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 Honoré de Balzac, "Séraphita" English | 2012 | ISBN: 150566148X | ASIN: B008SWYTEU | EPUB | pages: 132 | 0.5 mb Dans un château de Norvège situé près du fjord Stromfjord, Séraphitüs, un être étrange et mélancolique, semble cacher un terrible secret. Il aime Minna et il est aimé d'elle, qui voit en lui un homme. Mais Séraphitus est aussi aimé par Wilfrid, qui le considère comme une femme (Séraphîta). En réalité, Séraphitus-Séraphita est un parfait androgyne, né de parents acquis à la doctrine de Swedenborg qui vise à transcender la condition humaine et dont Séraphitus-Séraphita est l'exemple parfait. Immensément érudit, doué de facultés mentales dépassant le commun des mortels, il mène une vie solitaire et contemplative. Mais cet être quasi céleste rêve de connaître l'amour parfait, celui qui consiste à aimer conjointement deux êtres de sexes opposés. Finalement, sous les yeux effarés de Minna et Wilfrid, l'être total se transforme en séraphin et monte au ciel.  Systems, Decision and Control in Energy IV: Volume IІ. Nuclear and Environmental Safety English | 2023 | ISBN: 303122499X | 587 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 72 MB In recent years, the scale of environmental hazards has been growing, emergencies occur more often at special facilities, in particular nuclear power, the largest of which was the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. With the advent of nuclear power, it was believed that nuclear power reactors were safe enough, control and monitoring systems, protective screens and trained personnel would guarantee their trouble-free operation. There is also a trend now that nuclear power is "environmentally friendly" because it provides a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with replacing power plants working on fossil fuels. Some countries, such as the United States, have recently classified nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Despite this, nuclear power is potentially dangerous due to: - possible accidents at power plants, accompanied by the ejection of radioactive materials into the environment; - ejections of about 250 radioactive isotopes into the environment as a result of the operation of nuclear reactors; - emissions of 85Kr, which changes the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere. This gas behaves like a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, thereby contributing to anthropogenic climate change on Earth; - pollution of the biosphere with plutonium; - radioactive waste is the most important cause of environmental hazard, which remains unresolved. Civilian nuclear power reactors operating throughout the world annually generate large amounts of low-, medium- and high-level radioactive waste. Radioactive pollution accompanies all parts of the complex production of nuclear energy: the extraction and processing of uranium, the operation of nuclear power plants, the storage and regeneration of fuel, which has a significant impact on the environmental friendliness of nuclear energy. In addition, up to 300 natural and technogenic emergencies are registered annually, as a result of which people die and great economic damage is caused. The main reasons for the occurrence of technogenic accidents and catastrophes and the strengthening of the negative impact due to the occurrence of natural and technogenic emergencies in Ukraine are: obsolete fixed assets, in particular for environmental purposes; large volume of transportation, storage and use of hazardous substances; the emergency state of a significant part of public utility networks; insufficient investment support for the process of introducing the latest resource-saving and environmentally friendly technologies in environmentally hazardous industries, primarily in the metallurgical, chemical, petrochemical and energy sectors; environmental problems associated with significant changes in the state of the geological and hydrogeological environment and caused by the closure of unprofitable mining enterprises and mines; unwillingness of economic subjects to take measures to prevent accidents and catastrophes at high-risk and potentially hazardous facilities.  Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction By Ivan A. Sag; Thomas Wasow; Emily M. Bender 2003 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 1575863995 | PDF | 3 MB This second edition of Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition, its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis.The book covers the core areas of English syntax from the last quarter century, including complementation, control, "raising constructions," passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of long distance dependency constructions. Syntactic Theory's step-by-step introduction to a consistent grammar in these core areas is complemented by extensive problem sets drawing from a variety of languages.The book's theoretical perspective is presented in the context of current models of language processing, and the practical value of the constraint-based, lexicalist grammatical architecture proposed has already been demonstrated in computer language processing applications. This thoroughly reworked second edition includes revised and extended problem sets, updated analyses, additional examples, and more detailed exposition throughout.Praise for the first edition:"Syntactic Theory sets a new standard for introductory syntax volumes that all future books should be measured against."-Gert Webelhuth, Journal of Linguistics
 Survival Handbook for Kids: 11 Simple Ways to Prepare your Child for Survival in the Wilderness by Cosmo Amabile English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BRDGQMV3 | 196 pages | EPUB | 8.10 Mb Teach your child to survive in the wilderness even if you have no survival experience!  Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle (2nd Edition) English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031125061 | 408 Pages | PDF (True) | 43 MB Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this book remains the gold standard guide to the surgical treatment of diseases in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), the fragile area of the skull base that Harvey Cushing famously described as "the bloody angle." This edition combines current information on the relevant clinical diseases of the CPA with dramatically improved surgical management of its diseases, arranged in five thematic sections.  Christopher Hill, "Supporting and Learning from Academics: EMI Toolkit" English | ISBN: 9811990395 | 2023 | 140 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book draws on real-world case studies to highlight key challenges and support the crafting of relevant and contextual responses. There is increasing pressure on academics and teaching staff to provide high-quality teaching and delivery in English. More than an edited volume, it offers a true dialogue on emerging trends in EMI, making it of considerable value to practitioners, students and policymakers alike. By analyzing established and emerging models of EMI delivery, the book presents a review and assessment of how universities can respond to student expectations and build internal capacities so as to offer better learning experiences.  Superconductivity: Volume 1: Conventional and Unconventional by Karl-Heinz Bennemann, John B. Ketterson English | 2008 | ISBN: 3540732527 | 1568 Pages | PDF | 33.7 MB This extensive and comprehensive handbook systematically reviews the basic physics, theory and recent advances in superconductivity.  Sanjay Seth, "Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0822341050 | PDF | pages: 277 | 2.0 mb Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not only by the colonizers but also by the colonized, to the extent that today almost all "serious" knowledge about India-even within India-is based on western epistemologies. In Subject Lessons, Sanjay Seth's investigation into how western knowledge was received by Indians under colonial rule becomes a broader inquiry into how modern, western epistemology came to be seen not merely as one way of knowing among others but as knowledge itself.  Mike Swedenberg, "Study Guide for the US Citizenship Test in English and Chinese: 2019 " English | ISBN: 1791829597 | 2018 | 105 pages | EPUB | 117 KB The U.S. Citizenship Services (USCIS) administers a verbal test to all immigrants applying for citizenship. This study guide tutors Chinese speaking immigrants for the USCIS verbal citizenship test in English and Chinese. The questions have been selected from questions used on past exams by the USCIS  Alexander Elder, "Study Guide for The New Trading for a Living Ed 2" English | ISBN: 1118467450 | 2014 | 160 pages | MOBI | 1138 KB Test your trading knowledge and skills―without risking any money |
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