|
|
|
 Free Download A COMPLETE GUIDE AIR FRYER COOKBOOK FOR BEGINNER Easy & Quick Fryer Recipes For Family Under Low-Budget by English | 2022 | ISBN: 1230006016746 | 65 pages | EPUB | 7.22 Mb This cookbook is perfect for families looking to cook delicious, healthy meals on a budget using their air fryer. Inside, you'll find a wide range of recipes that are easy to follow and can be made with affordable ingredients that you can find at your local grocery store. From hearty breakfasts to tasty snacks and main dishes, this cookbook has something for every member of the family.  Free Download A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects by Sally Coulthard English | September 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 0008559422 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 36.05 MB The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts
 Free Download A Brief History of Love: What Attracts Us, How We Fall in Love and Why Biology Screws it All Up by Liat Yakir English | February 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1786788233 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 1.31 MB Is love about chemistry or do biology, evolution and psychology all have a part to play?  Free Download A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon Bennett English | November 29, 2023 | ISBN: 0008560099 | 320 pages | PDF | 28 Mb A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties.These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI. Indeed, there will be plenty of such surprises along the way. For the innovation that enabled AI to beat humans in the game of Go - temporal difference reinforcement learning - was an innovation discovered by our fish ancestors over 500 million years ago. The solutions to many of the current mysteries in AI - such as 'common sense' - can be found in the tiny brain of a mouse. Where do emotions come from? Research suggests that they may have arisen simply as a solution to navigation in ancient worm brains. Unravelling this evolutionary story will reveal the hidden features of human intelligence and with them, just how your mind came to be.  Free Download Glaire Anderson, "A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas" English | ISBN: 019091324X | 2024 | 248 pages | EPUB | 99 MB In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular discourse about Islam. Yet doing so has tended to impose an anachronistic conception of "science" onto pre-modern practices while also obscuring wider views of the intellectual, philosophical, and particularly the material context of medieval scientific achievement. An exemplary case study for this phenomenon is the figure of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas (d. 887), a celebrated early scientist, Córdoban courtier, and polymath. Ibn Firnas is best known today for conducting an early aeronautics experiment, which was commemorated by NASA. Some historians have called it the first successful human flight. The earliest and fullest account of Ibn Firnas' career in the Umayyad court includes the aeronautics experiment, and a great deal more on his achievements in the arts and design but has yet to receive sustained scholarly attention. That account, as preserved in a volume of the Muqtabas of Ibn Hayyan (d. 1076), the Cordoban court chronicle, presents Ibn Firnas as both the leading intellectual of early Islamic Iberia and as a pioneering figure in the design and construction of the court's first fine scientific instruments and space of scientific visualization.  Free Download A Bookshop of One's Own by Jane Cholmeley English | February 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 0008651043 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 8.41 MB The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.  Free Download Michael R. Adamson, "A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies" English | ISBN: 1557536341 | 2013 | 460 pages | EPUB | 9 MB While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. It details the contributions that Charles J. Pankow, a 1947 graduate of Purdue University, and his firm have made as builders of large, often concrete, commercial structures since the company's foundation in 1963. In particular, it uses selected projects as case studies to analyze and explain how the company innovated at the project level. The company has been recognized as a pioneer in "design-build," a methodology that involves the construction company in the development of structures and substitutes negotiated contracts for the bidding of architects' plans. The Pankow companies also developed automated construction technologies that helped keep projects on time and within budget. The book includes dozens of photographs of buildings under construction from the company's archive and other sources. At the same time, the author analyzes and evaluates the strategic decision making of the firm through 2004, the year in which the founder died. While Charles Pankow figures prominently in the narrative, the book also describes how others within the firm adapted the business so that the company could survive a commercial market that changed significantly as a result of the recession of the 1990s. Extending beyond the scope of most business biographies, this book is a study in industry innovation and the power of corporate culture, as well as the story of one particular company and the individuals who created it.  Free Download Laurie Devore, "A Better Bad Idea" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1250225957 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 2.3 mb Laurie Devore's new YA novel is a searing look at a forgotten girl who has no good choices left, but one better bad idea . . .  Free Download A Beautiful Pint: One Man's Search for the Perfect Pint of Guinness by Ian Ryan, Zebadiah Keneally English | February 20, 2024 | ISBN: 163973435X | 176 pages | PDF | 19 Mb The ultimate illustrated guide to Guinness and the history, culture, and facts to help you find the perfect pint-from the pub to the pour-wherever you are.  Free Download Graeme O'May, "A Band of Lovers" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1098378148 | EPUB | pages: 300 | 5.6 mb The Sacred Band, an elite infantry unit of the Ancient Greek city of Thebes, was the most capable fighting force of its time. Uniquely, it comprised 150 male-male couples. Formed in the aftermath of Thebes' liberation from Spartan occupation in early 378 BCE, the Sacred Band inflicted on the Spartans their first-ever defeat by a numerically inferior force at the battle of Tegyra in 375 BCE and was instrumental in Thebes' astonishing victory at the epoch-making battle of Leuctra four years later. Subsequently, the Sacred Band spearheaded the liberation of the long-enslaved helots and in so doing ended the power of Sparta forever, simultaneously raising Thebes to hegemonic status. |
: 