U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (Civil War America) by Joan Waugh
English | 2009 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0807833177 | PDF | 10 MB
How does national memory determine national heroes? Waugh, a UCLA history professor, probes the subject in an engaging study of the making of Ulysses S. Grant's reputation. At the time of his death in 1885, he was perceived as on a level with George Washington by former Unionists and Confederates alike. His memoirs were a bestseller. His image combined the honorable soldier and the generous victor: a heroic war leader who believed in the ideal of national reconciliation in both regional and racial contexts.

The Charisma of Distant Places: Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Courtney Luckhardt
2020 | ISBN: 0367137356 | English | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizontal links to distant regions identified religious travelers - both men and women - as holy, connected to the human and the divine across physical and spiritual distances. Using textual sources, material culture, and place studies, this project is among the first to contextualize the geographic and temporal movement of early medieval people to reveal the diversity of religious travel, from the voluntary journeys of pilgrims to the forced travel of Christian slaves. Luckhardt offers new ways of understanding ideas about power, holiness, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages. By focusing on the religious dimensions of early medieval people and the regions they visited, this book addresses probing questions, including how and why medieval people communicated and connected with one another across boundaries, both geographical and imaginative.

Security in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (Computer and Network Security) by Raheem Beyah, Janise Mcnair and Cherita Corbett
English | 2009 | ISBN: 981427108X | 460 pages | PDF | 5,4 MB
Security issues in ad-hoc and sensor networks have become extremely important. This edited book provides a comprehensive treatment for security issues in these networks, ranging from attack mitigation to recovery after an attack has been successfully executed. Security issues include (but are not limited to) attacks, malicious node detection, access control, authentication, intrusion detection, privacy and anonymity, key management, location verification, security architectures and protocols, secrecy and integrity, network resilience and survivability, and trust models. This complete book provides an excellent reference for students, researchers, and industry practitioners related to these areas.

Right-Wing Populism and Gender: European Perspectives and Beyond (Gender Studies) by Gabriele Dietze, Julia Roth
2020 | ISBN: 3837649806 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 17 MB
While the field of research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming and is expanding, a systematic look into the interface of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are omnipresent in discourses of the radical right ranging from "ethnosexism" against immigrants, to "anti-genderism." This volume seeks to strengthen the analysis of the intersection of gender and race as constitutional for radical right discourse. The contributions investigate from different European perspectives the ways in which gender is used as an arena and as an epistemological platform for the ordering and hierarchization of political objectives.

Pharmacy Informatics by Philip O. Anderson, Susan M. McGuinness, Philip E. Bourne
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1420071750 | 308 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
Emphasizes Evidence-Based Practice and Quality Improvement Approaches

Nutrients as Ergogenic Aids for Sports and Exercise by Luke R. Bucci
1993 | ISBN: 0849342236, 0367450046 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Nutrients as Ergogenic Aids for Sports and Exercise discusses the growing body of information regarding the enhancement of human physical performance by dietary manipulations through ergogenesis. It balances the application of nutritional manipulations between overzealous promoters and recalcitrant cynics. By offering a thorough, comprehensive and up-to-date review of what is known about ergogenic effects of nutrients on humans, it bridges the gap between common usage and scientific knowledge. Nutrients as Ergogenic Aids for Sports and Exercise covers in detail many popular product ingredients not considered elsewhere. It illustrates areas awaiting future research, and offers suggestions for avoiding the pitfalls of performing ergogenesis research.

Multiscale Modeling in Solid Mechanics: Computational Approaches by Ugo Galvanetto
English | Pages: 352 | 2009-09-29 | ISBN 184816307X | PDF | 14 MB
This unique volume presents the state of the art in the field of multiscale modeling in solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on computational approaches. For the first time, contributions from both leading experts in the field and younger promising researchers are combined to give a comprehensive description of the recently proposed techniques and the engineering problems tackled using these techniques. The book begins with a detailed introduction to the theories on which different multiscale approaches are based, with regards to linear homogenization as well as various nonlinear approaches. It then presents advanced applications of multiscale approaches applied to nonlinear mechanical problems. Finally, the novel topic of materials with self-similar structure is discussed.

How to Practice Evidence-based Psychiatry: Basic Principles and Case Studies by C. Barr Taylor
English | 2009-10-21 | ISBN: 1585623652 | 538 pages | PDF | 8 MB
How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Basic Principles and Case Studies explains the methods and philosophy of evidence-based psychiatry and describes ways in which psychiatrists and other mental health specialists can incorporate evidence-based psychiatry into clinical practice. It expands and complements the popular text Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry, which provides details on obtaining and interpreting medical evidence, and it allows experts from a variety of specialty areas and practice settings to describe interesting and inspiring cases of their own.

Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy by George W. Burns
English | 2009-12-21 | ISBN: 047029115X | 360 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
A practical guide to applying the principles of positive psychology in your mental health practice

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers by Geoffrey Horrocks
English, Ελληνικά | 2010 | ISBN: 1405134151 | 528 pages | PDF | 52,5 MB
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day.