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Free Download The Death of Guy Gibson: Who, or What, Killed the Dambuster VC by M.S. Morgan, M S Morgan
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1036119378 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 8.28 MB
On the night of 19/20 September 1944, a force of 227 Avro Lancasters and ten de Havilland Mosquitoes was dispatched to attack the German towns of Mönchengladbach and Rheydt. The Master Bomber for the raid was none other than Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar. Along with his navigator, Squadron Leader James Warwick DFC, Gibson was flying Mosquito KB627 of 627 Squadron from RAF Coningsby, where he was serving as the Base Operations Officer.

Free Download Jeffrey B. Wagman, "Perception as Information Detection: Reflections on Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception "
English | ISBN: 0367312964 | 2019 | 338 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.J. Gibson on the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979).

Free Download Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan, William Gibson
English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1789097525 | 9 hours and 43 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 170 Mb
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning "Queen of Cyberpunk."
William Gibson’s never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson’s never-produced first draft.
The Sulaco-on its return journey from LV-426-enters a sector controlled by the "Union of Progressive Peoples," a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.

Free Download Mitch R. Murray, "William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture "
English | ISBN: 1609387481 | 2021 | 290 pages | AZW3 | 1325 KB
William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It is high time for a book that explores the significance and wide-ranging impact of Gibson’s fiction.

Free Download Ecological Psychology in Context: James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James’s Radical Empiricism By Harry Heft
2001 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 0805823506 | EPUB | 4 MB
In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological psychology and analyses of sociocultural processes. A thesis of the book is that knowing is rooted in the direct experience of meaningful environmental objects and events present in individual-environment processes and at the level of collective, social settings. Ecological Psychology in Context: *traces the primary lineage of Gibson’s ecological approach to William James’s philosophy of radical empiricism; *illuminates how the work of James’s student and Gibson’s mentor, E.B. Holt, served as a catalyst for the development of Gibson’s framework and as a bridge to James’s work; *reveals how ecological psychology reciprocally can advance Jamesian studies by resolving some of the theoretical difficulties that kept James from fully realizing a realist philosophy; *broadens the scope of Gibson’s framework by proposing a synthesis between it and the ecological program of Roger Barker, who discovered complex systems operating at the level of collective, social processes; *demonstrates ways in which the psychological domain can be extended to properties of the environment rendering its features meaningful, publicly accessible, and distributed across person-environment processes; and *shows how Gibson’s work points the way toward overcoming the gap between experimental psychology and the humanities. Intended for scholars and students in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology, theoretical and historical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Free Download Madhur Mangalam, "The Modern Legacy of Gibson’s Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms "
English | ISBN: 1032500182 | 2024 | 412 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological, neuroscientific, and applied perspectives.

Free Download Guy Gibson and his Dambuster Crew by Charles Foster
English | December 7, 2012 | ISBN: 1803992131 | 272 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
The Dams Raid is the RAF’s most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew ― two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen – only one had previously flown with him, but altogether they had amassed more than 180 operations. Drawing on rare and unpublished sources and family archives, this new study, written by the author of the acclaimed 2018 title, The Complete Dambusters, is the first book to fully detail their stories. It explores the previous connections between the seven men who would fly on just one operation together and examines how their relationships developed in the few months they spent in each other’s company.

Free Download Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B1JND6KR | 2023 | 19 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 552 MB
Author: Sally H. Jacobs
Narrator: Chanté McCormick
"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my personal shero, who overcame daunting odds-on the tennis court and off-to stand at the world pinnacle of her sport and became an inspiration to many." In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive a powerhouse player who would integrate "the game of royalty." The player was a street-savvy young Black woman from Harlem named Althea Gibson who was about as out-of-place in that rarefied and intolerant world as any aspiring tennis champion could be. Her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair drew stares from everyone who watched her play, but her astonishing performance on the court soon eclipsed the negative feelings being cast her way as she eventually became one of the greatest American tennis champions.