Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.3): Pies & Tarts

Bake it Better: Pies & Tarts includes everything you need to know about baking delicious and beautiful pies and tarts. Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker looking to develop your skills and repertoire, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious, tried-and-tested recipes.The recipes themselves include traditional classics and modern bakes, and progress from simple through to more challenging showstoppers - Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. With expert advice about ingredients, equipment and techniques, and easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs.The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which gives you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.4): Bread

Bake it Better: Bread includes everything you need to know about baking delicious bread. Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker looking to develop your skills and repertoire, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious, tried-and-tested recipes.The recipes themselves include traditional classics and modern bakes, and progress from simple through to more challenging showstoppers - Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. With expert advice about ingredients, equipment and techniques, and easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs.The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which gives you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.5): Puddings & Desserts

Bake it Better: Classic Desserts includes everything you need to know about baking delicious and beautiful desserts. Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker seeking to refine your skills, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious and tried-and-tested recipes.The recipes themselves include classics and modern bakes, from simple to more challenging showstoppers -Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. There are expert tips about ingredients, equipment and techniques, with easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs.The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which gives you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.6): Chocolate

Bake it Better: Chocolate includes everything you need to know about baking with delicious chocolate. Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker seeking to refine your skills, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious and tried-and-tested recipes.The recipes themselves include classics and modern bakes, from simple to more challenging showstoppers - Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. There are expert tips about ingredients, equipment and techniques, with easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs.The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which gives you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


The Ultimate Werewolf: New Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors

scanned copy of archive materials


Réseaux de neurones : Méthodologie et applications

G. Dreyfus, J.-M. Martinez, M. Samuelides, M. B. Gordon, F. Badran, S. Thiria, L. Hérault


Danger On Our Doorstep Could Australia Go To War With China


Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire: Learn to build real-time single page applications with Python

This book is about one principle: coordination. How do we coordinate events that occur in different places and at different times within a web application? For example, if multiple users are connected to the same website and need to send messages to each other, how can we achieve fast and effective communication? Such systems are known as real-time applications.Real-time applications are a standard in web development today. The WebSocket protocol emerged in 2011; it allows you to open a bidirectional tunnel between your web application and another component. The WebSocket protocol creates greater dynamism, and thus improves the user experience. In addition to lower resource consumption, information is updated only when necessary - this avoids redundant requests to the server.There are many sorts of real-time applications. The first ones that come to mind are social networks or messaging applications since they are part of our daily life. We like to receive information instantly, because we don’t need to refresh the page to know if an event has occurred. We don’t want to wait, we are inherently impatient. Learning how to develop real-time applications gives us an advantage when finding new techniques to start a software project.This work presents an alternative to JavaScript for creating Single-Page Applications; and some might worry that the author has started a crusade against JavaScript - but it’s not the case. Instead, his interest is in explaining the power of Python using WebSockets over HTML to produce real-time applications.


Initiation à la cryptographie


Chess for Absolute Beginners: Learn the Basics of Chess With My Proven System


Geschichte des Krieges in Hannover und Westfalen - Die Feldzüge von 1757 und 1758

Geschichte des Krieges in Hannover, Hessen und Westfalen von 1757 bis 1763; 1


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Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.8): Pastry & Patisserie

Bake it Better: Patisserie & Pastries includes everything you need to know about baking delicious and beautiful pastries. Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker seeking to refine your skills, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious and tried-and-tested recipes. The recipes themselves include classics and modern bakes, from simple to more challenging showstoppers -Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. There are expert tips about ingredients, equipment and techniques, with easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs. The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which give you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


Great British Bake Off – Bake it Better (No.7): Sweet Bread & Buns

Bake it Better: Sweet Breads includes everything you need to know about baking delicious sweet bread.Whether you are new to baking and looking for simple, easy recipes or a more confident baker seeking to refine your skills, with The Great British Bake Off you can be sure you're getting scrumptious and tried-and-tested recipes.The recipes themselves include classics and modern bakes, from simple to more challenging showstoppers -Bake it Better will take you a journey from first timer to star baker. There are expert tips about ingredients, equipment and techniques, with easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs.The Great British Bake Off: Bake It Better are the 'go to' cookery books which gives you all the recipes and baking know-how in one easy-to-navigate series.


The Great British Bake Off: Get Baking for Friends and Family

THE SERIES 9 TIE-IN BOOK.More than 100 beautiful and mouth-watering sweet and savoury bakes, from Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith and all the series 8 and 9 bakers.Cakes, including Sticky Toffee Apple Caramel Cake, Hot Chocolate Cake, and Stem Ginger Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Salted Caramel Biscuits, including Wagon Wheels, Salted Caramel Millionaire's Shortbread, and Coffee and Amaretto Kisses Breads, including Irish Quick Bread, Stuffed Smoked Paprika Loaf, and Cinnamon Brioche Bread Puds and Desserts, including Banana Toffee Sponge, Chocolate Terrine with Pistachio Praline, and Hungarian Apple Pie Sweet Pastry and Patisserie, including Prue's Mince Pies, Chocolate Palmiers, and Cherry Frangipane Pies Savoury Bakes, including Savoury Veggie Samosa;, Potato Crust Quiche, and Courgette and Kale TartsAs well as helpful hints, tips and tricks, and easy step-by-step instructions and photographs throughout.On your marks, get set, BAKE!The Great British Bake Off: Get Baking for Friends & Family will encourage and empower amateur bakers of all abilities to have a go at home, taking inspiration from The Great British Bake Off's most ambitious bakes but with simplified recipes and straightforward instructions that will enable even complete beginners to impress their nearest and dearest. From children's birthdays and charity bake sales to celebrating with a loved one or simply enjoying sweet treat over a cup of tea and a catch-up with a dear friend, Get Baking for Friends & Family is a celebration of all those shared moments: both in the joy of making and in the simple pleasure of indulging in something really delicious.


The Age of Sargon II


The Age of Structuralism: From Lévi-Strauss to Foucault

Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of objective realities. The Age of Structuralism examines the work of seven writers who either expanded upon or reacted against Levi-Strauss.In a panoramic overview of the origins of deconstructionism and its critics, Edith Kurzweil offers a lucid and penetrating portrait of the movement that dominated French intellectual life for much of the postwar era, and which continues to influence the French intellectual milieu. She explains Levi-Strauss's strikingly original contributions, then proceeds to illuminate the ideas of crusaders and critics. The key figures dealt with include: Louis Althusser, who reinterpreted Marxism through a rereading of Marx's texts with the help of structuralist techniques; Henri Lefebvre, who remained faithful to Marx's humanism and was one of the earliest and most vehement critics of structuralism; Paul Ricoeur, whose phenomenology sought to reconcile ethical theory and intellectual pursuits; Alain Touraine, a socialist whose sociology of political action led him to dismiss structuralist concerns; Jacques Lacan, who criticized ego-oriented psychoanalytic theory and practice, and whose own work emphasized linguistic structures in psychoanalysis; Roland Barthes, whose literary criticism, in its determination to reject all false notions and systems, led to a highly idiosyncratic approach that drew upon all systems; and finally, Michel Foucault, whose social histories of deviance, medicine, psychology, grammar, language, sexuality criminology, have reexamined every facet of social theory.Placing these major figures in the context of political, historical, and psychoanalytic currents of the time, The Age of Structuralism is a commanding and far-reaching study of a decisive epoch in intellectual history. Kurzweil's new opening essay explains how these…


Agent High Pockets: A Woman's Fight Against the Japanese in the Philippines


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Elementos de autocrítica


Principes des circuits électriques


Conrad’s Picaresque Narrator: Marlow’s Journeyfrom “Youth” through Chance

Lubbock : Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literature, Texas Tech University

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L’idée de cet ouvrage est née d’un véritable besoin, celui de combler une lacune importante dans la littérature relative à la science statistique. En effet, il n’existait à ce jour aucun dictionnaire de statistique en langue française. Il est vrai qu’il s’agit d’une science relativement jeune, reconnue en tant que telle depuis le début du xxe siècle seulement. Notre objectif est de donner la définition des concepts les plus couramment utilisés tout en complétant l’information chaque fois que possible, par des historiques, des aspects mathématiques, des domaines et limitations, des exemples, des références et des mots-clés, qui sont donnés avec leur équivalent en anglais (un mot-clé étant une notion qui peut être liée au mot de base en fonction de plusieurs critères). Les mots apparaissant en gras dans le texte indiquent des correspondances qui renvoient à d’autres notions statistiques, permettant d’expliquer et de développer le terme considéré. Il faut toutefois préciser que ce dictionnaire n’a pas la prétention de réunir en un seul volume toutes les notions de statistique existantes à ce jour, cette science étant en constante évolution. Le premier dictionnaire de cette science à avoir été publié est celui de Sir Maurice Kendall et William Buckland, en 1957. Commandé par l’Institut international de statistique avec l’appui financier de l’UNESCO, il a pour objet la définition des termes statistiques les plus utilisés dans le monde scientifique. En 2003, la sixième édition paraît sous le nom The Oxford Dictionnary of Statistical Terms, édité par moi-même.


Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Materials for Energy Applications

Mohan Lal Kolhe, Kailash J. Karande, Sampat G. Deshmukh, (eds)


Attacking Chess: The King's Indian (Everyman Chess) (Volume 1)


Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World (Philosophia Antiqua, 160)

Edited by Andreas Lammer, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Mareike Jas, independent scholar


Building SPAs with Django and HTML Over the Wire

Discover how to construct real-time applications with Python and Django without the hassle of learning JavaScript Key Features Learn to put together an SPA using Python and very little JavaScript Create WebSocket communication between the backend and frontend Build a real-world project with Django using the techniques provided in this book Book Description The HTML over WebSockets approach simplifies single-page application (SPA) development and lets you bypass learning a JavaScript rendering framework such as React, Vue, or Angular, moving the logic to Python. This web application development book provides you with all the Django tools you need to simplify your developments with real-time results. You'll learn state-of-the-art WebSocket techniques to realize real-time applications with minimal reliance on JavaScript. This book will also show you how to create a project with Docker from the ground up, test it, and deploy it on a server. You'll learn how to create a project, add Docker, and discover development libraries, Django channels, and bidirectional communication, and from then, on you'll create real projects of all kinds using HTML over WebSockets as a chat app or a blog with real-time comments. In addition, you'll modernize your development techniques by moving from using an SSR model to creating web pages using WebSockets over HTML. With Django, you'll be able to create SPAs with professional real-time projects where the logic is in Python. By the end of this Django book, you'll be able to build real-time applications, as well as gaining a solid understanding of WebSockets with Django. What you will learn Explore real-time site realization Understand the proper use of Django channels Find out how to set up Docker with Django Discover how to use a JavaScript framework such as Stimulus Manage a database asynchronously in Django Bring dynamic rendering logic to the backend Who this book is for This book is for developers looking to build applications where the


Grokking Algorithms - tips and tricks of Grokking Functional Programming

Independently published (August 25, 2022)

Everything you need to know about functional programming all in one place!Have you ever wondered what functional programming is?Want to learn it but think it's too hard?Granted, functional programming takes a little more learning than traditional programming, but it isn't as hard as you might think.This book is written in easy-to-understand language, with plenty of simple examples to explain the main functional programming concepts and lots of code examples to show you how it all works.In this book, you will:Have access to an overview of the four main programming paradigms – procedural, logical, functional, and object-orientedUnderstand what first-class functions are, how they are used and how they workLearn about pure functions and how they workUnderstand immutability and why it is importantLearn about refactoring and its importanceLearn about higher-order functionsUnderstand why you should take note of functional compositionLearn about Currying and ClosuresGain an understanding of referential transparencyUnderstand the lambda calculus and how it fits with functional programmingLearn about recursionUnderstand how lists and pattern matching worksLearn about monads, applicatives, and functorsIf you think functional programming is for you, head up, click “Add to Cart,” and start your new learning journey.


Géophysique

Jacques Dubois, Michel Diament, Jean-Pascal Cogné

Cours et exercices corrigés


Hacking Artificial Intelligence: A Leader's Guide from Deepfakes to Breaking Deep Learning


Jeux d'intelligence pour les mordus

Aux mordus qui en redemandent, ce livre en couleur propose 140 jeux d'intelligence variés et inédits. Il s'organise autour de séquences de jeux variés, illustrés, corrigés et commentés. Le livre que vous attendiez pour progresser !


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Learn T-SQL From Scratch

Advance your career as an SQL Server developer and DBA KEY FEATURES ● Cutting-edge coverage from community experts to learn T-SQL programming. ● Detailed explanation of concepts and techniques for easy understanding. ● Numerous practical demonstrations of T-SQL querying and programming applications. DESCRIPTION This book will teach you the fundamentals of SQL, SQL Server, databases, and how to write queries and programs using T-SQL. After reading this book, you will be able to create, modify, and delete databases, tables, and indexes. You can practice querying the data and running complex analytics on it. You will also be able to add, delete, and modify procedures, user-defined functions, triggers, and views. The journey of learning T-SQL with this book begins with an understanding of SQL and database fundamentals. You'll explore the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) used for developing and managing SQL Server databases. You'll then learn how to use DDL statements to create, modify and delete tables and indexes. Gradually, you'll be able to query in T-SQL using DML statements, joins, and various built-in functions. Successively, you'll learn XML and JSON data processing, and by the time you'll reach the end of this book, you will learn to program in SQL Server and various strategies to deploy your databases and programs. Throughout the book, you'll learn through simple examples and straightforward explanations, diagrams, and numerous real-world use-cases. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Concise understanding of relational databases and the SQL Server. ● Learn how to create database tables and indexes using T-SQL. ● Learn to add, modify, and delete records. ● Practice how to slice and dice data by running smart T-SQL queries. ● Perform advanced analytical analysis using various functions. ● Discover Error Handling and Transaction Management. ● Administer XML and JSON handling with T-SQL. ● Practice different deployment modes for T-SQL objects. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR If you wan


Variable complexe et surfaces riemanniennes

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Mastering Advanced Scrum

Empower Your Agile Software Product Development Scrum Teams with Advanced Scrum Techniques KEY FEATURES ● Provides a complete overview of various Agile Frameworks, including the Scrum Framework. ● Covers numerous scenario-based examples and an in-depth explanation for Scrum Malfunctions and various Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. ● Includes visual illustrations for the Scrum-based Agile Way of Working and its associated various Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. ● Highlights real-time use-cases and experiences for various Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. DESCRIPTION This book emphasizes on the Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques to be explored, applied, and utilized by the Scrum Teams to establish and improve a fully functional Scrum-based Agile Way of Working. Reading this book not only helps the Scrum Teams to encourage their overall responsibility, accountability, and ownership, but also guides them to become High-Performing Scrum Teams. The book contains numerous real-time use-cases and visual illustrations for various concepts of Scrum Framework, Scrum-based Agile Way of Working, and Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. It also gives an overview of Scrum Malfunctioning and various ways to prevent and correct it. This book acts as a handy reference for the Scrum Teams to make use of Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques. These techniques include the overall Structure and Alignment of Scrum Teams, Scrum Roles, Working Agreements of Scrum Teams, Effective and Efficient Scrum Artifacts Management, Relative Estimation, Scrum Events, Advanced Engineering Practices, Technical Agility, Scrum Metrics, Scaling Scrum, and few other aspects of Scrum-based Agile Way of Working. After reading this book, the readers can look out for any malfunctions present within their Scrum Teams and apply the applicable Advanced Scrum Add-ons/Techniques to address such malfunctions. By applying these techniques, they can also address the scope for a continuous improvement under the Scrum-base


Mastering Azure Serverless Computing: Design and Implement End-to-End Highly Scalable Azure Serverless Solutions with Ease


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Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team: 70 Techniques to Help Teams Build Better Products

Natasha Hampshire; Glaudia Califano; David Spinks

The nature of product development is changing. The most successful innovations are those that come from teams of people who are exploring problems together. Teams that build meaningful releases of their products iteratively and incrementally are opening the door for early feedback so that decisions can be taken to persevere or pivot based on evidence.But how do you make the most out of a team’s different perspectives, experiences and ideas? How can you instill a collaborative mindset in a product development team? How do you find out if your product idea actually has any value? How can you truly understand people’s needs?Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team is a toolbox of proven techniques from the field for the whole product team to use together to find answers to these questions and more. It is filled with practical tools to maximize your team’s chances of success when developing products and services, from identifying opportunities, to the point of being able to confidently go into production.You will:• Define people’s real problems and needs• Collaboratively create innovative ideas• Validate product/feature ideas quickly and cheaply as a team• Explore a lightweight introduction to the techniques of modern product developmentWho This Book Is ForProduct Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Development Team Members, Designers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches or anyone in a role responsible for designing, developing, or sustaining products or services, with the purpose of maximizing their value.


Mathematical Modeling the Life Sciences: Numerical Recipes in Python and MATLAB

The purpose of this unique textbook is to bridge the gap between the need for numerical solutions to modeling techniques through computer simulations to develop skill in employing sensitivity analysis to biological and life sciences applications. The underpinning mathematics is minimalized. The focus is on the consequences, implementation, and application.Historical context motivates the models. An understanding of the earliest models provides insight into more complicated ones. While the text avoids getting mired in the details of numerical analysis, it demonstrates how to use numerical methods and provides core codes that can be readily altered to fit a variety of situations.Numerical scripts in both Python and MATLAB(R) are included. Python is compiled in Jupyter Notebook to aid classroom use. Additionally, codes are organized and available online. One of the most important skills requiring the use of computer simulations is sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity analysis is increasingly used in biomathematics.There are numerous pitfalls to using sensitivity analysis and therefore a need for exposure to worked examples in order to successfully transfer their use from mathematicians to biologists. The interconnections between mathematics and the life sciences have an extensive history. This book offers a new approach to using mathematics to model applications using computers, to employ numerical methods, and takes students a step further into the realm of sensitivity analysis.With some guidance and practice, the reader will have a new and incredibly powerful tool to use.


