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Mao: The Unknown Story

Mao: The Unknown Story By Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Publisher: Knopf 2005 | 832 Pages | ISBN: 0679422714 | DJVU | 11 MB

In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of Wild Swans, this fact is an affront, not just to history, but to decency. Mao: The Unknown Story does not contain a formal dedication, but it is clear that Chang is writing to honor the millions of Chinese who fell victim to Mao's drive for absolute power in his 50-plus-year struggle to dominate China and the 20th-century political landscape. From the outset, Chang and Halliday are determined to shatter the "myth" of Mao, and they succeed with the force, not just of moral outrage, but of facts. The result is a book, more indictment than portrait, that paints Mao as a brutal totalitarian, a thug, who unleashed Stalin-like purges of millions with relish and without compunction, all for his personal gain. Through the authors' unrelenting lens even his would-be heroism as the leader of the Long March and father of modern China is exposed as reckless opportunism, subjecting his charges to months of unnecessary hardship in order to maintain the upper hand over his rival, Chang Kuo-tao, an experienced military commander.
Using exhaustive research in archives all over the world, Chang and Halliday recast Mao's ascent to power and subsequent grip on China in the context of global events. Sino-Soviet relations, the strengths and weakness of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese invasion of China, World War II, the Korean War, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, the vicious Cultural Revolution, the Vietnam War, Nixon's visit, and the constant, unending purges all, understandably, provide the backdrop for Mao's unscrupulous but invincible political maneuverings and betrayals. No one escaped unharmed. Rivals, families, peasants, city dwellers, soldiers, and lifelong allies such as Chou En-lai were all sacrificed to Mao's ambition and paranoia. Appropriately, the authors' consciences are appalled. Their biggest fear is that Mao will escape the global condemnation and infamy he deserves. Their astonishing book will go a long way to ensure that the pendulum of history will adjust itself accordingly.

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Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House - 1911 to 1980

Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House - 1911 to 1980 By Bob Colacello
Publisher: Warner Books 2004 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 044653272X | PDF | 4 MB

Colacello is the former editor of Interview magazine and currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. Six years of research and approximately 200 interviews, including many talks with Nancy Reagan herself, stand behind this first volume in a planned two-part dual biography of the late president and his controversial First Lady. In nice and easy prose, in a tone that is both friendly toward his subjects but also balanced in his estimation of them (for instance, about Nancy, "I agreed that the press has been unduly hard on her. Yet it crossed my mind [that she] seemed to have a talent for playing the martyr"), Colacello takes what he calls "a social approach" to the lives of the Reagans. His basic premise, well supported here, is that the importance of Nancy and her social connections to the career of Ronald cannot be overestimated. The biography's actual structure is impeccable as the author profiles the two of them individually, in a series of alternating chapters, and then draws their stories together. This first volume deals with the pre-presidential years, which admirers of the president and Nancy will enjoy learning about; even readers less than admiring of the couple will be curious about the details of their lives, both separately and in tandem. Expect much demand.

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Leonardo The First Scientist

Leonardo The First Scientist By Michael White
Publisher: Clipper Audio 2000 | SBN: 1841973408 | Language: English | Audio Cassette in MP3 | 180 MB

No one more completely embodies the notion of the Renaissance Man than Leonardo da Vinci. His lifetime (1452-1519) frames the heart and soul of the Italian Renaissance, one of the most remarkable periods in history. In its sweep, Leonardo's genius touched on nearly every aspect of human endeavor. Yet as Michael White argues in this fascinating and forceful new biography, da Vinci, mythic though his stature, has never been fully appreciated as one of the most remarkable scientific minds not merely of his age but of any age. Leonardo: The First Scientist makes clear that this imbalance is due in part to an accident of history, and in part to Leonardo himself. During his lifetime Da Vinci patiently assembled a vast collection of notebooks, consisting of over 13,000 manuscript pages and containing some 1,500 exquisite anatomical drawings, in which he tirelessly detailed his observations and experiments. Suspicious of others and fearful that his ideas might be stolen, he kept his research hidden even from those closest to him. After his death, the notebooks were dispersed to private collections and libraries throughout Europe. In essence, they disappeared for over two centuries. Those notebooks that eventually resurfaced contain Leonardo's now-legendary reflections and drawings concerning flight, optics, anatomy, astronomy and weaponry-a staggering, almost unthinkable range of subjects and interests. Indeed, as White proves, da Vinci's fifteenth-century discoveries predate and prefigure the work of later scientists, including Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton. Had they not been lost for so long, the notes might have altered the course and pace of scientific discovery. Far more than priceless artifacts and historical curios (Bill Gates bought one notebook, the so-called Hammer Codex, for $30 million in 1994), Leonardo's notebooks illuminate a mind capable of both rigorous procedure and soaring flights of imaginative thought.Weaving together the elements of da Vinci's life and his times-his unhappy childhood, his homosexuality, his relationship with everyone from Machiavelli to Cesare Borgia to Michelangelo-White has produced an illuminating portrait of the first genius in modern science.

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The Agassi Story (Repost)

The Agassi Story
Publisher: Ecw Press | ISBN: 1550226568 | edition 2004 | PDF | 192 pages | 13,7 mb

A father's unique perspective sheds light on the personal and professional life of tennis great Andre Agassi in this account of the Agassi family, from Agassi's father's participation in the Olympics to Agassi's reclamation of his number-one ranking at the age of 33. Previously untold stories illuminate the maturation of the once easily rattled, flamboyant rebel to the calm, composed, humble tennis champion. Agassi's high-profile marriages to Brooke Shields and current wife Steffi Graf are discussed in this rags-to-riches account of an athletic, talented American family.

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Inside the Ropes

Arthur Mercante, Phil Guarnieri, "Inside the Ropes"
Publisher: McBooks Press | 2006-04-01 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 1590131266 | PDF | 1 MB

Inside stories of some of the greatest prizefights of all time, including Floyd Patterson–Ingemar Johansson II, Joe Frazier–George Foreman I, and The Fight of the Century: Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier I. Referee and elder statesman of boxing Arthur Mercante gives behind-the-scenes glimpses into his world and into the lives and careers of the greatest boxers of all time. Mercante has officiated more championship fights than any other referee, and his blow-by-blow accounts are peppered with grit and telling details.

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Thomas Jefferson: Early America

Thomas Jefferson: Early America
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials | pages: 24 | 2008 | ISBN: 0743987470 | PDF | 10,7 mb

Thomas Jefferson was a gifted writer whose words helped form the country. Although at one time he wanted to be a great speaker, he found comfort and ease in writing. Not only was he a great writer, but an architect, inventor, surveyor, scientist, as well as a brilliant politician. He wanted to make life better for all people.

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Arthur Boyd: A Life

Arthur Boyd: A Life By Darleen Bungey
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia 2007 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 1741149207 | PDF | 18 MB

Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself-enigmatic, inarticulate, modest-has remained in the shadows until now. Based on over six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Darleen Bungey sweeps us into the intimate circle of one of Australia's most fascinating families. Arthur Boyd emerges as a passionate, dramatic figure whose self-effacing demeanour cloacked a strong personality that refused to allow his turbulent and sometimes tragic personal life to interfere with his creative genius. From Victoria's bohemian enclaves to the heady swirl of Melbourne and London in the years of artistic and social revolution, to the rural removes of Suffolk and the Shoalhaven, this is a journey into the mind and heart of a complex man whose absolute commitment to his art thrust aside personal adversity in the relentless pursuit of his work. There are art books and there are biographies. Arthur Boyd: A life is rare - a revelation of an artist's life as compelling as the writing about his art.

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Originally a copywriter in Australian, American and UK advertising, Darleen Bungey worked as an associate editor and freelance journalist for a number of prestigious British-based magazines while she raised a family in London. In 1999 she began researching and writing a biography of Arthur Boyd, both for publication and as a doctorate. This is her first book.

