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 Jeff Birkby, "Touring Hot Springs Washington and Oregon: A Guide to the States' Best Hot Springs 2nd Edition" English | ISBN: 0762792922 | 2014 | 224 pages | EPUB | 21 MB Whether you're searching for a family hot springs resort or an isolated natural soaking pool, Touring Washington and Oregon Hot Springs, 2nd Edition will guide you to a truly memorable geothermal experience.  Titanic - 'Iceberg Ahead': The Story of the Disaster By Some of Those Who Were There English | 2021 | ISBN: 152677206X | 206 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB To have sailed on 'the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic - described at the time as 'a floating palace' - was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde.  Time-Series In Machine Learning with Python by Ochoa L. English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4XXVGW2 | 345 pages | EPUB | 32 Mb Time series algorithms are used extensively for analyzing and forecasting time-based data. However, given the complexity of other factors besides time, machine learning has emerged as a powerful method for understanding hidden complexities in time series data and generating good forecasts.  Johannes Fabian, Matti Bunzl, "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0231125771, 0231169264, 1306775205 | ASIN: B00IHGTU78 | EPUB | pages: 205 | 1.0 mb Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).  Tiananmen Square: The Site of China's Most Infamous Protests by Charles River Editors English | March 19, 2015 | ISBN: 1508944342 | 55 pages | EPUB | 1.18 Mb *Includes pictures *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Students, we came too late. We are sorry. You talk about us, criticize us, it is all necessary. The reason that I came here is not to ask you to forgive us. All I want to say is that students are getting very weak, it is the 7th day since you went on hunger strike, you can't continue like this. [...] You are still young, there are still many days yet to come, you must live healthy, and see the day when China accomplishes the four modernizations. You are not like us, we are already old, it doesn't matter to us any more." - Zhao Ziyang at Tiananmen Square. May 19, 1989. Tiananmen Square, a large city square in the centre of Beijing, can be said to represent the essence of Chinese culture, being the site of several important events in the country's history. It is characterized as being a vast open ground centered on and defined by a series of monuments constructed over a period of 500 years. Named after the Tiananmen gate, one that means the 'Gate of Heavenly Peace', the square is located towards the north of the gate, separating it from the Forbidden City. Considered the fourth largest city square in the world, its dimensions are 440,000 square meters. Outside China, the square has come to be best known as the pivotal point of the protests of 1989 which were part of a pro-democracy movement which ended on June 4, 1989, with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government, and a casualty rate of thousands of civilians. The square's gate has a special status as the "Gate of the Nation", as can be seen from its successive names. It normally remained closed, except when the Emperor passed through. Commoner traffic was diverted to side gates at the western and eastern ends of today's square. Because of this diversion in traffic, a busy marketplace called "Chessgrid Streets" developed in the big, fenced square to the south of this gate. The events that took place at this Square include the annual mass military displays on each anniversary of the 1949 proclamation, and the 1984 military parade for the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China which coincided with the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping. It also staged military displays and parades on the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic in 1999 and on the 60th anniversary in 2009. In addition, many mark the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident in 2001 as the downfall of this grand monument. Nonetheless, a series of mass movements taking place here have become landmarks in modern Chinese history: the demonstration on 4 May 1919 in protest against the Treaty of Versailles handing over Chinese lands to Japan; the patriotic march on 18 March 1926; the demonstration on 9 December 1935, which started the resistance movement against the Japanese invasion; the anti-autocratic movement during the Civil War on 20 May 1947; the mass memorial to the former prime minister Zhou Enlai on 5 April 1976; and finally the 1989 student uprising. Parallel to these grass-roots movements runs another sequence of "demonstrations" mobilized by authorities to display power including the Victory March in 1900, with the Allied Army celebrating their occupation of Beijing. Tiananmen Square: The Site of China's Most Infamous Protests chronicles the history of the square, including the protests held there in 1989. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Tiananmen Square like never before, in no time at all.  Travis Curtright, "Thomas More: Why Patron of Statesmen?" English | ISBN: 1498522262 | 2015 | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB The year 2015 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Thomas More's becoming Patron Saint of Statesmen and Politicians. Yet during these years no serious answer has been given by a community of scholars as to why More would be the choice of over 40,000 leaders from ninety-five countries. What were More's guiding principles of leadership and in what ways might they remain applicable? This collection of essays addresses these questions by investigating More through his writings, his political actions, and in recent artistic depictions.  Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas S. Kidd English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 0300250061 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 9.5 MB A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life  This Book is Worth €25,000: Easy ways to save thousands of euro right now by Karl Deeter, Charlie Weston English | September 1st, 2017 | ISBN: 0717175634 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 3.10 MB So much of what we hear about personal finance is confusing and time-consuming but here Ireland's leading personal finance experts have made it as simple as possible to help you save up to €25,000.  Thinking through Landscape By Augustin Berque 2013 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 0415821150 | PDF | 3 MB Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies' attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the human imagination and features a wealth of examples from around the world to help understand the contemporary environmental crisis in the context of both the built and natural environment. Thinking Through Landscape locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature. Nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world. The book argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical engagement with nature. It draws on Heideggerian ontology and Veblen's sociology, providing a powerful distinction between two attitudes to landscape: the tacit knowledge of earlier peoples engaged in creating the landscape through their work - "landscaping thought"- and the explicit theoretical and aesthetic attitudes of modern city dwellers who love nature while belonging to a civilization that destroys the landscape - "landscape thinking". This book gives a critical survey of landscape thought and theory for students, researchers and anyone interested in human societies' relation to nature in the fields of landscape studies, environmental philosophy, cultural geography and environmental history.  There Is Life After the Nobel Prize by Eric R. Kandel English | December 7, 2021 | ISBN: 0231200145 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 10.5 MB One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard this. Sociologists had found that Nobel Prize winners often did not contribute much more to science, she explained. |
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