Название: Ancient Rome (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Susan E. Hamen
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035425
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 18 MB

"In Ancient Rome, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the ancient Romans, including their military power and feats of engineering. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's web site.

Название: Accelerating MATLAB with GPU Computing: A Primer with Examples
Автор: Jung W. Suh, Youngmin Kim
Издательство: Morgan Kaufmann
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 258
Размер: 18 Mb
Язык: English

Beyond simulation and algorithm development, many developers increasingly use MATLAB even for product deployment in computationally heavy fields. This often demands that MATLAB codes run faster by leveraging the distributed parallelism of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). While MATLAB successfully provides high-level functions as a simulation tool for rapid prototyping, the underlying details and knowledge needed for utilizing GPUs make MATLAB users hesitate to step into it. Accelerating MATLAB with GPUs offers a primer on bridging this gap.

Название: Ancient Maya (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Bradford Edwards
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035401
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 23 MB

The ancient Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, noted for Maya script, the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. The Maya civilization developed in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. This region consists of the northern lowlands, encompassing the Yucatan Peninsula, the highlands of the Sierra Madre, running from the Mexican state of Chiapas, across southern Guatemala and onwards into El Salvador, and the southern lowlands of the Pacific littoral plain.

Название: Ancient India (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Rebecca Rowell
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035395
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 19 MB

"In Ancient India, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient India, including their enduring religions and rich literary traditions. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's web site.

Название: Ancient Greece (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Diane Bailey
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035388
Страниц: 112
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 20 MB

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

Название: Ancient Egypt (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): L. J. Amstutz
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-10: 162403537X
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 20 MB

"In Ancient Egypt, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient Egypt, including their extraordinary cultural achievements and feats of construction. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's website.

Название: Ancient China (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035364
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 19 MB

"In Ancient China, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient China, including their technological wonders and feats of construction. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's website.

Название: Ancient Aztecs (Ancient Civilizations)
Автор(ы): Karen Latchana Kenney
Издательство: Essential Library
Серия: Ancient Civilizations
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1624035357
Страниц: 115
Язык: English
Формат: PDF (True)
Размер: 22 MB

"In Ancient Aztecs, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the Aztec civilization, including their military power and feats of engineering. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's web site.

Название: Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion
Автор: Stephen Dando-Collins
Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf/epub
Страниц: 608
Размер: 12.5 Mb
Язык: English

The complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force, by an award-winning historian.
In this landmark publication, Stephen Dando-Collins does what no other author has ever attempted to do: provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, he covers every legion of Rome in rich detail. In the first part of the book, the author provides a detailed account of what the legionaries wore and ate, what camp life was like, what they were paid, and how they were motivated and punished.

Название: A People's History of England (3rd edition)
Автор(ы): Arthur Leslie Morton
Издательство: Lawrence & Wishart
Год: 1985
ISBN: 0853157235
Страниц: 501
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 294 MB

This work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of British history - from the point of view of ordinary people. The book has remained in print for more than 50 years.