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Free Download Patrick Rael, "Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 "
English | ISBN: 0820348392 | 2015 | 416 pages | AZW3 | 1286 KB
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide.

Free Download Anthony Robinson – Dictionary of Aviation: Eighty Years of Powered Flight
Orbis Publishing | 1984 | ISBN: 085613533X | English | 312 pages | PDF | 224.3 MB
Provides an invaluable guide to the remarkable history of the people, the battles and the aircraft of powered aviation.

Free Download David Gooblar, "Roth after Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1498514650 | 2016 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1385 KB
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.

Free Download Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541601289 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 9.67 MB
"A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers." -Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings

Free Download Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Games AKA Around the World in 80 Games: A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYKQN478, B0CB6XTFC2 | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 359 MB
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Narrator: Mark Elstob
Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.

Free Download SONiVOX Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 v2.5.1 Update | 8.2 Mb
Our flagship piano instrument is not just any piano. Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 is an exceptional recreation of the Steinway 9-foot CD 327 grand piano. Meticulously sampled and expertly voiced, Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 provides every composer, pianist, and musician the opportunity to infuse their compositions, recordings, and performances with the breathtaking realism of this truly world-class grand piano.