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Free Download Kenneth Wilson, "The Columbia Guide to Standard American English"
English | 1993 | pages: 501 | ISBN: 0231069898 | PDF | 27,9 mb
In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts―from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal―and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not.

Free Download The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States by Terryl Givens, Reid Neilson
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0231149425 | 480 Pages | PDF | 2.3 MB
This anthology offers rare access to key original documents illuminating Mormon history, theology, and culture in the United States from the nineteenth century to today.

Free Download Columbia: Final Voyage by Philip Chien
English | PDF |(True) 2006 | 465 Pages | ISBN : 0387271481 | 23.6 MB
In ‘Columbia: Final Voyage’ aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years’ experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. Chien interviewed all seven crew members several times and got to know them as individuals. He reviews in detail their training, their scientific work and other activities during their successful 16-day flight, the background of the accident itself and a detailed first-hand account of what happened that fateful day in February 2003. The author provides a comprehensive and personal look at both the Columbia astronauts and the STS-107 mission, together with a behind-the-scenes account of other people involved in the mission and their personal reactions to the accident.

Free Download Inside Columbia – January-February 2024
English | 108 pages | PDF | 57.70 MB

Free Download Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia by Bruce M. Beehler
English | March 26, 2019 | ISBN: 1421427338 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 57.3 MB
More than 600 lush, stunning photos grace this comprehensive handbook to the birdlife of the Mid-Atlantic region.

Free Download Ronald W. Walters, "Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy"
English | ISBN: 0739127160 | 2010 | 292 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional relationship with the city and the way in which this establishes and perpetuates the continuing fight for congressional representation, real home rule and equitable federal benefits for citizens of the District of Columbia.

Free Download Bats of British Columbia (Royal BC Museum Handbook), 2nd Edition by Cori Lausen, David Nagorsen, Mark Brigham, Jared Hobbs
English | March 25th, 2022 | ISBN: 0772679932 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 15.24 MB
A full-colour, fully updated field guide to identifying British Columbia’s bats, with new material on acoustic identification.

Free Download Victor Mair, "The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature"
English | 2000 | pages: 704 | ISBN: 0231119992, 0231119984 | EPUB | 13,9 mb
With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.

Free Download Bruce Hoffman, "Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)"
English | 2006 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 0231114680, 0231126999, 0231174772 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
Bruce Hoffman’s Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments in global terrorism, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations, strategies, and tactics. He focuses on the rise of ISIS and the resilience of al-Qaeda; terrorist exploitation of the Internet and embrace of social media; radicalization of foreign fighters; and potential future trends, including the repercussions of a post-caliphate ISIS.