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Free Download Daniel Magaziner, "Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa "
English | ISBN: 0821425625 | 2024 | 324 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Available Light tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Omar Badsha was born in Durban, on the country’s southeastern coast in 1945. His was the third generation of his Gujarati family to call South Africa home. Before he turned five, the country’s white electorate had voted to institute apartheid to strip the rights and privileges of citizenship from most of the population, including Badsha’s Indian community and especially the country’s Black majority. By the time he turned fifteen, nonviolent protest against apartheid had been quashed; by the time he turned twenty, so too had the armed struggle to dislodge white supremacy within the country. The ongoing, resilient, and oft-rebuffed struggle against apartheid was a definitive factor in Badsha’s life.

Free Download Nicholas Sumner, "Available Light: a photographic journey"
English | 2012 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 1780883773, 1780881576 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Nicholas Sumner is a photographer whose work has been published in twenty nine travel guide books. This, his first travel narrative, recounts the story of a seven-year journey across Asia in pursuit of beautiful pictures. "Before I left home, I thought that I knew something about photography, but I found that what knowledge I had was more hindrance than help and I had to admit, that really, I didn’t know anything at all. This was humbling, and a little frightening, but it was also the beginning of a process of discovery in which my expectations as a photographer and as a traveller were constantly challenged, reassessed and revised. "I experienced moments that were terrifying and sublime, hilarious and tragic. I was mugged, threatened with guns and arrested; I journeyed among mountains, through jungles and cities, I encountered deserts both spiritual and physical, saw things so beautiful that they moved me to tears and received kindness so absolute that I can never repay it. I knew both joy and despair, I ate kangaroo pie, discovered the exact monetary value of my eyebrows and I fell in love. Twice." His journey became much more than a quest for great images. Travelling and photography are pursuits of the curious, they complement and sometimes conflict with one another but both are driven by a desire to observe and a hunger for insight. Both can touch the spirit, move the heart, and both can reveal truth.

Free Download Nicholas Sumner, "Available Light: a photographic journey"
English | 2012 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 1780883773, 1780881576 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Nicholas Sumner is a photographer whose work has been published in twenty nine travel guide books. This, his first travel narrative, recounts the story of a seven-year journey across Asia in pursuit of beautiful pictures. "Before I left home, I thought that I knew something about photography, but I found that what knowledge I had was more hindrance than help and I had to admit, that really, I didn’t know anything at all. This was humbling, and a little frightening, but it was also the beginning of a process of discovery in which my expectations as a photographer and as a traveller were constantly challenged, reassessed and revised. "I experienced moments that were terrifying and sublime, hilarious and tragic. I was mugged, threatened with guns and arrested; I journeyed among mountains, through jungles and cities, I encountered deserts both spiritual and physical, saw things so beautiful that they moved me to tears and received kindness so absolute that I can never repay it. I knew both joy and despair, I ate kangaroo pie, discovered the exact monetary value of my eyebrows and I fell in love. Twice." His journey became much more than a quest for great images. Travelling and photography are pursuits of the curious, they complement and sometimes conflict with one another but both are driven by a desire to observe and a hunger for insight. Both can touch the spirit, move the heart, and both can reveal truth.

Free Download Designing Highly Scalable and Highly Available SQL Databases
Duration: 2h 39m | MP4 | Video: AVC, 1280×720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz, 2 Ch | Size: 369 MB
Skill Level: Advanced | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Subtitles
Online activities, mobile devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are generating immense volumes of data. Much of that data requires relational database capabilities, such as consistent reads/writes and complex transaction processing. In this course, get a holistic overview of the essential elements of designing and implementing highly scalable and available relational databases. Instructor Dan Sullivan helps developers and data modelers grasp essential architecture concepts and design patterns to ensure their databases can scale to the needs of their business. Dan goes over key requirements related to both specific functions and nonfunctional requirements, such as availability. He shows how to use your requirements to create data architectures and data models. Plus, he examines the problems of data ingestion at scale, describes design patterns to support a variety of ingestion patterns, discusses how to design for scalable querying, and more.
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Free Download Available surfaces : essays on poesis By Hummer Hummer
2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0472071858 | PDF | 2 MB
In Available Surfaces , T. R. Hummer explores the art of making both poetry and music, and of the concept of "making" itself. He draws on childhood experiences and experiences as an adult, as a poet, and as an explorer of unworldly spaces to examine that "something ineffable about the process of making of which the poem is the exemplary artifact." Hummer grew up in the deep South, and spent many of his high school years playing saxophone in various rock and roll bands before he met poetry. This musical influence is visible in his work: he often discusses poetry together with music, or music with poetry, and his career has included both writing and performance.

Free Download Dipali Mathur, "Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life "
English | ISBN: 1666919810 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB | 458 KB
In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.

Free Download Dr. Duffy John, "Available Parent: Expert Advice for Raising Successful and Resilient Teens and Tweens"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1936740826 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.4 mb
We have a tendency today to over-parent, micro-manage, and under-appreciate our adolescents. Dr. John Duffy’s The Available Parent is a revolutionary approach to taking care of teens and tweens. Teenagers are often left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. The available parent of a teenager is open to discussion, offering advice and solutions, but not insisting on them. He allows his child to make some mistakes, setting limits, primarily where health and safety are concerned. He never lectures – he is available but not controlling. He is neither cruel nor dismissive, ever. The available parent is fun and funny, and can bring levity to the most stressful situation. All of that is to say, there are no conditions to his availability – it is absolute.