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Free Download Helen Lefroy, "Jane Austen: Essential Biographies"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0752453181 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 1.6 mb
Jane Austen’s reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life – enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This book, which draws on her letters, describes Jane’s life in the vicarage at Steventon and later at Bath and Chawton, and her relationships with family and friends – especially her beloved sister, Cassandra, and the engaging Tom Lefroy (who it was rumoured was the love of her life). It also describes the parties and balls in country houses and assembly rooms which she attended and the detail of nineteenth-century life which she so sharply observed and which provided the background to her novels. This book is a pleasure for anyone wanting to understand the life of one of our great novelists.

Free Download Anne Pimlott Baker, "Beethoven (Pocket Biographies)"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0750915099, 0722252048 | EPUB | pages: 116 | 3.8 mb
Considered by many the world’s greatest composer, Ludwig van Beethoven achieved his ambitions against the difficulties of a bullying and drunken father, growing deafness and mounting ill-health. This biography tells the story of his life and work from his birth in Bonn in 1770 and his early employment as a court musician to his death in Vienna in 1827. It describes his studies with Haydn in Vienna and his work during the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. His most financially successful period followed the Congress of Vienna in 1815, despite several unhappy love affairs and continuous worry over his nephew, Karl.

Free Download American Civil Rights: Biographies By Phillis Engelbert; Betz Des Chenes
1999 | 203 Pages | ISBN: 0787631736 | PDF | 28 MB
Biographies of major civil rights figures, including sidebars covering related events and issues.

Free Download My Life in Space Exploration (Springer Biographies) by Gerhard Haerendel
English | September 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 3031102851 | 242 pages | True EPUB | 26.34 MB
This book tells the inside story of Germany’s first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space. In this autobiography, Gerhard Haerendel, former director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, describes his 60 adventurous years in space research. The narrative of exciting events-covering 40 years of rocket and satellite work-is underpinned with accessible accounts of the actual physical phenomena and processes involved. The reader also learns about how the goals set by a visionary astrophysicist eventually led to one of Germany’s first major contributions to space research by the creation of artificial comets in the solar wind.

Free Download Jacob Abbott, "Makers of History – Darius the Great: Biographies of Famous People in History "
English | ASIN : B01CRHORKC | 2016 | pages | EPUB | 690 KB
The chronicles of Darius the Great are some of the greatest annals in Persian history. In about 600 B.C., the founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great was on a campaign to expand his dominion and obtain some additional glory by defeating certain uncivilized tribes to the north, beyond the Araxes. One night, after he had crossed a mighty river, on the way to his triumphs, he had a remarkable dream. His dream was that Darius, the son of one of his advisers, and a non-heir to the throne, appeared to him with vast wings growing from his shoulders, overshadowing the whole known world. To Cyrus, it seemed that Darius would eventually hold sway over his empire, and immediately sent for Hystaspes, the father of Darius, to keep a close eye on him until such a time as Cyrus could return. Cyrus, in fact, was killed in a battle, never to return. The heir-ship was passed to one of Cyrus’ two rightful sons, Cambyses.

Free Download Food Allergies (Biographies of Disease) by Alice C. Richer
English | April 30, 2009 | ISBN: 0274979500 | 204 pages | PDF | 1.86 Mb
Most people take eating for granted – but for some, eating can be downright dangerous. Thirty thousand Americans are hospitalized each year due to an allergic food reaction and peanut allergies in American children doubled from 1997 to 2002. Between two and ten percent of children are affected by food allergies worldwide and adverse food reactions increased hospital admissions by five hundred percent in the United Kingdom during the past two decades. Asthma cases, a reliable indicator of food allergy susceptibility, increased one hundred percent during the last thirty years. While most people assume they have a food allergy, only a very small percentage of cases are a true food allergy. For reasons still unknown, the human immune system reacts abnormally to certain foods. However, medical disorders, increased globalization of the food supply, and an upsurge of processed and convenience foods that contain food additives may also cause adverse food reactions as well. Accurate diagnosis can be extremely tricky and many sufferers never learn what causes their symptoms.

Free Download 30 Assorted Biographies & Memoirs Books Collection July 16, 2021
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | 30 books | EPUB | 164 Mb
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Free Download 20 Assorted Biographies & Memoirs Books Collection September 04, 2021
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | 20 books | EPUB | 112 Mb
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Free Download Saints Are Not Sad: Short Biographies of Joyful Saints By Frank Sheed
2012 | 442 Pages | ISBN: 1586175971 | EPUB | 1 MB
The only tragedy is not to be a saint, wrote the French novelist Leon Bloy. And St. Francis de Sales said that A sad saint would be a sorry saint. But what is a saint? One way to answer is to analyze sanctity, theologically and psychologically. Another way, which is the path Frank Sheed chose in creating this volume, is to show you a saint–or rather, since no two saints are alike–to show you a number of saints. In this book, you are shown forty saints.The saints Sheed chose for this collection are from various time periods: six before A.D. 500, seventeen from then to the Reformation, and seventeen from the Reformation to the middle of the twentieth century. Many are well known, like St. Anthony, Francis, Augustine, Patrick and Bernadette, while others are lesser known, for example, Columcille and Malachy.The same can be said for the various authors of these short biographies. Among them are the famous like Hilaire Belloc, Alban Goodier and G.K. Chesterton, as well as priests and laymen whose names may no longer be familiar but whose writing still brings to life men and women whose closeness to God gave them purpose, strength, and yes, joy.

Free Download Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 (Hitler Biographies) by Volker Ullrich
English | February 4, 2021 | ISBN: 0099590247 | 848 pages | PDF (Converted) | 25 Mb
‘Meticulous… Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times