Gerasimos Merianos, "Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity: Greek Fathers' Views on Hoarding and Saving "
English | ISBN: 1137564083 | 2017 | 268 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1332 KB + 3 MB
This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Pelusium, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus, to hoarding and saving intertwined with stances toward the moral and social obligations of the wealthy. It also demonstrates how these Fathers responded to conditions and practices in urban economic environments characterized by sharp inequalities. Their attitudes reflect the gradual widening of Christian congregations, but also the consequences of the socio-economic evolution of the late antique Eastern Roman Empire. Among the issues discussed in the book are the justification of wealth, alternatives to hoarding, and the reception of patristic views by contemporaries.
Making Toys, Revised Edition: Heirloom Cars and Trucks in Wood by Sam Martin, Roger Schroeder
English | October 6, 2020 | ASIN: B08NFC9LY8, ISBN: 1497101166 | AZW3 | 114 pages | 48.2 MB
Your complete guide to making vintage vehicles in wood!
Beth M Howard, "Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie"
English | ISBN: 0373892578 | 2012 | 310 pages | AZW3 | 571 KB
"You will find my story is a lot like pie, a strawberry-rhubarb pie. It's bitter. It's messy. It's got some sweetness, too. Sometimes the ingredients get added in the wrong order, but it has substance, it will warm your insides, and even though it isn't perfect, it still turns out okay in the end."
Main Line 1.d4 Playbook: 200 Opening Chess Positions for White by Tim Sawyer
English | November 18, 2017 | ISBN: 1973332205 | 206 pages | PDF | 2.22 Mb
This chess repertoire begins 1.d4 intending 2.c4. You get a reliable set of openings for White arranged by popularity. The first half of the book covers 1.d4 d5 2.c4 with the Albin Counter Gambit, Chigorin, Queens Gambit Accepted, Slav Defence, Semi-Slav Defence, and Queens Gambit Declined. The second half has 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 and 1.d4 f5 2.c4 with the Benoni Defence, Benko Gambit, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Gruenfeld, Kings Indian Defence, and the Dutch Defence. Choose chess openings grandmasters play. This collection of 200 positions covers the critical continuations based on what masters play and based on the highest performance ratings. Each diagram has occurred in thousands of games with some original suggestions taken from chess engines. This Playbook series tells you what to play. These 200 key positions are based on what Black most often plays. Five moves for White are added below most of the diagrams. That gives you hundreds of moves for your preparation. Let Tim Sawyer guide you. It's your move in every diagram. Start well and you will win more games. Be prepared!
Mad About Wildlife: Looking At Social Conflict Over Wildlife By Ann Herda-Rapp; Theresa L. Goedeke
2005 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 9004143661 | PDF | 2 MB
This edited volume documents the presence and types of Nature discourse that emerge during conflicts between people over wildlife. This collection of qualitative case studies demonstrates how social groups create opposing symbolic meanings of Nature and highlights the way in which the successful imposition of those meanings affects wildlife, people generally, and management professionals. Together, the chapters illustrate the significant, untapped utility of constructionist approaches for understanding social conflict over wildlife issues and for managing natural resources in a way that acknowledges and incorporates different definitions of nature. Readership : Individuals interested in wildlife protection and management, as well as social controversy over nature and environmental policy.
Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 7th International Workshop, MLSA 2020, Co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14-18, 2020, Proceedings by Ulf Brefeld
English | PDF | 2020 | 146 Pages | ISBN : 3030649113 | 17.7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2020, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.
Machine Learning by Rajiv Chopra
English | ISBN: 9386173425 | 375 pages | EPUB | 2018 | 4.86 Mb
This book attempts to provide a unified overview of the broad field of Machine Learning and its Practical implementation. This book is a survey of the state of art. It breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts piece by piece. The objective is to focus on basic principles of machine learning with some leading edge topics. This book addresses a full spectrum of machine learning programming. The emphasis is to solve lot many programming examples using step-by step practical implementation of machine learning algorithms. To facilitate easy understanding of machine learning, this book has been written in such a simple style that a student thinks as if a teacher is sitting behind him and guiding him.
Low-Carb Diet for Two: 100 Easy, Flavorful Recipes to Get Healthy Together
by Bek Davis
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08NWF78ZP | 252 Pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Wang Pan, "Love and Marriage in Globalizing China"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138024252 | PDF | pages: 261 | 1.7 mb
As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese-foreign marriages have profound implications for China's cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese-foreign marriage, and divorce, and the changing scale and changing patterns of such marriages, and divorces, and examines how such marriages and divorces are portrayed in different kinds of media. It shows how those types of Chinese-foreign marriage where Chinese patriotism and Chinese values are preserved are depicted favourably, whereas other kinds of Chinese-foreign marriage, especially those where Chinese women marry foreign nationals, are disapproved of, male foreign nationals being seen as having a propensity to infidelity, deception, violence and taking advantage of Chinese women. The book contrasts the portrayal of Chinese-foreign marriage with the reality, and with the depiction of Chinese-Chinese marriage where many of the same problems apply. Overall, the book sheds much light on changing social processes and on current imaginings of China's place in the world.
Chris Czajkowski, "Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1771511028, 1894898249 | 264 pages | EPUB / MOBI | 3.67 MB
Canadas most opinionated dog is reunited with her adoring readers in this handsome tenth-anniversary edition of TouchWood Editions bestselling title.