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 The Act of Thinking By Derek Melser 2004 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0262134462 | PDF | 1 MB For some reason, Amazon has not posted my review of this book (yet), though I submitted it almost four days ago. For those interested in my fairly lengthy review, it is at my blawg: veniaminov DOT blogspot DOT com, search for Melser.  Tantric Sex: An Ultimate Guide for a Sex Life Which Transcends Time Itself (Tantra) by Victoria Lynx English | October 6, 2018 | ISBN: 1726795721 | 60 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.69 Mb SEX, WHATEVER ELSE IT IS, IS AN ATHLETIC SKILL YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO LEARN!  Willard Sunderland, "Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe" English | ISBN: 0801442095 | 2004 | 264 pages | PDF | 9 MB Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself.Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion.  Stargazing in the Atomic Age: Essays (Georgia Review Books) by Anne Goldman English | January 15th, 2021 | ISBN: 0820358444 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 3.06 MB During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many had just fled Europe. Others were born in the United States to immigrants who had escaped Russia's pogroms. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them.  Barbara L. Jordan, "Songwriters Playground: Innovative Exercises in Creative Songwriting" English | ISBN: 1439207976 | 2008 | 110 pages | EPUB | 817 KB A collection of provocative illustrated exercises designed to tickle and challenge your Inner Songwriter. Based on the highly successful workshops created by the television and film songwriter, Barbara L. Jordan.  Shaping Your Future: Become the Brand Everyone Wants by Rita Rocker-Craft English | 2021 | ASIN: B08TSW1NCB | 156 Pages | EPUB | 4 MB  Will B. Mackintosh, "Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture " English | ISBN: 1479889377 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism  Seeing People Through : Unleash Your Leadership Potential with the Process Communication Model® by Nate Regier  Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Survivor Speaks Out About That Unthinkable Day, What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget by Michael Benfante, Dave Hollander English | August 11th, 2011 | ISBN: 1620872021, 1616082852 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.69 MB On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on eighty-first floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor. Benfante, the woman and Benfante's co-worker then embarked on a ninety-six-minute odyssey of escape-the two men carrying the woman down sixty-eight flights of stairs out of the North Tower and into an ambulance that rushed her to safety just minutes before the tower imploded.  Reliability of Maintained Systems Subjected to Wear Failure Mechanisms : Theory and Applications by Franck Bayle |
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