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Free Download Karlos Dillard, "Ward of the State: A Memoir Of Foster Care"
English | ISBN: 1543999026 | 2020 | 148 pages | EPUB | 818 KB
"Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care," tells what happened to a little black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, severely neglected by his mother who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves. Enduring severe neglect and abuse, the boy was removed by the State of Michigan and put into foster care. Karlos was removed from his mother’s care just to end up in foster homes that treated him worse. The book is an emotional rollercoaster. Every time Karlos describes the pain he is feeling you will feel the same pain. Whether it be hunger, anger, or being sexually violated. Karlos’ use of words makes sure that you aren’t just reading the book, you are actually engaged. What is most enticing are the small victories experienced in the story because they give you a break from the horrors of some of the foster homes. Karlos was told he was not loved, he was not wanted and he was nothing but a ward of the State. Karlos had nothing left to look forward to and that almost ended his life, but his hope to find a family that loved him kept him alive.

Free Download Richard P. Klobuchar – The USS Ward: An Operational History of the Ship That Fired the First American Shot of World War II
McFarland & Company | 2006 | ISBN: 0786423846 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 139.13 MB
In 1940, with the threat of war in the Pacific imminent, the United States was forced to expand its fleet as quickly as possible. This included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy’s reserve fleet. It was here that the U.S.S. Ward came into her own, earning the distinction of firing the first shot in America’s war against Japan and serving three years in combat until it was sunk – with no loss of life – on December 7, 1944. From the first confrontation at Pearl Harbor through the Ward’s last mission in the Philippines, this history gives a detailed account of the life and times of the ship and her crew of 125 men, 82 of whom were naval reservists from St. Paul, Minnesota. On May 15, 1918, at Mare Island Shipyard in California, Master Shipfitter J.T. Maroney laid the keel of a hull designated simply as DD-139. In a record that still stands, Maroney had the hull ready for launching in only 17 days instead of the four months usually required. One of the last Wickes class destroyers built in the waning days of World War I, the Ward was commissioned too late to participate in the action for which it was ordered. Little is known regarding the ship’s World War I days because of lack of contemporary resources. The work provides a vivid description of the Ward’s service during World War II. Interviews with surviving crewmen and forewords by Kenneth C. Swedberg and Guy E. Thompson, former shipmates, are included. Other sources include information from the National Archives and the Naval Historical Center. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, a listing of amphibious landings and a roster of personnel.

Free Download Neil McCoy-Ward – ‘UNLIMITED WEALTH’ The Psychology Of Wealth Accumulation Download File Links

What You Get:

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – You Were ‘CREATED’ to be Wealthy, But ‘PROGRAMMED’ To Be Poor.
• Chapter 3 – Taking Account & ‘Cleaning Your Slate’ For MASSIVE Wealth Accumulation
• Chapter 4 – The HIDDEN Secrets Of MONEY & How We Psychologically Relate To It.
• Chapter 5 – Breaking the Societal Mindtrap & Setting Yourself FREE To Live Life On Your Own Terms
• Chapter 6 – How To Raise Your Financial Thermostat (EXPLODE WEALTH!)
• Chapter 7 – How To EXPLODE Wealth! Using These Psychological Concepts/Constructs
• Chapter 8 – The Rules & Principles Of Wealth (Break Them At Your PERIL!)
• Chapter 9 (BONUS) – The Metaphysical World Of Wealth Accumulation
• Chapter 10 (BONUS) – Strategic Wealth Building! (How To Earn Vast Sums) ‘STRATEGY SESSION’
• Chapter 11 – Conclusion

Free Download A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards By Jie W. Weiss, David J. Weiss
2008 | 536 Pages | ISBN: 0195322983 | PDF | 11 MB
Ward Edwards is well known as the father of behavioral decision making. In his 1954 Psychological Bulletin paper on decision making, he brought psychological ideas into what had been the province of economists. His influence in this realm is so pervasive that the Nobel committee was able to trace a direct path from Edwards’s work to Daniel Kahneman’s 2002 Prize for prospect theory. In a 1963 Psychological Review paper, Edwards brought Bayesian statistics to the attention of psychologists, who have continued to proliferate Bayesian ideas, underscoring the importance of the perspective. In a 1962 IEEE paper, Edwards foresaw how the world of intelligence gathering and analysis could by transformed by systems in which humans provided (subjective) probabilities and machines provided computational power. He also showed, in a 1986 book written with Detlof von Winterfeldt, how multiattribute utility analysis could help real-world decision makers generate satisfactory solutions to complex problems. In this book, 29 of Ward Edwards’s most important published papers are reprinted, a selection that spans six decades, allowing the reader to see how this strikingly creative thinker generated many of the ideas that are now core beliefs among current researchers. It is perhaps less well known that Edwards continued to make substantial contributions during the years after his retirement. Illness reduced his public appearances, but he continued his incisive thinking behind the scenes. At the time of his passing, he was involved in several projects, and seven new papers from these projects were completed for this book by his last set of collaborators. Edwards’s papers are a treat to read. His prose is the model of elegant simplicity, yet full of style and wit. With each paper, the editors have included a short introduction that presents Edwards’s reflections on the content or impact of the older papers, or describes the creation of the new ones. Obituaries written by former students and colleagues flesh out the human side of this remarkable scholar.