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 The Big Book of American Facts: 1000 Interesting Facts And Trivia About USA by Bill O'Neill English | September 19, 2016 | ISBN: 1539068358 | 156 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.88 Mb Do you think you know everything about the United States? Think again! Did you know that tomatoes were once put on trial in New Jersey? Or that it's illegal to whistle underwater in West Virginia? With these 1,000 facts about the USA, you're guaranteed to discover something you didn't know.  The Best Gift: A Record of the Carnegie Libraries in Ontario by Margaret Beckman, Stephen Langmead and John Black English | ISBN: 0919670822 | 1984 | PDF | 193 pages | 18,4 mb The millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) believed that the "best gift" that could be given to a community was a free library. As a result of this belief, he helped build 2,509 libraries in countries around the world. Ontario was the fortunate province to receive 111 of the 125 libraries that Carnegie built in Canada.  The Best Democracy Money Can Buy By Greg Palast 2004 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 0452285674 | PDF | 2 MB Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership.This exciting new collection brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated "Washington Post" exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs and letters.  The Best Bits of Physics by Mr Alasdair C Shaw English | March 31, 2013 | ISBN: 1482797259 | 65 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.52 Mb Physics is fundamental to our understanding of the world around us. Everyone should have at least a basic knowledge.  The Battle of Yorktown, 1781: A Reassessment (Warfare in History) by John D. Grainger 2005 | ISBN: 1843831376 | English | 214 pages | True PDF | 0.9 MB Yorktown [1781], where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American Warof Independence. This accessible and authoritative account of the battle and the wider campaign goes back to original source material [diaries, letters, speeches, and newspapers], offering both a narrative of the events themselves, and an analysis of how the defeat came about and why it came to be seen as crucial. It shows that the battle was really a siege, that it involved relatively few numbers, and relatively little fighting, and was not immediately seen as decisive, with the war continuing for a further two years. It sets the battle and campaign in the wider context of a war which included action in the West Indies, Europe, Africa, Asia, and at sea; shows how movements of theFrench and British navies were a crucial factor; and, overall, reassesses the causes and significance of the battle.  The Avian Brood Parasites: Deception at the Nest By Paul A. Johnsgard 1997 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 0195110420 | PDF | 32 MB This book discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites--those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species--and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioral adaptation.  David R. Dow, "The Autobiography of an Execution" English | ISBN: 0446562068 | 2010 | 288 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 372 KB + 723 KB STATED FIRST EDITION. 2010 Twelve(Hatchette)hardcover, David R. Dow (Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book About Life). It this spellbinding true crime narrative, Dow takes us inside of prisons, inside the complicated minds of judges, inside execution-administration chambers, into the lives of death row inmates (some shown to be innocent, others not) and even into his own home.  David W. Hughes, "The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music " English | ISBN: 0754656993 | 2008 | 472 pages | PDF | 10 MB Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, often known and practised only by small groups of people in social structures which have survived since the pre-modern era. Such marginalization of Japanese music is one of the less recognized costs of Japan's modernization. On the other hand, music in its westernized and modernized forms has an extremely important place in Japanese culture and society, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, being so widely known and performed that it is arguably part of contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture. Japan has become a world leader in the mass production of Western musical instruments and in innovative methodologies of music education (Yamaha and Suzuki). More recently, the Japanese craze of karaoke as a musical entertainment and as musical hardware has made an impact on the leisure and popular culture of many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. This is the first book to cover in detail all genres including court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music and folk music, as well as contemporary music and the connections between music and society in various periods. The book is a collaborative effort, involving both Japanese and English speaking authors, and was conceived by the editors to form a balanced approach that comprehensively treats the full range of Japanese musical culture.  Neel Burton, "The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1913260143 | 168 pages | EPUB / AZW3 | 6.26 MB No one ever pays to learn the most important things...  The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation by Ira Millstein English | December 20, 2016 | ISBN: 9780231181341 | 240 pages | EPUB | 4.84 Mb Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity, not posterity, these actions can doom any company. |
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