Modern Railways - July 2016

Modern Railways – July 2016
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 23 MB

The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World

The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World by Ehsan Masood
2016 | ISBN: 1681771373 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 8 MB

The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century’s most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it.

The world’s principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and road-line painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons.

The Great Invention reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world’s most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930’s economic crisis helped Europe and America prosper, how the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved, and how this fundamentally flawed metric is creating the illusion of global prosperity―and why many world leaders want to be able to ignore it but so far remain powerless to do so.

Drawing on interviews, firsthand accounts, and previously neglected source materials, The Great Invention takes readers on a journey from Capitol Hill to Whitehall―on the trail of theories made in Cambridge, tested in Karachi, and designed for global application―into the minds of unworldly geniuses seduced by the allure of power and the demands of politics.

Modern Fighting Vehicles (Concise Color Guides) (Repost)

Modern Fighting Vehicles
Longmeadow Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0681404337 | English | 240 Pages | PDF | 46.56 MB
Concise Color Guides

Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever

Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever by Rick Page
English | 2015 | ISBN: 151684663X | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

“Don’t even think of buying a boat until you have read this book” Tom Cunliffe (legendary sailor and author of The Complete Yachtmaster).

The idea that you have to be rich to travel the world on your own yacht is so universal that it goes largely unquestioned. The ubiquitous images of rich men on super-yachts sipping Martinis only help cement this image. This book hopes to change all that.

Rick and Jasna’s recent appearance on Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild chronicled their budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience – an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.

If you are not rich, but dream of seeing our beautiful world from the deck of your own boat, this book is packed full of practical and spiritual advice to help you cut through the endless marketing and identify what it is you truly need to become a modern sea gypsy and sail away on the greatest adventure of your life…

Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism

Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism by Michael LaFargue
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1438460252 | pages | PDF + EPUB | 1,3 + 0,8 MB

Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato s legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato s Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character and become like God so far as is humanly possible. LaFargue constructs a model of inductive Socratic reasoning capable of acquiring knowledge of these perfect Virtue-Forms, then scales back claims about these Forms to what can be supported by this kind of reasoning. This is a critical theory, but also a pluralistic one that accommodates modern cultural diversity. A how-to chapter provides detailed descriptions of the rules of Socratic reasoning basic to this spirituality, which any interested individual can practice today. LaFargue supports his interpretation by a close reading of the Greek text of key passages in Plato s dialogues. The work also undertakes a broader philosophical consideration, discussing the philosophical foundations proposed for this Platonism in relation to the thought of G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Rorty.”

Modern Music and After (Repost)

Modern Music and After By Paul Griffiths
2011 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 019974050X | PDF | 3 MB

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths’s survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez’s radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage’s development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt’s settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich’s unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s development of electronic music and in Luigi Nono’s pursuit of the universally human, in Iannis Xenakis’s view of music as sounding mathematics and in Luciano Berio’s consideration of it as language. The initiatives of these composers and their contemporaries opened prospects that haven’t yet stopped unfolding.
This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no singular history of music; Griffiths’s study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why they converge and diverge. This new edition of Modern Music and After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the latter half of the twentieth century. In particular, the book has been expanded to incorporate the variety of responses to the modernist impasse experienced by composers of the 1980s and 1990s. Griffiths then moves the book into the twenty-first century as he examines such highly influential composers as Helmut Lachenmann and Salvatore Sciarrino.

For its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic wit and clarity, the third edition of Modern Music and After is required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.

Modern Mini - July 2016

Modern Mini – July 2016
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 16 MB

For the Glory: Eric Liddell"s Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr [Audiobook]

For the Glory: Eric Liddell’s Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr [Audiobook] by Duncan Hamilton
English | May 10, 2016 | ASIN: B01DPVAJ7O, ISBN: 0399565817 | MP3@64 kbps | 13 hrs 41 mins | 377 MB
Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith | Genre: Nonfiction/Biography

The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWII.

Many people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Famously, Liddell would not run on Sunday because of his strict observance of the Christian Sabbath, and so he did not compete in his signature event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was the greatest sprinter in the world at the time, and his choice not to run was ridiculed by the British Olympic committee, his fellow athletes, and most of the world press. Yet Liddell triumphed in a new event, winning the 400 meters in Paris.

