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 Sirtfood Diet #2021: Super, Easy & Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight Fast, Prevent Diseases & Turn on Your Skinny Gene By Scarlett Roberge English | ASIN : B08DFCH4ZY | 2020 | 102 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB  Shakespeare's Macbeth: the manga edition By William Shakespeare, Adam Sexton, Eve Grandt, Candice Chow 2008 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 0470097590 | PDF | 27 MB Bringing together the dramatic works of the Bard with the graphic manga style of storytelling, these faithful retellings of Shakespeares most popular plays capture the characters, action, and settings of the dramatic works through the visual images of talented manga artists who work in the popular graphic novel format, accompanied by introductions that set the stage for each play.  Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Manga Edition By William Shakespeare, Adam Sexton, Tintin Pantoja 2008 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 0470097574 | PDF | 21 MB I'm a graduate student in a Shakespeare class, writing a conference paper on this adaptation of Hamlet. It's safe (at the moment) to say that I've spent more hours studying this book than anyone outside of its creators.There are ways in which this is not manga, of course. And there are ways in which it is not Hamlet. But it is a heavily manga-influenced adaptation of Hamlet, and if you engage it on its own terms, it is simply brilliant.Sexton's adaptation trims a LOT of Shakespeare's language: some minor characters, and even whole scenes are gone. This is simply inevitable, and likely to anger Shakespeare purists. But critically, there is no language in the book that is NOT Shakespeare's, and the major characters, themes, major Description points and speeches are preserved. Neither are the characters reduced to cartoon versions of themselves: thanks in no small part to Tintin Pantoja's excellent artistry in rendering them, the characters retain much of the depth Shakespeare gave them.Meanwhile, the visual art is brilliant. Pantoja's work is first rate, and her choices reflect a strong connection to the play and a unique artistic sensibility that is worthy of praise. It helps readers who might be intimidated by the river of antique language that is Shakespeare's text to engage and interpret the material vividly and at their own pace. With raw text, interpretation can be difficult. Watching a performance or film version, it's easy to get lost. Here, the words and the pictures wait for the reader.I recommend this adaptation to teachers, students, and lovers of Shakespeare of all ages.  Andrew Sheng, Ng Chow Soon, "Shadow Banking in China: An Opportunity for Financial Reform" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1119266327 | 280 pages | EPUB | 2.6 MB An authoritative guide to the rise of Chinese shadow banking and its systemic implications
 Jamie Saettele, "Sentiment in the Forex Market: Indicators and Strategies To Profit from Crowd Behavior and Market Extremes" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0470208236 | 208 pages | EPUB | 8.5 MB Crowds move markets and at major market turning points, the crowds are almost always wrong. When crowd sentiment is overwhelmingly positive or overwhelmingly negative ? it's a signal that the trend is exhausted and the market is ready to move powerfully in the opposite direction. Sentiment has long been a tool used by equity, futures, and options traders.  Secured Hardware Accelerators for DSP and Image Processing Applications (Materials, Circuits and Devices) by Anirban Sengupta  Larry Grubbs, "Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s " English | ISBN: 155849734X | 2010 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a "Decade of Development," the United States embarked on its first coherent "Africa" policy. Guided by the precepts of modernization theory, American policymakers, diplomats, academics, and Peace Corps volunteers were dispatched to promote economic growth and nation-building among the newly independent countries of sub-Saharan Africa. At the outset, Larry Grubbs shows, many of these" secular missionaries" were no less sanguine about their prospects for success than were their Christian predecessors a century earlier. But before long their optimism gave way to disillusionment, as rosy forecasts of sustained development collided with African political realities and colonial economies based on single-commodity exports subject to global price fluctuations. In this book, Grubbs presents a cultural history of this ill-fated American campaign to modernize Africa during its first decade of independence. Drawing on government documents and contemporary press accounts as well as an extensive body of scholarship on U.S.-Africa relations, he exposes the contradictions at the core of a self-serving idealism that promised to "win" the continent of Africa for the West in the context of the Cold War. While many Americans working in Africa considered themselves opponents of ethnocentrism, the modernization goals they served carried an ingrained, if unacknowledged, cultural and ideological sense of superiority and faith in American exceptionalism. Similarly, persistent myths about African backwardness and primitiveness continued to afflict U.S. policy, despite official pronouncements of confidence in the transformative power of Western expertise and can-do pragmatism in bringing African societies into the modern world. If the assumptions underlying U.S. policy toward Africa during the 1960s were simply relics of outmoded Cold War orthodoxies, that would be one thing. Unfortunately, Grubbs concludes, many of the same ideas imbue contemporary discussions of the ongoing "crisis" in Africa, from the campaigns to "Save Darfur" and stop the spread of AIDS to efforts to eliminate "blood diamonds" and forgive African debts.  Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving By Robert Arp 2008 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0262012448 | PDF | 2 MB In order to solve problems, humans are able to synthesize apparently unrelated concepts, take advantage of serendipitous opportunities, hypothesize, invent, and engage in other similarly abstract and creative activities, primarily through the use of their visual systems. In Scenario Visualization, Robert Arp offers an evolutionary account of the unique human ability to solve nonroutine vision-related problems. He argues that by the close of the Pleistocene epoch, humans evolved a conscious creative problem-solving capacity, which he terms scenario visualization, that enabled them to outlive other hominid species and populate the planet. Arp shows that the evidence for scenario visualization-by which images are selected, integrated, and then transformed and projected into visual scenarios-can be found in the kinds of complex tools our hominid ancestors invented in order to survive in the ever-changing environments of the Pleistocene world. Arp also argues that this conscious capacity shares an analogous affinity with neurobiological processes of selectivity and integration in the visual system, and that similar processes can be found in the activities of organisms in general. The evolution of these processes, he writes, helps account for the modern-day conscious ability of humans to use visual information to solve nonroutine problems creatively in their environments. Arp's account of scenario visualization and its emergence in evolutionary history suggests an answer to two basic questions asked by philosophers and biologists concerning human nature: why we are unique; and how we got that way.  Jonathan P. Roth, "Roman Warfare " English | ISBN: 0521830281 | 2009 | 328 pages | PDF | 7 MB Roman Warfare surveys the history of Rome's fighting forces from their inception in the 7th century BCE to the fall of the Western Empire in the 5th century CE. In non-technical, lively language, Jonathan Roth examines the evolution of Roman war over its thousand-year history. He highlights the changing arms and equipment of the soldiers, unit organization and command structure, and the wars and battles of each era. The military narrative is used as a context for Rome's changing tactics and strategy and to discuss combat techniques, logistics, and other elements of Roman war. Political, social, and economic factors are also considered. Full of detail, up-to-date on current scholarly debates, and richly illustrated with 39 halftones and 27 color plates, Roman Warfare is intended for students of the ancient world and military history.
 Diana K. Davis, "Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa " English | ISBN: 0821417525 | 2007 | 312 pages | PDF | 37 MB Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History |
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