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 Tore C. Olsson, "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside " English | ISBN: 0691210454 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB | 5 MB In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as reformers in each nation came to exchange models, plans, and strategies with their equivalents across the border.  Aggelos Kapellos, "Lysias 21" English | 2014 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 3110354330 | PDF | 1,3 mb Lysias' 21st speech "On a charge of taking bribes" is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society. Delivered after the restoration of democracy in 402 B.C.E., this speech provides information that is critical for our understanding of the relationship between the Athenian demos and aristocrats, Athenian civic institutions (e.g., taxation, liturgies and conscription), religious beliefs, moral values, political behavior, and, in particular, of the legal and rhetorical treatment of embezzlement and bribery. It also supplies unique information about the military engagement of the Athenians at Aegospotami and the role of Alcibiades in the political life of Athens. Despite its importance, however, Lysias' speech has never been the subject of an extensive study in its own right. This volume seeks to fill that gap by presenting the first systematic commentary on this speech. The author puts much emphasis on its structure, strategy, and argumentation, focusing especially on the tension between the actual practices of the anonymous client of the logographer and civic ideals invoked in the present case. The book is intended to be of interest to classicists, ancient historians and political theorists, but also to the general reader.  Lou Kasischke, "After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest - One Survivor's Story" English | ISBN: 1940877032 | 2015 | 317 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB New deluxe paperback edition with Book Group Questions and a Q&A with the Author.Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. After the Wind tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before - including why the climbers were so desperately out of time as the rogue storm struck. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense moments near the top. These moments also revealed the love story that saved his life.
 Ryuu Shinohara, "Accelerated Manifesting: 7 Hidden Secrets to Supercharge Your Reality, Rapidly Shift Your Identity, and Speed Up the Man" English | ISBN: 1954596111 | 2021 | 159 pages | AZW3 | 535 KB Are your manifestations taking too long to show up? And are you tired of waiting?
 Jolie Anderson Gallagher, "A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains" English | ISBN: 1609491955 | 2011 | 144 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Jolie Anderson's collection of wild west tales focuses on the early frontier history of Colorado's plains and includes a look at some of the state's early pioneers like the "59ers" who promoted the state through travel guides and newspapers, exaggerating tales of gold discovery and even providing inaccurate maps to promote settlement in the plains; the perils of living and traveling the major gold routes the town of Julesburg relocated four times in a decade; feuds; Indian fights; outlaws, and even early rodeo history. These stories and events shaped the Colorado territory and are a rich glimpse into the early history of the state.  Boria Majumdar, Kausik Bandyopadhyay, "A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415348358 | PDF | pages: 211 | 14.1 mb A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist needs.  A New Guide For Bitcoin Trading by J. A. Ashkan English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6V8FSCJ | 62 pages | EPUB | 0.33 Mb Have you heard of blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies but are unsure of what they are or how they operate?  A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials By Phillip I. Good(auth.) 2002 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0471226157 | PDF | 3 MB Content: Chapter 1 Cut Costs and Increase Profits (pages 1-8): Chapter 2 Guidelines (pages 9-14): Chapter 3 Prescription for Sucess (pages 15-18): Chapter 4 Staffing for Success (pages 19-28): Chapter 5 Design Decisions (pages 29-46): Chapter 6 Trial Design (pages 47-54): Chapter 7 Exception Handling (pages 65-72): Chapter 8 Documentation (pages 73-94): Chapter 9 Recruiting and Retaining Physicians and Patients (pages 95-108): Chapter 10 Computer?Assisted Data Entry (pages 109-124): Chapter 11 Data Management (pages 125-140): Chapter 12 Are You Ready? (pages 141-144): Chapter 13 Monitoring the Trials (pages 145-154): Chapter 14 Managing the Trials (pages 155-164): Chapter 15 Data Analysis (pages 165-198): Chapter 16 Check (pages 199-208):  Brian P W Mercer, "A Lieutenant of Hussars" English | ISBN: 1490529187 | 2013 | 444 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB This book tells of the experiences of a young British cavalry officer, Michael Howard, the son of a woollen goods manufacturer, who goes to France with the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. After taking part in the battles of Mons, Le Cateau and on the River Aisne, he is badly wounded at the First Battle of Ypres. After recovering from his wounds, he spends most of 1915 training the new troopers of his shattered regiment. When his respected