Tag: Brief

Brief Encounters with the Enemy Fiction


Free Download Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, "Brief Encounters with the Enemy: Fiction"
English | 2013 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0812993586 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
The first short story collection from a writer who calls to mind such luminaries as Denis Johnson, George Saunders, and Nathan Englander

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Progress vs Parasites A Brief History of the Conflict that’s Shaped our World [Audiobook]


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English | September 05, 2019 | ASIN: B07X6K74LK | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 11m | 445 MB
Author: Douglas Carswell | Narrator: Russell Bentley
The change in our ancestors’ behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record – sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances – hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and trade spans the planet – lifting most of our species out of the grinding poverty of the past.

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Writing in Engineering A Brief Guide


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English | 2016 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 0199343551 | PDF | 41,2 mb
At once sophisticated and practical, Writing in Engineering: A Brief Guide leads students through how to compose design reports, lab reports, and other key engineering genres while attending to the principles of argument, style, and visual design. It is a part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today’s writing-intensive college courses. The series is edited by Thomas Deans (University of Connecticut) and Mya Poe (Northeastern University).

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Handley Page Hastings Including a Brief History of the Hermes


Free Download Tim Senior – Handley Page Hastings: Including a Brief History of the Hermes
Dalrymple & Verdun | 2008 | ISBN: 1905414072 | English | 116 pages | PDF | 109.99 MB
This is a detailed and fully illustrated account of the Handley Page Hastings in service, from the prototypes to the handful of surviving examples. It includes 32 specially commissioned and highly accurate colour illustrations, as well as more than 180 black and white and colour photographs. A listing of airframes and histories is also included.

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Brief History of the Universe


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English | 2009 | pages: 317 | ISBN: 1845296842 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Since the dawn of time, men have gazed at the stars and attempted to chart the heavens. Beginning at Stonehenge and ending with the current crisis in String Theory, the story of this eternal question to uncover the mysteries of the universe describes a narrative that includes some of the greatest discoveries of all time and leading personalities, including Aristotle, Copernicus, and Isaac Newton, and the rise to the modern era of Einstein, Eddington, and Hawking.

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Life in the Age of Insulin A Brief History


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 303147189X | 416 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
Life in the Age of Insulin offers a straightforward and jargon-free narrative account of how insulin was discovered, what it does, why people still struggle to obtain it, and what the future might hold. It tells of the creative power that emerges when many people work towards a common goal, and of collective strength founded upon the limitations of individuals.

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How the Earth Turned Green A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants


Free Download Joseph E. Armstrong, "How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants"
English | ISBN: 022606977X | 2015 | 576 pages | PDF | 11 MB
On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth’s long history―that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today.

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