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Build It + Home Improvement Magazine November 2013

Build It + Home Improvement Magazine November 2013

Build It + Home Improvement gives its readers all the information they need to make their dream home covering self-builds, renovations, conversions, plus a range of home improvement extensions, loft conversions, upgrades and repairs. The magazine is unique because it gives readers the practical advice and guidance required to successfully undertake projects. The editorial demonstrates exactly what to do, provides expert tips from reputable industry insiders on how to do it and clear information on what to buy.

Build It + Home Improvement Magazine November 2013
English | 180 Pages | PDF | 141MB

Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets

Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets - Cormac O'Brien

How did Hannibal’s 55,000 Carthaginians turn the tables on an 80,000-strong force of the ancient world’s most efficient military machine, the Roman army? What allowed 6,000 Englishmen to overcome 30,000 French at Agincourt in 1415? Which errors in judgment doomed a Russian army twice as large as its opposing German force at the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I?

Author Cormac O’Brien’s powerful and vivid recreations of history’s most surprising military victories illuminate the cunning strategies, secret weapons, fateful decisions, and changes of fortune that turned the tide of battle in the most extraordinary and unanticipated ways: the risky Greek ruse that trapped the Persian Fleet at Salamis in 480 BCE; the snowstorm that helped a Swedish force destroy a Russian army four times its size at the Battle of Narva in 1700; the newly introduced firearm that enabled 150 British soldiers to hold off an attacking horde of 4,000 Zulus at Rorke’s Drift, Africa, in 1879.

Even a commander as fearless, self-assured, and battle-hardened as Alexander the Great, leading 40,000 Macedonian troops, must have quailed at the sight that met him as he neared the village of Issus, Asia Minor, in 333 BCE: an unexpectedly and unimaginably vast Persian force of some 100,000 men, spanning the Mediterranean coastal plain as far as the eye could see. For warfare had already demonstrated, and has confirmed ever since, that numerical superiority consistently carries the day. And yet, every once in a while, such lopsided engagements have had an unexpected outcome, and proved to be a crucible in which great leaders, and history, are forged.

Outnumbered chronicles fourteen momentous occasions on which a smaller, ostensibly weaker force prevailed in an epochal confrontation. Thus, Alexander, undaunted, devised a brilliant and daring plan that disoriented and destroyed the Persian force and, consequently, its empire. Likewise, during the U.S. Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee, despite being outpositioned and outnumbered more than two to one by Union forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia, hatched an audacious and surprise strategy that caught his enemy completely unawares. Other equally unexpected, era-defining victories are shown to have derived from the devastating deployment of unusual weaponry, sheer good fortune, or even the gullibility of an enemy, as when Yamashita Tomoyuki, commander of 35,000 ill-supplied Japanese troops, convinced the 85,000-strong British Commonwealth army to surrender Singapore in 1942.

Together these accounts constitute an enthralling survey that captures the excitement and terrors of battle, while highlighting the unpredictable nature of warfare and the courage and ingenuity of inspired, and inspiring, military leaders. A thrilling tour of the battlefields of history, replete with dramatic encounters, sudden twists of fate, and intriguing character studies, Outnumbered demonstrates that, even when the odds seem insurmountable, the path to glory can still be found.

Cormac O'Brien - Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets
Fair Winds Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1592334059 | English | 274 pages | PDF | 130.98 MB

Flight International - October 7, 2013


Flight International - October 7, 2013
52 pages | PDF | 55 MB

Smart Photography - October 2013


Smart Photography - October 2013
164 pages | PDF | 44 MB

Photography Monthly - November 2013



Photography Monthly - November 2013
108 pages | PDF | 42 MB

Sсiеntifiс Аmеricаn Mind - Full Year 2008 Issues Collection



Sсiеntifiс Аmеricаn Mind - Full Year 2008 Issues Collection
English | 619 pages | 7 True PDF | 47.90 MB

Meat: How to Choose, Cook & Eat It - Adrian Richardson


Whether it’s a simple steak or slow-cooked brisket with red wine and mushrooms, this passionate recipe collection shows how to give any meat dish restaurant-quality flavor with minimum fuss.

Covering all the basics and every meat variety—including beef, pork, poultry, venison, and game—it offers such tantalizing recipes as Barbecued Butterflied Lamb with Honey and Rosemary, Twice-Cooked Pork Belly with Toffee Crisp Crackling, and Roast Duck with Pomegranate Glaze. Comprehensive but easily accessible, this is the perfect resource for the novice and the confident home cook alike.

