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Free Download Hannah Boston, "Lordship and Locality in the Long Twelfth Century"
English | ISBN: 1783277831 | 2024 | 274 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 8 MB

Free Download Anita & S K Jain Jain, "Indian Ethnobotany: Bibliography of 21st Century"
English | 2016 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 8172339941 | PDF | 1,0 mb

Free Download Professor Axel Müller, "Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century: A Study, Edition and Translation of the "Firework Book" "
English | ISBN: 1783277319 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 12 MB

Free Download Dr Elizabeth Spencer, "Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England "
English | ISBN: 1837650349 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB | 9 MB

Free Download Charles Wheeler: Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News by Shirin Wheeler
English | 9 Nov. 2023 | ISBN: 1786581752 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.6 MB
Charles Wheeler, the BBC’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain’s greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world’s trouble spots. Present at many of the key episodes of the twentieth century, he had – as a BBC manager noted after the shooting of George Wallace, Presidential candidate and Governor of Alabama, on 15 May 1972, ‘a knack of being in the right place at the right time’. It was typical of Charles that he ran towards the sound of the gunshot while the crowd was running in the opposite direction.

Free Download Building the 21st Century City through Public-Private Partnerships
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103212069X | 207 Pages | PDF (True) | 82 MB
Building the 21st Century City through Public-Private Partnerships introduces students and early-career professionals to the fundamentals of this unique form of cross-sector collaboration. From understanding the responsibilities of government and industry partners to stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this introductory guide empowers developers and local officials to deliver successful commercial, leisure, and industrial projects neither could undertake on their own. Chapters on securing financing and navigating permitting processes demystify the steps to creating profitable developments, while case studies from around the United States provide invaluable local context. A glossary of public-private partnership terminology offers the reader an insider’s grasp of the language of government and industry partnerships.

Free Download Thinking the Twentieth Century By Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder
2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1594203237 | PDF | 17 MB
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought." (Los Angeles Times) The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas–a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a tour-de-force, a classic engagement of modern thought by one of the century’s most incisive thinkers. The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure–a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of the time and focused by the intensity of their vision. Judt’s astounding eloquence and range are here on display as never before. Traversing the complexities of modern life with ease, he and Snyder revive both thoughts and thinkers, guiding us through the debates that made our world. As forgotten ideas are revisited and fashionable trends scrutinized, the shape of a century emerges. Judt and Snyder draw us deep into their analysis, making us feel that we too are part of the conversation. We become aware of the obligations of the present to the past, and the force of historical perspective and moral considerations in the critique and reform of society, then and now. In restoring and indeed exemplifying the best of intellectual life in the twentieth century, Thinking the Twentieth Century opens pathways to a moral life for the twenty-first. This is a book about the past, but it is also an argument for the kind of future we should strive for: Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the life of the mind–and the mindful life.

Free Download Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts By Rosalind Polly Blakesley
2007 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0875803601 | PDF | 46 MB
This book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the West-in particular with the United States, Britain, and France-from the 1860s to the Khrushchev Thaw. Offering stimulating new readings of cross-cultural exchange, it illuminates Russia’s compelling, and sometimes combative, relation with western art in this period of profound cultural transformation.Russian Art and the West breaks new ground in the range of its material and its chronological span. Attending both to vanguard tendencies and to the official artistic institutions and practices of the tsarist and Soviet eras, it casts light on seminal developments little studied in western scholarship, while also providing new contexts for, and fresh insights into, the avant-garde of the early 20th century.The book’s eleven essays by leading experts on Russian art and design explore painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, considering not only the objects but also the patrons, audiences, exhibitions, and critical readings that together shaped national culture in an international context. Written in an accessible style and encompassing a variety of approaches, they collectively rethink conventional polarities and influences, and unpack the myths of separateness and isolation so often associated with artistic endeavor in late imperial or Soviet Russia.This illustrated volume will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to understand the fuller context of Russian artistic culture during a remarkable century of social and political change.

Free Download Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine By France Meslé, Jacques Vallin (auth.)
2012 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 9400724322 | PDF | 12 MB
The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distinguish between crisis mortality, birth shortfall and loss through emigration. Based on a painstaking work of reconstitution, this study is the first to provide a detailed estimation of the hecatomb in terms of number of deaths and life expectancy. The famine of 1933 was alone responsible for the deaths of 2.6 million Ukrainians and reduced male and female life expectancies to 7 and 11 years respectively. Once the crises of the 1930s and 1940s were over, the earlier trend in health resumed and mortality declined steadily until the 1960s. At this point, however, a new type of crisis appeared that caused a sustained reversal in the existing trends. Life expectancy for women stopped increasing altogether, while that for men began a relentless year on year regression. Notwithstanding the confusing picture created by the fluctuations of the 1980s and 1990s, the long-term trend is to further deterioration. To understand the factors involved, this study analyses in detail the combined effects of different causes of death at different ages.​

Free Download London, A Fourteenth-Century City and its People by Kathryn Warner
English | August 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1526776375 | 224 pages | MOBI | 5.22 Mb
For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was transformative.