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![]() How Emotionally Mature Are You?: A guide to psychological adulthood by The School of Life English | March 11, 2025 | ISBN: 1915087120 | 160 pages | PDF | 1.52 Mb From The School of Life- a roadmap for the emotionally mature adult ![]() Gerhard Gründer, "How Do We Want to Live?: We Decide Ourselves About Our Future" English | ISBN: 3662642247 | 2022 | 180 pages | MOBI | 1457 KB Do you also ask yourself how much your thinking, feeling and behavior are determined by your genes and biology? Do you doubt that interfering with our brain chemistry will make us happier and more content people? Are you skeptical that computer algorithms can capture your essence as a human being? ![]() How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (Princeton Frontiers in Physics) by Abraham "Avi" Loeb English | August 8, 2010 | ISBN: 0691145164, 9781400834068 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 4.8 MB A concise introduction to cosmology and how light first emerged in the universe ![]() How Computers Actually Work: The No-Nonsense Guide to Understanding Your Machine English | 24 Jan. 2026 | ASIN: B0GJJ72GG2 | 162 pages | Epub | 1.95 MB How Computers Actually Work: The No-Nonsense Guide to Understanding Your Machine You use a computer every day, but when something goes wrong - file vanishes, printer rebels, Wi-Fi dies, sketchy popup appears - you're helpless. You click around hoping something works. You google random forum posts. You ask the "tech person" in your life. It doesn't have to be this way. This book isn't about turning you into a programmer or IT professional. It's about building a mental model of what's actually happening inside that glowing rectangle so you can stop treating it like a magic box that occasionally betrays you. Written in plain language with zero condescension, it covers everything from how files actually work to why "free" apps want your data to how social media algorithms manipulate your attention. You'll learn to troubleshoot problems methodically instead of panicking, protect your privacy without becoming a hermit, and even mod your games without breaking everything. The machine has rules. Learn them, and it stops being your master. What's Inside: The three-box model of how computers actually think (CPU, RAM, storage - demystified) File systems, paths, and why your stuff keeps "disappearing" Networks, Wi-Fi, and why "the internet is down" is actually three different problems Web security basics: HTTPS, phishing, and why that padlock icon doesn't mean what you think Privacy and tracking: what Big Tech harvests from you and how to fight back Search engine skills that make you look like a wizard Cloud storage without the "I deleted it and now it's gone everywhere" disasters Printers (yes, they're terrible - here's why and how to win) Game modding done right: mod managers, load order, protecting your setup from updates Troubleshooting scenarios that teach you to diagnose like a pro ![]() Omar Youssef Cheta, "How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt" English | ISBN: 1503643395 | 2025 | 268 pages | PDF | 4 MB When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of private entrepreneurs, both foreign and local. How Commerce Became Legal explores the legal and business practices that resulted from this fusion of Ottoman, French, and Islamic legal concepts and governed commerce in Egypt. Focusing on the decades between the formalization of Cairo's practical autonomy within the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s and its incorporation into the British Empire in the 1880s, Omar Cheta considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance that would persist for decades to come. He highlights the demarcation of a new law-defined commercial realm separate from the land regime and from civil or family-centered exchanges, and reconstructs these changes through both legal codes and state orders, as well as individual merchant voices preserved in court documents. As this book documents both individual experiences and structural explanations, it offers a rare perspective on the scope and reach of market governance over the mid nineteenth century, revealing changes simultaneously from within and without state institutions. ![]() How Children Learn to be Healthy By Barbara J. Tinsley 2002 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0521580986 | PDF | 1 MB Exploring the ways in which children learn to be healthy, this book examines children's understanding of health, from early childhood through adolescence, and how it affects their behavior and actual physical health. The study scrutinizes the ways in which parents, other children, schools, media, and children's home and neighborhood influence children's health, attitudes and behavior. ![]() Duncan Green, "How Change Happens" English | ISBN: 0198785399 | 2016 | 288 pages | MOBI | 891 KB Society is full of would-be 'change agents'-campaigners, government officials, enlightened business people, engaged intellectuals-set on improving public services, reforming laws and regulations, guaranteeing human rights, achieving a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, and greater recognition for any number of issues. Drawing on many first-hand examples and numerous new case studies and interviews with grassroots activists and organizations around the world, as well as Oxfam's unrivalled global experience, this important book answers the question: how does change happen and how can we-governments, organizations, businesses, leaders, campaigners, employees, and ordinary citizens-make a difference? ![]() House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky English | 7 Dec. 2023 | ISBN: 1035901382, 9781035901418 | True EPUB | 608 pages | 5.6 MB ![]() Meg Xuemei X, "House of Fae and Mist: Brides Selection " English |ASIN : B0CQW3RHCP | 2023 | 290 pages | MOBI | 390 KB I have no intention of being anyone's bride, let alone fighting tooth and nail to get there. ![]() Hotel Engineering and Maintenance by 3G Elearning English | January 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1984679082 | 323 pages | PDF | 15 Mb The terms maintenance and engineering have different meanings to different people. In some hotels in recent years, the terms have been combined under the heading of facilities management or facilities engineering. The maintenance and engineering department has been treated as a catch-all department, which literally means that if a problem is not related to food, marketing or sales, housekeeping or accounting, then it must be a maintenance and engineering responsibility. The engineering department of a hotel has great importance inasmuch as it provides utility services like electricity, steam, hot water, air-conditioning and refrigeration, and maintains engineering and services of various other equipment. Provisions of proper services and proper maintenance affairs in hotels have a great impact on the attitude of the guest. Therefore, the hotel engineering department has a big responsibility in satisfying guest demands and is instrumental in maintaining the profit level of hotels up to a reasonable standard. |