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 Randall Hyde, "Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level, 2nd Edition" English | ASIN: B07WYV9P94, ISBN: 1718500386 | 2020 | AZW3 | 656 pages | 4 MB Explains how compilers translate high-level language source code (like code written in Python) into low-level machine code (code that the computer can understand) to help readers understand how to produce the best low-level, computer readable machine code.  World Class Universities: A Contested Concept by Sharon Rider English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 287 Pages | ISBN : 9811575975 | 6.6 MB This book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive use and abuse of the notion of "world-class" and related terms in the discourse of quality assessment. The book includes approaches and results from fields of inquiry not otherwise prominent in Higher Education studies, including philosophy and media studies, as well as sociology, anthropology, educational theory.
 Woodsmith Magazine, "Workbenches & Simple Shop Storage Solutions: Easy-to-Build Projects to Get the Most from Your Shop" English | 2020 | ASIN: B08JDTNHHL | 98 pages | PDF | 29.86 MB You can build a project in just about any space - indoors or out. What defines the space as a "workshop" is the furniture that occupies it. Sure the power tools can be a giveaway. But I'm talking about the worksurfaces, tool storage, and task-specific solutions that make the shop a pleasure to work in. The focus of this book is to highlight several projects in each category that you can build yourself to outfit (or upgrade) your woodworking shop.  With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made By Leo Treitler 2003 | 537 Pages | ISBN: 0198166443 | PDF | 12 MB Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues.  Aristotle Prep, "Wiley's GMAT Reading Comprehension Grail 2017" English | 2016 | ISBN: 8126562609 | 332 pages | AZW3 | 1 MB The Wiley-Aristotle GMAT Reading Comprehension Grail 2017 has been written in view of the fact that you need three things to do well on GMAT Reading Comprehension. First, you need to know the secrets to reading RCs efficiently. Second, learn how to identify and tackle different RC Question Types. And, finally, practice enough number of passages from myriad subjects to build the requisite mental stamina so that you are able to comprehend dense and boring passages that the GMAT tests you on. The book spans over 300 pages and is the most comprehensive book available today in the market to crack the GMAT Reading Comprehension. The book starts by unravelling the secrets to reading passages quickly yet effectively, then moves on to discuss various RC question types and then provides 60 GMAT like practice passages. By the time, you finish the book, rest assured you that you will not fear reading comprehension on the GMAT anymore because you would have learnt what are the best strategies, which of them work for you and which do not.  When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing by Shawn Whatley 2020 | ISBN: 0888903111 | English | 344 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB How Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic Security  Webster's new dictionary of synonyms: A dictionary of discriminated synonyms with antonyms and analogous and contrasted words by Merriam-Webster English | January 1, 1984 | ISBN: 0877792410 | 945 pages | PDF | 38 Mb For years, I used a tiny, vinyl covered synonym reference book. Now, finally, I have a thorough volume (945 pages). The synonyms are in alphabetical order, alleviating the inconvenience of flipping back and forth between an index and the corresponding synonyms. There is an informative and interesting Introduction; there are wonderful quotations which serve as examples of precise usage; and there are "antonyms, analoguous words, and contrasting words." Any casual or serious writer will find this book to be a treasure trove of just the right words to be used at just the right time.  We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America by Jennifer M. Silva 2019 | ISBN: 0190888040 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 7 MB The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own - the promise at the heart of the American Dream - is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working-class translate their grievances into politics.
 Wars of Scottish Independence: A History from Beginning to End (Scottish History) by Hourly History English | November 18, 2019 | ISBN: 1709266473 | 46 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.52 Mb Discover the remarkable history of the Wars of Scottish Independence...The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of conflicts between Scotland and England that spanned more than sixty years during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These wars led directly to the establishment of Scotland as an independent, sovereign country and to the emergence of two of Scotland's best-known national heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Yet these wars are much more than a simple struggle on the part of Scotland to free itself from English incursions. Some of the men who became kings of Scotland during this period were not just opposed to Scottish independence-they were directly sponsored by the English king.  Ronald M. Nowak, "Walker's Carnivores of the World" English | ISBN: 0801880335 | 2005 | 328 pages | PDF | 66 MB Although they are highly intelligent, ruthless predators, carnivores are increasingly rare. From the dwarf mongoose to the polar bear, carnivores are at once respected and misunderstood, invoking both fear and curiosity in the humans with whom they share their world. Ronald M. Nowak celebrates these fascinating mammals in Walker's Carnivores of the World. This comprehensive guide, featuring 225 illustrations, covers the world's eight terrestrial families of carnivores. Each generic account comprises scientific and common names, number and distribution of species, physical attributes, measurements, hunting and social activity, reproduction, habitat, population dynamics, longevity, and status of threatened species. A thought-provoking overview by David W. Macdonald and Roland W. Kays is packed with results of the latest field and laboratory research on topics ranging from evolutionary history to the adaptive value of fur patterns. Emphasizing the interplay of social life, morphology, and predatory behavior, it provides an up-to-date panorama of the world's carnivores. |
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