Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother's Recipe Box by Nancy Spiller English | 2015 | ISBN: 1619025434 | 160 Pages | EPUB | 10.4 MB After her mother's death in 2007, Nancy Spiller discovered her mother's teaching credential buried in a recipe box. Her mother had taught for only one year before marrying and having four children. Spiller realized that she had probably been her mother's best and only student in the kitchen. Complicated Watches and Their Repair by Donald de Carle English | July 31, 1995 | ISBN: 9780719800900 | 324 pages | PDF | 30 Mb Dealing with a complicated watch used to be a rare job for the watch repairer, but with the popularity of the automatic, it is almost commonplace. Furthermore, the increased interest in calendar work, alarm watches, and chronographs will undoubtedly bring more and more complicated work into the workshop. This book deals with complicated work essentially from the repairer's point of view. The action of each mechanism is briefly and clearly described, dismantling and assembly instructions are given, as well as oiling charts and hints on fault-finding and their rectification. Robert Jackson - Combat Aircraft Prototypes Since 1945 Airlife Publishing | 1985 | ISBN: 0906393469 | English | 172 pages | PDF | 106.3 MB For military aircraft for ten years after the Second World War were a time of experimentation. At the disposal of the Allied aircraft designers were documents relating to recent German research, which is ahead of its time.
Himanshu Prabha Ray, "Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia" English | ISBN: 113836567X | 2020 | 268 pages | EPUB | 4 MB This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. Mark Leibovich, "Citizens of the Green Room: Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0399171924, 0147516463 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.74 MB Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington's elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a "master of the political profile," Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about politicians and other notables. Currently chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, Leibovich punctures the inflated personas of the powerful, and in Citizens of the Green Room, he reveals the lives, stories, and peculiarities behind the public masks.
Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0824878205, 0824884264 | 246 pages | EPUB | 7.3 MB Confucius Institutes, the language and culture programs funded by the Chinese government, have been established in more than 1,500 schools worldwide since their debut in 2004. A centerpiece of China's soft power policy, they represent an effort to smooth China's path to superpower status by enhancing its global appeal. Yet Confucius Institutes have given rise to voluble and contentious public debate in host countries, where they have been both welcomed as a source of educational funding and feared as spy outposts, neocolonial incursions, and obstructions to academic freedom. China in the World turns an anthropological lens on this most visible, ubiquitous, and controversial globalization project in an effort to provide fresh insight into China's shifting place in the world. Grant McCracken, "Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0465022049, 0465018327 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.46 MB Trenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends can change their business practices for the better - and ahead of the curve. Chess Handbook: Rules, Tactics, and Strategies for the Improving Player by Todd Bardwick English | July 10, 2020 | ISBN: 0976196263 | 150 pages | EPUB | 21 Mb Chess Handbook is a comprehensive book for beginners learning the rules and basics of the royal game and the intermediate player looking to improve by gaining a better understanding of chess fundamentals. Learn basic tactics and strategies with hundreds of suggestions and tips for players wishing to increase their knowledge of the game and see rapid improvement. Chess Handbook has three sections: Rules, Tactics, and Strategy. Chess Handbook goes into details well beyond other beginner chess books and provides a solid foundation for the intermediate player. CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION: HOW TO MEDITATE FOR BETTER CONCENTRATION by MATTHEW JAYDEN English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6ZV64V1 | 275 pages | EPUB | 0.60 Mb This book is addressed to readers who are curious about this topic and interested in it, but who at the same time are unaware of it. That is why we have devoted a lot of space to the preliminary questions, such as the correct motivation and other similar ones, without which, in the opinion of the compilers, this work would not be published. The text is presented as a CHAIR YOGA FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS : Best Chair Yoga Poses for Joint Cartilage, Stiffness, Reducing Joint Pain, Flexibility, and Joint Rehabilitation. by PAUL KELVIN English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6T56H7R | 59 pages | EPUB | 0.85 Mb DESCRIPTION: |