The Effective Organization: The Nuts and Bolts of Business Value By Lee Schlenker, Alan Matcham
2005 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0470024925 | PDF | 2 MB
The Effective Organization explores the issues and challenges of levering information technology to respond more effectively to client needs and objectives both within a company anda market. Based on examples of successes and failures over the last decade, it provides aforum for discussion within organizations, and between firms and their different business partners. The authors begin by examining the inherent links between business value, business models, and corporate strategy. They show how IT has progressively influenced our perceptions of value by impacting the practice of management, andpropose the Value Matrix ™ as a guide to determining how to best deploy talent, organization, and technology to produce value in a company anda market. Building on these foundations, theythen turn their attention to how current management practiceoften neglects the goal of business value. As the prescriptions for optimising organizations and technology have reached their limits, they argue, a radically different approach based on effectiveness and business value offers a promising alternative.

The Cultural Nature of Human Development By Barbara Rogoff
2003 | 449 Pages | ISBN: 0195131339 | PDF | 9 MB
alot of marks in it but still readable. I was warned about the highlighting but it was a little more than I thought it would be.

The Craft and Science of Game Design: A Video Game Designer's Manual
by Philippe O'Connor
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367562456 | 135 Pages | PDF | 11 MB

The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery (The American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection) by Juliet Corson
English | October 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1449455182 | PDF | 152 pages | 18.2 MB
Published in New York in 1877, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was written by one of the "great ladies" of American cooking who founded the first cooking school in New York to help unemployed working-class women find work as domestics. This cooking manual is based on the school's teachings, with heavy emphasis on preparing nutritious meals inexpensively.

The Cook's Oracle, and Housekeeper's Manual: Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving (The American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection) by William Kitchiner
English | October 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1449455093 | PDF | 440 pages | 55.4 MB
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1830, is a new version of a famous recipe collection previously published in London by William Kitchiner, adapted specifically for use by the American public.

The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-Cook, and Baker: Plain and Practical Directions for Making Confectionary and Pastry and for Baking (The American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection) by Eleanor Parkinson
English | October 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1449455026 | PDF | 164 pages | 23 MB
Published in 1846 in Philadelphia, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection contains over 500 recipes for making confections, pastries, and other baked goods by one of the foremost confectioners of the day, whose family is widely credited with establishing ice cream as a national dish.

The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics by George Boys-Stones, Christopher Rowe
2013 | ISBN: 160384936X, 1603849378 | English | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In addition to works by Plato and Xenophon, we know of dozens of treatises and dialogues written by followers of Socrates that are now lost. The surviving evidence for these writings constitutes an invaluable resource for our understanding of Socrates and his philosophical legacy. The Circle of Socrates presents new-sometimes the first-English translations of a representative selection of this evidence, set alongside extracts from Plato and Xenophon. The texts are arranged according to theme, with concise introductions that provide an overview of the topics and the main lines of thought within them.

The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army by Roger Manvell
English | March 26, 2019 | ISBN: 1510739785 | 320 pages | PDF | 3.03 Mb
July 20, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg carried a time bomb in a briefcase into a conference with Adolf Hitler. After wedging the briefcase directly in front of Hitler under a table, Stauffenberg took his leave. Only ill luck and divine providence could have caused what happened next; a junior staffer accidentally kicked the case, moving it further from Hitler. When the bomb exploded, four died, but none was the megalomaniacal Fьhrer.

The Big Book of Things That Go
By DK
English | 2016 | ISBN : 1465445099 | 32 pages | True PDF | 11 MB

The Art and Science of Surround and Stereo Recording: Including 3D Audio Techniques
by Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3709148898 | 429 Pages | PDF | 32 MB