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  The Portuguese Empire and Africa: The History and Legacy of Portugal's Exploration and Colonization of the West African Coast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min

  By the mid-15th century, the Byzantine Empire had collapsed and the various Crusades that had taken place in the region had largely disrupted the overland routes of the Silk Road and trade. Compounding the difficulties of trade was the rise of the Ottoman Empire in place of the Byzantines and the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe.Around this time, a period of European exploration began, and major factors that contributed to this period of exploration were introduced by the Chinese, albeit indirectly. The magnetic compass had already been developed and used by the Chinese sailors, the Song Dynasty then began using the device for land navigation in the 11th century. The technology slowly spread west via Arab traders, although a case can be made for the independent European creation for the compass (Southey 1812: 210).Trade was able to increase around the world due to more effective ships being introduced, which were first introduced by the Chinese. The introduction of multiple mast ships and the sternpost rudders allowed the ships to travel quicker and be more maneuverable, with a minimum number of crew aboard.The Portuguese started exploring the west coast of Africa and the Atlantic under orders from Prince Henry the Navigator. At this point, Europeans had not yet been capable of navigating completely around Africa, but the Portuguese continued pushing down the western African coast looking for ways to bypass the Ottomans and Muslims of Africa who had been making overland trade routes difficult. In 1451, Prince Henry the Navigator helped fund and develop a new type of ship, the caravel, that featured triangular lateen sails and would be able to travel in the open ocean and sail against the wind. In 1488, Bartholomew Diaz rounded the southern tip of Africa, named the Cape of Good Hope by King John of Portugal, and entered the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic.When it became clear Christopher Columbus hadn’t landed in Asia, it was unders ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146513/bk_acx0_146513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Apricot Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  In Apricot Eyes by Rohan Quine, a cat-and-mouse pursuit through the New York City night involves a preacher, a psychic and a dominatrix, broadcast live on air - until a horror is unearthed, bringing two of them together and the third to a sticky end. Having partially regained a power of second sight that he’d once possessed but lost, Jaymi Peek uses this ability in a live weekly television show online, where he channels onto the screen those unexpected places, hidden colors and hatching plans that he can perceive throughout New York City. He applies this sight to the task of relocating his old friend Scorpio, who has gone missing, but succeeds in catching only a glimpse of him in some unidentified corner of the city’s underbelly. Across a subway station, Jaymi notices an unwelcome visitor from his and Scorpio’s past - Kev Banton, who has now become a prominent evangelical preacher intent upon a moral cleansing of the population. Jaymi tails Kev discreetly through the subway, and is surprised when Kev’s journey ends at a waterfront waste ground in an industrial corner of the Bronx, where Kev slips out of sight amid an odd hum of underground engines....The monstrous population beneath this waste ground, and the malign purposes for which the preacher and his wife have been feeding it, are revealed in the course of a triangular cat-and-mouse pursuit involving Jaymi, Scorpio and the preacher. This unfolds in Scorpio’s physical pursuit of Kev through the crackle and night-pulse of the streets, from Times Square to the marginalized fringes of the city; in Jaymi’s psychic pursuit of Scorpio, whether streaking up high through the skyscrapers’ shine or secreted on a tanker as it rattles through the Bronx; and on screen, in the colorised shimmer of what Jaymi broadcasts live. In its rollicking journey through these hidden planes of New York, to the simplicity and sensuality of its ending, Apricot Eyes is a blast of fun that trumpets ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rohan Quine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155056/bk_acx0_155056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 974min

  Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992. An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin - and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our u ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Renee Pitts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017018/bk_adbl_017018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  By Blood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 843min

  San Francisco, 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes a downtown office to plot his return. But the walls are thin, and he’s distracted by voices from next door—his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he begins to hear about the patient’s troubles with her female lover, her conflicts with her adoptive WASP family, and her quest to track down her birth mother. The professor is enraptured. And the further he is pulled into the patient’s recounting of her dramas—and the most profound questions of her own identity—the more he needs the story to move forward. The patient’s questions about her birth family have led her to a Catholic charity that trafficked freshly baptized orphans out of Germany after World War II. But confronted with this new self—"I have no idea what it means to say "I'm a Jew'"—the patient finds her search stalled. Armed with the few details he’s gleaned, the professor takes up the quest and quickly finds the patient’s mother in records from a German displaced-persons camp. But he can’t let on that he’s been eavesdropping, so he mocks up a reply from an adoption agency the patient has contacted and drops it in the mail. Through the wall, he hears how his dear patient is energized by the news, and so is he. He unearths more clues and invests more and more in this secret, fraught, triangular relationship: himself, the patient, and her therapist, who is herself German. His research leads them deep into the history of displaced-persons camps, of postwar Zionism, and—most troubling of all—of the Nazi Lebensborn program. With ferocious intelligence and an enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant, intensely personal novel that feels as big and timeless as it is sharp and timely. It is an ambitious work that establis ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004865/bk_blak_004865_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Notes on Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics (eBook, ePUB)

