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 Andrew Mumford, "The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare " English | ISBN: 1138840912 | 2014 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of British military experiences in the post-war era and endeavours to unpack their performance.  The Chessmaster Checklist by Andrew Soltis English | August 31st, 2021 | ISBN: 1849947147 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 6.16 MB An instructional book about the crucial questions that masters ask themselves before committing to a move - a checklist for all players to ask themselves before making their own moves.  The Body Fantastic by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, John Banville English | ISBN: 0262045885 | 288 pages | EPUB | August 10, 2021 | 1.85 Mb In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions.  The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Klaus Dodds English | September 7, 2012 | ISBN: 019969768X | True EPUB | 141 pages | 17.96 MB The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state. Scientifically, the continental ice sheet has provided us with vital evidence about the Earth's past climate.  Ian Menter, "Teacher Education in Russia: Past, Present, and Future " English | ISBN: 0367343649 | 2021 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book examines the history, recent developments, and direction of travel of Russian teacher education. It draws on scholarly expertise and professional experience in Russia and locates the policies and practices that are discussed within the context of the continuing global reform of teacher education.  James Gunn, "Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476670269 | 223 pages | EPUB | 9.7 MB Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-2020) has been called "the last Golden Age author" of science fiction. In a career of almost 70 years, he wrote or edited 45 books and more than 100 short stories and participated in the production of films, radio and television programs and comic books.  Spanish Conversations (Quick Study Academic) by BarCharts, Inc. English | November 6th, 2006 | ISBN: 1572228474 | 4 pages | True PDF | 0.42 MB Use to instantly create hundreds of sentences for communication in Spanish.  Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture by Molly Thomasy Blasing English | ISBN: 150175369X | 328 pages | EPUB | July 15, 2021 | 12 Mb Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image.  Andrew P. Morrison, "Shame: The Underside of Narcissism" English | 1997 | ISBN: 0881632805 | 226 pages | PDF | 4.4 MB Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies both the theoretical status and treatment implications of shame in relation to narcissistic personality disorder, neurosis and higher-level character pathology, and manic-depressive illness.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811242496 | 403 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 39.8 MB This introductory compendium teaches engineering students how the most common electronic sensors and actuators work. It distinguishes from other books by including the physical and chemical phenomena used as well as the features and specifications of many sensors and actuators.The useful reference text also contains an introductory chapter that deals with their specifications and classification, a chapter about sensor and actuator networks, and a special topic dealing with the fabrication of sensors and actuators using microelectromechanical systems techniques (sensors and actuators on a chip). A set of exercises and six laboratory projects are highlighted. [center] |
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