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 The American Private School: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuel English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 8881803798 | 211 pages | PDF | 10 Mb The American Private School: A Cultural History is a history of private or independent schools in the United States over the past century. Told chronologically, the book sheds light on the important role that the K-12 private school has played in this country, filling a niche in the history of education, sociology, and the United States as a whole.  The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941: Update and Revised By Jurg Martin Gabriel 2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0333762568 | PDF | 1 MB This is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality. This important revised and updated edition contains three entirely new chapters including an insightful new introduction and conclusion, drawing on newly released documentation, most importantly on Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. Like the previous edition, this book looks at world affairs through the eyes of neutrality. It covers America's contribution to the decline of world-neutrality, the major economic and military events surrounding the Second World War, the founding of NATO and the problems of neutralism during the Vietnam War. This new edition, however, goes one step further to confirm, with fresh new evidence, the central thesis of the original volume.  The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader By Susan Smith, Melanie Dawson 2000 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0822325128 | PDF | 3 MB America at the last fin de si?cle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class that was becoming increasingly anxious about issues of race, gender, and class. The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader is a wide-ranging anthology of essays, criticism, and fiction first printed in periodicals during those last remarkable years of the nineteenth century, a decade commonly referred to as the "golden age" of periodical culture.To depict the many changes taking place in the United States at this time, Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson have drawn from an eclectic range of periodicals: elite monthlies such as Scribner's, Harper's, and the Atlantic Monthly; political magazines such as the North American Review and Forum; magazines for general readers such as Cosmopolitan and McClures; and specialized publications including the Chatauquan, Outing, and Colored American Magazine. Authors represented in the collection include Andrew Carnegie, Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Stephen Crane,W. E. B. DuBois, Jacob Riis, and Frederick Jackson Turner. A general introduction to the period, a brief contextualizing essay for each selection, and a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources are provided as well. In examining and debating the decade's momentous political and social developments, the essays, editorials, and stories in this anthology reflect a constantly shifting culture at a time of internal turmoil, unprecedented political expansion, and a renaissance of modern ideas and new technologies.Bringing together a carefully chosen selection of primary sources, The American 1890s presents a remarkable variety of views-nostalgic, protective, imperialist, progressive, egalitarian, and democratic-held by American citizens a century ago.  The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-Building in a Modern Society By Peter Thaler 2001 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 155753201X | PDF | 2 MB The Ambivalence of Identity examines nation-building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood.  John C. Winters, ""The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State" English | ISBN: 0197578225 | 2023 | 280 pages | MOBI | 13 MB In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous "Sky Walkers," the steelworkers who built the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, the Iroquois are viewed as an exceptional people who helped make the state's history unique and forward-looking.  Elizabeth Pecoraro, "The Allergy-Friendly Cookbook: Simple Recipes for the Whole Family" English | ISBN: 1684352088 | 2023 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 48 MB No one should feel left out when it comes to healthy eating, regardless of food allergies.  The All-In-One MacBook Air & Pro User Bible for Seniors: A Fully Illustrated, Stress-Free Step-by-Step Guide for Zero-Tech Beginners to Master macOS with ... Easy Guides for Seniors & Beginners) by Kris Farris English | November 7, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0G1DKB3DX | 162 pages | EPUB | 19 Mb 💻 Does your new MacBook feel more intimidating than inspiring?  The Algorithmic Trading Machine: Architecture, Engineering, and Automation (algo_trade_mac) English | December 16, 2025 | ASIN: B0G7SBDC69 | 400 pages | EPUB (True) | 10.29 MB "The Algorithmic Trading Machine: Architecture, Engineering, and Automation" The Algorithmic Trading Machine is a practical blueprint for engineers, quants, and technically minded traders who want to build institutional-grade trading systems rather than toy backtests. Instead of treating trading as a black box of "alpha," this book walks you through the machinery itself: how data flows, how decisions are computed, and how orders traverse the market. It is written for readers who care as much about latency, robustness, and deployment as they do about Sharpe ratios. Across seven tightly integrated parts, the book connects market microstructure, statistical modeling, and software architecture into a coherent end-to-end design. You will learn how to engineer clean market data pipelines; construct and validate signals with modern statistical and machine learning methods; design event-driven backtesters; and translate research into production via services, APIs, and automated CI/CD. The text then advances to portfolio optimization, cost-aware execution, low-latency infrastructure, and the governance, observability, and operational workflows that keep real capital safe. A working knowledge of Python, basic probability, and linear algebra is assumed, but each chapter is self-contained and oriented toward implementable patterns rather than theory alone. Emphasis is placed on reproducibility, automation, and realistic constraints, making the book equally suitable for prop desks, fintech startups, and independent technologists determined to build a serious algorithmic trading machi  The Airbnb Damage Playbook: Evidence, automations and claims that get paid by Edward J Blackwell English | August 22, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FNKS8Q9C | 82 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb Hosts do not lose money because platforms are cruel. They lose money because their proof is messy and their timing is late. This book fixes both. The Airbnb Damage Playbook gives you a clean, repeatable system for evidence, messages, quotes, and deadlines so your claims read like tidy office work rather than drama. You will learn what protection really covers, how handlers decide, and the exact photos and documents that move a number from maybe to paid. You will set house rules that win disputes, train your cleaner as a first responder, and build a baseline that ends he said she said arguments before they begin. You will open cases on the same day without panic, appeal with one decisive item when needed, and know when to walk away. Run the playbook and you will spend less time arguing, more time hosting, and you will keep more of every booking.  The Agent Empire: Inside the High-Stakes World of Football's Power Brokers: How Agents Control Transfers, Money & Modern Football (The Business of Football Series) by ND Publishing English | November 29, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0G4HWSJC8 | 450 pages | EPUB | 0.62 Mb Who really runs modern football? It's not the managers, owners, or superstars-it's the agents. |
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