Luiz Otavio Laydner, Barbara Makant, John Tabor, "With the Back on the Ground: From the Early Japanese in America to MMA - How Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Developed"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00N1BX9NU | 424 pages | AZW3 | 0.43 MB
It wasn't likely, without the benefit of hindsight, anyone in the crowd at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado, that 12th of November 1993 had a clue that they were witnessing history in the making. The modest audience attending UFC 1 was certainly surprised as they left the venue. Partly the surprise had to do with the violence they'd just seen, real human combat, with no rules or limits, mutually agreed to by contestants caged into a fenced enclosure. But that sense of surprise was also due to how easily the tournament winner dispatched his adversaries. The time his three fights lasted in all: five minutes, less than two rounds of a professional boxing bout. They'd have been more surprised still had they known the champion wasn't even in the top tier of his art's practitioners back in his homeland. With Royce Gracie's victories at the subsequent events the community of martial arts scholars became acquainted with what is now known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but at the time wasn't yet called by that name. Naturally, analysis of this phenomenon brought with it controversy. What ensued was an intense "battle for legitimacy" where experts in an array of martial arts sought, to no avail, to come to a consensus on just what Brazilian jiu-jitsu is, what the Gracies' role in its development was, etc... Truth is, it is a modern day expression of an ancient philosophy of combat. Its initial success was the consequence of a process that began 90 years prior, when a group of Japanese martial artists brought judo to America and over the course of years unconsciously adapted their techniques to deal with the problem at hand when they were repeatedly challenged by American wrestlers who were almost invariably bigger and stronger. The natural consequence of this was the development of a style of fighting that would respect the natural physiology of humans, and a peculiar combat philosophy. The outcome of this philosophy of pursuing superiority led to the creation of vale-tudo in 1930s Rio de Janeiro. That was the starting point of the timeline in which Brazilian jiu-jitsu developed, quite unmethodically mixing combat in the gi, no-gi and "valendo tudo," or "anything goes." At several points the art came close to extinction or being absorbed by judo, escaping this fate mainly because of the obstinacy of Hélio Gracie. From the '30s onwards Brazilian jiu-jitsu Descriptionted a path of near total isolation, restricted to a small number of practitioners but preserving the original combat philosophy, a still frame of an era on its way to forgottenness. Until it captured the world's attention on November 12, 1993. How this process unfolded, that is the aim of this book.

Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945 by Geoff Eley
English | May 14, 2013 | ISBN: 0415812623, 0415812631 | True EPUB | 246 pages | 2.3 MB
Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley's most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich.

English | ASIN: B09KK1QHKM | 2022 | 7 hours and 53 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 210 MB
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer—better known as the ENIAC—even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. While most students of computer history are aware of this innovative machine, the great contributions of the women who programmed it were never told—until now.

English | ASIN: B0B46N9NF2 | 2022 | 6 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 172 MB
As heard on NPR's This American Life: Unlikely friendships challenge every kind of bias, to offer hope that our societies can heal. Much has been written about our polarized media, social bubbles, and intractable biases. Award-winning journalist Bastian Berbner circled the world to find a different narrative. In Search of Common Ground is his profound collection of true stories that prove it is possible to mend even our fiercest divides.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119899257 | 243 pages | True PDF EPUB | 39.38 MB
Tutorial for analytical and scientific approaches related to LEO satellites ground station performance, including math, experiments, and simulations.
Ground Station Design and Analysis for LEO satellites provides complete instructions and steps for ground station performance evaluation, including stations dedicated for scientific or communication purposes, and offers the reader an enhanced learning experience by proposing 40 ideas related to ground station performance assessment. Each idea goes over the math analysis, experiment or simulation, the methodology applied, the results, and a conclusion. This approach provides the reader with the opportunity to compare theoretical results with on-site results, guiding the reader towards intelligent and practical performance evaluation and enhancement.

Stalking Ground by Margaret Mizushima | 1.56 MB
English | 237 Pages

Title: Stalking Ground
Author: Margaret Mizushima
Year: 2016

Cakaj S Ground Station Design and Analysis for LEO Satellites 2022 | 22.57 MB
English | 401 Pages

Title: Ground Station Design and Analysis for LEO Satellites: Analytical, Experimental and Simulation Approach
Author: Shkelzen Cakaj
Year: 2022

Black D SystemC From the Ground Up 2ed 2010 | 24.11 MB
English | 291 Pages

Title: Systemc from the Ground Up
Author: David C. Black, Jack Donovan, Bill Bunton, Anna Keist
Year: 2022

Ground Control - Pro Color Grading In DaVinci Resolve
English | Tutorial | Size: 5.6GB

Brock Warner CFRE, "From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising For Nonprofits"
English | ISBN: 0980983614 | 2020 | 206 pages | EPUB | 731 KB