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Free Download Icarus by Bertrand Russell
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BVN1185V | 27 pages | EPUB | 0.40 Mb
Mr. Haldane’s Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly.

Free Download Mexican Icarus: Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960 (Pitt Latin American) by Peter B. Soland
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0822947609 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.4 MB
The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was also an effective symbol for promoting the aspirations of the new elite who attained prominence during the war and who fixated on technology as a measure of national progress.

Free Download Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism by David Hanna
English | June 15, 2022 | ISBN: 163388676X | 250 pages | PDF | 8.31 Mb
2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.

Free Download Icarus: The Life and Death of the Abraaj Group by Brian Brivati
English | September 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1785907182 | 277 pages | PDF | 2.08 Mb
Arif Naqvi and his Dubai-based Abraaj Group were pioneers of private sector impact investment in emerging markets. Impact investing was a simple idea: private money is invested to build resilient economies in places as diverse as Ghana, Mexico, Pakistan, Nigeria, India, Kenya and the Middle East to improve healthcare, education, clean energy and access to consumer goods, while delivering returns for investors. The Abraaj Group (Abraaj means ‘towers’ in Arabic) had just shy of $14 billion under management by 2017; they were on the threshold of closing a new fund that would invest $6 billion into these emerging markets.