Tarek Ziadé, “Expert Python Programming”
Packt Publishing | 2008-09-20 | ISBN: 184719494X | 372 pages | PDF | 5,55 MB
Expert Python Programming shows how Python development should be done with best practices and expert design tips. This book is for Python developers who are already building applications, but want to build better ones by applying best practices and new development techniques to their projects. The reader is expected to have a sound background in Python programming.
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Hyacinthe Phypps, «Recently Deflowered Girl»
Arlington Books Publishers Ltd | ISBN: 0851401759 | 1965-09 | PDF | 48 pages | 5.16 MB
A book of helpful advice for the young lady who has found herself in the indelicate position of losing her maidenhead, possibly to a perfect stranger, and maybe on a train or some other, very public location. With uncharacteristically light-hearted illustrations by Edward Gorey. Out of print - if you see a copy, snag it. It’ll provide you with years of delighted re-reading.
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Martin Gardner, “Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic”
Magic, Inc. | 1991 | ISBN: B000Q6S2D0 | 570 pages | PDF | 60,5 MB
This is just what you get, an Encyclopedia alphabetically ordered by the object used. There are really a lot of effects and puzzles and jokes the greatest part very easy but only a little part of them is really good you should choose them yourself. Finally a very good book, knowing some impropmtu magic is a must for every performer. Another good thing is that there are a hundreds of principles and ideas you can use to create new effects.
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Marc Aerts, “Teach Yourself Beginner’s Hindi Script”
Chapman | 2002 | ISBN: 0000 | 336 pages | PDF+mp3 | 2,8 + 46 MB
This unique book opens the door to the fundamentals of reading and writing a language with a non-Roman alphabet. The interactive, accessible approach to learning presented in Teach Yourself Hindi Script guides you through lessons and exercises based on real-life situations and appeals to the student and tourist alike.
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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
University Of Minnesota Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0816649731 | Pages: 288 | PDF | 3.08 MB
Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan.
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture.
Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre.
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Magnetic Marketing For the Emerging Economy by Dan Kennedy
Audiobook | English | ISBN: N/A | MP3 44100 Hz 96 kbps & 32000 Hz 32 kbps | 6 tapes | ~4 hours | 129 Mb
They all laughed when I said my business was growing by leaps and bounds despite the recession angst - but they don’t have THE MAGNETIC MARKETING SYSTEM…
How To Thrive And Prosper Right Now
And Be Poised To Profit From The Emerging New Economy
With The Time-Tested, Proven, Yet Cutting-Edge And Radically Different
SYSTEM FOR ATTRACTING CUSTOMERS OR CLIENTS
That Literally Changes Everything….
for Owners of Any Kind Of Business, for Sales Professionals in Any Field…
Are you ready?
Because THIS is like nothing you’ve ever seen, read, listened to or possessed before!
If you are a business owner, you’ve likely been doing well during recent boom years despite being AN ADVERTISING VICTIM…..constantly wasting money, not really knowing what works and what doesn’t, reinventing the wheel too often, and – to be blunt – getting where you’re going by paddling faster and harder, without a fail-safe navigation system. I’m here to warn you: those “generous days” are over, and gone forever. Big, dumb companies’ sloppy, wasteful “mass advertising” practices are catching up with them - the ‘secret cancer’ that has eroded so many of these big-name corporations and left them weak, fragile and vulnerable to the very first recession-storm to blow through. Because of their size, their death may be slow. BUT THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, local merchant, or even mid-sized company owner can be slaughtered much faster by NOT REALLY KNOWING HOW TO SYSTEMATICALLY, efficiently, affordably “target” his ideal, ready and able to buy, high value customers or clients. If you are willing to be honest and admit you don’t really have a reliable marketing system – then you are going to count this letter put in your hands this day as a Life-Altering Event.
If you are a sales professional, you know that “Cold Prospecting” is like coal mining: dirty, filthy, ugly work best left to those who must make a living by brawn rather than with brains. If you are a good salesperson, the key to success is spending much more, even all of your time selling – to ideal prospects, customers or clients eager to meet with you, ready to listen to you, accepting of you as an expert advisor, even pre-determined to do business with you…with price or fee resistance off the table. Is such a life in selling possible? YES. And it is NOW more vital than ever. Making a top income through sheer persistence and patience and thick-skinned immunity to rejection and brute force closing and hunt-‘em-down prospecting just isn’t possible in a tougher economy. And in the new, emerging economy, it’ll be the wrong skill-set altogether. If you can be open-minded to a radically different approach that makes a life in selling infinitely more pleasant, and increases income exponentially with less stress and struggle – then I can totally change your income, status and day to day experience virtually overnight, just as I have for tens of thousands of salespeople.