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Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

Janis Herbert Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
Chicago Review Press | 1998 | ISBN: 1556522983 | 104 pages | PDF | 10.2 MB

The marriage of art and science is celebrated in this beautifully illustrated full-color biography and activity book of Leonardo da Vinci. Kids will be gin to understand the important discoveries that da Vinci made through inspiring activities, such as determining the launch of a catapult, sketching animals, creating a map, learning to look at a painting, and more.

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The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition

The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press | ISBN: 0253346576 | edition 2005 | PDF | 208 pages | 11,4 mb

The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More’s English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More’s work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that reputation.

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Sophia Raday - Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

Sophia Raday - Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
Publisher: Beacon Press | 2009-05-01 | ISBN: 0807072834 | PDF | 216 pages | 5.60 MB

Go on a date with a soldier turned police officer? Me? And discuss Gandhi’s experiments with truth with a gun-toting Republican?
The last thing Berkeley-dwelling peace activist Sophia Raday expected was to fall in love with a straightlaced Oakland police officer. As someone who had run away from cops dressed in riot gear at protests, Sophia was ambivalent, to say the least, at the prospect of dating Barrett, who was not only a cop but also a West Point graduate, an Airborne Ranger, and a major in the Army Reserve.
During their courtship the two argued about many of the matters that divide the United States, things like drug policy and race relations. Startled by the freedom she found in a relationship of differences, by the challenge of sparring with Barrett, and by his steadfast acceptance of her, Sophia unwittingly fell in love. Then, just when Sophia believed her family was starting a new chapter with the birth of their son, came September 11. Barrett’s belief that he must always stay in Condition Yellow—the terminology coined by his favorite Guns & Ammo writer for a state of alert in which you realize your life is in danger and you may need to shoot someone—was suddenly in the forefront of their lives. Sophia and Barrett began to confront, on a very personal level, their differing viewpoints on polarizing values like fear, duty, family, and patriotism.
When Barrett’s military duties escalated along with the country’s, Sophia found herself in the surprising position of military wife, living on an army base during the 2004 elections, and struggling to find peace with herself and her husband in this new world. It was a struggle that would continue up to the point of Barrett’s deployment to Iraq.
Love in Condition Yellow not only provides a vivid, poignant portrait of this unusual union, but also tells the larger story of how love doesn’t necessarily come from sameness, and peace doesn’t necessarily come from agreement.

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Lucille M. Griswald - Life Lived in Reverse: A Memoir

Lucille M. Griswald - Life Lived in Reverse: A Memoir
Publisher: Hamilton Books | 2009-05-28 | ISBN: 0761844937 | PDF | 92 pages | 5.75 MB

This memoir details Lucille Griswold's Journey to become the woman she is today. The author begins by examining her Itlian American heritage and upbringing in a small town in New Jersey in the 1940s and 1950s. Griswold reflects on her experiences and compares her family and childhood with those of other Italian Americans whose works she has read. She concludes that there is no Italian American (or ethnic) stereotype in society that holds true, since individual upbringing and experiences shape each person's personality and ethnic identity. Griswold relates her experiences in education, explores gender relationships in the workplace, and reveals the challenges, including negotiating family roles and experiencing cultural differences, of being a military wife in the Vietnam era.

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Stephen Ambrose - "Band of Brothers" and Other EBooks

Stephen Ambrose | 4 Ebooks
English | PDF and LIT | 14 MB | various publishers

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Benjamin Franklin: Early America

Benjamin Franklin: Early America
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials | ISBN: 0743987551 | edition 2008 | PDF | 24 pages | 12,8 mb

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents. His mind was constantly working to make things better for the colonists both before and after independence. Franklin was also a great writer, and he contributed to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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Mukhamet Shayakhmetov - The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin

Mukhamet Shayakhmetov- The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
Stacey International Publishers | ISBN: 1905299125 | 2006-01 | PDF | 345 pages | 8.02 Mb

This is a first-hand account of the genocide of the Kazakh nomads in the 1920s and 30s. Nominally Muslim, the Kazakhs and their culture owed as much to shamanism and paganism as they did to Islam. Their ancient traditions and economy depended on the breeding and herding of stock across the vast steppes of central Asia, and their independent, nomadic way of life was anathema to the Soviets.
Seven-year-old Shayakhmetov and his mother and sisters were left to fend for themselves after his father was branded a "kulak" (well-off peasant and thus class enemy), stripped of his possessions, and sent to a prison camp where he died. In the following years the family traveled thousands of miles across Kazakhstan by foot, surviving on the charity of relatives. Told with dignity and detachment, this central Asian Wild Swans awakens the reader to the scale of suffering of millions of Kazakhs, and also astonishes and inspires as a most singular survivor's tale.

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How Fluids Unmix: Discoveries by the School of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes

How Fluids Unmix: Discoveries by the School of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes
Publisher: Edita-the Publishing House of the Royal | ISBN: 9069843579 | edition 2003 | PDF | 319 pages | 15,2 mb

Between 1890 and 1906, pioneering scientists in the Netherlands reached an understanding of phase separation and fluid mixture criticality that was far ahead of its time. This book narrates the story of these profound discoveries, and details the collaboration between two Dutch physicists and Nobel prize winners, Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) at the University of Amsterdam, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) at the University of Leiden.

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T. M. Eddy - Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Discourse

T. M. Eddy - Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Discourse
Publisher: Methodist Book Depository | 2007-02-16 | ISBN: 1406516414 | PDF | 48 pages | 5.16 MB

Discourse concerning the American President Abraham Lincoln by the American clergyman and author.
Delivered at a Union Meeting, held in the Presbyterian Church, Waukegan Illinois, Wednesday, April 19, 1865.
The day upon which the funeral services of the president were conducted in Washington, and observed throughout the loyal states as one of mourning.
It is the day of adversity. A great grief throws its shadow over heart and hearth and home. There is such a sorrow as this land never knew before; agony such as never until now wrung the heart of the nation. In mansion and cottage, alike, do the people bow themselves.

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Tony Blair (Major World Leaders)

Tony Blair (Major World Leaders) By Bonnie Hinman
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications 2002 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0791069397 | PDF | 3 MB

Hinman's earlier Modern World Leaders profile of Blair appeared before two critical developments: the controversy over his case for invading Iraq and the 2005 tube bombings. With appropriate levels of both admiration and spirited analysis, this revised edition brings readers up-to-date. There are disappointingly few photos of Blair's early years and no specific source citations; also, rumors of Blair's resignation will have to wait for the next edition. Still, as the most current of relatively few resources available on Great Britain's prime minister, this volume will be welcomed by student researchers.

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The Life and Times of the Shah

The Life and Times of the Shah
University of California Press | 2009-01-12 | ISBN: 0520253280 | 740 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals--including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition--to depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. It also sheds new light on what now drives political and cultural currents in a country at the heart of today's most perplexing geopolitical dilemmas.

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Walter Paget - Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance

Walter Paget - Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance
Publisher: S Karger Pub | 1984-12 | ISBN: 380553518X | DJVU | 412 pages | 5.15 MB

`... A work in the best tradition of bibliographical research... even the casual reader will be impressed to learn that, four centuries ago, the man who had the courage to burn in public the writings of Avicenna, recognised pulmonary disease in miners as an occupational hazard, cretinism and goitre as endemic in certain areas, and chorea and hysteria as manifestations of disease, not demonic possession.'

