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 The 36 Deadly Bubishi Points: The Science and Technique of Pressure Point Fighting - Defend Yourself Against Pressure Point Attacks! by Tuttle Publishing English | March 5, 2019 | ISBN: 0804850240 | 224 pages | PDF | 12 Mb Learn how to target the weaknesses of an attacker and effectively exploit them in order to defend yourself. The 36 Deadly Bubishi Points gives detailed explanations on how the pressure points of traditional Chinese medicine found in the Bubishi, the venerable "Bible of Karate," are used in attacking an opponent and how to defend yourself against such attacks. This book closely examines these vital points and the science behind them.  Susan Bassnett, "Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry" English | 2017 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 0333771273 | PDF | 5,1 mb Sylvia Plath is one of the best-known and most widely-studied writers of the twentieth century. Since her death in 1963, critics have presented different images of Plath: the 'suicidal' poet, the frustrated wife and mother, the feminist precursor.  N. Ravichandran (Ed.), "Success is a Thief: Inspirational Convocation Speeches" English | ISBN: 8184007035 | 2015 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 1186 KB Convocation is a magical time for graduates it is liberating and petrifying in equal measure. It is tradition to invite a noted personality to deliver an address which can rouse the students to step into the real world with courage, motivation and enthusiasm. This book brings together twenty convocation speeches delivered at the greatest management institutes in this country by eminent personalities like A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Deepak Parekh, Subrato Bagchi, Indra Nooyi and Anand Mahindra. This book also offers reflections from experts who analyse these speeches, and delves into the art of inspiring communication. Stimulating and inspiring, Success is a Thief is a must on every bookshelf.  Rose DuBois, Randy Hagen, "Success Perfect" English | 2007 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 1585189952 | EPUB | 11,2 mb Success Perfect is a user-friendly guide designed inspire, motivate, and encourage individuals to reach their full potential. Authors DuBois and Hagen combine their 56 years of experience in education, coaching, and motivational speaking to provide you with entertaining and life-changing ways to improve and inspire yourself and those around you.  Rob Stones, "Structuration Theory" English | 2005 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 0333793773 | PDF | 5,2 mb This important text argues for a 'strong' notion of structuration theory in contrast to the seminal but more abstract and relatively under-developed project represented by Anthony Giddens's writings. Emphasis on the duality of structure is placed at the centre of the tradition. It is argued that the distinctive power of structuration theory lies in its potential to critically investigate a specific range of in situ questions. Structuration Theory produces a synthesis that draws on Giddens's work, on other versions of the structuration problematic, and on key empirical uses of the approach. The final chapters make use of extended case examples to illustrate the critical power of strong structuration.
 Strategic Public Personnel Administration: Building and Managing Human Capital for the 21st Century By Ali Farazmand 2006 | 523 Pages | ISBN: 0275993787 | PDF | 3 MB The history of public personnel administration is as old as human civilization itself: Persia, China, Assyria, Egypt, and Rome all practiced strategic personnel management systems, some systematically and others unsystematically. But despite the longstanding practice of strategic public personnel administration, the systematic study of this field is a fairly new development in the modern world. Today, the need for strategic thinking in public personnel administration and human capital development is more urgent than ever before. Managing and coping with the challenges of transworld migrations of capital and labor, cyber-employment and virtual workplaces, and relentless global pressures for results-oriented performance through outsourcing all require the development of human capital as a key asset of modern governments and private organizations. Governments and public administration organizations must confront these challenges if they are to survive and thrive in the 21st century, and Strategic Public Personnel Administration provides a comprehensive analysis of the past development and current function of the field so as to give a clearly balanced picture of public personnel administration in both theory and practice.Today, strategic public personnel management is a central component of strategic governance and administration in public and nonprofit organizations. Strategic personnel administration aims to lead organizations along the right paths with the necessary people on hand to achieve strategic goals and objectives in modern governance and public administration. This two-volume set fills a major gap in the current literature, and it will serve as a key work that addresses the history, knowledge, policy, management, process, and culture of public personnel administration with a strategic perspective.
 Sean P. Simko, "Strategic Fixed Income Investing: An Insider's Perspective on Bond Markets, Analysis, and Portfolio Management" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1118422937 | 209 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB Build a fixed income portfolio that will weather volatility and instability
 Il Do Ha, Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Youngjo Lee, "Statistical Modelling of Survival Data with Random Effects: H-Likelihood Approach" English | 2017 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 9811065551 | PDF | 4,5 mb This book provides a groundbreaking introduction to the likelihood inference for correlated survival data via the hierarchical (or h-) likelihood in order to obtain the (marginal) likelihood and to address the computational difficulties in inferences and extensions. The approach presented in the book overcomes shortcomings in the traditional likelihood-based methods for clustered survival data such as intractable integration. The text includes technical materials such as derivations and proofs in each chapter, as well as recently developed software programs in R ("frailtyHL"), while the real-world data examples together with an R package, "frailtyHL" in CRAN, provide readers with useful hands-on tools. Reviewing new developments since the introduction of the h-likelihood to survival analysis (methods for interval estimation of the individual frailty and for variable selection of the fixed effects in the general class of frailty models) and guiding future directions, the book is of interest to researchers in medical and genetics fields, graduate students, and PhD (bio) statisticians.  States' Rights and American Federalism: A Documentary History By Frederick D. Drake, Lynn R. Nelson 1999 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0313305730 | PDF | 2 MB The debate over states' rights versus federalism in America is one that has raged since our country's founding. Arguments over the interpretation of the Constitution and the meaning of power and its distribution among the states' governments echoes in governmental chambers even today. Students can trace the history and development of issues surrounding this debate, as well as the reactions to them, through this unique and comprehensive collection of over 65 primary documents. Court cases, opinion pieces, speeches and many other documents bring to life the controversies surrounding the debate. Explanatory introductions to documents aid users in understanding the various arguments put forth in deliberations over different governmental matters, while illuminating the significance of each document.
 Sports Illustrated: In the Paint: The Complete Body-Painting Collection from the SI Swimsuit Issue by Joanne Gair English | 2007 | ISBN: 1933821205 | 148 pages | PDF | 101 MB In its annual swimsuit issue 10 years ago, Sports Illustrated first presented photographs of gorgeous models in swimsuits that consisted of nothing more than paint artistically & painstakingly applied to their bodies. This book brings together a collection of astonishing painted-swimsuit photographs. |
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