Adrian Richardson, "Meat: How to Choose, Cook & Eat It" 
English | ISBN: 1740666380 | 2008 | EPUB | 368 pages | 13 MB 

Autoweek 30 September 2013 (USA)


Autoweek 30 September 2013 (USA)
English | 76 pages | PDF | 68.04 MB

Super Street - November 2013

Download Super Street Magazine - November 2013

Super Street is dedicated to the personalization and performance enhancement of compact cars. You'll receive in each issue, a great combination of extensive technical information and unparalleled feature coverage of the fast-growing aftermarket in performance compact cars!

Super Street - November 2013
English | Pages 92 | PDF | 56.9 Mb
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The First Holocaust - Don Heddesheimer


Don Heddesheimer, "The First Holocaust:
Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims During and After World War I"

“Six million Jews in Poland and Russia threatened with imminent holocaust: this allegation was appearing in such sources as The New York Times – but the year was 1919! Don Heddesheimer’s compact but substantive First Holocaust documents post-WWI propaganda that claimed East European Jewry was on the brink of annihilation, regularly invoking the talismanic six million figure. It details how that propaganda was used to agitate for minority rights for Jews in Poland, and for Zionism and Bolshevism in Poland and Russia.

It also demonstrates how Jewish fundraising operations in America raised vast sums in the name of feeding Polish and Russian Jews, then funneled much of the money to Zionist and Communist "constructive undertakings" – including banks, unions, and kibbutzes – rather than to starving Jews. The First Holocaust is a valuable study of American Jewish institutional operations at a fateful juncture in Jewish and European history, an incisive examination of a cunningly contrived campaign of atrocity and extermination propaganda, two decades before the alleged WWII Holocaust – and an indispensable addition to every revisionist’s library.”

Don Heddesheimer, "The First Holocaust:
Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims During and After World War I"
Publisher: Theses & Dissertatons Pr | 2003 | ISBN: 0967985676 | English | PDF | 146 pages | 8.25 Mb

No-nonsense Guide to World History By Chris Brazier

Download Ebook No-nonsense Guide to World History By Chris Brazier

Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. We know bits without always understanding how they fit together. This guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks - from the civilizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America to the history of women, submerged beneath accounts of politics and war. By looking at history in its entirety, we see the interconnections in our past and the contexts for the familiar historical narratives. This guide includes a section on how the key issues of the 21st century - climate change, 9/11, the Iraq war, corporate power, China's headlong growth - fit into the broader patterns of world history.

No-nonsense Guide to World History By Chris Brazier
2006 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1904456472 | PDF | 10 MB

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Friedrich Engels


The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Friedrich Engels

Exploring the way that production affects the social issues of class division and family, Engels develops his arguments on private property and its relationship to the subjugation of women. Engels then analyzes in detail the rise of the territorial state, ultimately extending his theory further to consider how class and exploitation arose out of the division of labor. One of Engels's most vital works, this book was groundbreaking when it appeared in 1884 in that it emphasized development in terms of power and control over resources, rather than psychological evolution.

Friedrich Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 
Published: 2010-06-29 | ISBN: 0141191112 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 4 MB 

Discover USA - November 2013


Discover USA - November 2013
English | 76 pages | True PDF | 18.00 Mb

Maximum PC - November 2013

Download Maximum PC Magazine - November 2013

Maximum PC: Computer News, Reviews, and How-to Projects
Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer geek, PC gamer, or content creator should read every month. Each and every issue is packed with punishing product reviews, thorough how-to articles, and the illuminating technical news and information that PC power users crave. Maximum PC covers every single topic that requires a lightning-fast PC, from video editing and music creation to PC gaming; we write about it all with unbounded enthusiasm for our collective hobby.

Maximum PC - November 2013
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 18.50 Mb
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Philip Agee - Inside the Company: CIA Diary

Philip Agee - Inside the Company: CIA Diary

The former CIA secret operations officer reconstructs his own and the intelligence agency's clandestine and subversive activities in Third World nations during his twelve-year stint with the world's largest spy organization.

Philip Agee - Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T); 2nd edition (July 1975) 
ISBN:0883730286 | English | Pages: 639 | PDF | 4.96 Mb

Stalingrad to Kursk: Triumph of the Red Army


Stalingrad to Kursk: Triumph of the Red Army
Pen & Sword Books Ltd | 2011 | ISBN: 1848840624 | English | 273 Pages | PDF (e-book) | 55 MB



Postwar America

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The half-century since the end of World War II has been crucial in defining America's image of itself and role in the world. A thorough survey of an era dominated by the cold war on the international front and conflicting social forces at home, this authoritative reference volume details every aspect of a turbulent age.