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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney

The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney By M Barrier
Publisher: University of California Press 2007 | 411 Pages | ISBN: 0520241177 | PDF | 1 MB

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a creative visionary and a dynamic entrepreneur, roles whose demands he often could not reconcile. In his compelling new biography, noted animation historian Michael Barrier avoids the well-traveled paths of previous biographers, who have tended to portray a blemish-free Disney or to indulge in lurid speculation. Instead, he takes the full measure of the man in his many aspects.A consummate storyteller, Barrier describes how Disney transformed himself from Midwestern farm boy to scrambling young businessman to pioneering artist and, finally, to entrepreneur on a grand scale. Barrier describes in absorbing detail how Disney synchronized sound with animation in Steamboat Willie; created in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sympathetic cartoon characters whose appeal rivaled that of the best live-action performers; grasped television's true potential as an unparalleled promotional device; and - not least - parlayed a backyard railroad into the Disneyland juggernaut.Based on decades of painstaking research in the Disney studio's archives and dozens of public and private archives in the United States and Europe, "The Animated Man" offers freshly documented and illuminating accounts of Disney's childhood and young adulthood in rural Missouri and Kansas City. It sheds new light on such crucial episodes in Disney's life as the devastating 1941 strike at his studio, when his ambitions as artist and entrepreneur first came into serious conflict. Beginning in 1969, two and a half years after Disney's death, Barrier recorded long interviews with more than 150 people who worked alongside Disney, some as early as 1922. Now almost all deceased, only a few were ever interviewed for other books.Barrier juxtaposes Disney's own recollections against the memories of those other players to great effect. What emerges is a portrait of Walt Disney as a flawed but fascinating artist, one whose imaginative leaps allowed him to vault ahead of the competition and produce work that even today commands the attention of audiences worldwide.

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Muller's Lab

Muller's Lab
Publisher:Oxford University Press | Pages:336 | 2007-04-05 | ISBN:019530697X | PDF | 3 MB

Many structures in the human body are named after Johannes Muller, one of the most respected anatomists and physiologists of the 19th century. Muller taught many of the leading scientists of his age, many of whom would go on to make trail-blazing discoveries of their own. Among them were Theodor Schwann, who demonstrated that all animals are made of cells; Hermann Helmholtz, who measured the velocity of nerve impulses; and Rudolf Virchow, who convinced doctors to think of disease at the cellular level. This book tells Muller's story by interweaving it with those of seven of his most famous students.
Muller suffered from depression and insomnia at the same time as he was doing his most important scientific work, and may have committed suicide at age 56. Like Muller, his most prominent students faced personal and social challenges as they practiced cutting-edge science. Virchow was fired for his political activism, Jakob Henle was jailed for membership in a dueling society, and Robert Remak was barred from Prussian universities for refusing to renounce his Orthodox Judaism. By recounting these stories, Muller's Lab explores the ways in which personal life can affect scientists' professional choices, and consequently affect the great discoveries they make.

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Office of the Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences - Biographical Memoirs: V.84 (Biographical Memoirs: A Series)

Office of the Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences - Biographical Memoirs: V.84 (Biographical Memoirs: A Series)
Publisher: National Academies Press | 2004-12-31 | ISBN: 0309089573 | PDF | 426 pages | 11.77 MB

Biographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America--an important part of our nation's contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Gerda Lerner - Living with History / Making Social Change

Gerda Lerner - Living with History / Making Social Change
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2009-03-15 | ISBN: 0807832936 | PDF | 248 pages | 5.77 MB

This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.
Six of the twelve essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. Lerner's reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging lend this book unusual range and depth.
Together, the essays illuminate how thought and action connected in Lerner's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking. Written in lucid, accessible prose, the essays will appeal to the general reader as well as to students at all levels. Living with History / Making Social Change offers rare insight into the life work of one of the leading historians of the United States.

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Eddie Rickenbacker (Famous Flyers)

Eddie Rickenbacker (Famous Flyers) By Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications 2003 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0791072150 | PDF | 3 MB

Famous Flyers highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and the Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the 20th century. Rickenbacker left the automobile racetrack he dominated to serve the United States as a fighter ace in the famous Hat-in-the-Ring squadron of World War I.

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Claire Chennault: Flying Tiger

Claire Chennault: Flying Tiger (Famous Flyers) By Earle Rice
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications 2003 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0791072177 | PDF | 3 MB

Profiles Claire Lee Chennault who, after retiring from the United States Army Air Corps, volunteered as an advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek and led both Chinese and American air troops against Japan during World War II.

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Chuck Yeager (Famous Flyers)

Chuck Yeager (Famous Flyers) By Colleen Madonna Flood Williams
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications 2003 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0791072169 | PDF | 3 MB

Famous Flyers highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and the Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the 20th century. World War II combat pilot Yeager traveled at over 700 mph in 1947 to become the first person to break the sound barrier. Read about this heroic feat, and how he trained astronauts for the U.S. space program.

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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott By Edward Baugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 052155358X | PDF | 1 MB

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and American culture and by his interest in hybrid identities and diaspora. Edward Baugh's Derek Walcott analyses and evaluates Walcott's entire career over the last fifty years. Baugh guides the reader through the continuities and differences of theme and style in Walcott's poems and plays. Walcott is an avowedly Caribbean writer, acutely conscious of his culture and colonial heritage, but he has also made a lasting contribution to the way we read and value the western literary tradition. This comprehensive survey considers each of Walcott's published books, offering the most up-to-date guide available for students, scholars and readers of Walcott. Students of Caribbean and postcolonial studies will find this a perfect introduction to this important writer.

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Truman

Truman By David McCullough
Publisher: Simon&Schuster Audio 2001-05-01 | ISBN: 0743508068 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 161 MB

Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the thirty-third President of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.

From Truman's small-town, turn-of-the-century boyhood and his transforming experience in the face of war in 1918, to his political beginnings in the powerful Pendergast machine and his rapid rise to prominence in the U.S. Senate, McCullough shows a man of uncommon vitality and strength of character. Here too is a telling account of Truman's momentous decision to use the atomic bomb and the weighty responsibilities that he was forced to confront on the dawning of a new age.

Distinguished historian and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author David McCullough tells one of the greatest American stories in this stirring audio adaptation of Truman -- a compelling, classic portrait of a life that shaped history.

This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions.

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Speaking My Mind

Speaking My Mind By Ronald Reagan
Publisher: Simon&Schuster Audio 1999-10-01 | ISBN: 0743500334 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 63 MB

One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagon -- one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world. From his cornerstone 1964 speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater to his moving farewell address in January of 1989, here is President Reagan as we came to know him: the public figure, the political leader, the private man. Included are personal reflections from President Reagan recorded exclusively for this production -- in an audio presentation that captures the voice, the spirit, and the intellect of the greatest communicator America has ever known.

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In A Nutshell: Darwin

In A Nutshell: Darwin By Peter Whitfield
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks 2009-02-03 | ISBN: 9626349441 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 15 files, 112-160 kbps | 38 MB

Naxos AudioBooks launches a new 1 CD introductory series "In a Nutshell" with "Darwin", marking the 200th anniversary of the English naturalist. Peter Whitfield explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance to publish his findings. The "In a Nutshell" series will see a regular release pattern in the coming months on a broad range of subjects covering history, science, religion and philosophy, and offering concise pertinent introductions.

101 _ Charles Darwin, philosopher of man and nature.mp3
102 _ The Beagle, a small ship of 250 tons.mp3
103 _ He also continued to work on other phenomena.mp3
104 _ Over the five years following his return.mp3
105 _ Further support for this view.mp3
106 _ Second, he could not accept that all changes.mp3
107 _ As Darwin drew all these insights.mp3
108 _ We know that he had told his wife Emma.mp3
109 _ It has been argued that Wallace.mp3
110 _ He finds a grandeur in this view.mp3
111 _ If this were true of the scientists.mp3
112 _ Darwin himself of course took little or no part.mp3
113 _ By the 1870s Darwinism.mp3
114 _ These were major advances.mp3
115 _ Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey.mp3

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Thomas Mann - Lübeck als geistige Lebensform

Thomas Mann - Lübeck als geistige Lebensform
Publisher: Vacat Verlag | 2005 | ISBN: 3930752395 | German | MP3 | CBR 128 kbps | 59:57 | booklet scans + pdf | 78 MB

“ Der Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher Christian Brückner liest Thomas Manns Vortrag "Lübeck als geistige Lebensform" 60 Minuten lang, bewußt sich zurückhaltend und dem Text dienend. Man kann Brückner gut zuhören.
Thomas Mann hält Rückschau auf die vergangenen Jahrzehnte seiner Karriere, auf seine Herkunft und seine Prägung ("...Lübeck, Rom und München"). Ein bürgerlicher Schriftsteller ist er, der Thomas Mann (er kann das gar nicht oft genug betonen), natürlich meint er "großbürgerlich", jedesmal wenn er "bürgerlich" schreibt. Wenn man das Werk Thomas Manns einigermaßen gut kennt - das setzt der Text voraus - wird man an Christian Brückners Vortrag seine Freude haben. ”

