Tag: History

Free Download The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0062455966 | 591 Pages | EPUB (True) | 18 MB
From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But outside of a few research labs and military training facilities, this tantalizing vision of the future was nothing but science fiction. Until 2012, when Oculus founder Palmer Luckey-then just a rebellious teenage dreamer living alone in a camper trailer-invents a device that has the potential to change everything.

Free Download The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia’s Pacific Lowlands
by Juliet B. Wiersema
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1477327746 | 191 Pages | True PDF | 53 MB

Free Download Vinay Lal, "The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0195672445, 0195664655 | PDF | pages: 321 | 2.4 mb
A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrativizes the engagement of a civilization with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India, and interact with the mythic, the ahistorical, and the folk. The endeavor is not to offer a comprehensive account over the last two centuries, but rather to explore the manner in which historical thinking inserted itself into the public domain.

Free Download The History of Dive Bombing: A Comprehensive History from 1911 Onward by Peter Smith
English | November 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1844155927 | 245 pages | PDF | 3.17 Mb
This is the incredible history of the dive bomber told from both official records and eyewitness accounts. It tears away the many myths and misrepresentations that surrounded this type of warplane and presents a truly original and detailed history, from the first true combat dive bombing by an RAF pilot in 1917 to the last stirring wartime actions. Interviews with the pilots who flew the combat missions in dive bombing aircraft of all the combatant nations give unique first-hand eyewitness viewpoints on many of the major actions and methods employed.

Free Download Saila Heinikoski, "The History and Politics of Free Movement within the European Union: European Borders of Justice "
English | ISBN: 1350150541 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 594 KB
The right to free movement is the one privilege that EU citizens value the most in the Union, but one that has also created much political controversy in recent years, as the debates preceding the 2016 Brexit referendum aptly illustrate. This book examines how European politicians have justified and criticized free movement from the commencement of the first Commission of the EU-25 in November 2004 to the Brexit referendum in June 2016. The analysis takes into account the discourses of Heads of State, Governments and Ministers of the Interior (or Home Secretaries) of six major European states: the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Romania. In addition to these national leaders, the speeches of European Commissioners responsible for free movement matters are also considered.

Free Download The Gurkha Way: A New History of the Gurkhas
by John Sadler
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399068237 | 360 Pages | ePUB | 5.5 MB

Free Download Nicholas Best, "The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1586486403 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.3 mb
World War I did not end neatly with the Germans’ surrender. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives, and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German government, and at 11:00 on November 11, the guns officially ceased fire-but only after 11,000 more casualties had been sustained. The London Daily Express proclaimed it "the greatest day in history."

Free Download John Walter – The German Bayonet: A comprehensive illustrated history of the regulation patterns, 1871-1945
Arms & Armour Press | 1976 | ISBN: 0853682119 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 89.29 MB
A detailed examination of German bayonets from 1871 to the end of WWII with numerous photographs and drawings.

Free Download Darrel Martin, "The Fly-Fisher’s Craft: The Art and History"
English | ISBN: 1510703640 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
An illustrated guide to historical and modern flies, hooks, lines, and loop rods.

Free Download The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea by David N. Livingstone
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 0691236704 | 553 pages | True PDF | 12.54 MB
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity