Chinese Ceramics (Introductions to Chinese Culture) by Lili Fang
English | March 28, 2011 | ISBN: 052118648X | 158 pages | EPUB | 16 Mb
The Chinese are famed as the first to have discovered and mastered the techniques needed to produce porcelain. Yet carefully crafted ceramics are valued not only for their beauty, but also as precious cultural artifacts shedding light on the period in which they were produced. Chinese ceramics represent works of art both in themselves and as a medium for painting, poetry, calligraphy and sculpture. This accessible, introductory survey takes the reader through the rich history of Chinese ceramics from primitive pottery to delicate porcelain, complemented by full-color illustrations throughout.
Children, Spaces and Identity (Childhood in the Past Monograph)
by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón García
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1782979352 | 385 Pages | True PDF | 4 MB
Jim Vitti, "Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0738577952, 1531651577 | EPUB | pages: 127 | 32.3 mb
The world of sports in the earlier decades of the 20th century certainly wasn't like the one we know today-it's even wilder.
Chess for Absolute Beginners: Learn the Basics of Chess With My Proven System by Greg Vanderford
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B019FT3SUU | 105 pages | EPUB | 5.56 Mb
Chess for Absolute Beginners introduces the wonderful game of chess with my proven training system that I developed over many years studying and playing chess in tournaments and teaching to players of all ages and levels. Chess is a beautiful game that combines science and art like no other game of strategy on the planet. In addition to being incredibly fun and interesting, chess has many cognitive and other benefits such as improving memory, increasing calculation ability, enhancing creativity, extending attention span and focus and much more. Read Chess for Absolute Beginners to learn the game and become a good chess player in the shortest amount of time possible.
Cheating Wives - When Her Husband Is Not Enough by Max Carezza
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07TSFJQYN | 75 pages | EPUB | 0.17 Mb
A Glamour photo shoot too exciting to handle, a cooking teacher's hands having an unexpected effect on a faithful housewife, and a normally reserved neighbour getting overly flirty after too much red wine.
Bruno Jobert, Beate Kohler-Koch, "Changing Images of Civil Society: From Protest to Governance"
English | 2008 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 0415586666 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic implementation. The success of the civil society myth contrasts with and consequently manifests itself in the problems of political and social legitimacy and representation.
Wallace H. Tucker, "Chandra's Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-Ray Observatory"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1588345874, 158834651X | EPUB | pages: 272 | 142.9 mb
On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: "The Big," covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life.
Cellular Aspects of Wood Formation by Jörg Fromm
English | PDF | 2013 | 264 Pages | ISBN : 364236490X | 6.3 MB
With today's ever growing economic and ecological problems, wood as a raw material takes on increasing significance as the most important renewable source of energy and as industrial feedstock for numerous products. Its chemical and anatomical structure and the excellent properties that result allow wood to be processed into the most diverse products; from logs to furniture and veneers, and from wood chippings to wooden composites and paper.
Castaways in Question: A story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification by Derek Nudd
English | December 21, 2020 | ISBN: 1838094318 | 344 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Vivian Brandon and Bernard Trench were arrested for spying during a semi-official tour of the Frisian Islands in 1910. They came home two years later speaking German fluently, knowing the methods used by their future enemies, and with no love of life behind bars. By early 1915 Brandon was running Intelligence Division's German section and developing standard techniques for handling and questioning captives. The processes he and Trench evolved over the next three years informed the uniquely successful Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres (CSDIC) in World War II. Here we follow the naval interrogators' growing confidence and expertise from their pioneering first steps in World War I to their role in dismantling one of the most vicious regimes the planet has ever seen.
Carving a Professional Identity: The Occupational Epigraphy of the Roman Latin West By Rada Varga
2020 | 126 Pages | ISBN: 1789694647 | PDF | 2 MB
Carving a Professional Identity: The occupational epigraphy of the Roman Latin West presents the results of long-term research into the occupational epigraphy from the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Empire. It catalogues stone epigraphs of independent professionals (thus excluding state workers, imperial slaves, freedmen and military personnel), comprising some 690 people, providing quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the raw data. A glossary translating the occupational titles is also included. The book reveals a very lively work market, where specialisation responded to demand and brought social and economic status to the worker. The coherence of epigraphic habits and manifestations within a professional group, along with all the other existing clues for a rather unitary use of symbols, endorse once more the existence of a Roman provincial, commercial, middle class.