Nicole Marafioti, "The King's Body: Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England "
English | ISBN: 1442647582 | 2014 | 320 pages | PDF | 1247 KB
The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings' burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation.
Kathy Brodie, "The Holistic Care and Development of Children from Birth to Three: An Essential Guide for Students and Practitioners"
English | ISBN: 1138211052 | 2018 | 262 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Holistic Care and Development of Children from Birth to Three provides students and practitioners with the knowledge and understanding they need to meet the complex needs of babies and toddlers. With a focus on the fundamentally holistic nature of young children's development, and emphasising the role of play, and the emotional and physical environment throughout, the book shows its reader how to maximise each and every opportunity for learning when caring for the under threes.
The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think by John Hockney
English | August 21st, 2021 | ISBN: 1789550734, 1800316666 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 7.16 MB
'The most charming... portrait of this ever-popular artist... so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour... This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher's and hikes among the hedgerows under swallow-strewn skies.' The Telegraph
The Healing Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing, Using and Enjoying Herbs Organically by Cameron Wyatt PH.D
English | August 5, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09BYFWZC7 | 90 pages | EPUB | 0.15 Mb
Create a successful herb garden at home with this beginner-friendly guide
Nigel Inkster, "The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy"
English | ISBN: 1787383830 | 2021 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the 'Hundred Years of Humiliation', and a long struggle for a modern, yet distinctly Chinese,
The Four Steps to the Epiphany By Steve Blank
2013 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 0989200507 | EPUB | 6 MB
The bestselling classic that launched 10,000 startups and new corporate ventures - The Four Steps to the Epiphany is one of the most influential and practical business books of all time.The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than existing ones. Startups search for business models while existing companies execute them.The book offers the practical and proven four-step Customer Development process for search and offers insight into what makes some startups successful and leaves others selling off their furniture. Rather than blindly execute a plan, The Four Steps helps uncover flaws in product and business plans and correct them before they become costly. Rapid iteration, customer feedback, testing your assumptions are all explained in this book.Packed with concrete examples of what to do, how to do it and when to do it, the book will leave you with new skills to organize sales, marketing and your business for success.If your organization is starting a new venture, and you're thinking how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business development you need The Four Steps to the Epiphany.Essential reading for anyone starting something new.
The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be by Patrick R. Leddin
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1400225302 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 3.10 MB
Develop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.
The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association By Wolfgang Eckhardt
2016 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 162963042X | EPUB | 2 MB
The First Socialist Schism chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men's Association (First International, 1864-1877), which represents an important milestone in the history of political ideas and socialist theory. The separate movements in the International-which would later develop into social democracy, communism, and anarchism-found their greatest advocates in Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx. What made the conflict between Bakunin and Marx so important was that it heralded the first socialist schism between parliamentary party politics aiming to conquer political power and social-revolutionary concepts. Instead of focusing exclusively on what Marx and Bakunin said, many other contributions to this debate are examined, making this the first reconstruction of a dispute that gripped the entire organization. This book also provides the first detailed account of the International's Congress of The Hague (September, 1872), famous for the expulsion of Bakunin; including the background, the sequence of events, and international reaction. The book sets new standards when it comes to source material, taking into account documents from numerous archives and libraries that have previously gone unnoticed or were completely unknown.
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future By Alexandra Brodsky, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
2015 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1558619003 | PDF | 5 MB
What do we want?In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinvents birth control, Sheila Bapat envisions an economy that values domestic work, a teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music, Katherine Cross rewrites the Constitution, and Maya Dusenbery resets the standard for good sex. Combining essays, interviews, poetry, illustrations, and short stories, The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given-and inspires us to demand a radically better future.
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge By Matt Ridley
2015 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0062296000 | EPUB | 1 MB
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch-the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan.Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature-these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future.As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley's stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works.