Noah D. Guynn, "Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce "
English | ISBN: 0812251687 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 11 MB
As Noah D. Guynn observes, early French farce has been summarily dismissed as filth for centuries. Renaissance humanists, classical moralists, and Enlightenment philosophes belittled it as an embarrassing reminder of the vulgarity of medieval popular culture. Modern literary critics and theater historians often view it as comedy's poor relation-trite, smutty pap that served to divert the masses and to inure them to lives of subservience. Yet, as Guynn demonstrates in his reexamination of the genre, the superficial crudeness and predictability of farce belie the complexities of its signifying and performance practices and the dynamic, contested nature of its field of reception. Pure Filth focuses on overlooked and occluded content in farce, arguing that apparently coarse jokes conceal finely drawn, and sometimes quite radical, perspectives on ethics, politics, and religion.

Pure Charcuterie: The Craft and Poetry of Curing Meats at Home by New Society Publishers
English | November 6, 2017 | ISBN: 0865718601 | 160 pages | PDF | 8.50 Mb
Cured meat products arose from the need for preservation, in a time when cooking and refrigeration were not always available. Today, charcuterie is an embodiment of art in the kitchen, combining precision, balance, patience, and creativity; an economy of ingredients, as poetry is an economy of words. The confluence of these elements, along with the purest of ingredients, can enable anyone to craft cured meats in their home.

Public Finance: An International Perspective
by Joshua E Greene
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9814365041 | 538 Pages | PDF | 12 MB

Monika Mischke, "Public Attitudes toward Family Policies in Europe: Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion"
English | 2013 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 3658035765 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Family-policy variation in Europe is still enormous and there is very limited knowledge about the publics' attitudes toward family-policy measures in a comparative perspective. This book addresses this research gap by combing a profound analysis of existing family-policy measures with a thorough analysis of public attitudes. Based on institutional theory, which argues that institutions structure the processes of orientation, the empirical analyses shed light on the relationship between the current family-policy setup, the social context, and public attitudes toward particular family-policy measures in 12 countries of the European Union. The results demonstrate that the social context needs to be taken into account in order to improve our understanding of attitudinal variation among different countries and family-policy contexts. Moreover, this book points out that only few patterns of social polarization are quasi universal whereas many others are specific to individual countries or certain groups of countries.

Progressive Tactics: 1002 Progressively Challenging Chess Tactics by Dave Couture
English | September 26, 2016 | ISBN: 1537353675 | 162 pages | AZW3 | 38 Mb
The purpose of this book is simple - it is intended to raise your rating (or just greatly improve your game if you're not a rated player). Rather than go into a lengthy explanation of why practicing tactics is so critical to improvement, I'll just tell you about my own experience. I started playing tournament chess in the 1980's and spent about 20 years rated in the 1500-1650 range while I studied opening books, endgame books, and strategy books to no avail. Over the years I had read occasional comments about the importance of focusing on tactics above all else, but it never really sunk in. Sometime in 2007, I read a column by the outstanding instructor Dan Heisman about the importance of tactics, that was so well written and persuasive, that it finally sunk in that I needed to try focusing on tactics. Well, suffice it to say that it worked. I started working on tactics in the excellent book "Sharpen Your Tactics" by Anatoly Lein (almost) every day and my rating rose to a peak of 1845. Then sometime in 2009 I gradually got away from working on tactics for various reasons and my rating plummeted back to 1600. In 2012 I started studying tactics once more and peaked at 1858 at which point I started working on this book and stopped doing my daily tactics practice and... my rating plummeted again. Since finishing the book, I've gotten back to daily tactics practice and my rating has again started climbing. So why THIS tactics book as opposed to others. It contains tactics from real amateur games - the kinds of tactics you're likely to see in your own games! I think you'll find this book to actually be fun! So buy this book, enjoy it, and watch your rating rise!

Robert Frank, Ben Bernanke, "Principles of Macroeconomics, Brief Edition"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0077316762 | PDF | pages: 480 | 19.5 mb
In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of teaching a shorter list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. The authors introduce a coherent short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles and to answer related questions and exercises. The BRIEF editions were developed for instructors who appreciate core principles approach, and desire a more manageable amount of content and slightly less rigor. In the brief editions, the authors made careful choices of material to eliminate and condense, in order to produce of more concise coverage.

Joseph Campbell, "Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God Series, Volume I"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1608687252 | EPUB | pages: 528 | 3.8 mb
The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.

Robin Sax, "Predators and Child Molesters: What Every Parent Needs to Know to Keep Kids Safe"
English | ISBN 10: 1591027128 | 2009 | PDF | 179 pages | 8,6 MB
There is no crime not even murder that worries and sickens parents more than child sexual abuse. Parents wonder how to protect their children when almost every day the news reports another incident of someone in authority arrested on suspicion of child abuse from clergy and teachers to family members themselves.

Practical Neurocounseling: Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions by Lori A. Russell-Chapin, Nicole C. Pacheco, Jason A. DeFord
2020 | ISBN: 0367417472, 036741743X | English | 214 pages | PDF | 120 MB
Practical Neurocounseling demonstrates the importance of considering brain health in counseling, showing mental health professionals how to understand and assess the functioning of different parts of the brain without sophisticated software or intensive training.