Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum
English | April 27, 2004 | ISBN: 0801878403, 0801889715 | True EPUB | 472 pages | 2.3 MB
In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and serious filmgoers alike.

Essay on Machines in General (1786): Text, Translations and Commentaries. Lazare Carnot's Mechanics - Volume 1 by Raffaele Pisano
English | EPUB | 2021 | 364 Pages | ISBN : 3030443841 | 406 MB
This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics, mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emerging of 19th century. This research volume is the first of a set of three Springer books on Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot's (1753-1823) remarkable work: Essay on Machines in General (Essai sur les machines en général [1783] 1786). The other two forthcoming volumes are: Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement (1803) and Géométrie de position (1803).

Entrepreneurship: The Practice and Mindset by Heidi M. Neck, Christopher P. Neck, Emma L. Murray
English | January 25, 2017 | ISBN: 1483383520, 1506377734 | True EPUB | 560 pages | 67.8 MB
From Heidi Neck, one of the most influential thinkers in entrepreneurship education today, Chris Neck, an award-winning professor, and Emma Murray, business consultant and author, comes this ground-breaking new text.

Enough: Scenes from Childhood by Stephen Hough
English | 31 Jan. 2023 | ISBN: 0571362893 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 1.7 MB
An engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir from one of the world's leading pianists.

Engineering Mechanics 2: Strength of Materials: An introduction with many examples
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3662665891 | 324 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 24 MB
This book follows the classical division of engineering mechanics as taught at universities in Germany and is devoted to strength of materials, i.e. the determination of stresses and of deformations in elastic bodies. The aim of this book is to provide students with a clear introduction and to enable them to formulate and solve engineering problems in this field. For this purpose, the book provides a number of examples.

Encyclopedia of American Film Serials by Geoff Mayer
English | February 9, 2017 | ISBN: 0786477628 | True EPUB | 316 pages | 25 MB
From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics. Early heroines like Pearl White, Helen Holmes and Ruth Roland broke gender barriers and ruled the screen.

Empowered Participation or Political Manipulation? : State, Civil Society and Social Funds in Egypt and Bolivia By Rabab El-Mahdi
2011 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 9004209409 | PDF | 3 MB
Using Social Funds in Egypt and Bolivia as a microcosm, this book offers a critical examination of state-civil society relations and governance under the neoliberal model. Focusing specifically on the reconstruction of citizenship rights and participatory governance under this model.

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff
English | May 6, 2016 | ISBN: 022605442X, 022656617X | True EPUB | 224 pages | 7.97 MB
Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that would last only twenty years before being annexed by Hitler's Third Reich. In this major reconsideration of European modernism, Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories-an "Austro-Modernism" that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

Pat Ivey, "EMT Rescue"
English | ISBN: 1497638321 | 2014 | 212 pages | EPUB | 789 KB
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive firsthand experiences, as well as an unflinching eye for drama and detail, to bring us the unheard tales of heroism and courage of the EMT units. She takes us into a hidden world of children in need, women seeking shelter from the storm of abuse, and the realities of industrial accidents. A simple car crash turns into a Herculean effort, an epic struggle against the clock and against the odds.

Syma Solovitch, "Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family"
English | ISBN: 0231181035 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century―the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements―as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class.