Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures By Beth A. Berkowitz
2006 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0195179196 | PDF | 3 MB
The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Those wishing to defend the Talmud from Enlightenment attacks on its legitimacy pointed to Talmudic criminal law as evidence for its elevated, progressive morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove the Jews' innocence of the charge of being Christ-killers. This charge hinged on the reconstruction of the ancient Jewish death penalty. The Gospels show a corrupt Jewish court as responsible for the death of Christ. Contemporary Jewish scholars have argued that the Mishnah's criminal law is in fact rigorously just and even abolitionist with respect to the death penalty. In this book Beth Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and continues the story by offering a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism. Against the scholarly consensus, Berkowitz argues that the rabbinic laws of the death penalty were used by the early Rabbis in their efforts to establish themselves in the wake of the destruction of the Temple. The purpose of the laws, she contends, was to create a complex ritual of execution that was controlled by the Rabbis, thus bolstering their claims to authority in the context of Roman imperial domination.

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Excel Gurus Gone Wild: Do the IMPOSSIBLE with Microsoft Excel By Bill Jelen
2009 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 1932802401 | PDF | 11 MB
What makes this book so good is that there is something for every Excel user. This book filled in some missing pieces for me that I've been wondering about for years (yes, it's true I think about Excel too often!) Whether it's statistical modeling or accounting there's something new you can pickup from Jelen. The commands list alone is worth to price of the book. Things I never knew Excel could do (convert currency to Euros for example) is explained in plain language. He even warns of functions that will cause Excel to crash! The best Excel book I own (and I have quite a few.

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth By David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, Erik E. Lehmann
2006 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 0195183517 | PDF | 3 MB
By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has emerged as a crucial source for comparative advantage, but also why entrepreneurship plays a vital role in generating economic growth. Entrepreneurship is an important mechanism permeating the knowledge filter to facilitate the spill over of knowledge and ultimately generate economic growth.

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Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking By Hakikur Rahman
2006 | 385 Pages | ISBN: 1591406994 | PDF | 6 MB
Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking provides valuable insights into the successes and challenges faced by development project implementers around the world. It includes methodologies, technological constraints, implementation challenges, and sustainability issues of different projects, focusing on the empowerment of marginal communities. Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking supports rural technology and information systems in order to strengthen grass-roots institutions by blending indigenous knowledge and modern technology. This book includes success stories, drawbacks, and facts and figures in the social transformation processes of globalization.

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Emerging Non-volatile Memory Technologies: Physics, Engineering, and Applications
by Wen Siang Lew
English | 2021 | ISBN: 981156910X | 438 Pages | PDF | 20 MB

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Sourcebook for Educators: Students, and Librarians By Edward Fox, Shahrooz Feizabadi, Joseph M. Moxley, Christian R. Weisser
2004 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 082470973X | PDF | 4 MB
Examining how electronic publication of theses and dissertations might enhance graduate education, this text clarifies the composition, evaluation, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)-providing a conceptual framework for the development of effective ETD programs and identifying the main technical concerns related to the adoption of ETD initiatives.

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Electric Guitar For Beginners: Easy Solos For Guitar by Adrian Gavinson
English | January 5, 2019 | ISBN: 1792868871 | 100 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.46 Mb
Learn how to solo on electric guitar today with this essential guide for beginners.

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Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work so Well, and Why They Can Fail so Badly
John Quiggin
English | 2019 | ASIN: B07QHYXNGK | Duration: 11:01:32 | MP3@64 kbps | 300 MB

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Earthquakes: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Hazards By Timothy M. Kusky
2008 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0816064628 | PDF | 12 MB
Kusky provides a generally accessible discussion of earthquakes for the lay reader. No maths is used to describe the actual physical modelling of the earth's crust and its various plates. Also, only a deliberately minimal set of geological terms are proferred. Instead, we get a broad description of the theory of plate tectonics. The effects of various strengths of quakes is explained, along with possible countermeasures in terms of building construction methods.A key idea is that the destructive effect of a quake often is in its lateral sideways motion, as contrasted to its strength in the vertical direction. There is a discussion of the recent 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and how it originated in an undersea quake. Hopefully the tsunami warning systems emplaced after 2004 will minimise future tolls.

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Mike Gray, "Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out"
English | ISBN: 0415926475 | 2000 | 268 pages | MOBI | 4 MB
Six years in the making, Drug Crazy offers a gripping account of the stunning violence, corruption, and chaos that have characterized America's drug war since its inception in 1914. Weaving a provocative analogy between the drug scene today and the failure of Prohibition in the 1920s, Drug Crazy argues that the greatest danger we face is prohibition itself.

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