Postwar America
Oxford University Press, USA | 2000 | ISBN: 0195103009 | 296 pages | PDF | 28,9 MB
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American Immigration

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Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history," wrote historian Oscar Handlin. Immigrants and generations of their descendants have defined the American nation from its beginning and continue to provide America's characteristic diversity, representing practically every race, nationality, religion, and ethnic group around the world.

American Immigration
Oxford University Press, USA | 2001 | ISBN: 0195113160 | 304 pages | PDF | 30 MB
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace (No-Nonsense Guides)

Download The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace (No-Nonsense Guides)

The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll. Most wars are now within countries rather than between states, and often it is civilians that suffer most, especially women and children.

This is an invaluable guide for students, peace groups, and activists. It examines the changing types of war, including the war on terror and ethnic conflict such as in Rwanda, the role of diplomacy and the UN, and what steps ordinary people are taking to rebuild communities. It offers ideas and inspiration for creating lasting peace.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace (No-Nonsense Guides) by Sabina Lautensach, Peter Greener, Deanna Iribarnegaray and Helen Ware
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1904456421 | ISBN-13: 9781904456421 | 144 pages | PDF | 5,3 MB

The Handbook of Global Health Communication



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International in scope, The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change

The Handbook of Global Health Communication 
2012 | ISBN: 1444338625 | English | 680 Pages | PDF | 4.05 MB 

Nursing Your Baby (4th edition)


Download Ebook Nursing Your Baby (4th edition) - Karen Pryor, Gale Pryor

For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdomand warmth of Nursing Your Baby. Now authors Karen Pryor and her daughter Gale Pryor have revised and updated their classic guide for today's generation of women. New information includes: Up-to-date studies on health benefits for breastfed infantsand breastfeeding mothers Tips for getting the best start on breastfeeding during thefirst hours, weeks, and months after birth Breastfeeding advice for working mothers Legal rights as a nursing mother Choosing and using a breast pump How fathers and families can support new nursing mothers With its unique blend of support, science, and research, this classic guide will continue to encourage mothers to nurse their babies as long as they both desire.

Nursing Your Baby (4th edition) - Karen Pryor, Gale Pryor
Published: 2005-06-28 | ISBN: 006056069X | PDF | 480 pages | 3 MB 

Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance By Christopher G. Reddick


Download Ebook Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance By Christopher G. Reddick

Web 2.0 has become the buzz word for describing social media available on the Internet, such as blogs, photo and file sharing systems and social networking sites. These Web 2.0 applications are rapidly transforming citizen-citizen and citizen-government interactions in a manner not seen before. In recognition of these trends, governments are already taking a very close look at Web 2.0 and online communities in order to leverage them for designing products and services and for providing citizen services.

This book brings together international scholars to provide the theoretical and practical contexts for understanding the nature of Web 2.0 technologies and their impact on political, public policy and management processes, and to explore how best Web 2.0 applications can be leveraged and aligned with the strategic goals of government organizations to add value and ensure effective governance. Drawing from experiences from countries around the globe, the book provides the theoretical context of the potential for Web 2.0 applications to transform government services, as well as practical examples of leading public sector institutions that have attempted to use Web 2.0 applications to enhance government operations, policy making and administration.

There are three parts to the book, namely
1) Perspectives on Web 2.0 and Democratic Governance,
2) The Political, Policy and Management Impacts of Web 2.0 in Government, and
3) Leveraging Web 2.0 Applications for Effective Governance.

This book differs from existing edited books on Web 2.0 technologies that focus primarily on politics and e-democracy because it examines the impact of the applications on politics, policy and public management. The book contributes toward the literature by filling the existing void and expanding knowledge in the field of public administration and policy, making it of interest to both academics and policy-makers.

Christopher G. Reddick, "Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance: Political, Policy and Management Implications (Public Administration and Information Technology)" 
ISBN: 1461414474 | 2013 | PDF | 272 pages | 4.8 MB 

The Knee Joint - Surgical Techniques and Strategies


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Pushed by the progress of biology, technology and biomechanics, knee surgery has dramatically evolved in the last decades. This book is a "state of the art" concerning all aspects of knee surgery from ligament reconstruction to Total Knee Arthroplasty.

An international panel of renowned authors have worked on this didactic fully illustrated book. It will help young surgeons to understand basic sciences and modern sugical techniques. The experienced surgeon will find help to deal with difficult cases and clarifications in recent technologic advances such as cartilage surgery, navigation and mini invasive surgery.

