Stanley Fish, "Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0691167710, 0691195919 | 448 pages | EPUB | 2.3 MB
Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural critics

Thermodynamics: An Interactive Approach, Global Edition
by Subrata Bhattacharjee
English | 2016 | ISBN: 129211374X | 724 Pages | PDF True | 41 MB

The ultimate gas grill cookbook for real connoisseurs: 105 ingenious, varied recipes for the gas grill
By Reagan Brown
English | 2020 | ASIN : B08P9TZTT4 | 145 pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 4.6 MB

The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century By William Chester Jordan
1996 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0691011346 | PDF | 4 MB
The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no one has offered a perspective of what daily life was actually like throughout the entire region devastated by this crisis, nor has anyone probed far into its causes. Here, the distinguished historian William Jordan provides the first comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. He produces a rich cultural history of medieval community life, drawing his evidence from such sources as meteorological and agricultural records, accounts kept by monasteries providing for the needy, and documentation of military campaigns. Whereas there has been a tendency to describe the food shortages as a result of simply bad weather or else poor economic planning, Jordan sets the stage so that we see the complex interplay of social and environmental factors that caused this particular disaster and allowed it to continue for so long. Jordan begins with a description of medieval northern Europe at its demographic peak around 1300, by which time the region had achieved a sophisticated level of economic integration. He then looks at problems that, when combined with years of inundating rains and brutal winters, gnawed away at economic stability. From animal diseases and harvest failures to volatile prices, class antagonism, and distribution breakdowns brought on by constant war, northern Europeans felt helplessly besieged by acts of an angry God--although a cessation of war and a more equitable distribution of resources might have lessened the severity of the food shortages. Throughout Jordan interweaves vivid historical detail with a sharp analysis of why certain responses to the famine failed. He ultimately shows that while the northern European economy did recover quickly, the Great Famine ushered in a period of social instability that had serious repercussions for generations to come.

The Woman's Guide to Money By Kelley Keehn
2008 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 1897178085 | PDF | 10 MB
Does thinking about your finances cause you anxiety and stress? Does the thought of money evoke feelings of sacrifice or guilt? Many women find themselves trapped by cultural and social conditioning that entails a negative view of money. Working with finances doesn’t need to be this way. Instead, money should be a tool for creating the life you have always wanted. Written for women by a woman, The Woman’s Guide to Money helps women take life-changing actions that will free them from money-related guilt and worry. By rethinking the way they look at money, women can learn to overcome the barriers that prevent them from pursuing their own prosperity. Many of us have a pre--programmed sense of guilt when it comes to money, where instead we should have confidence and satisfaction. In this step-by-step guide, women will learn how to see the differences between “net worth” and “self-worth,” how to overcome the fear of finances, and how to set goals and follow through with a plan. This book is about freedom, independence, and empowerment; it reveals how women can and should look beyond mere dollars to gain an understanding of true wealth and abundanceвЂ"one that is not about greed and power, but concerned with life-enriching prosperity.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, "The Wave Watcher's Companion: Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0399536701 | 336 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
A lively, revealing look at waves of all kinds from the bestselling author of The Cloudspotter's Guide

The Truth About Smoking By William McCay, Mark J., Ph.D. Kittleson, Mark J., Ph.D. Kittleson, William Kane, Richelle, Ph.D. Rennegarbe
2005 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 0816053081 | PDF | 10 MB
Since the release of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, more than 12 million people have died from smoking-related causes. In the next few decades, another 25 million current smokers may die prematurely if they do not quit smoking. While smoking in the U.S. is decreasing, the number of smokers in many other countries continues to rise. A clear A-to-Z guide for teens to the facts and myths about smoking, The Truth About Smoking provides clear, balanced information on the long-term and short-term effects of this dangerous habit. Examining the social and personal issues that teenagers face, such as peer pressure, this straightforward guide offers sound advice without talking down to its audience. Extensive resources list websites, hotlines, and suggestions for further reading, providing teens with all the information they need to fully understand this crucial topic. Topics include addiction to nicotine, cancer and smoking, media and smoking, therapies for quitting, and tobacco products.

The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II By Marilynn S. Johnson
1996 | 347 Pages | ISBN: 0520207017 | PDF | 3 MB
More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Area, argues Marilynn Johnson, the changes brought by World War II were as dramatic as those brought by the gold rush a century earlier. Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other East Bay shipyard boomtowns, Johnson chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, housing issues, and social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond. She also traces the cultural legacy of war migration and shows how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area culture. Johnson's sources are wide-ranging and include shipyard records, labor histories, police reports, and interviews. Her findings place the war's human drama at center stage and effectively recreate the texture of daily life in workplace, home, and community. Enriched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange and others, The Second Gold Rush makes an important contribution to twentieth-century urban studies as well as to California history.

The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture By Jerrold Seigel
1997 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0520209036 | PDF | 7 MB
Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of art. Jerrold Seigel offers a wholly different view, revealing a web of interrelated themes that unify Duchamp's work and tie it to his life. At the book's center is a reinterpretation of the famous ''readymades,'' of which the urinal ''Fountain'' and the defaced Mona Lisa were the most shocking. By recovering their history, Seigel shows that their playful and rebellious surface veiled the meanings that linked them to Duchamp's pictures (especially the famous ''Large Glass,'' here illuminated by a comprehensive new reading) and to his experiments with language. The result gives the artist's career the unity of a colorful and intricate puzzle. Behind that puzzle were the great modernist themes of isolation, perpetuated desire, and the imagined dissolution of the self. These themes entered Duchamp's mind both from his social and cultural environment and from the shaping experience of his family; around them were woven the patterns of working and loving that Seigel uncovers in his life. Duchamp emerges not just as a coherent, understandable personality, but as an exemplary one, his very eccentricities reflecting essential dimensions of modern experience. A mythic presence in modern culture, a hero whose story we tell for the sake of its valuable lessons, Duchamp opened the floodgates to a sea of questions about the nature and meaning of art. Seigel demands that we think again about these questions, and about the answers that Duchamp's heirs and followers have tried to give to them.

Deborah Levy, "The Man Who Saw Everything"
English | ISBN: 1632869845 | 2019 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 551 KB
Longlisted for the Booker Prize