William F. Stark, Peter Stark, "The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0786712333, 0786714611 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 3.9 mb
In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn-the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.

Jane Leavy, "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0060883537, 0060883529 | EPUB | pages: 512 | 4.8 mb
Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle.

George Gilder, "The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy"
English | ISBN: 1594036128 | 2012 | 320 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 316 KB + 383 KB
In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel's sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of mind" and in part from Judaism itself, which, "perhaps more than any other religion, favors capitalist activity and provides a rigorous moral framework for it." Critics of Israel-in the U.S., in the surrounding countries of the Middle East and in Western European nations that are facing socialist decline-have failed the "Israel Test" because they seek to tear down this country's success rather than emulate it. America's ability and desire to defend Israel will define our future survival as a nation: "If Israel is destroyed," he says, "capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, as the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by Jews, will be in jeopardy."

Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War"
English | 2020 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 0190614897 | EPUB | 3,1 mb
In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did their perceptions evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them? How important for ending the East-West standoff were their interrelations? Would any of the realistically alternative leaders of their countries at that time have pursued approximately the same policies?

The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: Functional Neuroanatomy and Dissection Guide by Lennart Heimer
English | PDF | 1983 | 396 Pages | ISBN : 0387907416 | 89.2 MB
This book was written to serve both as a guide for the dissection of the human brain and as an illustrated compendium of the functional anatomy of the brain and spinal cord. In this sense, the book represents an updated and expanded version of the book The Human Brain and Spinal Cord written by the author and published in Swedish by Scandinavian University Books in 1961. The complicated anatomy of the brain can often be more easily appreciated and understood in relation to its development. Some insight about the coverings of the brain will also make the brain dissections more meaningful. Introductory chapters on these subjects constitute Part I of the book.

Chris Patten, "The Hong Kong Diaries"
English | ISBN: 0241560497 | 2022 | 532 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover

Maya Angelou, "The Heart of a Woman"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0812980328 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.9 mb
In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. In the meantime, her personal life takes an unexpected turn. She leaves the bail bondsman she was intending to marry after falling in love with a South African freedom fighter, travels with him to London and Cairo, where she discovers new opportunities.

Susan Macqueen, Elizabeth Bruce, Faith Gibson, "The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children's Nursing Practices"
English | 2012 | pages: 790 | ISBN: 1405109327 | EPUB | 12,9 mb
Clinical skills are a fundamental aspect ofnursing care of children and young people. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children's Nursing Practices is an evidence-based manual of practical skills in children's nursing which builds on the extensive expertise developed at Great Ormond Street Hospital. It encompasses all aspects of children's nursingfrom the most basic aspects of everyday practice to advanced practice in high dependency and intensive care to provide a comprehensive resource for all qualified nurses, students, and other health-care professionals involved in caring for children, both in the hospital and the community setting.

Matt Mochary, Alex Maccaw, Misha Talavera, "The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building"
English | 2019 | pages: 103 | ISBN: 0578599287 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback.

Seth Cable, "The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping "
English | ISBN: 0195392272 | 2010 | 272 pages | PDF | 1436 KB
The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed "pied-piping" does not actually exist.