Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi By Patricia Goldstone
2015 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 1619025655 | EPUB | 3 MB
In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connections of Presidential candidate George W. Bush, the hugely ambitious Conceptual artist Mark Lombardi was found hanged in his studio, an apparent suicide. With museums lining up to buy his work, and the fame he had sought relentlessly at last within his reach, speculation about whether his death was suicide or murder has titillated the art world ever since. Lombardi was an enigma who was at once a compulsive truth-teller and a cunning player of the art game, a political operative and a stubborn independent, a serious artist and a Merry Prankster, a metaphysicist if not a scientist.Lombardi's spidery, elusive diagrams describing the evolution of the shadow-banking industry from a decades-old alliances between intelligence agencies, banking, government and organized crime, may have made him unique in art history as the only artist whose primary subject, the CIA, has turned around and studied him and his art work. Exhaustively researched, this is the first comprehensive biography of this immensely contradictory and brilliantly original artist.
Integrated Dog Training: The Commonsense Visual Guide to Training Any Dog by Michael Wombacher
English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1608686523 | 194 pages | True PDF | 199.36 MB
A Comprehensive Dog Training Course in a Book, with Step-by-Step Photos and Guidance
Dimitri Uzunidis, "Innovation Economics, Engineering and Management Handbook 2: Special Themes"
English | ISBN: 1786307014 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Innovation, in economic activity, in managerial concepts and in engineering design, results from creative activities, entrepreneurial strategies and the business climate. Innovation leads to technological, organizational and commercial changes, due to the relationships between enterprises, public institutions and civil society organizations. These innovation networks create new knowledge and contribute to the dissemination of new socio-economic and technological models, through new production and marketing methods.
Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland By M. B. B. Biskupski
2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0199658811 | PDF | 1 MB
The 11th of November 1918, Polish Independence Day, is a curious anniversary whose commemoration has been only intermittently observed in the last century. In fact, the day -- and the several symbols that rightly or wrongly have become associated with it -- has a rather convoluted history, filled with tradition and myth, which deserves attention.Independence Day is more than just the history of a day, or the evolution of its celebration, but an explanation of what meaning has come to be associated with that date. It offers a re-reading of Polish history, not by a series of dates, but through a series of symbols whose combination allows the Poles to understand who they are by what they have been. Its focus is on the era 1914-2008, and the central actor is the charismatic Jozef Pilsudski. He came to represent a disposition regarding the meaning of Polish history which eventually penetrated virtually all of modern Polish society. The work is constructed by the analysis of memoirs, documents, coins, stamps, films, maps, monuments, and many other features making it a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional volume.
In The Dark: New Ways to Avoid the Harmful Effects of Living in a Technologically Connected World By Jason Bawden-Smith
2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0994542461 | EPUB | 2 MB
Do you spend the majority of your day in front of a laptop, in artificial light? Then drive home, chatting on your Bluetooth before heating up your dinner in the microwave? Then you 'relax' with your iPad, glancing at your flat screen TV that's downloading the latest movie, before setting the alarm on your phone and sleeping with it next to your head, the smart meter buzzing away in the background? Here's another question: How do you feel? Any headaches or ringing in the ears? Lack of energy? Putting on weight? Annoying little allergies? Ever wondered if there's a connection? Author and environmental scientist Jason Bawden-Smith believes that, with regard to the harmful effects of living in a technologically connected world, we are currently living in the dark. There's no doubt technology serves great function in this day and age, and will continue to do so. In The Dark simply brings stronger awareness to the adverse effects technology can have, and offers simple and practical measures that people can take, without feeling they have to compromise the lifestyle they want. "Jason Bawden-Smith has made visible one of the greatest risks of modern life and taught us what to do to protect our health ... I intend to make quite a fuss until the people I love have all read In The Dark and are taking action." - Catherine Austin Fitts
Icarus: The Life and Death of the Abraaj Group by Brian Brivati
English | September 21st, 2021 | ISBN: 1785907182 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.44 MB
In 2017, Arif Naqvi and The Abraaj Group were on the brink of changing the world of private equity. Abraaj was a pioneer of a new model of impact investing built on the idea that making money and doing good are not mutually exclusive. It had helped transform communities and companies across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America by investing in healthcare, education and clean energy, and in 2017 it was on the threshold of closing a new fund that would provide $6 billion worth of investment to these emerging markets. But then it all came crashing down.
IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics
by Anirban Sengupta and Saraju P. Mohanty
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1785617990 | 552 Pages | ePUB | 14.3 MB
I Ching: Walking your path, creating your future By Hilary Barrett
2010 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1848374534 | PDF | 33 MB
I-Ching has been in continuous use for around 3,000 years. The Chinese Zhou people developed this Book of Changes. The I-Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle, a proven tool of divination that can help readers foresee the future. It is a complete guide to change: understanding it, moving with it, creating it. It describes change that is transformative and seasonal, global and personal, incremental and revolutionary. It tells stories of great historical change, and it sketches tiny vignettes of everyday life-marrying, surviving an illness, repairing a well.The beautifully designed pages of this book, along with its striking flexibound cover will appeal to the reference and gift markets. This manual includes all 64 hexagrams with key questions delineating the main themes, and step-by-step instructions on how to cast a hexagram, with three coins or with yarrow stalks or beads. The book also offers simple techniques for discovering the personal meaning of the answers you receive and suggests ways to carry your readings into daily life.This attractive, practical I Ching for divination pays homage to the original text while supporting the modern user with lucid explanations and guidelines for interpreting the oracle.
Won-Kee Hong, "Hybrid Composite Precast Systems: Numerical Investigation to Construction"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0081027214 | 478 pages | True PDF | 406.3 MB
Hybrid Composite Precast Systems: Numerical Investigation to Construction focuses on the design and construction of novel composite precast frame systems that permit almost effortless erection and structural efficiency. The precast frame systems discussed in the book are similar to that of steel frames, but offer similar savings to concrete frames. The design of connections and detailed analysis of their structural behavior is discussed in detail. Fundamentals with regards to the post yield behavior of concrete and metal are also presented to illustrate how these two different materials are integrated together to remove individual material drawbacks.
Hubble Legacy: 30 Years of Discoveries and Images by Mike Massimino
English | August 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 1454936223 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 47.52 MB
This is the definitive book on the Hubble Space Telescope, written by noted astronomer Jim Bell.