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 The Cybersecurity Analyst's SQL Handbook: Query, Detect, and Prevent Data Breaches with Real-World Techniques (Programming for Cybersecurity Series) by Tony Bozeman English | November 19, 2025 | ISBN: B0G2XRH7Y8 | 141 pages | EPUB | 0.39 Mb About the technology  The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the Myth (Sports and American Culture Series) By Stuart L. Weiss 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0826217400 | PDF | 2 MB Curt Flood, former star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, is a hero to many for selflessly sacrificing his career to challenge baseball s reserve system. Sportswriters and fans have helped to paint a picture of Flood as a larger-than-life figure, a portrait that, unhappily, cannot stand closer inspection. This book reveals the real Flood more man than myth. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Weiss explains how Flood s battle against the reserve system cannot be understood in isolation from the personal experiences that precipitated it, such as his youth in a dysfunctional home, his unwavering commitment to the Cardinals, and his alcoholism. It shows that Flood was neither a hero nor a martyr but a victim of unique circumstances and his own life.  The Curse of the Self: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life By Mark R. Leary 2004 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0195172426 | PDF | 1 MB Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realize how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter interferes with their success, pollutes their relationships with others, and undermines their happiness. By allowing people to ruminate about the past or imagine what might happen in the future, self-reflection conjures up a great deal of personal suffering in the form of depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, and other negative emotions. A great deal of unhappiness, in the form of addictions, overeating, and domestic violence, is due to people's inability to exert control over their thoughts and behavior. Is it possible to direct our self-reflection in a way that will minimize the disadvantages and maximize the advantages? Is there a way to affect the egotistical self through self-reflection? In this volume, Mark Leary explores the personal and social problems that are created by the capacity for self-reflection, and by drawing upon psychology and other behavioral sciences, offers insights into how these problems can be minimized.  Jean Eisenstaedt, "The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity Was Lost and Found Again" English | ISBN: 0691118655 | 2006 | 376 pages | MOBI | 8 MB Black holes may obliterate most things that come near them, but they saved the theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory was quickly accepted as the true theory of gravity after its publication in 1915, but soon took a back seat in physics to quantum mechanics and languished for decades on the blackboards of mathematicians. Not until the existence of black holes by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the 1960s, after Einstein's death, was the theory revived.  The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 By Billie Melman 2006 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 019929688X | PDF | 3 MB Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s.  Hugo Méndez, "The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr " English | ISBN: 019284699X | 2023 | 190 pages | MOBI | 1081 KB As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity―a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely intertwined with local prestige. At that time, the city had every incentive to stretch the fame of its few, apostolic martyrs as far as possible-especially the fame of the biblical St. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6-8). What the church lacked in the quantity of its martyrs, it believed it could compensate for in an exclusive, local claim to the figure widely hailed as the "Protomartyr", "firstborn of the martyrs", and "chief of confessors" in contemporary sources. This book traces the rise of the cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, exploring such historical episodes as the fabrication of his relics, the construction of a grand basilica in his honour, and the multiplication of the saint's feast days. It argues that local church authorities promoted devotion to Stephen in the fifth century in a conscious attempt to position him as a patron saint for Jerusalem―that is, a symbolic embodiment of the city's Christian identity and power.  The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399412078 | 305 Pages | PDF | 1.5 MB  The Cubing Bible: The definitive guide to Speedcubing (From 0 to 100 in every Category) by Gael Augusto Lapeyre English | 2025 | ASIN: B0FG1WSYQM | 504 Pages | PDF | 31 MB  The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45 (Crusade Texts in Translation) By Colin Imber 2006 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0754601447 | PDF | 14 MB The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to 'liberate' Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad's victory at Varna that secured Ottoman domination of the Balkan Peninsula, with consequences which are still apparent today. Three important works, hitherto largely unnoticed in western historiography, provide eyewitness accounts of the dramatic events of 1443-45 from the Christian and the Muslim side: an anonymous Ottoman text on The Holy Wars of Sultan Murad; a section of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by the Bugundian, Jehan de Wavrin, and a German ballad on the Crusade by Michel Beheim. These are presented here for the first time in English translation, supplemented by a series of shorter contemporary texts relating to the events of the crusade, with an introduction and annotation.  The Cruel Legacy: The HMAS Voyager Tragedy By Tom Frame 2008 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1741144213 | PDF | 1 MB Forty years after the collision between the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney-in which 82 men lost their lives-this is the story of Australia's largest peacetime naval disaster, the men involved, the effect it had and continues to have on them, and the aftermath of political intrigue and cover-ups. |
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