Rugby League World - July 2016

Rugby League World – July 2016
English | 84 pages | True PDF | 32 MB

ENGLISH COURSE • World Class • Level 2 • AUDIO • Class CD (2015)

English Course • World ClassLevel 2 • AUDIO • Class CD

2015 | English | MP3, 1CD | 102.04 MB

World Class is a new, two-level series from National Geographic Learning for high-intermediate and advanced English language learners. This integrated-skills program uses National Geographic content, images, and video to help learners expand their overall fluency while developing the tools and strategies necessary for effective, real-world communication.

ENGLISH COURSE • World Class • Level 1 • Class CD-ROM with Video Scripts (2015)

English Course • World Class • Level 1Class CD-ROM with Video Scripts

2015 | English | EXE, FLV, MP3, PDF | 611.12 MB

World Class is a new, two-level series from National Geographic Learning for high-intermediate and advanced English language learners. This integrated-skills program uses National Geographic content, images, and video to help learners expand their overall fluency while developing the tools and strategies necessary for effective, real-world communication.

The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth: What Every Parent and Health Professional Should Know

Millie Osborne, “The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth: What Every Parent and Health Professional Should Know”
2007 | ISBN-10: 0313348553 | 176 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Electra is a well-loved, beautiful, highly intelligent teenager. Yet, as is not uncommon, she becomes so depressed she contemplates suicide, considering it for years until she finally takes action. Electra’s diary, discovered after her death and presented here by a psychiatrist, reveals her first-person reflections through to her fatal college year, showing how thought distortions are caused and how they chip away at self-esteem and the will to survive. In addition to enlightening professionals and aspiring professionals, this work will empower parents to identify and address growing dimensions in their children’s development, and understand the struggles they face. And the end result is that Electra’s diary teaches us all a lot about changes that are needed so that we can develop effective suicide prevention and treatment strategies, says author Millie Osborne, M.D. Suicide is now a public health crisis. It is the third leading cause of death for youths aged 15 to 24, and the fourth leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14. As author Osborne explains, Existing approaches to preventing youth suicide have had little impact on reducing the number of suicides and suicide attempts across America. By unveiling the private thoughts of a suicidal teenager in this unprecedented book, Osborne hopes that the legacy of Electra will be an understanding of the adolescent mind that will spur more effective means to recognize, treat, and heal those at risk, and so vastly reduce suicide among our youths.

Building a Real World iOS Application with Swift [repost]

Building a Real World iOS Application with Swift
Size: 1.03GB | Duration: 3h 54m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1024×768 15fps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

This course uses Apple’s Swift language to build a recipe iOS app. The app will allow adding and deleting of recipes. Rather than a basic looking app, we’ll ensure our app is visually appealing. We’ll utilize iOS technologies such as NSUserDefaults and iCloud. We’ll see how to set up their application for use with iCloud and how to integrate iCloud document sharing. Setting up iCloud will give us lots of exposure and hands-on use of the iOS Developer Center.

GPS World - June 2016

GPS World – June 2016

English | True PDF | 69 Pages | 37.72 MB

Homepage : gpsworld.com

The Olympic & World Records Book

The Olympic & World Records Book
Imagine Publishing Ltd | 2016 | English | ISBN: 1785463454 | True PDF | 212 pages | 45 MB

The Olympics are where the world’s elite athletes compete at the very highest level, setting records and pushing the limits of the human body for the chance to claim the greatest accolade of all – an Olympic gold medal. In this book we celebrate the greatest Olympians in every discipline, from athletics and aquatics to cycling, gymnastics, ball sports and more – and break down their record-breaking achievements and legendary victories.

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.

Airliner World - July 2016

Airliner World – July 2016
English | 116 pages | True PDF | 27 MB

Electronics World - June 2016

Electronics World – June 2016

English | True PDF | 52 Pages | 17.10 MB

Radio World - 25 May 2016

Radio World – 25 May 2016
English | 32 pages | PDF | 28,7 MB

RAF Camouflage of World War 2 (Airfix Magazine Guide 11)

Michael J.F. Bowyer – RAF Camouflage of World War 2
Patrick Stephens Limited | 1975 | ISBN: 0850592151 | English | 64 Pages | PDF | 28.79 MB
Airfix Magazine Guide 11

GPS World 2012 Full Year Collection

GPS World 2012 Full Year Collection

English | True PDF | 12 Issues | 242.87 MB

Homepage : gpsworld.com

Japan"s World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America (Repost)

Robert C. Mikesh – Japan’s World War II balloon bomb attacks on North America
Smithsonian Institution Press | 1973 | ISBN: N/A | English | 92 pages | PDF | 27.15 MB
Smithsonian Annals of Flight Number 9

The story of the japanese attempt to bomb the USA by balloons carrying a bomb across the pacific with the wind-drift.

