Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence, "The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1250031699, 1250004519 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 2.7 mb
The inspiring true story of "the Indiana Jones of conservation." ―The Guardian (UK)
The Last Days of Empire and the Worlds of Business and Diplomacy: An Inside Account by Charles Cullimore
English | June 30th, 2021 | ISBN: 1526789043 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 13.26 MB
A personal story, a colorful travelogue and an inside experience of politics and international relations, which includes a poignant 'imperial' sidelight with the discovery of his grandmother's grave in India.
Faith Hogan, "The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800241356 | 292 pages | EPUB / MOBI / PDF | 5.2 MB
Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again.
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Bulbs: The art and science to grow your own bulbs by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
English | September 3, 2019 | ISBN: 0711239347 | 366 pages | PDF | 52 Mb
The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating bulbs features 12 easy and inspiring projects, detailed information on 66 of the most important species to grow, accompanied by Kew's beautiful botanical illustrations.
Hans A. Adhemar, "The Keno Lottery System: Powerful tips and strategies"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B014EVWQ8O | EPUB | pages: 9 | 0.2 mb
Keno lottery strategy
The Impact of National Goals on Basic Research: Results of a Symposium By
2000 | 148 Pages | ISBN: 3527271473 | PDF | 1 MB
This volume contains a collection of the contributions to the German-Chinese conference "Impact of National Goals on Basic Research" which took place at Berlin in March 1999. Referees from both countries report about the importance of basic research, especially in the context of national goals. The articles cover a broad range of various aspects regarding these topics, like the role of universities in basic research, social acceptance of scientific progress, and interdisciplinary research. Content: Chapter 1 National Objectives and Motivation of Scientists (pages 6-11): Prof. Wei Yu and Prof. Weng ShilieChapter 2 The German Industrial and Scientific Location: The Importance of Basic Research and Challenges Arising (pages 12-16): Dr. Lothar SpathChapter 3 Applied Research in the Context of National Goals (pages 17-18): Prof. Dr.?Ing. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr.?Ing. E.h. Hans?Jurgen WarneckeChapter 4 Priority Setting: A Way to Link National Goals and Basic Research Funded by NSFC (pages 19-25): Prof. Zhou BingkunChapter 5 National Goals and Scientific Self?Governance: Its Impact and Conflicts (pages 26-31): Prof. Dr. Ernst?Ludwig WinnackerChapter 6 China's Basic Research at the Turn of the Century and its National Goals (pages 32-35): Prof. Zhang CunhaoChapter 7 Science Planning and Research Perspectives in Germany: Views from the German Science Council and from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (pages 36-45): Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich MayerChapter 8 Excellence in Basic Research: National Goals and International Cooperation (pages 46-55): Prof. Dr. Hubert MarklChapter 9 The Role of Universities in Basic Research in Germany (pages 56-63): Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter FrankenbergChapter 10 Mathematical Science and National Goals (pages 64-68): Prof. Jin DuoChapter 11 Cultural and Social Acceptance of Scientific Progress (pages 69-73): Prof. Dr. Heidi DiggelmannChapter 12 Funding of Oriented and Non?oriented Research (pages 74-85): Min. Dir. Prof. Hans R. FriedrichChapter 13 National Key Development Program for Fundamental Research (pages 86-91): Prof. Shao LiqinChapter 14 The Necessities of Putting National Goals into Basic Research (pages 92-95): Prof. Wu ShuyaoChapter 15 The Influence of University Research Work on High?tech Industry (pages 96-99): Prof. Wang XuanChapter 16 From Basic Research to Applied Research and Back Again (pages 100-102): Prof. Dr. Jurgen Mittelstra?Chapter 17 Impact of National Goals in Agriculture on Research into Life Sciences in China (pages 103-107): Prof. Xu ZhihongChapter 18 National Goals-Program?oriented Interdisciplinary Research (pages 108-113): Prof. Dr. med. Detlev GantenChapter 19 Carbon Nanotube Arrays (pages 114-121): Prof. Sishen Xie, W. Z. Li, Z. W. Pan, B. H. Chang and L. F. SunChapter 20 The Leibniz Institutes: Goals of Application?oriented Basic Research (pages 122-127): Prof. Dr. Frank PobellChapter 21 Some Aspects of the Discussions (pages 128-130): Dr. Reinhard Grunwald
Homer, Barry B. Powell, "The Iliad"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 019932610X | 624 pages | AZW3 | 4.5 MB
The Iliad is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, for which Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a magnificent new translation. Graceful, lucid, and energetic, Powell's translation renders the Homeric Greek with a simplicity and dignity reminiscent of the original. The text immediately engrosses students with its tight and balanced rhythms, while the incantatory repetitions evoke a continuous "stream of sound" that offers as good an impression of Homer's Greek as one could hope to attain without learning the language.
The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services, Second Edition By Miikka Poikselka, Georg Mayer, Hisham Khartabil, Aki Niemi(auth.)
