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 From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA by Pete Croatto 2020 | ISBN: 1982103957 | English | 384 pages | EPUB | 14 MB Perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of Basketball, this vivid, thoroughly entertaining, and well-researched book explores the NBA's surge in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and its transformation into a global cultural institution.
 From Alpha to Omega: A Milsim Tactical Primer and Training Manual (Modern MILSIM) by Craig R. White English | August 2, 2018 | ISBN: 1983073091 | 191 pages | PDF | 7.16 Mb Military Simulation (MILSIM) operations are not your run of the mill airsoft event. By their very nature, MILSIM events are intended to simulate military operations including the confusion and chaos that come with them. This training manual is not intended to teach basic airsoft skills or to provide recommendations for what equipment to buy for MILSIM events. Instead, it is about Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) that will assist airsoft players, teams and other small tactical elements to out-maneuver and defeat the opposing force to achieve victory at MILSIM events. This training manual begins by teaching airsoft players basic field-craft skills. Other topics including communications, close quarters battle techniques, battlefield formations, land warfare tactics, techniques and procedures build on that basic foundation. It is also intended to teach teams and other small tactical elements how to move tactically on the MILSIM battlement, how to use various forms of communication during operations, how to use drills to increase the survivability how to react to enemy contact, how to flank the enemy and how to use close quarters battle techniques and procedures to clear building rooms, hallways and stairways. It also explains the importance of communications, battle drills and security as well as how to apply these concepts to MILSIM. This tactical primer and training manual is designed to provide the tools to small teams and elements necessary to embrace the chaos on the MILSIM battlefield, to take the fight to the enemy and to achieve victory.More importantly, this tactical primer and training manual is intended to provide a framework for airsoft teams and tactical elements to modify the tactics, techniques and procedures contained herein to better fit their play style and to make them more effective. On the MILSIM battlefield, you must be more effective, more efficient and more flexible than your enemy to prevail. It is game of wits where the best tactics win.  Ian C. Shaw, "Food Safety: The Science of Keeping Food Safe" English | ISBN: 144433722X | 2012 | 440 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB Food safety is a modern concept. Remarkably, it is only in the last 200 years that such concepts as foodborne germs, and the means of combating them (such as antiseptics and refrigeration), have been popularised. Yet in the 21st Century, consumers in the developed world do not accept that the food which they purchase and consume might carry a risk of making them ill - that our food should be safe is something we all take for granted.  Carlo Gualtieri, Dragutin T. Mihailovic, "Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138074276 | PDF | pages: 494 | 7.0 mb Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) studies the motion of air and water at several different scales, the fate and transport of species carried along by these fluids, and the interactions among those flows and geological, biological, and engineered systems. EFM emerged some decades ago as a response to the need for tools to study problems of flow and transport in rivers, estuaries, lakes, groundwater and the atmosphere; it is a topic of increasing importance for decision makers, engineers, and researchers alike. The second edition of the successful textbook "Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces" is still aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanical processes occurring at the different interfaces existing in the realm of EFM, such as the air-water interface, the air-land interface, the water-sediment interface, the surface water-groundwater interface, the water-vegetation interface, and the water-biological systems interface. Across any of these interfaces mass, momentum, and heat are exchanged through different fluid mechanical processes over various spatial and temporal scales.  Florida Off the Beaten Path® by Jackie Sheckler Finch, Diana Gleasner, Bill Gleasner English | ISBN: 1493044060 | 232 pages | EPUB | December 1, 2020 | 1.23 Mb Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Florida Off the Beaten Path shows you the Sunshine State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed--from the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales.  Angela Bishop, "Figure Work in Embroidery: Techniques and Projects" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1785007270 | 160 pages | EPUB | 57.4 MB Figures can bring an embroidery to life, but they are tricky to do well. This book guides you through the materials, stitches, body parts, and clothes to give you the confidence and skills to embroider a figure and experiment, using your creative inspiration. With more than 400 color photographs, it gives key information for getting started, creating designs, and preparing embroideries; techniques for making three-dimensional forms using stitching and padding techniques; clear instruction for mastering stitches; and ideas for using them creatively. Specific advice is given for embroidering the face, hair, hands, and feet as well as ideas for using stitching embellishments, such as beads, sequins, buttons, ribbons, feathers, and jewelry charms. Step-by-step projects demonstrate a range of beautiful styles and techniques.  Yupeng Yan, "Few-Body Problems in Physics: Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference" English | ISBN: 9812704817 | 2007 | 393 pages | PDF | 20 MB The Asia-Pacific Conferences on Few-Body Problems in Physics tackle cover the various aspects of few-body systems in physics, with high caliber contributions from internationally renowned researchers. Readers will gain a clear picture of the latest developments in the field in both the theoretical and experimental sectors.The scope of these proceedings covers research in the following areas: three-body forces and few-nucleon dynamics, hadron structure and QCD; exotic hadrons and atoms; effective field theory in few-body physics; electromagnetic and weak processes in few-body systems; few-body dynamics in atoms, molecules, Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum dots; few-body approaches to unstable nuclei, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear clustering aspects; and hypernuclear physics.  Ferns: Indoors - Outdoors - Growing - Crafting by Mobee Weinstein September 8, 2020 | ISBN: 0760368988 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 53 MB Part of the Cool Springs Press "mini" series of garden-related books, Ferns mini offers the same inspirational and useful content as The Complete Book of Ferns in a smaller, giftable format. Filled with botanical information, indoor and outdoor growing and care information, details on propagation, display ideas, and even craft projects, this book is a small but complete tribute to the mighty fern.
 Suvi Keskinen, "Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique " English | ISBN: 3030534634 | 2021 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1402 KB + 3 MB This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism. The book contextualizes these recent events in the long histories of racial and colonial power relations embedded in Nordic societies and their gender equality and welfare state regimes. It examines the role of whiteness and racism and seeks to decolonize feminist knowledge and genealogies of feminist movements in the region. The contributions provide in-depth knowledge on the different orientations, dilemmas and tactics that feminisms develop in these challenging times and show the centrality of antiracist and decolonizing critiques of feminisms. They further highlight the strategies of feminist and related antiracist and indigenous movements in regards to ideas about hope, solidarity, intersectionality, and social justice.  Marzio Barbagli, "Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide" English | ISBN: 0745662447 | 2015 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or 'voluntary death' have the same meaning today as it had in earlier centuries, and does it have the same significance in China, India and the Middle East as it has in the West? How should we understand this distressing, often puzzling phenomenon and how can we explain its patterns and variations over time? |
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