Bowen Li, Jian Li, Shadia Ikhmayies, "Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2018" English | 2018 | pages: 708 | ISBN: 3319724835 | PDF | 25,2 mb This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research and development of materials characterization and processing. Coverage is well-rounded from minerals, metals, and materials characterization and developments in extraction to the fabrication and performance of materials. In addition, topics as varied as structural steels to electronic materials to plant-based composites are explored. The latest research presented in this wide area make this book both timely and relevant to the materials science field as a whole. The book explores scientific processes to characterize materials using modern technologies, and focuses on the interrelationships and interdependence among processing, structure, properties, and performance of materials.Topics covered include ferrous materials, non-ferrous materials, minerals, ceramics, clays, soft materials, method development, processing, corrosion, welding, solidification, composites, extraction, powders, nanomaterials, advanced materials, and several others. Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs by Hourly History English | October 17, 2016 | ISBN: 1537584359 | 43 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.07 Mb Celtic MythologyThe gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well - for it is a complicated history with the earliest written records destroyed by the marauding Vikings. Caruana Chess: Winning Moves by Fabiano Caruana by Tim Sawyer English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07BTRK9FW | 213 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 3.73 Mb Chess author Tim Sawyer compiled 200 diagrams to show you 200 final moves Fabiano Caruana played to win. The Italian American Grandmaster Caruana wins with powerful moves that finish these games immediately. Find the strongest move that mates or convinces your opponent to resign. Enjoy this quick and easy read. Grandmasters attack with powerful knockout punches. Hit hard! That's the only way to beat the world's best players. Chess attacks for most players feel like gradual boxing jabs until their opponents give up or fall over. This book helps you play sharp. Be accurate. Stay focused. Force the win. These 200 diagrams demonstrate the how Fabiano Caruana wins chess games. His winning moves lead to forced mates or a big gains in chess material. These 200 positions train your mind to look for the best move. Each diagram shows the position with Fabiano Caruana to move. His next move ends the game, followed by a brief analysis or explanation. Caruana may play the first in a series of moves that force mate. Sometimes his move is the final checkmate move after all the hard work that came before. In other games, Fabiano Caruana move wins a piece, a rook, a queen, or promotes a pawn. The book covers the Caruana career from 2002 through the Candidates tournament of 2018. His victory in that event qualified the Italian American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana to play the current champion Magnus Carlsen in November 2018 for the World Chess Championship. Hal S. Scott, "Capital Adequacy beyond Basel: Banking, Securities, and Insurance" English | ISBN: 0195169719 | 2005 | 354 pages | PDF | 5 MB This book is timely since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements is in the process of making major changes in the capital rules for banks. It is important that capital adequacy regulation helps to achieve financial stability in the most efficient way. Capital adequacy rules have become a key tool to protect financial institutions. The research contained within the book covers some key issues at stake in the capital requirements for insurance and securities firms. The contributors are among the leading scholars in financial economics and law. Their contributions analyze the use of subordinated debt, internal models, and rating agencies in addition to examining the effect on capital of reinsurance, securitization, credit derivatives, and similar instruments. Tony Roshan Samara, "Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City" English | 2011 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 0816670005 | PDF | 3,1 mb Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our day-cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing. Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction By John Sutherland 1997 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 019283309X | PDF | 5 MB The exciting sequel to the enormously successful Is Heathcliff A Murderer?, John Sutherland's latest collection of literary puzzles, Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? turns up unexpected and brain-teasing aspects of the range of canonical British and American fiction represented in the World's Classics list. With bold imaginative speculation he investigates thirty-four literary conundrums, ranging from Daniel Defoe to Virginia Woolf. Covering issues well beyond the strict confines of Victorian fiction, Sutherland explores the questions readers often ask but critics rarely discuss: Why does Robinson Crusoe find only one footprint? How does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? Whose side is Hawkeye on? And how does Clarissa Dalloway get home so quickly? As in its universally well received predecessor, the questions and answers in Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? are ingenious and convincing, and return the reader with new respect to the great novels they celebrate. Calling on All Czech Food Lovers: The Most Amazing Czech Recipes Any day by April Blomgren English | September 4, 2017 | ISBN: 1976118409 | 52 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 2.91 Mb Traditional Czech recipes are family-favourites any day, this is the reason why you will find the recipe in most restaurants in the capital city- Prague as well as some other large cities across Europe. George F. Simmons, "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics" English | ISBN: 0070575665 | | 355 pages | DJVU | 3 MB This text is a spin-off of Appendices A ("A Variety of Additional Topics") and B ("Biographical Notes") of Simmons' successful CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY. The text is suitable as a supplement for a calculus course and/or history of mathematics course. The text may also be appropriate for a liberal arts mathematics course for students with minimal mathematics background. CCENT ICND1 100-105 Exam Cram by Pearson IT Certification English | December 29, 2016 | ISBN: 0789756730 | 448 pages | PDF | 19 Mb CCENT ICND1 100 -105 Exam Cram is the perfect study guide to help you pass the 100-105 ICND1 exam, providing coverage and practice questions for every exam topic. The book contains an extensive set of preparation tools, including topic overviews, exam alerts, Cram Savers, Cram Quizzes, chapter-ending review questions, author notes and tips, and an extensive glossary. The book also contains the extremely useful Cram Sheet tear-out: a collection of essential facts in an easy to review format. Complementing all these great study tools is the powerful Pearson Test Prep practice test software, complete with hundreds of exam-realistic practice questions. This assessment software offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, allowing you to test your knowledge in study mode, practice exam mode, or flash card mode. Build Unseen & Featuristic jаvascript Web Applications Video: .mp4 (1280x720, 30 fps(r)) | Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 646 MB Genre: eLearning Video | Duration: 16 lectures (1 hour, 58 mins) | Language: English |