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Free Download Jessica Helfand, "Design: The Invention of Desire"
English | 2016 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 0300205090 | PDF | 38,2 mb
A compelling defense for the importance of design and how it shapes our behavior, our emotions, and our lives

Free Download James Naremore, "An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema"
English | 2014 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0520279743, 0520279735 | PDF | 8,8 mb
In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Free Download Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031392361 | 428 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
This book deals with the ways Netflix influenced the contemporary television landscape and built the infrastructures of streaming. It focusses on various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to undergo a myriad of changes, Netflix has proven itself to be the dominant force in this development, simultaneously driving a number of these changes and challenging television’s existing institutional structures. This comprehensive study explores the pre-history of Netflix, the role of binge-watching in its organisation and marketing, and Netflix’s position as a transnational broadcaster. Netflix and the Re-invention of Television illuminates the importance of Netflix’s role within the processes of TV IV. This Second Edition highlights the role Netflix plays in the so-called streaming wars and incorporates recent research in television studies. It also re-evaluates the companies’ incorporation of issues of diversity in its focus on middlebrow television. The book also includes a new chapter on the transnational streaming franchise, networks of texts developed internal to platforms to build infrastructures of transnational streaming.

Free Download Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CG2MC1HP | 2023 | 7 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 361 MB
Author: Nicholas Humphrey
Narrator: Michael Langan
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world’s leading theoretical psychologists. We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind.

Free Download The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness (Audiobook)
English | April 06, 2021 | ASIN: B08ML4TT34 | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 8m | 330.46 MB
Author: Katie Booth
Narrator: Samantha Desz
An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true – and troubling – story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech-reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts – or perhaps, more accurately, because of them – Bell had become the American Deaf community’s most powerful enemy.

Free Download The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation By Michael Perelman
2000 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0822324547 | PDF | 3 MB
The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism’s creation: For it to succeed, peasants would have to abandon their self-sufficient lifestyle and go to work for wages in a factory. Why would they willingly do this?Clearly, they did not go willingly. As Michael Perelman shows, they were forced into the factories with the active support of the same economists who were making theoretical claims for capitalism as a self-correcting mechanism that thrived without needing government intervention. Directly contradicting the laissez-faire principles they claimed to espouse, these men advocated government policies that deprived the peasantry of the means for self-provision in order to coerce these small farmers into wage labor. To show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labor and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation, Perelman examines diaries, letters, and the more practical writings of the classical economists. He argues that these private and practical writings reveal the real intentions and goals of classical political economy-to separate a rural peasantry from their access to land.This rereading of the history of classical political economy sheds important light on the rise of capitalism to its present state of world dominance. Historians of political economy and Marxist thought will find that this book broadens their understanding of how capitalism took hold in the industrial age.

Free Download Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Civil War in the North) by Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
English | February 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1606353144 | 304 pages | EPUB | 6.05 Mb
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads―the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although the battle ended in a draw, this engagement would change the nature of naval warfare by informing both vessel design and battle tactics. The "wooden walls" of navies around the world suddenly appeared far more vulnerable, and many political and military leaders initiated or accelerated their own ironclad-building programs.

Free Download Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
English | July 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1529434637 | eISBN: 9781529434637 | 276 Pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB
Corporations and government agencies around the world have for years been pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail – human-level intelligence. But once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.

Free Download Danna A. Levin Rojo Ph.D., "Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México "
English | ISBN: 0806144343 | 2014 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the "Kingdom of Nuevo México" had existed as an imaginary world―and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s, it seems, was what the native Mesoamerican Indians who took part in north-going conquest expeditions also sought: a return to the Aztecs’ mythic land of origin, Aztlan. Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain―present-day New Mexico and Arizona.

Free Download Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZ8YR63G | 2023 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 227 MB
Author: Vaclav Smil
Narrator: Tim Fannon