Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU, Russia, and Turkey: A Conflict-Cooperation Perpetuum
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031170563 | 280 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book analyses the rapidly unfolding events that have impacted on the European energy dynamics, in the light of the way in Ukraine and the energy crisis that have reconfigured, since 2022, the European and the global geopolitical scene, dislocating not only crucial natural resources but also the pace of the energy transition and the continent's existential security, its basic trust and sense of continuity. It introduces an innovative interpretation of the conflict and cooperation dynamics in Europe, by challenging the reader to look beyond the material aspects of energy security, related to supply and demand, consumption, production and prices dynamics, which I nonetheless explain in detail. Thus, it invites the audience to explore the deeper layer of motivations that underpin the actors' decision to engage in conflict and cooperation, by exploring their cognitive and psychological considerations, in addition to the material ones. For this purpose, it presents a new conceptual tool, the conflict-cooperation perpetuum, in order to explain why the same players, in this case the EU, Russia and Turkey, may choose to simultaneously perceive each other as security threats and trade partners, engaging in both conflict and cooperation simultaneously with the same 'Other'. In addition, it proposes to apply the framework of ontological security, in order to understand the responses of the EU, Russia and Turkey to the major existential crises that have affected them in past years, culminating with the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis of 2022.

National 5 Chemistry - 225 Practice Questions on Atomic Structure and Radioactivity (2022) by James Harding
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BH4RF5QB | 115 pages | PDF | 0.27 Mb
A book of 225 practice questions on atomic structure, the periodic table, and radioactivity, applicable to Scottish National 5 chemistry. The perfect resource for learning or revising National 5 chemistry.

Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture: Reframing the Past By Gilbert Tiedau Fenoulhet
2016 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1910634980 | PDF | 28 MB
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts - The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus - this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt's study of the doolhof, a word that today means 'labyrinth' but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

William Sims Bainbridge, "Nanoconvergence: The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science"
English | 2007 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 013244643X | PDF | 3,4 mb
"William Bainbridge is an original thinker who navigates easily from social sciences to emerging technologies and societal aspirations. In this book, he brings to the reader all that is essential in the historic and rapid change toward science and technology convergence."

Wendy Kerr, "My New Business: A Busy Woman's Guide to Start-up Success"
English | 2014 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 1292016221 | PDF | 11,4 mb
Ever wanted to be your own boss?

Stuart W. Sanders, "Murder on the Ohio Belle"
English | ISBN: 0813178711 | 2020 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper shuddered, "The details are truly awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror."

Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, "Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and Content Processing"
English | 2002 | pages: 291 | ISBN: 0130313998 | PDF | 1,8 mb
From DVDs to the Internet, media coding and content processing are central to the effective delivery of high-quality multimedia. In this book, two of the field's leading experts introduce today's state-of-the-art - presenting realistic examples and projects designed to help implementers create multimedia systems with unprecedented performance.KEY TOPICS:The authors introduce the fundamental characteristics and properties of digital audio, images, video, graphics and animation, giving multimedia system designers and application developer the key information they need to build advanced multimedia systems and applications. They reflect the latest approaches to content analysis and compression, showing how to take advantage of the characteristics of images, video or speech to specify and compress multimedia content with maximum efficiency. They present comprehensive coverage of system and end-user issues that cannot be found elsewhere, and present hands-on projects designed to help professionals rapidly deepen their expertise.MARKET:For every professional involved in implementing or researching state-of-the-art multimedia systems and applications, including multimedia and communications engineers, software developers, streaming media specialists, and technical project managers.

Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster By James Grant
2011 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 1416544933 | EPUB | 2 MB
James Grant's enthralling biography of Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House during one of the most turbulent times in American history-the Gilded Age, the decades before the ascension of reformer President Theodore Roosevelt-brings to life one of the brightest, wittiest, and most consequential political stars in our history. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a volatile era of rampantly corrupt politics. It was a time of both stupendous growth and financial panic, of land bubbles and passionate and sometimes violent populist protests. Votes were openly bought and sold in a Congress paralyzed by the abuse of the House filibuster by members who refused to respond to roll call even when present, depriving the body of a quorum. Reed put an end to this stalemate, empowered the Republicans, and changed the House of Representatives for all time. The Speaker's beliefs in majority rule were put to the test in 1898, when the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor set up a popular clamor for war against Spain. Reed resigned from Congress in protest. A larger-than-life character, Reed checks every box of the ideal biographical subject. He is an important and significant figure. He changed forever the way the House of Representatives does its business. He was funny and irreverent. He is, in short, great company. "What I most admire about you, Theodore," Reed once remarked to his earnest young protégé, Teddy Roosevelt, "is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments." After he resigned his seat, Reed practiced law in New York. He was successful. He also found a soul mate in the legendary Mark Twain. They admired one another's mordant wit. Grant's lively and erudite narrative of this tumultuous era-the raucous late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-is a gripping portrait of a United States poised to burst its bounds and of the men who were defining it.

Dale Schunk, "Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications"
English | 2013 | pages: 329 | ISBN: 1292041471 | PDF | 128,1 mb

Shirley Taylor, "Model Business Letters, Emails and Other Business Documents"
English | 2012 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 027375193X | PDF | 26,0 mb
For anyone who wants to communicate effectively in business,this is your complete reference guide for any form of written communication.