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 Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion: How Ancient Rhetoric, Taylor Swift, and Your Own Soul Can Help You Change Your Life by Jay Heinrichs English | July 15, 2025 | ISBN: 0593735277 | 288 pages | PDF | 2.48 Mb Show yourself who's in charge using the original art of persuasion, backed by contemporary pop culture examples that make transforming your habits and achieving goals easy, even fun-from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing  Nathan J. Brown, "Arguing Islam after the Revival of Arab Politics" English | ISBN: 0190619422 | 2016 | 296 pages | MOBI | 1176 KB For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World. Public spaces were devoid of political discussions: public squares in major cities showed no signs of assemblies for political purposes. If one picked up a newspaper, one was more likely to read about the comings and goings of officials rather than any sort of comprehensive political coverage.  Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness By Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo 2006 | 325 Pages | ISBN: 0271027150 | PDF | 53 MB During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, it fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse.  Justin Arft, "Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation: The Queen and Her Question" English | ISBN: 0192847805 | 2022 | 378 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora show that the "stranger's interrogation" is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen's question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus' status in epic and memory. Arete's role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but it also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between she and her husband, Alkinoos, that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the  Areawide Pest Management: Theory and Implementation (Cabi) By O. Koul, G. Cuperus, N. Elliot 2008 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 1845933729 | PDF | 5 MB Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. The use of areawide pest management has increased dramatically over the past decade and offers potential advantages to traditional and more localized approaches. Suppression over a broad area can reduce re-infestation of previously treated areas and the specific pest management techniques may be more effective when applied over larger areas. Providing the first comprehensive discussion of areawide pest management, this book will explore the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective. Areas covered include history and development, biological and ecological impacts and recent case studies of pest management programmes.  Arduino Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Coding, Circuit Building, and Creative Projects, Sketches Hardware, Software and More! by Rama Nolan English | 2025 | ISBN: 9798227044471 | PDF | 1.66 Mb Master Arduino Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and Coding  Arduino Mastery: A Practical Cookbook: Hands-On Projects, Code Examples, and Expert Techniques for Makers and Engineers (Novice to Master in Tech) by Christopher David English | September 7, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FQ3NGPR7 | 244 pages | EPUB | 0.19 Mb Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take control of your own devices instead of relying on prebuilt technology?  Arduino & Microcontrollers for Robotics: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Programming, Sensors, Motors, and Real-Time Control (ROBOT EMPIRE Book 3) English | December 22, 2025 | ASIN: B0G9C9NHYP | 108 pages | Epub | 269.43 KB Arduino & Microcontrollers for Robotics is a practical, beginner-friendly guide designed for anyone who wants to understand how robots actually work-starting from the core electronics that power them. This book takes you step by step through programming Arduino boards, interfacing sensors, controlling motors, and building real-time robotic systems using widely available components. Inside, you'll learn: * How microcontrollers work and why they are the brain of every robot * Writing clean, efficient Arduino code for robotics applications * Connecting and using sensors such as ultrasonic, IR, and motion sensors * Controlling DC motors, servo motors, and motor drivers * Power management, wiring best practices, and hardware safety * Debugging common hardware and code issues * Building reliable, real-world robotics projects from scratch This book is ideal for students, hobbyists, engineering beginners, and self-learners who want hands-on knowledge without unnecessary theory or confusion. Whether you're building your first robot or strengthening your foundation in robotics and embedded systems, this book gives you the skills and confidence to move forward. Part of the Robot Empire Series.  Jens van de Maele, "Architectures of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Government Office Buildings in Interwar Belgium " English | ISBN: 3111552934 | 2025 | 302 pages | EPUB | 9 MB This monograph examines the interrelationship between politics and modernist architecture in interwar Belgium, focusing on political, architectural, and administrative elites as propagators of new ideas of governance. While Belgium was strongly influenced by neighbouring France and Germany, it also developed its own avant-garde approaches to socio-political problems. In the second half of the 1930s, the country was the scene of a remarkable political and architectural experiment involving an ambitious plan for the large-scale construction of modernist government office buildings. These buildings were seen as essential to the development of a technocratic model of governance, aimed at strengthening the role of the executive and minimising the influence of parliament. More specifically, the "efficient" new office architecture was supposed to create a new type of "perfect" civil servant, whose loyalties would no longer lie with political parties, but with scientists and management experts. Such experts and scientists constituted a rising elite of  Architecture and Empire in Jamaica by Louis P. Nelson English | March 15, 2016 | ISBN: 9780300211009 | 324 pages | PDF | 24 Mb Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. |
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