Microsoft Azure AI: A Beginner’s Guide: Explore Azure Applied AI Services, Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning with Practical Illustrations (English Edition)

Rekha Kodali, Sankara Narayanan Govindarajulu, Mohammed Athaulla

Explore Azure AI Platform KEY FEATURES ● Easy-to-follow tutorial for getting started with the Azure AI platform. ● Integrated platform for developing, deploying, and managing AI apps. ● Includes real-world scenarios and use-cases to fully explore Azure AI Platform. DESCRIPTION Microsoft Azure AI A Beginner's Guide explains the fundamentals of Azure AI and some more advanced topics. The sole objective of the book is to provide hands-on experience working with the various services, APIs, and tools available in the Azure AI Platform. This book begins by discussing the fundamentals of the Azure AI platform and the essential principles behind the Azure AI ecosystem and services. Readers will become familiar with the essential services, use cases, and examples provided by Azure AI Platform and Services, including Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Computer Vision, Azure Applied AI Services, and Azure Machine Learning. The author focuses on teaching how to utilize Azure Cognitive services to construct intelligent apps, including Image Processing, Object Detection, Text Recognition, OCR, Spatial Analysis, and Face Recognition using Computer Vision. Readers can investigate Azure Applied AI Services, including Form Recognizer, Metrics Advisor, Cognitive Search, Immersive Reader, Video Analyzer, and Azure Bot Service. Bot Framework and the Bot Framework Emulator will be explored in further detail, and how they can be used in AI applications to improve their conversational user interfaces. With Azure Machine Learning Studio, you will also learn to incorporate machine learning into your enterprise-level applications. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Get familiar with Azure AI Platform and the cognitive capabilities of Azure. ● Learn to create apps that can process photos, detect faces, and detect objects. ● Utilize OCR, handwriting recognition, and spatial analysis in your development. ● Learn about Azure AI services like Form Recognizer, Metrics Advisor, Cognitive Search, Azure Immersive Rea


Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Administration Guide: Deploy, Manage and Administer Microsoft Exchange Server 2016


Modern Oracle Enterprise Architecture: Discover Oracle's Hidden Gems for Next Generation Database and Application Migrations


Halo Graphic Novel

Lee Hammock, Jay Faerber, Tsutomu Nihei, Brett Lewis, Simon Bisley, Ed Lee

In the 26th century, Earth's United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, a coalition of aliens, are engaged in a war within the Halo universe for ultimate control, in a collection of four stories depicting various conflicts during the struggle.


Parallel Programming with C# and .NET Core: Developing Multithreaded Applications Using C# and .NET Core 3.1 from Scratch

Rishabh Verma; Neha Shrivastava; Ravindra Akella


Pro Data Mashup for Power BI: Powering Up with Power Query and the M Language to Find, Load, and Transform Data

This book provides all you need to find data from external sources and load and transform that data into Power BI where you can mine it for business insights and a competitive edge. This ranges from connecting to corporate databases such as Azure SQL and SQL Server to file-based data sources, and cloud- and web-based data sources. The book also explains the use of Direct Query and Live Connect to establish instant connections to databases and data warehouses and avoid loading data.The book provides detailed guidance on techniques for transforming inbound data into normalized data sets that are easy to query and analyze. This covers data cleansing, data modification, and standardization as well as merging source data into robust data structures that can feed into your data model. You will learn how to pivot and transpose data and extrapolate missing values as well as harness external programs such as R and Python into a Power Query data flow. You also will see how to handle errors in source data and extend basic data ingestion to create robust and parameterized data load and transformation processes.Everything in this book is aimed at helping you deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease using Power BI’s built-in data load and transformation tools.What You Will Learn• Connect Power BI to a range of external data sources• Prepare data from external sources for easy analysis in Power BI • Cleanse data from duplicates, outliers, and other bad values• Make live connections from which to refresh data quickly and easily• Apply advanced techniques to interpolate missing data


This book provides all you need to find data from external sources and load and transform that data into Power BI where you can mine it for business insights and a competitive edge. This ranges from connecting to corporate databases such as Azure SQL and SQL Server to file-based data sources, and cloud- and web-based data sources. The book also explains the use of Direct Query and Live Connect to establish instant connections to databases and data warehouses and avoid loading data.The book provides detailed guidance on techniques for transforming inbound data into normalized data sets that are easy to query and analyze. This covers data cleansing, data modification, and standardization as well as merging source data into robust data structures that can feed into your data model. You will learn how to pivot and transpose data and extrapolate missing values as well as harness external programs such as R and Python into a Power Query data flow. You also will see how to handle errors in source data and extend basic data ingestion to create robust and parameterized data load and transformation processes.Everything in this book is aimed at helping you deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease using Power BI’s built-in data load and transformation tools.What You Will Learn:• Connect Power BI to a range of external data sources• Prepare data from external sources for easy analysis in Power BI • Cleanse data from duplicates, outliers, and other bad values• Make live connections from which to refresh data quickly and easily• Apply advanced techniques to interpolate missing data


Selenium Framework Design in Keyword-Driven Testing: Automate your Test Using Selenium and Appium


Unleash Core Data: Fetching Data, Migrating, and Maintaining Persistent Stores

Create apps with rich capabilities to receive, process, and intelligently store data that work across multiple devices in the Apple ecosystem. This book will show you how to organize your app's data and make it work for you and your users!With many frameworks, there’s a point in the learning curve where you stop fearing the mountain of knowledge to learn and just enjoy the power to play and develop. For some reason many developers feel that point seems harder to reach with Core Data. And that’s unjustified—Core Data is a great framework that with powerful, optimized tools right out of the box. So it's time you stopped fearing the journey and took your steps further out into the world of enjoying the power of Core Data.With what you learn, you can build apps to deal with a large amount of data and complex relationships in intelligent and efficient ways. Core Data has many secrets underneath the hood that can power up your persistent store like never before. Tools such as Undo, objects deletion, migration, and more. Set up your store and your data model, handle objects with a multi-threading environment, write integration tests, and share your data with an Apple Watch app and iCloud.You will:• Work with Core Data objects across apps and platforms• Write integration tests with your persistent store• Fetch, organize, write, and process data efficiently and intelligently


Криптографические основы блокчейн-технологий.

Ищукова Е. А., Панасенко С. П., Романенко К. С., Салманов В. Д.


Руководство к решению задач по физике: учебное пособие для вузов

Таисия Ивановна Трофимова

Высшее образование


Die Feldzüge der Sachsen in den Jahren 1812 und 1813

Clemens Franz Xaver von Cerrini di Monte Varchi


Great British Bakes : Forgotten Treasures for Modern Bakers

*Winner of the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award 2014*Food writer and baker extraordinaire Mary-Anne Boermans has delved into the UK’s fine baking history to rediscover the long-forgotten recipes of our past. These are recipes that fill a cook with confidence, honed and perfected over centuries and lovingly adapted for use in 21st-century kitchens.Here you will find such tempting delights as Welsh Honey Cake, Lace Meringues, Rich Orange Tart, Butter Buns, Pearl Biscuits and Chocolate Meringue Pie. They are triple-tested recipes that do not rely on processed, pre-packaged ingredients and they are all delicious. And Mary-Anne reveals the stories behind the bakes, with tales of escaped princes, hungry politicians and royal days out to sample the delicacies of Britain’s historic bakeries.This very special collection sits confidently among the best of British cookery writing, with recipes that have stood the test of time and that will both surprise and delight for years to come.


Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization


Aggression, Crime and International Security examines the concept of aggression in international relations and how it has been dealt with by international law and collective security organisations. This book analyses the evolution of the concept of aggression in international relations from World War I to the post-Rome Statute era. It charts the emergence of two competing visions of this notion: on the one hand, as a triggering mechanism for collective security enforcement among states, and, on the other, as an international crime giving rise to individual responsibility. The author argues that despite certain contemporary international trends suggesting a shift away from traditional, state-centric power structures towards a more cosmopolitan, globalized polity, the history of the concept of aggression demonstrates just how far away this is in reality. By examining aggression in theory and practice at the League of Nations, the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials, the United Nations, the conference establishing the Rome Statute, and beyond, the book reveals the recurring moral, political and legal challenges this concept poses - challenges which continue to be at the forefront of thinking about international relations today. This book will be of great interest to students of International Law, War Crimes, International Relations and Security Studies.


Agincourt 1415


Agincourt in Context

This book investigates the Battle of Agincourt--which continues to be of immense national and international interest--as well as the wider conduct and organisation of war in the late Middle Ages. In England, Shakespeare's Henry V ensured that the battle holds a place in the English national consciousness, and through the centuries that followed the story of Henry's famous victory was used to galvanise English national spirit in times of war. In France, the immediate impact of the battle was that it helped to galvanise French national awareness in response to an external enemy. This book showcases new research into Agincourt and the wider issues of military recruitment, naval logistics, gunpowder and siege warfare, and the conduct of war. It also takes a wider European perspective on the events of 1415 by including research on Portuguese military organisation at the time of Agincourt. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.


