From Abuse to Recovery: Understanding Addiction by Scientific American Editors
English | July 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 9781466842557 | 180 pages | True EPUB | 1.79 MB
Addiction is costly on many levels to the individuals affected, their families and society as a whole, but science may soon be able to offer treatment options to make the road to recovery a little smoother. In this eBook, Understanding Addiction, we tackle the many facets of this complex issue.

Andreas Önnerfors, "Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0198796277 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 1.3 mb
Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organizations in the world. Over the course of three centuries men (and women) have organized themselves socially and voluntarily under its name. With a strong sense of liberation, moral enlightenment, cosmopolitan openness and forward-looking philanthropy, freemasonry has attracted some of the sharpest minds in history and has created a strong platform for nascent civil societies across the globe. With the secrecy of internally communicated knowledge, the clandestine character of organization, and the enactment of rituals and the elaborate use of symbols, freemasonry has also opened up feelings of distrust, as well as allegations of secretiveness and conspiracy.

Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems: 11th International Conference, FORMATS 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 29-31, 2013. Proceedings By Étienne André, Giuseppe Pellegrino (auth.), Víctor Braberman, Laurent Fribourg (eds.)
2013 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 3642402283 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2013, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 2013. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The book covers topics of foundations and semantics (theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; comparison between different models, such as timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models); methods and Tools (techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints, e.g., scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.); applications (adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role, e.g., real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications).

Roger Shattuck, "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography"
English | ISBN: 0156005514 | | 384 pages | PDF | 1282 KB
In his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to biotechnology research. Index.

Fodor's Essential Chile (Fodor's Travel Guide), 8th Edition
English | July 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1640973575 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 117 MB
Whether you want to go hiking in Patagonia, hit the beach in Viña del Mar, or drink your way across the Central Valley wine region, the local Fodor's travel experts in Chile are here to help! Fodor's Essential Chile guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor's "Essential" guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!

Robert Sweatmon, "Five Four Whiskey: A Memory of War"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1594162077, 1594162824 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 11.6 mb
A Personal Reflection of a Frontline Soldier in Vietnam and Cambodia During the Cultural Maelstrom of the 1960s

Douglas M. Haynes, "Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980 "
English | ISBN: 1580465811 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven withthe institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory body of the medical profession. The GMC's management of the medical register from 1858 to 1980 offers important insight into the political underpinning of the profession, particularly when it came to regulating who was fit to practice medicine, under what conditions, and where. Technically, admission to the British medical register endowed all doctors with common rights andprivileges. Yet the differential treatment of women in the nineteenth century, Jewish medical refugees during World War II, and Indian doctors both before and after decolonization reveals the persistence of hierarchies of gender,national identity, and race in determining who was fit to practice British medicine.

Assoc. Prof. Miles Turnbull, "First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning "
English | ISBN: 184769196X | 2009 | 224 pages | PDF | 980 KB
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics, as well as in a variety of languages, countries, and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.

Stephen V. Ash, "Firebrand of Liberty: The Story of Two Black Regiments That Changed the Course of the Civil War"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0393065863, 0393349616 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.2 mb
A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account.

Beth Haslam, "Fat Dogs and French Estates - Part 1"
English | ISBN: 150599828X | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 657 KB
Buying a country estate in France seemed such a simple thing to accomplish. When Beth, her irascible husband Jack, and their two fat dogs set off, little do they know that it will become such an extraordinary adventure. Surviving near-death experiences, they drive thousands of kilometres around French estates steeped in history and crazy aristocrats.