Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation By Lama Jabb
2015 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1498503330 | PDF | 3 MB
This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of "birth" and presents this period as marking a "rupture" with traditional forms of literature, this book goes beyond such an interpretation by foregrounding instead the persistence of Tibet's artistic past and oral traditions in the literary creativity of the present. While acknowledging the innovative features of modern Tibetan literary creation, it draws attention to the hitherto neglected aspects of continuity within the new. This study explores the endurance of genres, styles, concepts, techniques, symbolisms, and idioms derived from Tibet's rich and diverse oral art forms and textual traditions. It reveals how Tibetan kāvya poetics, the mgur genre, life-writing, the Gesar epic and other modes of oral and literary compositions are referenced and adapted in novel ways within modern Tibetan poetry and fiction. It also brings to prominence the complex and fertile interplay between orality and the Tibetan literary text. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach drawing on theoretical insights in western literary theory and criticism, political studies, sociology, and anthropology, this research shows that, alongside literary and oral continuities, the Tibetan nation proves to be an inevitable attribute of modern Tibetan literature.

Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society: A Revolution in Economic Thinking by Multi-objective Optimization by Willem K. Brauers
English | PDF | 2004 | 329 Pages | ISBN : 1402076819 | 23.2 MB
For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world. This world has to take into account the meaning of all stakeholders involved and has to reconcile a number of objectives, such as economic growth, employment and preservation of the ecosystem. Traditional methods, such as cost-benefit, are outmoded as they translate all these objectives into monetary costs, a materialistic approach. On the contrary, objectives have rather to stick to their own units, eventually indicators.

Operations and Supply Management 4.0: Industry Insights, Case Studies and Best Practices (Future of Business and Finance) by Marc Helmold
English | April 13, 2021 | ISBN: 3030686957 | 192 pages | MOBI | 11 Mb
Fierce competition, globalisation and the permanent liberalisation of markets have changed the face of supply chains and operations drastically. Companies, which want to survive in a hostile environment, must establish the optimum combination of supply and operations. This book provides a holistic and practical approach to operations management 4.0 and supply management 4.0. It combines operations and supply best practices across the value chain. It explains comprehensively, how these new paradigms enable companies to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term sustainable and competitive advantage.

Operation 'Torch' North Africa: Then and Now
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1870067967 | 312 Pages | EPUB | 54 MB
When the western Allies decided to launch a second front in North Africa, they carefully considered the anti-British feeling left in France by the ill-advised attack by the Royal Navy on the French Fleet at Mers el Kébir in July 1940. Consequently, the operation was given an American rather than a British complexion, General Eisenhower was chosen to lead a mostly American force into battle and the major Royal Navy contribution was kept as inconspicuous as possible. This operation marked the first time that American troops fought against German forces during the Second World War. They had a rough baptism of fire in southern Tunisia in February 1943, training, equipment and leadership failed in many instances to meet the requirements of the battlefield, but the US Army was quick to learn and revise army doctrines, particularly with respect to the use of armor. The successful campaign created thousands of seasoned soldiers of all ranks whose experience would prove decisive in subsequent campaigns. The next test was only two months away - the invasion of Sicily. In addition, Operation 'Torch' brought the French army back into the war. Most important of all, the Allies had seized the initiative in the West.

Tony Hawks, "One Hit Wonderland"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0091882109, 0753156318 | 352 pages | EPUB | 0.93 MB
It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is Tony Hawks.

On Cinema (World Cinema) by Glauber Rocha, edited by Ismail Xavier, translated by Charlotte Smith, Stephanie Dennison, Cecília Mello
English | February 7, 2019 | ISBN: 178076703X, 1350253170 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1.7 MB
Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Hitherto virtually unknown outside Brazil is that he was also a brilliant film critic and innovative thinker on world cinema. On Cinema brings together for the first time in the English language a comprehensive selection of Rocha's film writings, revealing for the first time to English-speaking readers the full critical power, inventiveness and vision of a great filmmaker. Rocha's writings, endowed with critical verve and humour, give insights into key moments of film history, as well as the politics of world cinema.

Offensive Intelligence: 300 techniques, tools and tips to know everything about everyone, in companies and elsewhere By Philippe Dylewski
2021 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 1096819295 | EPUB | 5 MB
Offensive Intelligence is a compendium of tips, tools and techniques for finding out everything about everyone, in the corporate world and beyond. This practical manual will teach you how to conduct a professional investigation, both in the field and on your computer. You will learn the secrets of Google Hacking and the dark web, and also how to locate a person with a simple photo, an e-mail address or a telephone number. You will know everything about the real-time situation of your competitors and partners.This is a book for learning. It is not written to be read but to be experienced.This book is for you if you want to master Google Hacking, the dark web, know everything about your competitors' or partners' projects, become familiar with spy equipment, find a person, locate a place from a photo, test facial recognition, understand how easy it is to usurp an identity, including a person's email address, take control of security cameras all over the world, use original methods to track the best candidates for a job, find out everything about the financial health of a company in real time and all over the world, find unlikely information on social networks, carry out stakeouts and shadowing, detect lies. ..Offensive Intelligence is a manual of investigation that deals as much with remote intelligence methods as with human intelligence or field investigation.Table of contentsI. Introduction II. Extensive research on Google and Google hacking1. Search engines2. Basic searches3. Advanced searches4. Offensive applications with Google Hacking5. Locating a place, or a person with only a photo6. Be warned in real time, of any change in your target7. Google video8. How to find a word on a web page quicklyIII. The power of OSINT (open-source intelligence) search1. Risks related to an OSINT survey2. OSINT tools3. Translating your documents perfectly with artificial intelligence4. Search engines for hackers and the art of entering through doors left open5. Locating an IP address6. Locating an Email address7. Finding information about the origin of a digital photo8. Tracing an individual's life through a photo9. Extensive investigations via satellite images10. Tracking a target by sending a detection linkIV. Techniques and tools for sourcing candidates1. Finding candidates' emails on LinkedIn2. Automating a search on LinkedIn. LinkedIn's limitations and how to work around them3. Finding emails from people who work in your target company4. Finding candidates on LinkedIn via Google5. Search for candidates on LinkedIn with a free accountV. Spy equipmentVI. Detecting lies in a CVVII. Knowing everything about your competitorsVIII. The best tools and techniques for email extractionIX. Spying on social networksX. Knowing everything about your business partnersXI. The dark webXII. Organizing stakeouts and shadowing1. Organizing a stakeout2. Organizing a hideoutXIII. ConclusionPhilippe Dylewski is a trained psychologist. He ran a recruitment agency before becoming a private detective, then a business intelligence specialist. He now lives in Thailand and coordinates the activities of a group specializing in the search for missing persons throughout the world. He has published several manuals and novels in France and Belgium.

Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa : A Critical Perspective
by Nathanael Ojong
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031138244 | 389 Pages | True ePUB | 6.94 MB

Notes from Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky
2004 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 067973452X | PDF | 1 MB
Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

New Secrets of the Great Past of Humanity: The mysticism of ancient cultures by Daniela D. Frost
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09MCCK3S8 | 166 pages | EPUB | 0.21 Mb
Ancient civilizations left behind many mysteries and secrets that excite the imagination: Egyptian pyramids, Inca religious buildings, Cambodian temple complexes, Aztec buildings and other buildings and artifacts.