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Soldier, Rebel, Traitor John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses


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English | May 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 139900347X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 9.46 MB
John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has hitherto been overshadowed by his more illustrious contemporaries. Alexander Brondarbit’s meticulously researched and perceptive biography is overdue. It establishes Wenlock as a major figure in his own right and records in vivid detail how this shrewd nobleman found his way through the brutal conflicts of his times.

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My Father Killed President John F. Kennedy A Memoir Revised Edition


Free Download Bruce H Bell, "My Father Killed President John F. Kennedy: A Memoir: Revised Edition"
English | ISBN: 1998784525 | 2022 | 420 pages | PDF | 43 MB
"In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never been as impressed as I am with Bruce’s. I do believe that this is a true and factual story concerning the assassination of President Kennedy, finally. In the fourteen publications that I have released since 1975, I have always dealt with the physical evidence in the case and never tried to deal with a story of the inner workings of the conspiracy. This is the first time that I’ve dealt with the part of the biggest crime of the twentieth century. Others have unfortunately rushed to judgment and scorned other stories about the assassination, and thrown away what might have been important historical evidence. I suggest that the reader keep an open mind and understand what Bruce has gone through to bring us his story."

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Falling Rocket James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art


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English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1639364919 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 32.86 MB
The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor, IV Homotopy, Homology and Manifolds


Free Download John W. Milnor, John McCleary, "Collected Papers of John Milnor, IV: Homotopy, Homology and Manifolds"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 082184475X | DJVU | pages: 368 | 6.2 mb
The development of algebraic topology in the 1950’s and 1960’s was deeply influenced by the work of Milnor. In this collection of papers the reader finds those original papers and some previously unpublished works. The book is divided into four parts: Homotopy Theory, Homology and Cohomology, Manifolds, and Expository Papers. Introductions to each part provide some historical context and subsequent development. Of particular interest are the articles on classifying spaces, the Steenrod algebra, the introductory notes on foliations and the surveys of work on the Poincare conjecture. Together with the previously published volumes I-III of the Collected Works by John Milnor, volume IV provides a rich portion of the most important developments in geometry and topology from those decades. This volume is highly recommended to a broad mathematical audience, and, in particular, to young mathematicians who will certainly benefit from their acquaintance with Milnor’s mode of thinking and writing.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor, II The Fundamental Group


Free Download John Milnor, "Collected Papers of John Milnor, II: The Fundamental Group"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0821848755 | DJVU | pages: 302 | 3.9 mb
This volume contains papers of one of the best modern geometers and topologists, John Milnor, on various topics related to the notion of the fundamental group. The volume contains sixteen papers divided into four parts: Knot theory, Free actions on spheres, Torsion, and Three-dimensional manifolds. Each part is preceded by an introduction containing the author’s comments on further development of the subject. Although some of the papers were written quite a while ago, they appear more modern than many of today’s publications. Milnor’s excellent, clear, and laconic style makes the book a real treat. This volume is highly recommended to a broad mathematical audience, and, in particular, to young mathematicians who will certainly benefit from their acquaintance with Milnor’s mode of thinking and writing.

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Collected Papers of John Milnor V. Algebra


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 0821848763 | DJVU | pages: 425 | 6.0 mb
In addition to his seminal work in topology, John Milnor is also an accomplished algebraist, producing a spectacular agenda-setting body of work related to algebraic $K$-theory and quadratic forms during the five year period 1965-1970. These papers, together with other (some of them previously unpublished) works in algebra are assembled here in this fifth volume of Milnor’s Collected Papers. They constitute not only an important historical archive, but also, thanks to the clarity and elegance of Milnor’s mathematical exposition, a valuable resource for work in the fields treated. In addition, Milnor’s papers are complemented by detailed surveys on the current state of the field in two areas. One is on the congruence subgroup problem, by Gopal Prasad and Andrei Rapinchuk. The other is on algebraic $K$-theory and quadratic forms, by Alexander Merkurjev.

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A Conspiratorial Life Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism


Free Download Edward H. Miller, "A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism"
English | ISBN: 022644886X | 2022 | 464 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds.

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Psychologies of Mind The Collected Papers of John Maze


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English | 2012 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 144118161X, 0826435513 | PDF | 1,0 mb
John Maze was a giant among philosophers of psychology.Thisexciting, newcollection of his published work demonstrates that what is seemingly new in psychology is so often not new at all but frequently consists of ill-informed corruptions of earlier, discarded, misguided attempts. Their collection together is timely in the current, innovatory era of cross-disciplinary exploration and integration on the borderlands of psychology and philosophy, where there is a visible danger that the welcome loosening of barriers to mutual communication also generates some ‘wild’ theorizing, familiar enough in the history of psychology itself. A corpus remarkable for its coherence, intellectual virtuosity and radicalism over 50 years, it speaks meaningfully to the wide range of psychological theory throughout its history up to the present day. Written with elegance and eloquence, the essays entail a thoroughgoing critical analysis of the most detrimental philosophical erroers of academic psychology in the 20th century, the relegation to history by the 20th century academy of some of the conceptually most promising lines of research, the cost that has been borne by the discipline of psychology, and the most promising future direction for the discipline.

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