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Free Download Johanna Altmann, "Last Stop Australia: A New Voice of the Holocaust"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0995432503, 1544685963 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 3.1 mb
In this unforgettable memoir, Austrian Holocaust survivor, Johanna Altmann recounts the horrors and tragedies that she and her loved ones were forced to face. Her tale encompasses suffering, hope, resistance and, most of all, remembering.

Free Download Johanna Altmann, "Last Stop Australia: A New Voice of the Holocaust"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0995432503, 1544685963 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 3.1 mb
In this unforgettable memoir, Austrian Holocaust survivor, Johanna Altmann recounts the horrors and tragedies that she and her loved ones were forced to face. Her tale encompasses suffering, hope, resistance and, most of all, remembering.

Free Download Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo García Elizondo, translated by Robin Myers
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1913867846 | True EPUB | 163 pages | 0.6 MB
A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts.

Free Download Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie "
English | ISBN: 1501365371 | 2022 | 264 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie’s ambitious last works: his surprise ‘comeback’ project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist’s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon.

Free Download Wealth Doesn’t Last 3 Generations: How Family Businesses Can Maintain Prosperity By Jean Lee, Hong Li
2008 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 9812797513 | PDF | 4 MB
With 175 family businesses on the Fortune 500 list, from DuPont and Motorola to IBM, there is no doubt that family-run enterprises play an important role in global economic development. Their role is no less significant in China where, in keeping with the country s rapid economic growth, family businesses are emerging in increasing numbers. Unique characteristics, such as succession, management, staffing, family affairs, strategy planning and governance structure, set family businesses apart from other business types. As a result, they face particular challenges in survival and sustainability. In this book, three modern Chinese family businesses, including food and beverage company Yeo Hiap Seng, are studied to analyze the problems that family enterprises face. Other case studies include long-standing family businesses in Europe, America and Asia, such as Ford, Kikkoman and Samsung. This book also discusses the changing characteristics of Chinese family businesses, the pitfalls that such enterprises are likely to face, and how they can overcome these pitfalls and achieve sustainable development. Contents: A Curse Upon Family Enterprises?; Interpreting Family Enterprises:; Yeo Hiap Seng: A Typical Case Study of a Family Enterprise; Family Enterprises in China: The Struggles of the First Generation; Family Enterprises Around the World:; Development of Family Enterprises in Europe and the US; Characteristics of Asian Family Enterprises; Development of Family Enterprises in China:; Merchants from Huizhou and Shanxi during the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Family Enterprises in Modern China; Breakthrough of Chinese Family Enterprises; Conclusion:; Sustainable Development of Family Enterprises.

Free Download Ermingo Bagnasco, Augusto de Toro – The Littorio Class: Italy’s Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948
Naval Institute Press | 2011 | ISBN: 1591144450 | English | 368 pages | PDF | 305.32 MB
For its final battleship design Italy ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage, and produced one of Europe’s largest and most powerful capital ships, comparable with Germany’s Bismarck class which were also built in defiance of international agreements. The three ships of the Littorio class were fast and elegant, but also boasted a revolutionary protective scheme which was tested to the limits, as all three were heavily damaged in the hard-fought naval war in the Mediterranean. The book combines a detailed analysis of the design with an operational history, evaluating how the ships stood up to combat. It is illustrated with an amazing collection of photographs, detailed plans, and colored artwork of camouflage schemes, adding up to as complete a study of this class of battleship ever published.

Free Download Ray Takeyh, "The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty "
English | ISBN: 030021779X | 2021 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 1298 KB
The surprising story of Iran’s transformation from America’s ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries

Free Download H. C. Teitler, "The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity"
English | ISBN: 019062650X | 2017 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 1411 KB
Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle Constantine the Great early in the fourth century, began losing ground at an accelerating pace. Having become an orphan when he was still very young, Julian was taken care of by his cousin Constantius II, one of Constantine’s sons, who permitted him to study rhetoric and philosophy and even made him co-emperor in 355. But the relations between Julian and Constantius were strained from the beginning, and it was only Constantius’ sudden death in 361 which prevented an impending civil war.

Free Download The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War By Greg Grandin
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0226306909 | PDF | 4 MB
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region.With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy-one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal-and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order-a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond."This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century."-International History Review"A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state."-Journal of American History

Free Download Allen Barra, "The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant"
English | 2005 | pages: 608 | ISBN: 0393059820, 039332897X | EPUB | 1,4 mb
The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history.