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One Soldier's War

One Soldier's War
Arkady Babchenko, "One Soldier's War"
English | ISBN: 0802144039 | 2009 | 416 pages | MOBI | 592 KB
One Soldier's War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier's experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the Guardian as "right up there with Catch-22 and Michael Herr's Dispatches," and the book won Russia's inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write "despite, not because of, their life circumstances." In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war-the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror-and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war by an extraordinary storyteller.

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One Sleeve

One Sleeve
One Sleeve By Carr, Richard
2011 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 0982010591 | PDF | 1 MB
As visceral as cerebral, Carr's narrator picks scabs off his philosophical wounds while his alter ego, One Sleeve, attempts to make sense of a fractured universe. The narrator seems innocent enough, but grows in power with each philosophical counterpoint to One Sleeve's nihilistic vision. Though the character One Sleeve seems implacable at first, his frailty gradually becomes apparent. "Irony is the new certainty," declares Carr's ambivalent narrator, caught between the physical sensations and philosophical problems of this world and the next. - David Hulm, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City

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On God and Christ The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius

On God and Christ The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius
St. Gregory of Nazianzus, "On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius"
English | 2002 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0881412406 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Gregory of Nazianzus, "The Theologian," was recognized among the Cappadocian Fathers as a peculiarly vivid and quotable exponent of the doctrine of God in Trinity. A brilliant orator and accomplished poet, he placed before the Church his interpretation of the sublime mystery of the God revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These five sermons, probably delivered as a series at the small chapel of the Resurrection in Constantinople, where Gregory was the bishop in charge of loyal "Nicenes," contain Gregory's penetrating teaching. The English translation aims to capture for the present-day reader something of the atmosphere of intellectual excitement and spiritual exhilaration experienced by his first listeners. In addition, this work contains a new translation of Gregory's letters to Cledonius, which contain more focused reflections on the person of Jesus Christ, laying the groundwork for later Christology.

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Older Yet Faster The Secret to Running Fast and Injury Free

Older Yet Faster The Secret to Running Fast and Injury Free
Keith Bateman, "Older Yet Faster: The Secret to Running Fast and Injury Free"
English | ISBN: 0994192177 | 2018 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
"Older Yet Faster" (book with colour illustrations and photos, and online lesson and exercise videos) is a manual for teaching runners how to transition to efficient running and to help them to avoid incurring almost all of the common running injuries as they do so. It is ideal for beginners to learn how to run well and for experienced runners to changeover to good technique. Coaches can also use this book as a reference on how to implement technique change for their clients, and we expect it to become the go-to manual for medical professionals, to help them deal with running related injuries caused by bad technique and footwear.After learning how injuries are caused and then gaining a good understanding of running technique in the early chapters you will be prepared to read about our technique-change system which we call "OYF Running". This consists of "Keith's Lessons" used in combination with "Heidi's Strengthening Exercises" and forms the main body of the book." Keith shows you how to run efficiently in a simple, step-by-step guide both in the book and with videos. Each Lesson provides exercises set out in a format which is both easy to understand and implement. The first three lessons teach you the basics of running correctly and the last three help you put these into practice and help you to refine your technique over the period of your transition. This program is set up so that runners can teach themselves in conjunction with the online videos and forum.Heidi's Strengthening Exercises consists of a well-ordered series of exercises which will help your body safely adjust to the redistribution of the workload and are essential to rebuild parts of the body which have been neglected due to poor technique. It should be started as soon as possible, in order to build strength and to deal with the resultant muscle and tendon soreness that you will start to experience. We identify specific injuries and how they are caused and we show how by improving running technique, and re-strengthening these injuries are quickly cured. Podiatrists will find Heidi's experiences and advice particularly interesting, especially as they will almost certainly, be in conflict with what is still taught in universities. Chapters Twelve and Thirteen, 'Managing the changes' and 'Rehabilitation', explain what should happen during the transition and what to do should you get injured, or if you are currently injured. Chapter Fourteen is very important as you must have suitable footwear to run with good technique. There is then a chapter on how your body shape will change as you adopt your new technique and a chapter on general tips and traps a list of commonly used terms, a glossary and an index.Finally, we have included three appendices: For Coaches, For Podiatrists and a detailed look at Heidi's strengthening program. In Appendix A, Keith discusses how to implement his Lessons from a coach's point of view, in Appendix B, Heidi explains how she treats her patients who are suffering with specific injuries and in Appendix C she explains her Strengthening program in greater detail for medical professionals and interested runners.

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Occupational Stress A Handbook

Occupational Stress A Handbook
Occupational Stress: A Handbook By Rick Crandall (editor), Pamela L Perrewe (editor)
1995 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 1560323671 | PDF | 21 MB
Bringing together renowned scholars, this handbook contains innovative current empirical and theoretical research in the area of job stress. The workplace is one of the major sources of stress in an individual's life. Placing this important topic in the context of a transactional process, this work is intended to be of use to practitioners working in clinical, organisational, family and health psychology, mental health, substance abuse, the military, and with families and women.; Chapters are arranged in five parts, the first considering theoretical approaches with an introductory article by Professor Emeritus Richard S. Lazarus. Next is an examination of various model testing formats, followed by a section on occupational stress research and coping mechanisms. Fourth is a collection of articles on the subject of burnout, and the book closes with two distinct interventions directed at stress reduction.

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Numismatic ArchaeologyArchaeological Numismatics

Numismatic ArchaeologyArchaeological Numismatics
Numismatic Archaeology/Archaeological Numismatics By K. A. Sheedy; K.A. Sheedy
1997 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 1900188236 | EPUB | 8 MB
These papers examine the on-going relationship between numismatic research and archaeology in Greece; they are based on a 1995 conference organised by the Athens National Museum and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in honour of Dr Mando O

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Nuclear Cardiology (Contemporary Cardiology)

Nuclear Cardiology (Contemporary Cardiology)
Nuclear Cardiology (Contemporary Cardiology) by Frans J. Th. Wackers
English | September 11, 2003 | ISBN: 0896039838 | 320 pages | PDF | 9.92 Mb
The first comprehensive guide to establishing and running a well-organized and state-of-the-art nuclear cardiology laboratory. Topics range widely from basic questions on purchasing equipment and determining space requirements to such day-to-day problems as scheduling patients and deciding what to tell them prior to arriving in the laboratory. For operational basics, seasoned experts detail radiation safety requirements, imaging and procedure protocols, routine quality assurance rules, billing procedures, dealing with commonly encountered artifacts, and preparing for accreditation.

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