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Free Download Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 9781324074847 | 362 pages | True EPUB | 23.87 MB
"Without the invention of the transistor, I’m quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."-Bill Gates

Free Download Albion Urdank, "Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community: A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-"
English | ISBN: 1498523528 | 2015 | 150 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters from the Established church, in this case Particular Baptists, who were moderate Calvinists. It goes a step beyond previous studies by giving Anglicans and Dissenters co-equal status in a comparative demographic analysis and by demonstrating how religious values informed procreative activity. It does so through a combination of advanced statistical methodologies and an innovative treatment of data collection forms as readable texts. The study concludes that the likelihood of another birth increased following a religious conversion experience, especially among both Anglican and Baptist wives following marriage. Mortality too had a less constraining effect on procreative activity which, in conformity with the English experience, was driven largely by fertility.

Free Download Amrita Pande, "Birth controlled: Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India "
English | ISBN: 1526160544 | 2022 | 408 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction – the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future – through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of ‘controlling’ birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate; what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Although new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of the same continuum. All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; Birth controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste.

Free Download Brandon Dabling, "A New Birth of Marriage: Love, Politics, and the Vision of the Founders"
English | ISBN: 0268201978 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Madison Smartt Bell, "Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution"
English | 2006 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0393328546, 0393051552 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
"Fresh…solid…full of suspense and intrigue." ―Publishers Weekly

Free Download The Birth of Mathematics, Updated Edition: Ancient Times to 1300
English | 2019 | ASIN : B0BSR5CPK7 | 132 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
From 700 BCE to 1300 CE, thousands of scholars from many civilizations introduced mathematical ideas that established the foundations of arithmetic, number theory, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, as well as the related sciences of astronomy and physics. Although we know very little about specific individuals who made important mathematical discoveries in Babylonia, Egypt, and China, historians in Arabia, ancient Greece, India, and medieval Italy preserved a more complete record, including the identities of some of the innovators.

Free Download Nate Parker, "The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement"
English | 2016 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1501156586 | EPUB | 94,8 mb
This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner’s relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations.

Free Download Joseph J. Ellis, "Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence"
English | 2013 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0307701220, 0307946371 | EPUB | 5,0 mb
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Cambrai 1917: The birth of armoured warfare"
English | 2007 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1846031478 | PDF | 11,8 mb
This crucial new study of one of the seminal events in military history dispells many of the myths surrounding Cambrai 1917 of World War I (1914-1918). Common perception classifies it as the "world’s first tank battle" but Alexander Turner shows us that the real importance of Cambrai was that it saw the first use of armor as an operational shock tactic. With the pre-eminence of armor, the conduct of war was irrevocably changed. The battle also heralded the combined use of aircraft, armor, and artillery, marking the birth of modern combined-arms techniques. Written by a military historian and serving soldier, this is a fascinating analysis of a battle which was a stalemate, yet spawned a host of war-winning tactics.

Free Download Birth of the Geopolitical Age
by Wu, Shellen Xiao;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1503636844 | 330 pages | True PDF | 19.42 MB
From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new interpretations of empire and the deployment of science and technology to aid frontier development in extreme environments. Through a century of political turmoil and war, China nevertheless is the only nation to successfully navigate the twentieth century with its imperial territorial expanse largely intact. In Birth of the Geopolitical Age , Shellen Xiao Wu demonstrates how global examples of frontier settlements refracted through China’s unique history and informed the making of the modern Chinese state. Wu weaves a narrative that moves through time and space, the lives of individuals, and empires’ rise and fall and rebirth, to show how the subsequent reshaping of Chinese geopolitical ambitions in the twentieth century, and the global transformation of frontiers into colonial laboratories, continues to reorder global power dynamics in East Asia and the wider world to this day.