Susan Fair, "American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1510703802 | 336 pages | EPUB | 3.5 MB
The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.

Rick Santorum, William J. Bennett, "American Patriots: Answering the Call to Freedom"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1414379080 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 2.8 mb
The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle for independence, these heroic men and women willingly shed their blood, sweat, and tears―often sacrificing their own lives and fortunes in order to hand down the precious legacy of freedom we all enjoy today. Now is the time for a new generation of American patriots to rise up and join in the fight. Now is the time for every American to return to the virtues, values, and ideals that formed our foundation of freedom, and enable America to remain a great nation, a powerful democracy, and a beacon of hope for the world.

Dr. Yehuda Bauer, "American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945"
English | ISBN: 0814343481 | 2017 | 522 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews through ought the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported and killed are set in the context of the hopes and frustrations of the heroic individuals and small groups who actively worked to prevent the Nazis' Final Solution.

William J. Bennett, John T. E. Cribb, "America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1496405935 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.8 mb
We live in a culture that often dismisses and ridicules conservative values. By the time liberal professors, the news media, and Hollywood get through with them, many young Americans are convinced "conservative" means extremist and intolerant. It's a distortion that endangers America's future. Bill Bennett and coauthor John Cribb explain what conservatism really means, using five fundamental principles summarized by the word FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, and Traditional values. America the Strong shows the next generation how these principles have made the United States a great nation and why they are worth preserving. It answers more than one hundred questions, from "Do conservatives hate the government?" to "What's wrong with having an open border?" to "Why can't rich people pay all the taxes?"

Katrin Bentley, "Alone Together: Making an Asperger Marriage Work"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1843105373 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.0 mb
Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship. Thousands of people live in Asperger marriages without knowing the answers to important questions such as `What behaviours indicate that my spouse has AS?' `Is it worthwhile to get a diagnosis?' `Is there hope for improvement?'

Evelio Padilla, "Air-Insulated Substations: Design and Project Management"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1726295613 | ASIN: B08128XZF3 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 2.7 mb
Although already there is some literature about general concepts applied in electric substation design, this work intends to be the first process-oriented approach dedicated to Air-Insulated Substations in which a step-by-step design procedure and a well-structured strategy for managing substation projects are presented. Key features:-Electrical phenomena that occur in power systems are explained in a comprehensible manner.-Environmental impact of substation projects is analyzed from both standpoints: Impact of the environment on substation functionality and impact of the substation and its components on the environment.-A method to gain local community acceptance of new transmission infrastructure is proposed.-Check lists of technical characteristics for substation major components are displayed.-Technical studies required in substation projects are discussed. -Substation specification in functional modality is outlined.-A number of critical issues in project developing such as quality assurance activities, transport study for power transformers and construction inspection practices are also included.-Main concepts of IEC 61850 Standard have been incorporated.-Criteria for economic optimization in substation projects are offered.Practitioner engineers and technicians in electrical utilities, personnel of substation constructors, manufacturers of substation components and other players in the field of electric power system may adopt this publication as a useful tool to accomplish their corporative responsibilities. It can also be useful in professional training courses.

Stefan Stenudd - Aikido: The Peaceful Martial Art
BookSurge Publishing | 2008 | ISBN: 1419658794 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 96.58 MB
Aikido is a martial art unlike any other. It contains no attacks, only defense, and this defense should be so gentle that even the attacker is delighted by it. There is no competition, since each participant should be a winner. It's an art that takes a lifetime to learn. The book elaborates on the ethics involved in practicing this martial art, the philosophy on which it's founded, and the attitude needed to progress in aikido. It also goes through the many significant Japanese terms used, explaining their meaning in training as well as in the martial arts context and theory. Among the terms explored are the three words that make up the name of the art: ai, joining, ki, the universal life energy, and do, the way. Tanden, the center, is also explained thoroughly, as is kiai, the concentration of energy, takemusu, the ideal of improvised martial arts, and many other concepts used in aikido as well as the other Japanese martial arts. One chapter is dedicated to kototama, the cosmology of sounds that the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, studied intensely. There is also a dictionary of the terminology used in aikido.

Kathryn Howell, "Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC: A Framework for Local Funding, Collaborative Governance and Community"
English | ISBN: 0367333090 | 2021 | 188 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning.

Advances in Global Sourcing. Models, Governance, and Relationships: 7th Global Sourcing Workshop 2013, Val d'Isère, France, March 11-14, 2013, Revised Selected Papers By Marko Nöhren, Armin Heinzl, Tommi Kramer (auth.), Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie P. Willcocks (eds.)
2013 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 3642409504 | PDF | 3 MB
This book contains 13 papers from the 7th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Val d'Isère, France, during March 11-14, 2013, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They are based on a vast empirical base brought together by leading researchers in information systems, strategic management, and operations.This volume is intended for students, academics, and practitioners interested in research results and experiences on outsourcing and offshoring of information technology and business processes. The topics discussed represent both client and supplier perspectives on sourcing of global services, combine theoretical and practical insights regarding challenges that both clients and vendors face, and include case studies from client and vendor organizations.

Advanced Composite Materials and Structures: Modeling and Analysis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036774631X | 309 Pages | PDF (True) | 21 MB
This book bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and their implementations, especially for the high-performance structures/components related to advanced composite materials. This work focuses on the prediction of various structural responses such as deformations, natural frequencies etc. of advanced composites under complex environments and/or loading conditions. In addition, it discusses micro-mechanical material modeling of various advanced composite materials that involve different structures ranging from basic to advanced, such as beams, flat and curved panels, shells, skewed, corrugated, and other materials, as well as various solution techniques via analytical, semi-analytical, and numerical approaches.