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 Stuart W. Sanders, "Murder on the Ohio Belle" English | ISBN: 0813178711 | 2020 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5 MB In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper shuddered, "The details are truly awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror."  Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, "Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and Content Processing" English | 2002 | pages: 291 | ISBN: 0130313998 | PDF | 1,8 mb From DVDs to the Internet, media coding and content processing are central to the effective delivery of high-quality multimedia. In this book, two of the field's leading experts introduce today's state-of-the-art - presenting realistic examples and projects designed to help implementers create multimedia systems with unprecedented performance.KEY TOPICS:The authors introduce the fundamental characteristics and properties of digital audio, images, video, graphics and animation, giving multimedia system designers and application developer the key information they need to build advanced multimedia systems and applications. They reflect the latest approaches to content analysis and compression, showing how to take advantage of the characteristics of images, video or speech to specify and compress multimedia content with maximum efficiency. They present comprehensive coverage of system and end-user issues that cannot be found elsewhere, and present hands-on projects designed to help professionals rapidly deepen their expertise.MARKET:For every professional involved in implementing or researching state-of-the-art multimedia systems and applications, including multimedia and communications engineers, software developers, streaming media specialists, and technical project managers.
 Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster By James Grant 2011 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 1416544933 | EPUB | 2 MB James Grant's enthralling biography of Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House during one of the most turbulent times in American history-the Gilded Age, the decades before the ascension of reformer President Theodore Roosevelt-brings to life one of the brightest, wittiest, and most consequential political stars in our history. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a volatile era of rampantly corrupt politics. It was a time of both stupendous growth and financial panic, of land bubbles and passionate and sometimes violent populist protests. Votes were openly bought and sold in a Congress paralyzed by the abuse of the House filibuster by members who refused to respond to roll call even when present, depriving the body of a quorum. Reed put an end to this stalemate, empowered the Republicans, and changed the House of Representatives for all time. The Speaker's beliefs in majority rule were put to the test in 1898, when the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor set up a popular clamor for war against Spain. Reed resigned from Congress in protest. A larger-than-life character, Reed checks every box of the ideal biographical subject. He is an important and significant figure. He changed forever the way the House of Representatives does its business. He was funny and irreverent. He is, in short, great company. "What I most admire about you, Theodore," Reed once remarked to his earnest young protégé, Teddy Roosevelt, "is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments." After he resigned his seat, Reed practiced law in New York. He was successful. He also found a soul mate in the legendary Mark Twain. They admired one another's mordant wit. Grant's lively and erudite narrative of this tumultuous era-the raucous late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-is a gripping portrait of a United States poised to burst its bounds and of the men who were defining it.  Dale Schunk, "Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications" English | 2013 | pages: 329 | ISBN: 1292041471 | PDF | 128,1 mb  Shirley Taylor, "Model Business Letters, Emails and Other Business Documents" English | 2012 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 027375193X | PDF | 26,0 mb For anyone who wants to communicate effectively in business,this is your complete reference guide for any form of written communication.  Military Social Work Around the Globe English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031144813 | 526 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB This is the first book to focus on the scope of social work practice within military settings from an international perspective, and therefore addresses what has been a significant gap in the literature. Given the critical support needs of military personnel and their families worldwide, and the expanding role of social work in responding to these needs, this book offers a comprehensive global understanding of the common military social work (MilSW) practices with active duty military service members and their families, as well as the forms of practice and approaches that are unique, or potentially transferable across nations.  Microsoft 365 Compliance: A Practical Guide to Managing Risk by Erica Toelle English | April 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1484257774 | 544 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb Use the information presented in this book to implement an end-to-end compliance program in your organization using Microsoft 365 tools. You will learn about the solutions available in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, including best practices and common pitfalls. IT professionals will benefit from the author's approach of introducing each topic within a practical business context and scenarios behind the "whys" of compliance. Compliance managers will understand how to implement their requirements in Microsoft 365.  Robert W. Bauman Ph.D., "Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy, Global Edition" English | 2016 | pages: 907 | ISBN: 1292160764 | PDF | 127,3 mb For courses in introductory microbiology.  SONIKA RAJAN, "Methodology Of Teaching Science" English | 2016 | pages: 185 | ISBN: 8131770222 | PDF | 9,9 mb Methodology of Teaching Science will provide readers with a solid foundation on which to build expertise in teaching of the subject. This text does a comprehensive examination by introducing students to science as a school subject. It covers aspects like instructional planning, unit planning, teaching aids, curriculum planning and science laboratories. It also outlines the role of a science teacher in developing a students' scientific aptitude and approach.  Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009223437 | 272 Pages | PDF | 2 MB This is an advanced introduction to and original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty's greatest work, Phenomenology of Perception. Timothy Mooney provides a clear and compelling exposition of the theory of our projective being in the world, and demonstrates as never before the centrality of the body schema in the theory. Thanks to the schema's motor intentionality our bodies inhabit and appropriate space: our postures and perceptual fields are organised schematically when we move to realise our projects. Thus our lived bodies are ineliminably expressive in being both animated and outcome oriented through-and-through. Mooney also analyses the place of the work in the modern philosophical world, showing what Merleau-Ponty takes up from the Kantian and Phenomenological traditions and what he contributes to each. Casting a fresh light on his magnum opus, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the philosophy and phenomenology of the body. |
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