Solid Waste Engineering and Management: Volume 2
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030893359 | 741 Pages | PDF | 21 MB
This book is the second volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It focuses on sustainability, single waste stream processing, material recovery, plastic waste, marine litter, sludge disposal, restaurant waste recycling, sanitary landfills, landfill leachate collection, and landfill aftercare as it pertains to solid waste management. The volumes comprehensively discuss various contemporary issues associated with solid waste pollution management, impacts on the environment and vulnerable human populations, and solutions to these problems.
Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulativ e Communication by Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson
English | March 8, 2022 | ISBN: 0262543451 | 344 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Manipulative communication-from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry-examined through the lens of social engineering.
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection By Shelley R. Adler
2011 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 0813548853 | PDF | 2 MB
Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States.Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship (Air Campaign) by Angus Konstam
English | January 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846605 | 103 pages | EPUB | 13 Mb
A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMSPrince of WalesandRepulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime weapon.
Simply Math (DK Simply) by DK
English | March 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 0744048362 | 162 pages | True PDF | 69.03 MB
Understanding math has never been easier.
Sign-Changing Critical Point Theory by Wenming Zou
English | PDF | 2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 038776657X | 2.4 MB
Many nonlinear problems in physics, engineering, biology, and social sciences can be reduced to finding critical points of functionals. While minimax and Morse theories provide answers to many situations and problems on the existence of multiple critical points of a functional, they often cannot provide much-needed additional properties of these critical points. Sign-changing critical point theory has emerged as a new area of rich research on critical points of a differentiable functional with important applications to nonlinear elliptic PDEs.
Lucy Cane, "Sheldon Wolin and Democracy"
English | ISBN: 0367194163 | 2020 | 230 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Lucy Cane presents the first full-length study of Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015), an influential theorist of democracy and prescient critic of "inverted totalitarianism" in the United States. She traces the development of Wolin's thinking over sixty years, offering an overarching interpretation of his central preoccupations and shifts in perspective. Framed around themes of loss and mourning, this is not only an intellectual biography, but also a critical engagement of Wolin's work with democratic theory more broadly and an assessment of its value for addressing contemporary crises of democracy.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, "She Took Justice "
English | ISBN: 0367482193 | 2020 | 274 pages | PDF | 4 MB
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm.
Mary Giraudo Beck, "Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0882404067, 0882409662 | EPUB | pages: 129 | 0.7 mb
Shaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers. Among the Natives of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the shaman was honored as a person who could heal the body and spirit as well as see into the future. In his struggles to protect his people, he fought the kushtaka―an evil spirit-being who was half human and half land hotter―for the souls of dying persons. Theirs was a battle between the forces of good and evil, and today it remains a cornerstone in Tlingit and Haida mythology. Mary Giraudo Beck provides a powerful mix of history, legend, and adventure to dramatize the values and traditions of Tlingit and Haida societies. The heroic and wondrous incidents in these stories transcend time and culture and, as tales of myth and magic, provide compelling reading for young and old alike.
Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules By Gisela Sin
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1107048796 | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines how the constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, combined with the factional divisions within parties, affect U.S. representatives' decisions about how to distribute power among themselves. The incorporation of the presidential, senatorial, and House factions in the analysis of House rule making marks an important departure from previous theories, which analyze the House as an institution that makes laws in isolation. This book argues that, by constitutional design, the success of the House in passing legislation is highly contingent on the actions of the Senate and the president; and therefore, also by constitutional design, House members must anticipate such actions when they design their rules. An examination of major rule changes from 1879 to 2013 finds that changes in the preferences of constitutional actors outside the House, as well as the political alignment of these political actors vis-...-vis House factions, are crucial for predicting the timing and directionality of rule changes.