Free Download Peter Biskind, "Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties"
English | 2001 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0747556903, 0394527291 | EPUB | 4,1 mb
Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd and witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love - or love to hate - and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, classics such as Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and shows us how movies that appear politically innocent in fact bear an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives, and career women, cops and docs, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen, from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American - the conflicts of the time in action.

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2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0061915327 | EPUB | 2 MB
"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."-Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life"Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."-Claire Dederer, bestselling author of PoserSeason to Taste is an aspiring chef's moving account of finding her way-in the kitchen and beyond-after a tragic accident destroys her sense of smell. Molly Birnbaum's remarkable story-written with the good cheer and great charm of popular food writers Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl-is destined to stand alongside Julie Powell's Julie and Julia as a classic tale of a cooking life. Season to Taste is sad, funny, joyous, and inspiring.

Free Download Stephen R. Bown, "Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail"
English | 2012 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0312313918, 0750997400 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored.

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2012 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 0307591808 | EPUB | 2 MB
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more.Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals:Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting...

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English | 2009 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0310345790 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.

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2011 | 428 Pages | ISBN: 1449316409 | EPUB | 5 MB
SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put the theory into practice. In this insightful book, author C.J. Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how you can apply it directly to your use of SQL. This second edition includes new material on recursive queries, "missing information" without nulls, new update operators, and topics such as aggregate operators, grouping and ungrouping, and view updating. If you have a modest-to-advanced background in SQL, you'll learn how to deal with a host of common SQL dilemmas. Why is proper column naming so important? Nulls in your database are causing you to get wrong answers. Why? What can you do about it? Is it possible to write an SQL query to find employees who have never been in the same department for more than six months at a time? SQL supports "quantified comparisons," but they're better avoided. Why? How do you avoid them? Constraints are crucially important, but most SQL products don't support them properly. What can you do to resolve this situation? Database theory and practice have evolved since the relational model was developed more than 40 years ago. SQL and Relational Theory draws on decades of research to present the most up-to-date treatment of SQL available. C.J. Date has a stature that is unique within the database industry. A prolific writer well known for the bestselling textbook An Introduction to Database Systems (Addison-Wesley), he has an exceptionally clear style when writing about complex principles and theory.

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English | 2018 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 110194630X | EPUB | 120,3 mb
A straightforward, easy-to-follow look at the anatomy, biomechanics, and nutrition of running.

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English | 2017 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 1434710351 | EPUB | 3,4 mb
Many people have questions about faith. Ben Young knows what it's like to feel as if you're alone in your doubts. In Room for Doubt, Ben offers:

Free Download Rockonomics How Music Explains Everything (about the Economy) By Krueger, A.
2019 | 325 Pages | ISBN: 1473667895 | EPUB | 31 MB
"One of the world's foremost economists uses examples from the music industry to explain the workings of our economy - how markets change, and how to prepare for the economy of the future."--✅Publisher.

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English | 2023 | ASIN : B0BW62SD85 | 105 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief historical overview, from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first centuries, through the creation of two enormous projects-the Carte du Ciel, or the great star map, and the International Cloud Atlas, pioneered by the World Meteorological Organization after World War II. These new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary phenomena like climate change possible.