Amy McNair, "Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings"
English | ISBN: 1939161037 | 2019 | 474 pages | EPUB | 714 KB
Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution.
World Famous Dessert Recipes: Enjoy Famous Desserts from Around the World by Stephanie Sharp
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09K3QR3RS | 103 pages | EPUB | 4.57 Mb
Desserts bring sweetness to one's life and make everyone happy. A meal without dessert is just like a beautiful woman who has no heart.
With Inky Blots and Rotten Parchment: An Explanation of the Land Value Tax by Ian Hopton
English | July 21st, 2022 | ISBN: 1839758244 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 0.79 MB
I believe that in the near future, the issue of taxation will become more widely discussed at all levels of government and this will include the possibility of a land value tax (LVT). At the same time, the majority of ordinary taxpayers, who may be otherwise very well informed, have probably never heard of it.
Chris Licht, "What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life"
English | ISBN: 145162767X | 2011 | 176 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 178 KB + 236 KB
What do you learn when your brain goes pop?
Rebecca Harding, "Weaponization of Trade: The Great Unbalancing of Politics and Economics "
English | ISBN: 1907994726 | 2017 | 176 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Trade is being weaponized - and this is not good. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. This book looks at the risks for us all as trade becomes an instrument of foreign policy, and it shows how politicians could turn things around."
Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas: A Geospatial Approach by Ajay Kumar Taloor
English | EPUB | 2021 | 362 Pages | ISBN : 3030679314 | 178.7 MB
This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade. It gives an overview of hydrometeorological studies on Himalayan water resources and addresses concerns in the development of water resources in this region, which is dealing with an increased pressure in population, industrialization and economic development.
WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT SERVICED ACCOMMODATION by ABI BEES
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6GT6G79 | 84 pages | PDF | 1.26 Mb
Property-related communities can have a habit of becoming confirmation biased channels, where only positive experiences are published. Not to invalidate the positive experiences, but, as I'm sure you know, muddy puddles sometimes form due to rain.
Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid by Evan Lieberman
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 0691203008 | True EPUB | 344 pages | 23.2 MB
A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracy
Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367709503 | 138 Pages | PDF (True) | 36 MB
Driven by the ever-increasing amount of mobile data, cellular networks evolve from small cell network to ultra-dense heterogeneous networks, to provide high system capacity and spectrum efficiency. By bringing base stations (BSs) to the approximate spatial scale and number magnitude, ultra-dense heterogeneous networks would definitely bring unprecedented paradigm changes to the network design. Firstly, along with densification of small cells, inter-cell interference becomes severe and may deteriorate performance of mobile users. Assigning network resources including bandwidth and time slots, while avoiding interference, desires serious consideration. Secondly, the coverage area of BSs becomes small and irregular, resulting in much frequent and complicated handovers when mobile users move around. How to ensure continuous communication and implement effective mobility management, and inter-cell resource allocation and cooperation, remains a challenging issue. Thirdly, such dynamic change in spatial dimension enables us to re-investigate available and ongoing communications and networking techniques, such as massive MIMO, CoMP, millimeter waves (mmWaves), carrier aggregation, full duplex radio, and D2D communications.
U.S. Army Survival Guide Handbook: The Prepper's Survival Army Guide to Wilderness Thriving by Jim Grylls
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5LKSYMJ | EPUB | 1.06 Mb
U.S. ARMY SURVIVAL GUIDE HANDBOOK: The Prepper's Survival Army Guide to Wilderness Thriving