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 Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are by Carlin Flora Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 0307946959 | 288 pages | EPUB + MOBI | (1,8 + 0,43) MB Discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes. Why is dinner with friends often more laughter filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say it's because we choose our friends, it's also because we expect less of them than we do of relatives. While we're busy scrutinizing our romantic relationships and family dramas, our friends are quietly but strongly influencing everything from the articles we read to our weight fluctuations, from our sex lives to our overall happiness levels. Evolutionary psychologists have long theorized that friendship has roots in our early dependence on others for survival. These days, we still cherish friends but tend to undervalue their role in our lives. However, the skills one needs to make good friends are among the very skills that lead to success in life, and scientific research has recently exploded with insights about the meaningful and enduring ways friendships influence us. With people marrying later-and often not at all-and more families having just one child, these relationships may be gaining in importance. The evidence even suggests that at times friends have a greater hand in our development and well-being than do our romantic partners and relatives. Friends see each other through the process of growing up, shape each other's interests and outlooks, and, painful though it may be, expose each other's rough edges. Childhood and adolescence, in particular, are marked by the need to create distance between oneself and one's parents while forging a unique identity within a group of peers, but friends continue to influence us, in ways big and small, straight through old age. Perpetually busy parents who turn to friends-for intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and a good dose of merriment-find a perfect outlet to relieve the pressures of raising children. In the office setting, talking to a friend for just a few minutes can temporarily boost one's memory. While we romanticize the idea of the lone genius, friendship often spurs creativity in the arts and sciences. And in recent studies, having close friends was found to reduce a person's risk of death from breast cancer and coronary disease, while having a spouse was not. Friendfluence surveys online-only pals, friend breakups, the power of social networks, envy, peer pressure, the dark side of amicable ties, and many other varieties of friendship. Told with warmth, scientific rigor, and a dash of humor, Friendfluence not only illuminates and interprets the science but draws on clinical psychology and philosophy to help readers evaluate and navigate their own important friendships.  French Defence Advance Variation: Volume Two by Evgeny Sveshnikov Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 3283005249 | 152 pages | PDF | 9 MB The second half of a two-volume work, this set is intended for a broad range of chess enthusiasts. The author believes that anyone making a thorough study of the available material can expect an improvement in playing strength in this system of approximate 200 Elo points. This second volume contains 61 theoretically important games for independent analysis, an encyclopedia of variations, a summary of the 3.e5 system, games for further study, and the latest theoretical developments.  French Defence Advance Variation: Volume One by Evgeny Sveshnikov Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 3283005230 | 176 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB The well-known grandmaster and theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov has used the Closed Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5) more than 150 times in tournament play, with a score of more than 70 percent. Many theoretically important games have been excluded by the author from official chess databases, and here they are exclusively published for the first time. Volume 1 of this two volume set includes an historical overview of the Closed Variation; plans for White and Black on the basis of thoroughly annotated games, a lesson on the blockade, and 70 test positions.  Free Space Optical Networks for Ultra-Broad Band Services by Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0470647752 | 256 pages | PDF | 22,8 MB This book provides a comprehensive description of an optical communications technology known as free space optical-a next-generation communications network that uses optical signals through the atmosphere instead of fiber, RF, or microwaves. This technology potentially offers more complex ultrabandwidth communication services simultaneously to multiple users and in a very short time, compared to fiber optic technology. This text presents established and new advancements drawn from the latest research and development in components, networking, operation, and practices.  Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications by Ted L. Anderson Language: English | 2004 | ISBN: 0849316561 | 640 pages | PDF | 16,7 MB With its combination of practicality, readability, and rigor that is characteristic of any truly authoritative reference and text, Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications quickly established itself as the most comprehensive guide to fracture mechanics available. It has been adopted by more than 100 universities and embraced by thousands of professional engineers worldwide. Now in its third edition, the book continues to raise the bar in both scope and coverage. It encompasses theory and applications, linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, solid mechanics, and materials science with a unified, balanced, and in-depth approach.  Foundations of Real Estate Development Financing: A Guide to Public-Private Partnerships by Dr. Arthur C. Nelson Ph.D. FAICP Language: English | 2014 | ISBN: 1610915615 | 200 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB America's landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as demand grows for a different kind of American Dream-smaller homes on smaller lots, multifamily options, and walkable neighborhoods. This trend presents a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban and suburban areas. But in a time of fiscal austerity, how do we finance redevelopment needs? In Foundations of Real Estate Development Finance: A Guide for Public-Private Partnerships, urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson argues that efficient redevelopment depends on the ability to leverage resources through partnerships. Public-private partnerships are increasingly important in reducing the complexity and lowering the risk of redevelopment projects. Although planners are an integral part of creating these partnerships, their training does generally not include real-estate financing, which presents challenges and imbalances in public-private partnership.  For Positivist Organization Theory by Dr. Lex Donaldson Language: English | 21996 | ISBN: 0761952276 | 200 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB Organization theory is presently dominated by theories of strategic choice and politics. Managers are seen as exercising a wide choice and maximizing their personal self-interest through complex power struggles.  Food and Package Engineering by Scott A. Morris Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0813814790 | 480 pages | PDF | 19,3 MB For the first time, engineering for the packaging industry - and for the biggest packaging user, food processing - is presented in a way that clearly demonstrates its interconnected, globally integrated nature.  Food and Beverage Service, 9th edition by John Cousins Language: English | 2014 | ISBN: 1471807959 | 466 pages | PDF | 20,2 MB Understand both the key concepts and modern developments within the global food and beverage service industry with this new edition of the internationally respected text.  Fodor's Maui 2012: with Molokai and Lanai by Fodor's Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0679009299 | 352 pages | EPUB | 28,2 MB Full-color guide Make your trip to Maui unforgettable with illustrated features, 28 maps, and 160 color photos. |
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