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Free Download Paul Nahin, "The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age"
English | ISBN: 0691151008 | 2012 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution

Free Download Paul Nahin, "The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age"
English | ISBN: 0691151008 | 2012 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution

Free Download Kenneth O. Morgan, "The Age of Lloyd George: The Liberal Party and British Politics, 1890-1929"
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032043717, 1032043644 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 0.4 mb
Originally published in 1971, this book traces the revival, triumph, division and decline of the British Liberal Party in the late 19th & 20th centuries. It does so by focusing on the career of David Lloyd George, itself the decisive agent for change in this period. The first part of the book is an extended critical essay; the second part consists of primary documentary material which is intimately linked to the commentary in the first section. The major phases of the period are covered: The tension between the Old Liberalism and the New; the challenges confronting the Liberal government of 1905-15; the impact of world war and Lloyd George’s wartime premiership; the Lloyd George coalition in 1918-22 and the reasons for its downfall; and the slow decline of the Liberals between 1922 and 1929.

Free Download Tyler Chamberlain, "Reading George Grant in the 21st Century "
English | ISBN: 303144888X | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 6 MB
George Grant (1918-1988) was one of Canada’s foremost public philosophers. Though his thought arose out of reflection on the history of political philosophy, pressing political concerns were never far from view. He was particularly adept at locating the causes of political developments in philosophical movements that were centuries in the making. This book reassesses his ideas in light of philosophical and political developments of recent decades, including the resurgence of nationalism, criticisms of globalization and technocracy, and the ideological realignments having a particularly noticeable effect on right-wing politics. The contemporary reader of Grant is thus able to reflect on his broader criticisms of modernity from within a slightly different historical articulation of modernity. Though George Grant died in 1988, the philosophical themes in his work remain relevant into the 21st

Free Download Patriot Presidents: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams by William E. Leuchtenburg
English | July 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 0197598854 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 61.57 MB
A nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency

Free Download Manny Shwab and the George Dickel Company: Whisky, Power and Politics During Nashville’s Gilded Age by Clay Shwab
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1476692777 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 22.92 MB
There was once a Tennessee whiskey that dwarfed Jack Daniel’s, and a powerful man was behind it: V.E. "Manny" Shwab. Until now, virtually nothing has been written about either. Their story is one of a Jewish Alsatian immigrant’s dream of finding community and prosperity in the New world; of smuggling during the Civil War; of the raging, sometimes fatal, battle against Prohibition; and of the wild side of rapidly growing Nashville during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Free Download John Van Der Kiste, "George Iii’s Children"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0750922338, 0750900342 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 0.4 mb
King George III and Queen Charlotte had 15 children, all but two surviving to maturity. This book describes the relationships between the siblings and chronologically recounts the life of the family; the intriguing characters who surrounded the royal court; and the princes’ liaisons which resulted in the extraordinary situation that, when Princess Charlotte of Wales died unexpectedly in 1817, George III, at the age of 79, did not have a single legitimate grandchild. Three of his children then hurried to the altar.

Free Download Alan Sharp, "David Lloyd George: Great Britain"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1905791615 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.5 mb
David Lloyd George (1863-1945). The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its armies had triumphed in the Middle East and spearheaded the final attacks in Western Europe that had driven the defeated Germans to seek an armistice. Britain now had to translate this military victory into the achievement of its war aims and future security and prosperity. Its main negotiator at the forthcoming peace conference would be its prime minister, the ebullient and enigmatic David Lloyd George, the "Welsh Wizard" and "the man who had won the war." Lloyd George’s energy had maintained the war effort through the dark days of 1917 and early 1918, but now he anticipated, with relish, the prospect of winning the peace. Few were better equipped. He was a skilled and accomplished negotiator with the knack of reconciling the apparently irreconcilable. His admirers, of whom there were many, pointed to his brilliant and agile mind, his rapid grasp of complex questions and his powers of persuasion. His critics, who were also numerous, distrusted his sleight of hand, fleetness of foot and, frankly, his word. His six months in Paris in 1919, as he pitted his wits against formidable world leaders like Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau, were among the most enjoyable but exhausting of his life. This study investigates the extent to which Lloyd George succeeded in his aims and evaluates the immediate and longer-term results of his negotiations for Britain.

Free Download Margaret Harris, "Antipodean George Eliot"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032267143, 1032424516 | PDF | pages: 231 | 14.8 mb
In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career―from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such―Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Free Download William M. Fowler Jr., "An American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783"
English | ISBN: 0802717063 | 2011 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 977 KB
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact the war continued for two more traumatic years. During that time, the Revolution came closer to being lost than at any time in the previous half dozen. The British still held New York, Savannah, Wilmington, and Charleston; the Royal Navy controlled the seas; the states-despite having signed the Articles of Confederation earlier that year-retained their individual sovereignty and, largely bankrupt themselves, refused to send any money in the new nation’s interest; members of Congress were in constant disagreement; and the Continental army was on the verge of mutiny.