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Free Download The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight for Football’s Soul By Jonathan Wilson
2018 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1788701275 | EPUB | 2 MB
‘Wilson’s historical study gives fans a keen, thrilling insight into the philosophy of the game’ The New Yorker Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out on top. It is merely the latest instalment in a rivalry that has contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent, but which can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago. Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff’s Dream Team is disintegrating and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff’s style has changed the game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff’s club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, Jose Mourinho. The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today.

Free Download Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space by John Jordan Klein
English | September 15, 2023 | ISBN: 155750735X | 264 pages | MOBI | 1.51 Mb
Fight for the Final Frontier uses the concepts associated with irregular warfare to offer new insights for understanding the nature of strategic competition in space. Today’s most pressing security concerns are best considered using an irregular warfare lens because incidents and points of potential conflict fall outside the definition of armed conflict. While some universal rules of combat apply across all domains, conflict in space up-ends and flips those assumed standards of understanding.

Free Download Fight Like a Physicist: The Incredible Science Behind Martial Arts (Martial Science) by Jason Thalken Ph.D.
English | September 1, 2015 | ISBN: 9781594393389 | 128 pages | MOBI | 11 Mb
An in-depth look into the physics behind martial arts. Whether you are an experienced martial artist or a curious enthusiast, this book gives you an "unfair advantage" by unraveling the complex science of effective fighting techniques and examining the core principles that make them work. Did you know?

Free Download Fight Fraud with Machine Learning (MEAP V02)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781633438224 | 83 pages | MOBI | 1.58 Mb
Financial and corporate fraud happen every day, and the fraudsters inevitably leave a digital trail. Machine learning techniques, including the latest generation of LLM-driven AI tools, help identify the telltale signals that a crime is taking place. Fight Fraud with Machine Learning teaches you how to apply cutting edge ML to identify fraud, find the fraudsters, and possibly even catch them in the act.

Free Download Tim Harris, "Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables Fight Back"
English | 2018 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 0143785877, 1761042661 | EPUB | 19,5 mb
I wish Mr Bambuckle would come back.

Free Download Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman, Landon Woodson, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09B81V4YH | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:25:00 + PDF | 363 Mb
An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process.
It’s easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry.It’s also easy to forget that war shouldn’t happen-and most of the time it doesn’t. Around the world, there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. Too many accounts of conflict forget this.
With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. That’s because war is too costly to fight. Enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it or struggle over thin slices. So, in those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: What kept rivals from compromise?

Free Download Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! by Nicholas Carlson, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Hachette Audio
English | 2015 | ISBN: B00R3DEUBW | 11 hours and 21 minutes / Format: MP3 | 246 Mb
A pause-resisitng narrative about Marissa Mayer’s efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38.
When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo’s California headquarters. On them there was Mayer’s face and one word: Hope. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo’s campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room and, behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing?
Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer’s controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an internet icon. In August 2011 hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb took a long look at Yahoo and decided to go to war with its management and board of directors. Loeb then bought a 5 percent stake and began a shareholder activist campaign that would cost the jobs of three CEOs before he finally settled on Google’s golden girl Mayer to unlock the value lurking in the company. As Mayer began to remake Yahoo from a content company to a tech company, an internal civil war erupted.

Free Download Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life (Audiobook)
English | March 07, 2016 | ASIN: B01BO1AJO0 | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 51m | 187 MB
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Refusing to accept the mass extinction of species as an inevitability, "the world’s greatest naturalist" (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere. Half-Earth resoundingly concludes the best-selling trilogy begun by The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, a National Book Award finalist.
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent. Angrily challenging the fashionable theories of anthropocenes, who contend that humans can survive alone in an Edenic bubble engineered for their own survival, Wilson documents that the biosphere does not belong to us. Yet, refusing to believe that our extinction is, as so many fear, predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending "sixth extinction" is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth.

Free Download Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett, Bahni Turpin, HarperAudio
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01IDX79L8 | 6 hours and 7 minutes / Format: MP3 | 134 Mb
Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work – a Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.
It was a fight club – but without the fighting and without the men. Every month the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify – and harder to prove – than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born.
Hard hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter every day – such as the Manterrupter, who talks over female colleagues in meetings, or the Himitator, who appropriates their ideas – and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. With Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace – as well as the system that perpetuates them.

Free Download Beth Alison Maloney, "Saving Sammy: A Mother’s Fight to Cure Her Son’s OCD"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 030746184X, 0307461831 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 2.0 mb
The story of one mother’s fight against the medical establishment to prove the link between infection-triggered PANDAS and her son’s sudden-onset OCD and Tourette syndrome.