The Knee Joint - Surgical Techniques and Strategies 
2012 | 1027 Pages | ISBN: 2287993525 | PDF | 56 MB 

The Political Power of Bad Ideas - Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave



In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Lawrence Schrad looks on an oddity of modern history-the broad diffusion of temperance legislation in the early twentieth century-to make a broad argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success.

His root question is this: how could a bad policy idea-one that was widely recognized by experts as bad before adoption, and which ultimately failed everywhere-come to be adopted throughout the world? To answer it, Schrad uses an institutionalist approach, and focuses in particular on the US, Russia/USSR (ironically, one of the only laws the Soviets kept on the books was the Tsarist temperance law), and Sweden. Conventional wisdom, based largely on the U.S. experience, blames evangelical zealots for the success of the temperance movement.

Yet as Schrad shows, "prohibition was adopted in ten countries other than the United States, as well as countless colonial possessions-all with similar disastrous consequences, and in every case followed by repeal." Schrad focuses on the dynamic interaction of ideas and political institutions, tracing the process through which concepts of dubious merit gain momentum and achieve credibility as they wend their way through institutional structures.

And while he focuses on one episode, his historical argument applies far more broadly, and even can tell us a great deal about how today's policy failures, such as reasons proffered for invading Iraq, became acceptable.

The Political Power of Bad Ideas - Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave 
English | ISBN: 0195391233 | 2010 | PDF | 314 pages | 4 MB 

Never Buy Another Stock Again


Download Ebook Never Buy Another Stock Again: The Investing Portfolio That Will Preserve Your Wealth and Your Sanity By David Gaffen 

Stop buying stocks! An investing strategy that works when buying individual stocks doesn’t Why buying stocks is an even worse strategy than you thought How to cut costs and risks, earn solid returns, and sleep at night By top Reuters financial journalist David Gaffen, founder of The Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat Millions of people have sacrificed their futures to disastrous stock performance. But you don’t have to “suck it up” and accept massive losses. Never Buy Another Stock Again offers you a common-sense approach to investing that helps you earn solid returns with less cost, less risk, and less fear. Top financial journalist David Gaffen identifies portfolio components and asset classes that make sense when individual stocks don’t…shows how to avoid trendy new investments that are just as bad as stocks…helps you use cash wisely, carefully profit from ETFs and index funds, and offset the risks of any stocks you choose to keep. Want to build wealth that won’t be washed away by the next stock price collapse? Never Buy Another Stock Again!

Never Buy Another Stock Again: The Investing Portfolio That Will Preserve Your Wealth and Your Sanity By David Gaffen 
2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0137071558 | PDF | 3 MB 

Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Four-Volume Set



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An impressive four-volume work that provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of respiratory medicine. It provides a vital interface between the pure and clinical science environments covering all aspects of respiratory medicine from the relevant molecular biology to the treatment of diseases that affect the respiratory system. It includes comprehensive coverage of lung cells, the structural components of the lung and key molecules that regulate lung function as well as all the major respiratory diseases. Students, researchers and professionals alike will find this an authoritative source of information on all aspects of respiratory medicine. Also available online via ScienceDirect (2006) - featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. * Includes diagrams of uniformly high quality and references to enable readers to access the wider literature * Highly structured through the use of chapter templates * Key four-color illustrations that will be invaluable teaching tools

Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Four-Volume Set 
English | 2576 pages | ISBN-10: 0124383602 | PDF | 59.31 MB

The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison, (Audio Book)



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A chilling psychological thriller about a marriage, a way of life, and how far one woman will go to keep what is rightfully hers. Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater; she lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds; she likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps; she has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the listener from page one and never lets go.

The Silent Wife: A Novel (Audiobook) By A. S. A. Harrison, 
read by Karen White and Donald Corren Unabridged 
edition 2013 | 9 hours | ISBN: 1482911531 | MP3 32 kbps | 129 MB 

Architectural Scale Models in the Digital Age: Design, Representation and Manufacturing


Making physical models of complex geometric shapes and their multiple structural connections is a major challenge in the age of advanced digital technology and parametric design in architecture. This approach requires new modeling strategies, technology and methods which are covered in this book. Complex geometric forms generated using virtual media can be tested and validated only by means of physical models, which also make it possible to assess their practical application.

The complexity of contemporary architectural design requires the mastery of new methods of producing scale models, which opens a new chapter in the field of modeling, and is the focus of this book. Along with the traditional methods that provide the basis for modeling, this book presents the principles of digital NURBS modeling, parametric modeling, digital modeling support, and model creation, complete with a number of tutorials, practical advice and examples found in architectural practice today.

