Start Read Program: An illustrated and fun introduction to programming. Hands-on with Python! by Poornam
English | October 20, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09K26LSY5 | 110 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
*The paperback version has both a black and white and a color option, click on 'See all formats and editions' above to find other versions*Unlike many coding toys and resources, this book teaches the real thing, actual programming with Python that one would do as a professional / college student.The book teaches you what you need to know to start programming, in a well explained but in an exciting and succinct manner.It teaches how to attack a problem in order to solve it using a computer program.9 Years and older can read and follow the book. Exercises 8 and onwards are for slightly older kids or any adventurous 9 year old!Learn by doing! Hands-on section teaches real life Python programming with screen shots for every step.Appendix has step-by-step instructions with screen-shots to get set up with Python.Every concept is explained with visuals and clear explanation of each step of the program.A funny and captivating story teaches the basics of programming the fun way!Covers all basic concepts in programming - iterations, conditions, variables, functions and more.Includes additional exercise programs with solutions, programming tips, a glossary of programming terminology.Excellent gift to anyone getting into programming!Computer programming is not only fun, it is simple and intuitive too! Anyone can program! Programming is an essential skill of the future. It is a powerful tool, which in the hands of a biologist can help make ground-breaking discoveries. In the hands of an artist can create spectacular visual effects!

Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr
English | November 9, 2021 | ISBN: 0593420470 | 448 pages | PDF | 71 Mb
"If you care about climate change, John Doerr's new book, Speed & Scale, offers concrete steps that we can all take to make a difference." - Barack Obama

Sam Griffiths, Alexander von Lünen, "Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1472450299 | PDF | pages: 314 | 35.5 mb
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly efforts to understand the urban built environment as a meaningful agent of human social experience. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and neighbourhood. The aim is to challenge their tacit treatment as universal categories in much writing on cities and to propose alternative research possibilities with implications as much for urban design thinking as for history and the social sciences.

Leonardo Cardoso, "Sound-Politics in São Paulo "
English | ISBN: 0190660090 | 2019 | 266 pages | PDF | 9 MB
How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of shared existence. In the throes of the post-dictatorship period, Brazil's legislative and executive branches implemented a series of sweeping measures to address quality of life concerns, including environmental pollution and urban inequality. In São Paulo, noise control became a recurrent controversy, growing in size and scale between the 1990s and 2010s. Together with the much-debated fear of crime and the socioeconomic and cultural tensions between the rich urban center and the poor peripheries, such ecological agendas against noise as a harmful pollutant have reconfigured the presence of environmental sounds in the city. In this book, Cardoso argues that the framing of specific sounds as unavoidable, unnecessary, or as harmful

Soft Skills Deliverring Hard Numbers by Steve Farmer
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BH4WXHW2 | 225 pages | EPUB | 2.68 Mb
The modern leadership challenge is how to enable your people to be the best that they can be. People no longer work just to pay the gas bill, they want interesting and engaging activity, they want to feel like they are making a difference and it is important to them that the vision and values of the organisation are in congruence with their own. This book is an ideal guide for leaders in the modern workplace who want to understand what engages, motivates and influences people to be their very best. It encourages the reader to understand the whole person from a mental and physical health perspective and looks at some of the modern challenges in our lives that complicate the traditional views of 9am to 5pm responsibility where employees were expected to leave their personal lives at the door. Organisations that truly understand employee engagement and harness softer leadership skills significantly outperform the companies that concentrate purely on the hard numbers. A softer approach to delivering hard numbers is a truly sustainable approach to longer term success.

Margaret Connolly, "Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation "
English | ISBN: 1108426778 | 2019 | 330 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of practical information for the household; and as a professional manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.

Eric Nellis, "Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1442605553 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.8 mb
Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.

Secrets of the Past and Unexplained Phenomena (Extended edition): The great mystical ways of the ancients by Gina T. Gibbons
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08LZLXFYT | 171 pages | EPUB | 1.47 Mb
This is an extended edition. It added new sections in which we will discuss the hidden reptilians on Earth and the mysteries of the death of Titanic.

Jeffrey Stuart Kerr, "Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas "
English | ISBN: 0896729745 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The founding of Austin sparked one of the Republic of Texas's first great political battles, pitting against each other two Texas titans: Lamar, who in less than a year had risen to vice president from army private, and Sam Houston, the hero of San Jacinto and a man both loved and hated throughout the Republic. The shy, soft-spoken, self-righteous Lamar dreamed of a great imperial capital in the wilderness, but to achieve it faced the hardships of the frontier, the mighty Comanche nation, the Mexican army, and the formidable Houston's political clout.

Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, "Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns "
English | ISBN: 0367759063 | 2022 | 182 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel, teleportation, and supernatural abilities to address cosmopolitan concerns such as human rights, climate change, economic precarity, and mobility. This book identifies and analyses the new transnational turn towards cosmopolitanism in science fiction cinema since the beginning of the twenty-first century.