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VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AW...

VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure by Michael Schwartzman, Oleg Ulyanov, Harsha Sanku
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 1803238194 | 388 pages | True PDF | 36.81 MB
Explore use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure

Key Features
* Understand data center extension, migration, disaster recovery, and app modernization through a variety of use cases
* Become an expert at configuring, automating, and troubleshooting VMC on AWS SDDC
* Implement design considerations, best practices, and onboarding preflight checklist for optimal performance on VMC on AWS
Book Description
If you're looking to effortlessly transition from on-premises VMware vSphere environments or capital expenditure (CAPEX) to an agile operational expenditure (OPEX) model, trust the VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS platform for swift re-platforming of legacy applications into cloud-native framework.
This comprehensive guide addresses hybrid cloud challenges, offering detailed solutions within the VMware Cloud on AWS ecosystem. Covering the foundational architecture, software-defined data center (SDDC) components of VMware Cloud on AWS, network and security configurations, and AWS service integrations, this book lays the foundation for you to advance to vCenter management, vSAN storage policies, NSX architecture, compute policies, SDDC console management, and the EDRS mechanism for cluster scaling. You'll also explore integrated services such as VMware HCX for migration, VMware Aria suite, Tanzu Managed Kubernetes, and disaster recovery. Further, the book takes you through VMware Cloud APIs and guides you in managing workloads with VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts. With the help of practical insights, configuration tips, and best practices, you'll unlock the full potential of VMC on AWS.
By the end of this book, you'll be equipped to successfully architect and manage VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs, handling day-to-day operations expertly.
Who is this book for?
The book is intended for cloud and solutions architects, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), system and network admins, and cloud engineers with experience in on-premises VMware or AWS administration, facilitating the seamless integration of VMware cloud technologies. Prior understanding of cloud computing, virtualization principles, VMware vSphere administration, vSAN, and NSX along with AWS cloud basics will be helpful.
What you will learn
* Examine the foundational architecture components of VMware Cloud on AWS, including vSphere, vSAN, and NSX
* Explore the various integrated services available within VMware Cloud on AWS
* Delve into VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, vCenter, and vSAN optimizations
* Build applications and apply best practices within the VMware Cloud on AWS to manage day-to-day operations
* Streamline infrastructure management for VMware Cloud on AWS with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
* Extend cloud capabilities to on-premises environments using VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts

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Vollständige Anleitung zur elektrischen Verkabelung mit Wartungsplan (German Edition)

Vollständige Anleitung zur elektrischen Verkabelung mit Wartungsplan: So führen Sie die Verkabelung mit Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung durch (German Edition) by Joe K. Kenn
German | October 24, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DKWVF6MR | 69 pages | EPUB | 0.41 Mb
Haben Sie Schwierigkeiten, die Komplexität der elektrischen Verkabelung zu verstehen? Möchten Sie lernen, wie Sie die elektrische Anlage Ihres Hauses sicher und effizient installieren, reparieren und warten? Suchen Sie nach einem umfassenden Handbuch mit klaren Schritt-für-Schritt-Anweisungen, die selbst Anfänger befolgen können?

