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A Stranger at My Door Finding My Humanity on the U.S.Mexico Border

Peg Bowden, "A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the U.S./Mexico Border"
English | ISBN: 0989200930 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB | 333 KB
A Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family home in the Sonoran desert. Attempts to do the right thing-to provide food, clothing, shelter-are hampered by the politics of fear and xenophobia. Taking a stand on the side of compassion, Peg Bowden, a retired nurse and humanitarian aid worker, explores the ethical and moral values that drive her life choices, which at this particular moment in time, do not align with the politics of her homeland. This is a tale of a relationship between two people whose very differences about the "other" forge a friendship that transcends the borders of their lives.

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A Shot of History Attack on Sydney Harbour

A Shot of History: Attack on Sydney Harbour by Doctor Tom Lewis
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1922765384 | 290 pages | PDF (Converted) | 5.09 Mb
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk.

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A Short & Happy Guide to Business Contracts

A Short & Happy Guide to Business Contracts by Rachel Barnett
English | August 30, 2019 | ISBN: 164020072X | 224 pages | EPUB | 0.25 Mb
Let's get to the point. We have all signed contracts without really understanding what was written on the paper. However, there is no reason to be intimidated by fancy legal language as anyone can master common terms found in nearly all business contracts.

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A Land of Hard Edges

Peg Bowden, "A Land of Hard Edges"
English | ISBN: 098920099X | 2014 | 244 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
A Land of Hard Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border is a series of true stories and personal reflections by Peg Bowden, a retired nurse, who volunteers at a migrant shelter on the Mexico border. The author lives in the Arizona borderlands, a sort of third country, with one foot in Mexico and the other in the United States. She joins a group called the Samaritans, traveling weekly to a shelter known as el comedor, providing clothing, medical supplies and counsel to migrants seeking the American Dream. Investigating why thousands of people are willing to risk their lives crossing the Sonoran Desert into the U.S. where they are despised by so many, Peg begins to understand the complexities of human migration. She reflects on the power of love and family that drives people into the treacherous landscapes of southern Arizona.

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A Heritage At Risk The Canadian Militia As A Social Institution

T. C. Willett, "A Heritage At Risk: The Canadian Militia As A Social Institution"
English | ISBN: 0367014122 | 2020 | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this comprehensive study of Canada's reserve army, the Militia, Professor Willett focuses on the regiment as both a civic and a military institution that has declined in status and visibility since the country's armed services were unified in 1967. The author uses social history and a sociological framework to explore the major problems that have beset the Militia in its attempts to maintain its strength and efficiency in peacetime. In this detailed ethnography of the Militia at work and at leisure, the author draws on his extensive fieldwork with headquarter staffs and units throughout Canada. Proposing strategies for reviving the Militia's status, he advocates developing a credible peacetime role to attract the interest and support of local communities without detracting from the Militia's ability to fight alongside the regular Army in war.

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A Guide to Virology for Engineers and Applied Scientists Epidemiology, Emergency Management, and Optimization

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A Functional Approach to Java (7th Release)

A Functional Approach to Java
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098109912 | 469 Pages | EPUB | 2.52 MB
ava developers usually tackle the complexity of software development through object-oriented programming (OOP). But not every problem is a good match for OOP. The functional programming (FP) paradigm offers you another approach to solving problems, and Java provides easy-to-grasp FP tools such as lambdas and streams. If you're interested in applying FP concepts to your Java code, this book is for you.

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A Frontier Made Lawless Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956

A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956 By Joseph Lawson
2017 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0774833696 | PDF | 2 MB
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu peoples clashed with Han migrant communities, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless, challenges the view that ongoing violence was the result of population pressures, opium production, and the growth of local paramilitary groups. Instead, Joseph Lawson argues that the conflict resulted from the lack of a common framework for dealing with property disputes, compounded by the repeated destabilization of the region by turmoil elsewhere in China.

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A Contribution to Moving Force Identification in Bridge Dynamics

A Contribution to Moving Force Identification in Bridge Dynamics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 365839837X | 363 Pages | PDF (True) | 187 MB
The knowledge of the real forces acting on a structure are of great importance in the condition assessment process of existing structures. In this sense, this work provides a novel approach for identification of dynamic moving forces acting on a bridge structure. It seeks to find the optimal time dependent force values that minimize the difference between the computed and measured displacement and acceleration time histories for a limited number of sensor locations. The work also presents extensive experimental investigations of the developed method on real structures in operation, which consistently show that it can be successfully used on a wide range of applications: from small structures excited by rather low pedestrian forces up to the "heavy category" of a complete train passing a railway bridge. In this context, a set of particularities and limitations arising in the practical application of the method on real structures are also discussed.

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