Die Feldzüge von 1761 und 1762 - 3. Band

Geschichte des Krieges in Hannover, Hessen und Westfalen von 1757 bis 1763; 3


Time Series Forecasting in Python

Build predictive models from time-based patterns in your data. Master statistical models including new deep learning approaches for time series forecasting. Time Series Forecasting in Python teaches you to build powerful predictive models from time-based data. Every model you create is relevant, useful, and easy to implement with Python. You’ll explore interesting real-world datasets like Google’s daily stock price and economic data for the USA, quickly progressing from the basics to developing large-scale models that use deep learning tools like TensorFlow. Time Series Forecasting in Python teaches you to apply time series forecasting and get immediate, meaningful predictions. You’ll learn both traditional statistical and new deep learning models for time series forecasting, all fully illustrated with Python source code. Test your skills with hands-on projects for forecasting air travel, volume of drug prescriptions, and the earnings of Johnson & Johnson. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to build accurate and insightful forecasting models with tools from the Python ecosystem.


Aging in World History

In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world. From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, Aging in World History is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.


Agnes Strickland's Queens Of England (Volume III): Stories Of The Lives Of The Queens Of England Compiled From Agnes Strickland, For Young People In Three Volumes, Vol. III. Of III, Abridged


Ferdinand Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg während des Siebenjährigen Krieges 1. Teil


Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3)


Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 3. (of 3)


Managing Social Robotics and Socio-cultural Business Norms: Parallel Worlds of Emerging AI and Human Virtues

Anshu Saxena Arora, Sabine Jentjens, Amit Arora, John R. McIntyre, Mohamad Sepehri

International Marketing and Management Research


Understanding Psychology in the Context of Relationship, Community, Workplace and Culture

Surendra Kumar Sia, Lauren S. Crane, Ajay K. Jain, Shabana Bano

This book explores the significant deliverables of psychology to society in five sections: identity and relationship, psychology for gainful employment, psychology customized to the community, culturally embedded psychology and alternatives for maximizing psychology. The authors, social scientists of diverse nationalities, represent novel psychological methods, tools and procedures that can have immense social utility in strengthening the relationship and rejuvenating the community. The first section offers an in-depth perspective on the dynamics between identity and relationship. The second section encompasses psychology's contribution in addressing community-based issues like farmer suicide, cyberbullying, smartphone overuse, substance abuse and collective environmental behaviour. The authors in the third section have deliberated upon the behavioural issues pertinent for gainful employment. The fourth section delineates the influence of culture on specific psychological processes. The last section touches upon means beyond conventional strategies, techniques and approaches that may augment psychology's deliverability. The chapters in this book are based upon evidence-based scholarships from seven different countries. As such, it represents an invaluable resource for research scholars and academicians in psychology, human resource managers and mental health practitioners.


Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation

This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the Industrial Revolution fuelled dramatic changes in the international countryside, as landowning elites, agricultural workers, and states adapted to the consequences of globalisation in a variety of ways. The chapters in this volume illustrate similarities, differences, and connections between the resulting manifestations of agrarian reform and resistance that spread throughout the Euro-American world and beyond during the long nineteenth century.


Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy

This book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy research, by comparing policies of EU and India and demonstrating the importance of taking a comparative perspective while studying language policies. This book challenges the notion of macro-level power in language policy research and offers evidence that, in democratic frameworks, macro-level power is not absolute. It is not uniform across policy domains, but rather susceptible to pressure, especially in the domains of healthcare and social welfare. This book makes three important contributions to the theory of language policy by: Arguing for the need to reconceptualise macro-level power Proposing ‘Categories of Differentiation’ as a new analytical tool for policy research Demonstrating that socio-political changes are reflected at the textual level This book is of interest to researchers working on language policies and those investigating language related legislation across different policy domains, to practitioners and policymakers in language policy, as well as to graduate students conducting comparative policy research. “This is a much valued and timely book making a strong case for the subject of language policy across Europe and India. The large comparative case studies of four distinctive states across Europe and India in a simple descriptive mode makes the reading of this book enjoyable. The domains of administration, legislation, healthcare and social welfare are undoubtedly novel ways to deal within the concept of language policy in a wider sense. The author uses discourse analysis to bring out the relationship between intention, explanation and interpretation of a phenomenon like language policy and its implementation. The social diversity as expressed in linguistic mapping is well captured in the novel idea of “categories of differentiation” both as a normative methodological tool and its historical-empirical manifestation.” — Asha Sarangi,


Agrarian Women, the Gender of Dairy Work, and the Two-Breadwinner Model in the Swedish Welfare State


Agriculture And Rural Connections In The Pacific, 1500-1900

The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900

Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce, yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier, when crops and plants dispersed, agricultural systems proliferated, and rural people migrated across oceans. One goal of this volume is to demonstrate that the historical processes of globalization contained an agrarian dimension in which sub-national and national spaces were shaped in part through the influence of forces that originated in distant lands. Social and economic trends emanating from outside local territories had large impacts on demographic change, choices of agrarian systems, and the cropping patterns in many domestic settings. A second goal is to encourage readers to abandon the traditional Euro-centric view of events that shaped the Pacific region. The modern history of the Pacific World was undoubtedly shaped by Western imperialism, colonialism, and European trade and migration, but the present volume seeks to balance the interpretation of those forces with an emphasis on the increasing intensity of trans-Pacific interactions through rural labor migration and agricultural production.


Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South


Marxism and Migration

Genevieve Ritchie, Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab


AIDS: Society, Ethics and Law

The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law


Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy


Air Interdiction In World War II, Korea, And Vietnam – An Interview With Generals Partridge Smart Vogt Jr.


Biomass Utilization: Conversion Strategies

Nhuan Phu Nghiem, Tae Hyun Kim, Chang Geun Yoo

This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.e. cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and their constituents, to fuels and high-value products. Both biochemical and thermochemical approaches are reviewed. Additionally, the developed technologies are described in detail and their potential applications as well as their commercial status are discussed. The early attempts to produce fuel ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass feedstock focused solely on the biological conversion of cellulose because the only organism that had been used successfully for commercial production of ethanol, i.e. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, could only ferment glucose, which was obtained from the hydrolysis of cellulose. Hemicellulose and lignin were considered as wastes in these processes and were normally removed in pretreatment processes to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of the remaining cellulose. However, this approach was not economically feasible and as a result, the biorefinery concept was developed. In a biorefinery, in addition to ethanol, various higher-value products are produced from hemicellulose and lignin, which were previously not considered. Consequently, technologies were developed for the fractionation of biomass and conversion of hemicellulose and lignin to fuels and high-value products to improve the economic feasibility. Written and edited by a team of investigators with many years of experience in biomass processing research and development, this book is an informative resource for postgraduate students and researchers interested in biorefinery and biofuel technologies both in academia- and commercial laboratories.


Air Men O'War.


Economists and COVID-19: Ideas, Theories and Policies During the Pandemic


Air Power in the Maritime Environment

This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare between 1914 and 1945 it studies the deeds of practitioners, the limitations of technology, the realities of combat and the varying institutional dynamics and strategic priorities of the major maritime powers. It is underpinned by an appreciation of the geostrategic setting of the key maritime states, while addressing the challenges of operating in this multifaceted environment and the major technological developments which enabled air power to play an ever greater role in the maritime sphere. The potential for air power to influence warfare in the maritime environment was fully realised during the Second World War and its impact is demonstrated through an analysis of a wide range of the fleet operations and how it was utilised in the defence of trade and sea lanes. As such this book will be of interest to both naval and air power historians and those wanting a fuller perspective on maritime strategy in this period.


Ferdinand Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg während des Siebenjährigen Krieges


Air Superiority Battle In The Middle East, 1967-1973

This paper is an historical study of the strategy, tactics, and weapons employed by Israel, Egypt, and Syria in the battle for air superiority from 1967 through 1973. The study is developed chronologically beginning with the 1967 War, through the War of Attrition, and ending with the cease-fire in the 1973 War. It has been compiled from an extensive review of unclassified, primarily secondary, unofficial sources. The paper concludes that, in a mid-intensity war with modern air forces and air defense forces: 1) The achievement of strategic, tactical, and/or technological surprise can significantly influence the battle for air superiority, 2) Missiles have demonstrated the capability to significantly influence the air superiority battle in surface-to-air, air-to-air, and air-to-ground operations, 3) Air superiority can be achieved over the modern battlefield only by defeating both surface-to-air and air-to-air capabilities of the enemy, 4) The achievement of air superiority over the battle area requires the combined efforts of air and land forces of which long range artillery may be the most effective weapon for the suppression of surface-based air defenses.


