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Community Builders Establishing Friendships in Your New Environment


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English | October 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DK9VJH6K | 79 pages | EPUB | 1.02 Mb
Friendships play a crucial role in our lives, offering emotional support, companionship, and a sense of belonging. In a new environment, the value of friendships becomes even more apparent as they serve as a bridge to help navigate unfamiliar territories. Establishing connections with others can alleviate feelings of isolation and anxiety, enhancing overall well-being. As adults, we often find ourselves in situations where we need to forge new relationships, whether it’s in a new workplace, during college years, or within a neighborhood. Recognizing the importance of friendships can motivate individuals to actively seek out these connections.

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Fokker Aircraft Builders to the World


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Jane’s Publishing Company | 1980 | ISBN: 0531037088 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 135.39 MB
This book is a profusely illustrated history of one of the most innovative aircraft companies in the world. Fokker is one of the great names in aviation history and a name that has survived from the very earliest days of flying. Anthony Fokker was only twenty when he built his first aeroplane in 1910. Seventy years later the company that bears his name is still energetically designing, buildings and selling aircraft – still continuing a long and fascinating tradition. Fokker established the company in 1912 at Johannisthal, outside Berlin. With the coming of war Fokker became a supplier of aircraft to the Central Powers and between 1914-18 provided some of the most famous aircraft of the First World War – among them the E.III, the Dr.I triplane and the D.VII, regarded by many as the finest fighter of the war. In the ’20s Fokker became an aggressive and successful exporter from their new base in the Netherlands, and the success of their developing range of civil and military aircraft was trumpeted round the world with a series of record breaking flights and the success of KLM, the Royal Dutch Airline. When the war came to Euorpe again, Fokker aircraft fought in defence of the Netherlands, in Denmark, Norway, Finland and in Luftwaffe and RAF service. In 1945 the occupied Fokker factory lay in ruins. Once again a competitive company had to be built from the ground up, but ingenuity and energy brought the success of such post-war classics as the F-27 Frienship. This book, packed with rare and surpising photographs, contemporary docuemtns and colour illustrations, accurately reflects Fokker’s successes and failures in peace and war. It brings the story up to date with an independent Dutch aircraft industry once again looking to world markets and research programmes at the frontiers of technology and new aircraft such as the F-28 at the beginning of their career.

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Museum Builders II


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English | 2004 | ISBN: 0470849436 | 216 Pages | PDF | 15.3 MB
The popularity of the museum has dramatically increased in recent years and many modern examples have been built around the world.

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The Real Mound Builders of North America A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD


Free Download A. Martin Byers, "The Real Mound Builders of North America: A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD"
English | ISBN: 1498570623 | 2018 | 472 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Real Mound Builders of North America takes the standard position that the cultural communities of the Late Woodland period hiatus-when little or no transregional monumental mound building and ceremonialism existed-were the linear cultural and social ancestors of the communities responsible for the monumental earthworks of the unique Mississippian ceremonial assemblage, and further, these Late Woodland communities were the direct linear cultural and social descendants of those communities responsible for the great Hopewellian earthwork mounds and embankments and its associated unique ceremonial assemblage. Byers argues that these communities persisted largely unchanged in terms of their essential social structures and cultural traditions while varying only in terms of their ceremonial practices and their associated sodality organizations that manifested these deep structures. This continuist historical trajectory view stands in contrast to the current dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt social and cultural discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and earthworks, mounds and embankments.

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Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey


Free Download Ezio Godoli Paolo Girardelli, "Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey"
English | ISBN: 1443851949 | 2017 | 333 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This volume represents the first scholarly work in English devoted to the experience of Italian architects and builders in Turkey, as well as in many of the lands once belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Covering a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities (todays Romania) to Anatolia and the Aegean region, the book is the result of individual research experiences that were brought together and debated in an international conference in Istanbul in March 2013, organized in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture and BoaziƧi University. Grounded on a flexible notion of identitarian boundaries, the book explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analyzed and evaluated by scholars from six different countries on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials. Forms, ideas, individual mobility of actors and materials, networks of patronage, material and political constraints, and religious and cultural difference all play a significant role in shaping the landscapes, buildings and architectural projects presented and discussed here. From late 18th and early 19th century experiences of interaction between neo-classical backgrounds and westernizing Ottoman forms to the Italian proposals for a Turkish republican iconic landmark like the Ataturk mausoleum in Ankara; from the design of the first Ottoman university building to Ottoman varieties of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and to the infrastructures and urban developments of the 1950s in Turkey, the book is both a richly illustrated and documented overview of relevant cases, and a critical introduction to one of the most enticing areas of encounter in the global history of 19th and 20th century architecture and design.

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