Architectural Scale Models in the Digital Age: Design, Representation and Manufacturing By Milena Stavric, Predrag Sidanin, Bojan Tepavcevic 
2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 3709114470 | PDF | 12 MB 

10 Essential Herbs for Lifelong Health (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin)


Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Barbara L. Heller, "10 Essential Herbs for Lifelong Health (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin)" 
ISBN: 1580172830 | 1999 | EPUB/MOBI | 32 pages | 3 MB/1 MB 

Imaging in SARS


Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a devastating disease and although the virus would appear to have been contained, it is clear that the impact it has had around the world, and could have again in the future, is immense. Hong Kong has been significantly impacted in the recent SARS outbreak, and clinicians and researchers alike have gained a lot of experience in dealing with the disease at short notice. This new book aims to be a state-of-the art update on SARS, with particular reference to imaging, which plays a crucial role in the diagnosis, management and follow-up of patients with the disease (it is widely accepted that SARS patients cannot be managed without imaging and it is included in the WHO's own list of diagnostic criteria for the disease). The book will also provide a perspective on the treatment and experience of the disease outside Hong Kong.

A. T. Ahuja, C. G. C. Ooi, "Imaging in SARS" 
English | 2004-08-16 | ISBN: 1841102199 | 195 pages | PDF | 5.49 mb



Herbal Treatments for Healthy Hair - Greta Breedlove


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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Greta Breedlove, "Herbal Treatments for Healthy Hair (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin)" 
ISBN: 1580172687 | 1999 | EPUB/MOBI | 32 pages | 3 MB/2 MB 

Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services


Even though the semantic Web is a relatively new and dynamic area of research, a whole suite of components, standards, and tools have already been developed around it. Using a concrete approach, Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services builds a firm foundation in the concept of the semantic Web, its principal technologies, its real-world applications, and its relevant coding examples. This introductory yet comprehensive book covers every facet of this exciting technology. After an introduction to the semantic Web concept, it discusses its major technical enablers and the relationships among these components. The author then presents several applications of the semantic Web, including Swoogle, FOAF, and a detailed design of a semantic Web search engine. The book concludes with discussions on how to add semantics to traditional Web service descriptions and how to develop a search engine for semantic Web services. Covering the building blocks of an advanced Web technology, this practical resource equips you with the tools to further explore the world of the semantic Web on your own.

Liyang Yu, "Introduction to the Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services" 
English | 2007-06-14 | ISBN: 1584889330 | 368 pages | PDF | 8.74 mb


Mechudzu: The Architecture of Rhetorical Space By Bryan Cantley



Downloads Ebook Mechudzu: The Architecture of Rhetorical Space By Bryan Cantley 

Mechudzu is a book wich represents questions, not answers. The work of Bryan Cantley, and his firm, Form:uLA, based in Los Angeles, is intended to be confounding a practice that is a theory, a theory of practice, practice as theory. Cantleys work is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Other exhibits of note include a featured exhibition at the Form Zero Bookstore / Gallery in Los Angeles and solo exhibitions Enantiomorph Inversion Factor at the Architecture Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona and Wool and H2O ath the UCLA Schook of Architecture. This book documents Cantleys work, lavishly illustrated and combined with congenial essays by acknowledged experts as there are Aaron Betsky, Dora Epstein Jones, Ruth Keffer, Wes Jones + Doug Jackson and Neil Spiller.

Mechudzu: The Architecture of Rhetorical Space By Bryan Cantley 
Dora Epstein-Jones 2011 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 3709108349 | PDF | 21 MB 
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Everything for Us by M. Leighton


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The intensely exciting conclusion to DOWN TO YOU and UP TO ME, from New York Times bestselling M. Leighton. When it comes to passion this hot, it's all or nothing... Olivia Townsend's wealthy cousin Marissa had everything a girl could ask for - a great job, a privileged life, and all the friends she wanted. Or, at least, all the friends money could buy. But one case of mistaken identity has turned her privileged world upside down. An abduction gone wrong lands her right in the lap of the sexiest, most dangerous man she's ever met. To Marissa, he's an enigma, but one to whom she's irresistibly, inexplicably drawn. With him comes a new world of freedom and passion, of dark shadows and dangerous secrets, a world where nothing is what it seems - except for the blind passion that Marissa can't escape - or maybe even survive.

Managing Downside Risk in Financial Markets


Download Ebook Managing Downside Risk in Financial Markets

Quantitative methods have revolutionized the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking to name but some of the applications.