Airborne Deep Operational Maneuver: Employment Options For The Use Of Airborne Forces In Modern Campaigns


Aircraft Down: Forced Landings, Crash Landings and Rescues

When a pilot experiences a sudden loud bang or sudden total silence, he is often faced with the stark choice of the parachute or attempting to get the aircraft down to earth in as few pieces as possible. This book describes twenty-three remarkable and true instances when, for a variety of reasons, all seems lost—but life was not. These life-threatening incidents range through the history of powered flight and all over the globe from Arctic waste to desert sand and from English hillside to coral reef. Within the narrative are moments of humor, despair and utter joy. The author has gleaned his information from a myriad of sources and many personal accounts. For those who love to read of the human spirit and its determination to survive against all odds—this book makes splendid reading.


Airpower and Russian Partisan Warfare


Alexandru D. Xenopol and the Development of Romanian Historiography

Routledge Library Editions: Historiography


Alfred Herbert Ltd and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887-1983


El florido pensil: memoria de la escuela nacionalcatólica


Airpower And The 1972 Easter Offensive

In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States (US) advisors and massive amounts of American airpower. The problem is determining what factors were key to South Vietnam’s successful defense. To that point, this thesis will address the overall effectiveness of US airpower in defeating North Vietnam’s attack. This paper first examines the strategic and operational environment surrounding the 1972 offensive, including the role and influence that the leaders of the US, Saigon, Hanoi, China, and the Soviet Union had on the conflict. It then shifts to the three primary tactical battles, describing each in detail, from the initial communist successes to their ultimate defeat. Finally, the analysis focuses specifically on airpower’s role, from the massive strategic deployment that doubled the available assets in theater in just over a month, to its operational success striking targets in North Vietnam, to its tactical successes on the various battlefields of South Vietnam. Ultimately, this analysis determines that US airpower, with US advisors playing a critical enabling role, was the decisive element in the defeat of North Vietnam’s Easter Offensive.


Airpower And The Cult Of The Offensive


Airpower Employment Of The Fifth Air Force In The World War II Southwest Pacific Theater


Airwar: Theory and Practice


Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South - A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier


Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)


Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change

Fernando Guirao, Frances M. B. Lynch, Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez

Routledge Studies in Modern European History


Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century

Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives


Alaska Veterans


Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem: Volume 2: Books 7-12. The Early History of the Latin States, 1099-1119


Albert Speer – Escaping the Gallows: Secret Conversations With Hitler's Top Nazi

Albert Speer served as Hitler's architect and subsequently as Armaments Minister of the Third Reich.  Indicted as a major war criminal by the International Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945, he was convicted and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment at the Spandau Prison in West Berlin.   Most of the other top Nazis tried by the Tribunal were sentenced to death and hanged in 1946.  Adrian Greaves was the British guard commander at Spandau, giving him privileged access to Speer.   Greaves' account of his conversations with the Nazi prisoner supplements Speer's own memoirs, first published in 1970, four years after having been released from Spandau.


Der Siebenjährige Krieg in Pommern und in den banchbarten Marken : Studie des Detachements- und des Kleinen Krieges


Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause


Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper


Albion's People: English Society 1714-1815


An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)

Universal Reform: Studies in Intellectual History, 1550-1700


Alexander Hamilton

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform


Joy of Cooking: All About Pasta & Noodles

Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker

A fresh and original way to put the classic advice of Joy of Cooking to work -- illustrated and designed in a beautiful and easy-to-use new book.More than 90 sensational recipes, including Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe, Roasted Red Pepper and Herb Goat Cheese Lasagne, and classic Macaroni and CheeseExplanations for 27 different pasta shapes, featuring cooking times, creative substitutions, and appropriate saucesStep-by-step recipes for preparing a wide range of sauces -- from pesto to ragú to Alfredo -- as well as noodles, from Spdtzle to Beef Chow Fun Sixty years after Irma Rombauer advised new cooks to "Stand facing the stove," America's love affair with Joy of Cooking continues unabated. And why not? Joy in hand, tens of millions of people -- from novices to professionals -- have learned to do everything from make a meat loaf to clean a squid to frost a wedding cake. For decades, Joy of Cooking has taught America how to cook, serving as the standard against which all other cookbooks are judged.All About Pasta & Noodles upholds that standard. While keeping the conversational and instructional manner of the flagship book, All About Pasta & Noodles is organized into chapters that include fresh pasta, sauces, filled and baked pastas, American noodle dishes, Asian noodles, dumplings, and more. The chapters incorporate more than 90 of Joy's best-loved recipes -- Spaghetti alla Carbonara to Spicy Szechuan Noodles to Bolognese Sauce. You'll also find rules for cooking pasta, step-by-step information for making homemade pasta, and suggestions for pasta shapes and sauces. Add to that more than 150 original photographs, specially commissioned for this volume, presented in the most easy-to-use design imaginable.Whether you belong to one of the millions of American households that already own a copy (or two) of Joy, or you have never cracked the spine of a cookbook before, Joy


Boissons détox

70 recettesDes recettes de baseDes conseils et informations d'une diététicienneDes idées de menusLes excès en tout genre ont un impact sur notre organisme. On peut se sentir lourd, quelques kilos se sont installés, le sommeuil est perturbé. Les toxines s'accumulent peu à peu et encrassent notre organisme.Retrouvez la forme en offrant à votre corps une cure détox efficace avec des recettes de boissons équilibrées pour tous les jours et à tout moment de la journée. Jus de concombre, poire, pomme rouge et kale pour des matinées vitaminées, eau aromatisée pamplemousse et mandarine pour accompagner des déjeuners légers, smoothie citron, lait d'amande, crème de châtaigne et cannelle pour un goûter gourmand, tisane verveine, sauge et huile essentielle de menthe pour une soirée réconfortante...


Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae


Gegründete Anzeige von den gefährlichen Anschlägen und Absichten des Wienerischen und Sächsischen Hofes gegen Se. Königl. Majestät von Preußen alles mit Original-Briefen erwiesen


Alexandria


Alfred the Great: The King and His England


Alias Billy the Kid: The Man Behind the Legend (Western Legacy Series)


All about Battersea


All Men are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as told in His Own Words

All Men Are Brothers, which was first published in 1958, is a compelling and unique collection of Mahatma Gandhi’s most trenchant writings on nonviolence, especially in the context of a post-nuclear world. This compendium, which reads like a traditional book—“Gandhi without tears”—is drawn from a wide range of his reflections on world peace. In his own words: “It is not that I am incapable of anger, but I succeed on almost all occasions to keep my feelings under control. Such a struggle leaves one stronger for it. The more I work at this, the more I feel delight in my life, the delight in the scheme of the universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe.”


All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt


All the World Is Awry: Al-Ma‛arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited


All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America


Allied Armour 1939–1945: British and American Tanks at War

“An important review of armoured warfare, armoured vehicle design, tactics, and operational issues during World War 2 . . . it comes highly commended.” —Dr Stuart C. Blank, Military Archive Research.During the first years of the Second World War, Allied forces endured a series of terrible defeats at the hands of the Germans, Italians and Japanese. Their tanks were outclassed, their armored tactics were flawed. But the advent of new tank designs and variants, especially those from the United States, turned the tables. Although German armor was arguably still superior at the end of the war, the competence of Allied designs and the sheer scale of their production gave them a decisive advantage on the armored battlefield. This is the fascinating story that Anthony Tucker-Jones tells in this book which is part of a three-volume history of armored warfare during the Second World War. Chapters cover each major phase of the conflict, from the early blitzkrieg years when Hitler’s Panzers overran Poland, France and great swathes of the Soviet Union to the Allied fight back in tank battles in North Africa, Italy and northern Europe. He also covers less-well-known aspects of the armored struggle in sections on Allied tanks in Burma, India and during the Pacific campaign. Technical and design armored are a key element in the story, but so are changes in tactics and the role of the tanks in the integrated all-arms forces that overwhelmed the Axis. “The matter of armoured vehicles and their role in the turning of the tide against Germany is covered brilliantly in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s excellent treatise.” —Books Monthly“Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench


The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries


Alone in West Africa


Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam


Ansichten von Frankfurt am Main, der umliegenden Gegend und den benachbarten Heilquellen


The Alps

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.His blend included scientific accuracy with emotional clarity. The above along with an excellent bibliography make this book an excellent starting off point for people fascinated by mountains and particularly the Swiss Alps.His reference to Algernon Blackwood demonstrated to me the breadth of his understanding of people and these mountains. The Swiss Alps were, arguably, the life of Arnold Lunn.


Alsace and Lorraine: From Caesar to Kaiser, 58 B.C.-1871 A.D.


Alternative and Bottom-Up Peace Indicators


Alternative Conventional Defense postures in the European Theater, Vol. 3: Force Posture Alternatives for Europe after the Cold War

Hans Günter Brauch, Robert Kennedy, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Paul C. Warnke


An Alternative History of Pittsburgh


An Alternative Idea of India: Tagore and Vivekananda

This book attempts to unravel the worldview of two prominent Indians of recent Indian history ― Tagore and Vivekananda. Both suggested emancipation through political struggles but without transgressing the boundaries of humanism. This is significant, as identifying an enemy was an intrinsic part of nationalistic formulations. The larger philosophy of life, for Tagore and Vivekananda, was to reach out across geographical borders.In this work, their alternative idea of India is analysed in the larger context of the many formulations of nationalism with special reference(s) to theoretical as well as literary works in European and Indian contexts. The author brings on board critiques that have emerged recently ―secularist, feminist and postcolonial ― and defends his subjects against them. This book is essentially an intellectual interrogation of two eminent thinkers of their time, and falls within the rubric of intellectual history.


