When Freedom Calls: Great Escapes of the Second World War by Robert Jackson
English | January 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1911445936 | 168 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
Each prisoner of war who decides to escape is different but they all have one thing in common: courage.
What Is Pastoral? By Paul Alpers
1996 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 0226015165 | PDF | 23 MB
One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction-that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general.Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world.A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature."Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."-Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly
We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World by Jasmin Hernandez, Sunny Leerasanthanah, Jasmine Durhal
English | February 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1419747592 | 256 pages | PDF | 40 Mb
Profiles and portraits of 50 artists and art entrepreneurs challenging the status quo in the art world
Watercolor Painting at Home: Easy-to-follow painting projects inspired by the comforts of home and the colors of the garden
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781600589430 | 128 pages | EPUB | 15.2 MB
With Inspired Artist: Watercolor Painting at Home, artists can learn to find painting inspiration around their homes and gardens, and then paint beautiful, homey art.
Warrior Selling: The 12 Steps to Achieving a 100% Conversion Rate by Jason Forrest
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1510774254 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.20 MB
The only sales process you'll ever need
Matthew Talbert, Jessica Wolfendale, "War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 019067587X | PDF | pages: 185 | 1.4 mb
In 2005, US Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, including several children. How should we assess the perpetrators of this and other war crimes? Is it unfair to blame the Marines because they were subject to situational pressures such as combat stress (and had lost one of their own in combat)? Or should they be held responsible for their actions, since they intentionally chose to kill civilians?
Visions from Heaven: Visitations to My Father's Chamber By Wendy Alec
2014 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0992806305 | PDF | 9 MB
Wendy Alec's new book is in the category of Christian Prophesy and Spiritual Healing. The forewords are by Pastor Benny Hinn-Founder of Benny Hinn Ministries and Bill Johnson-Senior Pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, CA.
Vietnamese Recipe Collection Cookbook: Easy-to-Prepare and Healthy Vietnamese Recipes that are Sure to Delight Your Taste buds! by Nancy Silverman
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B084Z43Q2X | 95 pages | EPUB | 1.69 Mb
Within these pages, you will discover mouthwatering Vietnamese cuisine created from a combination of Asian and Western cultures. During earlier times, Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and China supplied different food supplies to Vietnam.
Vertebrate Development: Maternal to Zygotic Control by Francisco Pelegri, Michael Danilchik, Ann Sutherland
English | PDF | 2017 | 553 Pages | ISBN : 3319460935 | 19 MB
This book provides a comprehensive overview of topics describing the earliest steps of fertilization, from egg activation and fertilization to the activation of the zygotic genome, in various studied vertebrate model systems. The contribution of maternal and paternal factors and their role in the early embryo as parental DNA becomes modified and embryonic genes become activated is fundamental to the initiation of embryogenesis in all animal systems.
Versatile Video Coding (VVC): Machine Learning and Heuristics
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031116399 | 200 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 23 MB
This book discusses the Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the ISO and ITU state-of-the-art video coding standard. VVC reaches a compression efficiency significantly higher than its predecessor standard (HEVC) and it has a high versatility for efficient use in a broad range of applications and different types of video content, including Ultra-High Definition (UHD), High-Dynamic Range (HDR), screen content, 360º videos, and resolution adaptivity. The authors introduce the novel VVC tools for block partitioning, intra-frame and inter-frames predictions, transforms, quantization, entropy coding, and in-loop filtering. The authors also present some solutions exploring VVC encoding behavior at different levels to accelerate the intra-frame prediction, applying statistical-based heuristics and machine learning (ML) techniques.