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Free Download Nicholas Sekunda, Richard Hook, "Marathon 490 BC: The first Persian invasion of Greece"
English | 2002 | pages: 93 | ISBN: 1841760005, 0275988368 | PDF | 30,2 mb
Osprey’s study of the first Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC. The story of the Marathon campaign is an epic of the Ancient World. When the Ionian Greeks revolted against their Persian overlords in 499 BC, the cities of Athens and Eretria came to their aid. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of 600 ships packed with troops was sent to take revenge on the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in battle and drove them in rout back to their ships. The moral effect of this victory was enormous – for the first time a Greek army had defeated the Persians and demonstrated the superiority of hoplite tactics.

Free Download Lawrence Paterson, "First U-Boat Flotilla"
English | 2002 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1399013424, 1557502951, 085052816X | EPUB | 11,7 mb
Formed in 1935, First U-Boat Flotilla operated against Hitler’s enemies from the very earliest stage of the war through to September 1944 when disbanded amid the flames of Brest during the US siege. Over seventy-five per cent of operational U-boats were lost as the Allies’ counter-measures and code-breaking successes took ever greater effect. This fascinating work records the Flotilla’s successes and disasters in detail.

Free Download Dan Beattie, Adam Hook, "Brandy Station 1863: First step towards Gettysburg"
English | 2008 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 1846033047 | PDF | 16,3 mb
The road to Gettysburg began at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863 during the American Civil War (1861-1865). However, the cavalry clash in Culpeper County, Virginia, counts for more than just the opening round of Lee’s second invasion of the North. The battle showed both sides that the Federal cavalry had now come of age, that Blue and Gray horsemen were now equal in ability. Early in the morning on June 9, Pleasanton launched his men, split into two divisions, across the Rappahannock at Beverley’s Ford to the north of Brandy Station and Kelly’s Ford to the south. Stuart was caught completely unaware by these maneuvers and his lines and headquarters were nearly overrun until reinforcements helped to stabilize the situation. Following 12 hours of bitter fighting the Union forces withdrew back across the river, having matched the Confederate cavalry in skill and determination for the first time in the War between the States in what was the largest and most hotly contested clash of sabers in this long and bloody war.

Free Download A First Course in Probability Models and Statistical Inference by J. H. C. Creighton
English | PDF (True) | 1994 | 743 Pages | ISBN : 0387941142 | 61.3 MB
Welcome to new territory: A course in probability models and statistical inference. The concept of probability is not new to you of course. You’ve encountered it since childhood in games of chance-card games, for example, or games with dice or coins. And you know about the "90% chance of rain" from weather reports. But once you get beyond simple expressions of probability into more subtle analysis, it’s new territory. And very foreign territory it is. You must have encountered reports of statistical results in voter sur veys, opinion polls, and other such studies, but how are conclusions from those studies obtained? How can you interview just a few voters the day before an election and still determine fairly closely how HUN DREDS of THOUSANDS of voters will vote? That’s statistics. You’ll find it very interesting during this first course to see how a properly designed statistical study can achieve so much knowledge from such drastically incomplete information. It really is possible-statistics works! But HOW does it work? By the end of this course you’ll have understood that and much more. Welcome to the enchanted forest.

Free Download The First Royal Media War
by Adrian Phillips;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399065416 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 21.9 MB
The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria. King Edward VIII was a child of the burgeoning age of media and the first celebrity monarch, but the immense personal popularity created by his charm and good looks was not enough to save him when he came into conflict with a government that embodied the conservative ethos of the time. Nor did the support of powerful media barons. In the United States William Randolph Hearst, who inspired Citizen Kane, dreamed of giving Britain an American Queen and manoeuvred with Wallis Simpson to place her on the throne. In Britain the Anglo- Canadian newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook hoped to use the confrontation between the King and the government to force the prime minister, his bitter enemy Stanley Baldwin, out of power. Edward was blocked from broadcasting his case directly to the public, which was the source of deep resentment to him. The government treated the couple’s media initiatives as declarations of war and was prepared to respond savagely. The British press remained tactfully silent almost until the end of the crisis, but behind the scenes, a cold war was being fought. For the rest of his life, Edward fought to air his grievances against the ill-treatment to which he thought that he had been subjected. He believed that he had been forced to abdicate by a coalition of reactionaries grouped behind the Archbishop of Canterbury. Edward resented bitterly the ostracism to which he and Wallis were subjected by his brother and sister-in-law, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, especially the refusal to grant his wife royal status. With sometimes farcical results, Edward tried to find authors who put over his side of the story. Beaverbrook supported Edward but tried to bend Edward’s quest to fit his own agenda. The establishment did its utmost to restrain Edward and maintain a discreet silence over the crisis, but gradually members of the royal court abandoned reticence and fought back. The abdication challenged the British monarchy as an institution. A large part of the legacy is today’s no-holds-barred media environment where the royal family’s issues are fought in a ruthless glare of worldwide attention.

Free Download First-Year Teaching for Dummies
by Flaherty, Carol;Harris, Flirtisha;Kelley, W. Michael;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394189761 | 371 pages | True PDF | 11.17 MB
Make your first year of teaching one to remember

Free Download Chemistry
by Burdge, Julia;Overby, Jason;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1266136789 | 1216 pages | True EPUB | 241.58 MB
The new fifth edition of Chemistry: Atoms First by Burdge and Overby builds further on the success of the first four editions. The Atoms First approach provides a consistent and logical method for teaching general chemistry. This approach starts with the fundamental building block of matter, the atom, and uses it as the stepping-stone to understanding more complex chemistry topics. Once mastery of the nature of atoms and electrons is achieved, the formation and properties of compounds are developed. Only after the study of matter and the atom will students have sufficient background to fully engage in topics such as stoichiometry, kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics.

Free Download A First Course in Probability for Computer and Data Science (243 Pages)
by Henk Tijms
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811271747 | 244 pages | True PDF | 11.26 MB
In this undergraduate text, the author has distilled the core of probabilistic ideas and methods for computer and data science. The book emphasizes probabilistic and computational thinking rather than theorems and proofs. It provides insights and motivates the students by telling them why probability works and how to apply it. The unique features of the book are as follows: Bayesian probability with real-life cases in law and medicine; Logistic regression and naïve Bayes; Real-world applications of probability; Interweaving Monte Carlo simulation and probability; Gentle introduction to Markov chains and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. This book contains many worked examples. Numerous instructive problems scattered throughout the text are given along with problem-solving strategies. Several of the problems extend previously covered material. Answers to all problems and worked-out solutions to selected problems are also provided. Henk Tijms is the author of several textbooks in the area of applied probability and stochastic optimization. In 2008, he received the prestigious INFORMS Expository Writing Award for his work. He also contributed engaging probability puzzles to The New York Times’ former Numberplay column.

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Free Download Microsoft 365 Copilot First Look
Released 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 23m | Size: 70 MB
Let AI help you create, summarize, and analyze your documents, messages, and data. Microsoft 365 business and enterprise subscribers can now access Copilot, the AI assistant from Microsoft, in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and Teams, as an optional add-on for. In this first look course, Nick Brazzi introduces you to Copilot and shows you how to generate drafts and create presentations from your natural language requests. Learn how to use Copilot to create highly visual PowerPoint presentations from a text Word doc, extract key data trends in Excel, and write and edit text in Word. Find out how to draft email messages and summarize conversations in Outlook. You can also use it to generate real-time meeting summaries and follow-up tasks in Teams. A quick introduction is all it takes to get started with the Copilot AI assistant from Microsoft!