Alternative Representations of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China


Althorp: The Story of an English House

The definitive history of one of England’s greatest houses: Althorp, where for five hundred years the Spencer family have made their home.Charles Spencer’s house of Althorp in Northamptonshire is where he and his sister Princess Diana grew up, and where she is buried. In this rich history, Spencer traces the house’s life from the sixteenth century through to Charles’ sleepless nights there as a child and the estate’s transformation into a site of global mourning. He weaves together the architecture, the story of how it amassed one of the largest private art collections in the country, the characters – by turns forbidding and elitist, warm and exuberant – and much more.The perfect guide to a great English house, this book also tells a broader story of the social and political vicissitudes that have shaped the Spencer family’s wealth, taste and attitudes over the years.


Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898–1945: Unsparing Honesty


Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico

Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After a distinguished education and introduction into the life of the empire of New Spain in Mexico, Ixtlilxochitl was employed by the viceroy to write histories of the indigenous peoples in Mexico. Engaging with this history and delving deep into the resultant archives of this life's work, Amber Brian addresses the question of how knowledge and history came to be crafted in this era.Brian takes the reader through not only the history of the archives itself, but explores how its inheritors played as crucial a role in shaping this indigenous history as the author. The archive helped inspire an emerging nationalism at a crucial juncture in Latin American history, as Creoles and indigenous peoples appropriated the history to give rise to a belief in Mexican exceptionalism. This belief, ultimately, shaped the modern state and impacted the course of history in the Americas. Without the work of Ixtlilxochitl, that history would look very different today.


Viennoiseries & goûters : L'art du fait maison (French & English Edition)

[Bilingual version: French & English]Notre métier d’Artisan réside dans la transformation de matières premières de qualité en produits finis. Le consommateur qui achète chez l’Artisan veut être rassuré sur la fabrication. Le « Fait Maison » est un slogan fort de nos jours, n’hésitez pas à l’utiliser. Je suis persuadé qu’il vaut mieux une gamme plus courte mais de fabrication Artisanale. Le consommateur apprécie la nouveauté et l’originalité, vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage de quoi répondre à cette attente.Ce livre vous permettra de diversifier l’offre du petit déjeuner, du goûter mais aussi du dessert de formule. Nous vivons une époque où le repas du midi est souvent pris à l’extérieur en un minimum de temps. Quoi de plus délicieux après un sandwich qu’une bonne viennoiserie maison, ce parfum de beurre, ce croustillant donné par la pâte levée feuilletée.« The art of home-made viennoiseries and sweet treats »Master the techniques for flaky pastry, brioche dough, croissant, pain au chocolat and other viennoiseries and afternoon treats...


The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus


The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner: Escaping the Nazis and Becoming the World’s Greatest Physicist


The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself


Ambition and Reality: Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945

Ambition and Reality provides a succinct and compelling account of Austria's foreign policy interests and diplomatic practices from 1945 to today. It analyses the extent and influence of Austria's foreign policy practices, shedding light on an important piece of European history. Topics covered include the re-establishment of the Foreign Service, Austria's role in the Cold War, developments since Austria's accession to the EU, relations with neighboring states, the ambivalent relationship with the United States and the effects of the collapse of the USSR.


America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present

Erin L Conlin (editor), Stephan Schaffrath (editor)


America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80


Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation

Eleftheria Arapoglou (editor), Mónika Fodor (editor), Jopi Nyman (editor)

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature


The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska


The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West


The Future Of The Soviet Economy: 1978-1985


Memory Archipelago of the Communist Past: Public Narratives and Personal Recollections


A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century (Routlege Revivals)


Treason in the Rockies: Nazi Sympathizer Dale Maple’s POW Escape Plot (Military)


The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961: A Polish-Canadian Story


World War II and the Delaware Coast


Haunted Ocean City and Berlin


The World War II Chronicles: Under the Red Sea Sun, The Far Shore, and No Banners, No Bugles


Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.


Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis


How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century


A Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume1: Western Slavery, National Impasse


'Over the Top' with the Third Australian Division (WW1 Centenary Series)


Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary


Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War

Mark Cornwall (editor), John Paul Newman (Editor)


The New Nordic : Recipes from a Scandinavian Kitchen

Filled with dishes that typify the food of this vast geographical region, this book takes its influence from the traditional ingredients that can be found from Sweden to Finland, Denmark to Norway, and transforms them into modern everyday recipes that are hugely popular throughout Nordic homes. Split into nine chapters, The New Nordic is based on different food groups including ingredients found ‘from the forest,’ ‘from the sea,’ ‘from the land,’ and ‘in the larder,’ along with a ‘basics’ chapter that demystifies classic Scandinavian cooking techniques such as pickling and smoking food. Discover the flavours of true Scandinavian cuisine with the delicious beetroot carpaccio with goat’s cheese and minted pea relish; move on to grander feasts such as flaked salmon burgers with mayonnaise, pickled cucumber and fresh horseradish or beef with spiced wine sauce, kale and turnip; not forgetting the classics such as Swedish meatballs, Danish smorrebrod, pickled herrings and gooey cinnamon buns. The New Nordic comes complete with a glossary and listing of typical seasonal Nordic ingredients. Matched with stunning location photography, this gorgeous cookbook is a feast for all the senses.


Regionalism and Modern Europe


Walter Hines Page: The Southerner As American, 1855-1918


The Fords of New Jersey: Power Family During America's Founding


Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist (Routledge Revivals)


South from Ephesus: Travels through Aegean Turkey


John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science


Royalty Inc.: Britain's Best-Known Brand


Chicago's Industrial Decline: The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975


Buffalo Soldiers on the Colorado Frontier

The legendary Buffalo Soldiers, four army regiments of former slaves, were vital in taming the American frontier. The Tenth Cavalry of African American troopers rode across the Colorado plains to battle the Cheyennes and rescue wounded, starving soldiers at Beecher Island on the Arikaree River. Under the cover of darkness, the Ninth Cavalry aided besieged troops pinned down by Ute sharpshooters at Milk Creek. They drove off Cheyenne Dog Soldiers attacking a stagecoach of nervous travelers on the Smokey Hill Trail to Denver. And they braved howling blizzards and deep snowdrifts to protect lonely homesteads and wandering prospectors. Author Nancy K. Williams details the bravery and valor of these historic servicemen who served proudly defending America's Wild West.


Lost Aiken County


Antisemitism in Galicia: Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy


Hidden History of Arlington County


Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London

A large proportion of London's population lived in lodgings during the long 18th century, many of whom recorded their experiences. In this fascinating study, Gillian Williamson examines these experiences, recorded in correspondences and autobiographies, to offer unseen insights into the social lives of Londoners in this period, and the practice of lodging in Georgian London. Williamson draws from an impressive array of sources, archives, newspapers, OBSP trials and literary representations to offer a thorough examination of lodging in London, to show how lodging and lodging houses sustained the economy of London during this time. Williamson offers a fascinating insight into the role lodging houses played as the facilitators of encounters and interactions, which offers an illuminating depiction of social relations beyond the family. The result is an important contribution to current historiography, of interest to historians of Britain in the long 18th century.


Civil War Canon

In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy. Despite the conservative ideology that connects these sites, Brown argues that the Confederate canon of memory has adapted to address varied challenges of modernity from the war's end to the present, when enthusiasts turn to fantasy to renew a faded myth while children of the civil rights era look for a usable Confederate past. In surveying a rich, controversial, and sometimes even comical cultural landscape, Brown illuminates the workings of collective memory sustained by engagement with the particularity of place.


Boom and Bust


Raw Life: Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book


First 109 Minutes: 9/11 And The U.S. Air Force.


Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in 1939 as Catalonia fell to Franco’s victorious army in the final weeks of the Civil War. Many of the exiles played an active part in the Second World War. Some joined the French and British armed forces and saw action in various theatres including Africa and Europe (both in 1940 and after D-Day). In August 1944, Spanish Republicans in the La Nueve Company of General Leclerc’s Deuxième Blindée were the first Allied troops into Paris during the liberation of the French capital. Those that had remained in Vichy France were active in the early days of the French Resistance, and Republican Maquis also played a significant part in the liberation of the south-west of France in 1944. Those who fought the Axis troops in Spain during the Civil War and then again in France assumed that once the Allies had defeated the Nazis, they would launch a military campaign to overthrow Franco’s government in Spain. In October 1944, a force of thousands of Spanish Maquis took part in Operación Reconquista, the invasion of the Valley of Aran on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. Their declared aim was to trigger a popular uprising and force the Allies to intervene against Franco’s dictatorship. Whitehead also examines the role of the Spanish volunteers of the División Azul who swore an oath of allegiance to Hitler and fought with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front; the role of the master double-agent Garbo, who played a crucial part in the success of D-Day; the strategic importance of Gibraltar; and the activities of the British diplomatic corps and secret services in resisting Hitler’s plans to invade the Iberian Peninsula.