Solar Power World - May 2016

Solar Power World – May 2016
English | True PDF | 80 pages | 54 MB

Solar Power World provides the latest news and information about solar technology, installation and development.
Homepage: solarpowerworldonline.com

Beers of the World - Issue 30

Beers of the World – Issue 30
English | 67 Pages | True PDF | 30 Mb

TTC Video - How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems [repost]

TTC Video – How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

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Genre: eLearning / Education, Teaching

The idea that everybody deserves a chance is at the heart of Horace Mann’s revolutionary belief that education is “the great equalizer.” U.S. schools—and national education systems around the world—today reflect the ideals that Mann was among the first to promote, including universal enrollment, compulsory attendance, and public funding.

Mann’s blueprint for mass education in America has since been followed across the globe—yet international student assessments show that achievement among countries varies sharply, with the United States and much of Europe typically scoring average, at best. Furthermore, educators, business leaders, and government officials cite a growing disconnect between what schools teach and the needs of a rapidly changing market.

This state of affairs has sparked anxieties about an educational crisis, yet the problem, if there is one, is highly complex. The key to making sense of this disparity and “fixing” education lies in taking a meaningful look at what’s happening internationally. Seeing what education looks like in other countries and contexts—how the model America innovated has been adapted and implemented elsewhere—helps us understand how other systems create success. Go on an educational trek around the world to better understand how other countries approach the same challenges we face, and grasp how culture and context shape local circumstances. For example:

In Japan, students remain in the same classroom all day, working in groups, while the teachers move around from class to class. Japanese schooling is characterized by strong institutional ties between schools and employers.

Finland does not have a formal evaluation process for teachers, merit pay, census-based standardized tests, or ranking of schools. Finnish teachers do have relative professional autonomy, competitive salaries, and less classroom time, with more time for reflection and preparation. From preschool through university, education is free of charge.

Indonesia is in the process of moving approximately five million secondary school children into vocational-education programs to help them prepare for jobs that government leaders hope will grow their economy.

Poland improved its average performance on international tests by targeting competency development, focusing particularly on girls and on the lowest-performing students.

Saudi Arabia mandates a religious curricular requirement, while China includes moral education as a required part of the curriculum.

In How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems, you’ll delve deeply into each of these cultures and more, led by Alexander W. Wiseman, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at Lehigh University. In each of these 24 thought-provoking lectures, you’ll engage in a detailed comparison of teaching methods and student achievement in both primary and secondary schools, from the focus on STEM instruction and the intent of morals education to the role of preschool and the importance of creativity. You’ll discover why Finland and South Korea consistently rank as the two best educational systems despite having diametrically opposed approaches, and consider the unique cultural challenges facing schools from America to South Africa. As you embark on this educational odyssey around the world, you’ll examine schools as close as Tulsa, Oklahoma and as far-flung as Ghana, Japan, and Myanmar. You may be surprised to learn that for all their differences, approaches to teaching don’t vary as widely as one might expect.

With Professor Wiseman’s guidance, you’ll use internationally comparative data to identify strengths and weaknesses and to see how this information is used—and sometimes misused—to enact policies that shape what happens in classrooms. The data and systems are not studied in a vacuum, however. Instead, you’ll explore how cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and historical contexts may influence these methods, and whether one nation’s best practice could backfire in another.

The Big Three: Singapore, South Korea, and Finland

Singapore, South Korea, and Finland have each become famous for their educational systems, which policymakers, educational reformers, and media worldwide applaud. Intriguingly, Finland and South Korea have very different takes on schooling: Finnish children spend about the least amount of time in school and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere, while South Korean students endure long days and rigid pedagogical methods. All three systems, however, focus students on fewer topics more deeply, rather than skimming through many topics superficially.

