|
|
|
 Create Your Own Hedge Fund: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks with ETFs and Options By Mark Wolfinger 2005 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0471655074 | PDF | 3 MB This book covers the basics of this strategy very well; however it contains way too much filler information, and not enough substance. The author treats the reader as a novice to the market; but in reality no stock market novice would even begin to understand this strategy - therefore the author misses his target audience! In my opinion, it is good entry entry-level reading for the market beginner who wants to understand the basics of a hedge fund; however it is not for the seasoned trader demanding greater insight in to a leading-edge strategy.
 Cosmology And Architecture In Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading Of Mystical Ideas By Samer Akkach 2005 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 0791464113 | PDF | 5 MB "In the preface to this book, Samer Akkach describes his childhood experience of watching snowflakes from his window in Damascus. Looking at them, he had the feeling that the flakes were not falling, but that he was floating upward to higher realms. Reading his book has had a similar affect on me, giving the impression that I have been carried up into unutterably strange, but compellingly beautiful, realms of thought and imagination.In the face of the worldwide homogenization of architectural education, it is salutary to be reminded that architecture wasn't always and everywhere designed solely to satisfy aesthetic, economic, functional and technological exigencies. In many times and places architecture expressed a human sense of the wonder and oneness of the world. Buildings fitted together with myths and cosmologies to convey that people and the cosmos belong together: humans belong in the world they inhabit; and the world belongs together with humans. In this context, buildings serve to mediate between the human as microcosm and the whole world as macrocosm, showing how they inter-reflect and harmonize...Samer Akkach is one of a small band of architectural scholars who see it as their task to record and interpret these other architectures so that they do not sink into irrecoverable oblivion. He rescues Islamic architecture from amnesia. In his splendid book he applies his intimate knowledge of Arabic and the premodern Sufi texts to convey a lucid and richly detailed account of the manner in which Islamic architecture, in all its forms, from buildings to cities, gardens, landscapes and meta-landscapes, reflected the cosmos, and thus gave back praise. The book is masterful, and a major contribution to architectural scholarship...Having relocated the discourse on architectural symbolism in the context of how Islamic (or, more particularly, Sufi) texts view the matter, Akkach then proceeds to give a panoramic view of Sufi thought as it relates to architecture. The view he opens up is so wide and so detailed that it is not possible in a brief review to give an account of the materials he covers, even in summary. It must suffice to say that the work comprises four chapters, each dealing with an aspect of 'order,' respectively the discursive, metaphysical, cosmic and architectural...Akkach looks at concepts that are familiar in the Western literature on Islamic architecture and brings out new aspects, sometimes at variance with the conventional scholarly wisdom on these matters. By reference, for example, to the 'Land of Reality,' the 'Cities of Light' and Ibn Sînâ's 'heavenly landscape,' he brings out previously unrecorded aspects of Islamic orientation, architecture and landscape...This is not a book for those who are used to skim reading... Nor is it for those who tremble in the presence of the unfamiliar. Akkach guides the reader into foreign territories of thought, where everything in the landscape is wholly unlike anything we are used to. In this sense, the shock of the old--premodern antiquity--becomes the shock of the totally new. If the past is a foreign country, then Akkach leads us into a country that is doubly foreign, because as well as being a country of the past, it is a past whose present, contemporary Islam, is equally unknown to many in the West... Akkach's book takes us into realms that, for many readers, will be radically unfamiliar. For those who can deal with the vertigo induced by an encounter with the wholly alien, the book will enhance understanding, to the degree that they will never again see Islam or Islamic architecture in the same way as they did previously. It is also possible that they will never again see Western architecture in quite the same way either."Professor Snodgrass is the author of Architecture, Time and Eternity: Studies in the Stellar and Temporal Symbolism of Traditional Buildings (International Academy of Indian Culture 1990); The Symbolism of the Stupa (Cornell Uni. Press 1985); The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism (Aditya Prakashan 1988, 2 vols) and co-author of Interpretations in Architecture: Design as a Way of Thinking (Routledge 2006).  Martin Skladany, "Copyright's Arc" English | ISBN: 1108484786 | 2020 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB In Copyright's Arc, Martin Skladany rejects a one-size-fits-all copyright regime. Within developed countries, copyright's incentives have spawned multinational corporations that create a plethora of slick, hyped entertainment options that encourage Americans to overconsume, whereas in developing countries, extreme copyright blocks the widespread distribution of entertainment, which impedes women's equality and human rights movements. Meanwhile, moderate copyright in middle-income countries helps foster artistic movements that forge inclusive national identities. Given these conditions, Skladany argues that copyright should vary between countries, following an arc across the development spectrum.  