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Free Download J. P. McEvoy, "Brief History of the Universe"
English | 2009 | pages: 317 | ISBN: 1845296842 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Since the dawn of time, men have gazed at the stars and attempted to chart the heavens. Beginning at Stonehenge and ending with the current crisis in String Theory, the story of this eternal question to uncover the mysteries of the universe describes a narrative that includes some of the greatest discoveries of all time and leading personalities, including Aristotle, Copernicus, and Isaac Newton, and the rise to the modern era of Einstein, Eddington, and Hawking.

Free Download Life in the Age of Insulin: A Brief History
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303147189X | 416 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
Life in the Age of Insulin offers a straightforward and jargon-free narrative account of how insulin was discovered, what it does, why people still struggle to obtain it, and what the future might hold. It tells of the creative power that emerges when many people work towards a common goal, and of collective strength founded upon the limitations of individuals.

Free Download Joseph E. Armstrong, "How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants"
English | ISBN: 022606977X | 2015 | 576 pages | PDF | 11 MB
On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth’s long history―that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today.

Free Download Anne Kaun, "Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis"
English | 2016 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 178360736X, 1783607378 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention, there has been little consideration of the wider historical role of media technologies in protest. Drawing on the work of key theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Raymond Williams, Crisis and Critique provides a historical analysis of media practices within the context of major economic crises.

Free Download Brief Narrative Practice in Single-Session Therapy
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032556196 | 259 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Separating from many long-held traditions in therapy, this book explores a guiding framework and the accompanying micro-skills that therapeutic conversations demand. In these pages, readers will learn how to recalibrate their listening habits and talk differently about problems in ways that help them quickly hear and generate possibilities.

Free Download John Geoghegan, "When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship"
English | ISBN: 0750987839 | 2022 | 464 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Nearly everything people know about airships is wrong. Few realize that prior to the Hindenburg disaster airships transported passengers without a single casualty for more than 20 years, a record unmatched by any other form of transportation. When Giants Ruled the Sky tells the true but little-known story of the USS Macon (ZRS-5), the world’s largest, most expensive and most technologically advanced airship of her day, and the four men responsible for conceiving, designing, building, and flying her. In doing so it reveals how the American airship came within a hair’s breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as the dominant form of long-distance transportation, and exactly what went wrong, a tale of physical courage, engineering acumen, ugly politicking and two egregious disasters.

Free Download A Brief History of Thailand: Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia (Brief History of Asia Series) by Richard A. Ruth
English | March 15, 2022 | ISBN: 0804851212 | 352 pages | MOBI | 2.06 Mb
Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there’s much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.

Free Download A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9811280444 | 223 pages | True PDF | 40.13 MB
This book offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman to gain a better appreciation of its beauty, relevance, and place in history. It traces the development of the subject throughout the centuries, starting with the so-called Lebombo bone, the oldest known mathematical object that was estimated to be at least 43,000 years old, and ending with the 21st century.

Free Download Daniel C. Abel, "Sharkpedia: A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore "
English | ISBN: 0691252610 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
A fun, pocket-size A-Z treasury about sharks, featuring fascinating, little-known facts and captivating illustrations

Free Download Thomas Nail, "Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism"
English | ISBN: 1399525425 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Thomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion compared to the rest of the Euro-Western tradition. From Archaic Greek poetry and Bronze Age Minoan religion to the Roman poet Lucretius, and from German philosopher Karl Marx and English writer Virginia Woolf to contemporary physicists Carlo Rovelli and Karen Barad, Nail identifies a minor tradition of what he calls ‘kinetic materialism’ and its three central ideas: indeterminacy, relationality and process.