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Free Download Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
English | March 7, 2016 | ISBN: 1631490826, 1631492527 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 23 MB
Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.

Free Download J.A. Buckle, "Half My Facebook Friends Are Ferrets"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1782020748, 1630790001 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.5 mb
Original UK Edition. (Ages 12-15) (Genre: teen, humour) Fifteen-year-old Josh fantasises about becoming a death metal guitarist complete with tattoos, piercings and hoards of adoring fans. But it’s not easy when his super-strict mom won’t let him grow his hair! Luckily Josh has a way of coping with life’s setbacks; it’s only a diary, but it contains all Josh’s hopes, dreams and frustrations (not to mention some great ideas for band names and lyrics!). What Josh doesn’t know is that his mother also kept a diary, back about the time he was born, and a secret in there holds the key to Josh’s life becoming a whole lot more metal.

Free Download Daniel Merkur, "Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation Among the Inuit (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)"
English | 2013 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 0815307837, 1138964476 | PDF | 4,6 mb
First Published in 1993.This study seeks to analyze shamanism and initiation from the perspective of shamans, rather than from the laity’s point of view. One of the aims of this research has been to get behind the shamans’ language in order to understand their experiences.

Free Download Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO42BC | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 12m | 682 MB
Lecturer: John McWhorter
Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage – to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages.
But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some of which have only recently come to light. And these forces continue to push English in exciting new directions.

Free Download Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life (Audiobook)
English | March 07, 2016 | ASIN: B01BO1AJO0 | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 51m | 187 MB
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Refusing to accept the mass extinction of species as an inevitability, "the world’s greatest naturalist" (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere. Half-Earth resoundingly concludes the best-selling trilogy begun by The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, a National Book Award finalist.
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent. Angrily challenging the fashionable theories of anthropocenes, who contend that humans can survive alone in an Edenic bubble engineered for their own survival, Wilson documents that the biosphere does not belong to us. Yet, refusing to believe that our extinction is, as so many fear, predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending "sixth extinction" is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth.

Free Download Samuel Burgum, "How the other half lives: Interconnecting socio-spatial inequalities"
English | ISBN: 152614655X | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
We are, all of us, intimately familiar with inequalities. Whether finding somewhere to live, walking in the street, following the news, negotiating international travel, or in our working and personal lives, subtle and crude hierarchies shape our lived experience. How the other half lives contributes detailed, multidisciplinary, and qualitative explorations of the everyday social and spatial realities of inequality, drawing new lines from Manchester to Milan, from Brighton to Bologna. Uniquely structured as a series of oppositions between peaks and troughs, with each chapter focusing on a specific subject, including: housing, urban design, place-making, the state, cultures of inequality, and transnational mobility. This book is a resource to navigate an unequal world, oriented around three key understandings of inequality as contingent, intersectional, and interrelated.

Free Download Gary Edwards, "Fifty Shades of White: Half a Century of Pain and Glory with Leeds United"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1785311980 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 9.3 mb
Fifty Shades of White is Gary Edwards’s fifth book; and he returns with more fabulous, rib-tickling tales that come with half a century of following one of the most talked about football clubs in the world. Like the time he was asked to accompany a four-and-a-half-foot tall monk with a large hearing aid, who hadn’t previously left his abbey for 25 years, to a Leeds United game as part of a BBC documentary. Or the time he escaped from hospital, still in his hospital gown and attached to a catheter, a blood bag, several needles and with two tampons stuck up his nose to travel 70 miles up the A1 in a thunderstorm for a relatively meaningless Leeds game at Darlington. There is a fascinating, controversial and hilarious insight into Leeds United’s former owner Ken Bates, gleaned from being a special guest at his birthday and Christmas parties for eight consecutive years. Fifty Shades of White gives a unique fan insight into the club and a life devoted to Leeds United.

Free Download Richard Hoffman, "Half the House: A Memoir"
English | 2012 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 015100174X, 0898233399, 0898232287 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
Half the House is the story of a family repeatedly visited by death and suffering; of a boy burdened with a terrible secret; of a father and son estranged by grief and anger.

Free Download Indrani Raimedhi, "My Half of the Sky: 12 Life Stories of Courage"
English | ISBN: 9351500373 | 2014 | 196 pages | EPUB | 762 KB
The 12 women who feature in this book come from diverse backgrounds. The thread that binds their stories is their resolve to change the circumstances of their lives, overcoming tremendous odds, and giving wings to their dreams. They are survivors and pathfinders, doers and dreamers, leaving in their wake surging inspiration and hope. Their testimonies reveal what it is to live in this often forgotten corner of India. They have overcome personal tragedy, broken the falters of tradition, discrimination, and coped bravely with the harrowing experience of violence and uncertainty.

Free Download Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, "When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities"
English | 2012 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 0804775184, 0804775176 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
"I listen and gather people’s stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn’t going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It’s a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I’m planning on going anywhere right now."