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Free Download Robert J. Antony, "Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas"
English | 2010 | pages: 107 | ISBN: 9888028111 | PDF (scan) | 18,0 mb
Piracy and smuggling are as great a problem today as they were several hundreds of years ago. The studies in Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers, for the first time, carefully describe and critically analyze piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the sixteenth century to the present. Because piracy and smuggling involve complex historical processes that are still evolving, to fully understand contemporary problems it is important to place them in larger historical and comparative perspectives. The essays in this book add significantly to the scholarship on East and Southeast Asian history, and in particular to the maritime history of the region we call the Greater China Seas. This is the first book to analyze the whole region from Japan to Southeast Asia as a single, integrated historical and geographical area. This book takes a radical departure from the standard terra-centered histories to place the seas at the center rather than at the margins of our inquiries. By focusing on the water we are better able to stitch together the diverse histories of Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Although often dismissed as historically unimportant, the contributors to this anthology show that in fact pirates and smugglers have played significant roles in the development of the modern world. Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers should appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in history and Asian studies, as well as to general readers interested in pirates and maritime history.

Free Download It’s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLCNSCSX | 2024 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Mark Miodownik
Narrator: Daniel Weyman
The secret life of gases – the strange, elusive and fascinating substances that shape our world. Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It’s a Gas, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality. We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.

Free Download The Elusive Trade: How Exchange-traded Funds Conquered Wall Street by Ralph H. Lehman
English | May 21, 2019 | ISBN: 1612543073 | 200 pages | PDF | 7.63 Mb
On January 22, 1993, the first exchange-traded fund was launched in the United States. It was called the SPDR fund—also known as the “Spider”—and it offered convenient and affordable exposure to a range of markets in a new way, different from traditional mutual funds. Shortly after this introduction, ETFs became an incredibly popular option for both individuals and for institutional investors, and they began to grow in numbers. In The Elusive Trade: How Exchange-Traded Funds Conquered Wall Street, Ralph H. Lehman leverages his twenty-year financial background and investment expertise to dive deep into the history of ETFs in this country, explore their development, and highlight the people who paved the way for the Spider’s success, leading to the market we know now.

Free Download It’s a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World by Mark Miodownik
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0358157153 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 31.49 MB
The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.

Free Download The Elusive Orgasm: A Woman’s Guide to Why She Can’t and How She Can Orgasm by Vivienne Cass
English | March 3rd, 2008 | ISBN: 0975077708 | 300 pages | True EPUB | 4.16 MB
Are you one of the thirty percent of women who has difficulties with orgasm? Do you want to experience greater sexual satisfaction? In easy to read language, The Elusive Orgasm provides a full overview of women’s sexual pleasure, covering sexual triggers, stages of arousal, the power of mind, and how women differ from men. Longtime clinical psychologist and sex therapist Dr. Vivienne Cass reveals all the causes of women’s orgasm difficulties – and how to remedy them.

Free Download The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being By Daniel M. Haybron
2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0199592462 | PDF | 4 MB
The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren’t very good at it? That is the question posed by this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness, understood here as a psychological phenomenon. Engaging heavily with the scientific literature, Dan Haybron argues that people probably know less about their own welfare, and may be less effective at securing it, than common belief has it. This is largely because human nature is surprisingly ill-suited to the pursuit of happiness. For the happiness that counts for well-being is not a matter of what we think about our lives, but of the quality of our emotional conditions. Yet our emotional lives are remarkably difficult to grasp. Moreover, we make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. These considerations suggest that we should rethink traditional assumptions about the good life and the good society. For instance, the pursuit of happiness may be primarily a matter of social context rather than personal choice. This book offers an extensive guide to philosophical thinking about happiness and well-being, correcting serious misconceptions that have beset the literature. It will be a definitive resource for philosophers, social scientists, policymakers, and other students of well-being.

Free Download Alan Vick, "Aerospace Operations Against Elusive Ground Targets (2001)"
English | 2001 | pages: 183 | ISBN: 0833030515 | PDF | 4,1 mb
Identifies concepts and technologies that could improve the United States Air Force’s capability to detect, classify, recognize, and defeat elusive targets, whether dispersed ground forces or mobile ballistic missles.

Free Download The Elusive Trade: How Exchange-Traded Funds Conquered Wall Street
by Ralph H. Lehman
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1612543073 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 6.37 MB

Free Download Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, UK Edition by Darrin McMahon
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 180418683X | 528 pages | True EPUB | 9.63 MB
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?

Free Download Xavier Jon Puslowski, "Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 144223802X | EPUB | pages: 204 | 0.8 mb
Many scholars, concert pianists, and classical music fans deem Franz Liszt the preeminent pianist of the nineteenth century. In Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio, Xavier Puslowski engages in a detailed study of the links between Liszt, his contemporaries, and his milieu. Drawing on Liszt’s famous Saint Stanislas Oratorio as a focal point, Puslowski brings together the history of the Romantic period in classical music and the intersection of key figures and historical events in his story of Liszt’s achievements told from a distinctly historicist perspective.