Tag: Surprise

Free Download Barton Whaley, "Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War"
English | 2007 | pages: 590 | ISBN: 1596931981 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Out-of-print and out of the hands of military professionals for years, Artech House answers the demand, making the sought-after, classic work, Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War, available once again. This timeless and widely cited volume offers professionals a model and template for studying and analyzing deception operations. Readers get an historical analysis of deception and surprise, over 100 real-world case studies, and a set of methods that underlie and pervade the entire book. This unique resource takes a broad and deep look at surprise operations, presenting intriguing questions and hypotheses about the possible causes of surprise, including deception. Thoroughly referenced and supported with clear data tables, the case studies concentrate on goals, planning, expectations, security, leaks, warnings, intelligence assessments, and final results. The book concludes with analytical lists of battles from 1914 to 1968, systematically laid out in columns for cross-tabulation.

Free Download Novelty, Information and Surprise By Günther Palm (auth.)
2012 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 3642290744 | PDF | 3 MB
The book offers a new approach to information theory that is more general then the classical approach by Shannon. The classical definition of information is given for an alphabet of symbols or for a set of mutually exclusive propositions (a partition of the probability space Ω) with corresponding probabilities adding up to 1. The new definition is given for an arbitrary cover of Ω, i.e. for a set of possibly overlapping propositions. The generalized information concept is called novelty and it is accompanied by two new concepts derived from it, designated as information and surprise, which describe "opposite" versions of novelty, information being related more to classical information theory and surprise being related more to the classical concept of statistical significance. In the discussion of these three concepts and their interrelations several properties or classes of covers are defined, which turn out to be lattices. The book also presents applications of these new concepts, mostly in statistics and in neuroscience.

Free Download The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth D. Ackerman
English | June 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0786711515, 1619450003 | EPUB | 416 pages | 3.3 MB
In post–Civil War America, politics was a brutal sport played with blunt rules. Yet James Garfield’s 1881 "dark horse" campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating process (36 convention ballots), his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president (by only 7,018 votes out of over 9 million cast), his struggle against feuding factions once elected, and the public’s response to its culmination in violence, sets a revealing comparison with America approaching a new campaign year in 2004.

Free Download The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCX7FK9 | 2024 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: James L. Swanson
Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Free Download Nathaniel Jeanson, "Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise"
English | ISBN: 1683442911 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 71 MB
"Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson has found the Rosetta Stone of human history." Ken Ham

Free Download A Troublemaker May Surprise (The Troublemaker Series Book 2)
by Genta Sebastian
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1942594089 | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 0.36 MB

Free Download William Desmond, "Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation"
English | ISBN: 0268201579 | 2021 | 326 pages | EPUB | 427 KB

Free Download Darla Sims, "Surprise Crochet Sweaters for Baby"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1609002679 | PDF | pages: 38 | 5.0 mb
Exciting news! Darla Sims has created a crochet version of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s classic knitted Baby Surprise Jacket-and she’s added lots of fun variations! Now you can crochet a surprise sweater and add stripes, ruffles, a hood, a collar, or other sweet details. Like the original Baby Surprise Jacket, the crochet pattern is worked in one easy piece, then folded and quickly stitched to create its final shape. These 8 darling cardigans can be crocheted in sizes 6-, 12-, and 24-months, using medium weight yarn: Basic Sweater, Hooded Sweater, Ruffled Sweater, Bobbled Sweater, Picot Sweater, Ribbed Collar Sweater, V-Neck Sweater, and Basic Buttoned Sweater.

Free Download Random House, "A Surprise for a Friend (Barbie)"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 055350942X | EPUB | pages: 16 | 8.0 mb
Girls 3 to 7 will love to read how Barbie’s friends plan to surprise her with the ultimate party. But when Nikki injures her leg and can’t attend, Barbie gives Nikki a surprise of her own! This full-color storybook features press-out friendship cards and over 50 stickers.