Miranda Dube, "LIS Interrupted: Intersections of Mental Illness and Library Work"
English | ISBN: 1634001087 | 2021 | 354 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Within the realm of library work, conversations about mental illness are too frequently pushed to the sidelines, whispered about behind office doors, or covered up for others' comfort. LIS Interrupted is a book that directly addresses those conversations in an edited collection of firsthand experiences from library workers. This book draws these conversations into public view and in doing so brings the experiences of mental illness to the forefront-offering space for comfort, connection, and community.
In God's Image: The Natural History of Intelligence and Ethics By Gerhard Meisenberg
2007 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 1846240557 | PDF | 3 MB
We are seeing explosive advances in the science of human evolution, to a point where our genome can be compared in molecular detail with the genomes of other primates. At the same time, the neurobiology of the higher cognitive functions has reached a point where we can scan the activity of the living brain to make thoughts and feelings visible. In this book, Gerhard Meisenberg explains the processes by which the brain creates intelligent reasoning and judgments about proper courses of action. He illuminates the big issues of human nature from the point of view of neurobiologist, evolutionary biologist, and molecular geneticist in turn. The results are disturbing. The author descries humans as crudely programmed robots with fairly predictable behavior, unable to transcend the limitations that culture and genes impose on their thinking. The author knows how to turn information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The book unifies the biological and social sciences, and shows how this powerful new science answers the big questions about human existence: the nature of reasoning and problem solving, the way ethical judgments are produced from a bundle of social instincts, the world, why countries fight wars, why Europe rose but the Middle East declined over the last millennium, and much, much more. This new science can predict the future: Will our present civilization survive, or will it self-destruct? And in what direction is our species evolving biologically?
How to be an Even Better Manager: A Complete A-Z of Proven Techniques and Essential Skills by Kogan Page
English | February 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1789668328 | 304 pages | PDF | 2.44 Mb
Don't just be a good manager... be an even better one.
How to be a Maths Genius: Your Brilliant Brain and How to Train It, New Edition by DK
English | February 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0744050251 | 128 pages | True PDF | 69.52 MB
Get better at maths and numbers by realizing which math skills you already use in daily life, and learn new ones while having fun.
Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire by Elaine Stratford
English | Jan 11, 2019 | ISBN: 1783485086, 1783485094 | 334 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three things as the "handmaidens" of the government of individuals and groups, places and spaces, and comings and goings. Focus some effort on the periodical press, and on producing and disseminating narratives, discourses, and practices that relate specifically to health and well-being. Deploy those texts and shape those contexts in ways that affect flesh and bone, psychology and social conduct, and the spatial organization and relational dynamics of dwellings and streets, settlements and regions, and states and empires. Stretch these activities over the Anglophone world-from the epicentres of the United Kingdom and the United States to Australia or Canada, New Zealand or India-and extend their reach over the whole of the long nineteenth century. Such are the subjects of this work, in which Elaine Stratford draws from governmentality, the geohumanities, and geocriticism to converse with an extensive archive that profoundly shaped our engagements with home, nature, and the feminine ideal, deeply influenced our collective capacity to flourish, and powerfully constituted diverse geographies of the interior and of empire that still affect us.
Holograms: A Cultural History by Sean F. Johnston
English | February 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0198712766 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 8 MB
Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots. No other visual experience is quite like interacting with holograms; no other cultural product melds the technological sublime with magic and optimism in quite the same way. As holograms have evolved, they have left their audiences alternately fascinated, bemused, inspired or indifferent. From expressions of high science to countercultural art to consumer security, holograms have represented modernity, magic and materialism. Their most pervasive impact has been to galvanise hopeful technological dreams.
Reid Chancellor, "Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health "
English | ISBN: 162106767X | 2019 | 192 pages | PDF | 27 MB
Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking acceptance, attempting to overcome internalized demons, and reacting to harmful and oppressive systems-punk rock embodies and emboldens all our feelings and experiences, positive and negative. Hardcore Anxiety charts and tracks punk movements from the 70s till today, from small towns to stadiums, from the struggles in our heads to the people actively harming us in our communities. Told from the point of view of a young man discovering punk and working through mental illness in Evansville, Indiana, this stunning nonfiction graphic novel gives punks the most important advice of all: "You aren't alone. You're going to make it through alive."
Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny:
A practical guide to building effective web applications and dashboards
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1789611555 | 78 Pages | PDF EPUB MOBI (True) | 8 MB
Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, Vol I:
Airports, Water Ports, Rail, Buses, Taxis, and Finance
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030834832 | 620 Pages | PDF EPUB | 12 MB
Guinness World Records, "Guinness World Records 2022"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1913484106 | 256 pages | True PDF | 52.9 MB
Fully revised and updated, and with a bright new design, Guinness World Records 2022 provides a fascinating snapshot of our world today. Our editors have chosen to curate the book with environmental issues at the forefront of their mind, so we open with a chapter exploring what's happening to our ecosystem and what superlative lengths people are going to make a difference. We also want to encourage readers to put their own record-breaking to good, so look out for projects that might inspire you to make a difference - so don't just Discover Your World, Change Your World!