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 David Macaulay, "Building Big" English | 2004 | pages: 197 | ISBN: 0618465278, 0395963311 | PDF | 240,3 mb Why this shape and not that? Why steel instead of concrete or stone? Why put it here and not over there? These are the kinds of questions that David Macaulay asks himself when he observes an architectural wonder. These questions take him back to the basic process of design from which all structures begin, from the realization of a need for the structure to the struggles of the engineers and designers to map out and create the final construction.  Jennifer Tucker, "Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul" English | ISBN: 1400234581 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 7 MB Find hope amid anxiety through the spiritual practice of breath prayer in this beautifully illustrated and practical guide to connecting body, mind, and spirit during times of stress.  Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing, 2022 Edition by Chris Bail English | September 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 0691241406 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 1.83 MB A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online―and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media  Laurent Tourondel, Michele Scicolone, "Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking" English | 2007 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0471758833 | PDF | 275,7 mb Superstar chef Laurent Tourondel is redefining bistro food in America with his growing empire of BLT ("Bistro Laurent Tourondel") restaurants. Now, with this exciting cookbook, Tourondel shows you how to prepare his simple yet spectacular food at home. From new takes on French and American classics to dazzling dishes featuring Asian, Mediterranean, and Latin American flavors, his nearly 150 recipes are sophisticated enough to impress any guest, yet accessible enough to prepare in your own kitchen. Illustrated with more than 150 striking photographs, Bistro Laurent Tourondel gives you everything you need to take casual cooking and entertaining to a new level.  Maria E. Ward, "Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress" English | ISBN: 1948062526 | 2021 | 320 pages | EPUB | 7 MB Bicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates women's advancement in the sport and offers an inspiring, and amusing, look back.  Sarah Pflugradt MS RDN CSCS, "Better Daily Weight Loss Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact " English | ISBN: 1685394922 | 2022 | 174 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Create healthy habits for long-lasting weight loss  Roderick Stewart, "Bethune in Spain" English | ISBN: 077354383X | 2014 | 186 pages | EPUB | 5 MB Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce medicare to Canada. An uncompromising humanitarian in search of a cause, Bethune became immersed in the Spanish Civil War. In Bethune in Spain, Roderick Stewart and Jesús Majada recount Bethune's achievements in Spain and the events that led to his decision to assist the Loyalist forces. The narrative contains Bethune's letters and reports, some of them reproduced here for the first time, as well as newspaper articles, and interviews with him. It covers his creation and operation of a mobile blood transfusion unit, his rescue of fleeing Loyalist civilians during the Malaga-Almeria road tragedy, and his efforts to aid children orphaned by the War. It also deals with the gruelling public-speaking tour Bethune undertook on his return to Canada in 1937 to plead for intervention in support of democracy in Spain and to raise awareness of atrocities committed against civilians by the fascist-backed Spanish Nationalists. Illustrated with photographs from Bethune's seven months in Spain, Bethune in Spain is a poignant portrait of an early advocate for universal health care, an unwavering communist, and a crusader for the Spanish Republican cause.  Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway by Randy Johnson; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1493063863 | 169 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.58 MB  Beowulf and Other Old English Poems By Craig Williamson (ed., transl.) 2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0812243455 | PDF | 2 MB Foreword by Tom Shippey.The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, "Beowulf", is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's "Beowulf" appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.  Kimberley Brownlee, "Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights" English | ISBN: 0198871198 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially for some - subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs for decent human contact and acknowledgement, for interaction and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in solitude and associative freedom. |
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