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Free Download Bible: The Story of the King James Version by Gordon Campbell, Julian Elfer, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07JJRGSQY | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 7 hours and 44 minutes + EPUB | 107 Mb
This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the 400 years from its remote beginnings to the present day.
Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story of how this translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of how the translation was accomplished. The story does not end with the printing of that first edition, but introduces the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text. The present text of the King James Version differs in thousands of small details from the original edition. Campbell traces the textual history from 1611 to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford University Press in 1769.
Attitudes to the King James Version have shifted through time and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. It is more widely read in America today than in any other country, and its particular history in there is given due attention.

Free Download Nola Tully, Isaiah Sheffer, Frank McCourt, "yes I said yes I will Yes.: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1400077311 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 5.4 mb
On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904-Bloomsday, as it has come to be known-Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day’s journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce’s novel of the century, Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Yes I Said Yes I Will Yesoffers a priceless gathering of what’s been said about Ulysses since the extravagant praise and withering condemnation that first greeted itupon its initial publication.

Free Download Conor McCarthy, "The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly 1893-1916 "
English | ISBN: 1474410669 | 2016 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The writings of Ireland’s greatest left-wing and anti-imperialist activist

Free Download R J (Jo) Bunce, "Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? James Macandrew of Otago"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1988531357 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 5.7 mb
This is a biography of one of New Zealand’s most colourful, persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrivedin 1851, other settlers were impressed by his enthusiasm for new initiatives. With his finger in a lot of commercial pies, he made himself a handsome income that he eventually lost, declaring bankruptcyand ending up temporarilyin a debtors’ prison. He later threw himself into politics.This is the story of a Victorian settler who was a devoted family man, a staunch Presbyterian, and a consummate politician. Macandrew made plenty of enemiesand has been severely judged by history. This re-examination of his life reveals a man who both inspired and infuriated the citizens ofNew Zealandfor decades.

Free Download James Ferguson, Jeffrey Dover, "Photodermatology"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1840761350, 140515828X | PDF | pages: 160 | 14.3 mb
This book addresses all aspects of photodermatology by providing a clear straightforward introduction to these diseases, their investigation, diagnosis and management, including the use of lasers. Each light sensitive disorder and each type of phototherapy is supported by the principles of the underlying photophysics, chemistry and biology. Doctors, nurses and technicians all have an important role to play in the diagnosis of photodermatoses and in the administration of phototherapy. This concise, richly illustrated text provides them with valuable insights and a good working overview of the light related areas of dermatology.

Free Download Cynthia Mestad Johnson, "James DeWolf and the Rhode Island Slave Trade"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1626194793, 1540210170 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 4.3 mb
An unsettling story of corruption and exploitation in the Ocean State from slave ships to politics.

Free Download Kathryn Wichelns, "Henry James’s Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319717995, 3319891073 | PDF | pages: 184 | 1.3 mb
This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work. Writing in different times and places, Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, and Marguerite Duras nevertheless sharecomplex navigations of womanhood and authorship, as well as a history offeminist scholarly responses to their work.Kathryn Wichelns draws upon James’ correspondence with Fields, as well as Dickinson’s and Duras’s revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of hisproject. By contextualizing his writing within a diverse set of feminist perspectives, each grounded in a specific time and place, as well as nineteenth-century views of queer male sexuality, Wichelns demonstrates the centrality of Henry James’s ambivalent identifications with women to his work.

Free Download Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art by Paul Thomas Murphy
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1639364919 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 32.86 MB
The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.

Free Download The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of LeBron (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYB8WJSJ | 2023 | 8 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 567 MB
Author: Valerie Babb
Narrator: Valerie Babb, Sean Polite
The unique social, cultural, and political life of the incomparable LeBron James. LeBron James is the hero in two very American tales: one, a success story the nation loves; the other, the latest installment in an ongoing chronicle of American antiblackness. He’s the poor boy from a "broken" home who makes good. He’s also the poor Black boy from a "broken" home who makes good, then at the apex of his career finds "n*****" spray-painted across the gate to his home. James has lived in the public eye ever since high school when his extraordinary athletic skills subjected his every action, every statement, every fashion choice to intense public scrutiny that tells us less about James himself and more about a nation still wrestling with many social inequities. He uses his celebrity not to transcend Blackness, but to give it a place of cultural prominence, and the backlash he receives exposes the frictions between Blackness and a country not fully comfortable with its presence. As a result, James’s story is a revelatory narrative of how much Blackness is loved, hated, misunderstood, and just plain cool in an America that has changed and yet not changed at all.

Free Download Russell Walks, "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk: the story of Starfleet’s greatest captain"
English | 2015 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1783297468, 1783297484 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain’s life (2233-2371), in his own words. From his birth on the U.S.S. Kelvin, his youth spent on Tarsus IV, his time in the Starfleet Academy, his meteoric raise through the ranks ofStarfleet, and his illustrious career at the helm of the Enterprise, this in-world memoir uncovers Captain Kirk in a way Star Trek fans have never seen. Kirk’s singular voice rings throughout the text, giving insight into his convictions, his bravery, and his commitment to the life-in all forms-throughout this Galaxy and beyond. Excerpts from his personal correspondence, captain’s logs, and more give Kirk’s personal narrative further depth.