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 Paul Kelly, "The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia" English | ISBN: 0522856195 | 2010 | 720 pages | EPUB | 1058 KB Based on more than 100 interviews with key players, politicians, advisers, and public servants, this is the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australian politics. Capturing the authentic nature of Australian politics, this account chronicles how, despite differences in belief, temperament, and party, Keating and Howard united for the common goal of making Australia into a successful nation of the globalized age. Arguing that Keating and Howard have the most success when they collaborate, this detailed and informative record follows the politicians' combined efforts to alter the nation's direction, redefine their parties, and manage the new economic, social, cultural, and foreign policy agendas.  Mark Bowden, "The Malvern Hills: An Ancient Landscape" English | 2005 | ISBN: 1873592825 | PDF | pages: 82 | 8.1 mb Examines the landscape of the Malvern Hills, a ridge of ancient volcanic rocks along the western edge of the Severn Valley. The survey ranges from the early prehistoric period to the present day, including the two large Iron Age hillforts on the ridge.  Gabriele Esposito, "The Macedonian Army of Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 BC" English | ISBN: 1526787350 | 2022 | EPUB | 152 pages | 158 MB This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed to world-changing effect by his son, Alexander III (the Great). This work explains how Philip took the traditional forces of Macedon and reformed them into the most modern and sophisticated combined-arms force in the Mediterranean world. Not only the formidable pike phalanx and the hard-charging Companion cavalry, but also the less famous components, such as light and cavalry types, are described in detail. The tactics employed in the great battles that won the largest empire the world had seen are analyzed. With numerous color photos showing replica weapons and equipment in use, this is a vivid, detailed and accessible study of the army that made Alexander great.  The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book by Cristopher DeRose, Ryan DeRose English | September 9, 2019 | ISBN: 162933491X, 1629334901 | True EPUB | 354 pages | 0.7 MB For eleven seasons, M*A*S*H put audiences through everything from laughter to tears and all points in between. The groundbreaking series blazed a trail and provided a distinctive mark on television history through the eyes of the staff of a small Mobile Army Surgical Hospital located close to the front of the Korean War.  The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience By Mark Bixler 2005 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 082032499X | EPUB | 3 MB In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa's longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as "Lost Boys," who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan since 1983. The Lost Boys of Sudan focuses on four of these refugees. Theirs, however, is a typical story, one that repeated itself wherever the Lost Boys could be found across America.Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii were among 150 or so Lost Boys who were resettled in Atlanta. Like most of their fellow refugees, they had never before turned on a light switch, used a kitchen appliance, or ridden in a car or subway train―much less held a job or balanced a checkbook. We relive their early excitement and disorientation, their growing despondency over fruitless job searches, adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce, their experiences of post-9/11 xenophobia, and their undying dreams of acquiring an education.As we immerse ourselves in the Lost Boys' daily lives, we also get to know the social services professionals and volunteers, celebrities, community leaders, and others who guided them―with occasional detours―toward self-sufficiency. Along the way author Mark Bixler looks closely at the ins and outs of U.S. refugee policy, the politics of international aid, the history of Sudan, and the radical Islamist underpinnings of its government. America is home to more foreign-born residents than ever before; the Lost Boys have repaid that gift in full through their example of unflagging resolve, hope, and faith.  The Logical Approach to Automatic Sequences: Exploring Combinatorics on Words with Walnut English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108745245 | 375 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Automatic sequences are sequences over a finite alphabet generated by a finite-state machine. This book presents a novel viewpoint on automatic sequences, and more generally on combinatorics on words, by introducing a decision method through which many new results in combinatorics and number theory can be automatically proved or disproved with little or no human intervention. This approach to proving theorems is extremely powerful, allowing long and error-prone case-based arguments to be replaced by simple computations. Readers will learn how to phrase their desired results in first-order logic, using free software to automate the computation process. Results that normally require multipage proofs can emerge in milliseconds, allowing users to engage with mathematical questions that would otherwise be difficult to solve. With more than 150 exercises included, this text is an ideal resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates studying combinatorics, sequences, and number theory.
 The Little Stick Figures Technique for Emotional Self-Healing: Created by Jacques Martel, 2nd Edition by Lucie Bernier, Robert Lenghan English | September 6th, 2022 | ISBN: 1644115212 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 8.65 MB * Explains the 7 simple steps of the Little Stick Figures Technique and how to achieve maximum results and lasting changes  Sowmya Rajendran, "The Lesson" English | 2016 | ISBN: 9351770362 | 200 pages | EPUB | 0.3 MB Big Brother is watching you still.  Payal Arora, "The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415887119, 1138688045 | PDF | pages: 210 | 2.0 mb There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.
 The Lebanese-Phoenician Nationalist Movement: Literature, Language and Identity By Basilius Bawardi 2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1784532371 | PDF | 7 MB The question of belonging has formed the basis of the political, religious and cultural tensions in Lebanon, to the point that sectarian conflict on the country's future contributed significantly to the outbreak of civil war in 1975. This book focuses on the development of the Phoenician-Lebanese movement that struggled against the hegemonic status of Arabic language and culture. The Phoenician-Lebanese were a predominantly Maronite Christian group who attempted to remove themselves from the Muslim and Arab world throughout the twentieth century. Their demands for self-definition as a nation and their desire to establish their own culture were rooted in the concept of their ancient Phoenician past. Basilius Bawardi examines four prominent authors who formed the basis on which all engaged so-called Phoenician literature was built: Sharl Qurm, Sa'id 'Aql, Mayy Murr and Muris 'Awwad. The literary corpus of these writers was a critical component of the political activity that strove to distinguish the native Lebanese inhabitants from their Arab-Muslim neighbours.Studying these authors' works in both a literary and historical way, Bawardi shows how language was used to promote a specific political agenda and identifies the strong connections between language, literature and nation building.As well as revealing the nationalist struggle as it emerges in prose and poetry, the book discusses the history and formation of modern day Lebanon and why language and literature are so crucial for members of a national minority. |
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