American Legends: The Life of Billy Graham by Charles River Editors
English | March 2, 2018 | ISBN: 1986133575 | 86 pages | EPUB | 1.29 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes Graham's quotes about his life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." - Billy Graham A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the 21st century, Americans are intimately familiar with televangelists and preachers with a national reputation, and their shows are ubiquitous, but in the middle of the 20th century, the phenomenon was popularized by the most famous evangelist in American history: Billy Graham. As biographer Grant Wacker put it, "By the middle 1960s, he had become the 'Great Legitimator'. ...His presence conferred sanctity on events, authority on presidents, acceptability on wars, desirability on decency, [and] shame on indecency....By the middle 1970s, many deemed him 'America's pastor.'" By his mid-20s, Graham was a Baptist pastor in the Midwest, and throughout the 1940s, he began traveling across the country to spread his ministry and message through large gatherings that he termed "crusades." In time, these crusades would take place in nearly 200 nations and attract hundreds of millions of people, helping catapult him to international prominence and making him a household name. In the process, Graham became a figure of political importance, not only for his outspoken stances on issues like civil rights and other social issues but because he was close to political leaders like Dwight D. Eisenhower. At the same time, he was controversial among some, including Harry Truman, who was quoted as saying "I hadn't ought to say this, but he's one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he's a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I was President. I just don't go for people like that. All he's interested in is getting his name in the paper." When President Nixon's tapes were declassified, some of Graham's anti-Semitic comments to the president about Jews controlling the media were also made public, further tarnishing his image. Nonetheless, Graham continues to be a popular figure, and it's estimated that his message has reached more than 2 billion people through radio, television, and other media. In conjunction with that, it's believed that he has converted millions of people to Christianity. American Legends: The Life of Billy Graham examines the life and career of America's most famous evangelist. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Billy Graham like never before, in no time at all.

Algorithmic Principles of Mathematical Programming by Ulrich Faigle, Walter Kern, Georg Still
English | PDF | 2002 | 342 Pages | ISBN : 140200852X | 30.4 MB
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Algebra, Revised Third Edition by Serge Lang
English | PDF | 2002 | 923 Pages | ISBN : 038795385X | 66.1 MB
This book is intended as a basic text for a one-year course in Algebra at the graduate level, or as a useful reference for mathematicians and professionals who use higher-level algebra. It successfully addresses the basic concepts of algebra. For the revised third edition, the author has added exercises and made numerous corrections to the text.

Gregory P Bullock, "Algebra in Words 2: MORE Hints, Strategies and Simple Explanations"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1511695994 | ASIN: B00S4JF88S | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.8 mb
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R.W. Sharples, "Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780933681 | PDF | pages: 152 | 9.7 mb
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has been a central text in moral philosophy since the fourth century BC. The Ethical Problems attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias - the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle - not only shows us how Aristotle's work was discussed in Alexander's own day (c. 200 AD) but offers interpretations and insights that are valuable in their own right. Topics discussed include pleasure and distress, moral virtue, the criteria for judging actions voluntary, the development of moral understanding, and the place in ethics of utility, political community and a sense of shame.

Airimagination: Extending the Airline Business Boundaries
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032327464 | 237 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
Unprecedented social changes, accelerated by facilitating technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic, are calling for airlines to think deeply and non-conventionally on what will be important to existing and new travelers, as they change their lifestyles. New thinking requires airlines to extend the boundaries of their businesses to go beyond their traditional domains. This need goes beyond the renovation and iteration of conventional products to the transformation of products requiring new ideas and ways to scale them. Examples include the development of cost-effective urban air mobility, intermodal passenger transportation, door-to-door travel that is sustainable, and personalized offers.

Advances in Information Technologies for Electromagnetics by Luciano Tarricone, Alessandra Esposito
English | PDF | 2006 | 473 Pages | ISBN : 1402047487 | 9.7 MB
Advances in Information Technologies for Electromagnetics offers a broad panorama on recently achieved and potentially obtainable advances in electromagnetics with innovative IT technologies.

Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning: Proceedings of ICADCML 2022
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811910170 | 712 Pages | PDF (True) | 19 MB
This book includes a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (ICADCML 2022), organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India, during 15-16 January 2022. This book presents recent innovations in the field of scalable distributed systems in addition to cutting edge research in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain in distributed environments.

Advanced Nanocatalysts for Biodiesel Production
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036763824X | 319 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
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Advanced Fuzzy Systems Design and Applications by Yaochu Jin
English | PDF | 2003 | 276 Pages | ISBN : 3790815373 | 23.6 MB
Fuzzy rule systems have found a wide range of applications in many fields of science and technology. Traditionally, fuzzy rules are generated from human expert knowledge or human heuristics for relatively simple systems. In the last few years, data-driven fuzzy rule generation has been very active. Compared to heuristic fuzzy rules, fuzzy rules generated from data are able to extract more profound knowledge for more complex systems.