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Free Download The Tootsie Roll Marines: A U.S. Marines’ memories and letters during the Korean war in 1950 at the Chosin Reservoir by Ken Santor
English | April 19, 2024 | ISBN: 8889828609 | 260 pages | PDF | 25 Mb
This book tells the story of a young boy who grew up at the end of the Great Depression. He suffered many hardships in his early years beginning with the loss of his mother, and the trauma of family separation after her death when he and his siblings were placed in an orphanage. After his father’s remarriage, the family was reunited and moved from Buffalo, New York, to California. With the move came more adjustments to warm weather, groves of fruit trees, mountains, and a whole new way of living. At seventeen years old, he decided to enlist in the US Marine Corps to serve his country, seek adventure, and make new friends. Little did he know that an entire military career of activities and adventure would be packed into his four short years of service in the Marines, especially as a machine gunner while serving in the Korean War, sometimes referred to as the Forgotten War. You will see how his life began with hardships and family tragedies, but with grit and perseverance, he used his coping skills of hard work and humor to make a wonderful life for his wife and family. While overcoming heartbreaking personal tragedies and losses, he accomplished great successes in his business ventures and public service after his time in the Marines. You will hear how this former Marine moved through pain and sorrow to forge new ideas and innovations to further express his love for his country and his fellow veterans through his many decades.

Free Download Barbara de Salvo, "Silicon Non-Volatile Memories: Paths of Innovation"
English | 2009 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 1848211058 | PDF | 6,8 mb
Semiconductor flash memory is an indispensable component of modern electronic systems which has gained a strategic position in recent decades due to the progressive shift from computing to consumer (and particularly mobile) products as revenue drivers for Integrated Circuits (IC) companies. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different technological approaches currently being studied to fulfill future memory requirements. Two main research paths are identified and discussed. Different "evolutionary paths" based on the use of new materials (such as silicon nanocrystals for storage nodes and high-k insulators for active dielectrics) and of new transistor structures (such as multi-gate devices) are investigated in order to extend classical floating gate technology to the 32 nm node. "Disruptive paths" based on new storage mechanisms or new technologies (such as phase-change devices, polymer or molecular cross-bar memories) are also covered in order to address 22 nm and smaller IC generations. Finally, the main factors at the origin of these phenomena are identified and analyzed, providing pointers on future research activities and developments in this area.

Free Download Connected Histories: Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space
by Eva Pfanzelter, Dirk Rupnow
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111328813 | 277 Pages | PDF | 74 MB

Free Download 1001 Random and Reminiscent Memories of 90s PC Nostalgia: Rediscover Forgotten Computer Terms, for Tech Enthusiasts, Gamers, and Geeks by Altara Media
English | March 14, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CXMJP8ZJ | 217 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
* Do you remember typing in IDDQD and IDKFA to unlock god mode and full arsenal, giving you that unstoppable feeling as you navigated through the pixelated corridors during a heated Doom session?

Free Download Markus Bell, "Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea "
English | ISBN: 1800732295 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 38 MB
In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state―North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s "Worker’s Paradise", only to escape back to Japan half a century later.

Free Download Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture"
English | ISBN: 0367232065 | 2019 | 428 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history continued to influence political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. The chapters in this book examine numerous examples from across Europe of how memories of revolt were perpetuated in oral cultures, and they analyse how traditions were used. From the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the counter-revolutionary guerrillas of the 1790s, oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. This is a ‘history from below’, and a history from song, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.

Free Download Hyaesin Yoon, "Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World "
English | ISBN: 1478028017 | 2025 | 232 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In Prosthetic Memories, Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a variety of body-technology interfaces, Yoon outlines an emergent mode of prosthetic memory in which human memory is extended into both machines and animals. Prosthetic memory overflows and provides an alternative to familiar human perception, Western scientific reason, and other senses of knowledge in ways that can foster networks of solidarity, care, and empathy between human and nonhuman subjects. Among other sites and subjects, Yoon examines tongue surgery to correct English pronunciation in Korea, Asian American poetry that engages the human-machine divide, transnational dog cloning, and stem cell research, each of which activates potent postcolonial feminist mnemonics and alliances. In so doing, Yoon narrates the countermemories of racialized, gendered, diasporic, queer, and marginalized human and nonhuman others that work against the violent and isolating biopolitical and neoliberal forces in contemporary society.

Free Download Rebecca De Souza, "Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus "
English | ISBN: 0198918097 | 2025 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on.

Free Download Philip A. Seaton, "Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido "
English | ISBN: 1138838985 | 2015 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, barely features in most histories of the Second World War. However, the combination of distinctive war experiences, a vibrant set of local historian groups, and powerful media organizations disseminating local war history, has generated an identifiable set of local collective memories. Hokkaidoʼs status as an early colonial acquisition also makes the island an important vantage point from which to reassess the course and nature of the Japanese Empire.

Free Download A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America by Sara Stewart
English | November 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1784779857 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 4.38 MB
In A Long Way South, itinerant traveller Sara Stewart relates memories salvaged from her explorations of Latin America during 1974/5, a turbulent, politically unstable period where kidnappings and smuggling were commonplace, where dead bodies lined the roads and where tanks guarded the streets of two capitals following a military coup and insurgency.