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Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations


Free Download Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns: The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations (Command Decisions in America’s Civil War) by Edward T. Cotham
English | December 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1621909131 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 8.34 MB
The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confederate forces against General Nathaniel P. Banks and a variety of Union army and naval forces. A Federal fleet entered Galveston Bay on October 4, 1862, and the city surrendered after the expiration of a four-day truce. However, on New Year’s Day of 1863, Magruder coordinated a bold new attack to retake Galveston using a land bombardment and two cottonclad Confederate gunboats. Aided by victories at the Battle of Sabine Pass and two purely naval engagements in Texas waters, the city would remain in Southern hands and end the war as the last major Confederate port.

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Viva Mallorca One Mallorcan Autumn


Free Download Peter Kerr, "Viva Mallorca: One Mallorcan Autumn"
English | 2004 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1840243805 | PDF | 1,3 mb
"Winter spring" finds Peter, under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, struggling to shake off the relaxed Spanish tranquiloness that he has now mastered all too well. Old friendships have been established and new ones are found as the Kerrs are introduced to Mallorca’s champagne-swilling filthy rich set and their eyes are opened by just how the other half lives. Mosquito-repellant vinegar baths, delicious Mallorcan food, and with background support from dogs, donkeys, geckos, parrots, and canaries, this is an autumn such as they’ve never known.

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Probability and Statistics for STEM A Course in One Semester (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics)


Free Download Probability and Statistics for STEM: A Course in One Semester (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics) by Emmanuel N. Barron, John G. Del Greco
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 3031389840 | 306 pages | MOBI | 56 Mb
This new edition presents the essential topics in probability and statistics from a rigorous standpoint. Any discipline involving randomness, including medicine, engineering, and any area of scientific research, must have a way of analyzing or even predicting the outcomes of an experiment. The authors focus on the tools for doing so in a thorough, yet introductory way. After providing an overview of the basics of probability, the authors cover essential topics such as confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. These subjects are presented in a one semester format, suitable for engineers, scientists, and STEM students with a solid understanding of calculus. There are problems and exercises included in each chapter allowing readers to practice the applications of the concepts.

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One-Dimensional Ergodic Schrödinger Operators


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English | ISBN: 1470470861 | 2022 | 444 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The theory of one-dimensional ergodic operators involves a beautiful synthesis of ideas from dynamical systems, topology, and analysis. Additionally, this setting includes many models of physical interest, including those operators that model crystals, disordered media, or quasicrystals. This field has seen substantial progress in recent decades, much of which has yet to be discussed in textbooks. Beginning with a refresher on key topics in spectral theory, this volume presents the basic theory of discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with dynamically defined potentials. It also includes a self-contained introduction to the relevant aspects of ergodic theory and topological dynamics. This text is accessible to graduate students who have completed one-semester courses in measure theory and complex analysis. It is intended to serve as an introduction to the field for junior researchers and beginning graduate students as well as a reference text for people already working in this area. It is well suited for self-study and contains numerous exercises (many with hints).

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One Hurricane – One Raid


Free Download G.H. Rayner – One Hurricane – One Raid
Airlife Publishing | 1990 | ISBN: 1853101990 | English | 184 pages | PDF | 90.75 MB
The book has two main parts. The first covers the author’s introduction as a young schoolboy to a small piece of wreckage in the Essex coastal marshes. His early inquisitiveness leads to identification of the aircraft type and several years later to a recovery operation which retrieves the substanial remains from their muddy resting place. After a period of further investigation into the remains’ identity, together with some initial preservation work, the aircraft is finally put on display at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. The second part of the book attempts to recreate the sequence of events during the raid which led to the aircraft’s loss.

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