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 Barnes W. Mccormick, "Introduction to Flight Testing and Applied Aerodynamics" English | 2011 | pages: 148 | ISBN: 1600868274 | PDF | 8,5 mb An introduction into the art and science of measuring and predicting airplane performance, "Introduction to Flight Testing and Applied Aerodynamics" will benefit students, homebuilders, pilots, and engineers in learning how to collect and analyze data relevant to the takeoff, climb, cruise, handling qualities, descent, and landing of an aircraft. This textbook presents a basic and concise analysis of airplane performance, stability, and control. Basic algebra, trigonometry, and some calculus are used. Topics discussed include: Engine and propeller performance; Estimation of drag; Airplane dynamics; Wing spanwise lift distributions; Flight experimentation; Airspeed calibration; Takeoff performance; Climb performance; and, Dynamic and static stability. Special features: examples containing student-obtained data about specific airplanes and engines; simple experiments that determine an airplane's performance and handling qualities; and, end-of-chapter problems (with answers supplied in an appendix).  Fred Sherratt, "Introduction to Construction Management Ed 2" English | ISBN: 1032007443 | 2022 | 476 pages | PDF | 31 MB Introduction to Construction Management, Second Edition, is the beginner's guide to key concepts, terms, processes and practices associated with modern construction management. The new edition has been fully updated with new data, case studies and enhancements and remains the most practical and accessible book on the subject available. Significant new topics have been added including construction ethics, coverage of mental health and wellbeing in the industry, project delivery and Construction 4.0, to make this the most cutting-edge book available for students on construction and engineering management courses.  Mark R. Leary, "Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods - Books a la Carte Ed 7" English | ISBN: 0134414403 | 2016 | 368 pages | PDF | 6 MB For courses in Experimental Methods and in Research Methods in Political Science and Sociology  R. Stiles, and J. Bertin, United States Air Force Academy S. Brandt, "Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective, 2nd Edition" English | 2004 | pages: 530 | ISBN: 1563477017 | PDF | 29,0 mb A textbook offering a resource for students attempting to understand the methods & thought processes involved in designing aircraft. It includes a working knowledge of how an aircraft is shaped & optimized to perform specific missions by countless design decisions.  Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together By Anthony B. Pinn 2021 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1478013532 | PDF | 19 MB In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in terms of institutions, doctrines, and creeds, Pinn shows how religion exposes the openness and porousness of all things and how they are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay. Pinn examines work by Nella Larsen and Richard Wright that illustrates an openness between things, and he traces how pop art and readymades point to the multidirectional nature of influence. He also shows how Ron Athey's and Clifford Owens's performance art draws out inherent interconnectedness to various cultural codes in ways that reveal the symbiotic relationship between art and religion as a technology. Theorizing that antiblack racism and gender- and class-based hostility constitute efforts to close off the porous nature of certain bodies, Pinn shows how many artists have rebelled against these attempts to counter openness. His analyses offer a means by which to understand the porous, unbounded, and open nature of humans and things.  International Security and the Olympic Games, 1972-2020 English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031051327 | 212 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Olympic security concerns changed forever following the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) choice to ignore security after the attack in Munich left individual Olympic Games Organizing Committees to organize, fund, and provide security for the major international event. Future Olympic hosts planned security amidst increasing numbers of international terrorist attacks, and with the Cold War in full swing. For some Olympic hosts, Olympic security now represented their nation's largest ever military operations. By the time the IOC made security more of a priority in the early 1980s, the trends in Olympic security were set for the future.  Interactive Visualization and Descriptionting with Julia: Create impressive data visualizations through Julia packages such as Descriptions, Makie, Gadfly, and more English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801810516 | 392 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 23 MB  United States Army, Rick Atkinson, "Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0226841723 | EPUB | pages: 84 | 0.5 mb "You are about to play a personal part in pushing the Germans out of France. Whatever part you take-rifleman, hospital orderly, mechanic, pilot, clerk, gunner, truck driver-you will be an essential factor in a great effort."  Timor Sharan, "Inside Afghanistan " English | ISBN: 1138280151 | 2022 | 352 pages | PDF | 11 MB This book maps out how political networks and centres of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality, effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the U.S.-led military intervention and the internationally directed statebuilding project. It argues that politics and statehood in Afghanistan, in particular in the last two decades, including the ultimate collapse of the government in August 2021, are best understood in terms of the dynamics of internal political networks, through which warlords and patronage networks came to capture and control key sectors within the state and economy, including mining, banking, and illicit drugs as well as elections and political processes. Networked politics emerged as the dominant mode of governance that further transformed and consolidated Afghanistan into a networked state, with the state institutions and structures functioning as the principal "marketplace" for political networks' bargains and rent-seeking. The façade of state survival and fragmented political order was a performative act, and the book contends, sustained through massive international military spending and development aid, obscuring the reality of resource redistribution among key networked elites and their supporters. Overall, the book offers a way to explain what it was that the international community and the Afghan elites in power got so wrong that brought Afghanistan full circle and the Taliban back to power.  Innovation Soup: A Recipe for Organizational Success English | 2023 | ISBN: 1637423055 | 187 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 3 MB For too long, innovation culture has been amorphous. InnoQTM, built on years of rigorous research, breaks it into 11 dimensions that can be measured, tracked, and improved. We share real world data and examples showing the power of the 11 dimensions and provide concrete ways to improve on them. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way organizations do business for the next many years-creating a culture of innovation is now more important than ever. |
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