Tag: Tracks

Steel Tracks and Silent Screams


Free Download Steel Tracks and Silent Screams: An American in the Wehrmacht, A story about an American inside a Tiger 1 tank during WW2 (Paths of Valor: Stories of WWII)
by Kirsten Dickson

English | December 19, 2024 | ASIN: B0DR2RVTWZ | 300 pages | PDF | 138 Mb

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On the Shadow Tracks A Journey through Occupied Myanmar


Free Download On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond
English | 6 Jun. 2024 | ISBN: 0241623898 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 3.8 MB
‘On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’

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Tracks on the Ocean A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel


Free Download Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel by Sara Caputo
English | 29 Aug. 2024 | ISBN: 1788168828, 1788168836 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 34.2 MB
From their first appearance on Renaissance maps, linear tracks representing maritime voyages have shaped the way we see the world. But why do we depict journeys as lines, and what is their deeper meaning? Ferdinand Magellan’s route to the Pacific embodied the promise of adventure and colonisation, while the scientific charts of the Royal Navy inspired others to plan conquests, navigate treacherous waters and establish settlements across the oceans.

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Sound Tracks Uncovering Our Musical Past


Free Download Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past by Graeme Lawson
English | 4 April 2024 | ISBN: 1847926878 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 7 MB
A transporting voyage of archaeological discovery: Sound Tracks unearths instruments from around the world and across time, releasing the past’s musical secrets for the first time.

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Off the Tracks A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel


Free Download Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 177041729X | 192 pages | PDF | 2.28 Mb
Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in neglect, have been refurbished as destinations in themselves. The Rocky Mountaineer, the Orient Express, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad run again in all their glory.

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Divergent Tracks How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound


Free Download Vanessa Theme Ament, "Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound"
English | ISBN: 1501359223 | 2021 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital. However, their cultural and structural labor differences governed different results.

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