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Free Download Robert Christgau, "Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017"
English | ISBN: 1478000228 | 2018 | 456 pages | EPUB | 622 KB
Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America’s most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it’s sometimes simple or silly. While compiling historical overviews going back to Dionysus and the gramophone along with artist analyses that range from Louis Armstrong to M.I.A., this definitive collection also explores pop’s African roots, response to 9/11, and evolution from the teen music of the ’50s to an art form compelled to confront mortality as its heroes pass on. A final section combines searching obituaries of David Bowie, Prince, and Leonard Cohen with awed farewells to Bob Marley and Ornette Coleman.

Free Download Robert Christgau, "Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017"
English | ISBN: 1478000228 | 2018 | 456 pages | EPUB | 622 KB
Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America’s most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it’s sometimes simple or silly. While compiling historical overviews going back to Dionysus and the gramophone along with artist analyses that range from Louis Armstrong to M.I.A., this definitive collection also explores pop’s African roots, response to 9/11, and evolution from the teen music of the ’50s to an art form compelled to confront mortality as its heroes pass on. A final section combines searching obituaries of David Bowie, Prince, and Leonard Cohen with awed farewells to Bob Marley and Ornette Coleman.

Free Download 20 Years of Computational Neuroscience By John Miller, James M. Bower (auth.), James M Bower (eds.)
2013 | 283 Pages | ISBN: 1461414237 | PDF | 8 MB
When funding agencies and policy organizations consider the role of modeling and simulation in modern biology, the question is often posed, what has been accomplished ? This book will be organized around a symposium on the 20 year history of the CNS meetings, to be held as part of CNS 2010 in San Antonio Texas in July 2010. The book, like the symposium is intended to summarize progress made in Computational Neuroscience over the last 20 years while also considering current challenges in the field. As described in the table of contents, the chapter’s authors have been selected to provide wide coverage of the applications of computational techniques to a broad range of questions and model systems in neuroscience. The proposed book will include several features that establish the history of the field. For each article, its author will select an article originally appearing in a CNS conference proceedings from 15 – 20 years ago. These short (less than 6 page) articles will provide illustrations of the state of the field 20 years ago. The new articles will describe what has been learned about the subject in the following 20 years, and pose specific challenges for the next 20 years. The second historical mechanism will be the reproduction of the first 12 years of posters from the CNS meeting. These posters in and of themselves have become famous in the field (they hang in the halls of the NIH in Bethesda Maryland) and were constructed as allegories for the state and development of computational neuroscience. The posters were designed by the book’s editor, who will, for the first time, provide a written description of each poster.

Free Download Rich Marazzi, "Yale Football Through the Years"
English | ISBN: 1476680361 | 2020 | 217 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Chronicling Yale football from its 1872 inception to the present, this volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the most important games, including all Yale-Harvard contests, most Yale-Princeton games, record-making performances, great plays and more. Human-interest anecdotes offer a sidebar to the game or era covered, giving color to the storied history of Yale football. The evolution is traced of rules that transformed a game combining soccer and rugby into the football we know today.

Free Download David Dicaire, "The Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0786444312 | 2010 | 252 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change. Profiles of Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and others show how the stage was set for the American folk revival of the 1960s.

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by Francesca Granata;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1789388937 | 266 pages | True EPUB | 8.27 MB

Free Download Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor by Collin Hansen – editor, Lloyd James, christianaudio.com
English | March 14, 2019 | ISBN: B07PRXTCDX | 4 hours and 28 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 103 Mb
Probably no book published in the last decade has been so ambitious as Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. He seeks nothing less than to account for the spread of secularism and decline of faith in the last 500 years. Now a remarkable roster of writers – including Carl Trueman, Michael Horton, and Jen Pollock Michel – considers Taylor’s insights for the church’s life and mission, covering everything from healthcare to liturgy to pop culture and politics. Nothing is easy about faith today. But endurance produces character, and character produces hope, even in our secular age.

Free Download Mortal Monarchs: 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths by Suzie Edge, Wildfire
English | September 29, 2022 | ISBN: B09VLMHQPT | 7 hours and 47 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 424 Mb
How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to uncover the Descriptions, accusations, rivalries and ever-present threat of poison that the kings and queens of old faced.
From the "bloody" fascinating story behind Oliver Cromwell’s demise and the subsequent treatment of his corpse and whether the arrow William II caught in the chest was an accident or murder, to Henry IV’s remarkable skin condition and the red-hot poker up Edward II’s rear end, Mortal Monarchs captivates, grosses-out and informs.
In school, many of us learned the dates they died and who followed them, but sadly never heard the varied-and oft-gruesome-way our monarchs met their maker. Featuring original medical research, this history forms a rich record not just of how these people died, but how we thought about and treated the human body, in life and in death.

Free Download Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton, Simon Vance, Tantor Audio
English | March 18, 2011 | ISBN: B004SL8OZK | 10 hours and 7 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 556 Mb
In the century since its founding, Harvard Business School has become the single most influential institution in global business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokerage houses routinely send their brightest young stars to HBS to groom them for future power. To these people and many others, a Harvard MBA is a golden ticket to the Olympian heights of American business.
In 2004 Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join 900 other would-be tycoons on HBS’s plush campus. Over the next two years, he and his classmates would be inundated with the best – and the rest – of American business culture, which HBS epitomizes. The core of the school’s curriculum is the "case" – an analysis of a real business situation, from which the students must, with a professor’s guidance, tease lessons. Broughton studied over 500 cases and recounts the most revelatory ones here. He also learned the surprising pleasures of accounting, the allure of "beta", the ingenious chicanery of leveraging, and innumerable other hidden workings of the business world, all of which he limns with a wry clarity reminiscent of Liar’s Poker. He also exposes the less savory trappings of business-school culture, from the "booze luge" to the pandemic obsession with PowerPoint to the specter of depression, which stalks too many overburdened students.
With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school’s success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business: leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, and work/life balance.