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“ Thomas Mann wurde 1875 in Lübeck geboren und wohnte seit 1894 in München. 1933 verließ er Deutschland und lebte zuerst in der Schweiz am Zürichsee, dann in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo er 1938 eine Professur an der Universität in Princeton annahm. Später hatte er seinen Wohnsitz in Kalifornien, danach wieder in der Schweiz. Er starb in Zürich am 12. August 1955.
Thomas Mann zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit ihm erreichte der moderne deutsche Roman den Anschluss an die Weltliteratur. Manns umfangreiches und vielschichtiges Werk hat eine weltweit kaum zu übertreffende positive Resonanz gefunden. Für seinen ersten großen Roman Die Buddenbrooks erhielt er 1929 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Christian Brückner (geb. 1943) arbeitet als Schauspieler und Sprecher. Er hat viele herausragende Hörspiele und Lesungen produziert. Als Synchronsprecher leiht er seine Stimme u.a. Robert de Niro. Christian Brückner erhielt 1990 den Adolf-Grimme-Preis ”

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The Google Story

The Google Story By David A. Vise, Mark Malseed
Publisher: Books on Tape - 2005 | ISBN: 1415924945 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 602 MB

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.

The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.

In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.

While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database.

Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL."

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Social phenomena happen, and the historians follow. So it goes with Google, the latest star shooting through the universe of trend-setting businesses. This company has even entered our popular lexicon: as many note, "Google" has moved beyond noun to verb, becoming an action which most tech-savvy citizens at the turn of the twenty-first century recognize and in fact do, on a daily basis. It's this wide societal impact that fascinated authors David Vise and Mark Malseed, who came to the book with well-established reputations in investigative reporting. Vise authored the bestselling The Bureau and the Mole, and Malseed contributed significantly to two Bob Woodward books, Bush at War and Plan of Attack. The kind of voluminous research and behind-the-scenes insight in which both writers specialize, and on which their earlier books rested, comes through in The Google Story.

The strength of the book comes from its command of many small details, and its focus on the human side of the Google story, as opposed to the merely academic one. Some may prefer a dryer, more analytic approach to Google's impact on the Internet, like The Search or books that tilt more heavily towards bits and bytes on the spectrum between technology and business, like The Singularity is Near. Those wanting to understand the motivations and personal growth of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt, however, will enjoy this book. Vise and Malseed interviewed over 150 people, including numerous Google employees, Wall Street analysts, Stanford professors, venture capitalists, even Larry Page's Cub Scout leader, and their comprehensiveness shows.

As the narrative unfolds, readers learn how Google grew out of the intellectually fertile and not particularly directed friendship between Page and Brin; how the founders attempted to peddle early versions of their search technology to different Silicon Valley firms for $1 million; how Larry and Sergey celebrated their first investor's check with breakfast at Burger King; how the pair initially housed their company in a Palo Alto office, then eventually moved to a futuristic campus dubbed the "Googleplex"; how the company found its financial footing through keyword-targeted Web ads; how various products like Google News, Froogle, and others were cooked up by an inventive staff; how Brin and Page proved their mettle as tough businessmen through negotiations with AOL Europe and their controversial IPO process, among other instances; and how the company's vision for itself continues to grow, such as geographic expansion to China and cooperation with Craig Venter on the Human Genome Project.

Like the company it profiles, The Google Story is a bit of a wild ride, and fun, too. Its first appendix lists 23 "tips" which readers can use to get more utility out of Google. The second contains the intelligence test which Google Research offers to prospective job applicants, and shows the sometimes zany methods of this most unusual business. Through it all, Vise and Malseed synthesize a variety of fascinating anecdotes and speculation about Google, and readers seeking a first draft of the history of the company will enjoy an easy read. --Peter Han

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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar By Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) 2006 | ISBN: 0752866028 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 151 MB

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not oinly ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge

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Authors in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories, and More

Sharron L. McElmeel, Deborah L. McElmeel, "Authors in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories, and More"
Libraries Unlimited | 2005 | ISBN: 1591582385, 1417697628 | 228 pages | PDF | 16,7 MB

Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with 50 literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others. Whip up a heavenly coconut cream cake enjoyed in Jacqueline Briggs Martin's recent story, On Sand Island; savor the spicy pumpkin pie inspired by Toni Buzzeo's Sea Chest. You'll also learn some fascinating facts about each author and read anecdotes and stories connected with the recipes. Biographical details, author photographs, book lists, and reading connections make this a perfect resource for library, classroom, and home. A great gift for booklovers. What a delicious way to learn about authors and their books!

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Tom Calarco - People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary

Tom Calarco - People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary
Publisher: Greenwood | 2008-09-30 | ISBN: 0313339244 | PDF | 408 pages | 5.82 MB

The Underground Railroad was perhaps the best example in U.S. history of blacks and whites working together for the common good. People of the Underground Railroad is the largest in-depth collection of profiles of those individuals involved in the spiriting of black slaves to freedom in the northern states and Canada beginning around 1800 and lasting to the early Civil War years. One hundred entries introduce people who had a significant role in the rescuing, harboring, or conducting of the fugitives—from abolitionists, evangelical ministers, Quakers, philanthropists, lawyers, judges, physicians, journalists, educators, to novelists, feminists, and barbers—as well as notable runaways. The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.
There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry. People of the Underground Railroad presents authoritative information gathered from the latest research and established sources, many of them from period publications. Designed for student research and general browsing, in-depth essay entries include further reading. Numerous sidebars complement the entries. A timeline, illustrations, and map help put the profiles into context.

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Leann Rimes, Darrell Brown - What I Cannot Change

Leann Rimes, Darrell Brown - What I Cannot Change
Publisher: HarperStudio | 2009-05-01 | ISBN: 0061804266 | PDF | 128 pages | 5.83 MB

LeAnn Rimes first made waves when she was just 13 years-old with her debut single, "Blue". The youngest musician to win a Grammy and the first country artist to win the Grammy for Best New Artist, she's also won an American Music Award, three Academy of Country Music Awards, and 12 Billboard Music Awards. She's scored numerous hit singles, among them "One Way Ticket," "I Need You," "Nothin", "Bout Love Makes Sense," "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way," "Can't Fight The Moonlight" which was a number one song in 11 countries, and "How Do I Live," reached number seven and spent thirty-four weeks in the UK chart. The song's simple message of peace and acceptance speaks to people from all walks of life: I will learn to let go what I cannot change. I will learn to forgive what I cannot change. I will learn to love what I cannot change. But I will change, I will change Whatever I, whenever I can.

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What Would Google Do?

What Would Google Do? CD By Jeff Jarvis
Publisher: HarperAudio 2009-02-01 | ISBN: 0061726338 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 196 MB

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do?

In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything—from corporations to governments, nations to individuals—must evolve in the Google era.

Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book's central question.

The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It's about you.

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David Johnson - John Ringo, King Of The Cowboys: His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone

David Johnson - John Ringo, King Of The Cowboys: His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone
Publisher: University of North Texas Press | 2008-06 | ISBN: 1574412434 | PDF | 366 pages | 5.14 MB

Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas.
The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War in Texas began as a war over range rights, but it swiftly deteriorated into blood vengeance and spiraled out of control as the body count rose. In this charnel house Ringo gained a reputation as a dangerous gunfighter and man killer. He was proclaimed throughout the state as a daring leader, a desperate man, and a champion of the feud. Following incarceration for his role in the feud, Ringo was elected as a lawman in Mason County, the epicenter of the feud's origin.
The reputation he earned in Texas, further inflated by his willingness to shoot it out with Victorio's raiders during a deadly confrontation in New Mexico, preceded him to Tombstone in territorial Arizona. Ringo became immersed in the area's partisan politics and factionalized violence. A champion of the largely Democratic ranchers, Ringo would become known as a leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys. He ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, finally being part of the posse that hounded these fugitives from Arizona. In the end, Ringo died mysteriously in the Arizona desert, his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, wrongly claimed by a few.
Initially published in 1996, John Ringo has been updated to a second edition with much new information researched and uncovered by David Johnson and other Ringo researchers.