Ruskin

This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of interest to students of history and cultural studies.


Seeking Sanctuary

Seeking Sanctuary explores the history of people looking for refuge in this country. It starts with those Protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the Netherlands in the 16th century. It traces successive waves of peoples in the context of why they fled. At various times this was due to religious persecution, political upheaval, war and ethnic cleansing.


From Tamaki-Makaurau-Rau to Auckland


Breve historia de las Cruzadas

Un apasionante viaje a la Edad Media para conocer los lugares y los protagonistas de las ocho cruzadas en las que, entre los siglos XI y XIII, miles de guerreros cristianos lucharon contra el Islam.Todos los detalles sobre el caótico y desordenado ejército formado por reyes, clérigos y plebeyos, que emprendió viaje rumbo a Tierra Santa en nombre de Dios. Durante mucho tiempo las cruzadas se consideraron como una misión cargada de justicia divina, en realidad fueron movimientos migratorios que colonizaron temporalmente el Oriente más cercano empleando métodos brutales y desmedidos que crearon una brecha insalvable entre dos civilizaciones.


Breve historia de Babilonia

Descubra la verdadera historia del último imperio del Éufrates y del Tigris: sus conquistas, su cultura y su decadencia, desde el carismático Hammurabi hasta los sucesores del gran rey Nabucodonosor II. Esta es la fascinante crónica, desmitificadora y rigurosa de la cosmopolita Babilonia. Babilonia fue el corazón espiritual e intelectual del país del Tigris y del Éufrates, la región de Oriente Próximo que los antiguos griegos llamaron Mesopotamia (el actual Iraq). El prestigio de Babilonia no tuvo rival a los ojos de sus contemporáneos. Para sus habitantes la ciudad fue el centro del universo, que brilló con luz propia sobre el mundo civilizado. En el centro neurálgico de esta gran urbe se levantó desafiante su célebre torre escalonada, un zigurat universalmente conocido como la torre de Babel. Breve historia de Babilonia pretende desvelar al lector la verdadera historia de una ciudad tan fascinante y apasionante como desconocida, desde sus orígenes hasta su caída ante los persas en el año 539 a.C. Para ello se desgranarán los grandes logros de sus dos monarcas más emblemáticos, Hammurabi, autor de los códigos legales más antiguos que conocemos, y Nabucodonosor, el último gran rey babilónico que concluyó la construcción de la torre de Babel y conquistó Jerusalén.


Breve historia de la medicina

La medicina acompaña al hombre desde el inicio de los tiempos, siempre hemos conocido la enfermedad y la muerte y siempre hemos luchado, con todos nuestros medios, contra ellas. Desde la Prehistoria, en la que la curación estaba ligada a la magia, hasta la actualidad, en la que existen máquinas nanotecnológicas o píldoras capaces de regular casi todos nuestros procesos, la historia de la medicina es una aventura apasionante llena de hombres que sacrificaron todo por acabar con las enfermedades principales de sus comunidades. Breve Historia de la Medicina nos presenta de un modo conciso y asimilable, esta lucha interminable. Arranca el libro en la Prehistoria, donde lo espiritual se mezcla con lo fisiológico y los chamanes practican ritos en los que incluyen técnicas como la trepanación. Hará hincapié Pedro Gargantilla en la relación entre mito y salud que existe en civilizaciones como Egipto, Grecia, o Roma, pese a que nos leguen personalidades como Hipócrates o Galeno. Asistiremos también a los avances médicos de los doctores musulmanes y al importante retroceso científico que se dio en la Edad Media, hasta el S. XIV, en el que la medicina vuelve a las universidades laicas. Y nos detallará con todo el vértigo que corresponde, la revolución médica que se da en los S. XIX y XX en los que la medicina vive una auténtica edad de oro. El autor nos presenta la medicina no como un catálogo de técnicas, instrumental y protocolos, sino de un modo integrador, mostrando los cambios continuos en el tiempo de los conceptos de enfermedad y salud e integrando los avances con las culturas en las que se dan. Desde la trepanación prehistórica hasta la actual cirugía laparoscópica, la historia de la medicina es una batalla sin fin contra la enfermedad, esa lucha, es narrada en este caso con todo el rigor, el dramatismo y la esperanza que el relato demanda. Una historia para ser disfrutada por todos, pues a todos nos corresponde.


Breve historia de Francisco Franco

He aquí un acercamiento innovador, riguroso y objetivo a la figura del general Franco, fruto de una exhaustiva labor de investigación, al margen de postulados ideológicos. Desde sus primeros pasos como cadete hasta su ocaso como dictador, descubra los aspectos menos conocidos de la vida del Generalísimo y su decisiva influencia en la historia de España. La figura del general Franco es sin duda una de las más polémicas de la historia reciente de nuestro país. El legado de su pasado sigue provocando el rechazo de una amplia mayoría de españoles que consideran los casi cuarenta años de dictadura franquista como un episodio que convendría olvidar. Sin embargo, la historia es obstinada y no permite que sus personajes caigan definitivamente en el olvido, sirviendo de recordatorio para que no se repitan los mismos errores. En la presente obra se nos presentan facetas de su vida que han permanecido ocultas para el gran público durante todos estos años. Con un estilo ágil y ameno que cautivará al lector, el autor nos introduce en los episodios más sorprendentes y relevantes de esta etapa a través de los testimonios de algunos de los protagonistas del último siglo de historia de nuestro país.


Breve historia de Gengis Kan

Considerado por unos un cruel asesino, un tirano de puño de hierro, y por otros uno de los mayores estadistas de la historia, sólo hay una cosa clara sobre Gengis Kan: gobernó el mayor imperio de la historia. En esta obra el lector se acercará a la espectacular historia de Gengis Kan, el caudillo nómada que gracias a una sucesión de sangrientas conquistas convirtió al Imperio mongol en el más extenso de cuantos hayan existido.


The Rhythm Code

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Breve historia de la carrera espacial

Breve Historia de la carrera espacial es un repaso histórico de la astronáutica y de los múltiples esfuerzos del ser humano por conocer qué hay más allá de la Tierra. Desde la observación de los astros y el posterior estudio de las leyes físicas que rigen el Universo, hasta las exploraciones espaciales recientes. El libro repasa continuamente los aportes científicos de Tsiolkovski, Oberth, Goddard, Einstein, Hohmann e incluso describe cómo este último encontró un camino sencillo para viajar a otros planetas antes de que se inventase la nave espacial. Aparte de estos conceptos, el libro detalla con gran precisión cómo, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, esta necesidad de ir al espacio se transformó en una competencia armamentística que dio lugar al inicio de una carrera espacial entre la Unión Soviética y Estados Unidos con el Sputnik como el pistoletazo de salida y la Luna, como objetivo final.


Breve historia del Salvaje Oeste

La verdadera historia de los héroes que vivieron y murieron en una etapa de la historia de Estados Unidos en la que la ley se aplicaba con la misma herramienta que el crimen: una bala. Son muchos los mitos y las leyendas que circulan sobre los pistoleros, los sheriffs y los cowboys que vivieron el capítulo más convulso de la historia de los Estados Unidos, pero son pocos los datos verídicos que nos han llegado. Breve Historia del Salvaje Oeste. Pistoleros y forajidos intenta detallar la vida de personajes que son ya parte del imaginario popular como: Wyatt Earp, Billy el Niño, Pat Garret o Buffalo Bill. El libro desmonta la imagen romántica del Salvaje Oeste, la de héroes enfrentándose a villanos en duelos al atardecer, y nos descubre una historia de asesinatos por la espalda, de emboscadas traicioneras y de cazadores de hombres. La Guerra de Secesión deja a un gran número de veteranos sudistas sin paga y sin perspectivas y viviendo en una nación cuyo gobierno consideraban ilegítimo. En este contexto la ambigüedad moral y la cultura de las armas son las notas dominantes. Además de presentarnos los personajes más relevantes del Salvaje Oeste, Gregorio Doval los contextualiza y los divide en pistoleros, forajidos, sheriffs, tahúres, mujeres del oeste, jueces y cazarrecompensas. Además, para dar una imagen total de la época, el libro está repleto de imágenes mediante las que podemos comprobar cómo eran en realidad esos personajes.