Downside-risk, as a quantitative method, is an accurate measurement of investment risk, because it captures the risk of not accomplishing the investor's goal. 'Downside Risk in Financial Markets' demonstrates how downside-risk can produce better results in performance measurement and asset allocation than variance modelling. Theory, as well as the practical issues involved in its implementation, is covered and the arguments put forward emphatically show the superiority of downside risk models to variance models in terms of risk measurement and decision making. Variance considers all uncertainty to be risky.

Downside-risk only considers returns below that needed to accomplish the investor's goal, to be risky. Risk is one of the biggest issues facing the financial markets today. 'Downside Risk in Financial Markets' outlines the major issues for Investment Managers and focuses on "downside-risk" as a key activity in managing risk in investment/portfolio management. Managing risk is now THE paramount topic within the financial sector and recurring losses through the 1990s has shocked financial institutions into placing much greater emphasis on risk management and control. Free Software Enclosed To help you implement the knowledge you will gain from reading this book, a CD is enclosed that contains free software programs that were previously only available to institutional investors under special licensing agreement to The pension Research Institute. This is our contribution to the advancement of professionalism in portfolio management. The Forsey-Sortino model is an executable program that:

1. Runs on any PC without the need of any additional software.
2. Uses the bootstrap procedure developed by Dr. Bradley Effron at Stanford University to uncover what could have happened, instead of relying only on what did happen in the past. This is the best procedure we know of for describing the nature of uncertainty in financial markets.
3. Fits a three parameter lognormal distribution to the bootstrapped data to allow downside risk to be calculated from a continuous distribution. This improves the efficacy of the downside risk estimates.
4. Calculates upside potential and downside risk from monthly returns on any portfolio manager.
5. Calculates upside potential and downside risk from any user defined distribution.

Forsey-Sortino Source Code: 1. The source code, written in Visual Basic 5.0, is provided for institutional investors who want to add these calculations to their existing financial services. 2. No royalties are required for this source code, providing institutions inform clients of the source of these calculations. A growing number of services are now calculating downside risk in a manner that we are not comfortable with.

Therefore, we want investors to know when downside risk and upside potential are calculated in accordance with the methodology described in this book.
Riddles Spreadsheet:
1. Neil Riddles, former Senior Vice President and Director of Performance Analysis at Templeton Global Advisors, now COO at Hansberger Global Advisors Inc., offers a free spreadsheet in excel format.
2. The spreadsheet calculates downside risk and upside potential relative to the returns on an index Brings together a range of relevant material, not currently available in a single volume source Provides practical information on how financial organisations can use downside risk techniques and technological developments to effectively manage risk in their portfolio management Provides a rigorous theoretical underpinning for the use of downside risk techniques.

This is important for the long-run acceptance of the methodology, since such arguments justify consultant's recommendations to pension funds and other plan sponsors

Frank Sortino , Stephen Satchell , "Managing Downside Risk in Financial Markets" 
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0750648635 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.22 MB 

The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison, (Audio Book)



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A chilling psychological thriller about a marriage, a way of life, and how far one woman will go to keep what is rightfully hers. Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater; she lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds; she likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps; she has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the listener from page one and never lets go.

The Silent Wife: A Novel (Audiobook) By A. S. A. Harrison, 
read by Karen White and Donald Corren Unabridged 
edition 2013 | 9 hours | ISBN: 1482911531 | MP3 32 kbps | 129 MB 

Skinny Bastard: A Kick-in-the-Ass for Real Men Who Want to Stop Being Fat and Start Getting Buff


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What’s good for the bitch is good for the bastard. Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to “use their head” and get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifesto Skinny Bitch. But it turns out some men have been reading over their girlfriends’ shoulders. Professional athletes such as Milwaukee Brewers’ Prince Fielder and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jerry Stackhouse have adopted a whole new eating plan because of the book.

Now authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin think it’s time for the guys to have a book of their own. In Skinny Bastard, they’ll explain why the macho “meat and potatoes” diet is total crap, why having a gut is un-cool (and a turn-off), and how to get buff on the right foods. Eating well shouldn’t be a “girlie” thing—and the Bitches will whip any man into shape with their straight-talk, sound guidance, and locker room language.

Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin - Skinny Bastard: A Kick-in-the-Ass for Real Men Who Want to Stop Being Fat and Start Getting Buff 
Published: 2009-04-28 | ISBN: 0762435402, 0762439343 | PDF | 288 pages | 3 MB 

The English Girl by Daniel Silva


The English Girl by Daniel Silva [2013] .epub, .mobi

(Harper.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, steps in to help the British prime minister, whose lover has been kidnapped.
          

