What's Luck Got to Do with It?: How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream by Edward D. Kleinbard
English | ISBN: 0190943572 | 320 pages | EPUB | February 8, 2021 | 2.69 Mb
The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs.
What to Eat, and How to Cook It: Preserving, Canning and Drying Fruits and Vegetables (The American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection) by Joseph Cowan
English | October 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1449455107 | PDF | 134 pages | 13.9 MB
Cowan's earlier works dealt with sexual hygiene and the evils of tobacco, but in What to Eat, and How to Cook It he turned to diet. Food and culinary practice had become more complex in American middle-class society by 1870, and Cowan's cookbook blasted his countrymen for eating "conglomerate mixtures," ingredients "mixed in all shapes, in all measures, and under all conditions." He believed that overly manipulated, processed foods led to a "clogged brain" and a "sickly and unenjoyable life." His conclusion was that, "To live a sweet healthy life implies the use of simple, nutritious food, cooked in a plain, simple manner, and as nearly in its natural relations as possible."
Bartley J. Madden, "Wealth Creation: A Systems Mindset for Building and Investing in Businesses for the Long Term"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0470488689 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Wealth creation insights by the creator of the company life-cycle framework known as the CFROI valuation model.
Warman's Modern US Coins Field Guide: Values and Identification
By Arlyn Sieber
English | 2020 | ISBN : 1440213801 | 512 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Walls and Bridges: Social Justice and Public Policy By Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese
2004 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 0791459071 | PDF | 1 MB
A fresh and easy-to-understand examination of some of America's most challenging social issues.
Voice Compression and Communications: Principles and Applications for Fixed and Wireless Channels by Lajos L. Hanzo, F. Clare A. Somerville, Jason P. Woodward
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0471150398 | 784 pages | PDF | 82 MB
Up-to-date, expert coverage of topics in wireless voice communications
Urban High-Resolution Remote Sensing: Algorithms and Modeling
by Guoqing Zhou
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367857502 | 368 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
Understanding the Humanitarian World (Global Institutions) by Daniel G Maxwell, Kirsten Gelsdorf
2019 | ISBN: 0367233010, 0367232936 | English | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Conflict and disaster have been part of human history for as long as it has been recorded. Over time, more mechanisms for responding to crises have developed and become more systematized. Today a large and complex 'global humanitarian response system' made up of a multitude of local, national and international actors carries out a wide variety of responses. Understanding this intricate system, and the forces that shape it, are the core focus of this book.
Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography By David Leatherbarrow
2000 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 0262122308 | PDF | 6 MB
Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground , David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
Ukulele for Beginners: Easy Chords and Exercises by Adrian Gavinson
English | October 26, 2018 | ISBN: 1729276601 | 105 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.62 Mb
Learn how to master the basics of the ukulele and develop your skills with this essential beginner's guide.