Tag: Years

2000 Years of Disbelief Famous People with the Courage to Doubt


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1996 | 459 Pages | ISBN: 1573920673 | EPUB | 4 MB
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful, witty collection sets the record straight by profiling dozens of famous people who were skeptical of conventional religious beliefs. Included, among others, are Isaac Asimov, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Omar Khayyam, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Gene Roddenberry, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Voltaire, with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.

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The Battle for France & Flanders Sixty Years On


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English | 2001 | ISBN: 0850528119 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 2.0 mb
The campaign of 1940 which culminated in the British evacuation at Dunkirk and the French surrender at Compiegne remains one of the most controversial of World War II. Professor Brian Bond of the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London has assembled a team of distinguished scholars in this book of essays on the campaign of 1940. Each essay has extensive footnotes that list the best and most recent books and articles on each topic.

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One Hundred Years of Water Wars in New Mexico, 1912-2012


Free Download Catherine T. Ortega Klett, "One Hundred Years of Water Wars in New Mexico, 1912-2012 (New Mexico Centennial History Series Book)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0865349029, 163293597X | PDF | pages: 298 | 132.4 mb
Water is the lifeblood of human existence. New Mexico’s history provides a fascinating microcosm of the role water plays in the growth and development of a community. This book details many of the complex and messy fights, legal and otherwise, over precious water in a semiarid western state. Focusing on the past one hundred years constituting New Mexico’s statehood, contributors describe the often convoluted and always intriguing stories that have shaped New Mexico’s water past and that will, without doubt, influence its future history. Many of New Mexico’s ”movers and shakers” in the water community have contributed their water war stories to the book. From acclaimed water lawyers to historians to novelists to academicians, their stories reflect the broad legal, historic, traditional, religious, and community values of New Mexico’s water culture. The celebration of New Mexico’s centennial is made more complete with the telling of these exciting and colorful narratives of how water has and will shape our future.

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years A Novel


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English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0593653459 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 4.9 MB
"Rich and swoony…an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing…This is the start of a major career." – The New York Times Book Review

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Shelby American 60 Years of High Performance


Free Download Shelby American 60 Years of High Performance: The Stories Behind the Cobra, Daytona, Mustang GT350 and GT500, Ford GT40 and More by Colin Comer, Richard J. Kopec, James D. Farley
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0760376190 | 224 pages | PDF | 30 Mb
Six Decades of Shelby performance-from the first Shelby AC Cobra to today’s Mustang Shelby GT500!

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Progress on Cryptography 25 Years of Cryptography in China


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English | PDF | 2004 | 253 Pages | ISBN : 1402079869 | 16.1 MB
Cryptography in Chinese consists of two characters meaning "secret coded". Thanks to Ch’in Chiu-Shao and his successors, the Chinese Remainder Theorem became a cornerstone of public key cryptography. Today, as we observe the constant usage of high-speed computers interconnected via the Internet, we realize that cryptography and its related applications have developed far beyond "secret coding". China, which is rapidly developing in all areas of technology, is also writing a new page of history in cryptography. As more and more Chinese become recognized as leading researchers in a variety of topics in cryptography, it is not surprising that many of them are Professor Xiao’s former students.

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