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Robert Earl Hardy - A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

Robert Earl Hardy - A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press | 2008-04 | ISBN: 1574412477 | PDF | 300 pages | 5.20 MB

This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas'‑and America's‑greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt's background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre‑law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs,which are explored in depth. The author draws on eight years' extensive research and interviews with Townes' family and closest friends and colleagues. He looks beyond the legend and paints a colorful portrait of a complex man who embraced the darkness of demons and myth as well as the light of deep compassion and humanity, all "for the sake of the song."

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Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind

Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind By Binnie Klein
Publisher: State Univ of New York 2010 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1438430019 | PDF | 3 MB

"`Why am I fascinated by boxing?' asks Binnie Klein. And like a savvy fighter, she approaches her question from a variety of angles: Is it to do with being Jewish? Being a woman? Approaching middle age? Is it about family history? Klein tackles these questions with a deft and admirably light touch. The result is the warmest, funniest, and most tough-minded boxing book I've ever read." -- -- Kasia Boddy, author of Boxing: A Cultural History

"...[a] delighted tone permeates Binnie Klein's memoir of her boxing obsession ... [the] passages are lean and strong, and convey the allure of pushing a body and mind past their usual limits ... [Klein] doesn't hold back from considerable self-reflection, but it never seems self-indulgent, only pensive." -- ForeWord Reviews

"A graceful, deft celebration of body and soul. Brava to Binnie Klein for tapping her strength--physical, emotional, and spiritual--and for telling a knockout of a personal story." ---- Janet Carlson, author of Quick, Before the Music Stops: How Ballroom Dancing Saved My Life.

A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.

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The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller

Frederick Mosteller, "The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller"
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 0387779558 | 344 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB

From his unique perspective, renowned statistician and educator Frederick Mosteller describes many of the projects and events in his long career. From humble beginnings in western Pennsylvania to becoming the founding chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Statistics and beyond, he inspired many statisticians, scientists, and students with his unabashed pragmatism, creative thinking, and zest for both learning and teaching. This candid account offers fresh insights into the qualities that made Mosteller a superb teacher, a prolific scholar, a respected leader, and a valued advisor.

A special feature of the book is its chapter-length insider accounts of work on the pre-election polls of 1948, statistical aspects of the Kinsey report on sexual behavior in the human male, mathematical learning theory, authorship of the disputed Federalist papers, safety of anesthetics, and a wide-ranging examination of the Coleman report on equality of educational opportunity.

This volume is a companion to Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller (Springer, 2006) and A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (Springer-Verlag, 1990).

Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was Roger I. Lee Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Harvard University. His manuscript was unfinished at his death and has been updated.

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Helen McGavran Corneli - Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom

Helen McGavran Corneli - Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press | 2006-11-15 | ISBN: 0299180948 | PDF | 368 pages | 5.65 MB

Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch is in many ways a love story—about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for hunting, for wild lands, and for the grouse and raptor species that they were instrumental in saving from destruction.
From the papers and letters of Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom, the reminiscences of contemporaries, and her own long friendship with this extraordinary couple who were her neighbors, Helen Corneli draws an intimate picture of Fran and "Hammy" from childhood through the genesis and maturation of a romantic, creative, and scientific relationship. Following the Hamerstroms as they give up a life of sophisticated convention and comfort for the more "civilized" (as Aldo Leopold would have it) pleasures of living and conducting on-the-spot research into diminishing species, Corneli captures the spirit of the Hamerstroms, their profession, and the natural and human environments in which they worked. A nuanced account of the labors, adventures, and achievements that distinguished the Hamerstroms over the years—and that inspired a generation of naturalists—this book also provides a dramatic account of conservation history over the course of the twentieth century, particularly in Wisconsin during the eventful years from the 1920s through the 1970s.

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Cleopatra: A Biography

Duane W. Roller, "Cleopatra: A Biography"
Oxford University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0195365534 | 256 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed in the arts and popular culture, from Shakespearean tragedy to paintings, opera, and movies. Despite the queen's enduring celebrity, however, many have dismissed her as a mere seductress. In this major new biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom.
Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius--the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom--were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities.
This definitive portrait restores the Egyptian queen to her rightful historical status as a potent force in the ancient world--one whose policies and influence long survived her and played a determining role in the future course of the Roman empire.

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Diogenes Laertios - Ünlü Filozofların Yaşamları ve Öğretileri

James R. Voelkel - Johannes Kepler Yeni gökbilim

Oğuz Gökmen - Diplomasi Savaşta ve Barışta Diplomasi

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Mihail Sebastian - Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years

Mihail Sebastian - Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee | 2000-08-25 | ISBN: 1566633265 | PDF | 669 pages | 50.64 MB

The remarkable and many-sided diary of the fascist years in Romania by a young novelist, playwright, journalist, and poet--a Jew who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. This extraordinary personal diary...deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership. --Philip Roth. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Unforgettable...compelling....Mihail Sebastian is an unparalleled diarist...a profoundly intelligent literary voice in the midst of political disempowerment, corruption and carnage. --Alice Kaplan, New York Times Book Review. Translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an Introduction and Notes by Radu Ioanid.

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Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man

Tim M. Berra, "Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man"
The Johns Hopkins University | 2008 | ISBN: 0801891043 | 144 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin's birth (February 12, 1809), this thoroughly illustrated, yet concise biography reveals the great scientist as husband, father, and friend.

Tim M. Berra, whose "Darwin: The Man" lectures are in high demand worldwide, tells the fascinating story of the person and the idea that changed everything. Berra discusses Darwin's revolutionary scientific work, its impact on modern-day biological science, and the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on Western thought. But Berra digs deeper to reveal Darwin the man by combining anecdotes with carefully selected illustrations and photographs.

This small gem of a book includes 20 color plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations, along with an annotated list of Darwin's publications and a chronology of his life.

Summary: A perfect introduction to Darwin, the man
Rating: 5

It's just a cliché, but sometimes very good things (besides jewelry) really do come in small packages. Another aphorism claims it is harder and more rewarding to write compactly than voluminously, and Prof. Berra has proved the point elegantly with this gem of an introduction to Charles Darwin's life and work. Spanning only 114 pages from Introduction through Index, and generously illustrated to boot, the book gave me a pleasant imion of being just right for acquiring an initial understanding of the legendary naturalist's character, the power of his ideas, and the tenor of his times.

Though mainly a descriptive biography, Berra's narrative also contains insightful explanations of Darwin's thought processes in discovering the historical fact of biological evolution and its integral mechanism of chance variation mediated by natural selection. Included are such key details as Darwin's own capsule definition of evolution (descent with modification), and his pioneering use of a "tree of life" diagram, the sole illustration in "On the Origin of Species." Darwin's rare missteps, such as his mistaken suspicion that acquired characteristics could be inherited, are neither ignored nor glossed over.

Darwin's sudden realization in 1858 that he had a serious intellectual competitor, Alfred Russel Wallace, caused him great mental and physical distress. But it also had the beneficial effect of goading him into "Origin" within a year. What might have become a bitter rivalry was peacefully handled by simultaneous presentations of the theory as a co-discovery. Berra includes an 1860 quotation from Wallace showing his remarkably unselfish admiration for the depth and quality of Darwin's work.

