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Free Download The Icarus Curse: How Western Democracies Derailed and How to Get Back on Track by Johan Van Overtveldt
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1572843438 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 1.01 MB
Economic anxiety and loss of trust in civic institutions are driving more and more people to political extremes. How did we get here, and how do we get our economic policies back on track before the democracies of the world derail?

Free Download Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism (Audiobook)
English | June 15, 2022 | ASIN: B0B192DK4G | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 3m | 509 MB
Author: David Hanna | Narrator: Karen Commins
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power, the city of Chicago staged what was, up to that time, the most forward-looking international exhibition in history. The 1933 World’s Fair looked to the future, unabashedly, as one full of glowing promise.
No technology loomed larger at the Fair than aviation. And no persons at the Fair captured the public’s interest as much as the romantic figures associated with it: Italy’s internationally renowned chief of aeronautics, Italo Balbo; German Zeppelin designer and captain, Doctor Hugo Eckener; and the husband-and-wife aeronaut team of Swiss-born Jean Piccard and Chicago-born Jeannette Ridlon Piccard.

Free Download Icarus by Bertrand Russell
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BVN1185V | 27 pages | EPUB | 0.40 Mb
Mr. Haldane’s Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly.

Free Download Mexican Icarus: Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960 (Pitt Latin American) by Peter B. Soland
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0822947609 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.4 MB
The development of aviation in Mexico reflected more than a pragmatic response to the material challenges brought on by the 1910 Revolution. It was also an effective symbol for promoting the aspirations of the new elite who attained prominence during the war and who fixated on technology as a measure of national progress.