Der „ KOMPLETTE LEITFADEN FÜR ELEKTRISCHE VERKABELUNG MIT WARTUNGSPLAN " ist die ultimative Ressource für alle, die sich für die Verkabelung von Wohnhäusern und Kleinindustrieprojekten interessieren. Egal, ob Sie Hausbesitzer, Heimwerker oder sogar angehender Elektriker sind, dieser Leitfaden wurde für Ihre Bedürfnisse entwickelt und bietet detaillierte, aber leicht verständliche Anweisungen, praktische Ratschläge und wichtige Sicherheitstipps, damit Sie jede Verkabelungsarbeit souverän erledigen können.
Dieser Leitfaden ist speziell auf Personen zugeschnitten, die Folgendes möchten:Erfahren Sie, wie Sie elektrische Leitungen verlegen, ohne teure Fachkräfte zu beauftragen.Machen Sie sich mit den Grundlagen der Verkabelung und Sicherheitsvorkehrungen vertraut, um kostspielige Fehler zu vermeiden.Befolgen Sie einen Wartungsplan, um sicherzustellen, dass Ihr elektrisches System auch in den kommenden Jahren effizient läuft.Warum dieses Buch verwenden?Sicherheit bei Verdrahtungsprojekten: Mit den einfachen Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und Diagrammen sind Sie in der Lage, grundlegende und komplexe Verdrahtungsaufgaben zu bewältigen, von der Installation von Lichtschaltern bis zur Verdrahtung größerer Geräte.Kostengünstige Hauswartung: Sparen Sie Hunderte oder sogar Tausende von Dollar für elektrische Reparaturen und Installationen, indem Sie diese sicher und effizient selbst durchführen.Langfristige Systemleistung: Entwickeln Sie einen klaren Wartungsplan zur regelmäßigen Überprüfung und Wartung Ihres elektrischen Systems. So können Sie künftige Probleme vermeiden und sicherstellen, dass über Jahre hinweg alles reibungslos läuft.Hauptmerkmale und HighlightsSchritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen: Jeder Abschnitt unterteilt komplexe Verdrahtungsaufgaben in leicht verständliche Schritte, perfekt für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene gleichermaßen.Umfassende Verdrahtungstechniken: Erlernen Sie die Installation und Verdrahtung von Steckdosen, Schaltern, Leuchten und größeren Geräten wie Heizungs-, Lüftungs- und Klimasystemen, Trocknern und Öfen.Sicherheitsrichtlinien und wirksame Praktiken: Sorgen Sie für Ihre Sicherheit mit ausführlichen Hinweisen zur ordnungsgemäßen Erdung, zum Stromkreisschutz und zur Vermeidung häufiger Fehler im Zusammenhang mit der Elektrik.Handbuch zur Fehlerbehebung: Identifizieren und beheben Sie mühelos häufige Verdrahtungsprobleme wie lose Verbindungen, fehlerhafte Schalter und Stromkreisüberlastungen.Der „ KOMPLETTE LEITFADEN FÜR ELEKTRISCHE VERKABELUNG MIT WARTUNGSPLAN " kombiniert Einfachheit mit Tiefe, bietet klare Anweisungen und behandelt jedes Detail, das für die Durchführung verschiedener Verkabelungsprojekte erforderlich ist.Leitfaden zur elektrischen VerkabelungElektrische Wartung in EigenregieSo installieren Sie SteckdosenSchritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zur elektrischen VerkabelungTipps zur Verkabelungssicherheit und Wartung.

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VUV and Soft X-Ray Photoionization

VUV and Soft X-Ray Photoionization By M. Ya. Amusia (auth.), Uwe Becker, David A. Shirley (eds.)
1996 | 651 Pages | ISBN: 1461379938 | PDF | 43 MB
Leading investigators offer the first comprehensive study of gas phase photoionization research in the VUV and soft X-ray regime since the massive employment of synchrotron radiation as a spectroscopic tool. Chapters cover all aspects of photoionization phenomena from total cross sections to highly differentiated measurements such as coincidence experiments and spin-resolved electron spectroscopy. This work is abundant with illustrations.

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Want Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1419777297 | 400 pages | PDF | 1.99 Mb
An instant New York Times bestseller, Want is a collection of confessions from women around the world. This revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?

What do you want, when no one is watching?
What do you want, when the lights are off?
What do you want, when you are anonymous?
When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain.
And yet for many reasons-some complicated, some not-so many of us don't talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key.
Here's the key.
In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).
From a Sikh woman who writes about her secret lust for her brother-in-law, an Apache American woman who wants to be worshipped like a divine creature, a white British woman who just wants to be properly kissed one last time, another who likes to role play as a panther, or a Hispanic Jewish woman living in Bangladesh, for whom the pinnacle of sexual arousal is a doorknob, Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous.
What do you want?

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War and Women across Continents Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences

Shirley Ardener, "War and Women across Continents: Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1785330136 | 2016 | 212 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.

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Washington Manual Infectious Disease Subspecialty Consult Ed 3

Dr. Nigar Kirmani MD, "Washington Manual Infectious Disease Subspecialty Consult Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 197511342X | 2019 | 408 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023!

Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual™ Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Consult, Third Edition, provides essential information needed to evaluate patients on a subspecialty consult service. This edition offers state-of-the-art content on the diagnosis, investigation, and treatment of a wide variety of infectious diseases, including coverage of new and emerging pathogens, rapid molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, and new therapeutic and preventive strategies. Ideal for trainees and practicing physicians who need quick access to current scientific and clinical information in this rapidly changing area, the manual is also useful as a first-line resource for internists and other primary care providers.
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Water Always Wins Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge

Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge"
English | ISBN: 0226829421 | 2023 | 335 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Winner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.

Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was conceived and constructed with a relatively stable climate in mind. But as new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable-and it is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our relationship with water. Increasingly severe and frequent floods and droughts inevitably spur calls for higher levees, bigger drains, and longer aqueducts. But as we grapple with extreme weather, a hard truth is emerging: our development, including concrete infrastructure designed to control water, is actually exacerbating our problems. Because sooner or later, water always wins.
In this quietly radical book, science journalist Erica Gies introduces us to innovators in what she calls the Slow Water movement who start by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? Using close observation, historical research, and cutting-edge science, these experts in hydrology, restoration ecology, engineering, and urban planning are already transforming our relationship with water.
Modern civilizations tend to speed water away, erasing its slow phases on the land. Gies reminds us that water's true nature is to flex with the rhythms of the earth: the slow phases absorb floods, store water for droughts, and feed natural systems. Figuring out what water wants-and accommodating its desires within our human landscapes-is now a crucial survival strategy. By putting these new approaches to the test, innovators in the Slow Water movement are reshaping the future.
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We Found Love, Song by Song The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits

We Found Love, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits by Annie Zaleski
English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0762487003 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 46.69 MB
Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished love songs of all time.

Pop the champagne, get the roses ready, and settle down in your favorite armchair. Love is universal to the human experience and love songs bring us joy and remind us of happy moments from our life. We all want it and we all crave it but it's not always easy to find. In this beautifully illustrated volume, We Found Love, Song by Song tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished love songs of all time and their everlasting impact. From artists such as Fred Astaire and Nat King Cole all the way up to Whitney Houston and Harry Styles, this all-encompassing collection of love songs is sure to ignite the flame and inspire a new favorite playlist.
What moving song did Paul McCartney pen as a love letter to his wife and record in one day? What iconic tune about cheating and piña coladas ends with a relationship being saved? What popular ballad was written from the perspective of Juliet and led to hundreds of in-concert proposals? Spanning musical genres and decades of classics and modern hits, featured songs include:​
* Etta James, "At Last"
* Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love"
* Sonny and Cher, "I Got You Babe"
* Queen, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
* Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is"
* Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing"
* Tina Turner, "The Best"
* Elton John, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
* Shania Twain, "You're Still the One"
* Rihanna, "We Found Love"
* John Legend, "All of Me"
* Taylor Swift, "Love Story"
And many more!
Including full-color illustrations throughout, this gorgeously packaged companion is the perfect gift for you and your loved ones to cherish any time of year.

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We Gambled Everything The Life and Times of an Oilman

Arne Nielsen, "We Gambled Everything: The Life and Times of an Oilman"
English | ISBN: 0888645988 | 2012 | 304 pages | PDF | 59 MB
"We gambled everything-our careers, our fortunes, the future of our nation-and every day brought new discoveries. It was like living on a frontier."-Arne Nielsen The memoir of Canadian petroleum industry leader Arne Nielsen is not a conventional business biography. During his six decades in the business, he witnessed critical events in the oil industry that influenced Canada's economic history. From rain-soaked tents on the Arctic barren land to the luxurious New York offices of a multinational oil company, Arne Nielsen's expansive knowledge of geology and the oil industry made him one of the most influential and well-known figures of his time. His memoir provides crucial details and unique perspectives on events that will be of interest to the next generation of oil industry executives as well as to consumers, economists, and ecologists. Foreword by Peter C. Newman.

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Web App Hacker's Handbook A Comprehensive Guide to Penetration Testing

Web App Hacker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Penetration Testing by Phineas Ochse
English | August 3, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DC58JBXY | 504 pages | EPUB | 0.32 Mb
Unlock the secrets of web application security with Web App Hacker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Penetration Testing by Phineas Ochse. This essential guide is designed for both aspiring and seasoned cybersecurity professionals, offering a deep dive into the world of web application penetration testing. Whether you're a beginner looking to understand the fundamentals or an experienced hacker aiming to sharpen your skills, this book provides the knowledge and tools necessary to excel in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities.

