Tag: Accidental

Free Download The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee
English | October 15, 2013 | ISBN: 0226284883, 022627120X | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.5 MB
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human." In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe.

Free Download Cammy Bean, Pamela Gregory (Narrator), "The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age, 2nd Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CV4HSVN2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:32:00 | 214 MB
Go From Accidental to Intentional
Filled with insights and tips, this updated edition of The Accidental Instructional Designer, by e-learning veteran Cammy Bean, covers nearly every aspect of the learning design process for those getting started or even for the experienced practitioner in need of new ideas.

Free Download Katherine Anne Kindred, "An Accidental Mother"
English | 2011 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1609530586 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
After her divorce, Kate Kindred decided that she would live her life without children. But then she fell in love with Jim, a handsome, caring man who had custody of his two-year-old son, Michael. And she fell in love with the boy, too. During the six years they all lived together, Kate learned the deep joys of motherhood-that was the gift that Michael gave her. But when her relationship with Jim ended, he denied her any contact with Michael.

Free Download The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Deniz Türker
English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0271093919 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 82.6/83.6 MB
This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire’s vast bureaucratic apparatus.

Free Download The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities by Peter S. Alagona
English | April 19, 2022 | ISBN: 0520386310, 0520397886 | True PDF | 296 pages | 241 MB
With wildlife thriving in cities, we have the opportunity to create vibrant urban ecosystems that serve both people and animals.

Free Download Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin by Andrew S. Weiss
English | November 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1250760755 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 165 MB
This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin’s rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating.

Free Download The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities (Audiobook)
English | July 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0CBQKFQ6H | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 1m | 218 MB
Author: Peter S. Alagona | Narrator: Matt Godfrey
The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities-the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth’s ecosystems-grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet?
The Accidental Ecosystem is the first book to explain this phenomenon from a deep historical perspective, and its focus includes a broad range of species and cities. Digging into the natural history of cities and unpacking our conception of what it means to be wild, this book provides fascinating context for why animals are thriving more in cities than outside of them. Considering what it means to live in diverse, multispecies communities and exploring how human and non-human members of communities might thrive together, Peter S. Alagona goes beyond the tension between those who embrace the surge in urban wildlife and those who think of animals as invasive or as public safety hazards.

Free Download The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home by Kathi Lipp
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 0736977007 | 224 pages | MOBI | 90 Mb
Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing]

Free Download Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond by Robert F. Curtis, David Colacci, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07VGLGRJ7 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 29 minutes | 344 Mb
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day.
Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, Major Robert Curtis was so surprised at being alive when he passed his retirement physical. Starting with enlisting in the Army to fly helicopters during Vietnam, and continuing on through service with the National Guard, Marine Corps, and Royal Navy, he flew eight different helicopters – from the wooden-bladed OH-13E, through the Chinook, SeaKnight, and SeaKing, in war and peace around the world. During that time over 50 of his friends died in crashes, both in combat and in accidents, but somehow his skill, and not an inconsiderable amount of luck and superstition, saw him through.

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Free Download Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College"
English | ISBN: 0226829316 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 1413 KB
A startling discovery-that job market success after college is largely random-forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.