David Kay, "Schaum's Outline of Tensor Calculus"
English | 1988 | ISBN: 0070334846 | 224 pages | PDF | 7.68 MB
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Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War By Penny M. Von Eschen
2004 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 0674015010 | PDF | 3 MB
Penny Von Eschen ends Satchmo Blows up the World with, "For more than two decades, all over the globe, America was associated with jazz, civil rights, African American culture, and egalitarianism - not because the jazz ambassadors claimed to represent a free country, but because they identified so deeply with global struggles for freedom" (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 252). The quote exemplifies the ideological rivalry of the Cold War. As a response to the ideological antagonism, the U.S. State Department let loose a most unorthodox weapon vis-à-vis Communism: jazz (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 1-26). Starting from 1956 and continuing until the end of the 1970s, America sent out its best jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, in an effort "to win the hearts and minds" of the Third World and , ironically, to counter world opinions about an American form of racism (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 58-91). Von Eschen tours us across the world with jazz luminaries like Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, as they spread their music (and their ideas) further than the State Department could ever imagine (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 1, 58, 121, and 250). Finally, while historian Thomas Borstelmann crafts his story from the perspective of presidents and policymakers, Von Eschen writes her story from the point of view of the African Americans who drew motivation from the independence movements in Africa.Through the stories of gigs and tours, Von Eschen articulates the amazing interconnection between the agendas of the State Department and the progressive ideas of the artists themselves (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 126-128). Von Eschen shows us the artist's efforts to redefine the boundaries and realign the contours in an effort to redefine America on the world stage. The artists engaged their audiences both in concert and after hours, through official political statements and/or romantic liaisons (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 121-147). The musicians broke through official government limits and allowed their audiences an unorthodox and unmatched view of the black American experience (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 43-47). Though initially planned as a color-blind foisting of democracy, this one of a kind Cold War strategy unintentionally showed the essential role of African Americans, as stated previously, in U.S. national culture. The new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East instead fostered a sense of solidarity and pride (Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows up the World 71-72 and 75-76).

LaDonna Gundersen, "Salmon, Desserts & Friends"
English | ISBN: 157833523X | 2011 | 134 pages | PDF | 19 MB
A collection of salmon and dessert recipies from Alaska cook LaDonna Gundersen, photographs provided by Ole Gundersen. Your complete guide to understanding, selecting and enjoying the wild pacific salmon! With over 52 fabulous quick-and-easy recipes, you can whip up great salmon dishes in your own kitchen anytime. Move over, grilled chicken - tonight it's summertime salmon bruschetta, hazelnut-encrusted salmon and baked Alaska for dessert!

SMD Databook, Electronic Devices for Makers and Designers by Daniele Danieli
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07P578ZXK | 689 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 2.54 Mb
This eBook collects the characteristics of the industrial standard Surface Mount Device (SMD) semiconductors, made available by different manufacturers and therefore more used in electronic boards. The characteristic data of the main Transistors, Unijuntions, FET, DMOS, Zener diodes, Transient suppressor diodes, Switching diodes are supplied. In each chapter a guide allows the comparison between the parameters of the components within a specific group for an immediate search in terms of performance and equivalents. The pages of the individual components then report the maximum ratings, static and dynamic parameters, package design and terminal assignment.

Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism By George P. Fletcher
2002 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0691006512 | PDF | 2 MB
America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice. We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war and the demands of justice, differences so deep that the pursuit of one often comes at the expense of the other. In this book, one of the country's most important legal thinkers brings much-needed clarity to the still unfolding debates about how to pursue war and justice in the age of terrorism. George Fletcher also draws on his rare ability to combine insights from history, philosophy, literature, and law to place these debates in a rich cultural context. He seeks to explain why Americans--for so many years cynical about war--have recently found war so appealing. He finds the answer in a revival of Romanticism, a growing desire in the post-Vietnam era to identify with grand causes and to put nations at the center of ideas about glory and guilt. Fletcher opens with unsettling questions about the nature of terrorism, war, and justice, showing how dangerously slippery the concepts can be. He argues that those sympathetic to war are heirs to the ideals of Byron, Fichte, and other Romantics in their belief that nations--not just individuals--must uphold honor and be held accountable for crimes. Fletcher writes that ideas about collective glory and guilt are far more plausible and widespread than liberal individualists typically recognize. But as he traces the implications of the Romantic mindset for debates about war crimes, treason, military tribunals, and genocide, he also shows that losing oneself in a grand cause can all too easily lead to moral catastrophe. A work of extraordinary intellectual power and relevance, the book will change how we think not only about world events, but about the conflicting individualist and collective impulses that tear at all of us.

Rockin' the Rockpile: The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League By Jeffrey Miller, Billy Shaw
2007 | 595 Pages | ISBN: 1550227971 | PDF | 14 MB
I purchased this book in hopes of learning about football, it is very detailed and not a book written for new fans of the game.

Robust and Error-Free Geometric Computing
by Dave Eberly
English | 2020 | ISBN: 036735294X | 388 Pages | PDF AZW3 True | 6 MB

Remaking Ukraine after World War II: The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power by Filip Slaveski
English | ISBN: 1108840256 | 200 pages | EPUB | January 21, 2021 | 6.10 Mb
Ukraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski explores the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities in reconstructing central Ukraine, including feeding rapidly growing populations in post-war famine. Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, Filip Slaveski traces the previously unknown bitter struggle for land, food and power among collective farmers at the bottom of the Soviet social ladder, local and central authorities. He reveals how local authorities challenged central ones for these resources in pursuit of their own vision of rebuilding central Ukraine, undermining the Stalinist policies they were supposed to implement and forsaking the farmers in the process. In so doing, Slaveski demonstrates how the consequences of this battle shaped post-war reconstruction, and continue to resonate in contemporary Ukraine, especially with the ordinary people caught in the middle.

Reader's Digest True Crime: Tales of Murder & Mayhem by Reader's Digest
English | October 22, 2019 | ISBN: 1621454541 | 240 pages | PDF | 40 Mb
More than two dozen gripping tales of murder, kidnapping, robbery, and much more from theReader's Digestarchives.

Cass R. Sunstein, "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0465083269, 0465083277 | 304 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Most people think that the Supreme Court has a rough balance between left and right. This is a myth; in fact the justices once considered right-wing have now taken the mantle of the Court's moderates, and the liberal element has all but disappeared. Most people also think that judicial activism is solely a liberal movement. This is also a myth; since William Rehnquist was confirmed as Chief Justice in 1986, the Supreme Court has engaged in an unprecedented record of judicial activism. These two factors are feeding a movement to restore what many conservatives call "The Constitution in Exile," by which they mean the Constitution as it existed before the Roosevelt administration. Radicals in Robes explains what the restoration of this constitutional vision would mean. It would mean the end of the FCC, the SEC, the EPA, and every other federal agency that enacts regulations that have the force of law. It would mean that the clause of the First Amendment that says that Congress may make no law "respecting an establishment of religion" would be turned on its head. Marriage laws and many other familiar areas of modern life are all in the sights of this conservative movement. Radicals in Robes takes judicial philosophy out of the law schools and shows what it means when it intersects partisan politics. It pulls away the veil of rhetoric from a dangerous and radical right-wing movement and issues a strong and passionate warning about what conservatives really intend. One of the most respected legal theorists in the country, Cass R. Sunstein here issues a warning of compelling concern to us all.