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Worm A Cuban American Odyssey


Free Download Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 125075397X | True EPUB | 304 pages | 203 MB
From "America’s illustrator in chief" (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there

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The Digital Odyssey


Free Download The Digital Odyssey: A Guidebook for Programmers and Insights for Coding Explorers
by PulsePrint ✅Publishers

English | April 8, 2024 | ASIN: B0D18DTPW9 | 92 pages | PDF | 36 Mb

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The Best of 2600 A Hacker Odyssey


Free Download Emmanuel Goldstein, "The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0470294191 | EPUB | pages: 867 | 2.6 mb
Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer "red box" that allowed hackers to make free phone calls from payphones, the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the insecurity of modern locks.

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Kubrick An Odyssey [Audiobook]


Free Download Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams, Perry Daniels, (Narrator), "Kubrick: An Odyssey"
English | ISBN: 9798855508536 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~24:33:00 | 695 MB
The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker. The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick’s archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick’s personal, private, public, and working life. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey investigates not only the making of Kubrick’s films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century

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Where Men Win Glory The Odyssey of Pat Tillman


Free Download Jon Krakauer, "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman"
English | 2010 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 030738604X, 0385522266 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.

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Merze Tate The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar [Audiobook]


Free Download Barbara D. Savage, Machelle Williams (Narrator), "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar"
English | ASIN: B0CRM3HPM2 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:51:00 | 316 MB
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world." Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.
This book revives and critiques Tate’s prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.
Barbara Savage’s skilled rendering of Tate’s story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate’s life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women’s history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.

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A Vineyard Odyssey The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature


Free Download John Kiger, "A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature"
English | 2013 | pages: 202 | ISBN: 1442221917, 1442221909 | EPUB | 6,6 mb
A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine-the journey from vine to bottle-that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world: the host of insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, along with the feathered and furry critters, that lurk in vineyards. All are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Rather than responding with toxic chemicals, Kiger follows an organic approach to cultivation, explaining how natural and biological controls can conquer or at least contain these vineyard saboteurs. Highlighting the many hazards of nature that lie hidden in any vintage, the author tells the story of a winegrower and an organic philosophy that guides the annual struggle to coax great wine from a steep hillside and a few thousand vines. Combining history, science, technology, and personal experience, this book vividly brings to life the hard-fought battles behind the wines we savor.

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A Vineyard Odyssey The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature


Free Download John Kiger, "A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature"
English | 2013 | pages: 202 | ISBN: 1442221917, 1442221909 | EPUB | 6,6 mb
A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine-the journey from vine to bottle-that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world: the host of insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, along with the feathered and furry critters, that lurk in vineyards. All are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Rather than responding with toxic chemicals, Kiger follows an organic approach to cultivation, explaining how natural and biological controls can conquer or at least contain these vineyard saboteurs. Highlighting the many hazards of nature that lie hidden in any vintage, the author tells the story of a winegrower and an organic philosophy that guides the annual struggle to coax great wine from a steep hillside and a few thousand vines. Combining history, science, technology, and personal experience, this book vividly brings to life the hard-fought battles behind the wines we savor.

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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author [Audiobook]


Free Download Jennifer Horne, Sara Sheckells (Narrator), "Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author"
English | ASIN: B0CRHYNPHF | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~13:07:00 | 368 MB
Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama’s governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her. Finally, her mother and brother committed her to Bryce Hospital for the Insane, where she remained for the next seventeen years.
Throughout her life, Mayfield kept journals, wrote fiction, and produced thousands of letters while nursing the ambition that had driven her since childhood: to write and publish books. During her confinement, Mayfield assiduously recorded her experiences and her determined efforts-sometimes delusional, always savvy-to overturn her diagnosis and return to the world as a sane, independent adult. At fifty-nine, she was released from Bryce and later obtained a decree of "having been restored to sanity." She went on to publish noteworthy literary biographies of the Menckens and the Fitzgeralds, finally achieving her quest to become the author of books and her own life.

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