Master English Short Stories for English Learners by Kevin Marx
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09LQJR1WB | 145 pages | MOBI | 0.28 Mb
Are you a student of English and looking for authentic reading material to help you increase your fluency? Look no further!
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters by Emanuel Deutschmann
English | Jan 25, 2022 | ISBN: 0691226490, 0691226482 | 272 pages | PDF | 22 MB
A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication
Alan B. Hollingsworth M.D., "Mammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection: How Screening Saves Lives"
English | 2016 | pages: 260 | ISBN: 1476666105 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community's decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate-back-room politics and hidden agendas have played as much a role as clinical data, leading to some surprising conclusions. Written by one of the first physicians in the country to specialize in breast cancer risk assessment, genetic testing and high-risk interventions, this book focuses on the screening controversy and explains the arguments used on both sides. The author covers the history of screening, from the first mobile unit on the streets of Manhattan to the cutting edge imaging technology of today.
Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone: Lessons of Sustainability from the Tech Revolution and the Pandemic by Marco Magnani
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 219 Pages | ISBN : 3030920836 | 2.9 MB
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution. This book is an in-depth analysis of these weaknesses and fragilities in the context of sustainability. Economist Marco Magnani suggests the possibility of pursuing a more balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth while defusing today's apocalyptic alarmism about climate change, energy and demographic constraints, and the future of work. To make the global economy work for everyone.
Claude Lefort, Michael B. Smith, "Machiavelli in the Making"
English | 2012 | pages: 532 | ISBN: 0810124386, 0810124378 | PDF | 60,0 mb
Machiavelli in the Making is both a novel interpretation of the Florentine's work and a critical document for understanding influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort's later writings on democracy and totalitarianism. Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of him as the founder of "objective" political science, which, having liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies of medieval political reflection, attempts to arrive at a realistic discourse on the operations of raw power. Lefort ultimately finds that Machiavelli's discourse opens the "place of the political" which had previously been occupied by theology and morality.
Love Letter to the Earth By Thich Nhat Hanh
2013 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1937006387 | EPUB | 2 MB
Love Letter to the Earth is Thich Nhat Hanh's passionate appeal for ecological mindfulness and the strengthening of our relationship to the Earth. While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of the "environment," as it leads people to experience themselves and Earth as two separate entities and to see the planet only in terms of what it can do for them. Thich Nhat Hanh points to the lack of meaning and connection in peoples' lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism. He deems it vital that we recognize and respond to the stress we are putting on the Earth if civilization is to survive. Rejecting the conventional economic approach, Nhat Hanh shows that mindfulness and a spiritual revolution are needed to protect nature and limit climate change.
Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, "Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0751536806, 0743499336 | 384 pages | EPUB | 2.4 MB
From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.
Michaela Riedl, "Lingam Massage: Awakening Male Sexual Energy"
English | ISBN: 1594773149 | 2010 | 224 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
A tantric massage practice for awakening and honoring male creative energy and allowing a man conscious, loving contact with his own masculinity
Linear Optimal Control of Bilinear Systems with Applications to Singular Perturbations and Weak Coupling By (auth.), Zijad Aganović, Associate Professor Zoran Gajić (eds.)
1995 | 137 Pages | ISBN: 3540199764 | PDF | 5 MB
This book is designed to be a comprehensive treatment of linear methods to optimal control of bilinear systems. The unified theme of this book is the use of dynamic programming in order to simplify and decompose required computations for the optimal control of bilinear-quadratic systems. There are numerous examples of bilinear control systems that provide great challenges to engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists: these include nuclear reactors, missile intercept problems and mechanical brake systems. The book also examines two special classes of bilinear-quadratic control problems: namely singularly perturbed and weakly coupled bilinear control systems. The usefulness of the presented methods to these two types of control problem is demonstrated by several real control system examples.
Jon Dorenbos, Larry Platt, "Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery"
English | 2019 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1982101245 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
"Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face of overwhelming odds." -Ellen DeGeneres