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 Sujal Desai, "Webb, Müller and Naidich's High-Resolution CT of the Lung" English | ISBN: 1975144430 | 2021 | 750 pages | PDF | 97 MB Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2021!  Robert Tracy McKenzie, "We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy" English | ISBN: 0830852964 | 2021 | 304 pages | EPUB | 8 MB The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority have waxed and waned ever since the time of the Founders, and there are no fail-safe solutions to secure the benefits of a democratic future. What we must do, argues the historian Robert Tracy McKenzie, is take an unflinching look at the very nature of democracy―its strengths and weaknesses, what it can promise, and where it overreaches. And this means we must take an unflinching look at ourselves. presents a close look at the ideas of human nature to be found in the history of American democratic thought, from the nation's Founders through the Jacksonian Era and Alexis de Tocqueville. McKenzie, following C. S. Lewis, claims there are only two reasons to believe in majority rule: because we have confidence in human nature―or because we don't. The Founders subscribed to the biblical principle that humans are fallen and their virtue is always doubtful, and they wrote the US Constitution to frame a republic intended to handle our weaknesses. But by the presidency of Andrew Jackson, contrary ideas about humanity's inherent were already taking deep root among Americans, bearing fruit in such perils as we now face for the future of democracy. Focusing on the careful reasoning of the Founders, the seismic shifts of the Jacksonian Era, and the often misunderstood but still piercing analysis of Tocqueville's , McKenzie guides us in a conversation with the past that can help us see the present―and ourselves―with new insight.  John C. Winn, "Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957-1965" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0307451577 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 2.3 mb An answered prayer for Beatles fans and collectors, the first volume of a unique work that exhaustively chronicles all known and available Beatles recordings!  Wavelets in Neuroscience by Alexander E. Hramov English | PDF | 2021 | 397 Pages | ISBN : 3030759911 | 13.2 MB This book illustrates how modern mathematical wavelet transform techniques offer fresh insights into the complex behavior of neural systems at different levels: from the microscopic dynamics of individual cells to the macroscopic behavior of large neural networks. It also demonstrates how and where wavelet-based mathematical tools can provide an advantage over classical approaches used in neuroscience. The authors well describe single neuron and populational neural recordings.  Waveform Design for 5G and beyond Systems by Kwonhue Choi English | PDF | 2022 | 104 Pages | ISBN : 3036531750 | 3.6 MB 5G traffic has very diverse requirements with respect to data rate, delay, and reliability. The concept of using multiple OFDM numerologies adopted in the 5G NR standard will likely meet these multiple requirements to some extent.  Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake: Teachings of Zen Master Seung San By Jon Kabat-Zinn, Hyon Gak 2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 8129112019 | EPUB | 1 MB A major figure in the transmission of Zen to the West, Zen Master Seung Sahn was known for his powerful teaching style, which was direct, surprising, and often humorous. He taught that Zen is not about achieving a goal, but about acting spontaneously from "don't-know mind." It is from this "before-thinking" nature, he taught, that true compassion and the desire to serve others naturally arises. This collection of teaching stories, talks, and spontaneous dialogues with students offers readers a fresh and immediate encounter with one of the great Zen masters of the twentieth century.  Vicious, Elegant Bastards: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Krays by Jacky Hyams 2022 | ISBN: 0750992484 | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 1 MB They ruled the streets of London in the 1960s. Yet half a century later, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, unrepentant purveyors of violence and murder, hold more fascination than ever before. Portrayed as charismatic gangsters on the big screen, the saga of the twins, their firm and their 30-odd years behind bars is one which they determinedly and deliberately embellished with every passing year. Yet it is only recently that the stark, unvarnished truth about the twins has started to emerge, so cunningly concealed it was behind the façade of charitable deeds and East End loyalties. Bestselling author Jacky Hyams has carefully re-examined some of the stories, the lies and the myths to reveal a very different portrait of the twins and those closest to them. It reveals the complexity of their relationships with women, the close bonds of family that drove them, and confounds the police's belief that Ronnie Kray senselessly murdered 'one of their own' when in fact the 'victim' survived into old age, dying after both twins had gone. Ronnie Kray once described them as 'vicious, elegant bastards'. It is one of the few true statements ever uttered by either of them.  Alex Magana, Joseph Muli, "Version Control with Git and GitHub" English | 2018 | pages: 344 | ISBN: 1789808979 | PDF | 20,2 mb Version Control with Git and GitHub  Ioanna Iordanou, "Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance" English | 2019 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 0198791313 | PDF | 3,0 mb Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state  Garry Wills, "Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire" English | 2002 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0671047647, 0684871904 | EPUB | 12,8 mb Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force - a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire. |
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