Free Download Advances in Fisheries Science: 50 years on from Beverton and Holt By
2008 | 580 Pages | ISBN: 1405170832 | PDF | 26 MB
This timely book brings readers up to date on the wide range of advances made in fisheries science since the publication in 1957 of On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations (Beverton and Holt), regarded by many fisheries scientists as one of the most important books on fisheries yet published.Traditional fishery subjects covered include historic declines and changes in fishing fleets, fisheries management and stock assessments, data-poor situations, simulation and modelling of fished stocks, fisheries economics, assessing reproductive potential and dispersal of larvae, fisheries for sharks and rays, and use of marine technology. Additionally, related subjects of increasing importance now that ecological approaches to management are coming to the fore are presented. They include benthic ecology, ecosystem changes linked to fishing, life history theory, the effects of chemicals on fish reproduction, and use of sounds in the sea by marine life. Several chapters offer stimulating philosophical discussion of the many controversial areas still existing.This significant book, edited by Andy Payne, John Cotter and Ted Potter and containing contributions by world-renowned fisheries scientists, including many based at Cefas (where Beverton and Holt’s original work was carried out) is an essential purchase for fisheries managers and scientists, fish biologists, marine scientists and ecologists. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where fisheries and biological sciences are studied and taught are likely to need copies of this landmark publication.Content: Chapter 1 One Hundred and Twenty Years of Change in Fishing Power of English North Sea Trawlers (pages 1-25): Georg H. EngelhardChapter 2 The Decline of the English and Welsh Fishing Fleet? (pages 26-48): Trevor Hutton, Simon Mardle and Alex N. TiddChapter 3 After Beverton and Holt (pages 49-62): Joe HorwoodChapter 4 Contributions of the Fishing Industry to Research through Partnerships (pages 63-84): Michael J. Armstrong, Andrew I. L. Payne and A. John R. CotterChapter 5 Understanding and Managing Marine Fisheries with the Aid of a Digital Map (pages 85-103): Paul D. Eastwood, Geoff J. Meaden, Tom Nishida and Stuart I. RogersChapter 6 Managing without best Predictions: The Management Strategy Evaluation Framework (pages 104-134): Jose A. A. De Oliveira, Laurence T. Kell, Andre E. Punt, Beatriz A. Roel and Doug S. ButterworthChapter 7 From Fish to Fisheries: The Changing Focus of Management Advice (pages 135-154): Stuart A. Reeves, Paul Marchal, Simon Mardle, Sean Pascoe, Raul Prellezo, Olivier Thebaud and Muriel TraversChapter 8 The Contribution of Science to Management of the North Sea Cod (Gadus Morhua) and UK Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax) Fisheries: Can We do Better? (pages 155-183): Mike PawsonChapter 9 Management of Elasmobranch Fisheries in the North Atlantic (pages 184-228): Jim R. Ellis, Maurice W. Clarke, Enric Cortes, Henk J. L. Heessen, Panayiota Apostolaki, John K. Carlson and Dave W. KulkaChapter 10 Accumulation of New Knowledge and Advances in Fishery Management: Two Complementary Processes? (pages 229-254): Panayiota Apostolaki, Graham M. Pilling, Michael J. Armstrong, Julian D. Metcalfe and Rodney ForsterChapter 11 New Technologies for the Advancement of Fisheries Science (pages 255-279): Julian D. Metcalfe, David A. Righton, Ewan Hunter, Suzanna Neville and David K. MillsChapter 12 Assessment and Management of Data?Poor Fisheries (pages 280-305): Graham M. Pilling, Panayiota Apostolaki, Pierre Failler, Christos Floros, Philip A. Large, Beatriz Morales?Nin, Patricia Reglero, Konstantinos I. Stergiou and Athanassios C. TsiklirasChapter 13 The Importance of Reproductive Dynamics in Fish Stock Assessments (pages 306-324): Peter R. Witthames and C. Tara MarshallChapter 14 80 Years of Multispecies Fisheries Modelling: Significant Advances and Continuing Challenges (pages 325-357): John K. Pinnegar, Verena M. Trenkel and Julia L. BlanchardChapter 15 Benthic Communities, Ecosystems and Fisheries (pages 358-398): Hubert L. Rees, Jim R. Ellis, Keith Hiscock, Sian E. Boyd and Michaela SchratzbergerChapter 16 Simulating the Marine Environment and its Use in Fisheries Research (pages 399-417): Clive J. Fox and John N. AldridgeChapter 17 Overfishing Affects More than Fish Populations: Trophic Cascades and Regime Shifts in the Black Sea (pages 418-433): Georgi M. DaskalovChapter 18 Beverton and Holt’s Insights into Life History Theory: Influence, Application and Future Use (pages 434-450): Simon Jennings and Nick K. DulvyChapter 19 The "Soundscape" of the Sea, Underwater Navigation, and Why We should be Listening More (pages 451-471): A. John R. CotterChapter 20 Fish Vitellogenin as a Biological Effect Marker of Oestrogenic Endocrine Disruption in the Open Sea (pages 472-490): Alexander P. Scott and Craig D. RobinsonChapter 21 In Recognition of Inevitable Uncertainties: From Fisheries Management to Managing Marine Resources (pages 491-533): Piers Larcombe, David J. Morris and Carl M. O’brien