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Free Download Heavenly India – July 2023-January 2024
English | 68 pages | PDF | 13.90 MB

Free Download No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0262546906 | 251 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite communications infrastructure was imagined, negotiated, and built across the Earth’s surface, including across the Iron Curtain. While the United States’ and European countries’ roles in satellite communications are well documented, Evans and Lundgren delve deep into the role the Soviet Union and other socialist countries played in shaping the infrastructure of satellite communications technology in its first two decades.

Free Download Laura Engelstein, "Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0801488796, 0801436761 | PDF | pages: 314 | 21.3 mb
Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on themselves to become "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake." Convinced that salvation came only with the literal excision of the instruments of sin, they were known as Skoptsy (the self-castrated). Their community thrived well into the twentieth century, when it was destroyed in the Stalinist Terror.