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Free Download Jacob Bronowski, "William Blake and the Age of Revolution"
English | 2012 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0571241883 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
Bronowski was fascinated by William Blake for much of his life. His first book about him, A Man Without a Mask, was published in 1944. In 1958 his famous Penguin selection of Blake’s poems and letters was published. As further testimony to Bronowski’s enthusiasm it should be noted that the final plate in the book of his great TV series The Ascent of Man is Blake’s frontispiece to Songs of Experience. William Blake and the Age of Revolution, first published in 1965, is, in some ways, a revised edition of A Man Without a Mask, in others, a new book. In it Bronowski gives a stimulating interpretation of Blake’s art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working. Like all of Bronowski’s writings it dazzles with wide-ranging erudition, making this work far removed from conventional literary criticism.

Free Download Stevie Cameron, "On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women"
English | 2010 | pages: 768 | ISBN: 0676975852 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.

Free Download On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women by Stevie Cameron, Erin Moon, Vintage Canada
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WGVG8L9 | Format: M4B | 25 hours and 58 minutes | 1.38 Gb
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
Covering the case of one of North America’s most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police-and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton-such as from Pickton’s long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement’s refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

Free Download Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMWGJDCS | 2023 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Peter Stark
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh-and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion-from the New York Times bestselling author. The conquest of Indigenous land in the eastern United States through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. In Gallop Toward the Sun, acclaimed author Peter Stark exposes the fundamental conflicts at play through the little-known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders. William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, the son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He journeyed west, became governor of the vast Indiana Territory, and sought statehood by attracting settlers and imposing one-sided treaties.

Free Download Benson Farb, "Collected Works of William P. Thurston with Commentary "
English | ISBN: 1470463903 | 2022 | 604 pages | PDF | 52 MB
William Thurston’s work has had a profound influence on mathematics. He connected whole mathematical subjects in entirely new ways and changed the way mathematicians think about geometry, topology, foliations, group theory, dynamical systems, and the way these areas interact. His emphasis on understanding and imagination in mathematical learning and thinking are integral elements of his distinctive legacy. This four-part collection brings together in one place Thurston’s major writings, many of which are appearing in publication for the first time. Volumes I-III contain commentaries by the Editors. Volume IV includes a preface by Steven P. Kerckhoff. Volume III contains William Thurston’s papers on dynamics and computer science, and papers written for general audiences. Additional miscellaneous papers are also included, such as his 1967 New College undergraduate thesis, which foreshadows his later work.

Free Download The Life We Chose: William "Big Billy" D’Elia and the Last Secrets of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Family (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJRPWN5N | 2023 | 8 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Matt Birkbeck
Narrator: Jason Culp

Free Download William Penn: Political Writings By Andrew R. Murphy
2020 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 1108497128 | PDF | 3 MB
William Penn (1644-1718) – Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor – played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on both sides of the Atlantic for more than four decades. This volume presents, for the first time, a fully annotated scholarly edition of Penn’s political writings over the course of his long public career, tracing his thinking from his early theorisation of religious toleration and liberty of conscience in England, as a leading member of the Society of Friends during the 1670s, to his colonial undertaking in Pennsylvania a decade later, his controversial role in the years leading up to the 1688 Revolution, and the ongoing consequences of that Revolution to his future prospects. Penn’s political writings provide an illuminating window into the increasingly sophisticated and influential movement for liberty of conscience in the early modern world.

Free Download The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 2001-2016: Problems, Solutions, and Commentary By Kiran S. Kedlaya, Daniel M. Kane, Jonathan M. Kane, Evan M. O’Dorney
2020 | 363 Pages | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: 2020023499 | PDF | 2 MB
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition is the mostprestigious undergraduate mathematics problem-solving contest inNorth America, with thousands of students taking part every year. Thisvolume presents the contest problems for the years 2001-2016. Theheart of the book is the solutions; these include multiple approaches,drawn from many sources, plus insights into navigating from theproblem statement to a solution. There is also a section of hints,to encourage readers to engage deeply with the problems beforeconsulting the solutions.The authors have a distinguished history of engagement with, andpreparation of students for, the Putnam and other mathematicalcompetitions. Collectively they have been named Putnam Fellow (topfive finisher) ten times. Kiran Kedlaya also maintains the online PutnamArchive.

Free Download Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph By Vered Maimon
2015 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0816694729 | PDF | 20 MB
Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges today’s prevalent association of the early photograph with the camera obscura. Instead, she points to material, formal, and conceptual differences between those two types of images by considering the philosophical and aesthetic premises linked with early photography. Through this analysis she argues that the emphasis in Talbot’s accounts on the removal of the "artist’s hand" in favor of "the pencil of nature" did not mark a shift from manual to "mechanical" and more accurate or "objective" systems of representation.In Singular Images, Failed Copies, Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in the 1830s and 1840s was in fact symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.

Free Download Benson Farb, "Collected Works of William P. Thurston with Commentary "
English | ISBN: 147046389X | 2022 | 627 pages | PDF | 288 MB
William Thurston’s work has had a profound influence on mathematics. He connected whole mathematical subjects in entirely new ways and changed the way mathematicians think about geometry, topology, foliations, group theory, dynamical systems, and the way these areas interact. His emphasis on understanding and imagination in mathematical learning and thinking are integral elements of his distinctive legacy. This four-part collection brings together in one place Thurston’s major writings, many of which are appearing in publication for the first time. Volumes I-III contain commentaries by the Editors. Volume IV includes a preface by Steven P. Kerckhoff. Volume II contains William Thurston’s papers on the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, on complexity, constructions and computers, and on geometric group theory.