Category: E-Books

September 21, 2023

Dust The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens

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Free Download Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
Aug 31, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BZDNV51D | 14 hrs 46 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps
Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planet
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next 100 years, human life on swathes of the Earth’s surface will end in a haze of heat, drought, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of 20th-century progress and a profound threat to life in the 21st century.
And yet dust is something we hardly ever consider-it is so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought.

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September 21, 2023

Down and Dirty Pictures Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film [Audiobook]

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Free Download Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2008 | ASIN: B001MUU14C | MP3@64 kbps | 23h 30m | 646 MB
Author: Peter Biskind | Narrator: Phil Gigante
It wasn’t so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell – who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen – are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.

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September 21, 2023

China and Japan Facing History

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Free Download China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. Vogel, Eric Jason Martin, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08377GBYX | M4B@128 kbps | ~22:51:00 + PDF | 345 Mb
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China’s military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan’s brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve.
Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history. Throughout much of their past, the two countries maintained deep cultural ties, but China, with its great civilization and resources, had the upper hand. Japan’s success in modernizing in the 19th century and its victory in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War changed the dynamic, putting Japan in the dominant position. The bitter legacy of World War II has made cooperation difficult, despite efforts to promote trade and, more recently, tourism.

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September 21, 2023

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

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Free Download Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd, Tom Perkins, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
English | 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B071YPMRFX | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:53:00 + PDF | 136 Mb
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other 18th-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the "thorough deist" who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin’s beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life – including George Whitefield, the era’s greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane – kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin’s voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin’s life.

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