Tag: Life

Free Download Laura Visser-Maessen, "Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots"
English | 2016 | pages: 456 | ISBN: 1469666502, 1469627981 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Moses presented himself as a mere facilitator of grassroots activism rather than a charismatic figure like Martin Luther King Jr. His self-effacing demeanor and his success, especially in steering the events that led to the volatile 1964 Freedom Summer and the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, paradoxically gave him a reputation of nearly heroic proportions. Examining the dilemmas of a leader who worked to cultivate local leadership, historian Laura Visser-Maessen explores the intellectual underpinnings of Moses’s strategy, its achievements, and its struggles.

Free Download Patrick Marnham, "Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance"
English | 2002 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 037550608X | EPUB | 2,3 mb
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Free Download Bernardo Kastrup, "Rationalist Spirituality: An Exploration of the Meaning of Life and Existence Informed by Logic and Science"
English | 2011 | pages: 125 | ISBN: 1846944074 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Why does the universe exist and what are you supposed to do in it? This question has been addressed by religions since time immemorial, but popular answers often fail to account for obvious aspects of reality. Indeed, if God knows everything, why do we need to learn through pain and suffering? If God is omnipotent, why are we needed to do good? If the universe is fundamentally good, why are wars, crime, and injustice all around us? In modern society, orthodox science takes the rational high-ground and tackles these contradictions by denying the very need for, and the existence of, meaning. Indeed, many of us implicitly accept the notion that rationality somehow contradicts spirituality. That is a modern human tragedy, not only for its insidiousness, but for the fact that it is simply not true. In this book, the author constructs a coherent and logical argument for the meaning of existence, informed by science itself. A framework is laid out wherein all aspects of human existence have a logical, coherent reason and role, including the ones often perceived as negative. The powerful logic of this framework inescapably leads to insightful and inspiring guidelines for living a purposeful and meaningful life.

Free Download Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott, Don Philpott, Jeff Scott, "Raising Children in the Military (Military Life)"
English | 2016 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1442274824, 1442227486 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death of loved ones deployed. But learning how to navigate these challenges can help prepare families for those events as they arise.

Free Download David G. Myers, "Psychology in Everyday Life"
English | 2011 | pages: 586 | ISBN: 1429263946, 1429263962 | PDF | 53,8 mb
LEARN IT. LIVE IT.

Free Download Ryszard Krynicki, Alissa Valles, Adam Michnik, "Our Life Grows"
English | 2017 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 168137160X | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet’s brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe.

Free Download Zondervan, "One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0310338662 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
"My story is not about my past, but about your future," says Marie Roberts Monville.

Free Download Helen Thomas, "November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy"
English | 2015 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1634502728, 1626360340 | EPUB | 4,3 mb
Gripping, personal stories about the life and death of President Kennedy.

Free Download Eva Gutowski, "My Life as Eva: The Struggle is Real"
English | 2017 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1501146661, 1501146726 | EPUB | 34,1 mb
From the popular YouTube tastemaker Eva Gutowski comes her nationally bestselling lifestyle and advice book on the ups and downs of life, told in her hilarious and earnest voice.

Free Download Modeling Remaining Useful Life Dynamics in Reliability Engineering
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032168595 | 199 Pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book applies traditional reliability engineering methods to prognostics and health management (PHM), looking at remaining useful life (RUL) and its dynamics, to enable engineers to effectively and accurately predict machinery and systems useful lifespan. One of the key tools used in defining and implementing predictive maintenance policies is the RUL indicator. However, it is essential to account for the uncertainty inherent to the RUL, as otherwise predictive maintenance strategies can be incorrect. This can cause high costs or, alternatively, inappropriate decisions. Methods used to estimate RUL are numerous and diverse and, broadly speaking, fall into three categories: model-based, data-driven, or hybrid, which uses both. The author starts by building on established theory and looks at traditional reliability engineering methods through their relation to PHM requirements and presents the concept of RUL loss rate. Following on from this, the author presents an innovative general method for defining a nonlinear transformation enabling the mean residual life to become a linear function of time. He applies this method to frequently encountered time-to-failure distributions, such as Weibull and gamma, and degradation processes. Latest research results, including the author’s (some of which were previously unpublished), are drawn upon and combined with very classical work. Statistical estimation techniques are then presented to estimate RUL from field data, and risk-based methods for maintenance optimization are described, including the use of RUL dynamics for predictive maintenance.