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Free Download Sharika D. Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1469660210, 1469660202 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 3.7 mb
Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean.

Free Download Philip Hardie, "The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid"
English | ISBN: 1784534838 | 2016 | 264 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores." The resonant opening lines of Virgil’s Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil’s masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil’s poem was ‘the classic of all Europe’. The poet’s stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, ‘torn from Libyan waves’ to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism.

Free Download Philip Hardie, "The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s Aeneid"
English | ISBN: 1784534838 | 2016 | 264 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores." The resonant opening lines of Virgil’s Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil’s masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil’s poem was ‘the classic of all Europe’. The poet’s stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, ‘torn from Libyan waves’ to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism.

Free Download The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel by Leonard Pitts Jr.
English | February 5, 2019 | ISBN: 1572842458 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 2 MB
Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire?

Free Download The Last Shield by Cameron Johnston
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1915998034 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.2 MB
A gender-flipped Die Hard set in a mysterious castle, Cameron Johnston’s The Last Shield is an engaging fantasy read, perfect for fans of John Gwynne and Mark Lawrence.

Free Download Frank Donoghue, "The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities"
English | ISBN: 0823228592 | 2008 | 172 pages | AZW3 | 415 KB
"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia’s Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and more reason to think: less and less," he answered.

Free Download The Last Meal Cookbook: The Story of the Most Notorious Killers Told on a Plate
by Abigail Hibbard
English | July 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1779411510 | 76 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb

Free Download The Last Light over Oslo: A Novel by Alix Rickloff
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0063286203 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 1.2 MB
Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway.

Free Download The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras
English | January 1, 2023 | ISBN: 0241444322 | 368 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire’s fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully defending itself for much of the war, doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras’s superb new book, published for the centenary of the last Sultan’s departure into exile, explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told.

Free Download The Last Day by Owain Owain, translated by Emyr Wallace Humphreys
English | August 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1914595807 | True EPUB | 132 pages | 0.4 MB
The Last Day is more than a moving call to arms for speakers of minority languages facing extinction; at its core, it’s a tragic human-scale story played out between the few figures who could have stopped the madness before it was too late. It is, moreover, a meditation on themes like free will, artificial intelligence and the socio-historical processes that contribute towards the death of a nation. These themes are as relevant now – if not more so – as they were when the novel was written.