How the World Learns analyzes these characteristics and the contexts in which they operate, and presents examples of attempts to replicate the success of Finland elsewhere—as in Abu Dhabi, where education officials imported 50 Finnish teachers to establish Finnish-style primary schools.

You’ll also gain insight into other highly ranked countries such as China and Japan, which use high-stakes testing to create a culture of fact-based achievement, yet produce students who struggle with unscripted problems and solutions.

Study the Role of Teachers and Schools Around the Globe
Along the way, you’ll contemplate a number of important questions about the goals of education and the ways teachers may help students reach them:

Are teachers responsible for academic content only, or are they also caregivers and counselors?

Is low student performance the fault of teachers?

Which is more important: gaining knowledge or learning new skills?

Is standardized testing the best way to measure what a person knows or is capable of?

Is the point of school to prepare kids for college or for a job?

Should there be a strong socialization component to school, with the goal of creating better citizens?

These lectures examine the topic of education in a multifaceted way, from the degree to which a country’s teachers regularly collaborate to parental involvement’s impact on achievement. As you investigate gender equity across cultures, you’ll consider the gender-segregated schools of Saudi Arabia, which are being embraced as a new way to create access and opportunity for girls where none may have previously existed.

The complex subject of technology in the developing world is viewed through an unflinching lens, with realistic discussion of its sustainability. The news is not all bad on this front, however, as you’ll witness in a remarkable story of children in an impoverished area of New Delhi who taught themselves to use a computer.

While this is an inquiry into schools the world over, this course also devotes significant attention to education in America. Yet rather than looking at the U.S. system as a monolith, it’s examined for what it truly is: an enormous entity comprised of 50 individual states with widely different educational systems, from the conservative to the experimental.

Learn from a Teacher Who’s Been There

Far from an ivory-tower academic, Professor Wiseman brings real-world classroom experience to this endeavor. Having been a teacher in America and Japan—where he taught English using Beatles lyrics—his practical understanding of the shared experience of teachers and his deep knowledge of international educational systems come across in every lecture.

Educators in particular will appreciate the professor’s ability to balance optimism with pragmatism. He makes clear that there is no magic bullet when it comes to education, and what works in one country may not be realistic for another.

How the World Learns goes beyond the rhetoric of crisis and prescriptions for quick fixes to reveal the fullest picture possible of the practices that produce results (or don’t), the external factors over which schools have little control, and the potential for success.

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Weekend World - Issue 20, May 26 - June 8, 2016

Weekend World – Issue 20, May 26 – June 8, 2016
English | PDF | 88 pages | 21 MB

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise [Audiobook]

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise [Audiobook] by George Prochnik
English | May 7, 2010 | ASIN: B003L8L53E | MP3@64 kbps | 9 hrs 24 mins | 259 MB
Narrator: Don Hagen | Genre: Nonfiction/Psychology/Noise

More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most precious and dwindling commodity of our modern world.

Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe.

Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnike examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. He shows us the benefits of decluttering our sonic world.

As Prochnik travels across the United States and overseas, we meet a rich cast of characters: an idealistic architect who is pioneering a new kind of silent architecture in collaboration with the Deaf community at Gallaudet University; a special operations soldier in Afghanistan (and former guitarist with Nirvana) who places silence at the heart of survival in war; a sound designer for shopping malls who ensures that the stores we visit never stop their auditory seductions; and a group of commuters who successfully revolted against piped-in music in Grand Central Station.

A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them, In Pursuit of Silence is an important book that will appeal to fans of Michael Pollan and Daniel Gilbert.

The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster by Robert Colvile
2016 | ISBN: 163286455X | English | 400 pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB

In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it’s unlikely we’ll be able to slow down . . . or even want to.

Exploring theories surrounding the effect of this speed on our minds and bodies, Colvile reveals how, contrary to gloomier predictions, living in a faster age might be beneficial for us, both physically and mentally. In addition to the universe of social media, he examines the opportunities that faster communication and operation could bring to everything from music, film, and books to transportation, politics, and government.

Comparing developments in cities and villages, advanced economies and underdeveloped countries, East and West, The Great Acceleration explains how the positives outnumber the negatives and, if this acceleration is truly inevitable, why we should rush to embrace it.