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Free Download Underwater: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and around the Globe by Irvin Muchnick
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1770417753 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 2.6 MB
While the celebrity victims of Dr. Larry Nassar and the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandals rightly got a lot of attention, the number of affected kids is far more numerous in swimming. Underwater tells the almost unbelievable story, in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East, of coaches who preyed on children while hopping from program to program, state to state, and even country to country, in a pattern similar to the pedophile priests of the Catholic Church.

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Free Download Understanding Pottery Function By James M. Skibo (auth.)
2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1461441986 | PDF | 5 MB
The 1992 publication of Pottery Function brought together the ethnographic study of the Kalinga and developed a method and theory for how pottery was actually used. Since then, there have been considerable advances in understanding how pottery was actually used, particularly in the area of residue analysis, abrasion, and sooting/carbonization. At the 20th anniversary of the book, it is time to assess what has been done and learned. One of the concerns of those working in pottery analysis is that they are unsure how to "do" use-alteration analysis on their collection. Another common concern is understanding intended pottery function-the connections between technical choices and function. This book is designed to answer these questions using case studies from the author and his colleagues for applying use-alteration analysis to infer actual pottery function. The focus of Understanding Pottery Function is on how practicing archaeologists can infer function from their ceramic collection.

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Free Download Elizabeth Grace Winkler, "Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1350355232 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 12 MB
An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations. This fully revised and updated text draws upon students' daily experiences with linguistic concepts, allowing them to integrate terminology and build analytical skills as they develop a deeper understanding of how language facilitates our lives and, collectively, our society.

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Free Download Ultimate Microservices with RabbitMQ: Master Microservices Architecture and RabbitMQ Integration to Build Scalable, Resilient Systems, and to Drive Innovation in Software Development (English Edition) by Peter Morlion
English | May 28, 2024 | ISBN: 8197256306 | 216 pages | MOBI | 75 Mb
Learn the ins and outs of a RabbitMQ-enabled microservices system.

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Free Download US Battle Tanks 1917-1945 by Steven J. Zaloga
English | May 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1472858824 | 272 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 149.45 MB
A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II.

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Free Download Sokratis Katsikas, Miguel Soriano, "Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business"
English | 2010 | pages: 259 | ISBN: 3642151515 | PDF | 4,9 mb
This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust, P- vacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2010), held in Bilbao, Spain during August 30-31, 2010. The conference continued from previous events held in Zaragoza (2004), Copenhagen (2005), Krakow (2006), Regensburg (2007), Turin (2008) and Linz (2009). The recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have raised new opportunities for the implementation of novel applications and the provision of high-quality services over global networks. The aim is to utilize this 'information society era' for improving the quality of life for all citizens, disseminating knowledge, strengthening social cohesion, generating earnings and finally ensuring that organi- tions and public bodies remain competitive in the global electronic marketplace. - fortunately, such a rapid technological evolution cannot be problem-free. Concerns are raised regarding the 'lack of trust' in electronic procedures and the extent to which 'information security' and 'user privacy' can be ensured. TrustBus 2010 brought together academic researchers and industry developers, who discussed the state of the art in technology for establishing trust, privacy and security in digital business. We thank the attendees for coming to Bilbao to participate and debate the new emerging advances in this area.

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Free Download Graham Ward, "True Religion"
English | 2002 | pages: 178 | ISBN: 0631221743, 0631221735 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Through reference to plays, poetry, novels, films and painting, this manifesto traces the genealogy of 'true religion' in the western world and makes six controversial claims about the past, present and future of religion.

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Free Download Barbara Korte, "Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900: Media Logic and Cultural Work"
English | ISBN: 3031641965 | 2024 | 281 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 11 MB
This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s, travel articles had become a staple of the periodicals market and reached readers who might never have travelled far themselves or bought a travel book. This monograph demonstrates that the representation of travel in Victorian periodicals came in forms and with cultural functions that differed from book publication, and that this media-specific representation helped to inscribe travel into the Victorian lifeworld. Based on a corpus of several general-interest periodicals targeted at different audiences, this book investigates how different readers - the family, women, young people and the working classes - engaged with travel. It argues that travel articles in periodicals performed significant cultural work because they accommodated readers to travel.

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Free Download Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques By David J. Durgan, Martin E. Young (auth.), Cam Patterson, Monte S. Willis (eds.)
2012 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 1617798908 | PDF | 8 MB
Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques provides an up-to-date introduction to the role circadian rhythms, cardiac plasticity, and mechanotransduction play in the heart, while at the same time introducing new developments in cellular, viral, and non-biologic therapies that are in the process of being developed. Importantly, the focus of this book is on topics that, due to their novelty, are largely not covered in the other major textbooks. A special emphasis is placed on the molecular basis of cardiac metabolism, new concepts in cardiac remodeling, and translational therapies and imaging techniques currently under development for clinical use. The chapters are written by experts from diverse clinical and biomedical research backgrounds. Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques simplifies the complexity of the molecular basis of disease by focusing on patient-oriented disease mechanisms and therapies and is of great value to a broad audience including physicians (e.g. cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, pathologists) as well as translational biomedical researchers in a wide range of disciplines.

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