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Free Download The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs by Jürgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund
English | December 5, 2023 | ISBN: 0691168768 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 2.3/3 MB
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science

Free Download Taking Wittgenstein at His Word: A Textual Study (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Robert J. Fogelin
English | November 22, 2009 | ISBN: 069114253X, 0691202389 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 1.9 MB
Taking Wittgenstein at His Word is an experiment in reading organized around a central question: What kind of interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy emerges if we adhere strictly to his claims that he is not in the business of presenting and defending philosophical theses and that his only aim is to expose persistent conceptual misunderstandings that lead to deep philosophical perplexities? Robert Fogelin draws out the therapeutic aspects of Wittgenstein’s later work by closely examining his account of rule-following and how he applies the idea in the philosophy of mathematics.

Free Download Dracula’s Wars: Vlad the Impaler and his Rivals by James Waterson
English | July 4, 2016 | ISBN: 075096488X | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.9 MB
The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker’s well-mannered aristocrat. In a world ruled by petty tyrants and constantly at war, the young Dracula – better known as Vlad the Impaler – was held hostage by the Turks while his father was assassinated and his brother was buried alive. Finally released, Dracula conducted an almighty purge, surrounding his palace with noblemen impaled on stakes. Then he turned his attention to military campaigns against the Turks and Bulgars to consolidate his power.

Free Download The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made by Cliff Sloan
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1541736486 | 512 pages | PDF | 25 Mb
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today

Free Download Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints By Mary Clayton
2013 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 0674053184 | PDF | 11 MB
Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different poems, for example, Christ expels Lucifer from heaven, resists the devil’s temptation on earth, mounts the cross with zeal to face death, harrows hell at the urging of John the Baptist, appears in disguise to pilot a ship, and presides over the Last Judgment. Satan and the fallen angels lament their plight in a vividly imagined hell and Description against Christ and his saints.In Andreas the poet relates, in language reminiscent of Beowulf, the tribulations of the apostles Andrew and Matthew in a city of cannibals. In The Vision of the Cross (also known as The Dream of the Rood), the cross speaks as a Germanic warrior intolerably torn between the imperative to protect his Lord and the duty to become his means of execution. In Guthlac A, an Anglo-Saxon warrior abandons his life of violence to do battle as a hermit against demons in the fens of Lincolnshire. As a collection these ten anonymous poems vividly demonstrate the extraordinary hybrid that emerges when traditional Germanic verse adapts itself to Christian themes.Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints complements the saints’ lives found in The Old English Poems of Cynewulf, DOML 23.

Free Download Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary By Peter Clive
2006 | 640 Pages | ISBN: 0810857219 | PDF | 3 MB
As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer’s personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; ✅Publishers and artists; and even the rulers of certain German states with whom he had significant contact. Offering information not usually available in Brahms biographies, this volume combines findings from both primary and secondary sources, giving insights into Brahms’ character, his life, and his career, and shedding light on the educated middle and upper class culture of the nineteenth century. A comprehensive chronology of Brahms’ life, a bibliography, and two indexes round out this important reference guide.

Free Download 30-Second Leonardo da Vinci: His 50 Greatest Ideas and Inventions, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Marina Wallace
English | January 6, 2014 | ISBN: 1782400834 | 160 pages | MOBI | 20 Mb
Artist, anatomist, architect, botanist, cartographer, engineer, mathematician, musician, scientist, sculptor-the word "polymath" cannot provide the full measure of Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary talents. If you only know Leonardo as the painter of the famous, much copied portrait, the Mona Lisa, seize the chance to brush up your knowledge and discover what is meant by the term Renaissance Man. 30-Second Leonardo Da Vinci is the quickest way to grapple with the truly diverse thoughts of the ultimate Renaissance superhero. Here, the world’s leading Leonardo scholars present an instant and expert guide to the breadth and brilliance of his greatest innovations. Each entry is summarized in just 30 seconds-using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and a single picture. Illustrated with inventive graphics and supported by studies of his key paintings, it’s the ultimate book to quench your curiosity.

Free Download Lisa Whittle, "She Works His Way: A Practical Guide for Doing What Matters Most in a Get-Things-Done World"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0764237691, 0764239732 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 6.1 mb
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Free Download Tim Harris, "Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685"
English | 2006 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 0140264655, 0713991917 | EPUB | 7,2 mb
The late 17th century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II’s triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England reveling in its freedom from the austerity of Puritan rule under a merry monarch and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics where people were brutalized, hounded, and exploited by a regime that was desperately insecure after two decade of civil war and republican rule.

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English | 2012 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0718115317, 0140045031 | EPUB | 18,3 mb
The third volume of Spike Milligan’s laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain’s looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced – boredom (‘Christ, I just thought of Catford’), moving camp (‘It’s a sort of Brighton with camels’), moving camp again (‘We’re already somewhere else’), a visit to Carthage (‘It’s terrible, it’s like Catford’) and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion (‘"Help! massage," I said weakly’).