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Free Download Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BK73JVTP | 2023 | 14 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Elizabeth Winkler
Narrator: Eunice Wong

Free Download When the Earth Was Flat: All the Bits of Science We Got Wrong by Graeme Donald
English | January 1, 2015 | ISBN: 1843178680 | 192 pages | EPUB | 6.15 Mb
Perfect for anyone with an interest in our scientific history, When the Earth Was Flat exposes the scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true but have since been disproved.Featuring ideas that now seem more crazy than credible, from the human body being made up of only four humours – black and yellow bile, blood and phlegm – to the discovery of the so-called ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary chain. When the Earth Was Flat tells the fascinating story behind those scientific theories we once believed to be true, and shows how the way we view the world, and the way we think the world works, has changed completely throughout history.

Free Download Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was by Linda Seidel
English | March 9, 2023 | ISBN: 0226822192 | True EPUB/PDF | 160 pages | 8.7/16.8 MB
A vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.

Free Download Annie Besant, "Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform"
English | ISBN: 1618959948 | 2020 | 82 pages | EPUB | 256 KB
Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women’s rights activist, writer, orator, educationist, and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. She was a prolific author with over three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit. As an educationist, her contributions included the founding of the Banaras Hindu University.

Free Download This Land Was Saved for You and Me: How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands by Jeffrey H. Ryan
English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4BQXY2R | 217 pages | EPUB | 4.75 Mb
The story of how America’s public lands-our city parks, national forests, and wilderness areas-came into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces. Some, like Frederick Law Olmsted and Gifford Pinchot, are well known, while others have never been given their due.

Free Download B. J. Harrison Reads T’was the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
English | MP3@192 kbps | 05 min | 6.9 MB
"T’was the Night Before Christmas" or as it was known in the beginning "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is a magical poem about Christmas and cheer, St. Nicholas and his reindeers, presents and joy, winter and snow, merriment and happiness, and Christmas as a feeling which comes from the heart.

Free Download Hugh Ryan, "When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History"
English | 2019 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1250621402, 1250169917 | EPUB | 44,7 mb
The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.