupełniono o fotografie kart tytułowych, a także o indeksy osobowy, tytułowy, typograficzny, proweniencyjny i znaków własnościowych. Sprawdzono także obecność informacji o rejestrowanych drukach w kilkudziesięciu polskich i światowych źródłach informacyjnych. Przedstawiono ponadto zwięzły zarys kształtowania się i losów księgozbioru oraz jego charakterystykę rzeczową, co pozwala na wniosek o jego wyjątkowej wartości dla kultury umysłowej nie tylko dawnego, ale i współczesnego Lwowa. Zamieszczono również wyniki analizy mikrobiologicznej i fizykochemicznej druków XVI-wieku, wraz z omówieniem metody przeprowadzonych badań. Przygotowywany jest następny tom, obejmujący katalog druków drugiej połowy XVI w.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/95c11226e9a30acf801e708df6742fb2/h196ksu7s31alw8d6is6c6.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/CC1517438904BF5/h196ksu7s31alw8d6is6c6.zip

A Precarious Game – The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry by Ergin Bulut

General:

Name: A Precarious Game – The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry by Ergin Bulut
Format: epub
Size: 2.27 MB

Book:

Title: A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
Author: Ergin Bulut
Language: English
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computer Technology, Games, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746537
Total pages: N/A

Description:

A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South.
A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives.
Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/274084579774cefd0926aa7dc63c7e9f/nt1bh27d92y6hmyd705s2q.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/CAB84894F3817CD/nt1bh27d92y6hmyd705s2q.zip

A practical guide to Testing in DevOps By Katrina Clokie

General:

Name: A practical guide to Testing in DevOps By Katrina Clokie
Format: pdf
Size: 5.01 MB

Book:

Title: A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps
Author: Katrina Clokie
Language: polski
Year: 1950
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Książnica-Atlas
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 167

Description:

Ta książka nie posiada jeszcze opisu.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/f275efd63d57eff5bcea972f2fc5bf57/rlt80euv7v9nj6j2c89m05.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/2E4E7B73766991B/rlt80euv7v9nj6j2c89m05.zip

A Post-Truth World – Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos

General:

Name: A Post-Truth World – Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos
Format: epub
Size: 562.96 KB

Book:

Title: A Post-Truth World
Author: Ken Wilber;
Language: English
Year: 2024
Subjects: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)
ISBN: 1645473554
Total pages: 336 str.

Description:

A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory-by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.
Our overwhelmingly divisive socio-political climate is among the greatest challenges of our time. Not only in America but also internationally, it seems that almost every issue raises incredibly vocal oppositional views. Not least of all, the arising of vast networks of disinformation is a testament to our deepening rifts. With so much hostility, antagonism, cynicism, and discord, how can we mend the ruptures in our society?
Acclaimed philosopher Ken Wilber examines our polarization through the lens of Integral Theory to show what led to these fractures, both in America and around the world-as well as what is needed for humanity to move forward. In his provocative analysis, he explores how the arising of support for antagonistic authoritarians represents a backlash against the failure of those at the leading edge of consciousness (postmodernism and pluralism) to acknowledge the challenges that persist amidst our imagined progress: that, to date, society has been not proven to be equal, and liberty and justice have not been consistent for all. But a new Integral force is emerging that can move beyond the narcissism, nihilism, and cynicism to offer genuine leadership and move us all toward greater wholeness. All of us can be part of the movement, and here Ken Wilber shows us how.

Download from RapidGator
https://rapidgator.net/file/0974e88fd0cd87e12770678d68fa4629/vm5189ki7syb9o2n1tc19s.zip
Download from NitroFlare
https://nitroflare.com/view/0D17C0749F94BAC/vm5189ki7syb9o2n1tc19s.zip