Cooking Texas Style: Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State by Candy Wagner, Sandra Marquez English | February 1, 2013 | ISBN: 029274773X | EPUB | 272 pages | 5.5 MB Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection of favorite family recipes the standard source for traditional Texas cooking.  Continuum Mechanics of Solids (Oxford Graduate Texts) by Lallit Anand, Sanjay Govindjee September 20, 2020 | ISBN: 0198864728 | English | 736 pages | PDF | 21 MB Continuum Mechanics of Solids is an introductory text for graduate students in the many branches of engineering, covering the basics of kinematics, equilibrium, and material response. As an introductory book, most of the emphasis is upon the kinematically linear theories of elasticity, plasticity, and viscoelasticity, with two additional chapters devoted to topics in finite elasticity. Further chapters cover topics in fracture and fatigue and coupled field problems, such as thermoelasticity, chemoelasticity, poroelasticity, and piezoelectricity. There is ample material for a two semester course, or by selecting only topics of interest for a one-semester offering. The text includes numerous examples to aid the student. A companion text, Example Problems for Continuum Mechanics of Solids, with over 180 fully worked problems is also available.  Consumer Protection in E-Retailing in ASEAN by Huong Ha English | 2021 | ASIN: B08SYYPPRT | 187 Pages | EPUB | 1.26 MB  Computer Engineering:2 books in 1: Linux for Beginners+Cyber Security, How to Win with Cyberattacks and How to Use Linux Like a Pro by John Snowden English | January 3, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08RT98K6K | 361 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.27 Mb Are you looking for a complete guide that enables you to use Linux and cyber security like a pro? Do you know what is hacking? Are you struggling to navigate among all the Linux distributions out there and finding hard to define the best one for your needs? Do you want to evaluate your learning level step by step?  Complete Reflexology for Life By Kevin Kunz, Barbara Kunz 2007 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 0756628520 | PDF | 61 MB This Reflexology book by Barbara Kunz is a great book. Some may wonder then why did I give it a four star? The Kunz's book is a great guide for those interested in Reflexology. It gives a simple history of the art of Zone Therapy, it has wonderfully colored diagrams and instructions on how to go about practicing it. Yes wonderful, but that is all it has. I was hoping for a book that went indepth about the Human body, it's systems and how and why reflexology helps with disorders in these areas.This book seemed to me dedicated for beginners but beginners with a background, a more advanced group of people. The absolute newbie would not understand why this therapy or how this therapy works with the body.For all of you who found this book a bit thin on info. I recommend The Complete Reflexology Tutor by Ann Gillanders. If you read this book before or even after the Kunz's the mysteries of Reflexology will dissipate. Ann Gillanders does a wonderful job delving into the body and how Reflexology works with it. There is no guess work and a chock full of wonderful simple info. as there should be in any self guide/help book. Complete Reflexology for Life is a great book, but works better as a companion book. It should not be your only Reflexology book. Try this with Ann Gilanders book. You will not be dissapointed and will only reap the benefits of knowing a little more.Complete Reflexology Tutor: Everything You Need to Achieve Professional Expertise, Enjoy.
 Complete 12 Month Workout Plan: Improve Fitness, Build Muscles, Increase Strenght by Andrea Raimondi English | January 6, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08SBCLCBH | 78 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 1.22 Mb You will find the detail of my training protocol lasting a total of 52 weeks, 12 months of training, at the end of which it is possible to continue, resuming a certain phase that better fit your needs. This macrocycle is divided into four main phases: a break-in or adaptation phase lasting 8 weeks suitable for those who have just started training or for those who resume activity after a period of rest. This is followed by an 8 weeks strength phase in which we try to increase overall strength. After the strength phase, very expensive for the body, follows a recovery phase lasting 4 weeks. The last mesocycle of the protocol consists of the hypertrophy phase lasting 12 weeks, in which the workouts will be aimed at gaining muscle mass. At the end of the period of hypertrophy it is good to insert a recovery period of another 4 weeks. At this point you have to decide based on your goals and restart with a cycle of strength or with another cycle of hypertrophy. In first case restart 8 weeks of strength phase, 4 weeks of recovery and another 8 weeks of strength phase. If your goal is hypertrophy you can continue with 12 weeks of hypertrophy protocol and 4 weeks of recovery protocol.  Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes By Sally Planalp 1999 | 27 Pages | ISBN: 0521553156 | PDF | 1 MB The central argument of this book is that emotion is meaningful and meaning is emotional. The modern world is forcing us to understand emotion in order to cope with new problems such as road rage and epidemic levels of depression, as well as age-old problems such as homicide, genocide and racial tension. This book draws on scholarly research to address, explain and legitimize the role that emotion plays in everyday interaction and in many of the pressing social, moral, and cultural issues that we face today. |
: 