Rod Canion, "Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing" English | ISBN: 1937856992 | 2013 | 256 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 2 MB + 2 MB The story of Compaq is well-known: Three ex-Texas Instruments managers founded Compaq with modest venture funding. Just four years later, Compaq was on the Fortune 500 list, and, two years after that, they had exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue. No company had ever achieved these milestones so rapidly. Bernd Held, "Microsoft Excel 2013 Functions and Formulas: Third Edition Ed 3" English | ISBN: 1937585506 | 2014 | 450 pages | EPUB | 17 MB [center] Ahdaf Soueif, "Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground" English | 2005 | ISBN: 1400096634 | 352 pages | MOBI | 2.1 MB From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love-an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world. Memories of Silk and Straw: A Sel-Portrait of Small-Town Japan By Junichi Saga 2015 | ASIN : B010EIUG7E | English | 371 pages | EPUB | 6.4 MB Malcolm Lowry, "Lunar Caustic" English | 1963 | ISBN: 0224613405 | MOBI | 1 MB Bill Plantagenet is a British jazz pianist, alcoholic, ferving reader of Melville and passionate about big boats. When he arrives to New York, finds that everything in his life have been sinking and losses, like his own band and his companion, Ruth. His pilgrimage by the taverns of the city port culminates in a psychiatric hospital, in fact a hell, or a stranded boat, depending on how you look, a prison, where hell share his time and fortune with sailors, drunken, poor and solemnity characters like the old Kalowsky evicted, the young Garry or Battle, the black guy. While watching the boats passing by the East River Bill understands that Dr. Claggart, the psychiatrist who is in care of him, will never heal his sick soul. London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram And The Foundling Hospital By Gillian Pugh 2007 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0752442449 | EPUB | 1 MB After 17 years of campaigning, Thomas Coram managed to persuade sufficient 'persons of quality and distinction' to support his petition to the King to grant a Royal Charter for the building of the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury. This history of the first children's charity charts the rise of this incredible institution. Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life By David D. Cooper 2014 | 205 Pages | ISBN: 1611861128 | PDF | 1 MB Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D. Cooper tackles in his essays on the humanities, literacy, and public life. As insightful as they are provocative, these essays address important issues head-on and raise questions about the relevance and roles of humanities teaching and scholarship, the moral footings and public purposes of the humanities, engaged teaching practices, institutional and disciplinary reform, academic professionalism, and public scholarship in a democracy. Destined to stir discussion about the purposes of the humanities and the problems we face during an era of declining institutional support, public alienation and misunderstanding, student ambivalence, and diminishing resources, the questions Cooper raises in this book are uncomfortable and, in his view, necessary for reflection, renewal, and reform. With frank, deft assessments, Cooper reports on active learning initiatives that reenergized his own teaching life while reshaping the teaching mission of the humanities, including service learning, collaborative learning, the learning community movement, and student-centered and deliberative pedagogy. Margaret J. Wheatley, "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World Ed 3" English | ISBN: 1576753441 | 2006 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1162 KB [center]
Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel By Sandra M. Schneiders 2013 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 0814680844 | PDF | 3 MB [center] It Takes Two to Yoga: Asanas for Couples & Partners By Zubin Atré 2016 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 8129139677 | EPUB | 5 MB When two people meld, the impact and the experience of their practice deepens on account of touch.It Takes Two to Yoga moves beyond individual yogic practice, and embraces the essence of yoga-a term that, in fact, means a 'union' or a 'yoking together'. It considers asanas that two people can practise as one-whether they are colleagues, couples, parents or friends-to deepen the impact of postures.After hand-holding readers through a series of preparatory poses, this book goes on to guide partners and couples through the minutiae of more than forty two-person postures-among them, 'butterfly arch', where two bodies curve like the wings of a moth; 'London bridge', where two pairs of hands knot to form an overpass; and 'flying bow', where one of two partners seems to levitate! Besides photographs, each posture comes with detailed practice instructions; the vision guiding the pose; and how best to build awareness.What makes It Takes Two to Yoga particularly special is its emphasis on touch. By focusing on this form of non-verbal communication, the book uses yoga as a tool to establish a connection that goes beyond the purely physical; rather, couples and partners, by practising as one, come to embrace laughter, trust, compassion, forgiveness, and an acceptance of each other's limitations. |