|
|
|
 Free Download Mike Endres, "Guide to Western National Monuments " English | ISBN: 1937052559 | 2021 | 344 pages | EPUB | 331 MB Guide to Western National Monuments showcases 70 of the nation's national monuments across the western United States. These are the best places to visit if you want to hike and camp in spectacular scenery with relatively few people (compared to national parks). The 70 national monuments featured in this guide were chosen for their fascinating history, diverse flora and fauna, as well as opportunities for hiking, rock climbing, and camping.  Free Download Leon de Bruin, "Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion" English | ISBN: 1666944033 | 2024 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 2 MB Guerrilla Music: Musicking as Resistance, Defiance, and Subversion explores human initiations and responses to music as a process and product intrinsically part of our culture, history, place, time and ecological musical worlds. The contributors challenge scholarly approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used and judged. 'Guerrilla' is a trope long applied to socio-political machinations, human conflict and confrontation. Guerrilla Music provocatively explores research involving music practices, stories, communities and musickers worldwide that resist, defy and subvert by silence and non-compliance, reluctant subordination, subversive depowering, resistive counterpoint, or destructive, violent dismantling. Contexts spanning the subcultural local, glocal and universal highlight the potency, passions, actions and life worlds of music, musicians and those that become engulfed in musical maelstroms that incite change. Guerrilla Music both invigorates and advances scholarly debates about social power, colonisation and difference by exploring the social semiotics of music making and communities, identifying powerful new ways of understanding human communication, and what musicking means in the twenty-first century.  Free Download Grumman F9f Panther/Cougar: First Grumman Cat of the Jet Age By Brad Elward 2010 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1580071457 | DJVU | 20 MB By the end of World War II, piston-powered fighters were at their absolute zenith. As good as those airplanes were, America's aviation industry found itself starting over in the Jet Age with new airplanes powered by anemic and somewhat cantankerous turbine engines. More importantly, just as these new aircraft were maturing, they were thrust into war in the skies over Korea. Grumman's first jets were potent aircraft in their own right, but also proved to be the building blocks from which two more famous Grumman 'cats' were born the legendary A-6 Intruder and supersonic F-14 Tomcat. Grumman F9F Panther/Cougar tells the story of the pivotal F9F Panther from its initial concept through early design and manufacturing, flight test, aircraft carrier trials, and combat operations in the Korean War. Completing this story is coverage of the more advanced swept-wing transonic Cougar that goes on to become an effective trainer and photo-recon aircraft as well. Detailed appendices provide the reader with complete data on F9F production numbers, carrier deployments, and squadron histories.  Free Download Gruber's Complete SAT Guide 2013 By Gary Gruber 2012 | 1092 Pages | ISBN: 1402264925 | PDF | 48 MB THE BEST PRACTICE PLUS COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES FOR HIGHER SCORES ON THE SAT For more than 30 years, Dr. Gary Gruber has been the leading authority on the SAT and test preparation. Now in its 16th edition, Gruber's Complete SAT Guide has proven the effectiveness of structured SAT preparation by raising thousands of students' SAT scores. Rather than just trying to "beat the test," Gruber's method builds core knowledge necessary for the test as well as providing strategic advice, giving students a critical approach to solving the questions they miss most often. Featuring 5 full-length practice tests, targeted sections on Math, Critical Reading, and Writing, plus exclusive strategies for finding the right answers in less time, Gruber's Complete SAT Guide has all the tools college-bound high school students need to earn top scores. GET THE SKILLS THAT UNLOCK THE ANSWERS With the explanation to a question, you can only answer that one question. With the exclusive Gruber strategies, you can answer thousands of questions! These strategies show you how to think about problems instead of trying to solve each one individually and can be used consistently on every SAT test. EXCLUSIVE SAT PREP TOOLS THAT'LL REDUCE TEST-TAKING STRESS --Unique diagnostic test shows you why you got questions wrong-and how to get them right --Inside information on how SAT questions are created --The 101 most important math questions you need to know how to solve --The most important SAT words --The world's shortest SAT test (just 18 questions!) WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING "Gary Gruber is the most prominent guru of SAT preparation."-Chicago Tribune "His methods make the questions seem amazingly simple to solve."-Library Journal "Dr. Gruber knows the ins and outs of the SAT."-Los Angeles Times "Gary Gruber is the leading expert on the SAT."