The author is careful to set things straight regarding Darwin's often-misunderstood religious views, including the apparently fictional deathbed conversion. Although his chief objective was simply to study and understand natural history, Darwin inadvertantly found himself in the position of having made the most important discovery since Biblical times bearing on the question of divine versus natural origins for living things. As a young man he had begun training for the ministry, so he fully appreciated the religious sensibilities of most people, including his beloved wife Emma. He was a keen observer and interpreter of all kinds of evidence, such as the many apparent cruelties built into nature and the seemingly senseless deaths of two of his own children. Perhaps the essence of Darwin's final attitude toward faith-based claims anticipated the conclusion voiced in 1959 by physicist Richard Feynman: "The religious theory of the world...doesn't fit with what you see."

Summary: Charles Darwin
Rating: 5

I just recently finished reading a great novel created by the author, Tim M. Berra. Before I read this book, I knew nothing of the great scientist and discoverer, Charles Darwin. This book had many great and specific facts, and taught me almost everything of Charles Darwin and his famous work. The first part of the book taught me of his family's past. For example, one of his family members that I can recall is his grandfather. His name was Erasmus Darwin and he was a poet, a physician, and was fascinated with natural philosophy. Towards the middle of this educational and interesting book, it taught me mostly of Charles Darwin's life that had generalized summaries, but also had specific details, such as how Charles Darwin enjoyed going for a walk everyday with his dog Polly, rain or shine. It also discussed with the reader his important work, and his discovery of evolution, how he collected samples and how he figured out and realized his discovery. Finally, towards the end of the book, it was mostly about his and his discoveries being released into the world. It also talked about Charles Darwin's last days. I throughly enjoyed this biography of Charles Darwin's discoveries, and various relationships in his life.

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Geoff Rayner-Canham - Chemsitry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949

Geoff Rayner-Canham - Chemsitry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949
Publisher: Imperial College Press | 2009-01-10 | ISBN: 186094986X | PDF | 542 pages | 5.67 MB

British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavor. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records.Comprising a unique set of biographies of 100 of the 900 known women chemists from 1880 to 1949, this work attempts to address the imbalance by showcasing the determination of these women to survive and flourish in an environment dominated by men. Individual biographical accounts interspersed with contemporary quotes describe how women overcame the barriers of secondary and tertiary education, and of admission to professional societies. Although these women are lost to historical records, they are brought together here for the first time to show that a vibrant culture of female chemists did indeed exist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Remembering Sir J C Bose

D. P. Gupta, M. H. Engineer, "Remembering Sir J C Bose"
World Scientific Publishing Company | 2009 | ISBN: 9814271616 | 180 pages | PDF | 5,6 MB

The year 2008 marks the centennial birth anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose who, at a relatively young age, established himself among the ranks of European scientists during the heyday of colonial rule in India. He was one of those great Indian scientists who helped to introduce western science into India. A physicist, a plant electrophysiologist and one of the first few biophysicists in the world, Sir J C Bose was easily 60 years ahead of his time and much of his research that was ignored during his lifetime is now entering the mainstream. As the inventor of millimeter waves and their generation, transmission and reception, and the first to make a solid state diode, he was the first scientist who convincingly demonstrated that plants possess a nervous system of their own and feel pain. J C Bose later spent his life's savings to set up the Institute which carries his name in Calcutta and Darjeeling. This book covers Bose's life in colonial India, including the general patriotic environment that pervaded at the time and how he became one of the flag bearers of the Bengal Renaissance. It also examines the scientific achievements of this polymath and his contributions to physics and plant electrophysiology, while highlighting his philosophy of life.

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Science-Fiction - The Gernsback Years by Everett F Bleiler

Science-Fiction - The Gernsback Years by Everett F Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press | Date: August 1998 | ISBN: 0873386043 | Pages: 730 | siPDF in RAR | 221 mb

Complementing "Science-Fiction: The Early Years", which surveys Science Fiction books from its beginnings through to 1930, this volume covers all science-fiction printed in the genre magazines - "Amazing", "Astounding" and "Wonder", along with offshoots and minor magazines - from 1926 through 1936.

Product Details
• Hardcover: 730 pages
• Publisher: Kent State University Press (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873386043
• ISBN-13: 978-0873386043
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 2 inches
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Simply put: an essential survey/guide to the 1926-1936 era of (mainly) American sf. Bleiler has read _everything_ published in the magazines during this time period, gives a synopsis of the story, offers historical notes, and quite often comments on the importance (or lack thereof) of the story. David H. Keller comes in for some deadly bone-crushing comments. Bleiler has also tracked down biographical information, going so far as to search Social Security death records. And there's much more, far too much to list here.
Having read a fair number of these stories, his comments are quite accurate (most of what was published by Gernsback is awful dreck, but there were a few important stories published too).
If you have any interest in the this early era of SF this is an essential book for the shelf. And it's fun to read the plot summaries of some absolutely dreadful stories!
Nonminated for the 1999 Hugo for Best Related Book (previously the Non-Fiction category).

Here is a HUGE book covering the Magazines that Hugo Gernsback was associated with...

The original PDF from FR was over 900 MB, but I managed to get it down to 220 MB with still good quality...it is, of course, fully searchable and bookmarked.

A must for the collector/fan !

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Brian Harrigan - Rush

Brian Harrigan - Rush
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music | 1984-03 | ISBN: 0860019349 | PDF | 80 pages | 16.71 MB

the number one hard rock band on earth. Brian Harrigan writes for Melody Maker and was previously press officer for Rush in the UK."
Describes the struggles of Rush to achieve success as a rock band and discusses the group's recordings and concert tours.

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Jennifer Scanlon - Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

Jennifer Scanlon - Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-04-10 | ISBN: 0195342054 | PDF | 288 pages | 5.45 MB

When reviewing the great figures of feminism, few would call to mind the creator of the Cosmo Girl, but as Jennifer Scanlon argues in her fascinating biography Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan and diva of the New York magazine world powerfully changed the way modern culture views the single woman.
From Brown's first book, Sex and the Single Girl, a bold precursor to today's unapologetic Sex in the City, to her editing of the most widely read women's magazine in the world, Brown defied traditional mores to proclaim the unmarried woman's right to happiness. The first woman to publicly say there was another role available in the conservative context of the 1960s, Brown offered American women a revelation that resulted in a revolution. Scanlon tracks the trajectory of Brown's career as a frank, fearless champion for women, from her support for abortion rights to her demands that freedom of choice for women include everything from fashion to politics, showing how Brown has advocated for women while achieving great commercial success.
The first to focus on Helen Gurley Brown, Scanlon's intriguing biography accords Brown a place among the early leaders of the second wave of the feminist movement. In Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Scanlon's impressively researched portrait shows us that Helen Gurley Brown is a woman of fascinating contradictions, carving out her own unique philosophy of pragmatic feminism, a philosophy that defines the lives of millions of women today. Scanlon's perceptive account of this shrewd public figure tracks the collision between sexual politics and commerce, providing new insight into the social forces that shape modern life. To read it is to better understand how feminism operates in our day-to-day lives.

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Never Give Up on Your Dream: My Journey

Warren Moon, "Never Give Up on Your Dream: My Journey"
Publisher: Da Capo Press | 2009-07-13 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0306818248 | PDF | 1.4 MB

Inducted in 2006, Warren Moon is the only African-American quarterback in the NFL Hall of Fame. His path to success was neither easy nor assured. As a seven-year-old growing up in Los Angeles, he lost his father to alcoholism and helped his single mom raise six sisters. Playing football as a kid, coaches questioned whether, because he was black, he had the smarts to play quarterback. Repeatedly asked to switch to another position, Moon refused, knowing that he had both the ability and the intelligence.
In college, he played at the University of Washington, beating the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl. Undrafted by the NFL, he went to Canada and played for the Edmonton Eskimos, leading his team to five consecutive championships. In 1984, he signed with the Houston Oilers and played for the Oilers, Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, and Kansas City Chiefs over his 17-year career.
This is the triumphant story of how Warren Moon overcame all obstacles to become one of the Top 5 quarterbacks of all time.