In this comprehensive handbook, Phineas Ochse combines cutting-edge techniques with practical insights, delivering a step-by-step approach to web application security. The book covers a broad range of topics, including:
Foundational Concepts: Gain a thorough understanding of web technologies, protocols, and security principles. Learn about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, client-side vs. server-side scripting, web servers, and databases.
Information Gathering: Master the art of both passive and active information gathering. Explore methods for reconnaissance, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and using search engines and social media to gather critical data about your targets.
Exploitation Techniques: Delve into various web application vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR). Learn how to identify, exploit, and mitigate these vulnerabilities.
Advanced Attacks: Explore sophisticated attacks and techniques, including Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Remote Code Execution (RCE), and security misconfigurations. Discover how to use Metasploit for penetration testing and develop custom modules to enhance your exploitation strategies.
Defensive Measures: Understand how to defend against web application attacks by implementing secure development practices, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), and incident response strategies. Learn how to test WAF effectiveness and improve your overall security posture.
Case Studies: Analyze real-world examples and case studies of major web application breaches. Learn from past incidents to understand common attack vectors and the lessons learned from these security events.
Appendices: Access valuable resources, including a glossary of key terms, a list of essential tools, and recommendations for further reading and research.
Web App Hacker's Handbook not only provides theoretical knowledge but also includes practical exercises and real-world scenarios to help you apply what you've learned. With a focus on hands-on experience and actionable insights, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in web application security.
Phineas Ochse, a seasoned expert in cybersecurity, brings his extensive experience to this comprehensive guide, making complex topics accessible and engaging. Whether you're a penetration tester, security analyst, or IT professional, this book will equip you with the skills needed to identify and address vulnerabilities in web applications effectively.

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Weber's Scorecard

Weber's Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne
by Edward C. Page
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198904274 | 317 Pages | PDF | 3.75 MB

This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

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Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greek Poetry

Andromache Karanika, "Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greek Poetry"
English | ISBN: 0198884575 | 2025 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first analyzes how explicit or implicit matrimonial references shape archaic epic diction and become an integral part of epic discourse; orally circulating texts, such as wedding songs, could have a life of their own but, beyond their original context, could also become an integral part of a different genre, especially epic and drama. This author discusses the multiple platforms that enrich the wedding song tradition, including children's songs, hymns, paeans, and ululations, arguing for a combination of ritualized discourse with ludic childhood poetics. With an approach from cognitive and trauma studies, such references can be more revealing of the female experience than previously acknowledged. This book resists the idea that a wedding constitutes an initiation ritual, arguing that what on the surface may seem like a transition to a new phase reveals other underlying trends that work against the concept of a passage. It further considers how emotion is staged and revisits the poetics of return by looking at patterns such as the eloping, returning, failed, and dead bride. Finally, the theme of separation and return as an exemplification of a distinct female

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Weep, Shudder, Die On Opera and Poetry

Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry
by Dana Gioia
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1589881966 | 218 Pages | True ePUB | 1.36 MB

"Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas have attained a secure place in the repertory. His insight into the workings of this uniquely lyrical fusion of the arts makes Weep, Shudder, Die not only a definitive assessment of the importance of poetry to the operatic undertaking, but a gift to opera lovers everywhere. Read...Reflect...Delight!"
-Ted Libbey, author of The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music
"Weep, Shudder, Die should be read by anyone who enjoys opera, or who cares about its place in today's world. Dana Gioia explores, with imagination and insight, the relationship between the libretto and the music. I learned a great deal in reading it, and at the same time enjoyed the experience immensely."
-Henry Fogel, Former President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and League of American Orchestras
A unique book about opera-personal, impassioned, and provocative.
Weep, Shudder, Die explores opera from the perspective by which the art was originally created, as the most intense form of poetic drama. The great operas have an essential connection to poetry, song, and the primal power of the human voice. The aim of opera is irrational enchantment, the unleashing of emotions and visionary imagination.
Gioia rejects the conventional view of opera which assumes that great operas can be built on execrable texts. He insists that in opera, words matter. Operas begin as words; strong words inspire composers, weak words burden them. Ultimately, singers embody the words to give the music a human form for the audience.
Weep, Shudder, Die is a poet's book about opera. To some, that statement will suggest writing that is airy, impressionistic, and unreliable, but a poet also brings a practical sense of how words animate opera, lend life to imaginary characters, and give human shape to music. Written from a lifelong devotion to the art, Gioia's book is for anyone who has wept in the dark of an opera house.

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Welcome Home, Stranger A Novel

Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel by Kate Christensen
English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0063299712 | 224 pages | EPUB | 0.87 Mb
"Kate Christensen's new novel,Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawnsetting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence.What more could you ask?"-Richard Russo, author ofSomebody's Fool

"To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novelWelcome Home, Stranger,a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans).The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others."-Ann Packer, author ofThe Children's Crusade
"A deeply endearing story about confronting one's past and constructing a new future-under extreme duress. . . . Welcome Home, Stranger . . . arrives at the most lovely ending of a novel I've read all year."-Washington Post
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother.
Can you ever truly go home again?
An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall-until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death.
Then things really fall apart.
Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters-an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend-Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is.

