Rick Garman, "Frommer's EasyGuide to Las Vegas 2014 (Easy Guides)"
English | ISBN: 1628870176 | 2014 | PDF | 256 pages | 45 MB
Selling for a lower price than any similar guidebook, and deliberately limited to a short 256 pages, this EasyGuide is an exercise in creating easily-absorbed travel information. It emphasizes the authentic experiences in each destination:the most important attractions, the classic method of approaching a particular destination; the best choices for accommodations and meals; the best ways to maximize the enjoyment of your stay. Because it is "quick to read, light to carry", it is called an "EasyGuide", and reflects Arthur Frommer's lifetime of experience in presenting clear and concise travel advice.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
George Cole, Alan Dixon, Ryan Jordan, "Lightweight Backpacking & Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Hiking Equipment, Technique & Style"
English | ISBN: 0974818828 | 2005 | EPUB | 434 pages | 3 MB
So say the backcountry experts at Backpacking Light Magazine in their new book, Lightweight Backpacking & Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style. And they should know: Backpacking Light Magazine is recognized as the outdoor industry's leading authority in lightweight hiking and backcountry travel, and has helped thousands of outdoor enthusiasts discover the joy of going light.
"The notion that you need to carry 40 or 50 pounds of gear into the backcountry to be comfortable and safe is absolutely ridiculous," says the book’s Editor, Ryan Jordan, who is also the Publisher of Backpacking Light Magazine and the outdoor industry's chief proselytizer of today's exploding lightweight backpacking movement. "Gear manufacturers continue to contaminate the market with too much gear that is overbuilt, overdesigned, overpriced, and overweight. Backpackers deserve to be told the other side of the story: that you can do more with less, and that a pack weight of less than 15 pounds (not including food and water) is easily accessible even to beginners."
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, "Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health"
English | ISBN: 1583671579, 1583671587 | 2007 | PDF | 304 pages | 19 MB
How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism, offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social and natural world.
Robin Asbell, "Big Vegan: More than 350 Recipes, No Meat/No Dairy All Delicious"
English | ISBN: 0811874672 | 2013 | PDF | 544 pages | 47 MB
Veganism has been steadily moving toward the mainstream as more and more people become aware of its many benefits. Even burger-loving omnivores are realizing that adding more plant-based foods to their diet is good for their health and the environment. Big Vegan satisfies both the casual meat eater and the dedicated herbivore with more than 350 delicious, easy-to-prepare vegan recipes covering breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Highlighting the plentiful flavors that abound in natural foods, this comprehensive cookbook includes the fundamentals for adopting a meat-free, dairy-free lifestyle, plus a resource guide and glossary that readers can refer to time and again. Eat your veggies and go vegan!
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Steven Nadler, "The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes"
English | ISBN: 0691157308 | 2013 | EPUB | 256 pages | 5,2 MB
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where, then, is the authentic version located, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting--and in its original--really Descartes?
A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter investigates the remarkable individuals and circumstances behind a small portrait. Through this image--and the intersecting lives of a brilliant philosopher, a Catholic priest, and a gifted painter--Steven Nadler opens up a fascinating portal into Descartes's life and times, skillfully presenting an accessible introduction to Descartes's philosophical and scientific ideas, and an illuminating tour of the volatile political and religious environment of the Dutch Golden Age. As Nadler shows, Descartes's innovative ideas about the world, about human nature and knowledge, and about philosophy itself, stirred great controversy. Philosophical and theological critics vigorously opposed his views, and civil and ecclesiastic authorities condemned his writings. Nevertheless, Descartes's thought came to dominate the philosophical world of the period, and can rightly be called the philosophy of the seventeenth century.
Shedding light on a well-known image, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter offers an engaging exploration of a celebrated philosopher's world and work.
Siobhan Roberts, "Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering"
English | ISBN: 0691151539 | 2012 | EPUB | 288 pages | 13 MB
With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter unduly, sway with abandon, and even collapse.
In 1964, Davenport received a confidential telephone call from two engineers requesting tests on a pair of towers that promised to be the tallest in the world. His resulting wind studies on New York's World Trade Center advanced the art and science of wind engineering with one pioneering innovation after another. Establishing the first dedicated "boundary layer" wind tunnel laboratory for civil engineering structures, Davenport enabled the study of the atmospheric region from the earth's surface to three thousand feet, where the air churns with turbulent eddies, the average wind speed increasing with height. The boundary layer wind tunnel mimics these windy marbled striations in order to test models of buildings and bridges that inevitably face the wind when built. Over the years, Davenport's revolutionary lab investigated and improved the wind-worthiness of the world's greatest structures, including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Tower, Shanghai's World Financial Center, the CN Tower, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, and the proposed crossing for the Strait of Messina, linking Sicily with mainland Italy.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Julie Mayfield, Charles Mayfield, "The Paleo Summer Survival Guide: 12 Must-Have Recipes Plus Insider Tips for a Healthy, Happy Summer"
English | e-ISBN: 1459253841, ASIN: B00D4MUTH0 | 2013 | EPUB | 53 pages | 6,1 MB
Crowd-pleasing Dishes for Entertaining and Celebrations
Packable Paleo Recipes for Summer Getaways
Travel Tips to Vacation Paleo-Style
Mouthwatering Meals Featuring Local, Seasonal Fare
Ah, summer: the perfect time of year for tailgates, picnics, BBQs and sunny celebrations-and for delicious and healthy Paleo food! Written by two Paleo veterans and bestselling cookbook authors, The Paleo Summer Survival Guide is your go-to resource for a fun and healthy summer, Paleo style. Julie and Charles Mayfield have collected their top 12 no-fail summer recipes so that you can stay the Paleo course through every potluck, picnic and road trip adventure. Featuring travel tips and plan-ahead advice for fall (like freezing and canning so you can enjoy summer's bounty all year round), this e-book is a must-have for Paleo devotees and anyone looking to rejuvenate their health this summer.
Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H.B. Monk, "Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power"
English | ISBN: 0691142297 | 2013 | EPUB | 240 pages | 2,2 MB
The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international legitimacy. Through a variety of case studies--from the China Investment Corporation to the funds of several Gulf states--the authors show that the forces propelling the adoption and development of sovereign wealth funds vary by country. The authors also show that many of these investment institutions have identifiable commonalities of form and function that match the core institutions of Western financial markets.
Louis Kaplow, "Competition Policy and Price Fixing"
English | ISBN: 0691158622 | 2013 | EPUB | 512 pages | 2,4 MB
Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that supposedly underlie modern competition policy.
Competition Policy and Price Fixing provides the needed analytical foundation. It offers a fresh, in-depth exploration of competition law's horizontal agreement requirement, presents a systematic analysis of how best to address the problem of coordinated oligopolistic price elevation, and compares the resulting direct approach to the orthodox prohibition.
Marc J. Klowden, "Physiological Systems in Insects, Third Edition"
English | ISBN: 0124158196 | 2013 | EPUB | 696 pages | 10 MB
Physiological Systems in Insects discusses the roles of molecular biology, neuroendocrinology, biochemistry, and genetics in our understanding of insects. All chapters in the new edition are updated, with major revisions to those covering swiftly evolving areas like endocrine, developmental, behavioral, and nervous systems. The new edition includes the latest details from the literature on hormone receptors, behavioral genetics, insect genomics, neural integration, and much more. Organized according to insect physiological functions, this book is fully updated with the latest and foundational research that has influenced understanding of the patterns and processes of insects and is a valuable addition to the collection of any researcher or student working with insects.
Categories: E-Books & Audio Books
Lee Rose, "Winning Basketball Fundamentals"
English | ISBN: 1450431623 | 2012 | EPUB | 280 pages | 7,2 MB
Lee Rose has been one of basketball's most knowledgeable and respected coaches over the past 50 years at the high school, college, and professional levels. Winning Basketball Fundamentals presents his proven program for success, the same one he used in taking teams from two different colleges to the Final Four.
From offense to defense to transition play and special situations, Rose covers every tactical facet of the game and adds his insights for improving execution in each. He presents popular offensive systems-the Triangle, LA, Flex, Dribble Drive, and Motion-as well as man-to-man and zone defensive schemes, with suggestions for when and how to deploy and adjust them.
Tim Tanner, "Early American Country Interiors"
English | ISBN: 1423632761 | 2013 | EPUB | 160 pages | 10,7 MB
Inviting designs that have stood the test of time
Michael Freeman, "Asia Home: Inspirational Design Ideas"
English | ISBN: 0804839832 | 2011 | EPUB | 114 pages | 9,3 MB
The global exchange of design and taste is at its most fertile between Asia and the West. Leading Asian designers and architects have reprocessed international ideas and functionality into the idiom of Asian cultures, from India to China, Japan to Southeast Asia. Asia Home is a wide-ranging look at contemporary design from across the region, featuring more than 100 homes and more than 50 top designers.
Categories: Magazines
Military Vehicle Special Collectors' Edition Seventeen
Military Modelling Vol.44 No.4 (2014)
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 19,3 MB
Tamiya Model Magazine International - Issue 222 (April 2014)
English | 68 Pages | True PDF | 35,4 MB
Military Illustrated Modeller - Issue 036 (April 2014)
English | 68 pages | True PDF | 21,6 MB
Sky & Telescope Magazine May 2014
English | 90 Pages | True PDF | 16MB
Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy. The articles are intended for the informed lay reader and include detailed discussions of current discoveries, frequently by participating scientists. The magazine is illustrated in full color, with both amateur and professional photography of celestial sights, as well as tables and charts of upcoming celestial events.
The Fishkeeper Magazine March/April 2014
English | 44 Pages | True PDF | 12MB
The Fishkeeper is South Africa’s only magazine for the marine and freshwater aquarium hobbyist. The Fishkeeper magazine contains articles that are up-to-the-minute with regards to the keeping and breeding of freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates. Articles in The Fishkeeper are useful to both beginner and experienced fishkeepers alike. Articles covers topics related to aquarium management, health and disease and other topics such as lighting, aquarium designs and care of plants and corals! Articles in The Fishkeeper are written by experienced keepers and breeders who share their valuable experience, allowing readers the opportunity to have the same successful results with their aquariums.
