Dennis A Cunningham, "The Golden Age Of Comics * EC Artists Sans EC Comics"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B086P9BF6Q, B086S26L9Z, B09WPW7832 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 36.0 mb
EC Artists Sans EC Comics is the 4th volume and largest of the Golden Age Of Comics comic book cover collections. While digging up material for the last 3 volumes I couldn't help but notice the covers by some the best artists that were destined to join the elite group at EC Comics. The rules for entry into this volume are simple; the covers must be golden age created by EC artists, but not published by EC. Most EC fans have seen all of the EC comic covers, but few have seen many of those same artist's covers done outside of EC. This collection features 150+ digitally repaired and restored comic book covers from the golden age; all full-page and in full color. Artists in this volume include Sid Check, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, George Evans, Al Feldstein, Frank Frazetta, Harry Harrison, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernie Kringstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood. Includes info on publishers, dates, artists, comments, and factoids.

Jay Winter, "The Global Spread of Fertility Decline: Population, Fear, and Uncertainty"
English | ISBN: 0300139063 | 2013 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This eye-opening book looks at demographic trends in Europe, North America, and Asia-areas that now have low fertility rates-and argues that there is an essential yet often neglected political dimension to a full assessment of these trends. Political decisions that promote or discourage marriage and childbearing, facilitate or discourage contraception and abortion, and stimulate or restrain immigration all have played significant roles in recent trends.

The Foreign Policy of Hamas : Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy
by Leila Seurat
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1838607455 | 313 Pages | True PDF | 19.6 MB

The Essential Wallerstein By Immanuel Wallerstein
2000 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 1565845935 | PDF | 10 MB
Key essays from the "prolific, provocative, 'big-picture theorist'" (Booklist) and originator of world-systems analysis. Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. The Essential Wallerstein brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship.This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. The Essential Wallersteinis an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science.This is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.

The Entrepreneurial Adventure: From Small Business to SME and Beyond
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1637422792 | 172 Pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB
This book is perfect for anyone looking at business and entrepreneurship. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in business and anyone who has aspirations to start their own business-outlining key principles of the entrepreneurial adventure and the business world, bringing it to life using case studies.

The Eiffel Tower: The History of Paris' Most Famous Landmark by Charles River Editors
English | April 15, 2015 | ISBN: 1511735643 | 61 pages | EPUB | 2.12 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction written by Gustave Eiffel and others *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it is one of the most striking of our modern national genius." - Gustave Eiffel It's the home of kings, emperors, and aristocrats, and the home of the Champs-Élysées, the Bastille, the Louvre and the salons that fueled the Enlightenment. For foreigners like Benjamin Franklin, it was the most beautiful city in the world, and millions of people still visit those same sites every year. Known as the "City of Light," Paris seamlessly blends its rich past with all the trappings of a modern city, and the city's features and qualities are taken for granted today, but Paris was not always that way. In fact, it took nearly half a century of redesigning the city during the 19th century to transform it into the city it is today. Paris's expansion also required new monuments, administrative buildings, and other public buildings. The urban renewal of Paris coincided with the Neoclassicism movement in art and architecture that had taken hold across Europe, which incorporated the classical architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. All over Paris, builders constructed marble colored buildings with arches, pillars, domes, and neoclassical art that used the themes of antiquity. Fittingly, the construction of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World's Fair was a capstone of sorts to the reconstruction of Paris, and it remains one of the world's most famous and visited landmarks. Designed as an entrance to the fair, the Eiffel Tower, soaring over 1,050 feet into the air, was an architectural wonder that served as the world's tallest man-made object for over 40 years. As its designer, Gustave Eiffel, put it, "It seems to me that f it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also that of engineers and builders called from across the world to build bridges, viaducts, stations and major monuments of modern industry, the Eiffel Tower deserves to be treated with consideration." Though it may be hard to believe today, the Eiffel Tower was initially met with derision by many Frenchmen, some of whom compared it to the Tower of Babel and complained that the "useless and monstrous" structure would obscure treasures such as Notre Dame. In response to such criticisms, Eiffel himself pointed out, "Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply." It's safe to say that Eiffel was correct. Each year, millions of people refute those original notions by riding to the top and making it the most visited paid monument in the entire world. Indeed, the Eiffel Tower has welcomed over 250 million visitors in less than 130 years. Eiffel had the good fortune of being vindicated in his lifetime, and as he once joked, "I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am." The Eiffel Tower: The History of Paris' Most Famous Landmark traces the history of the landmark from its construction to the present day. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Eiffel Tower like never before, in no time at all.

Sprenger, Stephan, "The Effects of Silica Nanoparticles in Toughened Epoxy Resins and Fiber-Reinforced Composites"
English | 2015 | pages: 180 | ISBN: 1569906270 | PDF | 15,9 mb

by Tony Whitten, Greg S. Henderson, "The Ecology of Sulawesi"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9625930752 | PDF | pages: 853 | 36.2 mb
The Ecology of Sulawesi is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's least populated and most diverse islands.

Andrew J. Marshall, Bruce M. Beehler, "The Ecology of Papua: Part One"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0794603939 | PDF | pages: 785 | 148.5 mb
Ecology of Papua Part I is a definitive guide to the ecology and natural history of Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. From the Ecology of Indonesia series, this title, along with Part II, contains essays by the world's leading experts on Papua's physical environment, flora, fauna, natural ecosystems, human interactions with nature and the conservation of natural resources.