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Free Download Q. Edward Wang, "Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography"
English | 2000 | pages: 317 | ISBN: 0791447316, 0791447324 | PDF | 1,4 mb
This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesser known figures such as He Bingsong, Fu Sinian, Yao Congwu, and Chen Yinke. Buoyed by the quest for "Mr. Science" and "Mr. Democracy" during the May Fourth Movement of 1919, these historians searched for a scientific presentation of China’s national past, inspired by the Western and Japanese practice of scientific history. Their efforts to bridge the perceived gap between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, past and present, created a new, scientific model of history in China. The book also discusses the significance of this historiographical experience in late-twentieth-century China and Taiwan.

Free Download Wearable Utopias: Imagining, Inventing, and Inhabiting New Worlds
by Kat Jungnickel, Ellen Fowles
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262548259 | 259 Pages | True PDF | 40 MB

Free Download Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi by David P. Wright
English | September 3, 2009 | ISBN: 0195304756, 0199974950 | True EPUB | 608 pages | 25.6 MB
Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium.

Free Download Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty
English | December 11, 2018 | ISBN: 0262038951, 0262548658 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 61.7 MB
How we can invent-but not predict-the future of cities.

Free Download Aaron Lecklider, "Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0812244869 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 3.7 mb
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to reveal how Americans who were not part of the traditional intellectual class negotiated the complicated politics of intelligence within an accelerating mass culture.

Free Download Joseph R. Matthews, "The Customer-Focused Library: Re-Inventing the Public Library From the Outside-In"
English | 2009 | pages: 115 | ISBN: 1591588758 | PDF | 1,4 mb
A top library consultant offers specific recommendations for helping libraries adapt to their changing role in the community.

Free Download Ginger Strand, "Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies"
English | 2009 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 141654657X, 1416546561 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren’t very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redesigned, the Falls are more a monument to man’s meddling than to nature’s strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery – waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. Emblem of nature’s power, they are completely human-controlled. Archetype of natural beauty, they belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to how America falsifies nature, reshaping its contours and redirecting its force while claiming to submit to its will.

Free Download Inventing the New: History and Politics in Jean-Paul Sartre
by Luca Basso, Dave Mesing
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004686967 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 2.38 MB

Free Download Mirela Ivanova, "Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 0198891504 | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople offers a new reading of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its implications. Its premise is simple: namely, that the alphabet was not invented once, but that it continued to be contested and redefined in the century after its creation. However, Inventing Slavonic goes against the grain of modern scholarship and popular common sense, where a stable and fossilized story about Cyril, his brother and companion Methodios, and the alphabet still persists.

Free Download Richard R. John, "Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications"
English | 2015 | pages: 529 | ISBN: 0674088131 | PDF | 2,0 mb
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels.