The Lonny Home: Discovering & Cultivating Your Authentic Space by The Editor's of Lonny Magazine, Sean Santiago
English | May 7, 2019 | ISBN: 1681883244 | PDF | 304 pages | 205 MB
All those luxe decor ideas you see on Pinterest and in glossy magazines are great for inspiration, but how do you cut through the noise and create your own dream house-one that's perfectly cultivated for your space, personality, family, and budget? Let The Lonny Home-a gorgeous and thoughtful guide from Lonny Magazine, the ultimate online destination for interiors inspiration-help you craft your ultimate authentic living space.

The Long-Distance Teammate: Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere by Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
English | January 19th, 2021 | ISBN: 1523090308 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 1.61 MB
What does it mean to "go to work" when you don't actually leave the house? This is the ultimate guide for remote workers who want to stay engaged as team members, maintain robust work relationships, and keep an eye on their long-term career goals.

Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, "The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results"
English | ISBN: 1452216754 | 2012 | 192 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a robust tool to improve the design, development, and implementation of program and organization change efforts. The text is enhanced by numerous visual learning guides (sample models, checklists, exercises, worksheets) and many new case examples. The authors provide students, practitioners, and beginning researchers with practical support to develop and improve models that reflect knowledge, practice, and beliefs. The Guidebook offers a range of new applied examples. The text includes logic models for evaluation, discusses archetypes, and explores display and meaning. In an important contribution to programs and organizations, it emphasizes quality by raising issues like plausibility, feasibility, and strategic choices in model creation.

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame: 1968-2011 by William Feaver
English | January 19th, 2021 | ISBN: 0525657665 | 576 pages | True EPUB | 99.44 MB
The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic.

The Little Book of Big History by Ian Crofton
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1782436855 | 313 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 5.79 Mb
From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between.

The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy By Brenda Shaffer
2006 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0262693216 | PDF | 13 MB
In recent years, analysts of world affairs have suggested that cultural interests-ethnicity, religion, and ideology-play a primary role in patterns of conflict and alliances, and that in the future the "clash of civilizations" will dominate international relations. The Limits of Culture explores the effect of culture on foreign policy, focusing on countries in the geopolitically important Caspian region and paying particular attention to those states that have identified themselves as Islamic republics-Iran, Taliban Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The contributors to The Limits of Culture find that, contrary to the currently popular view, culture is rarely more important than other factors in shaping the foreign policies of countries in the Caspian region. They find that ruling regimes do not necessarily act according to their own rhetoric. Iran, for example, can conduct policies that contradict the official state ideology without suffering domestic retribution. Also, countries frequently align with one another when they do not share religious beliefs or cultural heritage. For example, Christian Armenia cooperates on trade and security with non-Christian Iran. Cultural identities, the contributors find, are flexible enough to enable states to pursue a wide range of policies that are consistent with their material interests. As the essays in The Limits of Culture make clear, the emerging foreign policies of the Caspian states present a significant challenge to the culturalist argument.

The Law of Damages in the International Sale: The CISG and Other International Instruments By Djakhongir Saidov
2008 | 323 Pages | ISBN: 1841137421 | PDF | 2 MB
The book aims to explore the remedy of damages in international sales transactions. Its focus is on the international contract law instruments such as the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, and the Principles of European Contract Law. The issues addressed in the book include: the basis for the right to claim damages, definition and purpose of damages, the idea of limiting damages, principles underlying the award of damages, classification of losses and heads of recoverable losses, causation, foreseeability, mitigation, standards of proving losses and methods of calculating and determining the amount of damages. The book draws on the experience of some major legal systems in dealing with contract damages as well as on the body of cases and scholarly writings on the international instruments. In doing so, the book attempts to provide a justification for the existing rules on damages, highlights the problems in their interpretation and application, and proposes solutions to the existing problems in the light of relevant policies and goals pursued by the international instruments. The work will be of interest to practitioners involved in international commercial transactions, scholars and students interested in international commercial and comparative contract law.

The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications (History and Foundations of Information Science) by Murray Dick
2020 | ISBN: 0262043823 | English | 248 pages | EPUB | 55 MB
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.

The Infinite Sea By Jeffrey A. Carver
1996 | 387 Pages | ISBN: 0312856091 | PDF | 2 MB
I gave the two preceding books in this series four-star ratings and, to be fair, THE INFINITE SEA is comparable to them. The main characters have become somewhat engaging, the Description moved along and held my interest, and the undersea focus was a nice change. For me, though, certain things are beginning to wear a little thin. One is the steady progression of new "Charlies". Maybe this device has some purpose to it in the future that hasn't become clear yet, but it seems unnecessary and overdone. Another problem for me is Carver's inability to create some really alien aliens. Every major species is essentially humanoid (except Charlie, who's ephemeral) in a situation that seems ideal for some distinctly different beings.Beyond the above complaints, I also found the idea of sex between John Bandicutt and an alien character ludicrous and unnecessary. This is, perhaps, just an aspect of the need for more original alien species, but the idea that an alien and a human would have anything even remotely approaching either physical or emotional sexual compatibility is silly. Again, maybe this has implications for future installments in the series, but that isn't in evidence at this point.The bottom line: if you liked the other two books in this series, you'll enjoy this one as well. It's nothing special, though. In fact, as scifi goes, it's pretty ordinary. If you haven't read any of the other books in this series, you should go back and start with the first one. Not that THE INFINITE SEA can't stand alone, but you lose a lot of background and there's no compelling reason to start here. This one doesn't stand out from the others.Having given the others four stars, it's possible I'm low-balling this one a bit, but I don't feel that the broader story has advanced much in this installment. In the absence of some discernible progress in the bigger picture, my interest is beginning to wane.

The Infinite Retina: Spatial Computing, Augmented Reality, and how a collision of new technologies are bringing about the next tech revolution
by Irena Cronin
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1838824049 | 402 Pages | PDF EPUB MOBI | 108 MB