Paolo Barnard, Steven Quay, "The Origin of the Virus: The hidden truths behind the microbe that killed millions of people"
English | ISBN: 1854571060 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 0,3 MB
The Origin of the Virus is the first book to concentrate on the two most pressing issues the community of nations has had to contend with since the end of the two World Wars: where did the gravest global health crisis in one hundred years came from? And why did China withhold information that could have spared the lives of untold numbers the world over? In the book an award winning journalist teams up with two scientists of unquestioned international repute to examine the evidence. This book is a shocking account of the extreme experiments, of the cover-ups and of the collusions that led to the outbreak of the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish influenza and broadens the censure to include the American and British scientists who thwarted a proper investigation of the origin of COVID-19. The Origin of the Virus was written by award winning Italian journalist (Paolo Barnard) and two eminent scientist/doctors: from the USA, Dr. Steve Quay, and from the United Kingdom, Professor Angus Dalgleish. Despite its impeccable scientific grounding the book is both a readable and gripping account that for the first time allows the public to partake in what lies at the heart of the most deadly virus in modern times.

The Opportunity Index
by Lewis, Gavin;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119840767 | 254 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.09 MB

Ladislaus Boros, "The Mystery of Death: Awakening to Eternal Life"
English | ISBN: 1948626152 | 2020 | 300 pages | EPUB | 720 KB
What precisely happens at the time of death is a question that theologians have struggled over for centuries but have never answered satisfactorily. The response to this question that Ladislaus Boros gives in his monumental synthesis, The Mystery of Death, is that in death we meet Christ fully for the first time and in doing so attain to full consciousness and freedom. It is therefore only in the moment of death than humans are able to elect for or against their eternal salvation. In other words, death is a kind of judgment day, but it is we ourselves who pass judgment on ourselves.

Lloyd Laing, "The Mote of Mark: A Dark Age Hillfort in South-West Scotland "
English | ISBN: 1842172174 | 2006 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises a central hollow between two raised areas of rock and was formerly defended by a stone and timber rampart enclosing one third of an acre. The Mote of Mark appears to have first attracted the attention of antiquaries in the late eighteenth century, and first assumed national importance with Alexander Curle's major work in 1913. After the interruption of the First World War, the site was left largely alone until it was re-excavated in the 1970s. These excavations, in 1973 and '79 were designed to answer three specific questions: How many phases of activity are represented in the structural history of the defences? How many phases of activity are represented by the evidence for Early Medieval metalworking and occupation? And, how does the evidence of occupation within the defences relate to the structural history of the defences? This book presents the results of the excavations and their interpretation within the framework of these questions.

The Monetary Turning Point: From Bank Money to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031239563 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The monetary system is at a turning point. The question is no longer if, but how soon countries will roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This book discusses the recomposition of the money supply from the present bank money regime to a monetary system determined by CBDC. As the book sets out, the future of money is going to be digital and sovereign. Nonetheless, the relationship between the various types of money is competitive rather than being the peaceful coexistence that was officially envisaged. CBDC competes with the incumbent bank money as well as with private cryptocurrencies that are challenging both central-bank money as well as bank money. For technological and political reasons, bank money will not be able to emulate the superior properties of sovereign digital tokens. Uncovered and unwarranted cryptocurrencies, too, will not stand the competition in the long run. The shifts in the monetary system are changing the role of central banks in the interplay of monetary, fiscal and private-creditary functions and open up improved options for monetary policy. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers in monetary and financial economics, and digital currencies.

The Microbiome: Your Inner Ecosystem by Scientific American Editors
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9781948933056 | 180 pages | PDF (Converted) | 2.95 Mb
We harbor roughly the same number of microbes as we have cells. This complex ecosystem is crucial to our health, affecting many processes including immunity, child development and bone density regulation. Research in this area has exploded, and in this eBook, we highlight some of the most exciting work on how the microbiome develops, its influence on brain and behavior and implications in both contributing to and treating various disorders.

The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination by Marc Michael Epstein
English | May 9, 2011 | ISBN: 0300156669 | True PDF | 337 pages | 19.7 MB
In this beautifully illustrated book, historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four magnificent and enigmatic illuminated haggadot-manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover. They include the earliest known surviving illuminated haggadah: the Birds' Head Haggadah, made in Mainz around 1300, in which many of the faces on the human figures depicted throughout are replaced with those of birds. Also presented is the Golden Haggadah from Barcelona, c. 1320-30, along with two Spanish "siblings," the Rylands Haggadah and its purported Brother, made between 1330 and 1340, which share similar iconography and style.

The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930 by Autumn Womack
English | April 18, 2022 | ISBN: 022680674X, 022680691X | True PDF | 288 pages | 10.9 MB
Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.

The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009300571 | 389 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book presents a first comprehensive effort to explore the mechanics and fundamentals of global ICT standardization. It offers a comprehensive study of legal rules governing ICT standardization; systematically analyses governance and institutional features of some most prominent Standards Development Organizations; and presents qualitative empirical evidence on implementation of these rules in practice. By evaluating legal and procedural rules in light of current practices and tendencies in the industry, the book explores various options available for disciplining ICT standardization from the viewpoint of the applicable legislation, judiciary, and internal governance rules of Standards Development Organizations and offers practical solutions on how to increase the legitimacy of ICT standards. Adding to the previous theoretical approach to the field of standardization from historical, legal and political science perspective, this book applies theoretical considerations to unexplored scenarios, offering a holistic picture of ICT standardization and providing a novel contribution to the field.

The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846524 | 340 pages | PDF (Converted) | 3.95 Mb
The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a muddy field of rural England.