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 John Merriam, "Aurora: Shipping out in the late 1970s" English | 2019 | ASIN: B07SQ46P9C | EPUB | pages: 73 | 1.0 mb Around the time of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S.-flagged merchant ship S.S. Del Oro departs Tacoma, Wash. bound for ports in Central and South America. Some unmarked crates in one of the holds are to be delivered to the Del Oro's first stop after the U.S.: Nicaragua. The narrator, Oiler on the 8-12 watch in the engine room, had promised to smuggle a parrot from South America back to his girlfriend in Seattle, risking prison to impress a beautiful woman. Against a backdrop of the collapsing dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, read how a merchant seaman combs through ports on the west coast of Latin America in search of a parrot, usually in the company of his rum-soaked shipmates. This true story, set in 1979, shows the ambivalence of the Jimmy Carter administration towards Somoza and the Sandinista rebels, before Somoza's flight to luxurious exile in Florida and the Reagan administration's later backing of the Contras. The story also shows to what lengths a man will go to keep the promise made to a woman he is courting. As the S.S. Del Oro rolls on gentle swells, steaming down the west coast of the Americas at 18 knots, you will be introduced to life in the engine room on a steamship. Read what happens when the author finds a parrot for his girlfriend and tries to smuggle it into the U.S.
 Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent--and How to Reclaim Our Skies By William J. McGee 2012 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0062088378 | EPUB | 1 MB A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the "friendly skies" in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter, spent nearly seven years in airline flight operations management, and what he learned was less than uplifting. From TSA power grabs and an endemic lack of oversight to legislative battles and lobbying boondoggles to antiquated flight patterns and outsourced maintenance workers, the airlines and the Government are in cahoots, conspiring to turn a profit any way they can, no matter who has to pay the price. A provocative and hard-hitting call to action, Attention All Passengers will explode all our previous misconceptions about the airline industry.  Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Decision Theory by Lucien Le Cam English | PDF | 1986 | 767 Pages | ISBN : 0387963073 | 68.3 MB This book grew out of lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, over many years. The subject is a part of asymptotics in statistics, organized around a few central ideas. The presentation proceeds from the general to the particular since this seemed the best way to emphasize the basic concepts. The reader is expected to have been exposed to statistical thinking and methodology, as expounded for instance in the book by H. Cramer [1946] or the more recent text by P. Bickel and K. Doksum [1977]. Another pos sibility, closer to the present in spirit, is Ferguson [1967].
 Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design : 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20-22, 2022, Proceedings by Tiago Martins, Nereida Rodriguez-Fernandez English | 2022 | ISBN: 303103788X | 428 Pages | True ePUB | 100 MB  Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks: Third EAI International Conference, AICON 2021, Xining, China, October 23-24, 2021, Proceedings, Part I by Xianbin Wang English | EPUB | 2021 | 636 Pages | ISBN : 3030901955 | 108 MB This two-volume set LNICST 396 and 397 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Third EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks, AICON 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.
 Peter Holmes, "Aromatica: A Clinical Guide to Essential Oil Therapeutics. Principles and Profiles" English | ISBN: 1848193033 | 2016 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 6 MB The first of two volumes, this is a comprehensive clinical text on the principles behind the clinical use of essential oils. It builds an important foundation for essential oil therapy and includes profiles of the most important 30 essential oils used in practice.  Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS by David Moore English | EPUB | 2022 | 268 Pages | ISBN : 3030948455 | 69.6 MB This book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing CO2 from the atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3 through the ability of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea, corals, and coccolithophore algae.  Approximate Computing Techniques : From Component- to Application-Level by Alberto Bosio, Daniel Menard English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030947041 | 541 Pages | True PDF | 15 MB  Applied Statistical Thermodynamics by Klaus Lucas English | PDF | 1991 | 529 Pages | ISBN : 3662016508 | 41.6 MB The book guides the reader from the foundations of statisti- cal thermodynamics including the theory of intermolecular forces to modern computer-aided applications in chemical en- gineering and physical chemistry. The approach is new. The foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics are presen- ted in a simple way and their applications to the prediction of fluid phase behavior of real systems are demonstrated. A particular effort is made to introduce the reader to expli- cit formulations of intermolecular interaction models and to show how these models influence the properties of fluid sy- stems. The established methods of statistical mechanics - computer simulation, perturbation theory, and numerical in- tegration - are discussed in a style appropriate for newcom- ers and are extensively applied. Numerous worked examples illustrate how practical calculations should be carried out.  Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030844544 | 510 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB |
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