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 Design of a Landscape: Cheap and lovely countryside gardens: Cheap and lovely country garden by BAGGETT JOHN English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09V2XSPNG | 93 pages | EPUB | 5.73 Mb Have you thought about revamping your front yard but don't want to break the bank?
 Paulina Pospieszna, "Democracy Assistance Bypassing Governments in Recipient Countries: Supporting the "Next Generation" " English | ISBN: 1138895067 | 2018 | 342 pages | PDF | 6 MB This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid. A major theme of the book is democracy assistance efforts by the NGOs from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. It examines this theme in a comparative perspective and with a deeper analysis of reasons and ways to support young people, the need to support them and the effectiveness of these efforts.  Decolonizing Heritage by Ferdinand De Jong English | ISBN: 1316514536 | 292 pages | EPUB | 17 Mar. 2022 | 27 Mb Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Léopold Sédar Senghor's philosophy of Négritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.  Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) by Toyin Falola English | Feb 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1648250270 | 690 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. It critically examines the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy and policy. As global power is concentrated in the global north where Eurocentrism and white supremacy validate the monopoly of knowledge and its centrality and universality, African perspectives continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating the problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It is to this challenge that this book has responded-the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the academy and research methodologies.  Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag Henderson 2022 | ISBN: 1913207757 | English | 480 pages | EPUB | 14 MB Mary, Queen of Scots' marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell's first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen's court. Daughters of the North reframes this turbulent period in history by focusing on Jean, who became Countess of Sutherland: the most powerful woman in the north.
 Data Lakehouse in Action: Architecting a modern and scalable data analytics platform English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801815933 | 271 Pages | EPUB | 11 MB The first part of the book discusses the different data architectural patterns used in the past and the need for a new architectural paradigm, as well as the drivers that have caused this change. It covers the principles that govern the target architecture, the components that form the Data Lakehouse architecture, and the rationale and need for those components. The second part deep dives into the different layers of Data Lakehouse. It covers various scenarios and components for data ingestion, storage, data processing, data serving, analytics, governance, and data security. The book's third part focuses on the practical implementation of the Data Lakehouse architecture in a cloud computing platform. It focuses on various ways to combine the Data Lakehouse pattern to realize macro-patterns, such as Data Mesh and Data Hub-Spoke, based on the organization's needs and maturity level. The frameworks introduced will be practical and organizations can readily benefit from their application.  Stefanovic Zdravko, "Daniel: Wisdom to the Wise: Commentary on the Book of Daniel" English | 2007 | pages: 483 | ISBN: 0816322120 | PDF | 5,9 mb A chapter-by-chapter, verse-by-verse practical and thorough commentary on the book of Daniel based on the Adventist viewpoint. "A wonderfully rich resource for the study of the book of Daniel. The author is faithful to his Adventist heritage while entering into gracious dialogue with interpreters who do not share his views. We owe him a real debt of gratitude for opening up fresh perspectives while preserving the historic Adventist understanding of the book that gave birth to the Advent movement." - Alden Thompson, professor Biblical Studies, Walla Walla University. "Zdravko Stefanovic's commentary is in many ways the most ambitious treatment of Daniel by an Adventist author. It contains a wealth of information and is must reading for those seeking a fuller understanding of this important biblical book." - George R. Knight, professor emeritus, Andrews University.  John C. Abbott, Barrett Anthony Klein, "Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0292714491 | PDF | pages: 289 | 180.1 mb On any warm summer day, you can easily observe damselflies around a vegetated pond or the rocks along the banks of a stream. Like the more familiar dragonfly, damselflies are among the most remarkably distinctive insects in their appearance and biology, and they have become one of the most popular creatures sought by avocational naturalists. Damselflies of Texas is the first field guide dedicated specifically to the species found in Texas. It covers 77 of the 138 species of damselflies known in North America, making it a very useful guide for the entire United States. Each species account includes:* illustrations of as many forms (male, female, juvenile, mature, and color morphs) as possible* common and scientific names, with pronunciation* distribution map* key features* identifying characteristics* discussion of similar species* status in Texas* habitat, seasonality, and general commentsIn addition to photographing damselflies in the wild, the author and illustrator have developed a new process for illustrating each species by scanning preserved specimens and digitally painting them. The resulting illustrations show detail that is not visible in photographs. The book also contains chapters on damselfly anatomy, life history, conservation, names, and photography, as well as a list of species that may eventually be discovered in Texas, state and global conservation rankings, seasonality of all species in chronological order, and additional resources and publications on the identification of damselflies.  DOWNTOWN SEXY ENCOUNTER: Sexy & Hot Pictures Erotic Book for Adult by Michelle Joyce English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09GFVQT9W | 120 pages | EPUB | 10 Mb Beauty with natural tits and breasts are posing in seducing scenery.  Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity in the Margins of Europe By Costas Constandinides, Yiannis Papadakis 2014 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1623561310 | PDF | 2 MB Cyprus, the idyllic "island of Aphrodite," is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production. Constandinides and Papadakis work to rectify this dearth of information by discussing the ouevre of filmmakers engaging with the island's traumatic legacies: anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial instability, interethnic conflict, external interventions and war. Starting with the cinema of the 1960s, when the island became a republic, the collection focuses on the recent decades of filmmakers exploring issues of conflict, memory, identity, nationalism, migration and gender, as well as the work of filmmakers who chose to cooperate across the ethnic divide. Cypriot Cinemas utilizes a methodology that engages all necessary perspectives for an illuminating critical discussion: historical, theoretical and comparative (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot films in relation to regional film cultures/practices). While the volume develops a discussion based on the reading of the political in Cypriot films, it also looks at other film cultures and debates such as (s)exploitation films and transnational cinema. |
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