Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography By F. Kent Reilly III, James F. Garber, Vincas P. Steponaitis
2007 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0292713479 | PDF | 8 MB
Between AD 900-1600, the native people of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.

Anatoly Karpov: My 300 best games By Anatoly Karpov
1997 | 277 Pages | ISBN: 9984922901 | DJVU | 10 MB
Author's preface: ''I have played a huge amount of tournament and match games during my long chess career, roughly 2,500 altogether. From those games, I have selected only three hundred for this book, - the games I consider my best and most instructive ones. My goal was to represent my most valuable creative achievements of the thirty years that have passed, from 1966 till 1996. The selection was subordinated to the following three criteria: strong opponent, tense fight, and instructive value. Therefore this collection of games can be treated also as a modern chess instruction book, because the games were played mainly in the strongest events of the last thirty years. Under such a strict selection procedure, many interesting and instructive games as well as simply beautiful fragments would have inevitably been missing in this book, if the games had been included into it only entirely. Therefore, the final chapter contains a number of my best combinations and finals which are essential for achieving the abovementioned goal; without them, this work would have been incomplete. I still play a lot and still achieve tournament successes, so it would be premature to accept this book as my final account. I sincerely hope to play a number of good games in upcoming events and to raise my own account of tournament triumphs (I have over 140 of them recently - more than any player in chess history). However, so many chessfriends had expressed their desire to have this book right now that I decided to prepare this sort of an intermediate report on my 30 years in chess. Let reading this work bring you pleasure and improve your understanding of chess inner logic, depth and beauty.''

Advances in Nano Instrumentation Systems and Computational Techniques (Nanotechnology Science and Tec)
by K. Kamalanand
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1536150193 | 172 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Cherry Bhargava, "Advanced VLSI Technology: Technical Questions with Solutions "
English | ISBN: 877022174X | 2020 | 250 pages | PDF | 61 MB
The trend in design and manufacturing of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits is towards smaller devices on increasing wafer dimensions. VLSI is the inter-disciplinary science of the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI design can reduce the area of the circuit, making it less expensive and requiring less power.

Active Inference: First International Workshop, IWAI 2020, Co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14, 2020, Proceedings by Tim Verbelen
English | PDF | 2020 | 205 Pages | ISBN : 3030649180 | 21.3 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Active Inference, IWAI 2020, co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, held in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020.

Access in easy steps: Illustrated using Access 2019 by Mike McGrath
English | May 28th, 2019 | ISBN: 1840788232 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 17.66 MB
Access in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to anyone who wants to get more from the Microsoft Access app. Whether you're using Access in the Office 365 suite or standalone Office product, you can use this guide to learn the key features and get more out of Access.

A Short Introduction to Classical Myth By Barry B. Powell
2001 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0130258393 | PDF | 8 MB
An essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of classical mythology, this unique guide offers original source material on the social and historical background, interpretation, and commentary on major literary books on Greek mythвЂ"such as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the historians, Ovid, Vergil, and in Greek art. Written in a clear and lucid manner, the book offers fresh and original interpretations based on the latest scholarship, and comes organized into three distinct parts: I: Definitions and Interpretations (devoted to theoretical issues); II: Background (to fill in information essential to understanding myth); and III: Themes (chapters directed toward specific topics in the study of myth). For general readers of English literature and/or classical mythology.

A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B017H2JW7U | 277 pages | PDF (conv) | 6.74 Mb
A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro.

A Concise History of Two World Wars
by Pat Morgan
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08B9RLL44 | 257 Pages | EPUB | 50 MB

30 Interactive Brainteasers to Warm up your Brain (Riddles & Brain teasers, puzzles, puzzles & games) by Puzzleland
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0121F21ZS | 88 pages | PDF (conv) | 1.13 Mb
A Fun Mini Edition by Puzzleland!!!