My name is Dan Kennedy. My completely up-dated, expanded and more valuable-than-ever MAGNETIC MARKETING SYSTEM is yours to inspect, examine, try out and prove beyond all doubt to be “life-changing” and capable of creating “life-changing income increases” FOR YOU…..for a full TWO months……entirely risk free. If you aren’t so “into it”, using it, drawing more from it day after day that you would wrestle six alligators buck naked in a pit of hot coals to keep it, I certainly don’t want even a penny of your hard-earned money. In 30 years at this, I’ve never permitted even one person to walk around claiming they wasted their money with me and I’m not about to start now. Get this SYSTEM. Put it to work. You’ll know – fast – that it DOES work. But, if for ANY reason whatsoever, you disagree, you can simply return it and get an instant, full, 100% refund…..no hassles, no forms to fill out….and you can even keep $613.00 of BONUS RESOURCES FREE.
So, what IS this SYSTEM? It is actually THREE things in one:
#1: It is a set of groundbreaking, practical strategies that I’ve “moved over’ from the direct marketing industry (once called ‘mail-order) — where I made my chops, have become a multi-millionaire serial entrepreneur, and have helped hundreds of clients go from zero to millions, even in one case over 1-Billion dollars — to use in ANY TYPE of business, small or large, and by ANY sales pro. None of this is “the same old wine in a new bottle”. Whatever you’ve gotten in seminars past, whatever you’ve read regurgitated in a zillion books, whatever you think you know WILL BE CHALLENGED by what you hear and see – and THE PROOF you get from me – about a different, better, saner, more productive path to business growth (regardless of the economy) by ATTRACTING ideal new customers or clients.
These Strategies are presented and explained in twelve audio CD’s supported by written transcripts for easy reference and true-life Examples/Samples from real businesses and salespeople – not “made up stuff”.
#2: It is a monster-sized yet easily useable TOOLBOX of ready and nearly-ready to use Examples and Samples, organized into seven business categories (you fit at least one)….so you are not asked to listen, learn and then left to your own devices to do. If you’ve ever put a toy together for a kid at Christmas, you know the instructions aren’t enough – you need that picture on the box of what it’s supposed to look like when you’re done! Well, I not only SHOW you every Strategy actually implemented….I give it all to you as Examples very easily and quickly “tweaked” for your use – including Examples marked “copyright-free” for that exact purpose. If I did all this just for you as a private client, you’d pay over $100,000.00, and many do. In fact, there’s a waiting list. I don’t want new clients; don’t ask. And obviously, most small businesses and sales pros can’t justify my fees. But I’m a passionate champion of the independent small business owner and the sales professional. I hate seeing you (us) targeted for criticism and abusive taxation by liberal politicians…it galls me that you (we) are not included when they say “hard working Americans” (as if we get our money handed to us by the tooth fairy)….and it further frustrates me to see you “shoveled” out-dated, antiquated, tired, old advertising, marketing and sales ideas when you NEED real help. So here I am. Having put together a TOOLBOX of “What Works Now”.
I recently did a book promotion tour, appearing for just a few hours in four cities in four days – zipping to each by private jet, then on to the next. Very uncharacteristic for me; I typically refuse travel for business and all my clients must come to me. With such short stops in each city, you’d assume only local people would turn out. No. In each place, over 400 gathered, many flying there themselves from outside these areas, many standing in long lines to get to shake my hand…tell me their “Dan Kennedy strategies success story”….thank me. I’m not telling you that to brag. I’m promising you that you’ll soon feel the same way. You’ll not only find me “a breath of fresh air”, you’ll find my TOOOLBOX put together for you to be so different and so useful and so valuable, you’ll feel guilty about how little you paid, and you’ll be eager to meet me in person to thank me.
Of course, if you just want entertainment, I would NOT suggest getting my System. I think I’m a pretty entertaining fellow at times, but THIS is not something to be just listened to casually as you drive around town or cut the lawn on Saturday. It is meant to be USED FOR PROFIT.
#3: It is everything you need for a true Marketing SYSTEM. That means you go to bed at night – every night – knowing (not wondering, wishing, praying, hoping)…KNOWING where your next new prospects or customers are coming from, with consistency, reliability and predictability. This is a SYSTEM in sync with the emerging new economy, where customers have more confusing and competing choices than ever, traditional ad media readership is falling and fragmented, people are overwhelmed with communication, and spending is more measured and thoughtful. This is a SYSTEM with direct, targeted outreach to carefully selected, ideal customers – literally the opposite of costly, wasteful mass advertising and marketing. This SYSTEM has “built in” competitive advantage….”built in” price resistance minimization….setting you apart from all others and letting you sell in a competitive vacuum. From my Magnetic Marketing System will come YOUR OWN PERSONAL SYSTEM that you can trust and rely on, to achieve your sales goals.
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Harvey Klehr, Kyrill M. Anderson, John Earl Haynes, «The Soviet World of American Communism»
Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300071507 | 1998-02-17 | PDF | 416 pages | 18.09 MB
Drawing on documents newly available from Russian archives, this important book conclusively demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and Moscow. Digging even deeper than the authors` earlier volume, The Secret World of American Communism, it conclusively demonstrates that the CPUSA was little more than a pawn of the Soviet regime.
