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Houdini School: HS-242: Solver Madness

Houdini School – HS-242: Solver Madness

Introduction to Solver Madness Course

In the Free Download HS-242: Solver Madness course, offered by Houdini School, you will delve deep into the advanced world of dynamic effects creation. The course will teach you essential techniques for combining multiple simulation types such as Sopsolvers, FLIP fluids, Pyro, and VDB advection. By working with different simulation systems, you’ll be able to design, layer, and troubleshoot complex effects with ease.

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Delusions and the Madness of the Masses


Free Download Lawrie Reznek, "Delusions and the Madness of the Masses"
English | ISBN: 1442206055 | 2010 | 254 pages | EPUB | 373 KB
We all think that we can tell the difference between someone who is mad, or whom psychiatrists call psychotic, and someone who is sane. But can we really tell who is mad and who is not? Do we really know what madness is and how it should be recognized? Have psychiatrists made a sensible distinction between the patient who believes that aliens are beaming messages to him from a foreign planet, and the religious fanatic who believes God communicates to him via automatic writing? Is there a difference between the paranoid patient who believes that the FBI is after him, and the sizeable proportion of our normal population that believe that the US government orchestrated the 9-11 bombings? Here, Reznek hopes to shed light on the delusions of the masses-those delusions that are common to everyday people living so-called ordinary lives. He provides an understanding of madness and the psychological processes that drive us to adopt delusions, arguing that it is a mistake to view only schizophrenic patients as delusional, while excluding large groups of society from such an analysis. If we abandon the idea that whole communities cannot share a delusion, we can come to a better understanding about why the world is such a dangerous place.

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Nightingale A Memoir of Murder, Madness, and the Messenger of Spring


Free Download Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, "Nightingale: A Memoir of Murder, Madness, and the Messenger of Spring"
English | ISBN: 098974891X | 2014 | 292 pages | EPUB | 479 KB
Nightingale is an eloquent and inspiring tribute to the legacy of Elisabeth Mannering Congdon, the extraordinary woman who was so much more than the last day of her life. Entrusted with the burdens and joys of memory, Elisabeth’s eldest granddaughter, Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, combines lived experience with meticulous historical research as she courageously reveals a family legacy of love, inconceivable loss, and perseverance. Elisabeth Congdon emerges not as heiress or victim but as the messenger of spring and the key to her granddaughter’s survival. Elisabeth’s early efforts to nurture a foundation of hope, optimism, and the power of possibility lead Suzanne to advanced education, a remarkable nursing career and the discovery of the ineffable relationship between healing oneself, service to others, and the connection to the spirit and beauty of the earth that makes her whole again.

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Between Sanity and Madness Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era


Free Download Allan V. Horwitz, "Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era"
English | ISBN: 019090786X | 2020 | 380 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder. It begins with the earliest depictions of mental illness in Ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and medicine and concludes with the portrayals found in modern neuroscience. In contrast to the tremendous advances other branches of medicine display in answering questions about the nature, causes, and treatments of physical diseases, current psychiatric knowledge about what qualities of madness distinguish it from sanity, the resemblance of mental and physical pathologies, and the kinds of factors that lead people to become mentally ill does not show any steady growth or, arguably, much progress. The immense recent technological advances in brain science have not yet led to corresponding improvements in understandings of and explanations for mental illnesses. These perplexing phenomena remain almost as mysterious now as they were millennia ago.

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Where Madness Lies The Double Life of Vivien Leigh (UK Edition)


Free Download Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh (UK Edition) by Lyndsy Spence
English | 5 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 1803994312 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 17.6 MB
Beginning in 1953, when Leigh suffers a nervous breakdown, Where Madness Lies tells the moving story of the actress as she attempts to rebuild her life, salvage her career, and save her marriage.

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All My Precious Madness


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English | 26 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 1913111563 | True EPUB | 276 pages | 0.7 MB
Henry Nash has hauled his way from a working class childhood in Bradford, through an undergraduate degree at Oxford, and into adulthood and an academic elite. But still, he can’t escape his anger. As the world – and men in particular – continue to disappoint him, so does his rage grow in momentum until it becomes almost rapturous. And lethal.

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Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy Self and Stigma in Memoirs of Mental Illness


Free Download Lisa Spieker, "Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy: Self and Stigma in Memoirs of Mental Illness"
English | ISBN: 1476682275 | 2021 | 243 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 13 MB
What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people’s reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly-who gets to determine these classifications, and why?

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Madness and Subversion in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels A Deconstructive Perspective


Free Download Ramzi Marrouchi, "Madness and Subversion in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels: A Deconstructive Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1636671497 | 2023 | 194 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1235 KB + 2 MB
This book is the first to investigate Bellow’s later novels from a deconstructionist perspective. It will be appeal to all scholars and students interested in Bellow’s creations, and in the intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century America.

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