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Free Download Empire Cruise: The Special Service Squadron, 1923-24 by Daniel Knowles
English | October 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1781558981 | 320 pages | PDF | 33 Mb
In 1923, the Royal Navy’s Special Service Squadron embarked on a ten-month empire tour to strengthen ties and assert British naval power.

Free Download David Oliver, "Airborne Espionage: International Special Duties Operations in the World Wars"
English | ISBN: 0750938706 | 2005 | 250 pages | MOBI | 441 KB
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the transport of ‘spies’ across enemy lines by aircraft was not regarded as a priority. In fact, there was no formal organisation for these flights and no communications network between the air forces and their agents – apart from homing pigeons and the occasional telephone call. The situation had not improved to any great extent by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Although dedicated air units had been established to fly the spies – or ‘agents’ as they were then known – their aircraft were hand-me-downs and their aircrews considered the ‘Special Duties’ (SD) role as a poor third to the more glamorous worlds of fighter and bomber operations. However, the tasks undertaken by these men and their aircraft were often more hazardous and demanding than any other type of wartime flying. The Second World War saw the rapid development of infrastructures by the Allies to support their SD operations, mirrored in other combatant nations’ activities. Operating in all weathers, invariably at night, often at low level and usually without fighter escort, the SD squadrons and units paid a heavy price in aircrew killed and missing. By their very nature, these operations went unreported in wartime and for some considerable time thereafter. The exploits of British and Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian and Japanese airmen and units are recorded in this compelling narrative account.

Free Download Margret A. Winzer, Kaz Mazurek, "Special Education in the 21st Century"
English | 2000 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 1563681005 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In the late 20th century, a tidal wave of calls for reform and inclusion of special needs students swept over public special education. The current debates over implementing these themes today are authoritatively addressed by 19 distinguished scholars in this thorough volume. Organized into three cohesive sections, it begins with the issues of educational reform and the emerging discourses of disability and integration in the inclusion movement. Respective chapters appraise specific arguments for inclusion and the federal legislation and litigation surrounding and supporting special education.

Free Download Right to Identity: Proceedings of the Special Workshop "Right to Identity" held at the 27th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Washington DC, 2015 By Paul Tiedemann (editor)
2016 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 3515112448 | PDF | 1 MB
According to the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the catalogue of human rights as it is expressed in the American Convention of Human Rights, as well as in all the other international codifications of human rights, contains a serious gap. It does not provide a particular right for the protection of identity. Therefore, the Court demands the creation of an unwritten human right to identity by case law in addition to the written codices of human rights in international law. The philosophers, lawyers and political scientists joined in this book discuss this assumption under different aspects and from different cultural and legal backgrounds (Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, and Turkey). The book contains contributions that analyze the meaning(s) of the concept "identity" based on an individual approach as well as on the basis of a collective approach. It deals with certain aspects of identity in the context of certain fields of positive law, including criminal law and family law, and it questions the real need for a new right to identity.

Free Download A Relatively Painless Guide to Special Relativity
by Dave Goldberg
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0226821854 | 189 Pages | ePUB | 9.6 MB

Free Download A Mathematical Journey to Relativity: Deriving Special and General Relativity with Basic Mathematics (UNITEXT for Physics) by Wladimir-Georges Boskoff, Salvatore Capozziello
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 3031548221 | 562 pages | MOBI | 90 Mb
The 2nd edition of this textbook features more than 100 pages of new material, including four new chapters, as well as an improved discussion of differential geometry concepts and their applications. The textbook aims to provide a comprehensive geometric description of Special and General Relativity, starting from basic Euclidean geometry to more advanced non-Euclidean geometry and differential geometry. Readers will learn about the Schwarzschild metric, the relativistic trajectory of planets, the deflection of light, the black holes, and the cosmological solutions like de Sitter, Friedman-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, and Gödel ones, as well as the implications of each of them for the observed physical world. In addition, the book provides step-by-step solutions to problems and exercises, making it an ideal introduction for undergraduate students and readers looking to gain a better understanding of Special and General Relativity. In this new edition, a wide discussion on metric-affine theories of gravity and equivalent formulations of General Relativity is reported. The aim is presenting also topics which could be useful for PhD students and researchers studying General Relativity from an advanced point of view.

Free Download Trigger Warning: A Special Operations Engineer in Afghanistan by Nathan Bolton
English | 2 October 2024 | ISBN: 1923144634 | 320 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
Trigger Warningis a story of success, triumph, trauma and overcoming. This is the story of a former Special Operations Engineer as he worked relentlessly to rekindle his life after the war. Having worked alongside Australia’s Special Forces, he discusses in great detail, the exploits that he was tasked to perform as an engineer during his multiple tours to Afghanistan, during some of the roughest years of the war. However, this tale is something more, as it is also a human story, of a son chasing his father’s approval, the challenges of growing up in a shadow, and one man’s unrelenting drive to make peace with the demons that followed him home.

Free Download Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013 By Takayuki Koizumi, Nobutaka Tsujiuchi (auth.), Randall Allemang, James De Clerck, Christopher Niezrecki, Alfred Wicks (eds.)
2013 | 634 Pages | ISBN: 1461465451 | PDF | 31 MB
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the sixth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:Teaching Experimental & Analytical Structural DynamicsSensors & InstrumentationAircraft/AerospaceBio-DynamicsSports Equipment DynamicsAdvanced ODS & Stress EstimationShock & VibrationFull-Field Optical Measurements & Image AnalysisStructural Health MonitoringOperational Modal AnalysisWind Turbine DynamicsRotating MachineryFinite Element MethodsEnergy Harvesting

Free Download Festus E. Obiakor, Jeffrey P. Bakken, Anthony F. Rotatori, "Current Issues and Trends in Special Education.: Identification, Assessment and Instruction"
English | 2010 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1848556683 | PDF | 1,6 mb
This is the first of two themed volumes addressing the current issues and trends in Special Education. Volume 19 covers identification, assessment and instruction whilst volume 20 covers research, technology, and teacher preparation. The field of special education constantly changes as a result of legislation, new instructional formats and current research investigations. It can be difficult for general and special educators, school counselors and psychologists, administrators and practicing clinicians to keep up with these changes and be current in all areas relating to special education. The special education literature knowledge base should reflect these changes; however, there is no current resource that effectively and comprehensively does this. The purpose of "Current Issues and Trends in Special Education" is to fill this void, providing chapters written by active researchers and practitioners in their respective areas.

Free Download Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303169645X | 329 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
The aim of this book is to honor the memory of Professor José Carlos Petronilho and hence focuses on his main research areas (Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, Approximation Theory). It is a collaborative book and among the contributing authors are outstanding leaders in the field. The book addresses different topics exploring the connection between the areas already mentioned and their applications, from different perspectives and using several tools, both analytical and algebraic. Beside the researches working in these topics, the book potentially interests the readers working in areas of Mathematics, Science and Technology where Approximation Theory, Special Functions and Orthogonality are potentially useful tools.