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Christopher G. Pernin, Brian Nichiporuk, Dale Stahl, Justin Beck, Ricky Radaelli-sanchez, “Unfolding the Future of the Long War: Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.s. Army”
Rand Corp | 2008-12-31 | ISBN: 0833046314 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,35 MB
The United States is currently engaged in a military effort that has been characterized as the “long war.” The long war has been described by some as an epic struggle against adversaries bent on forming a unified Islamic world to supplant western dominance, while others describe it more narrowly as an extension of the war on terror. But while policymakers, military leaders, and scholars have offered numerous definitions of the long war, no consensus has been reached about this term or its implications for the United States.
To understand the impacts that this long war will have on the U.S. Army and on U.S. forces in general, it is necessary to understand more precisely what the long war is and how it might unfold over the coming years. To address this need, this study explores the concept of the long war and identifies potential ways in which it might unfold as well as the implications for the Army and the U.S. military more generally.
This report uses the generation of either “trajectories” or alternative paths in which the long war might unfold to explore the implications for the U.S. military. The discussion focuses on the potential threats the U.S. faces in each trajectory and considers the confluence of three major problems raised by the war: those related to the ideologies espoused by key adversaries in the conflict, those related to the use of terrorism, and those related to governance (i.e., its absence or presence, its quality, and the predisposition of specific governing bodies to the United States and its interests). The goal of this report is not to determine which of these areas is the key problem. Instead, we take the stance that in order to ensure that this long war follows a favorable course, the United States will need to make a concerted effort across all three domains. Numerous broad conclusions and recommendations are given for addressing issues surrounding the long war.
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Gabriella Gonzalez, “Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century”
RAND Corporation | 2008-10-25 | ISBN: 0833045687 | 164 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Countries in the Arab region are faced with the challenge of developing their populations’ skills and technical knowledge, or human capital, in order to compete in the 21st century global economy. This executive summary is an overview of the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region — Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — to address the human resource issues they each face as they prepare their countries for a place in the 21st century global economy.
Three of these countries — Oman, Qatar, and the UAE — are in the Arabian Gulf; the fourth, Lebanon, is in the Levant. Together, they highlight the similarities and dissimilarities of the challenges faced by countries in the region and the responses to those challenges. The study answers three main questions: What are the human resource challenges each country faces? What education, human capital, and labor market reforms have recently been implemented or are under way to address these challenges? What mechanisms and information are used to assess whether reforms are meeting their objectives, and is there evidence of success? Answers were sought through analysis of relevant literature, the most-recent population and labor force data from international and in-country sources, and a series of elite interviews in 2006 with government officials and individuals in private organizations in the four study countries. The authors found that while the study countries have instituted reforms to their education and training systems that are designed to raise the skills of the population, and have made changes to the labor market and economy aimed at facilitating the use of human capital in diverse sectors of the economy, a disconnect remains between implementing reforms and evaluating them to ascertain whether they are having the intended effects. In many cases, reforms have only recently gotten under way, so it may be too early to measure their impact. In other cases, however, the lack of systematic assessment stems from gaps in the data needed to track the effects of policy changes. If policy evaluation is made integral to reform, the countries in the Arab world will have the information they need to make the best investments in their human capital in the decades to come.Summarizes the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region (Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates) to address the human resource issues they each face as they prepare their countries for a place in the 21st century global economy. Together, these countries highlight the variety of challenges faced by countries in the region and responses to those challenges.
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How to Grow When Markets Don’t by Adrian Slywotzky, Richard Wise, Karl Weber, Read by Richard Doyle
Audiobook | English | Warner Business, 2003 Abridged | ISBN: 1586215310 | 3 CDs | MP3 22050 Hz 64 kps | 4:18 hours | 100 Mb
In this shrewdly titled volume for today’s tough economy, global strategy consultants Slywotsky (The Art of Profitability) and Wise analyze companies in mature markets that have managed to achieve significant growth without venturing outside their industry, manipulating their financial statements or acquiring dot-coms. Their chief insight is that established companies with experience in their field have, aside from their core business, a wealth of hidden assets-customer contacts, technical expertise, efficient business models-that they can exploit to grow new businesses. Take John Deere, which studied the growth in home ownership (and consequently in the residential landscaping market) and decided to graft its trusted brand name and expertise in agricultural equipment onto a significant growth market.
Clarke American took an apparently waning business-check printing-and morphed it into a customer services firm for large banks. By building on intangible assets like brand recognition, knowledge of the customer and distribution channels, these companies transformed themselves into growth centers for new products and services. The authors gloss over many of the problems that hamper blue chip companies seeking growth, however-e.g., market attrition, declining cash flow, recalcitrant middle managers and stodgy tradition-and fail to note that many of the corporations they cite here fall into current growth industries like personal banking, health care and home ownership. Nevertheless, the book does take an imaginative look at the possibilities open to mature companies looking to rejuvenate themselves.
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