  This book is an introduction to numerical analysis in geomechanics and is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate study of the mechanics of porous, jointed rocks and soils. Although familiarity with the concepts of stress, strain and so on is assumed, a review of the fundamentals of solid mechanics including concepts of physical laws, kinematics and material laws is presented in an appendix. Emphasis is on the popular finite element method but brief explanations of the boundary element method, the distinct element method (also known as the discrete element method) and discontinuous deformation analysis are included. Familiarity with a computer programming language such as Fortran, C++ or Python is not required, although programming excerpts in Fortran are presented at the end of some chapters. This work begins with an intuitive approach to interpolation over a triangular element and thus avoids making the simple complex by not doing energy minimization via a calculus of variations approach so often found in reference books on the finite element method. The presentation then proceeds to a principal of virtual work via the well-known divergence theorem to obtain element equilibrium and then global equilibrium, both expressed as stiffness equations relating force to displacement. Solution methods for the finite element approach including elimination and iteration methods are discussed. Hydro-mechanical coupling is described and extension of the finite element method to accommodate fluid flow in porous geological media is made. Example problems illustrate important concepts throughout the text. Additional problems for a 15-week course of study are presented in an appendix; solutions are given in another appendix.

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  Notes on Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics (eBook, PDF)

  This book is an introduction to numerical analysis in geomechanics and is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate study of the mechanics of porous, jointed rocks and soils. Although familiarity with the concepts of stress, strain and so on is assumed, a review of the fundamentals of solid mechanics including concepts of physical laws, kinematics and material laws is presented in an appendix. Emphasis is on the popular finite element method but brief explanations of the boundary element method, the distinct element method (also known as the discrete element method) and discontinuous deformation analysis are included. Familiarity with a computer programming language such as Fortran, C++ or Python is not required, although programming excerpts in Fortran are presented at the end of some chapters. This work begins with an intuitive approach to interpolation over a triangular element and thus avoids making the simple complex by not doing energy minimization via a calculus of variations approach so often found in reference books on the finite element method. The presentation then proceeds to a principal of virtual work via the well-known divergence theorem to obtain element equilibrium and then global equilibrium, both expressed as stiffness equations relating force to displacement. Solution methods for the finite element approach including elimination and iteration methods are discussed. Hydro-mechanical coupling is described and extension of the finite element method to accommodate fluid flow in porous geological media is made. Example problems illustrate important concepts throughout the text. Additional problems for a 15-week course of study are presented in an appendix; solutions are given in another appendix.

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  Die große Nähschule

  Die erfolgreichste Nähschule auf dem deutschen Markt - jetzt komplett überarbeitet, im frischen Layout, mit allen angesagten Techniken und modernen, neuen Projekten zum Nachnähen und Festigen der Techniken. Dieses unschlagbare Nähbuch bringt Anfängern und Fortgeschrittenen das Nähen auf rund 400 Seiten in anschaulichen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen bei. Über 300 Nähtechniken werden mit mehr als 1000 Fotos verständlich erklärt - von Grundstichen bis zu Profi-Schneidermethoden. Inklusive Tipps zur Bearbeitung von 50 verschiedenen Stoffen und praktischen Schnittmustern in Originalgröße zum Download. (Der Link ist im Buch zu finden).Das große Nähbuch ist perfekt für jeden, der das Nähen von der Pike auf erlernen oder vorhandene Fertigkeiten festigen und erweitern möchten. In der umfangreichen Nähschule werden alle Techniken erklärt, mit denen Sie selbst Kleidung und Wohntextilien schneidern oder reparieren können. Welche Werkzeuge und Utensilien brauche ich? Welche aktuellen Stoffe sind gerade absolute Must-haves? Und welche Verarbeitungs- und Pflegehinweise muss ich beachten? Als Einsteiger finden Sie in der Nähschule viele Basics und Tipps, die Sie sicher zum Erfolg führen. Erfahrene Schneider können sich von neusten Technik-Trends inspirieren lassen - Balanced Dart, Welt Pocket on Trouser Back, Chino Pocket, Zip Placket, Button Placket und Triangular Button Hole.Damit Sie sofort finden, was Sie brauchen, sind die Kapitel in dem praktischen Nähbuch nach ihrem Nutzen sortiert. Falten, Kragen, Taille, Ärmel, Taschen, Säume, Verschlüsse, Futter - für jeden Stich gibt's die richtige Technik! Sie möchten das Erlernte direkt ausprobieren? Mit den tollen Nähprojekten kein Problem: Nähen Sie eine Tragetasche in zwei Farben, ein ausgestelltes Kleid, einen Wickelrock, einen Bademantel, eine Kinderjacke, ein Kissen und vieles mehr. Mit dieser Nähschule macht das Nähen lernen Spaß und gelingt garantiert!

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  Women's Empowerment and Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Ghana

  Women's Empowerment and Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Ghana - South-South and Triangular Cooperation: ab 2.99 €

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  Triangular Man

  Triangular Man - Unlocking our being to Becoming Whole: ab 1.99 €

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  Linear Programming Models and Methods of Matrix Games with Payoffs of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers

  Linear Programming Models and Methods of Matrix Games with Payoffs of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers - 1st ed. 2016: ab 90.99 €

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