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 Susan Lynn, "The Optimistic Drunk's Recovery Guide: A Grateful Alcoholic's Tips for Getting-and Staying-Sober" English | ISBN: 1647460980 | 2020 | 100 pages | EPUB | 776 KB You know you're a drunk. You feel helpless, hopeless, and alone. You're tired of fighting.Hell, you're just tired. So surrender.In recovery from addiction, surrender indicates the need for the addict to do three critical things:- Show up,- Own up, - Grow up.The Optimistic Drunk's Recovery Guide helps those new to recovery to stay afloat in the unfamiliar, often choppy waters. It's not a "cure-all." Rather, it's a lifeline, here for you to grasp as you're bobbing about with your life preserver. It will help you keep your head above water until you're strong enough to swim on your own.Filled with personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreak and hope, The Optimistic Drunk's Recovery Guide is a brave little book that offers insight, help, and guidance to fellow drunks and junkies and the people who love them.Start your surrender today. You're worth fighting for.  The Ontology and Modelling of Real Estate Transactions By Erik Stubkjaer (editor), Heiner Stuckenschmidt (editor) 2003 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 0754632873 | PDF | 19 MB Due to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries. Illustrated by a range of European case studies, this book identifies and discusses the problems of this and similar comparisons. It then examines how ontological modelling can be applied to real estate transactions and advocates this as a basis for comparing the various processes used across Europe. The book consists of four parts: the economic, legal and ontological aspects of real property transactions; a discussion of the current situation in different countries, thus showing the heterogeneity and complexity of processes that have to be captured; whilst the third and fourth parts describe ontological modelling and its benefits for the purpose of understanding the nature of real property transactions together with examples of modelling techniques applied to cadastre and real property.
 The Olmec and Toltec: The History of Early Mesoamerica's Most Influential Cultures by Charles River Editors English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1539855805 | 102 pages | EPUB | 2.44 Mb *Includes pictures *Describes the history, culture, and architecture of the two groups *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Olmec people are widely recognized as the first major civilization of Mexico and are thus generally regarded as the mother civilization of Mesoamerica, making them the people from which all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures derived. In fact, the term Olmec is thought to have originated with the Aztec people, as Olmec in their Nahuatl language means "the rubber people", a reference to the inhabitants of the land from which they accessed rubber. By and large, the Olmec culture is perhaps best identifiable by their so-called colossal heads, mammoth basalt head-statues wearing helmet-like headdresses found throughout Olmec habitation sites. Around 2500 B.C., the Olmec settled primarily along Mexico's Gulf Coast in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico (in the modern-day States of Veracruz and Tabasco), and they flourished during North America's Prehistoric Indian Formative period from about 1700-400 B.C. Their direct cultural contributions were still evident as late as 300 A.D. Among Mesoamerican scholars, the Formative period is subdivided into the Preclassic (Olmec period), Classic (Maya period), and Postclassic (Toltec and Aztec periods). The Olmec's agricultural abilities sustained them and ensured their power and influence for over a millennium. They produced corn/maize, squash, and other plant foods in such quantities that they were afforded the manpower to build great monuments and ceremonial centers to further promote their cultural identity. From a cultural standpoint, their pyramids, open plazas, their ballgame, and possibly even centers of human sacrifice are thought to have established the societal model that subsequent societies like the Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, and Aztec would emulate. In the same vein, some scholars believe that they also affected the cultural development of the Native American groups of the United States and those of Central and South America as well. Proving to be one the most enduring models ever, the religious and cultural structure the Olmec established held reign for over 3,000 years, and it would likely have endured much longer without the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. The Toltec are one of the most famous Mesoamerican groups in South America, but they are also the most controversial and mysterious. The Toltec have been identified as the group that established a strong state centered in Tula (in present-day Mexico), and the Aztec claimed the Toltec as their cultural predecessors, so much so that the word Toltec comes from the Aztec's word Toltecatl, translated as artisan. The Aztec also kept track of the Toltec's history, including keeping a list of important rulers and events, that suggest the peak of the Toltec occurred from about 900-1100 A.D. While scholars continue to debate whether the Toltec were an actual historical group, there is an added layer of mystery to the fact that the settlement at Tula has a lot in common with the famous Mayan settlement at Chichén Itzá. The architecture and art at both sites are so similar that archaeologists and anthropologists have assumed they had the same cultural influences, even as historians struggle to determine the historical timelines, and thus whether Tula influenced Chichén Itzá or vice versa. The Olmec and Toltec: The History of Early Mesoamerica's Most Influential Cultures comprehensively covers the history, culture, and lingering mysteries behind the Olmec and Toltec. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the two groups like you never have before.  The near-Death of the Author by Potts, John; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1487541341 | 222 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.06 MB  The Pebble and the Boy 2021 PROPER WEBRip x264-ION10_Lori Language: English 985.04 MB | 01:41:08 | MP4 | 720x306 | MP4a-40-2, 48 Khz, 2 channels, 256 Kbps Genre: Drama iMDB info Provider: Lori.Yagami The story follows John Parker, a 19 year old from Manchester who embarks on a journey to Brighton, the spiritual home of the Mods, on an old Lambretta scooter left to him by his father. The film is a celebration of Mod culture and...  The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill By James C. Wright, Mary K. Dabney 2020 | 1140 Pages | ISBN: 0876619243 | PDF | 36 MB A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world.The volume includes contributions by P. Acheson, S. E. Allen, K. M. Forste, P. Halstead, S. M. A. Hoffmann, A.Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau, H. Mommsen, J. B. Rutter, T. Theodoropoulou, and J. E.Tomlinson.  The Metaverse. Avoiding the dark turn. by Georgios Efstratiadis English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQBX1XDV | 53 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb What is the Metaverse exactly, and how will it impact our lives?  Evelyn Gajowski, Phyllis Rackin, "The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays" English | 2014 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 0415845041, 1138377872 | PDF | 2,7 mb The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book's sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.  The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction (The Linda Schele in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) edited by Geoffrey Braswell English | April 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0292709145, 0292705875 | True EPUB/PDF | 441 pages | 23.7/25.9 MB The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan.  Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn, Stephen E. G. Lea, "The Making of Human Concepts" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0199549222 | PDF | pages: 538 | 4.4 mb Human adults appear different from other animals in their ability to form abstract mental representations that go beyond perceptual similarity. In short, they can conceptualize the world. This apparent uniqueness leads to an immediate puzzle: WHEN and HOW does this abstract system come into being? To answer this question we need to explore the origins of adult concepts, both developmentally and phylogenetically; When does the developing child acquire the ability to use abstract concepts?; does the transition occur around 2 years, with the onset of symbolic representation and language? Or, is it independent of the emergence of language?; when in evolutionary history did an abstract representational system emerge?; is there something unique about the human brain? How would a computational system operating on the basis of perceptual associations develop into a system operating on the basis of abstract relations?; is this ability present in other species, but masked by their |
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