Tag: Invention

Free Download Jonathan Ned Katz, "The Invention of Heterosexuality"
English | ISBN: 0226426017 | 2007 | 305 pages | AZW3 | 425 KB
"Heterosexuality," assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term "heterosexuality" referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture.

Free Download The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her by Graham Watson
English | 6 Jun. 2024 | ISBN: 1803995378 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 5.9 MB
Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, she reinvented herself as an acclaimed writer, a mysterious celebrity and a passionate lover. Doing so meant burning many bridges, but her sudden death left her friends and admirers with more questions than answers.

Free Download Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins"
English | ISBN: 1324091452 | 2024 | 512 pages | PDF | 73 MB
"[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read." ―✅Publishers Weekly, starred review

Free Download Paula Nuttall, "Filippino Lippi Beauty, Invention and Intelligence "
English | ISBN: 9004416102 | 2020 | 408 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This volume explores diverse aspects of Filippino Lippis art; his role in Botticellis workshop; his Lucchese patrons; his responses to Netherlandish painting; portraits; space and temporality; the restoration of the Strozzi Chapel; his immediate artistic legacy and nineteenth-century critical reception.

Free Download Regina Yoong, ""’Faith’ is a fine invention": Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief"
English | ISBN: 981999683X | 2024 | 148 pages | EPUB, PDF | 313 KB + 1532 KB
This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies on her exploration of faith are ample, but in this book, the author uncovers Dickinson’s playful role-play in enacting solemn themes of religion, death, and the unknown. Dickinson’s creativity encompasses not only her use of language but also her poetic personae and self-created poetic stages inviting readers to question, contemplate deeply or even poke fun at life’s absurdities. By using performative roles such as the rejected outcast, passive supplicant, and playful warrior, Dickinson unveils-through a paradoxical framework of belief and unbelief- a line of inquiry that is multifocal and erratic to "tell all the truth and tell it slant."

Free Download Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life By Leo Charney; Vanessa Schwartz
1995 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 0520201124 | PDF | 25 MB
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.

Free Download Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone, Adam Verner, Tantor Audio
2015 | English | ISBN: B00GDJK0ZM | Format: MP3 / 12 hours and 6 minutes | 665 Mb
In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like.
Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond – into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite – a start-up backed by millions in venture capital-designs a car that looks like an alien egg.
Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."

Free Download Karl A. E. Enenkel, "The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 "
English | ISBN: 9004355251 | 2018 | 560 pages | PDF | 41 MB
This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the "father of emblematics" had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520.

Free Download Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 9781324074847 | 362 pages | True EPUB | 23.87 MB
"Without the invention of the transistor, I’m quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."-Bill Gates

Free Download The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness (Audiobook)
English | April 06, 2021 | ASIN: B08ML4TT34 | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 8m | 330.46 MB
Author: Katie Booth
Narrator: Samantha Desz
An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true – and troubling – story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech-reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts – or perhaps, more accurately, because of them – Bell had become the American Deaf community’s most powerful enemy.