Guy Lautard, "The Machinist's Bedside Reader"
English | 1986 | ISBN: 0969098022 | 206 pages | PDF | 82.8 MB
The 3 books in The Machinist's Bedside Reader series are among the most popular books ever written for machinists! Written in a relaxed style, you'll actually enjoy reading technical information. The subtitle of the first book says it all: Projects, hints, tips and anecdotes of the trade. These books include detailed instructions and fully dimensioned working drawings for numerous tools and accessories you will want to make for use in your shop. (Even if you're a novice, you'll find the instructions easy to follow and very detailed.) They also contain much useful and timesaving shop know-how, some of which is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere. The information in these books has been gleaned from many and varied sources, including experienced machinists (and home shop guys) who are willing to share what they know. This first book includes fully dimensioned, working drawings and detailed instructions for several interesting projects including 15 practical machinists tools and lathe accessories such as: a finger plate (flat vise), a caliper-type knurling tool, a jig for sharpening small drills (1/8" to #60), 3 accessory lathe faceplates .... a handsome box latch that will mystify your friends a shop-made sling swivel base PLUS you'll learn much useful shop know-how to help you get things done faster and easier in your shop. how to sharpen a center punch - properly. what lube to use for tapping and machining copper how to design and fit split cotters. how to hold thin work in the lathe chuck. You'll also enjoy the several machine shop anecdotes, and the fascinating account of a little lathe made "from nothing" in a Japanese POW camp. And you'll learn "The Secret of the Old Master," in a heartwarming story by Lucian Cary. One machinist reported that he got a pay raise as a direct result of using a tip from these books because he had enabled his employer to do a job for a profit instead of a loss!
The Lady and the Mountain Man: Isabella Bird, Rocky Mountain Jim, and their Unlikely Friendship by Chris Enss
English | August 1st, 2021 | ISBN: 149304592X | 216 pages | True EPUB | 6.41 MB
Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster's daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent.
Thomas Popkewitz, "The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years "
English | ISBN: 0367182793 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were converted to the search for remaking social life that paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions.
Michael Jackson, "The Genealogical Imagination: Two Studies of Life over Time"
English | ISBN: 1478014075 | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 19 MB
In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork, Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace, jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical time flows in stops and starts-linear at times, discontinuous at others-as current generations reckon with their relationships to their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of the past. Unconventional and evocative, The Genealogical Imagination offers a nuanced account of how lives are lived, while it pushes the bounds of the forms that scholarship can take.
The First-time Bread Baker: A beginner's guide to baking bread at home by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou
English | ISBN: 1788793609 | 160 pages | EPUB | August 10, 2021 | 17 Mb
This entry level guide to baking bread at home starts by setting out the tools and equipment needed and explains the science behind the alchemy of turning flour, yeast, and water into the bread we love so much. Delicious step-by-step recipes for every day include a 60-minute Soda Bread, a Half-and-half Sourdough Loaf and a Sandwich Loaf. Occasional bakes to have fun with are Puffy Pitta Pockets, Pizza Dough, and Crunchy Breadsticks, whilst enriched dough sweet treats to try include Sticky Apple & Cinnamon Buns and a Chocolate & Cherry Stollen.
The Complete Macro Diet Cookbook: 550-Day Easy & Delicious Recipes and 4 Weeks Meal Plan to Help You Burn Fat Quickly
By Emily Greer
English | 2021 | ASIN : B095N644XN | 199 pages | EPUB | 8.1 MB
The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945 By Harvey, Paul; Goff, Philip
2010 | 579 Pages | ISBN: 0231510365 | PDF | 2 MB
This unique documentary history brings together manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflecting the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in America since 1945. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, these documents reflect the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in the conservative responses to these. Issues regarding religion and contemp.
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism By Bernard Reginster
2008 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0674030648 | EPUB | 2 MB
Among all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place--not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed in his works. Central among these concerns is the question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, at a time when the traditional responses inspired by Christianity are increasingly losing their credibility. While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of this fundamental issue, Bernard Reginster's bookThe Affirmation of Lifebrings it sharply into focus.Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas. In particular, Reginster's work develops an original and elegant interpretation of the will to power, which convincingly explains how Nietzsche uses this doctrine to mount a critique of the dominant Christian values, to overcome the nihilistic despair they produce, and to determine the conditions of a new affirmation of life. Thus, Reginster attributes to Nietzsche a compelling substantive ethical outlook based on the notions of challenge and creativity--an outlook that involves a radical reevaluation of the role and significance of suffering in human existence.Replete with deeply original insights on many familiar--and frequently misunderstood--Nietzschean concepts, Reginster's book will be essential to anyone approaching this towering figure of Western intellectual history.
Teddy Roosevelt: American Rough Rider By John A. Garraty
2007 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1402741448 | PDF | 28 MB
Before Teddy Roosevelt earned his reputation as a strong, masculine hunter, explorer, and Rough Rider, he actually endured a sickly childhood. That's just one aspect of his life covered in this handsomely illustrated biography, which follows his transformation into a disciplined athlete and one of the world's best-known public servants and politicians. Renowned author John Garraty uses quotes from Roosevelt throughout, giving readers direct contact with the man's colorful personality. In addition, Garraty masterfully eliminates confusing details, while emphasizing the significance of Roosevelt's actions as he deals with opposing faction. He emerges as the first modern President and a great statesman.
Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom (The MIT Press) by Nettrice R. Gaskins
English | August 10th, 2021 | ISBN: 0262542668 | 206 pages | True EPUB | 34.12 MB
A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education.