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Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time

Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time (Forgotten Books) By Lee McCann
Publisher: Forgotten Books 2008-01-09 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 1605065080 | PDF | 12 MB

"Interest in Nostradamus goes through cycles, usually coinciding with periods of uncertainty and conflict. At the beginning of World War II people turned to Nostradamus for clues as to how and when that conflict would be resolved, and to look for indications that somehow he had prophesized it. Some used Nostradamus for propaganda, or profit, or publicity. Of course, this was also the case after the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

This book, published in the early days of World War II, is partially a biography of Nostradamus, partially a historical novelization of incidents in his life, and an attempt to associate his predictions with historical and future events. McCann is at his best in the former parts of the book. He immerses us in the life and times of Nostradamus. Although many of the episodes are fictionalized, they make pleasant reading and appear to be historically accurate. The attempts to match Notradamus' predictions with historical events of the rennaissance are for the most part very well reasoned, and range from plausible to 'hmmm...'.

The book concludes with a rather long section bearing on events of the twentieth century. This part feels tacked on, as if the publisher was eager to get a 'tie in' to current events. McCann hypothesized that the war would continue until late in the forties, and would end because of the restoration of the French monarchy, specifically that a pretender to the throne would be crowned as Henry the Fifth. Naturally, this falls far short of the mark, but it creates perspective for current and future attempts to make specific predictions based on the cryptic quatrains." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; Foreword; Part One; A Prophet Is Born; The Education Of A Genius; Personages And Politics; Garlands Of Fame; The Plague Returns; A Prophet's Eyry; Purpose; On To Paris; The Court Of The Valois; Towards Familiar Country; Part Two; The Cycle Of Valois-navarre; Claude De Savoie; In The Twentieth Century

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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org

Forgotten Books is about sharing information, not about making money. All books are priced at wholesale prices. We are also the only publisher we know of to print in large sans-serif font, which is proven to make the text easier to read and put less strain on your eyes.

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Jackie Robinson (On My Own Biography)

Sally M. Walker, "Jackie Robinson (On My Own Biography)"
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group | 2002 | 49 Pages | ISBN: 0876149042 | PDF | 2,6 MB

Introducing new readers to some of history's most interesting and important people, these biographies focus on the pivotal episodes that show what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous. Although written in a story format, these books are not fictionalized accounts. A chronology of major events follows the story, along with a brief summary of the subject's life. The first African American to break the color barrier in modern major league baseball, Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest players of all time. Forced to put up with angry, hateful fans and players when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson's strength of character and perseverance allowed him to set the standard for all future players.

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Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman

Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman By Anton Chaitkin
Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review 1998 | 331 Pages | ISBN: 0943235006 , 0933488327 | PDF | 27 MB

"For us Europeans, the living Mr. LaRouche is as decisively important as for the freedom of all Americans. -- Brig. Gen. Ret. Friedrich Wilhelm Grunewald, Federal Republic of Germany

"It's LaRouche's people. He's persecuting me." -- Henry A. Kissinger, responding to a demonstration in April 1983

"Lyndon LaRouche can fight to keep American strong, at the same time he fights for the dignity of man everywhere." -- Hulan E. Jack, former Manhattan Borough President

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From the Back Court to the Front Office: The Isiah Thomas Story

Paul Challen, "From the Back Court to the Front Office: The Isiah Thomas Story"
Publisher: Ecw Press | 2004-09-01 | 329 Pages | ISBN: 1550226622 | PDF | 13 MB

This revised edition of a landmark biography follows the life of basketball star Isiah Thomas from his childhood on Chicago's South Side to his current position as president of the New York Knicks. His entire professional and athletic career is covered, including his successful collegiate career with Indiana University and his role in turning the Detroit Pistons' squad from one of the league's laughingstocks to an NBA powerhouse. All aspects of Thomas's contributions are examined to reveal how he revolutionized the game with his energy and skill, introduced professional basketball to Canada, and transitioned to his controversial roles off the court as coach and executive.

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Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry

Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII By Thomas Mayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0521521289 | PDF | 8 MB

Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. Beginning with his native Cheshire, it traces his career through Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal. Most of Starkey's career revolved around his patron Reginald Pole, scion of the highest nobility, but Starkey (and many other Englishmen) managed to balance loyalty to Pole with allegiance to Henry VIII. Out of favour with the king's secretary after the middle of 1536, Starkey turned increasingly to religion, continuing to cling to his conciliarist and Italian Evangelical opinions until his death.

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A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia

A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia
Publisher: Greenwood | ISBN: 031330159X | edition 2003 | PDF | 562 pages | 16,2 mb

Mary Shelley is famous as, first, the author of Frankenstein and, second, as the wife of a famous poet and daughter of a famous novelist and philosopher. Due in no small part to Frankenstein's place on high-school and college reading lists, her other works have been reprinted in recent years. This has resulted in a reassessment and an emergence of Shelley from the shadows of her great work and her family. Exploring these other works leaves one with a sense of an incredible life story and intellect that Frankenstein barely revealed.
This encyclopedia provides readers of Shelley's works with a context--it offers information on her family, friends, residences, and more, as well as entries on her works, characters, influences, and themes. It boasts in the introduction of containing "textual footnotes to nearly all aspects of Shelley and her works." For example, the entry Prometheus mentions the Greek mythological figure but also the uses the myth was put to by Percy Bysshe Shelley (in, for example, Prometheus Unbound, 1820) and the reinvention of the myth by Mary in her most famous novel

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Marie Curie: A Biography

Marie Curie: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Marilyn Ogilvie, "Marie Curie: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)"
Greenwood (September 30, 2004) | English | 0313325294 | 184 pages | PDF | 1.46 MB

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was one of the most important woman scientists in history, and she was one of the most influential scientists - man or woman - of the 20th century. Curie postulated that radiation was an atomic property, a discovery that has led to significant scientific developments since. She was also the first person to use the term radioactivity. Her perseverance led to the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. This combination of creativity and perseverance netted her two Nobel Prizes, one in physics and the second in chemistry. This book, however, looks at more than her scientific achievements. While Curie is often portrayed as a stern, one-dimensional woman so totally committed to her science that she was incapable of complex emotions, the truth is that the opposite is the case.
Marie Curie: A Biography covers her entire lifetime, beginning with her early life and education in a Poland under the oppressive rule of the czar of Russia. The book discusses all aspects - both personal and scientific - of her fascinating life:
· Her education at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned the equivalent of two master's degrees - one in physics and a second in mathematics
· Her marriage to Pierre Curie, with whom she collaborated on much of her scientific work
· The personal scandal that surrounded Marie in the aftermath of Pierre's tragic death
· The Nobel Prize awards, and the detractors who believed that her work was actually performed by her husband
· Curie's work in establishing mobile X-ray units during World War I, and the establishment of radium institutes to study radiation
Running throughout there is the much of the book is the tension between radium as a positive discovery and, on the other hand, the health risks that working with it presents. The book includes a timeline of important events in Curie's life and a bibliography of important primary and secondary sources.

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Paul Rorem - Hugh of Saint Victor (Great Medieval Thinkers)

Paul Rorem - Hugh of Saint Victor (Great Medieval Thinkers)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-04-08 | ISBN: 0195384369 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.11 MB

Born in Saxony in 1096, Hugh became an Augustinian monk and in 1115 moved to the monastery of Saint Victor, Paris, where he spent the remainder of his life, eventually becoming the head of the school there. His writings cover the whole range of arts and sacred science taught in his day. Paul Rorem offers a basic introduction to Hugh's theology, through a comprehensive survey of his works. He argues that Hugh is best understood as a teacher of theology, and that his numerous and varied writings are best appreciated as a comprehensive pedagogical program of theological education and spiritual formation. Drawing his evidence not only from Hugh's own descriptions of his work but from the earliest manuscript traditions of his writings, Rorem organizes and presents his corpus within a tri-part framework. Upon a foundation of training in the liberal arts and history, a structure of doctrine is built up, which is finally adorned with moral formation. Within this scheme of organization, Rorem treats each of Hugh's major works (and many minor ones) in its appropriate place, orienting the reader briefly yet accurately to its contents, as well as its location in Hugh's overarching program of theological pedagogy.

