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Free Download London’s Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter, UK Edition by Fiona Rule
English | January 28th, 2019 | ISBN: 075098998X | 384 pages | True EPUB | 0.98 MB
Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and basins, providing employment for over 100,000 people.

Free Download Sarah Ferber, Nicola J. Marks, Vera Mackie, "IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History"
English | 2020 | pages: 364 | ISBN: 9811578974, 981157894X | PDF | 3,4 mb
This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction. It is a key text for scholars and students in social science, history, science and technology studies (STS), cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies, and a resource for journalists, policymakers, and anyone interested in assisted reproduction. IVF was seen as revolutionary in 1978 when the first two IVF babies were born, in the UK and India. Assisted reproduction has now contributed to the birth of around ten million people. The book traces the work of IVF teams as they developed new techniques and laid the foundations of a multi-billion-dollar industry. It analyses the changing definitions and experience of infertility, the markets for eggs and children through surrogacy, cross-border reproductive treatment, and the impact of regulation. Using interviews with leading IVF figures, archives, media reports, and the latest science, it is a vital addition to the field of reproduction studies.

Free Download Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future by Luisa Neubauer, Alexander Repenning, Sabine von Mering
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1684581478 | 186 pages | PDF | 1.20 Mb
There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future.

Free Download An English Tradition?: The History and Significance of Fair Play by Jonathan Duke-Evans
English | April 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0192859994 | 452 pages | PDF | 5.01 Mb
For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an English, characteristic at all – and if so, whether fair play still matters today?

Free Download Deborah Tor, "The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades"
English | ISBN: 1399513028 | 2023 | 257 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This cross-disciplinary book offers a broad spectrum of essays on important aspects of the political, social, religious and historical importance of the Islamic-Byzantine border between 630-c.1300CE, and in particular on the manifold ways in which the Islamic-Byzantine border affected the internal development and culture of each of the two civilisations. The chapters are written by twelve of the leading scholars in the field, including experts on both the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, and explore developments ranging from anti-government riots and dynastic revolutions to the border’s influence on religious law, apocalyptic literature, population policy and heroic culture.

Free Download Stefan Berger, "History and Belonging: Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics "
English | ISBN: 1785338803 | 2018 | 214 pages | PDF | 602 KB
In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to

Free Download Mahesh Bhatt, "Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0143063405 | EPUB | pages: 259 | 0.5 mb
A delightful history of the Hindi film song and its hold over popular psyche De de Khuda ke naam pe sang Wazir Mohammed Khan in Alam Ara (1931), giving birth to a phenomenon the Hindi film song. Over the years, the Hindi film song has travelled a long way, influencing and being influenced by popular taste. Considered downmarket not so long ago, it is undoubtedly the most popular musical genre in India today, pervading almost all aspects of Indian life weddings, funerals, religious festivals, get-togethers and political conventions and emerging as a medium to articulate every shade of joy and sorrow, love and longing, hope and despair. Bollywood Melodies traces the evolution of the Hindi film song to its present status as the cultural barometer of the country, through an evaluation of the work of over fifty outstanding composers, singers and lyricists from K.L. Saigal to Sonu Nigam, Naushad to A.R. Rahman, Sahir Ludhianvi to Javed Akhtar. Placing the song in the social context of the times, Ganesh Anantharaman looks at the influences that shaped it in each era: Rabindra Sangeet in the 1930s, the folk-inspired 1940s, the classical strains of the following decade and the advent of Western beats in the late 1960s. The author also chronicles the decline of music in Hindi films over the next twenty years before a new crop of musicians and singers gave the film song a new lease of life. Erudite yet lively, and including insightful interviews with icons like Lata Mangeshkar, Dev Anand, Gulzar, Manna Dey and Pyarelal, Bollywood Melodies is not only a treasure trove of information for music lovers but also an invaluable guide to understanding the nation s enduring love affair with the Hindi film song.

Free Download Xi Xiang, "A Brief History of the Chinese Language VIII "
English | ISBN: 1032430648 | 2023 | 174 pages | PDF | 3 MB
As the final volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Western and Japanese influence on the lexicon of Modern Chinese, lexical developments in synonyms, idioms and proverbs in modern times, and lexical developments in contemporary times.

Free Download Xi Xiang, "A Brief History of the Chinese Language V "
English | ISBN: 1032430613 | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 2 MB
As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle Chinese and the overall evolution of lexical meanings during the period.

Free Download All About History – 06 July 2023
English | 84 pages | True PDF | 263.8 MB