Jack Gilbert, "Refusing Heaven: Poems"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 037571085X, 1400043654 | PDF | pages: 120 | 3.4 mb
More than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: "The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life." Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs-over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)-Gilbert's choice in this volume is to "refuse heaven." He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a rebellious assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart.

John B. Taylor, "Reform of the International Monetary System: Why and How? "
English | ISBN: 0262536757 | 2019 | 152 pages | PDF | 1259 KB
An argument that a rules-based reform of the international monetary system, achieved by applying basic economic theory, would improve economic performance.

Recycling in the Garden: Reusing Everyday Items by Angela Youngman
English | 8 Nov. 2022 | ISBN: 1399001833 | True EPUB/PDF | 160 pages | 216/229 MB
People are becoming more aware of the environment and their impact on it. Over the past decades we have become an increasingly consumerist based society. From a world in which recycling was common, single use became the norm. This throwaway society is unsustainable.

Recipes to Ensure a Successful Fasting Period: Stay Fit and Healthy with These Fast-friendly Recipes! by Keanu Wood
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09F9V6KP7 | 82 pages | EPUB | 2.92 Mb
When people read or talk about "fasting," quite a lot of people see it as an act of not eating at all. This is not the entire truth, as we have learned lately in our recipe curating mission that you can eat and fast.

Rechargeable Ion Batteries: Materials, Design, and Applications of Li-Ion Cells and Beyond
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3527350187 | 377 Pages | PDF, EPUB (True) | 103 MB
Rechargeable Ion Batteries explores the concepts and the design of rechargeable ion batteries, including their materials chemistries, applications, stability, and novel developments. Focus is given on state-of-the-art Li-based batteries used for portable electronics and electric vehicles, while other emerging ion-battery technologies are also introduced. The text addresses innovative approaches by reviewing nanostructured anodes and cathodes that pave new ways for enhancing the electrochemical performance.

Reading the Pentateuch: An Historical Introduction By John J. McDermott
2002 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0809140829 | PDF | 138 MB
Students of the Pentateuch have always been interested in historical questions. Were the patriarchs and matriarchs real people or literary creations? Did the exodus from Egypt take place the way it is described in the Bible? Were there twelve tribes of Israel? In this book John J. McDermott looks in a balanced way at the historical questions in the Pentateuch. He looks at not only the question of whether certain events happened, but also at when the text was written and what social or religious issues it was addressing at the time of its composition. This book― ―covers stories in Genesis and Exodus. ―looks at the often-neglected material in Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. ―is perfect text for undergraduate courses and adult Bible study. †

Peter Katz, "Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority "
English | ISBN: 1474476201 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction challenges literary studies to attend to surfaces rather than interpretation through a history of how we came to think about emotion, empathy and reading fiction as intertwined ideas. Against professional readers, writers of popular fiction argued that emotional reading and sensational novels cultivated an ethics of care. They turned to Associationism - an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science that understood mental phenomena through physiology - to understand language as a physiological process that draws bodies together. Emotional reading cultivated empathy in popular readers, and imbued popular fiction with cultural value.

Races of Men: Changes of the Human Race by Steve Preston
English | February 11, 2015 | ISBN: 1508430934 | 208 pages | EPUB | 6.25 Mb
This book is more than an overview of race. While it includes haplographic studies and ancestry tracing, there is still a lot that is unknown about who we are as a HUMAN race. The story begins with the first people who lived with dinosaurs and the massive mutations occurring 5 thousand and 10 thousand years ago. Why these happened are important when tracing our ancestry. This study does not cover the near term expansion and massive mixing of races. What it does is look for beginnings and endings. Both suggest mutation, separation, migration, and adaptation in a world that is just a changing as race.

Danilo Tardioli, "ROBOT2022: Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference: Advances in Robotics, Volume 1 "
English | ISBN: 3031210646 | 2023 | 623 pages | PDF | 101 MB
This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2022―Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain, on November 23-25, 2022. ROBOT 2022 is part of a series of conferences that are a joint organization of SEIDROB―Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica/Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics, and SPR―Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica/Portuguese Society for Robotic.

Qualitative Research in Criminology: Cutting-Edge Methods
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031184009 | 257 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This volume introduces innovative and inspired qualitative methods through topics on crime commission, victimisation and crime control. It highlights how qualitative methods offer significant insights that frame our understanding ofthenarratives, events, theoretical perspectives, and realities ofthesocial world.