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 Planning a trip to Panama: Planning The Ultimate Panama Vacation: Making Plans For The Perfect Panama Vacation. by Annie Banke English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BCKJRZ23 | 72 pages | EPUB | 6.51 Mb Panama is a small country rich in history, animals, culture, tropical beaches, and everything else you might want in a holiday. It is positioned at the junction of two continents and two seas. Don't overlook this Latin American gem if you're planning a tropical vacation. Panama is easy to reach for Americans, as it is only 2.5 hours from Miami and accepts US currency.  Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches by Edward Carey English | September 6th, 2022 | ISBN: 1477325867 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 106.50 MB In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey raced home to Austin, Texas. The next day, he published on social media a sketch of "A Very Determined Young Man." The day after, he posted another drawing. One year and one hundred and fifty Tombow B pencil stubs later, he was still drawing.
 Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh By John Elder 2006 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 0813925762 | PDF | 2 MB "Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh's Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both. John Elder's poetic meditations on land and life demonstrate that only by searching beyond our familiar boundaries can we discover better ways of living back at home."―Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "This collaboration―between George Perkins Marsh and John Elder, between Vermont and Italy, between maple and olive―is one of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I've ever read. It will be a classic."―Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature"Elder's impassioned pilgrimage shows us how to delight in messy wilderness, to secure a curative habitation of the world, and, with Marsh, to lend ecological nous to our gravest task: knowing ourselves and respecting one another. Let the maple seeds and olive stones of Elder's visionary harvest restore to us a reflective and redemptory future."―from the foreword by David LowenthalThe pivotal figure in Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America's first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Marsh drew parallels between the despoiled Italian environment and his home landscape of Vermont, warning that the latter was vulnerable to ecological woes of a similar magnitude if not carefully maintained and protected. In short, his was a prescient voice for stewardship. Elder follows in Marsh's footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and at length fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Punctuated throughout with learned and genial considerations of the poetry of Wordsworth, Basho, Dante, and Frost, Elder's narrative takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings, and returns finally―as did Marsh's―to Vermont, where he measures traditional stewardship values against more aggressive conservation-oriented measures such as the expansion of wilderness areas. John Elder, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, is the author of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
 Pilates for Beginners: Core Pilates Exercises and Easy Sequences to Practice at Home by Katherine Corp English | November 13, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07K2JJKRF | 178 pages | EPUB | 3.40 Mb Pilates for Beginners is the new kick-start guide for building an at-home Pilates practice with step-by-step guidance and easy sequences.  Piano for Beginners - Learn to Play Christmas Carols: The Ultimate Beginner Piano Songbook for Kids with Lessons on Reading Notes and 32 Beloved ... Songbook for Kids with Lessons on Reading by Piano Made Easy Press English | August 14, 2022 | ISBN: 9655752941 | 70 pages | PDF | 2.14 Mb 30 favorite Christmas carols to master on piano!
 Olivier Darrigol, "Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present" English | ISBN: 019871288X | 2014 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms. Deductions based on theological, metaphysical, or transcendental arguments are worth remembering for the ways they motivated and structured physical theory, even though we would now criticize their excessive confidence in the power of the mind. Other deductions more modestly relied on criteria for the comprehensibility of nature, including forms of measurability, causality, homogeneity, and correspondence. The central thesis of this book is that such criteria, when properly applied to idealized systems, effectively determine some of our most important theories as well as the mathematical character of the laws of physics. The relevant arguments are
 John Cottingham, "Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics" English | ISBN: 0521473101 | | 246 pages | EPUB | 458 KB Can philosophy enable us to lead better lives through a systematic understanding of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking study examines three major philosophical approaches to this problem. Starting with the attempts of Classical philosophers to cope with the recalcitrant forces of the passions, he moves on to examine the moral psychology of Descartes, and concludes by analyzing the insights of modern psychoanalytic theory into the human predicament. His study provides a fresh and challenging perspective on moral philosophy and psychology for students and specialists alike.  Philosophy and Practical Education By John Wilson 2022 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1032270810 | PDF | 23 MB First published in 1977, Philosophy and Practical Education attempts to relate philosophy with education. It deals with themes like school, discipline, authority, curriculum, subjects, autonomy etc. to 1) discuss topics which are necessarily of direct practical concern to teachers and educators; 2) to showcase that an increase in our conceptual clarity suggests, fairly unambiguously, certain kinds of practical action; and as 3) they have not been properly dealt with in existing philosophical literature. This book is an essential read for educators, teachers, and curriculum developers.  David Zgarrick, Shane Desselle, Greg Alston, "Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, Fifth Edition" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1260456382 | PDF | pages: 738 | 539.8 mb The leading text on pharmacy management - updated to reflect the latest trends and topics  Pharmacology of Drug Stereoisomers English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811923191 | 218 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16 MB The book is devoted to an important aspect of pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry, i.e. the significance of stereoisomerism of drugs for their biological effect from the point of view of their pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicology. The authors review the landmarks in the development of stereochemistry and stereopharmacology. Present-day IUPAC terminology is discussed; general issues of stereoisomerism are considered including separation of racemic mixtures and asymmetric synthesis of isomers, methods of quantifying the isomers of a drug in biological material. The authors put special emphasis on general problems of the influence of stereoisomerism on pharmacological and adverse effects of drugs. A classification of drugs based on stereochemical properties of their isomers is proposed. Possibilities of interaction of stereoisomers in racemic mixtures are discussed. A considerable portion of the book is devoted to pharmacological action of the main groups of drugs whose structure includes asymmetric atoms (that is, drugs with several isomers). Detailed attention is paid to advisability of developing single isomer drugs and to the specifics of their study at the stage of preclinical and clinical trials. |
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