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Free Download Walter A. Musciano – Corsair Aces: The Bent-Wing Bird Over the Pacific
Arco Publishing | 1979 | ISBN: 0668046007 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 76.49 MB
It’s a short book but really gives the reader a good understanding of the F4U itself, its importance in World War Two and (as the title suggests) some of the many men who flew this airplane into history, becoming aces in the Pacific Theatre. It contains some technical info, some history and a whole lot of first-hand accounts of how this fighter was flown in combat against the Japanese.

Free Download Karen Messing, "Bent out of Shape: Shame, Solidarity, and Women’s Bodies at Work"
English | ISBN: 1771135417 | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women-women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid.

Free Download Narin Singh Kapany, "The Man Who Bent Light: Father of Fibre Optics"
English | ISBN: 8195256600 | 2022 | 290 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The father of fiber optics, Narinder Singh Kapany was far more than your typical multi-hyphenate. Inventor, art collector, sculptor, farmer, entrepreneur, teacher, and a successful businessman, Dr Kapany was what Fortune magazine in its 1999 issue called, ‘one of the seven unsung heroes of the 20th century’. An insightful and inspirational life story, this memoir chronicles his 90 remarkable years. Charming, idiosyncratic, and highly engaging, The Man who Bent Light serves up enough variety and verve to celebrate the lives of a half-dozen individuals. But there is only one Narinder Singh Kapany, and his life, illuminated in his singular memoir, is a life like no other.