Tag: Pioneering

June 5, 2024

Literature for the People How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse [Audiobook]

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Free Download Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMY1QBP7 | 2024 | 13 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Sarah Harkness
Narrator: Sarah Harkness
From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire – and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched biography. Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, went on to set up a publishing house that spread radical ideas on equality, science and education across the world. They also brought authors like Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy and Charles Kingsley, and poets like Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, to a mass audience. No longer would books be just for the upper classes.

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January 17, 2024

American Wings Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

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Free Download American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
English | 2024 | ISBN: 059332398X | 384 Pages | EPUB | 34 MB
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have of learning to fly in a country constricted by prejudice and Jim Crow laws, where Black aviators like Bessie Coleman had to move to France to earn their wings?

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January 5, 2024

The Personalized Diet The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease (2024)

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Free Download Eran Segal PhD, Eran Elinav MD PhD, Eve Adamson, "The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1478918802 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 9.4 mb
A paradigm-shifting diet book that explains why one-size-fits-all diets don’t work and helps readers customize their diet to lose weight and improve health.

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January 4, 2024

Unflinching Courage Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas

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Free Download Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas"
English | 2013 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0062130692, 0062130714 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
In Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the state of Texas and influenced American history.

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September 19, 2023

Calling Detective Crockford The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s [Audiobook]

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Free Download Calling Detective Crockford: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFN74GH8 | 2023 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Ruth D’Alessandro
Narrator: Rachel Atkins
This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man’s world. It’s 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and ambitious WPC Gwen Crockford passes out of Hendon Detective Training School with flying colours…After five years serving as one of Britain’s first policewomen, Gwen Crockford becomes one of its first female detectives. Swapping crime prevention for detection, she must soon become comfortable with attending murder scenes and post-mortems, investigating sex crimes and going undercover.

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