-Houston Chronicle  Free Download Gruber's Complete GRE Guide 2014, 3E By Gary Gruber 2013 | 768 Pages | ISBN: 1402279671 | PDF | 28 MB THE BEST PRACTICE PLUS COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES FOR HIGHER SCORES ON THE GRE For more than 30 years, the Gruber Method has helped millions of students raise their standardized test scores on major tests like the SAT, ACT, and the PSAT/NMSQT. Now Dr. Gruber brings his critical analysis and innovative test preparation strategies to the GRE, the #1 test for graduate school admission. After a recent major overhaul of the GRE test, you need the most up-to-date information from a trusted source. Gruber's Complete GRE Guide combines powerful study tools with4 adaptive practice tests to help you prepare for the real thing. EFFECTIVE STUDY TOOLS FROM THE TEST-TAKING EXPERT-Includes 3 full-length practice tests with-Detailed explanatory answers, each linked to a specific Gruber strategy or basic skill-Inside info on how GRE questions are created-Strategies that will save you study time by pointing you directly to the answer-ShortestGREtest (20 questions) with detailed answer explanations which tells youwhat important strategies and skills you need toincrease your score-Strategy Diagnostic Test which tests whether you are using the best strategies and leads you to those strategies-The 101 most important math questions you need to know how to solve-Mini-math refresher-Complete math refresher GET THE SKILLS THAT UNLOCK THE ANSWERSWith the explanation to a question, you can answer that one question. With the Gruber strategies, you can answer thousands of questions! These strategies show you how to think about problems instead of trying to solve each one individually, and they can be used consistently on every GRE test. WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING"Dr. Gary Gruber has developed a method that will raise students' test scores by sharpening their thinking skills." -Boston Globe"His methods make the questions seem amazingly simple to solve." -Library Journal"Gruber can ring the bell on any number of standardized exams." -Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune  Free Download Ronald Strickland, Jennifer Drake, Henry A. Giroux, "Growing Up Postmodern: Neoliberalism and the War on the Young" English | 2002 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0742516512 | PDF | 9,9 mb This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.  Free Download Seth Stevenson, "Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World" English | 2010 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1594484422 | EPUB | 0,7 mb An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.  Free Download Paul Rabbitts, "Grinling Gibbons: Master Carver " English | ISBN: 1784424048 | 2020 | 64 pages | AZW3 | 22 MB A vibrant illustrated history of Grinling Gibbons, the master carver of the Restoration era.  Free Download Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications By Lizhe Wang (ed.), Wei Jie (ed.), Jinjun Chen (ed.) 2009 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 1420067664 | PDF | 13 MB Identifies Recent Technological Developments WorldwideThe field of grid computing has made rapid progress in the past few years, evolving and developing in almost all areas, including concepts, philosophy, methodology, and usages. Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications reflects the recent advances in this field, covering the research aspects that involve infrastructure, middleware, architecture, services, and applications.Grid Systems Across the GlobeThe first section of the book focuses on infrastructure and middleware and presents several national and international grid systems. The text highlights China Research and Development environment Over Wide-area Network (CROWN), several ongoing cyberinfrastructure efforts in New York State, and Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), which is co-funded by the European Commission and the world's largest multidisciplinary grid infrastructure today.The second part of the book discusses recent grid service advances. The authors examine the UK National Grid Service (NGS), the concept of resource allocation in a grid environment, OMIIBPEL, and the possibility of treating scientific workflow issues using techniques from the data stream community. The book describes an SLA model, reviews portal and workflow technologies, presents an overview of PKIs and their limitations, and introduces PIndex, a peer-to-peer model for grid information services.New Projects and InitiativesThe third section includes an analysis of innovative grid applications. Topics covered include the WISDOM initiative, incorporating flow-level networking models into grid simulators, system-level virtualization, grid usage in the high-energy physics environment in the LHC project, and the Service Oriented HLA RTI (SOHR) framework.With a comprehensive summary of past advances, this text is a window into the future of this nascent technology, forging a path for the next generation of cyberinfrastructure developers.  Free Download James M. Gifford, Anthony Stephens, Suzanna Stephens, "Greenup County" English | 2010 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0738586161, 1531657621 | EPUB | 45,5 mb Greenup County, bordering the Ohio River in northeast Kentucky, is rich in history and culture. Settlers first arrived in the mid-1700s and carved farms from the hardwood forests. Lucy Virgin Downs, the first white child born west of the Alleghenies, lived in Greenup County, as did Jesse Boone, brother of Kentucky icon Daniel Boone. The 20th century brought industrialization and economic diversification to the historically agricultural area. Ashland Oil, a Fortune 500 company, maintained corporate headquarters in Greenup County. Two steel mills, a large rail yard, an excellent hospital, and a number of surface mines also provided employment to many people who continued to work their family farms, too. This economic progress was mirrored in every aspect of county life as education, health care, and recreation all improved dramatically. Today Greenup County's history is appreciated by both longtime residents and cultural tourists. |
: 