Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism By Stephanie Barczewski
2009 | 412 Pages | ISBN: 0826445624 | PDF | 27 MB
This book covers the two most famous expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914-16. For decades after his tragic death on the return journey from the South Pole, to which he had been beaten by five weeks by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott was regarded as a saint-like figure with an unassailable reputation born from his heroic martyrdom in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. In recent years, however, Scott has attracted some of the most intense criticism any explorer has ever received. Shackleton's reputation, meanwhile, has followed a reverse trajectory. Although his achievements were always appreciated, they were never celebrated with nearly the same degree of adulation that traditionally surrounded Scott. Today, Scott and Shackleton occupy very different places in the polar pantheon of British heroes. Stephanie Barczewski explores the evolution of their reputations, and finds it has little to do with new discoveries regarding their lives and characters, but far more to do with broader cultural changes and changes in conceptions of heroism in Britain and the United States.
David L Fertig, "Analogy and Morphological Change "
English | ISBN: 0748646221 | 2013 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How do learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense. Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the pretty good students beece it? You've probably often pondered such questions yourself, but did you know that similar questions have inspired some of the most important advances in our understanding not only of how languages change but also of how children acquire grammar and how the human mind works? This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognition. With a critical look at the past 150 years of linguistic work on analogical change, David Fertig brings clarity to a field rife with terminological and theoretical confusion.
An Illustrated Guide to Flying
by Schiff, Barry;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1619544016 | 217 pages | True PDF EPUB | 118.71 MB
Valerie Strong, "All My Phlox"
English | ISBN: 0873386345 | | 132 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Through colorful, personal vignettes, landscape designer Valerie Strong presents and solves specific landscape problems, including the excavations of her own ponds and the creation of three award-winning gardens. She comments on her natural surroundings, even empty lots and roadsides. Strong examines the neglected infrastructure of landscape design―the growers, carpenters, stone masons, landscapers, and labor force―with sympathy and humor, lifting the paper plans to philosophical observations of gardening and life. All My Phlox will direct the novice gardener and confirm the habits of those who are committed to working with nature. The author passes on her message of how to be a good steward of the land.
All In Your Head: What Happens When Your Doctor Doesn't Believe You? by Marcus Sedgwick
English | October 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 1910515981 | 312 pages | True EPUB | 0.54 MB
All In Your Head is about what happens when your doctor doesn't believe that you're ill. When they think you are imagining a serious ailment, or worse, faking it.
Akka in Action, Second Edition (MEAP V10)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617299216 | 412 pages | PDF,EPUB | 13.14 MB
Use Akka to solve the big problems of distributed systems-from multithreading and concurrency, to handling scalability and failure.
E. R. Hooton - Aircraft of the Second World War: The Development of the Warplane 1939-45
Putnam | 1997 | ISBN: 0851778755 | English | 304 pages | PDF | 177.3 MB
This is a study of aircraft from World War II. The book is part of a 12volume series, which covers the production and operation of aircraft worldwide. Each volume is devoted to essays on aircraft types, their development and option, systems and equipment.
Air Carrier Operations
by Holt, Mark J.;Poynor, Phillip J.;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644252619 | 361 pages | True PDF EPUB | 44.23 MB
Agile for Managers: Decision-Making in the Digital Age
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-87-403-4459-2 | 79 pages | EPUB | 1.02 MB
Managers need powerful decision-making tools and appropriate controls to make organisations more effective and efficient. Business Agility depends on the leadership of managers.
Simone Janson, "Agile Project Management: Leadership for Professionals, Funding for Agile Companies & Methods, Developing Strategies, Making the right Decisions, Creating Concepts, Solving Problems"
English | ASIN : B08PCZRX7V | 2022 | 96 pages | EPUB | 0,3 MB
What the 2nd edition brings you: You support climate protection, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.