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Free Download How the Jester Became King: Dave Portnoy and the Unauthorized Real Story of Barstool Sports by Charlie Stanton
English | December 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798888459645 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 1.38 MB
The rags-to-riches tale of controversial media personality Dave Portnoy.

Free Download The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive by James Cooke
English | December 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1633889920 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.60 MB
A compelling, inventive, and revolutionary examination of consciousness that holds the key to transforming our relationship with nature

Free Download The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic by Mark L. Clifford
English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1668027690 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 88.99 MB
The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong’s leading activists for democracy and is today China’s most famous political prisoner.

Free Download The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 0226816524 | 352 pages | MOBI | 8.56 Mb
An engrossing origin story for the personal computer-showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.

Free Download How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton Modern Knowledge) by Caroline Winterer
English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 0691199671 | 392 pages | True EPUB | 174.00 MB
How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves

Free Download How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0300268149 | 248 pages | PDF | 4.81 Mb
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Free Download Laine Nooney, Krystal Hammond (Narrator), "The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal"
English | ASIN: B0D5SD7D9L | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:07:00 | 305 MB
Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the marketplace by his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the Apple II became one of the most prominent personal computers of this dawning industry.
The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn’t found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple’s founders, or the way it set the stage for the company’s multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software. In software, we discover the material reasons people bought computers. The story of personal computing in the United States is not about the evolution of hackers-it’s about the rise of everyday users.
Recounting a constellation of software creation stories, Nooney offers a new understanding of how the hobbyists’ microcomputers of the 1970s became the personal computer we know today. The Apple II Age offers an unprecedented look at the people, the industry, and the money that built the microcomputing milieu-and why so much of it converged around the pioneering Apple II.

Free Download Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKK7VFQG | 2024 | 8 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Jessica Calarco
Narrator: Jessica Calarco, Karen Murray
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women-women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women’s labor as the reason we’ve gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don’t need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.

Free Download When Our World Became Christian: 312 – 394 by Paul Veyne, translated by Janet Lloyd
English | March 29, 2010 | ISBN: 0745644988, 0745644996 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.7 MB
This short book by one of France’s leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations.

Free Download Upstart: How China Became a Great Power by Oriana Skylar Mastro
English | July 1, 2024 | ISBN: 019769506X | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.7 MB
A powerful new explanation of China’s rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.