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Carol Dunbar, "The Net Beneath Us: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 125082687X, 1250826853 | 320 pages | EPUB | 4.5 MB
In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonder and harshness of life off the grid. Told over the course of a year, The Net Beneath Us is a lyrical exploration of loss, marriage, parenthood, and self-reliance; a tale of how the natural world-without and within us-offers us healing, if we can learn where to look.

The Miracle by Constantine Gonticas
English | September 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1785317830 | 352 pages | EPUB | 9.88 Mb
The Miracle is the inside story of how Greece shocked the footballing world by winning the 2004 European Championship. This incredible underdog tale shows how these 150-1 outsiders went from a team given no chance to being crowned kings of Europe, defeating the host nation in the final. Vasilis Sambrakos retraces Greece's journey by meeting most of Otto Rehagel's squad 15 years after their momentous triumph. The book is both an enthralling football story of victory against the odds and an in-depth look at how a winning team is constructed from the bottom up. It examines the values and methods needed to create a sporting unit along with the roles of the team's key players. The Miracle brings you the untold story of one of the greatest sporting achievements in history.

Barbara Browning, "The Miniaturists"
English | ISBN: 1478016272 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science," who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining

The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism By Max Ko-Wu Huang; Max Ko-Wu Huang
2008 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 9629962780 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is about how Yan Fu introduced the Chinese intellectual world to the liberalism of John Stuart Mill by partly grasping Mill's ideas, partly misunderstanding and projecting onto them indegenous Chinese values, and partly criticizing or resisting them. Rather than bending Western liberalism to the purposes of Chinese nationalism. Yan initiated a distinctively Chinese liberal tradition that became a major strand of China's modern political culture.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Karl A E Enenkel, "The Manipulative Mode: Political Propaganda in Antiquity: A Collection of Case Studies"
English | 2004 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 9004142916 | PDF | 25,2 mb
This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models (such as the centrally organized 'propaganda machines' of the 20th-century totalitarian regimes) or completely ignored. It offers case studies on the archaic period, classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Augustan age and the late Roman empire, and emphasizes concepts such as interaction, integration, and horizontal orientation.

Johnson, "The Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler"
English | ISBN: 0750953624 | 2014 | 198 pages | EPUB | 1259 KB
The true story behind the "man who spared Hitler's life" during World War I

Merrily Weisbord, "The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0773537910 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.7 mb
Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of India's most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, "The First Feminist Emotional Revolutionary of Our Time." The tabloid press called her "The Love Queen of Malabar." Merrily Weisbord found Das's work so compelling that she flew to South India to meet her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal. Both observer and direct participant, Weisbord elegantly presents new biographical insights and cultural details about Kerala and India without exoticisation or stereotyping. The Love Queen of Malabar is an evocative and beautifully crafted work, as seamless as the finest novel, and will captivate readers across the globe.

The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson
English | October 14, 2021 | ISBN: 1800241976, 1800241984 | True EPUB | 434 pages | 45.2 MB
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro-humanist, book-collector, patron of celebrated artists and battle-scarred mercenary soldier.

The Life and Death of the Universe: The History of the Big Bang and the Ultimate Fate of the Universe by Sarah Malloy
English | December 12, 2016 | ISBN: 154106691X | EPUB | 1.01 Mb
Experiments done in astronomy are quite different from other sciences. Unlike biology, chemistry, and physics, astronomers cannot hold their specimens in a petri dish and put them under a microscope. We rely solely on electromagnetic radiation to travel through space, into our telescopes, and interact with our detectors. While there have been impressive advances in our understanding of astronomy and the physical world, we are still quite limited by the sensitivity of our instruments, the size of our detectors, and our inability to probe the far reaches of the cosmos. As such, scientists can only attempt to answer questions that are within grasp of our current technology. Wondering what happened before our universe existed is a matter best left for dreaming, since making such observations are not (yet) possible. The Life and Death of the Universe: The History of the Big Bang and the Ultimate Fate of the Universe examines the fascinating history of deep space, and what the future holds. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the universe like never before.

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton By University of Pennsylvania
2003 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 1931707464 | PDF | 3 MB
Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-99) was one of the founders of modern American anthropology, holder of the first professorship of anthropology in the United States, and an esteemed anthropological scholar. His personal library, the only existing intact research library of a scholar prominent in the development of late nineteenth-century American anthropology, forms the core of the anthropology library at the University of Pennsylvania.The Brinton Library consists of 4,514 items, including 162 volumes of bound collections of pamphlets or offprints, early travel narratives, colonial histories, Indian captivity tales, missionary reports, and translations of the Bible into several indigenous languages of North and Central America. Materials written in Spanish, French, Italian, and German are also well represented.Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University Museum building, the Museum library, and portraits of individual participants in the Brinton Library.