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published


The Story of Ain’t by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Webster’s Third New International Dictionary in 1961, the most controversial dictionary ever published. Skinner’s surprising and engaging, erudite and witty account will enthrall fans of Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, as it explores a culture in transition and the brilliant, colorful individuals behind it. The Story of Ain’t is a smart, often outrageous, and altogether remarkable tale of how egos, infighting, and controversy shaped one of America’s most authoritative language texts, sparking a furious language debate that the late, great author David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) once called “the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars.”

David Skinner - The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published 
Published: 2012-10-09 | ISBN: 0062027468, 0062027492 | EPUB + MOBI | 368 pages | 3 MB 

House Beautiful - October 2013 (United States)


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English | PDF | 170 pages | 58.5Mb 

House Beautiful is your one-stop shop for classic decorating looks, with regular and comprehensive colour-scheming pages and a wide range of shopping suggestions for those special details that make a difference. With real reader homes from around the UK - ranging from comfortable country style to the chic city look. House Beautiful provides inspiration and practical advice whatever your decorating tastes.

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Wine Enthusiast Magazine - October 2013


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English | 116 pages | True PDF | 26.00 Mb 

Wine Enthusiast is one of the most respected and quoted authorities in the world of wine and spirits. We feature the hottest trends in everything related to wine.

Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention by Jeff Galloway


"Running Injuries - Treatment and Prevention" offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. It is written in a language that is easy to understand. This book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to print them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fasciia, achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured.

Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention by Jeff Galloway
David Hannaford 2009 | ISBN: 1841262846 | English | 167 Pages | PDF | 3.45 MB

Fashioning Globalisation: New Zealand Design, Working Women and the Cultural Economy


There have been endless studies mapping the iniquities of globalised capital, especially the employment practices of the garment industry in the Third World. Yet even as women (and others) in outsourced sweat shops suffer a form of modern-day bondage, women in developed nations are carving out new careers in the fashion industry as mid-level entrepreneurial designers. Operating between the spectacular pleonasms of haute couture and ubiquitous ‘designer diffusion’ lines such as DKNY, these artisans of ‘high casual’ fashion evince a number of features of late capitalism, such as ‘creative cities’, cultural mediation and ‘work-style’ businesses that are distinctively gendered. At the heart of this volume, which focuses in depth on the dynamics of independent fashion design in New Zealand, lies the assertion that there exist as-yet untraced links between the entry of first world women into paid employment, and the wider processes of globalisation. This revealing study of New Zealand fashion demonstrates that economic globalisation, the movement of middle-class women into the labour force, and the changing structure of the fashion industry are not only coterminous but intrinsically connected.

Maureen Molloy, Wendy Larner - Fashioning Globalisation: New Zealand Design, Working Women and the Cultural Economy 
Published: 2013-08-19 | ISBN: 1444337017, 1444337025 | PDF | 216 pages | 3 MB 

Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era


Richard Zuczek, "Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era" 
English | 2006-08-30 | ISBN: 0313330735 | 933 pages | PDF | 10.89 mb 

 Reconstruction sought to bring order from the tremendous social, political, economic, physical, and constitutional changes wrought by secession and the Civil War, changes that included the abolition of slavery, the expansion of governmental power and constitutional jurisdiction, the rise of the Republican Party, the explosion of northern industry and the national market, and the appearance of a social dynamism that supported struggles by new social groups for political and civil equality. In American history, Reconstruction is the term applied to the period 1862-1877, when the United States sought to bring order from the tremendous social, political, economic, physical, and constitutional changes wrought by secession and the Civil War.The decision by eleven southern states to attempt secession and reject the national government, and the decision by the federal government under President Abraham Lincoln to deny that attempt and enforce federal law, unleashed forces that forever changed the American Republic. These changes included the abolition of slavery, the expansion of governmental power and constitutional jurisdiction, the rise of the Republican Party, the explosion of northern industry and the national market, and the appearance of a social dynamism that supported struggles by new social groups for political and civil equality. No one anticipated the totality, the viciousness, and the intensity of the civil war, and as a result no one was prepared to deal with its consequences. Topics covered include who should direct Reconstruction; how the federal government treated conquered states, their governments, and their soldiers; the role of the freed people in the new republic; and how the war altered the Constitution, the party system, and the American economy, among many others. Many entries describe and analyze the lives, careers, and impacts of the individuals, North and South, black and white, who shaped the course of Reconstruction, including the following: Ames, Adelbert Bruce, Blanche K. Douglass, Frederick Gordon, John B. Hancock, Winfield S. Howard, Oliver O. Pinchback, Pinckney B.S. Revels, Hiram R. Sheridan, Philip H. Wade, Benjamin F. Other entries deal with broad topics and themes related to Reconstruction and its consequences, including the following: Abolition of Slavery, Black Politicians, Black Suffrage, Bloody Shirt, Economic Policies, Race Riots, Reconstruction, Theories of Scandals During Reconstruction, State Constitutional Conventions, Violence During Reconstruction. Still other entries cover a wide variety of events, groups, acts, agencies, and amendments that were part of the story of Reconstruction, including the following: American Indians, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Compromise of 1877, Democratic Party, Fourteenth Amendment, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Loyalty Oaths, Military Reconstruction Acts, Stalwarts, Tenure of Office Act. Among the more than 270 entries are 11 that discuss the course and consequences of Reconstruction in each of the former Confederate states, and 6 that discuss the outcome and significance of the presidential and key congressional elections held between 1864 and 1876. The encyclopedia also offers a timeline of Reconstruction, a bibliography of print and electronic information resources, a selection of primary documents, a table of important dates, numerous illustrations, and a detailed subject index.