mentor and commander is posted away, he is replaced by an unpleasant martinet brought out of retirement; a man totally out of touch with modern warfare. The frustrated Michael then decides to join the Royal Flying Corps. He makes two life-long friends during his flying training. One is an American volunteer and the other is his flying instructor, who later becomes his squadron commander. After spending some months with the Sopwith Aircraft Company as a test pilot, Michael successfully commands a flight of Sopwith Pups on home defence duties before joining a scout squadron in France. He has a successful flying career, receiving several decorations and reaching the rank of Major when he takes over his own Squadron which is equipped with the French Spad X111, a fast, high flying machine which needs some special flying techniques to get the best out of it. After surviving the air fighting over the Battlefields of the Somme, Arras, Passchendale and Cambrai, the exhausted Michael goes to Paris on leave at Christmas 1917, where he joins up with his best friends Algy Fiske and Jimmy Burns and his sister Elisabeth, who is serving as an ambulance driver. Algy is being treated in the American Hospital for wounds suffered in an aerial combat. This Parisian interlude turns into a very romantic period for all of them and dramatically affects all their lives. Following the desperate air fighting during the huge German offensive in March 1918, Michael returns to Sopwiths and is involved in testing the new Snipe and Salamander aircraft. He takes a flight of Salamander ground-attack machines over to France during the final victorious advance of the Allies and is shot down by ground fire and slightly wounded. For Michael, the war is now over and following the death of his father, a victim of the dreadful influenza epidemic, he is obliged to take over the running of the family's Leeds factory. Michael is very happily married and renews his interest in aviation in the 1930s. The book contains more purely historical information than most historical novels, but I wanted to correct some of the myths that received popular support post war. The first point I want to make is that the nature of the war made huge casualties inevitable and the biggest killer was artillery, which was responsible for about 60% of the deaths and wounds. I would also like to point out that the British casualties were only about one third of those suffered by the French, Germans, Russians and Austrians. Even the Americans had 200,000 casualties in a matter of weeks. The old canard that hundreds of thousands of British soldiers were sent to their deaths by uncaring generals who lived a life of luxury in beautiful chateaus does not bear scrutiny. These generals were confronted by something way beyond their previous experiences, but they had become highly competent professionals by 1918. I personally have a very soft spot for the British regulars of 1914. They were poorly led at the very top level and they were the last of the Tommy Atkins of Rudyard Kipling. Fighting against enormous odds, their deadly rifle fire shook the German soldiers to the core. Alas, by the end of 1914, very few of them remained alive. The chances of survival by the RFC flyers was very small. During one period in 1917, the expected life span of a new pilot was no more than two weeks after his arrival on a squadron. Finally, read John Terraine, Robin Neilands and Lyn Macdonald if you want the truth and treat the politicians memoirs with scepticism.
 Klaus-Dieter Mathes, "A Fine Blend of Mahamudra and Madhyamaka: Maitripa's Collection of Texts on Non-Conceptual Realization (Amanasikara)" English | 2016 | pages: 596 | ISBN: 3700177860 | PDF | 16,8 mb The collection of twenty-six texts on non-conceptual realization is the result of blending the essence and tantric mahamudra teachings of Saraha, Nagarjuna and Savaripa with a particular form of Madhyamaka philosophy, called 'non-abiding' (apratisthana), which aims at radically transcending any conceptual assessment of true reality. This goal is achieved by withdrawing one's attention (amanasikara) from anything that involves the duality of a perceived and perceiver. The result is a luminous self-empowerment, Maitripa's (986-1063) final tantric analysis of amanasikara. The collection of texts on non-conceptual realization plays a crucial role, as it constitutes, together with Naropa's teachings, the main source of bKa' brgyud lineages. The edition and translation of this collection is followed by another text attributed to Maitripa, the *Mahamudrakanakamala, which was translated by Mar pa Lo tsa ba Chos kyi blo gros (11th century) into Tibetan. The *Mahamudrakanakamala picks up on the themes of the collection and shows that all aspects of Maitripa's mahamudra were indeed passed on to early bKa' brgyud masters. Besides an English translation and analysis, the present publication contains a new edition of the available Sanskrit on the basis of the editio princeps by Haraprasad Shastri, the edition of the Studying Group of Sacred Tantric Texts at Taisho University, the Nepalese manuscript NGMPP B 22/24, and the manuscript no. 151 from the Todai University Library. The Tibetan edition of all texts is based on the Derge and Peking bsTan 'gyur and the dPal spungs edition of Karmapa VII Chos grags rgya mtsho's (1454-1506) Collection of Indian Mahamudra Works (Phyag rgya chen po'i rgya gzhung). |
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