Liddell ran – and lived – for the glory of his god. After winning gold, he dedicated himself to missionary work. He travelled to China to work in a local school and as a missionary. He married and had children there. By the time he could see war on the horizon, Liddell put Florence, his pregnant wife, and his children on a boat to Canada while he stayed behind, his conscience compelling him to stay among the Chinese. He and thousands of other Westerners were eventually interned at a Japanese work camp.

Once imprisoned, Liddell did what he was born to do: practice his faith and his sport. He became the moral center of an unbearable world. He was the hardest worker in the camp, he counseled many of the other prisoners, he gave up his own meager portion of meals many days, and he organized games for the children there. He even raced again. For his ailing, malnourished body, it was all too much. Liddell died of a brain tumor just before the end of the war. His passing was mourned around the world, and his story still inspires.

In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat and Unbroken, For the Glory is both a compelling narrative of athletic heroism and a gripping story of faith in the darkest circumstances.

Country Living - Modern Rustic - Issue 5 2016

Country Living – Modern Rustic – Issue 5 2016
English | 228 pages | True PDF | 52 MB

The Socialism of Fools?: Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism

The Socialism of Fools?: Leftist Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism by William I. Brustein, Louisa Roberts
2015 | ISBN: 0521870852 | English | 217 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Anti-Semitism, as it has existed historically in Europe, is generally thought of as having been a phenomenon of the political right. To the extent that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century leftist movements have been found to manifest anti-Semitism, their involvement has often been suggested to be a mere fleeting and insignificant phenomenon. As such, this study seeks to examine more fully the role that the historic European left has played in developing and espousing anti-Semitic views. The authors draw upon a range of primary and secondary sources, including the analysis of left- and right-wing newspaper reportage, to trace the relationship between the political left and anti-Semitism in France, Germany, and Great Britain from the French Revolution to World War II, ultimately concluding that the relationship between the left and anti-Semitism has been much more profound than previously believed.

Modern Principles of Economics, 3 edition

Modern Principles of Economics, 3 edition by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1429278390 | 946 pages | PDF | 53 MB

Engaging and provocative writing, as well as a knack for revealing the ‘invisible hand’ of economics at work have made Cowen and Tabarrok’s Modern Principles of Economics a singularly distinctive and effective textbook for the principles course.

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money - Modern Issues: 1961-Present

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money – Modern Issues: 1961-Present by George S. Cuhaj
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1440235716 | 1160 pages | EPUB | 228 MB

The Definitive Catalog of World Bank Notes! The new edition of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, provides the most comprehensive and complete English language reference to bank notes issued worldwide since 1961. The 19th edition of this impressive and encompassing resource features: *20,000 variety listings of world bank notes. *13,000 illustrated bank notes for easy identification. * Completely vetted and current bank note values in two conditions. * Country signature charts for specific and accurate variety identification. A network of more than 80 international paper money collectors, dealers and researchers work with editor George S. Cuhaj to ensure that the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, is the most informed, accurate and far-reaching resource on the market for proper identification, description and valuation of world bank notes

Modern Pharmaceutics, Two Volume Set, Fifth Edition

Alexander T. Florence, Juergen Siepmann, “Modern Pharmaceutics, Two Volume Set, Fifth Edition”
2009 | ISBN-10: 142006570X | 1216 pages | PDF | 16 MB

This new edition brings you up-to-date on the role of pharmaceutics and its future paradigms in the design of medicines. Contributions from over 30 international thought leaders cover the core disciplines of pharmaceutics and the impact of biotechnology, gene therapy, and cell therapy on current findings. Modern Pharmaceutics helps you stay current with the basic sciences, systems, applications, and advances in drug development―from materials used in formulations and dosage form design and manufacture, to testing in clinical trials.

Improve research and development strategies with brand new content on:

• methods of in vivo imaging of dosage forms

• excipients, tablets, and aerosols―from physical chemistry to dosage form

• solid state drug delivery

• biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals

• modern evaluation techniques for medicinal products

• pharmaceutical nanotechnology

• pharmaceutical physics

• pediatric and geriatric medication

• routes of administration

• paradigms in pharmaceutical research