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 Plant Growth Regulating Chemicals - Volume 1 By Nickell, Louis G 2017 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0849350026 | PDF | 150 MB [center]  Pharmaceutical Powder Compattion Technology By Goran Alderborn; Christer Nyström(Editor); Goran Alderborn 1996 | 610 Pages | ISBN: 0824793765 | PDF | 177 MB [center]  Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen By Jorge G. Castañeda; Padraic Arthur Smithies 2000 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1565846168 | PDF | 24 MB Jorge Castañeda, who served as Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 to 2003, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. InPerpetuating Power, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what theNew York Times Book Reviewcalled "an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession."To outside observers, Mexico stood out for its odd mixture of democratic pretension with autocratic inevitability: there were always elections, but everyone knew the next president would be the candidate of the aptly named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which governed Mexico throughout most of the last century.In six penetrating essays combined with interviews by Castañeda with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents,Perpetuating Powerprovides a remarkably candid account of the political machinery behind Mexican presidential politics and a view, startling to political outsiders, of how power really operates.  Performance Basics By Joe Willmore 2016 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1607281635 | EPUB | 3 MB Understanding performance improvement is imperative. Have you noticed the trend toward performance in your profession? It s happening around the world. With organizations placing greater emphasis on results and accountability, having knowledge of performance is critical. In the revised second edition of Performance Basics learning strategist Joe Willmore guides you through human performance improvement or HPI and delves into major changes in performance analysis. See the Performance DNA process you know from ATD s Human Performance Improvement program at work and discover why focusing on performance improvement is so important to organizational success. How do I conduct a front-end analysis? When should I focus on accomplishments? What is the importance of root cause analysis? And when do I administer formative, summative, and ROI analyses? If you re grappling with any of these questions, you ll find answers and step-by-step guidance inside. Get the results you need to generate organizational improvement and ensure you re ready for your foray into performance consulting. You ll find this book to be a useful tool. About the Series ATD s Training Basics series offers techniques, examples, and exercises that help you perfect your skills and apply them on the job. Every title is designed to be a quick, concise crash course on a crucial training topic and features instruction for practical day-to-day application"  Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory By Benko, P. 2013 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 0923891889 | PDF | 11 MB Grandmaster Pal Benko is the World's Greatest Authority on the Chess Endgame. Since January 1981, he has written a monthly column in Chess Life magazine entitled "Endgame Lab." This book is a collection of those columns published in the years 1981 through 1986. Grandmaster Benko needs no introduction in the world of chess. He was at one time ranked in the top eight players in the world. He has beaten Bobby Fischer three times. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, whenever Benko entered a Swiss system chess tournament, the only question was who was going to finish second, because Benko almost always won! He won the US Open Championship eight times. His articles are about playing endgames. Benko writes about practical endgames that regularly come up in tournament play: Basic endgames such as how to win with rook and four pawns against rook and three pawns or how to draw if you happen to be on the weaker side. In short, Benko teaches you how YOU can score more points in regular tournament play. Benko also shows how even world champions and some of the strongest players in the world have sometimes messed up basic endgames and lost games they should have drawn or lost or drawn games they should have won.
 Alva Noë, "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0809016486 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.89 MB Alva Noë is one of a new breed―part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist―who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.  Optimization Algorithms for Networks and Graphs, Second Edition, By James Evans 2017 | 470 Pages | ISBN: 0824786025 | PDF | 138 MB [center]  Optimal Syntheses for Control Systems on 2-D Manifolds By Ugo Boscain; Benedetto Piccoli 2003 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 3540203060 | PDF | 3 MB This book is devoted to optimal syntheses in control theory and focuses on minimum time on 2-D manifolds. The text outlines examples of applicability, introduces geometric methods in control theory, and analyzes single input systems on 2-D manifolds including classifications of optimal syntheses and feedbacks, their singularities, extremals projection and minimum time singularities. Various extensions and applications are also illustrated.  Optical Inspection of Microsystems By Wolfgang Osten(Editor) 2017 | 503 Pages | ISBN: 0849336821 | PDF | 43 MB [center]  Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies By David L. Robb 2004 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 1591021820 | PDF | 11 MB The only thing Hollywood likes more than a good movie is a good deal. For more than fifty years producers and directors of war and action movies have been getting a great deal from America's armed forces by receiving access to billions of dollars worth of military equipment and personnel for little or no cost. Although this arrangement considerably lowers a film's budget, the cost in terms of intellectual freedom can be quite steep. In exchange for access to sophisticated military hardware and expertise, filmmakers must agree to censorship from the Pentagon.As veteran Hollywood journalist David L. Robb shows in this revealing insider's look into Hollywood's "dirtiest little secret," the final product that moviegoers see at the theater is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about America's armed forces. Sometimes the censor demands removal of just a few words; other times whole scenes must be scrapped or completely revised. What happens if a director refuses the requested changes? Robb quotes a Pentagon spokesman: "Well I'm taking my toys and I'm going home. I'm taking my tanks and my troops and my location, and I'm going home." That can be quite a persuasive threat to a filmmaker trying to keep his movie within budget.Robb takes us behind the scenes during the making of many well-known movies. From The Right Stuff to Top Gun and even Lassie, the list of movies in which the Pentagon got its way is very long. Only when a director is determined to spend more money than necessary to make his own movie without interference, as in the case of Oliver Stone in the creation of Platoon or Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, is a film released that presents the director's unalloyed vision.For anyone who loves movies and cares about freedom of expression, Operation Hollywood is an engrossing, shocking, and very entertaining book. |
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