Tag: Life

Free Download LIFE 2000-2009: The Decade that Changed the World By Life Magazine
2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1603201289 | PDF | 19 MB
The editors at LIFE vigorously carry on the traditions of excellence in photography, in journalism, and in telling the story of our country and our world which began with LIFE magazine in 1936 by founding editor and ✅Publisher, Henry R. Luce. They have published books on a broad range of subjects, including New York Times bestsellers One Nation, LIFE Picture Puzzle and The American Journey of Barack Obama.

Free Download Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
English | December 23, 2021 | ISBN: 000832980X | 341 pages | PDF | 9.34 Mb
THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

Free Download Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars by Avi Loeb
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 006325087X | 256 pages | PDF | 2.83 Mb
"The world’s leading alien hunter" -New York Times Magazine

Free Download Flip Thinking: The Life-Changing Art of Turning Problems into Opportunities by Berthold Gunster
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 0593723554 | 304 pages | PDF | 2.82 Mb
"Transformative."-Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism and Effortless

Free Download Errol Flynn: The Illustrated Life Chronology by Robert Florczak
English | February 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1493049216 | 320 pages | MOBI | 98 Mb
Though there have been myriad books on Errol Flynn – scores of biographies, film studies, analyses, etc. – there has never been one that unfurls his dashing life day-by-day, predominantly through photos, letters, news clippings, and documents. This book does so: from Flynn’s birth in Hobart, Australia in 1909 through to his death in Vancouver, Canada in 1959, with over 1,000 images (many rarely or never before published) culled from Florczak’s personal collection of over 11,000. The book is the result of the author’s travels around the world to photograph locations key to Flynn’s life, and with text gathered from years of research in the Warner Bros. Archives, the USC Cinematic Arts Library, and the Margaret Herrick Library. Among other popular day-by-day pictorial biographies are those of Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Ernest Hemingway, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Eric Clapton. Flynn’s colorful life was lived out on the world stage and a better candidate for a book of this style would be hard to find.

Free Download Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it by Paul Taylor
English | November 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1922611506 | 219 pages | PDF | 1.90 Mb
Our genome has not changed in over 45,000 years, but the world has changed enormously and there are multiple mismatches with modern life. Homo sapiens evolved and thrived because we hunted down prey with the tools we made, ate a range of natural foods from the environment and led highly physical lives necessary for the proper functioning of our bodies and brains. Now, most of us spend most of our day sitting on our backsides, and more than 50% of our diet is made up of ultra-processed foods that hijack our brains’ rewards systems while making us overweight and sick. Exposure to cold and heat caused our ancestors to upregulate critical stress response genes, which made us more resilient. Now, our thermoneutral environments are making us soft. We used to live in small tribal communities where everyone had a role and purpose. Now we are digitally connected and physically disconnected. Modern humans are the most overweight, depressed, medicated and addicted cohort of adults that has ever lived, yet life has never been so good! Backed by powerful research, Death by Comfort explores exactly what’s wrong and what we need to do in order to survive and thrive in the modern world.

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 Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children By Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, Holger Ziegler (auth.), Sabine Andresen, Isabell Diehm, Uwe Sander, Holger Ziegler (eds.)
2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 9048192188 | PDF | 3 MB
Today, the challenge for Research on Children is the issue of the "good life". Discourses and the production of knowledge on the "good life" require a theoretical frame. This frame can be provided by various perspectives: the feminist ethic of care, the Human and Children’s Rights Convention, the idea of welfare, or the Capability Approach. The aim of this book is to answer the question of how we can define and measure a "good life" for children growing up in the modern world. The book discusses the cogency of universalistic theories and explores the potential contribution of research on children and the possible integration of children into the research process and debates on the "good life".The articles collected in this book reflect the state of the art in research and discussions on this topic. Written by researchers from different countries and with expertise in various disciplines, the articles present theoretical and methodological analyses as well as empirical reports.

Free Download Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life: How to Enhance the Quality of Life By Abbott L. Ferriss (auth.)
2010 | 150 Pages | ISBN: 9048191475 | PDF | 2 MB
After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiencies in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the Quality of Life; steps to improve health, means of reducing environmental toxins, orientation to bring about better self-concept and mental health, and so forth. In short, enhance the social and physical environment and improve the Quality of Life. In each of the ten domains, steps are set forth for eliminating undesirable and debilitating features of the domain. Social change comes about by the application of devised steps. The process has been called ‘telesis’ and it can be defined as the application of intelligent, well-tested, interventions to being about improvement. In some cases it may effect change quickly and others may require a continuing process of adjustment and change. As a handbook for community workers, this volume provides a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow.

Free Download An Introduction to Statistics with Python: With Applications in the Life Sciences (Statistics and Computing) by Thomas Haslwanter
English | November 16, 2022 | ISBN: 3030973700 | 352 pages | MOBI | 46 Mb
Now in its second edition, this textbook provides an introduction to Python and its use for statistical data analysis. It covers common statistical tests for continuous, discrete and categorical data, as well as linear regression analysis and topics from survival analysis and Bayesian statistics.