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An Encyclopaedia of Myself


Free Download Jonathan Meades, "An Encyclopaedia of Myself"
English | 2014 | pages: 350 | ISBN: 185702849X, 1857029054 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
The 1950s are not grey, not in Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir, where they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, reckless bohos, pompous boors, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury, where he was brought up, had two industries: God and the Cold War, both of which provided a cast of adults for the child to scrutinise with wonder and fear.

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The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else


Free Download The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else by William Hartston
English | March 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1838957235 | 784 pages | PDF | 3.92 Mb
Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere. The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain’s views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.

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Encyclopaedia of Wrestling Techniques, Exercises, Fitness and Health Education (2024)


Free Download Harphool Singh – Encyclopaedia of Wrestling: Techniques, Exercises, Fitness and Health Education
Discovery Publishing House | 2001 | ISBN: 8171416225 | English | 435 pages | PDF | 198.72 MB
The Encyclopaedia of Wrestling is a revised Edition of my previous book Modem Wrestling (Adhunik Mallyuddh) as I have received the National reward and appreciation letter from Hon’ble Mr. Milan Ercegan the FILA President during Atlanta 1996. The matter of this book have been extended up to 416 pages from 273, pasting new photographs, with the up-to-date International Wrestling Rules booklet of FILA & FIWA (newly formed body). As the book contains the Topics such as; Health for lay people-health and fitness, How to become an Olympian Wrestler? Practice-Natural and Scientific Exercises, Balance Diet, Proper Rest, Competitions, National and International Wrestling, World History of Wrestling and various types of combats of the globe, Automatic Exercises for the wrestlers and recreational games, reducing fatness, weight control, warming up and cooling down, injuries of wrestling 500 National and International holds of Free Style, Greco-Roman and Oriental Style Wrestling, holds drill, immetation, Psychology and Career of the wrestlers and so on. I hope this book will prove useful for the world wrestlers, referees, coaches, health lovers, and lay people whose valuable suggestions are always awaited.

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Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures Volume 1 (2024)


Free Download Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures: Volume 1 by Jan Gyllenbok
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 691 Pages | ISBN : 3319575961 | 95.51 MB
This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc. It concludes with an exhaustive list of references.

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