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Free Download Peter Cochran, "Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days"
English | ISBN: 1443877425 | 2015 | 330 pages | PDF | 1437 KB
Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, granted the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to some acclamation. He was, all too quickly, defeated at Waterloo. Observing all this was Byrons friend J.C. Hobhouse, an ardent Bonapartist. Byron, who posed as one, never answered his letters from the thick of things in Paris. This book is structured in four layers, and begins with an essay about Byron and Napoleon, which is then followed by Byrons poems about Napoleon and Hobhouses diary. Hobhouses letters conclude the volume. Most of Hobhouses diary has never been published. The book is published, aptly, on the bicentenary of The Hundred Days.

Free Download Julian Lovelock, "The Business of Reading: A Hundred Years of the English Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0718895959 | PDF | pages: 198 | 5.4 mb
In The Business of Reading, Julian Lovelock charts the development of the English novel over the past hundred years. Smuggling in titles from Scotland, Ireland and the Caribbean, he focuses on twenty texts written since the end of the First World War, some well-known but others less so, placing them in their historical context. Novelists represented range from D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, through Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and Iris Murdoch, to such contemporary writers as Ian McEwan, Maggie O’Farrell and Graham Swift. Written in a lucid style that reflects his expertise and enthusiasm, Lovelock’s innovative selection, perceptive analysis and lightness of touch will appeal to the general reader, the book club member and the student. He argues that our response as readers is an important part of the creative process, and while he mainly avoids the critical ‘-isms’ that have characterised recent academic debate, he introduces such concepts as intertextuality, metafiction and the role of the often unreliable narrator, showing how an appreciation of the way the language of fiction works can only add to our understanding and enjoyment.

Free Download Mechanics of Generalized Continua: One Hundred Years After the Cosserats by Gérard A. Maugin, Andrei V. Metrikine
English | PDF | 2010 | 333 Pages | ISBN : 1441956948 | 4.4 MB

Free Download Five Hundred Years of Printing By Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Trevitt
1996 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1884718205 | PDF | 73 MB
This classic is now available again in a finely illustrated, larger format, drawing on the collections and curatorial expertise of the British Library. The most famous introduction to the history of printing ever published.

Free Download One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin
English | August 27, 2013 | ISBN: 1938073339 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 2.5 MB
Lucy Corin’s dazzling new collection is powered by one hundred apocalypses: a series of short stories, many only a few lines, that illuminate moments of vexation and crisis, revelations and revolutions. An apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but what it exposes is the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate.

Free Download Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry by Adrian Goldsworthy
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 154161996X | 652 pages | PDF | 87 Mb
The epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers

Free Download Timothy Venning, Liam Gerrard (Narrator), "The Hundred Years War: An Alternative History of Britain"
English | ASIN: B0CPMBQH33 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 295 MB
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the ten-year-old Richard to inherit Edward III’s crown. What would have been the consequences if France’s Scottish allies had been victorious at Neville’s Cross in 1346, while most English forces were occupied in France? What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature (and half-French) man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans?

Free Download Timothy Venning, Liam Gerrard (Narrator), "The Hundred Years War: An Alternative History of Britain"
English | ASIN: B0CPMBQH33 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 295 MB
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the ten-year-old Richard to inherit Edward III’s crown. What would have been the consequences if France’s Scottish allies had been victorious at Neville’s Cross in 1346, while most English forces were occupied in France? What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature (and half-French) man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans?

Free Download The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion (Hundred Years War) by Jonathan Sumption
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 0571274579 | 1006 pages | True EPUB | 4.70 MB
The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption’s prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, "one of the great historical undertakings of our age." ― Dan Jones, Sunday Times

Free Download Funmi Soetan, "Gender and Development in Nigeria: One Hundred Years of Nationhood "
English | ISBN: 1498564755 | 2018 | 214 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of development in the last 100 years of its nationhood. This analysis is set against the background of unequal power dynamics between women and men, and specifically the ways in which social, cultural, political, and economic construction of gender has influenced Nigeria’s course of development through her colonial and post-colonial history. The influence of the nature of economic governance, policy, and institutional frameworks, the nature of resource availability and (re)distribution between women and men in terms of goods and services, knowledge and skills, policies and budgets, and the outcomes and impacts for women and men are seen in terms of women’s economic empowerment, equal participation and development benefits. This rich collection of empirical works therefore provides not just the rhetoric but the evidence to indict gender power relations in Nigeria, especially at the institutional level. This volume unpacks and explores this recurrent problem with a the goal of identifying new pathways for gender relations.