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Free Download Barry A. Sanders, "The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games"
English | 2013 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1467130370, 1531675158 | EPUB | 22,5 mb
The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations included the following: a nationwide torch relay that yielded millions for childrens charities; an arts festival that surpassed any prior efforts; the first Opening Ceremony featuring a professional theatrical extravaganza; early introductions of voice mail and e-mail; new sports disciplines, such as distance races for women, windsurfing, synchronized swimming, heptathlon, and rhythmic gymnastics; an army of volunteers; vast increases in sponsorship and television revenue while avoiding commercialization and keeping expenses low using existing facilities; and a financial surplus of over $232 million, which has endowed sports for youngsters in the Los Angeles area to this day, all through a privately financed organizing committee without government contributions.

Free Download Franziska Rueedi, "The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa"
English | ISBN: 1847012612 | 2021 | 261 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.

Free Download Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984 by Les Wilson
English | September 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1913393771 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.6 MB
Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism, and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was an unmatched political visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of war, social injustices and urban poverty spent his later years living in a rustic abandoned farmhouse that was miles from the nearest neighbor. His rural escape was on the remote Scottish island of Jura-another paradox, given that he had harbored an irrational prejudice against Scotland for much of his life.

Free Download Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, "Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984-1985"
English | ISBN: 0192843095 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 63 MB
Just days into the miners’ strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national network of groups that some observers saw as an ‘alternative welfare state’, helping to keep the strike going for just under a year. This book is the first study of this national movement, illuminating its achievements, but also telling the less well-known story of arguments and divisions with men in the National Union of Mineworkers and feminists in the women’s liberation movement. Many women in the movement, despite their activism, resolutely denied that they were ‘political’ at all, defining themselves as ‘ordinary’ women, housewives, mothers, and workers; and, despite some claims that women activists had been transformed for ever by their experiences, most of those involved felt they had been changed only in more subtle ways.

Free Download 1984: India’s Guilty Secret (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXMMWCXF | 2023 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Pav Singh
Narrator: Sumit Kaul
This shocking exposé of a true-life Orwellian Description of nightmarish proportions reveals the chilling events of November 1984 following Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the cover-up by the Indian government. For more than three days, armed mobs systematically butchered, torched and raped members of the Sikh community in Delhi and other places, unchecked. The sheer scale of the killings exceeded the combined civilian death tolls of other conflicts such as Tiananmen Square and 9/11. In Delhi alone 3,000 people were killed. Thirty-three years on, the full extent of what took place has yet to be fully acknowledged. Based on victim testimonies and official accounts, this book exposes how the largest mass crime against humanity in India’s modern history was perpetrated by politicians and covered up with the help of the police, judiciary, and media. A book that posits fundamental questions, it will shake you to the core.

Free Download Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 (Audiobook)
English | October 15, 2020 | ASIN: B08L5RD78C | M4B@62 kbps | 19h 48m | 540.67 MB
Author: Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
The explosive tale of the unraveling of an American president.