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 Gabor S. Boritt, "Why the Civil War Came (Gettysburg Civil War Institute)" English | ISBN: 0195079418, 0195113764 | 1996 | EPUB | 272 pages | 2 MB In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all? Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture the feel of a very different time and place, helping the reader to grasp more fully the commencement of our bloodiest war. From William W. Freehling's discussion of the peculiarities of North American slavery to Charles Royster's disturbing piece on the combatants' savage readiness to fight, the contributors bring to life the climate of a country on the brink of disaster. Mark Summers, for instance, depicts the tragically jubilant first weeks of Northern recruitment, when Americans on both sides were as yet unaware of the hellish slaughter that awaited them. Glenna Matthews underscores the important war-catalyzing role played by extraordinary public women, who proved that neither side of the Mason-Dixon line was as patriarchal as is thought. David Blight reveals an African-American world that "knew what time it was," and welcomed war. And Gabor Boritt examines the struggle's central figure, Lincoln himself, illuminating in the years leading up to the war a blindness on the future president's part, an unwillingness to confront the looming calamity that was about to smash the nation asunder. William E. Gienapp notes perhaps the most unsettling fact about the Civil War, that democratic institutions could not resolve the slavery issue without resorting to violence on an epic scale. With gripping detail, Why the Civil War Came takes readers back to a country fraught with bitterness, confusion, and hatred-a country ripe for a war of unprecedented bloodshed-to show why democracy failed, and violence reigned.
 Martin Jacques, "When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order" English | ISBN 10: 0713992549 | 2009 | PDF | 576 pages | 3,1 MB For well over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern is inextricably bound up with being western. The twenty-first century will be different.  Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms By Doug Cantor 2002 | 433 Pages | ISBN: 1581311656 | PDF | 5 MB A collection of company profiles offering an inside look at management consulting careers and the firms that shape the industry.  Understanding Risk: The Theory and Practice of Financial Risk Management By David Murphy 2008 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 1584888938 | PDF | 8 MB Sound risk management often involves a combination of both mathematical and practical aspects. Taking this into account, Understanding Risk: The Theory and Practice of Financial Risk Management explains how to understand financial risk and how the severity and frequency of losses can be controlled. It combines a quantitative approach with a more informal style, giving readers a blend of analysis and intuition. Divided into four parts, the book begins by introducing the basics of risk management and the behavior of financial instruments. The next section focuses on regulatory capital standards and models, addressing value-at-risk (VaR) models, portfolio credit risk, tranching, operational risk, and the Basel accords. The author then deals with asset/liability management (ALM) and liquidity management. The last part explores structured finance and a variety of new trading instruments, including inflation-linked products, sophisticated equity basket options, and convertible bonds. With numerous exercises, figures, and examples throughout, this book offers valuable insight on various aspects of financial risk management.  Traeger Grill Wood Pellet Grill Smoker Cookbook: Grill Like a Pro. Master Your Wood Pellet, Grill with the Last Tips and Techniques for Your Best Barbecue Ever By Simon Fast English | 2020 | ASIN : B08P3RPVB5 | 155 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 27 MB  Traeger Grill & Smoker Cookbook : Become a Master Of Grill In A Matter of Days Using The 150 Most Delicious Recipes From Smoked Chicken Wings To NY Steak by Peter White English | 2020 | ASIN: B08QGZKHMM | 282 Pages | EPUB | 9 MB  Traeger Grill & Smoker Cookbook: 250 Ways In Terms Of Outstanding Wood Pellet Smoker Recipes To Become "The-Real-Deal" BBQ Chef In Your Very Own Yard Regardless Of Your Current Cooking Skills by Bob Franklin English | 2020 | ASIN: B08QJLTDF6 | 332 Pages | EPUB | 2.38 MB  Yvonne K. Fulbright, "Touch Me There!: A Hands-On Guide to Your Orgasmic Hot Spots" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0897934881 | 192 pages | True PDF | 5.71 MB This lively hands-on guide is the first book to focus exclusively on all of the body's titillating hot spots, offering lovers a new realm of sexual exploration and experience. Sexologist Yvonne K. Fulbright gives readers of all sexual orientations a guided tour of the male and female body's wild attractions and explains how to maximize pleasure from head to toe. Individual chapters detail her hot spots, his hot spots, mind-blowing spots for both sexes, and positions and toys for ultimate stimulation. All four sections help readers find nature's hidden treasures, dispelling notions of what "can't" be done. A plethora of sex tips, techniques, and tools that build intimacy and communication skills leads to even greater sexual and emotional satisfaction. The information is delivered thoroughly but not too thoroughly, encouraging lovers to engage in their own sensual how-to sessions.  Thinking with Cases By Charlotte Furth 2007 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 0824830490 | PDF | 3 MB Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived from them. In this volume, an international group of senior scholars comes together to consider the use of cases to produce empirical knowledge in premodern China. They trace the process by which the project of thinking with cases acquired a systematic and public character in the ninth century CE and after. Premodern Chinese experts on medicine and law circulated printed case collections to demonstrate efficacy or claim validity for their judgments. They were joined by authors of religious and philosophical texts. The rhetorical strategies and forms of argument used by all of these writers were allied with historical narratives, exemplary biographies, and case examples composed as aids to imperial statecraft. The study of cases reveals historically specific epistemologies that offer insight into how Chinese experts dealt with the tensions between classical norms and practice-based judgment and between techno/magical and literati/scholarly styles of constructing authority. By the late Ming dynasty, case collections, defined as an , were a recognized genre of writing in a variety of fields, becoming a sign of the historical sociology of emerging occupational specialties in China, those of the physician, judge, official, priest. The innovative and productive explorations gathered here present a coherent set of interlocking arguments that will be of interest to comparativists as well as specialists on premodern East Asia. For China scholars, they examine the interaction of different fields of learning in the late imperial period, the relationship of evidential reasoning and literary forms, and the philosophical frameworks that linked knowledge to experience and action. For comparativists, the essays bring China into a global conversation about the methodologies of the human sciences, where the records of a civilization without an indigenous history of experimental science provide new insight into the resources of action-oriented strategies of practical reason.
 Niels E. Henriksen, "Theories of Molecular Reaction Dynamics: The Microscopic Foundation of Chemical Kinetics Ed 2" English | ISBN: 0198805012 | 2019 | 464 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book deals with a central topic at the interface of chemistry and physics-the understanding of how the transformation of matter takes place at the atomic level. Building on the laws of physics, the book focuses on the theoretical framework for predicting the outcome of chemical reactions. The style is highly systematic with attention to basic concepts and clarity of presentation. The emphasis is on concepts and insights obtained via analytical theories rather than computational and numerical aspects. |
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