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![]() Adobe Acrobat Pro 2026 Made Easy: A Beginner-to-Advanced Guide to Working with PDFs (Adobe Tools Mastery Series Book 1) by William H. Andrews English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GHZK21J7 | 101 pages | pdf | 29 MB ![]() Thomas Alexander Hughes, "Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life" English | ISBN: 0674049632 | 2016 | 544 pages | MOBI | 4 MB William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the "Patton of the Pacific" and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of judgment in the heat of battle. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the "fighting admiral" to reveal the truth of Halsey's personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace. ![]() Addressing Urban and Spatial Challenges Through Gamification English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GL3J8LD6 | 483 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 19.16 MB Cities increasingly turn to game-inspired strategies to engage residents and solve complex spatial and urban issues. By incorporating elements like points, interactive maps, challenges, and simulations, planners can make civic participation more accessible and motivating for diverse communities. These tools help visualize problems, test potential solutions, and encourage collaborative decision-making, transforming technical planning processes into more engaging and inclusive experiences. As a result, gamification emerges as a powerful approach for enhanced public involvement and smarter, more sustainable urban development. Addressing Urban and Spatial Challenges Through Gamification examines the role of gamification as an emerging design and planning strategy within the context of human habitats. It addresses how game-based frameworks inform the development of built environments, offering structured, interactive, and participatory approaches to urban and spatial challenges. This book covers topics such as digital games, sustainable development, and civic engagement, and is a useful resource for urban developers, business owners, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and scientists. ![]() Addiction and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Unraveling the Nexus English | 2026 | ISBN: 103276242X | 246 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 24.16 MB The brain regions and neuronal processes that underlie addiction extensively overlap with those needed for cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning. Addiction negatively impacts cognitive functions, making it more challenging to maintain abstinence and potentially leading to progression into neurodegenerative disorders. Furthermore, individuals living with neurodegenerative disorders can engage in behaviors, such as self-medication, due to impaired judgment and impulsivity associated with their condition. Addressing either of these conditions becomes markedly more intricate when they co-occur. This book explores the intricate and often overlooked connection between neurodegenerative disorders and addiction. It delves into the complex interplay between the two areas, discussing preclinical to clinical findings that highlight commonalities, shared risk factors, causality, comorbidity, management, and evidence-based interventions. By examining all these factors, an international team of contributors offer a comprehensive understanding of this underexplored intersection and its profound implications on affected individuals and their families, the healthcare system, and treatment strategies. ![]() Acting: Keywords and Concepts English | 2026 | ISBN: 1350387231 | 153 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 59.66 MB An accessible and authoritative compendium of key concepts in acting, this book reveals how the craft has been understood by the world's leading practitioners and theorists. ![]() Graham Jones, "Acinemas: Lyotard's Philosophy of Film" English | ISBN: 1474418945 | 2017 | 240 pages | MOBI | 739 KB This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists examine Lyotard's film work and influence across two sections: 'Approaches and Interpretations' and 'Applications and Extensions'. These works are complemented by an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. ![]() Eris Young, "Ace Voices" English | ISBN: 178775698X | 2022 | 288 pages | MOBI | 683 KB How do we experience attraction? ![]() Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" English | ISBN: 0197800882 | 2025 | 352 pages | MOBI | 5 MB Kim Il-sung was the enigmatic architect of North Korea. His life is an extraordinary tale of improbable success: once a barely educated guerrilla fighter, he rose to lead the nation at the young age of 33. Against all odds, he established a horrifyingly stable dictatorial regime, one that still struggles to provide for its people, yet could obliterate Hollywood, Silicon Valley and much of East Asia in nuclear strikes. ![]() Accessible Communications: Create Impact, Avoid Missteps and Build Trust English | 2025 | ISBN: 1398621846 | 329 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 4.52 MB Ready to build credibility and optimize your communications for real business impact? ![]() Johanna Stiebert, "Abuse in World Religions " English | ISBN: 1032341254 | 2025 | 102 pages | EPUB | 336 KB This book opens out religious studies discussion on spiritual abuse to extend beyond the primary focus on Christian settings and situations. Emphasising the diversity and reach of manifestations of spiritual abuse, it offers snapshots and examples from five major religious traditions. |