Frommer's Cape Cod Day by Day by Laura M. Reckford
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 047087483X | 204 pages | PDF | 19,1 MB
Detailed general and special interest tours of the whole Cape, as well as Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, whether you have a day, a weekend or longer.
Frommer's Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg by George McDonald
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0470887664 | 544 pages | PDF | 6,8 MB
A highly informative guide to a great trip in the Low Countries. Leads travelers to the best of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Frommer's Arizona and the Grand Canyon 2012 by Karl Samson
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 1118017277 | 576 pages | PDF | 25,7 MB
Full color throughout.
From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call: Close More by Doing What You Do Best by Richard Schroder
Language: English | 2010 | ISBN: 0071718117 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Create a Tailor-Made Sales Strategy Using Lessons from the Field!
From Projects to Programs: A Project Manager's Journey by Samir Penkar
Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 1466591811 | 158 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
This is the story of an up-and-coming project manager that has been handed a large program to lead.
From Grids To Service and Pervasive Computing by Thierry Priol, Marco Vanneschi
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 0387094547 | 242 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Peer-to-peer computing, grid, distributed storage technologies, emerging web service technologies, and other types of networked distributed computing have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources. Grids are revolutionizing computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web.
From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics by Dr Thomas I. Palley
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN: 1107016622 | 258 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years. One flaw was the growth model adopted after 1980 that relied on debt and asset price inflation to fuel growth instead of wages. A second flaw was the model of globalization that created an economic gash. Third, financial deregulation and the house price bubble kept the economy going by making ever more credit available. As the economy cannibalized itself by undercutting income distribution and accumulating debt, it needed larger speculative bubbles to grow. That process ended when the housing bubble burst. The earlier post-World War II economic model based on rising middle-class incomes has been dismantled, while the new neoliberal model has imploded. Absent a change of policy paradigm, the logical next step is stagnation. The political challenge we face now is how to achieve paradigm change.
Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are by Carlin Flora
Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 0307946959 | 288 pages | EPUB + MOBI | (1,8 + 0,43) MB
Discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes. Why is dinner with friends often more laughter filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say it's because we choose our friends, it's also because we expect less of them than we do of relatives. While we're busy scrutinizing our romantic relationships and family dramas, our friends are quietly but strongly influencing everything from the articles we read to our weight fluctuations, from our sex lives to our overall happiness levels. Evolutionary psychologists have long theorized that friendship has roots in our early dependence on others for survival. These days, we still cherish friends but tend to undervalue their role in our lives. However, the skills one needs to make good friends are among the very skills that lead to success in life, and scientific research has recently exploded with insights about the meaningful and enduring ways friendships influence us. With people marrying later-and often not at all-and more families having just one child, these relationships may be gaining in importance. The evidence even suggests that at times friends have a greater hand in our development and well-being than do our romantic partners and relatives. Friends see each other through the process of growing up, shape each other's interests and outlooks, and, painful though it may be, expose each other's rough edges. Childhood and adolescence, in particular, are marked by the need to create distance between oneself and one's parents while forging a unique identity within a group of peers, but friends continue to influence us, in ways big and small, straight through old age. Perpetually busy parents who turn to friends-for intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and a good dose of merriment-find a perfect outlet to relieve the pressures of raising children. In the office setting, talking to a friend for just a few minutes can temporarily boost one's memory. While we romanticize the idea of the lone genius, friendship often spurs creativity in the arts and sciences. And in recent studies, having close friends was found to reduce a person's risk of death from breast cancer and coronary disease, while having a spouse was not. Friendfluence surveys online-only pals, friend breakups, the power of social networks, envy, peer pressure, the dark side of amicable ties, and many other varieties of friendship. Told with warmth, scientific rigor, and a dash of humor, Friendfluence not only illuminates and interprets the science but draws on clinical psychology and philosophy to help readers evaluate and navigate their own important friendships.
French Defence Advance Variation: Volume Two by Evgeny Sveshnikov
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 3283005249 | 152 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The second half of a two-volume work, this set is intended for a broad range of chess enthusiasts. The author believes that anyone making a thorough study of the available material can expect an improvement in playing strength in this system of approximate 200 Elo points. This second volume contains 61 theoretically important games for independent analysis, an encyclopedia of variations, a summary of the 3.e5 system, games for further study, and the latest theoretical developments.
French Defence Advance Variation: Volume One by Evgeny Sveshnikov
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 3283005230 | 176 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB
The well-known grandmaster and theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov has used the Closed Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5) more than 150 times in tournament play, with a score of more than 70 percent. Many theoretically important games have been excluded by the author from official chess databases, and here they are exclusively published for the first time. Volume 1 of this two volume set includes an historical overview of the Closed Variation; plans for White and Black on the basis of thoroughly annotated games, a lesson on the blockade, and 70 test positions.