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Free Download Jeffrey Meyers, "John Huston: Courage and Art"
English | 2011 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0307590690, 0307590674 | EPUB | 4,6 mb
From the acclaimed biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, and

Free Download Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) by Maximilian C. G. Lau
English | October 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0198888678 | True EPUB/PDF | 400 pages | 17.5/437 MB
John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an alliance, and leading his own campaigns when his father died, it was left to John to try and rebuild the empire all but lost in the eleventh century.

Free Download John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America’s Most Famous Trail by Elizabeth Wenk
English | August 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1643590839 | 328 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
This authoritative guide for hikers and backpackers describes the 220-mile John Muir Trail, from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney.

Free Download Humphrey Mwangi Waweru, "The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa"
English | ISBN: 1666945560 | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 291 KB + 1140 KB
The older ways of understanding the Apocalypse of John-even the experience of the prophecy itself-no longer work. The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa offers a new paradigm for interpreting the apocalypse in Africa. This book makes it clear that the Bible has been a strong force in legitimatizing colonization, as it constructed a "self-validating" world, in which domination appeared normal and permanent. While the Bible in the hands of Africans is reducible to a sociological current, it cannot be read in isolation from the African context. The Bible has championed the control of African culture, so Africans have come up with ways and means of recontrolling a text so zealously read and taught in the region. This book explores those new ways of reading for the liberation of the African continent.

Free Download William Poundstone, Rich Miller (Narrator), "Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3Q5ZWB | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:56:00 | 310 MB
Should you watch public television without pledging? Exceed the posted speed limit? Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the "prisoner’s dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner’s dilemma one of the great unifying concepts of science. Watching poker players bluff inspired John von Neumann to construct game theory, a mathematical study of conflict and deception. Game theory was readily embraced at the RAND Corporation, the archetypical think tank charged with formulating military strategy for the atomic age, and in 1950 two RAND scientists made a momentous discovery.
Called the "prisoner’s dilemma," it is a disturbing and mind-bending game where two or more people may betray the common good for individual gain. The prisoner’s dilemma quickly became a popular allegory of the nuclear arms race. Intellectuals such as von Neumann joined military and political leaders in rallying to the "preventive war" movement, which advocated a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. Though the Truman administration rejected preventive war the US entered into an arms race with the Soviets and game theory developed into a controversial tool of public policy-alternately accused of justifying arms races and touted as the only hope of preventing them.

Free Download Richard L. Miller, David Stifel (Narrator), "John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3X94F9 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:44:00 | 315 MB
John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a politician, Slough fought abolitionists in the Ohio legislature and during Kansas Territory’s fourth and final constitutional convention. He organized the 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry after the Civil War broke out, eventually leading his men against Confederate forces at the pivotal engagement at Glorieta Pass. After the war, as chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court, he struggled to reform corrupt courts amid the territory’s corrosive Reconstruction politics.
Slough was known to possess a volcanic temper and an easily wounded pride. These traits not only undermined a promising career but ultimately led to his death at the hands of an aggrieved political enemy who gunned him down in a Santa Fe saloon. Recounting Slough’s timeless story of rise and fall during America’s most tumultuous decades, historian Richard L. Miller brings to life this extraordinary figure.

Free Download John Lennon vs. the USA: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History by Leon Wildes, Malcolm Hillgartner, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01J6I81QG | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 7 hours and 47 minutes | 212 Mb
At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as five million illegals in the United States, the John Lennon case takes on special relevance, notwithstanding the passage of 40 years since he was placed in deportation proceedings. This is John and Yoko’s incredible story, as told by the lawyer who fought in the front lines.
In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon learned that John Lennon was visiting the United States. Nixon was told that Lennon’s continued presence here could be catastrophic to his plan for reelection. Lennon, who had just made an appearance before an audience of 15,000 young fans at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, was rumored to be planning to join Jerry Rubin to lead a series of rock music rallies to "Dump Nixon" in anticipation of the 1972 Republican National Convention. The special significance of the 1972 convention was the fact that this would be the first national election in which the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18, adding 5 to 10 million new prospective voters. Nixon was not popular with this young group. Lennon was.
Indeed, Senator Strom Thurmond had just written a Dear John letter to Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, suggesting that deporting Lennon quickly would be an "appropriate countermeasure". John Mitchell was the head of CREEP, the Committee to Reelect the President; his day job was as attorney general, in charge of deporting illegal aliens. Following the Watergate-style advice of his legal counsel, John Dean, Nixon decided to "use the available political machinery to screw our political enemies" and proceeded in earnest to deport Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono.

Free Download John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life by Kenneth Womack, Paul Woodson, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08G1WNBJD | 10 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@128 kbps + EPUB | 576 Mb
The story of the legendary musician’s incredible last year.
John Lennon 1980 traces the powerful, life-affirming story of the former Beatle’s remarkable comeback after five years of self-imposed retirement. Lennon’s final pivotal year would climax in several moments of creative triumph as he rediscovered his artistic self in dramatic fashion. With the bravura release of the Double Fantasy album with wife, Yoko Ono, he was poised and ready for an even brighter future only to be wrenched from the world by an assassin’s bullets. John Lennon 1980 isn’t about how the gifted songwriter died, but rather, about how he lived.

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Free Download Bathroom Readers’ Institute, "Uncle John’s Factastic Bathroom Reader"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1626864268 | EPUB | pages: 512 | 1.6 mb
Uncle John got a Factastic facelift for the 28th all-new edition of this beloved book series – now with a classy flexibound cover on the outside and a sleek style on the inside! All of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader favorites are packed into these 512 glorious pages – from little-known history to the origins of everyday things-plus odd news, weird fads, quirky quotes, mind-bending science, head-scratching blunders, and all sorts of random oddities. Oh yeah, and thousands of incredible facts! Feel smarter (and a bit more dignified) as you settle into:

Free Download Alexander Stewart, "The Apocalypse of John Among its Critics: Questions and Controversies "
English | ISBN: 1683597060 | 2023 | 300 pages | EPUB | 5 MB