Tag: Lives

Free Download Kiran Vinod Bhatia, "Gen Z, Digital Media, and Transcultural Lives: At Home in the World"
English | ISBN: 1666917419 | 2023 | 156 pages | EPUB, PDF | 270 KB + 1173 KB

Free Download Brett Christophers, Mike Cooper (Narrator), "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World"
English | ASIN: B0CQ117FVX | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:21:00 | 294 MB
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don’t just own financial assets.
The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers’ bulging investment portfolios.

Free Download Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (Audiobook)
English | August 11, 2022 | ASIN: B0B3Y86Y3Y | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 18m | 628MB
Author and Narrator: Sunil Khilnani
The lives and afterlives of 50 incredible Indian people from ancient India to the 21st century.
Historian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today.

Free Download Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor, Fran Tunno, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | 2014 | ISBN: B00NQAWAZO | MP3@64 kbps | 16 hrs 40 mins | 458 Mb
Amazons – fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world – were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons.
But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China.
Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons – Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China.

Free Download Tyninghame: Landscapes and Lives by Judy Riley
English | May 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 1839830115 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 86.75 MB
For many people, Tyninghame on the beautiful East Lothian coast means beaches, sea birds and salt marshes. But this place on the southern boundary of the Firth of Forth was once an important monastic site, the burial place of St Baldred and later a bishop’s palace that eventually became the seat of the earls of Haddington. In the early eighteenth century, its landscape was dramatically changed by a young woman, Lady Helen Hope and her husband, Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington. The church, the house, the gardens and surroundings have undergone many transformations since they lived here, but somehow their vision has remained intact and unspoiled.

Free Download Jill MacLean, "The Nine Lives of Travis Keating"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1554551536 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.4 mb
After his mother’s death, Travis Keating and his father move to Ratchet, Newfoundland, to start a new life. Some life. Travis soon discovers that only a few oddballs show any interest in him: Cole, a talker who soon makes himself scarce; Hector, a strange kid whose ears stick out; and Prinny, a girl as scraggly as her skinny ponytail. Nobody you can really call a friend. And then there’s Hud, the toughest, nastiest bully in school, who hates "townies" and promises to make Travis’s life an utter misery. But Travis doesn’t care. He’s got his funeral face, a tight mask that gives away nothing and allows him to hide his feelings. Funeral face comes in handy, especially with parents and other adults who think they know what you’re feeling every minute of the day. But funeral face can also make him reckless, and Travis decides to visit the dangerous Gulley Cove, with its treacherous wharf and its tumbledown fish shacks, which some of the kids say are haunted. Instead of ghosts, Travis discovers a colony of feral cats, sickly and starving, and unused to kindness. Putting aside his own problems to care for them is about to bring Travis more satisfaction-and more danger-than he ever would have thought possible.

Free Download Ian Cawood, "The Many Lives of Corruption: The Reform of Public Life in Modern Britain, C. 1750-1950"
English | ISBN: 1526150034 | 2022 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms, and shifting meanings of ‘corruption’.

Free Download The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food by Andrew Friedman
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0063135973 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 20.05 MB
Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain.

Free Download Philosophers: Their Lives and Works (DK History Changers), UK Edition by DK
English | April 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 1465482032 | 1119 pages | True EPUB | 443.31 MB
From Confucius and Plato to Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, this ebook brings together more than 100 illustrated biographies of the world’s great philosophers.

Free Download Mike W. Martin, "Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues"
English | ISBN: 1498533655 | 2016 | 184 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs, exploring how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. It pays particular attention to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional (non-moral) types of values in good lives. More generally, it explores the relevance of memoir to moral philosophy, and in turn how moral philosophy enters into elucidating and critiquing memoirs.