2006 | 438 Pages | ISBN: 0470019069 | PDF | 13 MB
The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services in the Mobile Domain, Second Edition, builds on the success of the previous best-selling edition, providing comprehensive coverage of IMS - its concepts, architecture, protocols and functionalities with a wealth of new and updated material. Mobile telephony with the current technology has been hugely successful and demonstrates the immense value of communicating with peers while being mobile, and with increasingly available smarter multimedia terminals, the communication experience will be something more than just exchanging voice. These multimedia terminals need IP multimedia networks. Hence the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has developed a standard for SIP-based IP multimedia service machinery known as 'The IMS' (IP Multimedia Subsystem). This completely up-to-date and informative guide explains everything you need to know about it... Key features of the Second Edition include:Two new chapters on push-to-talk over cellular and group management. Additional new material includes: fixed and mobile convergence, interworking between IPv4 and IPv6 in the IMS, combined circuit-switched and IMS services (combinational services), IMS security and alternative session establishment procedures. More coverage of the benefits of IMS, particularly with regard to its role in fixed-mobile convergence. Special emphasis on services, featuring more detailed descriptions of presence, messaging, group management and push-to-talk over cellular (conferencing). Updates on Third Generation Partnership Project Agreement (3GPP) Release 6 level. New examples and case studies, including a variety of scenarios, how to handle multiple terminals and end-user preferences. Written in a manner that allows readers to choose the level of knowledge and understanding they need to gain about the IMS, this volume will have instant appeal to a wide ranging audience including marketing managers, research and development engineers, network engineers, developes, test engineers and university students. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1-9): Chapter 2 IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture (pages 11-41): Chapter 3 IMS concepts (pages 43-116): Chapter 4 Presence (pages 117-126): Chapter 5 Messaging (pages 127-130): Chapter 6 Push to Talk Over Cellular (pages 131-150): Chapter 7 Conferencing (pages 151-154): Chapter 8 Group management (pages 155-163): Chapter 9 Introduction to Detailed Procedures (pages 165-169): Chapter 10 An Example IMS Registration (pages 171-229): Chapter 11 An Example IMS Session (pages 231-295): Chapter 12 SIP (pages 297-331): Chapter 13 SDP (pages 333-338): Chapter 14 The Offer/Answer Model with SDP (pages 339-341): Chapter 15 RTP (pages 343-347): Chapter 16 DNS (pages 349-353): Chapter 17 GPRS (pages 355-357): Chapter 18 TLS (pages 359-361): Chapter 19 Diameter (pages 363-374): Chapter 20 MEGACO (pages 375-377): Chapter 21 COPS (pages 379-383): Chapter 22 IPsec (pages 385-388): Chapter 23 Signalling Compression (pages 389-391): Chapter 24 DHCPv6 (pages 393-394): Chapter 25 XCAP (pages 395-396): Chapter 26 Common Policy (pages 397-399):
The Hunt for the Parathyroids By Jorgen Nordenstrom(auth.)
2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1118299698 | PDF | 2 MB
The Hunt for the Parathyroid Gland is a part fact, part fiction overview of the discovery of the parathyroid gland by a Swedish scientist in 1880.The discovery of the parathyroid gland in humans in 1880 by an unknown Swedish medical student, Ivar Viktor Sandstrom, ended a 30 year search for its exact location within the human body, following its discovery in an Indian rhino 30 years before. It is one of the most engaging and remarkable stories in the history of medicine. This book offers a fascinating insight into its discovery.Endocrinologists and ENT health professionals, both in clinical practice and researchers, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of medicine, will find this a fascinating insight into one of the 19th century's key medical discoveries.Content: Chapter 1 Sandstrom's discovery (pages 1-17): Chapter 2 Unexpected problems (pages 18-29): Chapter 3 The age of glorious discoveries (pages 30-36): Chapter 4 A gland in search of a function (pages 37-43): Chapter 5 The calcium connection (pages 44-57): Chapter 6 Hormones and organotherapy (pages 58-65): Chapter 7 The priority dispute (pages 66-80): Chapter 8 Immortal patients (pages 81-94): Chapter 9 A disease in disguise (pages 95-104): Chapter 10 The elusive hormone (pages 105-115): Chapter 11 The language of god (pages 116-124): Chapter 12 The pharmacological paradox (pages 125-131):
The Hollywood War Film By Robert Eberwein(auth.), Barry Keith Grant(eds.)
2009 | 191 Pages | ISBN: 1405173912 | PDF | 12 MB
The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introductionto the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, fromHollywood's earliest days to the current moment Combines broad historical and theoretical coverage of the genre with in-depth analysis of specific films Includes chapters on All Quiet on the Western Front, World War II combat films, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Eastwood's Iwo Jima films, and Iraq war films An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the war film genre Content: Chapter 1 Historical Overview (pages 14-41): Chapter 2 Critical Issues (pages 42-62): Chapter 3 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (pages 63-75): Chapter 4 Destination Tokyo (1943) and Retaliation Films (pages 76-92): Chapter 5 Platoon (1986) and Full Metal Jacket (1987) (pages 93-109): Chapter 6 Glory (1989) (pages 110-121): Chapter 7 The Iraq Wars on Film (pages 122-135): Chapter 8 Iwo Jima (pages 136-151):