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Welcome to the NHK

Tatsuhiko Takimoto, "Welcome to the NHK"
English | 2007 | pages: 250 | ISBN: 1427802564 | PDF | 2,8 mb
Twenty-two-year-old Satou, an unemployed, reclusive conspiracy theorist living in Tokyo, meets a mysterious girl who tries to cure him of his antisocial, or "hikikomori," ways.

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Welfare State Generation, The Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945

Eve Worth, "Welfare State Generation, The: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 "
English | ISBN: 1350192066 | 2022 | 260 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Women born in mid twentieth-century Britain were the 'welfare state generation' - not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, they helped to transform it. In this ground-breaking work, Eve Worth examines the impact of the welfare state on the life course of women whose opportunities and social experiences were formed by it in the post-1945 period. Centred around an oral history study, this book argues that the welfare state was so central to the lives of women born in Britain between the late 1930s and early 1950s that they should be considered the 'welfare state generation'. The post-war expansion of the welfare state was one of the most transformative political changes of the twentieth century, yet we know little about its development in practice, nor its long-term impact on those who grew up within it. Using a ground-breaking life history methodology to examine women from their birth in the long 1940s to retirement in the mid-2010s, it includes thirty-six original life history interviews alongside social surveys and the Census for wider context By deploying a cross-class approach, this book moves the discussion on from just looking at university-educated women, to include women often overlooked in gender and social studies. Re-conceptualising the causes of social mobility in post-war Britain, exploring a new understanding of work and an updated periodisation of welfare state development,

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Wellbeing Alternative Policy Perspectives

Timothy Besley, Irene Bucelli, "Wellbeing: Alternative Policy Perspectives"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1909890820 | PDF | pages: 218 | 2.8 mb
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people's overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?

The radical implications of this stance include shifting attention to previously neglected areas (such as mental health and 'social infrastructure' services) and developing defensible measures of overall wellbeing or quality of life indicators. Can one 'master' concept of wellbeing work to create more holistic policy-making? Or should we stick with multiple metrics? These debates are well-developed in health policy-making and in alternative 'capabilities' approaches to assessing quality of life. Most recently, the connections between wellbeing and political participation have come into sharper focus.
Wellbeing remains a contested concept, one that can be interpreted and used differently, with consequences for how it is incorporated into policy decisions. By bringing together scholars from economics, psychology and behavioural science, philosophy and political science, the authors and editors of this short volume explore how different disciplinary approaches can contribute to the study of wellbeing and how this can shape policy priorities.

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Wellington after Waterloo

Neville Thompson, "Wellington after Waterloo"
English | ISBN: 1138638684 | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
First published in 1986. In this book Neville Thompson traces Wellington's life after 1815 using then new archival and documentary records. The work examines the development of Wellington's character and outlook, and assesses the significance of his persistent involvement in politics over three decades. It shows the Duke was a crucial figure in the development of the compromise between reform and the preservation of traditional institutions and practices. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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Wellington Against Massena The Third Invasion of Portugal, 1810-1811

David Buttery, "Wellington Against Massena: The Third Invasion of Portugal, 1810-1811"
English | ISBN: 1526752530 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Wellington's clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable generals carried on a campaign of maneuver, battle and attrition across Spain and Portugal in 1810 and 1811 which had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. Wellington's reputation was enhanced, Massena's was ruined.

David Buttery's close analysis of this extraordinary encounter offers a penetrating insight into the personalities of these two outstanding soldiers. Using a variety of sources, in particular eyewitness accounts from both sides, he reassesses the famous confrontations at Ciudad Rodrigo, Almeida, Busaco, the lines of Torres Vedras and the final bitterly fought battle at Fuentes de Ooro.
He sheds new light on this pivotal episode in the Napoleonic Wars and his account corrects the one-sided view of the campaign that has survived to the present day. In particular he reconsiders the true cost of the scorched earth policy that was employed against the French.
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Wellington The Crossing Of The Gaves And The Battle Of Orthez

F C Beatson, "Wellington: The Crossing Of The Gaves And The Battle Of Orthez"
English | ISBN: 1783313358 | 2017 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Originally published in 1925, this is a rare volume in the author's multi-volume study of Wellington's life and campaigns. The book deals with the final phase of the Peninsular War when the Iron Duke chased the fleeing French across the Pyrenees into France itself, defeating them in the Battle of Orthez, and crossing the River Gaves. Illustrated with early 20th century photographs of the battlefields and significant sites, the book recounts Welllington's campaign plans and includes his battlefield orders.

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