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 Motorcycle Smarts: Overcome Fear, Learn Control, Master Riding Well By David Mixson 2021 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1732453217 | PDF | 6 MB "If I didn't think I could measurably reduce my chances of crashing, I wouldn't ride."- David MixsonDo you feel guilty for wanting to ride a motorcycle? Do you have a fear that overcomes you when you ride? Do you want to enjoy the peace of mind knowing that you're doing everything possible NOT to leave your family alone?David Mixson, author of the Motorcycle Smarts book series (and NASA engineer), debunks the myth that crashing is a matter of fate by explaining the most important topics that other motorcycle mega books gloss over.You won't find page-filling discussions about how to get the most out of your first Sturgis Rally or how to select riding gear. Instead, you'll find one of the most in-depth, simple to understand explanations of lowside and highside crashes that exists-anywhere. Riders die every day in these rider-induced crashes-and it doesn't have to be this way.Mastering the art of riding a motorcycle well is about understanding and overcoming rider fear. It's about having the head knowledge of how your motorcycle works so you can make it go where you want it to go. It's about understanding why riders crash so you can avoid making the same mistakes. It's about taking ownership of your riding safety.In addition to in-depth discussions about rider fear and (lowside and highside crashes), Motorcycle Smarts covers topics like countersteering, muscle memory, and braking. It also addresses some of the most important lessons from the Hurt Report and makes a case for only riding motorcycles equipped with ABS-that has nothing to do with stopping distances.Here's what one reader said:"I've read Total Control, Proficient Motorcycling, and Stayin Safe, but the section in Motorcycle Smarts on lowside and highside crashes is all the difference. David is great at simplifying difficult concepts. I'm definitely passing along this book to my riding friends."- Dano in San Diego, CaliforniaNHTSA studies show that nearly half of all motorcycle fatalities are caused by rider error-and the numbers aren't getting any better. The training isn't working. The current motorcycle skills books aren't working. We need a fresh approach to helping riders NOT crash. This book is that."This is the book I would hand to someone who's been riding for decades and wants to reduce their risk of crashing. This is the book I would give my son or daughter if they told me they wanted to learn how to ride a motorcycle. This is the book I couldn't find when I first started riding at forty."- David Mixson  Christopher Alan Reynolds, "Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music" English | 2003 | pages: 245 | ISBN: 067401037X | PDF | 17,5 mb When a critic pointed out to Brahms that the finale theme in his First Symphony was remarkably similar to the Ode to Joy theme in Beethoven's Ninth, he is said to have replied: "Yes indeed, and what's really remarkable is that every jackass notices this at once." Not every musical borrowing is quite so obvious; but the listener who does perceive one is always left wondering: what does the similarity mean? In this illuminating book Christopher Reynolds gives us answers to that complex question.  Hide&Seek, "More Tiny Games for Kids: Games to play while out in the world " English | ISBN: 1472817257 | 2016 | pages | EPUB | 2 MB "Amusing, raucous and inventive." -The Guardian  Modern Management and Leadership by Bright, Jon; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1915643937 | 226 pages | True EPUB | 7.02 MB
 Yan Chenggang, "Mobile Multimedia Communications: 15th EAI International Conference, MobiMedia 2022, Virtual Event, July 22-24, 2022, Pr" English | ISBN: 3031239016 | 2022 | 415 pages | PDF | 34 MB This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MobiMedia 2022, held in July 22-24, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.  A. Martin, "Mise en Scene and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art " English | ISBN: 1137269944 | 2014 | 253 pages | EPUB | 1029 KB Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film style. This book explores two central style concepts, mise en scène and dispositif, to illuminate a wide range of film and new media examples.  Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla By Carlos Marighella 2002 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 1894925025 | PDF | 18 MB The classic pamphlet. A how-to guide, tried and tested by countless groups across the world. An important document for anyone vaguely inquisitive, or seriously interested. Written by the Brazilian as a reaction to the failure of Guevara and the rural guerillas. This new edition includes two other documents by Marighella - Problems And Principles Of Strategy And Questions Of Organization, a 1970 interview with liberated Brazilian political prisoners, and a chronology of the guerilla struggle in Brazil from 1964-73. "It is better to err acting than to do nothing for fear of erring. Without initiative there is no guerilla warfare."  Yasmine Shamma, "Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away " English | ISBN: 3031120841 | 2022 | 221 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect and disconnect through processes of homemaking. The volume asks: how do spaces of resettlement or rehoming reflect both the continuation of old homes
 Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan " English | ISBN: 0824886259 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century.
 Stephen Edgell, "Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage " English | ISBN: 1032437200 | 2023 | 152 pages | PDF | 8 MB When this book was originally published in 1980, sociologists had long held the view that the middle-class marriage in contemporary Britain was characterised by role desegregation and marital equality. Middle-Class Couples reported on research which provided a critical re-analysis of this orthodoxy. The book is a theoretically informed, empirical study which largely debunks many of the myths associated with this alleged movement towards 'equal marriage' among professional couples. The author analysed the sexual division of labour among a group of professional workers and their wives at the child-rearing stage of their family cycle. The research paid special attention to the notion of marital equality and the power dimension of marriage, the household division of labour and the patterning of leisure between husbands and wives. A radical critique of the existing social theories of the family and society incorporated in the classic studies of Parsons, Watson, Young and Willmott, Ann Oakley and Elizabeth Bott. |
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