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Free Download Basics of Aerothermodynamics by E. H. Hirschel
English | PDF (True) | 2005 | 419 Pages | ISBN : 3642060501 | 19.9 MB
The last two decades have brought two important developments for aeroth- modynamics. One is that airbreathing hypersonic flight became the topic of technology programmes and extended system studies. The other is the emergence and maturing of the discrete numerical methods of aerodyn- ics/aerothermodynamics complementary to the ground-simulation facilities, with the parallel enormous growth of computer power. Airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles are, in contrast to aeroassisted re-entry vehicles, drag sensitive. They have, further, highly integrated lift and propulsion systems. This means that viscous eflFects, like boundary-layer development, laminar-turbulent transition, to a certain degree also strong interaction phenomena, are much more important for such vehicles than for re-entry vehicles. This holds also for the thermal state of the surface and thermal surface effects, concerning viscous and thermo-chemical phenomena (more important for re-entry vehicles) at and near the wall. The discrete numerical methods of aerodynamics/aerothermodynamics permit now – what was twenty years ago not imaginable – the simulation of high speed flows past real flight vehicle configurations with thermo-chemical and viscous effects, the description of the latter being still handicapped by in sufficient flow-physics models. The benefits of numerical simulation for flight vehicle design are enormous: much improved aerodynamic shape definition and optimization, provision of accurate and reliable aerodynamic data, and highly accurate determination of thermal and mechanical loads. Truly mul- disciplinary design and optimization methods regarding the layout of thermal protection systems, all kinds of aero-servoelasticity problems of the airframe, et cetera, begin now to emerge.

Free Download Basic Radiation Oncology by Murat Beyzadeoglu
English | EPUB | 2022 | 541 Pages | ISBN : 3030873072 | 199.2 MB
This updated work is an all-in-one book, encompassing the essential aspects of radiation physics, radiobiology, and clinical radiation oncology.

Free Download Prateeksha Sharma, "Barriers to Recovery from ‘Psychosis’: A Peer Investigation of Psychiatric Subjectivation"
English | ISBN: 1032158328 | 2022 | 252 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery from the perspective of "patients" and caregivers.

Free Download Michael Brown, "Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323"
English | ISBN: 0748633324 | 2008 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in the history of the British Isles. This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.

Free Download Ivo Mosley, "Bank Robbery: The way we create money, and how it damages the world"
English | ISBN: 1911193643 | 2020 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Our money system is a toxic left-over from a time when theft on a grand scale was glorified. Today, we need to move on from a system that allows and encourages the worst in us (and among us) to prosper. We accept that the system enhances inequality, drives climate change, degrades our planet, and promotes war and conflict. But why do we accept this manifestly undemocratic money system, which serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of organisations and individuals that do not have our collective interests at heart? Researcher and writer Ivo Mosley set out to uncover and tell the story of how money-creation works. This book is a remarkably clear and comprehensive examination of a system that supports unaccountable and destructive power. It also points the way to the simple reforms that are necessary if we wish to create a more just and equitable world.

Free Download Bamboo Expansion: Processes, Impacts, and Management by Ling Zhang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 205 Pages | ISBN : 9819941121 | 9.5 MB
This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world. Although not conceptually plant invasions, bamboo expansion has been considered an "invasion" based on its characteristics and the impacts it caused on adjacent ecosystems it expanded into, including altered element cycling, transformed soil microbial community compositions, decreased biodiversity, fluctuated primary productions, etc. However, the processes and impacts during or after complete expansion and the underlying mechanisms of successful expansion, are still unclear. The ecological effects of bamboo expansion are not given full consideration and are not thoroughly understood.

Free Download Bait and Switch: How Student Loan Debt Stifles Social Mobility by Robert H. Scott, III , Joseph N. Patten , Kenneth Mitchell
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 142 Pages | ISBN : 3031463749 | 2.7 MB
This book traces how the student loan system has created insurmountable student debt traps for millions of student borrowers contrary to its original purpose of promoting social mobility. Today, approximately 45 million Americans hold over $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, with over 20% of borrowers in default. Student loan debt has the greatest negative impact of wealth-poor students, with Black and first-generation students less likely to attain a college degree, more likely to default on student loan debt, and less likely to gain the same type of wage premium from their college degrees than white student loan borrowers. The book also offers a wide range of policy solutions for remedying the student loan debt crisis.

Free Download Samuel L. Boyd, "Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy"
English | ISBN: 1506480675 | 2023 | 325 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.

Free Download Roland Theuas DS. Pada, "Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition: Freedom, Normativity, and Identity"
English | ISBN: 1527503100 | 2017 | 211 pages | PDF | 962 KB
This book presents a reconstruction of the trajectories of freedom in Axel Honneths recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. Honneths re-appropriation of Hegels notion of Sittlichkeit, or ethical life, provides a potent descriptive theoretical perspective of social conflicts and an articulated praxis of Hegels social theory. Amidst the current critical literature posed against the normative aspect of Honneths critical theory, there is an already implicit solution to the problem of normativity and reification. By articulating the conflict between freedom and normativity as both a pathological problem and a progressive movement in critical theory, the theme of solidarity is further reinforced in the development of Honneths social philosophy.

Free Download Autonomic Disorders in Clinical Practice by Giuseppe Micieli, Max Hilz, Pietro Cortelli
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 441 Pages | ISBN : 3031430352 | 14.9 MB
This book is focused on a clinical-based diagnostic approach of autonomic dysfunctions, highlighting main diagnostic tools and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies available nowadays.