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 Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399419986 | 336 Pages | AZW3 | 1.33 MB  Gifted and Talented in the Early Years: Practical Activities for Children aged 3 to 5 By Margaret Sutherland 2005 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 1412903688 | PDF | 1 MB Features imaginative lesson ideas for physical movement, math, language, and music, plus guidelines to help ensure that all children are given the opportunity to achieve.  Arman Schwartz, "Giacomo Puccini and His World " English | ISBN: 0691172854 | 2016 | 360 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini's operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity.  Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends edited by Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir English | July 16, 2025 | ISBN: 1836390254, 9781836390268 | True EPUB/PDF | 248 pages | 5.2/16.8 MB From the land of the sagas, a collection of little-known, little tales from myth and lore-many available in English for the first time.  Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America By Philip Marchand 2007 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0275994171 | PDF | 2 MB After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. But the vast land he claimed for France in 1682 could have become-had it not been for a few twists of history-a French-speaking empire extending more than a thousand miles beyond Quebec. This alternative North America would have been Catholic in religion and granted Native peoples a prominent role.Philip Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the ways in which the drama of this ghost empire continues to be played out in battle reenactments and in parish churches and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. Throughout the book, Marchand draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.  Gewinnende Partnerschaft: Wie du deinen Mann mit Respekt und Freude subtil umprogrammierst - Ein 8-Wochen-Programm Deutsch | 13. November 2025 | ASIN: B0G27K7GY9 | 97 Seiten | Epub | 202.96 KB Gewinnende Partnerschaft: Der 8-Wochen-Plan für mehr Unterstützung, Respekt und Nähe in deiner Beziehung Ist deine Beziehung in eine Schieflage geraten? Viele Frauen finden sich in einer Rolle wieder, die sie nie wollten: Sie sind Managerin, Hauswirtschafterin und emotionale Stütze in einem, während der Partner sich passiv verhält. Die Liebe ist da, aber die Zufriedenheit schwindet. Wenn du bereit bist, für deine Beziehung einzustehen, aber nicht länger gegen Windmühlen kämpfen willst, ist dieses Buch dein Werkzeug. Schluss mit „Erziehungsmaßnahmen" - hin zu echter Kompetenz. „Gewinnende Partnerschaft" zeigt dir einen praxiserprobten Weg, wie du durch positive Psychologie und klare Kommunikation die Muster durchbrichst, die dich unglücklich machen. Was dich in diesem 8-Wochen-Programm erwartet: ✔ Woche 1: Das Fundament - Kommunikation, die verbindet statt trennt. ✔ Woche 2: Die Revolution im Haushalt - Strategien gegen Mental Load. ✔ Woche 3: Prioritäten - wie Terminplanung endlich gerecht wird. ✔ Woche 4: Öffentlicher Respekt - Souveränität in Gesellschaft. ✔ Woche 5: Emotionale Nähe - wie ihr wieder zueinander findet. ✔ Woche 6: Konfliktmanagement - Streitkultur verbessern. ✔ Woche 7: Dranbleiben - Motivation gegen alte Gewohnheiten. ✔ Woche 8: Grenzen setzen - liebevoll, aber bestimmt. Warum dieser Ratgeber funktioniert: Statt Vorwürfe zu machen, lernst du, neue Standards zu setzen. Sie verändern deine Reaktion und damit zwangsläufig die Aktion deines Partners. Verwandle Frust in Handlungsfähigkeit. Investiere in eine Zukunft, in der du nicht nur Partnerin, sondern in der ihr wieder ein Team seid. 📘 Lege jetzt den Grundstein für eine erfüllte Partnerschaft.  Getting to Know You: Stories By David Marusek 2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0345504283 | EPUB | 1 MB Not since William Gibson and Bruce Sterling galvanized science fiction in the 1980s has the emergence of a new writer been heralded with such acclaim as that attending David Marusek, whose brilliant first novel, Counting Heads, appeared to rave reviews in 2005. But Marusek did not come out of nowhere. Aficionados of the genre had already taken note of his groundbreaking short fiction: masterfully written, profoundly thought-out examinations of futures so real they seemed virtually inevitable.Now, in this collection of ten short stories, Marusek's fierce imagination and dazzling extrapolative gifts are on full display. Five of the stories, including the Sturgeon Award-winning "The Wedding Album," a shattering look at the unintended human consequences of advanced technology, are set in the same future as Counting Heads. All ten showcase Marusek's talent for literate, provocative science fiction of the very highest order.  Marilynn Richtarik, "Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland" English | ISBN: 0192886401 | 2023 | 274 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on decades of reading, researching, and teaching Northern Irish literature and talking and corresponding with Northern Irish writers, Marilynn Richtarik describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the immediate post-conflict era. Progress in this period hinged on negotiators' ability to revise the terms used to discuss the conflict. As poet Michael Longley commented in 1998, 'In its language the Good Friday Agreement depended on an almost poetic precision and suggestiveness to get its complicated message across.' Interpreting selected literary works by Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Deirdre Madden, Seamus Deane, Bernard MacLaverty, Colum McCann, and David Park within a detailed historical frame, Richtarik demonstrates the extent to which authors were motivated by a desire both to comment on and to intervene in unfolding political situations.  Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory By Bernadette Wegenstein 2006 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0262232472 | PDF | 2 MB The body as an object of critical study dominates disciplines across the humanities to such an extent that a new discipline has emerged: body criticism. In Getting Under the Skin, Bernadette Wegenstein traces contemporary body discourse in philosophy and cultural studies to its roots in twentieth-century thought--showing how psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cognitive science, and feminist theory contributed to a new body concept--and studies the millennial body in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture.Wegenstein shows how the concept of bodily fragmentation has been in circulation since the sixteenth century's investigation of anatomy. The history of the body-in-pieces, she argues, is a history of a struggling relationship between two concepts of the body--as fragmented and as holistic. Wegenstein shows that by the twentieth century these two apparently contradictory movements were integrated; both fragmentation and holism, she argues, are indispensable modes of imagining and configuring the body. The history of the body, therefore, is a history of mediation; but it was not until the turn of the twenty-first century and the digital revolution that the body was best able to show its mediality.After examining key concepts in body criticism, Wegenstein looks at the body as "raw material" in twentieth-century performance art, medical techniques for visualizing the human body, and strategies in popular culture for "getting under the skin" with images of freely floating body parts. Her analysis of current trends in architecture and new media art demonstrates the deep connection of body criticism to media criticism. In this approach to body criticism, the body no longer stands in for something else--the medium has become the body.  Getting Started with Tech Ethics: An introduction to ethics and ethical behaviours for IT professionals (BCS User Guides) by Gillian Arnold, Darren Dalcher, Catherine Flick English | September 23, 2025 | ISBN: 1780176805 | 141 pages | PDF | 3.14 Mb In an era where technology shapes every aspect of our lives, the need for ethical guidance in IT has never been more important. Getting Started with Tech Ethics is your essential resource for understanding and applying ethics in the fast-evolving tech environment. This book equips IT professionals, from beginners to experienced leaders, with a clear ethical framework to operate within ethical boundaries, providing practical insights and real-world examples, including high-profile cases like the Horizon software scandal. Whether you're a student beginning your journey in computing, an early-career developer navigating real-world complexities for the first time, or a seasoned professional seeking to refresh your ethical lens, this book is written with you in mind. This book brings together the insights of leading figures from across the technology landscape-academics, consultants, and industry veterans. Elevate your professionalism, protect your organization, and contribute to a more responsible tech future with this indispensable guide to IT ethics. |
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