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Free Download Jonathan David Gross, "The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist"
English | ISBN: 0739167650 | 2013 | 410 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on Damer’s notebooks and previously unpublished letters to explore the life and legacy of England’s first significant female sculptor. Best known for her portraits of dogs and other animals, Damer also created busts of England’s most important political heroes, sometimes within days or hours of their historical accomplishments. This in-depth biography traces her life during the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Peace of Amiens and the Hundred Days. Damer was convinced that art could have significant political influence, sending her bust of Nelson to the King of Tanjore to encourage trade with India. Her art stands at the transition between neoclassicism and romanticism and provides a wealth of insight into 19th century British sculpture. In the last twenty years, there has been a strong revival of interest in Damer’s life, particularly in gay and lesbian studies due to her famous relationship with author Mary Berry. This text serves as a deeper investigation of this fascinating and important figure of British art history.

Free Download Andrey Terekhov, Peter Svidler, "The Life and Games of Vasily Smyslov: Volume I – The Early Years: 1921-1948"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 194985924X | EPUB | pages: 536 | 10.8 mb
The Life & Games of the Seventh World Chess Champion

Free Download People and Computers XVIII – Design for Life: Proceedings of HCI 2004 By Jennifer G Sheridan, Alan Dix, Simon Lock, Alice Bayliss (auth.), Sally Fincher BA, MA, LHG, FSEDA, Panos Markopoulos MSc, MSc, PhD, David Moore PhD, Roy Ruddle BSc, PhD, CEng, MBCS (eds.)
2005 | 382 Pages | ISBN: 1852339004 | PDF | 6 MB
The eighteenth annual British HCI Conference chose as its theme Design for Life. ‘Life’ has many facets, from work (of course, or should we say inevitably!) to travel, fun and other forms of leisure. We selected 23 full papers out of 63 submitted, which covered our interaction with computer systems in a variety of types of life situation – including games, tourism and certain types of work – and also covered a variety of stages in our lives, from the young to the elderly. These papers were complemented by others that described more traditional aspects of research in the field of human-computer interaction. In putting together the programme we followed a three-stage process. First each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Then a member of the committee conducted a meta-review. Finally, all sets of reviews were considered by the technical chairs who assembled a programme that was submitted to, and approved by, the full committee. This process was greatly assisted by the use of the Precision Conference Solutions web-based submission system. Even more important, of course, were the volunteer reviewers themselves. In recognition, this year we have made an award for the best reviewer as well as one for the best paper.

Free Download Keep it Smooth: Life Lessons in Confidence by Cameron Daddo
English | 1 October 2024 | ISBN: 0645869082 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1.61 Mb
A memoir from veteran entertainer Cameron Daddo about confidence: how we nurture it, how we lose it and how we can get it back again

Free Download Dragonfly Behavior: Discovering the Dynamic Life of an Ancient Order of Insects
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3662702339 | 242 Pages | PDF (True) | 207 MB
This book is the first to allow you to experience the details of the ultra-fast lives of dragonflies, these large, beautiful flying insects, through an abundance of unique snapshots and image sequences. Dragonflies are world champions of flight, bionic wonders; they reveal much about the mysteries of evolution. We witness their social interaction, and appreciate their success over three hundred million years. Dragonflies – what an evocative name! – are easy to observe, even for beginners. About 80 species live in Germany, and every body of water is home to a few. They are not shy, do not sting and often come very close. Perhaps you will fall in love with dragonflies – just like the two authors who have been studying them for over 30 years. With the knowledge in this book, you will look at dragonflies in a completely novel way.

Free Download Computational Life Sciences: First International Symposium, CompLife 2005, Konstanz, Germany, September 25-27, 2005. Proceedings By Gihan Dawelbait, Christian Pilarsky, Yanju Zhang, Robert Grützmann, Michael Schroeder (auth.), Michael R. Berthold, Robert C. Glen, Kay Diederichs, Oliver Kohlbacher, Ingrid Fischer (eds.)
2005 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 3540291040 | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Computational Life Sciences, CompLife 2005, held in Konstanz, Germany in September 2005.The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 papers of a workshop on Distributed Data Mining in the Life Sciences (LifeDDM) were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 initial submissions. The papers cover areas ranging from high-level system biology to data analysis related to mass spec traces and are organized in topical sections on systems biology, data analysis and integration, structural biology, genomics, computational proteomics, molecular informatics, molecular structure determination and simulation, and distributed data mining.

Free Download Ken Garfield, "Billy Graham: A Life in Pictures"
English | ISBN: 157243581X | 2013 | 160 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Celebrating the life and legacy of one of America’s best-known religious figures in words and photographs, this book traces the amazing journey of the lanky farm boy from Charlotte, North Carolina, who grew up to preach to more than 200 million people in stadiums and arenas around the world. Written by a journalist who covered Graham and his ministry for more than a decade, Billy Graham: A Life in Pictures chronicles the preacher’s rise, his friendship with U.S. presidents, his spectacular crusades, and his work in building a religious organization that continues with his son Franklin as its leader. It also offers a glimpse into Graham’s rich family life and how he managed to maintain his integrity while other religious personalities, despite-or perhaps because of-their large followings, were losing theirs. The book provides a fitting tribute to one of the most important religious leaders of the 20th century, a man of unimpeachable character who influenced millions around the globe.

Free Download AI Applications in Daily Life: A Primer for the Curious Mind by Blake Archer
English | July 18, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9R48M4T | EPUB | 0.17 Mb
Dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence with Blake Archer’s comprehensive ebook, "AI Applications in Daily Life: A Primer for the Curious Mind." This essential guide covers a range of cutting-edge topics, including Natural Language Processing, where readers will learn how machines understand and generate human language, and Sentiment Analysis, which delves into how AI interprets emotions and opinions from text.

Free Download Sue Leaf, "A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts"
English | ISBN: 0816675643 | 2013 | 296 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days

Free Download Sylvester of Antioch: Life and Achievements of an 18th-Century Christian Orthodox Patriarch
by Mihai Ţipău
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110998890 | 445 Pages | PDF | 11.5 MB