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 Python In Practice : 15 Projects to Master Python | 12.56 GB Learn the programming fundamentals with Python 3 ! Python for beginners complete python masterclass! Rise from a beginner to an advanced-level programmer! This specialized course is truly meant to make you an advanced-level programmer!  Toontrack - DANCE EZX (SOUNDBANK) | 276 MB This makes the Dance EZX transcend way beyond being solely a percussive foundation – it makes it an all-encompassing beat machine on just as much a melodic level. To add, a dedicated library of grooves specifically designed to cater to each kit is included, making getting started on just the right idea easier than ever.  Deborah Cameron, Ivan Panovic, "Working with Written Discourse" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1446267229 | PDF | pages: 219 | 3.8 mb An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style,Working with Written Discourseillustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety of approaches that are critical, multidisciplinary, and productive.  Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite By Suki Kim 2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0307720659 | EPUB | 1 MB A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues-evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves-their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own-at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."  Winning Solutions by Edward Lozansky English | PDF | 1996 | 253 Pages | ISBN : 0387947434 | 29.9 MB Problem-solving competitions for mathematically talented sec ondary school students have burgeoned in recent years. The number of countries taking part in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has increased dramatically. In the United States, potential IMO team members are identified through the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), and most other participating countries use a similar selection procedure.  William Wallace: The Life and Legacy of the Scottish Freedom Fighter by Charles River Editors English | February 25, 2014 | ISBN: 1496058801 | 50 pages | EPUB | 1.28 Mb *Includes pictures.  Bertrand Russell, "Why Men Fight " English | ISBN: 0415487382 | 2009 | 192 pages | MOBI | 494 KB Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. He argues that the individualistic approach of traditional liberalism has reached its limits and that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves. This formidable work greatly contributed to Russell's fame as a formidable social critic and anti-war activist.  Bridgett King, Kathleen Hale, "Why Don't Americans Vote? Causes and Consequences" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1440841152 | EPUB | pages: 257 | 7.3 mb Elections not only determine who will fill an office; they have a lot to say about how the democratic process works-or doesn't work-in 21st-century America. This fascinating book sheds light on that question by focusing on factors that currently shape elections and political participation in the United States. It covers issues that are consistently in the media, such as gerrymandering; voter ID; and rules pertaining to when, where, and how Americans register and vote. But it also goes beyond the obvious to consider issues that are often overlooked-civic education and engagement, citizen apathy, and political alienation, for example.
 Jan E. Leighley, "Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States" English | ISBN: 0691159351 | 2013 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 3 MB Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan Nagler demonstrate that the rich have consistently voted more than the poor for the past four decades, and that voters are substantially more conservative in their economic views than nonvoters. They find that women are now more likely to vote than men, that the gap in voting rates between blacks and whites has largely disappeared, and that older Americans continue to vote more than younger Americans. Leighley and Nagler also show how electoral reforms such as Election Day voter registration and absentee voting have boosted voter turnout, and how turnout would also rise if parties offered more distinct choices.  When Radio Was the Cat's Whiskers By Bernard Harte 2002 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1877058084 | PDF | 19 MB The power of radio was crucial to opening up Australia to the rest of the world. Its potential for communication was recognised very early in this country, both as medium and message, and could not have been more loved and admired than by Bernard Harte, a small boy growing up in Brisbane in the 1920s, who devoted his life to this exciting form of communication. When Radio was the Cat's Whiskers is more than just a history of radio in Australia, it is about an Australian radio pioneer-technician, broadcaster and master of making-do. Harte has documented the history of radio as he lived it, research and anecdote combined with illustrations from days gone by. Interspersed among a wealth of personal recollections, often highly amusing, he tells of the first long-distance wireless communication in Morse code in 1901, of Melbourne station 3LO's opening broadcast in 1924 featuring one of Dame Nellie Melba's 'farewell performances', of the pedal wireless that transformed life in the outback, and how early broadcasters simulated the sound of bat on ball in the studio as they provided 'live' broadcasts of Test matches. |
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