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Free Download Alexandra Stoddard, "Open Your Eyes: 1,000 Simple Ways To Bring Beauty Into Your Home And Life Each Day"
English | 1998 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0688159044, 0380731444 | EPUB | 3,8 mb
For thirty-seven years and in nineteen previous books, Alexandra Stoddard has shared her keen eye for design and sure sense of style. Now this renowned decorator and lifestyle philosopher takes readers to a new level of visual awareness, showing how to achieve the discerning eye that is the key to creating beautiful environments for living.

Free Download Open Systems Dependability: Dependability Engineering for Ever-Changing Systems By Mario Tokoro
2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1466577517 | PDF | 4 MB
This book describes how to achieve dependability in information systems. The author first proposes viewing systems as open systems instead of closed systems and presents Open Systems Dependability as a property for a system that has the ability to provide optimal services, minimize damage when stoppages occur, resume services quickly, and achieve accountability. He then outlines the DEOS process, an integrative process for achieving the desired dependability in information systems.

Free Download Open Source Security Tools: Practical Guide to Security Applications, A By Tony Howlett
2004 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0321194438 | EPUB | 5 MB
Few frontline system administrators can afford to spend all day worrying about security. But in this age of widespread virus infections, worms, and digital attacks, no one can afford to neglect network defenses. Written with the harried IT manager in mind, Open Source Security Tools is a practical, hands-on introduction to open source security tools. Seasoned security expert Tony Howlett has reviewed the overwhelming assortment of these free and low-cost solutions to provide you with the "best of breed" for all major areas of information security. Inside, you’ll find everything from how to harden Linux and Windows systems to how to investigate breaches with Sleuth Kit, Autopsy Forensic Browser, and Forensic Tool Kit. For each security task described, the author reviews the best open source tools and how to use them and also provides a case study and sample implementation. Covered tasks include: Installing an open source firewall using Ipchains, Iptables, Turtle firewall, or Smoothwall Scanning ports and testing for vulnerabilities using Nmap, Nlog, Nmap for Windows, Nessus,and NessusWX Using sniffers and network-intrusion systems, including Tcpdump, Ethereal, Windump, Snort™, and Snort™ for Windows Tracking and analyzing collected data with Swatch, ACID, and NCC Encrypting communications with PGP, GnuPG, SSH, and Free S/WAN This handy reference also tackles the emerging field of wireless security and covers tools such as Kismet Wireless, Airsnort, and Netstumber. Whether you’re a Windows system administrator or a network administrator, you will come away with an understanding of how open source security tools can help protect your organization and further your own career.

Free Download Shaukat Ajmeri, "Open Season: Stories"
English | ISBN: 1774151553 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 487 KB + 927 KB
In sparkling, clear prose, understated yet unflinching, Open Season probes deep into the fissures of caste, class, religion, and gender in our world. Located mostly in India and Canada, the stories describe a world of global flows where a woman returns to India after her two daughters are killed in a school shooting in the US; in the title story a Muslim young man is lynched in an Indian town on the false charges that his fridge contains beef; "Light as a Butterfly" draws our attention to the ongoing degradation of the environment; in "All Cut Up," set in a suburb of Toronto, seven-year-old Zoya is heroically protected by her mother Zarina from her community’s demand that she be circumcised. The stories speak of a world familiar and yet all too elusive, of a gentler, mellower, more hopeful time; they explore the charms and constraints of life in a small town and question assumptions and beliefs and dreams.

Free Download Open Questions: Diverse Thinkers Discuss God, Religion, and Faith By Luís F. Rodrigues
2010 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0313386447 | PDF | 4 MB
Subjects such as spirituality, the existence of God, atheism, and the concept of one true religion are profound, incendiary topics. This collection of interviews about faith and religion will fascinate anyone-believer or nonbeliever-who is interested in the interaction of science, religion, and belief in contemporary culture.Open Questions: Diverse Thinkers Discuss God, Religion, and Faith is a compelling invitation to each of us to examine our positions on these highly charged subjects. It will both answer questions and inspire new inquiries. In the process of creating this book, author and interviewer Luís F. Rodrigues was driven by his natural and intense curiosity rather than by dogmatic or institutional bias; he had no agenda other than to fairly present multiple points of view on the widely debated topics at hand. This compilation of easy-to-read interviews with individuals like John Dominic Crossan, Dinesh D’Souza, A.C. Grayling, and James Randi will appeal to general readers as well as theologians and academics.

Free Download Danica Savonick, "Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era o"
English | ISBN: 1478030615 | 2024 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which cuny guaranteed tuition-free admission to every city high school graduate, was one of the most controversial in US educational history. Analyzing their archival teaching materials-syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments-alongside their published work, Savonick reveals how these renowned writers were also transformative educators who developed creative methods of teaching their students to navigate and change the world. In fact, many of their methods-such as student-led courses, collaborative public projects, and the publication of student writing-anticipated the kinds of student-centered and antiracist pedagogies that have become popular in recent years. In addition to recovering the pedagogical legacy of these writers, Savonick shows how teaching in cuny’s free and open classrooms fundamentally altered their writing and, with it, the course of American literature and feminist criticism.

Free Download Innovation Governance in an Open Economy: Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World By Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz
2012 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0415504937 | PDF | 4 MB
In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech clusters in niche areas have had a significant impact on peripheral regions. Are these successful innovation clusters born or made? If they are subject to planning and direction, what is the shape that it takes: top down, bottom up or lateral?

Free Download Sextus Empiricus, "How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic "
English | ISBN: 069120604X | 2021 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 952 KB
How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment

Free Download Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society: Implications for Education in Confucian Heritage Cultures By Chi-Ming Lam (auth.)
2013 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 9814451053 | PDF | 2 MB
​The purpose of this book is to develop a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper’s non-justificationist philosophy for promoting an open society. Specifically, the book is designed to develop an educational programme for fostering critical thinking in children, particularly when they are involved in group discussion.The study conducted an experiment to assess the effectiveness of Matthew Lipman’s Philosophy for Children (P4C) programme in promoting Hong Long (Chinese) children’s critical thinking. Forty-two Secondary 1 students volunteered for the experiment, from whom 28 students were randomly selected and randomly assigned to two groups of 14 each: one receiving P4C lessons and the other receiving English lessons. The students who were taught P4C were found to perform better in the reasoning test than those who were not, to be capable of discussing philosophical problems in a competent way, and to have a very positive attitude towards doing philosophy in the classroom. It was also found that P4C played a major role in developing the students’ critical thinking.Considering that the construction of children by adults as incompetent in the sense of lacking reason, maturity, or independence reinforces the traditional structure of adult authority over children in society, it runs counter to the goal of fostering critical thinking in children. As a way to return justice to childhood and to effectively promote critical thinking in children, the present study suggested reconstructing the concept of childhood, highlighting the importance of establishing a coherent public policy on promotion of agency in children and also the importance of empowering them to participate actively in research, legal, and educational institutions.

Free Download Open-Channel Flow by M. Hanif Chaudhry
English | PDF | 2007 | 528 Pages | ISBN : 0387301747 | 30.4 MB
Analysis of open-channel flow is essential for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects. The use of computers and the availability of efficient computational procedures has simplified such analysis, and made it possible to handle increasingly complex systems.