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Highest Duty CD: My Search for What Really Matters (Audiobook)

Highest Duty CD: My Search for What Really Matters (Audiobook) By Chesley B. Sullenberger, Michael Mcconnohie
Publisher: HarperAudio 2009 | 8 hours and 47 mins | ISBN: 0061953253 | MP3 | 171 MB

On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in aviation history when Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the surface of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. To Sullenberger, a calm, steady pilot with forty years of flying experience who is also a safety consulting expert, the landing was not a miracle but rather the result of years of practice and training-wisdom he gained in the cockpit of U.S. Air Force jets and in his Texas boyhood.
Born to a World War II veteran and dentist father and an elementary school teacher mother, Sully fell in love with planes early. He learned to fly as an eager 16-year-old from a crop duster, an older neighbor in north Texas, who took off and landed his fragile plane on the grass field behind his house. While Sully′s father encouraged his interest in flying, he also imparted stern advice he′d learned from his Navy service during World War II: a commander is responsible for everyone in his care-and those words have shaped Sully′s life and work and continue to guide him today.
HIGHEST DUTY reveals the important lessons Sully learned through childhood, in his military service, and in his work as a commercial airline pilot. At heart, it is a story of hope and preparedness-that life′s challenges can be met if we′re ready for them-reminding us that, even in these days filled with war, tragedy, and economic uncertainty, there are values still worth fighting for.
A few weeks after the crash, Sully discovered that he′d lost a library book about professional ethics, Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability, in the downed plane′s cargo hold. When he called the library to notify them, they waived the usual fees. Mayor Michael Bloomberg replaced the book when he gave Sully the Key to the City in a New York ceremony.

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Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid

John Rosengren, "Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid"
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc | 2008-04-01 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 1402209568 | PDF | 1.9 MB

This was the year that the national pastime underwent an extreme makeover.
In 1973, baseball was in crisis. The first strike in pro sports had soured fans, American League attendance had fallen, and America's team-the Yankees-had lost more games and money than ever. Yet that season, five of the game's greatest figures rescued the national pastime.
Hank Aaron riveted the nation with his pursuit of Babe Ruth's landmark home run record in the face of racist threats. George Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees at a bargain basement price and began buying back their faded glory. The American League broke ranks with the National League and introduced the designated hitter, extending the careers of aging stars such as Orlando Cepeda. An elderly and ailing Willie Mays-the icon of an earlier generation-nearly helped the Mets pull off a miracle with the final hit of his career. Reggie Jackson, the MVP of a tense World Series, became the prototype of the modern superstar.
The season itself provided plenty of drama served up by a colorful cast of characters. The Mets, managed by Yogi Berra, performed another near miracle, rising from last place in the National League East to win the division and take the A's to seven games in the World Series. Pete Rose edged Willie Stargell as the National League's MVP in a controversial vote. Hank Aaron chased Babe Ruth's landmark 714 record in the face of racial threats. Reggie Jackson, the World Series MVP, solidified his reputation as Mr. October. Willie Mays, arguably the best player of the '50s and '60s, hit the final home run of his career and retired, no longer able to keep pace with the younger players of the next generation. Future Hall of Famers Dave Winfield and George Brett played in their first major league games; Luis Aparicio and Mays played in their last.
That one memorable summer changed baseball forever.

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Hume: Political Essays

Hume: Political Essays By David Hume, Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1994 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0521466393 | PDF | 6 MB

"This is a new and welcome edition to the Cambridge Texts in the HIistory of Political Thought series....Haakonssen's introduction is clear and informative."

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Peter Nelson - A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home

Peter Nelson - A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books | 2009-05-11 | ISBN: 0465003176 | PDF | 304 pages | 1.07 MB

The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below—better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
In A More Unbending Battle, journalist and author Pete Nelson chronicles the little-known story of the 369th Infantry Regiment—the first African-American regiment mustered to fight in WWI. Recruited from all walks of Harlem life, the regiment had to fight alongside the French because America’s segregation policy prohibited them from fighting with white U.S. soldiers.
Despite extraordinary odds and racism, the 369th became one of the most successful—and infamous—regiments of the war. The Harlem Hellfighters, as their enemies named them, spent longer than any other American unit in combat, were the first Allied unit to reach the Rhine, and showed extraordinary valor on the battlefield, with many soldiers winning the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. Replete with vivid accounts of battlefield heroics, A More Unbending Battle is the thrilling story of the dauntless Harlem Hellfighters.

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The Wicked Game: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and the Story of Modern Golf

Howard Sounes, "The Wicked Game:Arnold Palmer,Jack Nicklaus,Tiger Woods and the Story of Modern Golf"
Publisher: William Morrow | 2004-06-01 | 359 Pages | ISBN: 0060513861 | PDF | 2 MB

Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.

When we think about golf -- as it is played at its highest level -- we think of three names: Tiger Woods, the most famous sports figure in the world today, Arnold Palmer, the father of modern golf, and Jack Nicklaus, the game's greatest champion. In this penetrating, forty-year history of men's professional golf, acclaimed author Howard Sounes tells the story of the modern game through the lives of its greatest icons. With unprecedented access to players and their closest associates, Sounes reveals the personal lives, rivalries, wealth, and business dealings of these remarkable men, as well as the murky history of a game that has been marred by racism and sex discrimination. Among the many revelations, the complete and true story of Tiger Woods and his family background is untangled, uncovering surprising new details that inspire the golfer's father to exclaim, "Hell, you taught me some things about my life I never knew about!" Earl Woods and other members of Tiger Woods's family, his friends, girlfriends, caddies, coaches, and business associates were among the 150 people interviewed over two years of research. Others included Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, fellow champions such as Ernie Els, Gary Player, Tony Jacklin, and Tom Watson, and golf moguls such as Mark H. McCormack, billionaire founder of the sports agency IMG.

The Wicked Game is a compelling story of talent, fame, wealth, and power. Entertaining for dedicated golfers, and accessible to those who only follow the game on television, this may be the most original and exciting sports book of the year.

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Akbar (Makers of the Muslim World)

Akbar (Makers of the Muslim World) By Andre Wink
Publisher: Oneworld Publications 2008 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1851686053 | PDF | 1 MB

Widely regarded as the greatest of the Mughal emperors, Jalal ad-Din Akbar (1542-1603) was a formidable military tactician and popular demagogue. Ascending to the throne at the age of thirteen, he ruled for half a century, expanded the Mughal empire, and left behind a legacy to rival his infamous ancestor Chinggis Khan. This lucid biography provides glimpses into Akbar's daily life and highlights his contribution to new methods of imperial control.

About the Author
Andre Wink is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend

Ray Robinson, "Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1999-09-23 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0195105494 | PDF | 14 MB

To say that Knute Rockne was the best coach who ever lived is to understate his importance to football. True, in a mere twelve years, his "Fighting Irish" won 105 games, including five astonishing undefeated seasons. But Rockne was more than the sum of his victories--he was an icon, a legend on a par with Babe Ruth, a sports giant who, more than anyone, made football an American obsession.

In Rockne of Notre Dame, Ray Robinson delivers a memorable portrait of one of the great American sports figures. The book gives us colorful descriptions of such Rockne teams as the undefeated 1924 eleven led by the illustrious Four Horsemen, and the 1930 squad, Rockne's last and greatest. Here too are vivid accounts of some of the great games in Notre Dame history, including epic battles with arch rivals Army, Nebraska, Carnegie Tech, and USC. But the heart of the book is Rockne himself. A renowned motivator whose "Win one for the Gipper" is the most famous locker-room speech ever, Rockne was also football's most brilliant innovator, a pioneer of the forward pass, a master of the psychological ploy, and an early advocate of conditioning. Though Robinson doesn't pull punches, Rockne emerges as an exemplary and complex figure, a fierce competitor who was generous in victory and defeat, an inspiring father figure to his players, and a man so revered nationwide that when he died in a plane crash in 1931, at the height of his career, he was mourned by the entire country.

A feast for all Notre Dame grads and for subway alumni everywhere, this engaging biography is the finest portrait we have of the man who changed football in America.

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