Jenny Hocking, "The Dismissal Dossier: The Palace Connection: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know about November 1975"
English | ISBN: 0522873006 | 2017 | 204 pages | EPUB | 399 KB
Here is the definitive story of the most divisive episode in Australia's history-the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government.
Stephen Snelders, "The Devil's Anarchy: The Sea Robberies of theMost Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1570272948 | PDF | pages: 234 | 3.0 mb
By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organization and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was not a purely whimsical process. In The Devil's Anarchy, Stephen Snelders examines rare 17th-century Dutch pirate histories to show the continuity of a shared pirate culture, embodied in its modes of organization, methods of distributing booty and resolving disputes, and tendencies for high living. Focussing on the careers of Claes Compaen, a cunning, charismatic renegado who claimed to have stolen more than 350 vessels, and Jan Erasmus Reyning, who hit the seas at age 12 and became a buccaneer in the pirate jungles of Santo Domingo, Snelders paints a salty picture of the excesses, contradictions, and liberatory joys of pirate life. This second edition has a new Introduction by the Author.
The Creative Programmer (MEAP V02)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781633439054 | 212 Pages | PDF EPUB | 5 MB
In The Creative Programmer you'll learn the processes and habits of successful creative individuals and discover how you can build creativity into your programming practice. This fascinating new book introduces the seven domains of creative problem solving and teaches practical techniques that apply those principles to software development. Hand-drawn illustrations, reflective thought experiments, and brain-tickling example problems help you get your creative juices flowing. You'll soon be thinking up new and novel ways to tackle the big challenges of your projects.
Cat Rose, "The Creative Introvert: How to Build a Business You Love "
English | ISBN: 1731392788 | 2018 | 350 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If you've ever dreamt of turning your passion into a career, but feel held back by your perceived limitations, such as introversion, lack of confidence or plain old fear - this book was created for you.
Mason Stokes, "The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0822326205, 0822326264 | PDF | pages: 249 | 1.8 mb
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915-literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film-and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire. Stokes locates these white-supremacist texts amid the anti-racist efforts of African American writers and activists, deepening our understanding of both American and African American literary and cultural history.
Didi Clarke, "The Celtic Wicca Spell Book: The Magick and Mythology of Celtic Witchcraft"
English | ISBN: 1070814652 | 2019 | 54 pages | EPUB | 221 KB
The Celtic Gods May Have Been Forgotten, But Now There's a Complete Guide to Invoking Their Ancient, Magickal Power
Clare L. Stacey, "The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0801476992, 0801449855 | PDF | pages: 214 | 0.9 mb
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America's system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow. Often referred to as frontline care providers or direct care workers, home care aides―disproportionately women of color―bathe, feed, and offer companionship to the elderly and disabled in the context of the home. In The Caring Self, Clare L. Stacey draws on observations of and interviews with aides working in Ohio and California to explore the physical and emotional labor associated with the care of others.
The Bush Dyslexicon By Mark Crispin Miller
2001 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0553814222 | PDF | 10 MB
'They misunderestimated me'...He tends to blurt out all or part of what he's really thinking, even as he's trying to lie about it...George W Bush is so illiterate as to turn completely incoherent when he speaks without a script.He seems like too easy a target, but Dubya speaks for himself. Whether he's envisioning 'a foreign-handed foreign policy', explaining the American military's role - 'to fight and be able to win war, and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place' - or telling his nation that 'more and more of our imports come from overseas', George W Bush's appointment to the highest office in the world should strike fear into all our hearts.THE BUSH DYSLEXICON not only places the President in the context of other notorious dunces-in-chief, but shows him to be indisputably in a league of his own. Packed with incisive essays, famous interviews and classic comments, this book is much more than an amusing collection of Bush's gaffes - it is also a biting polemic on a culture so dependent on the emptiness of television that it has allowed a man who was unable to name the leaders of Pakistan,Chechnya or India to become US President.To quote Bush himself, 'It's not the way America is all about'.
Adam Rome, "The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521804906, 0521800595 | EPUB | pages: 332 | 1.4 mb
The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War II-the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. This work offers a valuable historical perspective for scholars, professionals, and citizens interested in the issue of suburban sprawl.
Alan Philps, John Lahutsky, "The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0312576978 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.3 mb
In 1990, a young boy afflicted with cerebral palsy was born, prematurely, in Russia. His name was Vanya. His mother abandoned him to the state childcare system and he was sent to a bleak orphanage called Baby House 10. Once there, he entered a nightmare world he was not to leave for more than eight years. Housed in a ward with a group of other children, he was clothed in rags, ignored by most of the staff and given little, if any, medical treatment. He was finally, and cruelly, confined for a time to a mental asylum where he lived, almost caged, lying in a pool of his own waste on a locked ward surrounded by psychotic adults. But, that didn't stop Vanya.