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Applied Cyber-Physical Systems


Applied Cyber-Physical Systems presents the latest methods and technologies in the area of cyber-physical systems including medical and biological applications. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate computing and communication capabilities by monitoring, and controlling the physical systems via embedded hardware and computers. This book brings together unique contributions from renowned experts on cyber-physical systems research and education with applications. It also addresses the major challenges in CPS, and then provides a resolution with various diverse applications as examples. Advanced-level students and researchers focused on computer science, engineering and biomedicine will find this to be a useful secondary text book or reference, as will professionals working in this field.

Sang C. Suh, U. John Tanik, John N Carbone, Abdullah Eroglu - 
Applied Cyber-Physical Systems 
Published: 2013-08-16 | ISBN: 1461473357 | PDF | 255 pages | 6 MB

Dark Lycan by Christine Feehan (Audio Book)


Tatijana of the Dragonseekers spent centuries encased in ice with her sister, trapped in limbo between life and death, never speaking to a soul other than those who tormented her. Now, she has been freed from her frozen prison by an unknown descendent.  Awakened in human form, Tatijana yearns to explore the modern world in which she now lives - a world with more mysteries than she is prepared for.  Fenris Dalka has returned to the Carpathian Mountains after a long absence to be with his brother. He is scarred by centuries of battle, and every hard-won victory. But the real reason for his return home could prove deadly if discovered by the wrong man - or woman. Upon his arrival, he is compelled by a beautiful and enigmatic stranger who carries the scent of fresh earth, of forest, of the night itself.  In time Tatijana and Fenris will discover all that unites them - their secrets and pasts, their predators, and the hot flush of passion that stirs their souls. Yet just as surely, seduced into the silvery darkness of a full-moon night, they’ll also discover everything ancient and evil that exists to destroy them.

Dark Lycan by Christine Feehan 
AudioBook | 2013 | Genre: Urban Fantasy | English | ISBN-13: N/A | MP3 64Kb | 383.65 MB 

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The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty


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Never Go Back - Lee Child


'It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world. Lee Child's genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will envy and women will adore' Daily Express  After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had.  Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher's old desk isn't a woman. Why is Susan Turner not there?  What Reacher doesn't expect is what comes next. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. And he certainly doesn't expect to hear these words: 'You're back in the army, Major. And your ass is mine.' Will he be sorry he went back? Or - will someone else?

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PDF: 416 pages 
Publisher: Bantam Press (29 Aug 2013) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0593065743

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The Cuckoo's Calling


The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

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PDF: 464 pages
Publisher: Mulholland Books (April 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316206849
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Musical Theatre: A History


John Kenrick, "Musical Theatre: A History" 
English | 1St Edition | ISBN 10: 0826428606 | 2008 | PDF | 424 pages | 4,9 MB 

Like every art form, musical theatre has been changing and evolving since its inception more than 2000 years ago. Musical Theatre: A History presents a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in England, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to "Broadway's Golden Age" with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 21st century has also brought a popular new wave of musicals to the Broadway stage, from The Producers to Spamalot, and Mamma Mia! to The Drowsy Chaperone. Musical Theatre: A History covers it all, from the opening number to the curtain call, offering readers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of the art form. As informative as it is entertaining, Musical Theatre is richly illustrated with anecdotes of shows and show people. It is cause for celebration for those working in the theatre as well as its legion of devoted fans.
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