Tag: Fate

Free Download Kathryn Warner, "Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II"
English | ISBN: 0750970111 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Edward II’s death at Berkeley Castle in 1327, murdered by having a red-hot poker inserted inside him, is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For five and a half centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to Ireland, to the pope in Avignon and through Brabant, Cologne and Milan to an Italian hermitage.Was Edward in fact still alive years after his supposed death? Many influential people among his contemporaries certainly believed that he was, and acted upon that belief.In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward’s downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role played in it by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle, and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

Free Download The Titanic – The Unsinkable Ship’s Tragic Fate and Legacy (Famous Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters) by A.G. Taylor, History by the Hour
English | June 27, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5B5MDYZ | 70 pages | EPUB | 6.08 Mb
In this one-hour history book, discover how the unsinkable ship, the Titanic, met its tragic fate and the aftermath of this maritime disaster.

Free Download The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species by Michael Bérubé
English | May 28, 2024 | ISBN: 0231215053 | 312 pages | PDF | 3.67 Mb
Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow us to imagine?

Free Download Éric Monnet, "Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies"
English | ISBN: 0226834131 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB | 400 KB
Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic?

Free Download Arno Sauer, "In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526797704, 1526733331 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.5 mb
On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was into this bloody theater of war that Fritz Sauer was sent.

Free Download The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence (Audiobook)
English | March 03, 2014 | ASIN: B00IRMNUNC | M4B@64 kbps | 29h 22m | 800 MB
Author: Martin Meredith | Narrator: Fleet Cooper
The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism – from Mugabe’s doomed kleptocracy to Mandela’s inspiring defeat of apartheid.
The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece….The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a magnificent achievement" (Weekly Standard); "a joy," (Wall Street Journal) and "one of the decade’s most important works on Africa" (✅Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Free Download Parole: The Fate of Prisoners in My Hands and The High-Stake Risks of Getting it Wrong (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW2BK345 | 2024 | 6 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Rob McKeon
Narrator: Rob McKeon
Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole. You don’t know what you don’t know. How can you predict the future when you don’t know what you don’t know? Rob McKeon is a member of Britain’s parole board, making tough, life-changing decisions about whether a prisoner is safe to return to society; impacting not only prisoners and their victims, but also the general public. This vital work has been the subject of a BBC television documentary, Parole. For 12 years, Rob has been handling sensitive and high-profile cases, dealing with the social, moral, and emotional pressures that come with this difficult job. This book provides unique insight into his work, with a compelling behind-the-scenes look at parole hearings.

Free Download Hope over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4R8R3NL | 2024 | 15 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Scott MacMillan
Narrator: Scott MacMillan
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, in 1972, aiming to help a few thousand war refugees. A half century later, BRAC is by many measures the largest nongovernmental organization in the world-and by many accounts, the most effective anti-poverty program ever. His methods changed the way global policymakers think about poverty.

Free Download The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the North Sea: Multiple Year Model Simulations of γ-HCH, α-HCH and PCB 153 By Dr. Tatjana P. Ilyina (auth.)
2007 | 132 Pages | ISBN: 3540681620 | PDF | 6 MB
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are harmful to human health and to the environment. Their fate in the marine environment is not yet fully understood. An ocean model (FANTOM) has been developed to investigate the fate of selected POPs in the North Sea. The main focus of the model is on quantifying the distribution of POPs and their aquatic pathways. This is the first time that a spatially-resolved, measurement-based ocean transport model has been used to study POP-like substances, at least on the regional scale. The model was applied for the southern North Sea and tested by studying the behaviour of g-HCH, a-HCH and PCB 153 in sea water. This model study proves that transport models, such as FANTOM, are capable of reproducing realistic multi-year temporal and spatial trends of selected POPs and can be used to address further scientific questions.

Free Download Jrg Noller, "The Fate of Choice: Freedom and Imputability in Kant and His Early Successors "
English | ISBN: 9004544674 | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book reconstructs the intense early post-Kantian debate on freedom of the will, choice, and moral imputability for the first time.