Tag: Friendship

Free Download Eve Driver, "What We Can’t Burn : Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future"
English | ISBN: 1958510033 | 2024 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1361 KB
When they met as juniors at Harvard, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid the college’s fossil fuel divestment campaign–which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds.

Free Download Carla Power, "If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran"
English | ISBN: 0805098194 | 2015 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1193 KB
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Named A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Denver Post * Praised by Fareed Zakaria as "intelligent, compassionate, and revealing," a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.

Free Download The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies) by William W. Young III
English | December 28, 2006 | ISBN: 0754656462, 1138376019 | True EPUB/PDF | 230 pages | 0.3/3.2 MB
While the revelation of God’s name is a central theological topic, its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a world filled with violence committed ‘in the name of God’, how might invoking God’s name enable peace, community, and hope?

Free Download Cowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDFF3SQ | 2024 | 8 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Gregory Berns
Narrator: Derek Dysart
From the bestselling author, a fascinating glimpse into the cognitive and emotional lives of cows. When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful operation. But that was where his knowledge of cattle ended. As Berns and his small herd of three miniature zebus acclimated to each other and Berns received a crash course in being a cattleman, he turned his powers of scientific observation and innovation on his new charges. This wasn’t the first time he’d studied animals through the lens of neuroscience; years earlier, Berns had applied his knowledge to man’s best friend, resulting in two books and important advances in how we understand dogs’ thoughts and emotions.

Free Download All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTCYGD4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Orlando Whitfield
Narrator: Orlando Whitfield
A dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer. Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge. At around the same time, Orlando would himself experience a nervous breakdown and leave the art world for good. By 2019 things had spiraled enough out of control for Inigo to flee to the remote island nation of Vanuatu, 300 miles west of Fiji. Within a year, he was arrested by the FBI and extradited to America, where he was sentenced to seven years in prison for having committed more than $86 million in fraud. All That Glitters is at once a shocking and compulsive story of ambition and downfall, a cautionary tale, and an intimate portrait of friendship and its loss.

Free Download A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6WKLRNR | 2024 | 15 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Francis D. Cogliano
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
Martha Washington’s worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson’s awkward visit to pay his respects. Indeed, by the time George Washington died in 1799, the two founders were estranged. But that estrangement has obscured the fact that for most of their thirty-year acquaintance they enjoyed a productive relationship. Precisely because they shared so much, their disagreements have something important to teach us. Whereas Washington believed in the rule of traditional elites like the Virginia gentry, Jefferson preferred what we would call a meritocratic approach, by which elites would be elected on the basis of education and skills.

Free Download Friendship First: From New Sparks to Chosen Family, How Our Friends Pave the Way for Lifelong Happiness by Gyan Yankovich
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011820 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.36 MB
Our friends enrich every part of our lives. Now you can make them matter the most.

Free Download You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship by Mark Nepo
English | July 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1250342376 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 2.08 MB
A celebration of friendship and community from bestselling author Mark Nepo

Free Download Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini by Christopher Sandford
English | January 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0230619509 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1.35 Mb
Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician’s tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted séances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he called a "living afterlife," though his enthusiasm came to be tempered by his ability to expose fraudulent mediums, many of whom employed crude variations of his own well-known illusions. Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale tells the fascinating story of the relationship between two of the most loved figures of the 20th century and their pursuit of magic and lost loved ones.

Free Download Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok
English | May 5, 2014 | ISBN: 0813935695, 0813951593 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 1.3 MB
Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through the Spanish colonies in the spring of 1804, Humboldt visited the United States, where he met several times with then-president Jefferson. A warm and fruitful friendship resulted, and the two men corresponded a good deal over the years, speculating together on topics of mutual interest, including natural history, geography, and the formation of an international scientific network. Living in revolutionary societies, both were deeply concerned with the human condition, and each vested hope in the new American nation as a possible answer to many of the deficiencies characterizing European societies at the time.