Cuando la única salida para aquellos que no tenían nada era enfrentarse con el desconocido y salvaje oeste. La Breve historia de la conquista del Oeste nos lleva directamente a una época en la que lo desconocido era una fuente infinita de posibilidades, una época en la que al menos dos millones de personas que querían labrarse un porvenir desfilaron en masa hacia el Oeste en busca de la fortuna o de la muerte. En poco más de setenta años, las Trece Colonias se independizan de Gran Bretaña y consiguen dominar un vasto territorio desconocido y agreste. Con maestría y con la intención de divertirnos, Gregorio Doval nos presentará a figuras tan legendarias y, por ello, tan desconocidas como Daniel Boom o Davy Crockett, pero también personajes menos conocidos pero igualmente relevantes como Meriwether Lewis o William Clarck, nos describirá el modo de vida de estos exploradores y las curiosas leyes de los territorios de frontera, nos enseñará la Doctrina del Destino Manifiesto que llevó a innumerables hombres a considerar la conquista como una cuestión divina, nos meterá de lleno en el desarrollo de la Guerra de Secesión y su relación con la conquista del Oeste, y nos hará contemplar el nacimiento del ferrocarril, del barco de vapor y de la diligencia, que ayudaron a que la conquista del Oeste se agilizara. Además de relatarnos esta epopeya con un estilo ágil, el autor introduce numerosa documentación gráfica que apoya los datos aportados.


Breve historia de la mitología griega

Asesinatos, incestos, venganzas, héroes, historias de amor y lujuria. La mitología griega es un auténtico crisol de los vicios y las virtudes de ser humano. Los mitos en la antigua Grecia tenían una función social, relataban comportamientos de dioses y héroes y enseñaban a los hombres cómo debían actuar ante determinadas situaciones, como las vidas de los santos en el cristianismo, relataban comportamientos virtuosos y ejemplares, los dioses griegos eran virtuosos, pero no ejemplares. La humanización de los dioses en los que creían los griegos plaga su mitología de incestos, venganzas, asesinatos, muestras de amor incondicional y de compasión… en un auténtico abanico de las pasiones humanas, es por eso que conocer la mitología griega no es sólo conocer las creencias de la cuna de la civilización, sino conocernos a nosotros de un modo más profundo. Breve Historia de la Mitología Griega nos ofrece un completísimo panorama de las deidades del mundo clásico, no se detiene Fernando López Trujillo en una enumeración de los Dioses Olímpicos y sus atributos, sino que primero nos hace ver la importancia rectora de la mitología en el mundo antiguo, para mostrar a continuación las apasionantes historias que pueblan esta mitología: Cronos devorando a sus hijos para evitar que uno de ellos le destrone; la batalla para destronar a Cronos que emprende Zeus con Poseidón, Hades y los cíclopes como aliados; los doce trabajos de Hércules para expiar el pecado de su padre; la bajada a los infiernos de Orfeo para rescatar a su amada; o las sangrientas batallas de los héroes de Troya.


Breve historia de la brujería

«Preguntas, interrogantes, enigmas de la historia, que son tratados por Callejo a lo largo de las doscientas ochenta y tres páginas que componen este libro en las que hallará la magia de la brujería, de sus brujos y brujas». (Francisco Contreras Gil, Web Comentarios de libros). «Uno de los rasgos más predominantes en el libro Breve historia de la brujería, es que a través de una prosa clara, directa, fácil de seguir, y didáctica a la par que sugerente, analiza con fino bisturí todo un mundo de superchería alojando luz sobre caminos que han sido enajenados por la cerrazón de la mente humana». (Blog Historia con minúsculas, 14 de marzo de 2012). «Desde luego el libro no tiene desperdicio. Quien creyera que sólo existió una inquisición está equivocado, quien pensara que la caza de brujas comenzó en la época medieval, va por mal camino, y quien esté convencido de que esta caza es sólo cosa de la religión, no conoce con profundidad la misoginia que se escondía bajo esta causa y los intereses personales de quienes participaron en ella». (Anika, Web Anika entre libros). Capaces de crear tempestades y arruinar las cosechas a golpe de conjuro. La verdadera historia de estas mujeres masacradas y perseguidas por toda Europa. Es mucha la leyenda que existe sobre la brujería y las brujas, y es mucho lo que se ignora de estas mujeres, bien por su hermetismo, bien porque sus prácticas fueron perseguidas y borradas de la historia por la religión hegemónica. Jesús Callejo hace gala en este libro de sus inmensos conocimientos sobre brujería y nos abre las puertas al mundo oculto de estas heréticas mujeres cuyo único pecado fue tener un concepto de la vida y sus misterios distinto al imperante en la época. Breve Historia de la Brujería nos descubre los pormenores de los aquelarres, los términos que se usaban para pactar con Satanás, los conjuros y oraciones que utilizaban las brujas; pero también las dramáticas cifras de su persecución y exterminio por Europa y Norteamérica. Con el humor y la profundidad que caracteriza a Jesús Callejo, nos ofrece en los tres primeros capítulos de la obra un criterio de demarcación de la brujería que contribuye no poco a despejar dudas y a desmentir tópicos sobre las brujas y sus prácticas esotéricas; una vez explicados los pormenores de los aquelarres o los libros de brujería, pasa a desarrollar la historia de la persecución a estas mujeres, por motivos religiosos pero sin olvidar la misoginia imperante en la época, en Europa y América descubriéndonos datos tan curiosos como que la Inquisición no asesinó a tantas brujas como se cree en comparación con la iglesia alemana o francesa; el último capítulo está dedicado a la vigencia de las prácticas esotéricas en el s. XXI, a través del neopaganismo de figuras como Castaneda o de corrientes como la Wicca. Completa este volumen una valiosísima información: tablas en las que se muestra el número de brujas ajusticiadas por países teniendo en cuenta los habitantes que tenían en la época o grabados en los que se enseñan las distintas torturas que se infligían a estas hijas de Hécate y Diana.


Breve historia del condón y de los métodos anticonceptivos

Este libro hace un recorrido minucioso de la evolución histórica de los métodos contraceptivos, desde el condón hecho de tripa o vejiga hasta la píldora del día siguiente. Puesto que la percepción que se tenía de la sexualidad ha ido cambiando según cada cultura y cada época, esta obra hace un repaso histórico de ella para así comprender y explicar cómo fueron surgiendo una serie de métodos para prevenir el contagio de enfermedades o para evitar el embarazo. Muchos de estos han quedado registrados desde tiempos remotos. Entre ellos se encuentra, por ejemplo, la ilustración en la cueva de Combarelles —con quince mil años de antigüedad— donde, aparentemente, aparece un hombre usando un preservativo. También han quedado recogidos en papiros egipcios y en documentos griegos y romanos. En este libro sumamente documentado se detallan, además, algunos métodos muy curiosos como, por ejemplo, el uso del estiércol de cocodrilo para matar el esperma, la utilización del mercurio para abortar, los diafragmas de cáscara de granada, los condones de seda para los ricos, el DIU de piedras de río…


Breve historia de la Alquimia

Breve Historia de la Alquimianos ayuda a comprender la fuerte vinculación de la ciencia con la naturaleza espiritual del universo. Lejos de ser unos charlatanes, los alquimistas han sido los filósofos más relevantes de su tiempo, auténticos estudiosos de la realidad con una conciencia metafísica que les llevó a buscar la Piedra Filosofal que convertiría el plomo en oro y daría al hombre la inmortalidad. Luis Íñigo nos ofrece una versión total de la alquimia, desde sus antecedentes en los doctrinas filosóficas del hermetismo, del gnosticismo, del pitagorismo y de la Escuela de Jonia hasta la actualidad en la que, si bien no se practica, si que se han aprovechado sus hallazgos en medicina o en química. Nos muestra en el inicio del libro las teorías de la alquimia, el trabajo de laboratorio de los alquimistas y los avances a los que llegaron con principios que aún pertenecen a la ciencia como el de causa y efecto; tras esto recorre en un estilo ágil la historia de la alquimia desde sus inciertos orígenes en el Antiguo Egipto, hasta el siglo XVIII en el que la revolución científica y el racionalismo crítico cambian los procedimientos de la alquimia por otros más seculares.Razones para comprar la obra. He aqui la increíble historia de la disciplina que ha combinado la superstición y la ciencia en busca de la Piedra Filosofal, el Elixir de la Vida.


Breve historia de las leyendas medievales

En esta obra se recopila la mejor selección de las leyendas medievales de las crónicas, los poemas y la tradición oral de toda Europa para relatarnos el verdadero trasfondo histórico de cada una de ellas. Así, permite conocer la historia real de aquellos hombres y mujeres que vivieron durante la Edad Media y cuyas hazañas extraordinarias los convirtieron en leyenda. Beowulf, el Cid, el rey Arturo y los caballeros de la Mesa Redonda, Gala Placidia, William Wallace, Carlomagno, Juana de Arco, Ataulfo, santa Eulalia, Daciano, el obispo Maeloc… son solo algunos de los personajes que lograron destacarse en un periodo inestable, donde los ideales, el honor y el amor movían ejércitos y sellaban destinos. Agrupando por temas precisos como héroes y villanos, reinas y doncellas, el amor y el honor, las grandes batallas, los lugares y objetos sagrados y las sociedades y las sectas secretas la obra permite conocer de cerca esa época oscura llena de sucesos tan enigmáticos como fantásticos, cuyas huellas han llegado hasta la actualidad.