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 Smart Energy for Transportation and Health in a Smart City English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119790336 | 559 Pages | PDF | 23 MB Smart Energy for Transportation and Health in a Smart City offers an essential guide to the functions, characteristics, and domains of smart cities and the energy technology necessary to sustain them. The authors-noted experts on the topic-include theoretical underpinnings, practical information, and potential benefits for the development of smart cities.  Victoria Fu, "Skincare Decoded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin" English | ISBN: 1681885646 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 21 MB Do you really need a ten-step skincare regimen? Is that $100 eye cream worth it? What's up with the CBD trend? Let's face it... we're all a little lost in the skincare world. In this book, formulation chemists Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu breakdown the overly complex skincare industry and answer your burning questions.  Edith L. Tiempo, "Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image" English | 2008 | ISBN: 9715425283 | PDF | pages: 122 | 14.2 mb Philippine Folk Literature: The Riddles constitutes Volume V of the author's eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature series. This work is intended to be a national collection of Philippine riddles-a putting together of available collections of riddles from all over the country, from Batanes to Jolo. The riddles are listed, according to solution, under nineteen subject categories and one "Miscellaneous" category. Within each group, the riddles are arranged alphabetically, according to answer, or solution, in English translation. For each entry, the riddle in English translation is given first. Then under it are listed the different Philippine versions of the riddle, in georgraphical order: Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao. Every Philippine version carries with it a language label and source (collector/collection). To give the reader an idea of the richness and variety of the images of comparison used in the metaphorical riddles, the most dominant and striking of these ar listed in an index.
 Kevin Leman, "Single Parenting That Works: Six Keys to Raising Happy, Healthy Children in a Single-Parent Home" English | ISBN: 1414303343 | 2006 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Being a parent is challenging enough. Being a single parent can seem downright impossible. But now, drawing on material from his successful Single Parenting That Works curriculum guide and video series, Dr. Kevin Leman, America's favorite parenting expert, brings help and hope to the legions of single parents who desire to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children in a loving, caring, and biblically grounded way. Using his trademark quirky, no-nonsense approach, Dr. Leman shows parents how to build healthy, mature relationships with their former spouses, how to develop their children's self-esteem, and how to relate to their kids and discipline them in accordance with their unique, God-given personalities.  Gerald Vizenor, "Shrouds of White Earth" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1438434464, 1438434472 | 162 pages | EPUB / PDF | 2.3 MB Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris.  Whit McClendon, "Short Workouts for Beginners: Get Healthier and Stronger at Home " English | ISBN: 0692826580 | 2016 | 63 pages | EPUB | 982 KB If you're ready to get fit and improve your health, then this book is for you! You can get fitter and stronger than ever just by exercising at home. No more expensive gym fees, no more taking the time to drive to the gym, you'll be on your way to better strength and fitness in the comfort of your own home! Don't like the music the gym has playing? This book lets you choose when and where you exercise, and YOU pick the tunes!This book covers specific exercises and provides detailed instructions on how to do them correctly and safely. In addition, you'll find simple workouts that can help you lose weight and gain strength, all on your own. Included are links to videos so that you can see exactly how to perform the movements properly. You can get started today and improve your health and fitness!Armed with this book, you'll love how easy it can be to exercise at home. Gyms can be uncomfortable, whether because they're full of people, or because you just don't know where to start. Wandering around the gym trying to figure out what to do can be really stressful! I've tried to take the guesswork out of working out so that you know what to do and how to do it. You can do it...you've got this! Don't wait another second, just open this book and discover how simple training at home can be!  Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate By Trụ Đình Trần, Jana Lipman, Bac Hoai Tran 2017 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0824872495 | PDF | 60 MB Ship of Fate tells the emotionally gripping story of a Vietnamese military officer who evacuated from Saigon in 1975 but made the dramatic decision to return to Vietnam for his wife and children, rather than resettle in the United States without them. Written in Vietnamese in the years just after 1991, when he and his family finally immigrated to the United States, Trần Đình Trụ's memoir provides a detailed and searing account of his individual trauma as a refugee in limbo, and then as a prisoner in the Vietnamese reeducation camps.In April 1975, more than 120,000 Indochinese refugees sought and soon gained resettlement in the United States. While waiting in the Guam refugee camps, however, approximately 1,500 Vietnamese men and women insisted in no uncertain terms on being repatriated back to Vietnam. Trần was one of these repatriates. To resolve the escalating crisis, the U.S. government granted the Vietnamese a large ship, the Việt Nam Thương Tín. An experienced naval commander, Trần became the captain of the ship and sailed the repatriates back to Vietnam in October 1975. On return, he was imprisoned and underwent forced labor for more than twelve years.Trần's account reveals a hidden history of refugee camps on Guam, internal divisions among Vietnamese refugees, political disputes between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.S. government, and the horror of the postwar "reeducation" camps. While there are countless books on the U.S. war in Vietnam, there are still relatively few in English that narrate the war from a Vietnamese perspective. This translation adds new and unexpected dimensions to the U.S. military's final withdrawal from Vietnam.  Shimon Peres: The Biography By Michael Bar-Zohar 2007 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 1400062926 | PDF | 24 MB Twice Israel's prime minister, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, bold leader in a war-torn region, Shimon Peres is one of the great statesmen of the modern world. Peres is also a fascinating, complex man-a brilliant intellectual who is entirely at home in the corridors of power; an individual revered by the world and yet highly controversial in his own country; at once a hero and a figure of tragedy. Now, in this definitive biography, Michael Bar-Zohar takes the full measure of a towering, enigmatic leader.Drawing on his decades-long association with Peres, as well as the full cooperation of the leader's family, friends, supporters, and political rivals, Bar-Zohar has crafted a vibrant, daring, richly textured portrait of a man whose life and career span the entire history of Israel. Born in Poland in 1923, Peres emigrated to the Holy Land at the age of twelve, already a fiercely idealistic Zionist. Peres joined a kibbutz and, while still in his teens, became the leader of a major youth movement. When the struggle for Israeli independence broke out, future prime minister David Ben-Gurion tapped him to join his inner circle. As director general of the Defense Ministry under Ben-Gurion, Peres spearheaded a far-reaching campaign to turn Israel into a major military power. He jump-started Israel's aircraft industry, forged a secret alliance with France, and successfully pursued his dream of making Israel a nuclear power. And yet Peres's real triumph came not as a man of war but as a peacemaker. Elected prime minister in 1984, Peres brought new hope by pulling Israeli troops out of the quagmire in Lebanon, defusing tensions with Jordan, and, at the risk of his own political future, making serious overtures to the Palestinians. Peres and his longtime rival Yitzhak Rabin together secured the top-secret Oslo Accords of 1993, which won them and Yasser Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize-only to see the hope of peace shattered in a resurgence of regional violence.In a half-century of leadership, Peres has worked beside-or fought against-such giants as Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, and, tragically, Rabin, who was slain at the rally that marked his reconciliation with Peres. Still powerful in his eighties, Peres stands as a true hero, a visionary who embodies the history of his nation. In this stunning, courageously frank, and scrupulously factual biography, Michael Bar-Zohar gives an eminent man his due.  Diane Kiesel, "She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer" English | ISBN: 1612345050 | 2015 | 408 pages | EPUB | 8 MB Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented, and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically flawed.  RJ Parker, "Serial Killers Case Files" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1490443517 | EPUB | pages: 297 | 0.7 mb AN IN-DEPTH examination of serial murderers and their victims, that include the profiles of some of the most prominent murderers of our time. The author addresses various serial killer types: Organized and unorganized, men, women, doctors, and unsolved murder cases. BESTSELLING AUTHOR RJ Parker delves into the gritty, gruesome details of the most notorious serial killers to strike the United States, Canada and the UK, including the unidentified killers who may still be on the loose. TRUE CRIME GENRE is tremendously indebted to serial killers. A listing of books and movies that deal with serial killers would almost be a book in itself. Something about their twisted psychology and abhorrent acts have turned folks like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz, and Andrei Chikatilo, to name a few, into household names and media figures. In Serial Killer Case Files, true crime author RJ Parker offers several cases that deal with the names above and also shine a light on killers that are not as present in popular culture but whose bloody actions are worse than any horror movie out there. - John Douglas, FBI Profiler (Ret'd), bestseller author |
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