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Free Download Stephanie Hoover, "The Killing of John Sharpless: The Pursuit of Justice in Delaware County "
English | ISBN: 1626190232 | 2013 | 128 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
John Sharpless answered a knock on his door. Less than an hour later he was found in his barn, dead from a vicious blow to the back of his head. His bloodstained hat lay next to him on the ground. A $3,000 reward sparked an overzealous manhunt across southeastern Pennsylvania and numerous innocent men were arrested. Samuel Johnson – a local African American man with a criminal record – was charged. Despite the Widow Sharpless’s failure to identify him as the man who came to her door, Johnson was convicted and sentenced to hang. The Killing of John Sharpless offers an in-depth investigation of this fascinating 19th century murder and profiles a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by a corrupt police force and abetted by the questionable ethics of the judge in the case. It also details the selfless efforts of the Quaker community – and thousands of others – to save Johnson’s life.

Free Download The Devil’s Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit by Taras Grescoe
English | September 1, 2005 | ISBN: 1582344299 | 372 pages | PDF | 2.39 Mb
A journey into illicit pleasure the world over.

Free Download Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey
English | September 12, 2024 | ISBN: 000863968X | 340 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
There are three great kingdoms of life – Animals, Plants and Fungi – but the fungi always come in third place. This may be because fungi seem alien to many their strange forms, their rapid appearance and disappearance, their hidden means of feeding and propagation. In Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind, acclaimed scientist and author Richard Fortey acknowledges this otherworldliness, marvels at their unique charm and boots-up as a guide through this great, mysterious Kingdom of life.

Free Download Susan Beth Rottmann, "In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces "
English | ISBN: 1789202698 | 2019 | 216 pages | PDF | 1332 KB
Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.

Free Download The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts by Daniel Pick
English | June 18, 2012 | ISBN: 019954168X, 0199678510 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 5.97 MB
The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany – in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.

Free Download Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar, Eric Conger, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | April 03, 2009 | ISBN: B0025UMMB8 | 6 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 575 Mb
Do you want your life to be perfect? We’re all laboring under our own and society’s expectations to be perfect in every way – to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Happier", the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Or do you want to be happy? Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology – the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University – Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us. You don’t have to be perfect to be perfectly happy! In "The Pursuit of Perfect", Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success – and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and ‘Time-Ins’ to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.

Free Download Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5J4QYDM | 2024 | 10 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Richard Fortey
Narrator: Richard Attlee
The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don’t obey rules. They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds and greens. They do not seem of this world, yet fungi underpin all the life around us: the ‘wood wide web’ links the trees by a subterranean telegraph; fungi eat the fallen trunks and leaves to recycle the nutrients that keep the wood alive; they feed a host of beetles and flies, which in turn feed birds and bats. Fungi produce the most expensive foods in the world but also offer the prospect of cheap protein for all; they cure disease, and they both cause disease and kill; they are the specialists to surpass all others; their diversity thrills and bewilders. Amongst these and many other ‘close encounters’ of a fungal kind, the book attempts to answer the questions: what are fungi? Why did their means of reproduction escape discovery for so long? What role do they play in the development of life? The vast kingdom of fungi is more diverse and species rich than plants or animals. Their glorious profusion has the starring role in this magical, deeply informed book which takes us from familiar places into strange worlds.

Free Download R. Duval – U.S. Pursuit Aircraft 1918-1936: A Pictorial Survey
D. Bradford Bartyon Ltd | 1975 | ISBN: 0851531857 | English | 104 pages | PDF | 89.98 MB
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Free Download World Class: Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness on and off the Field (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPKHY1QX | 2024 | 12 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 361 MB
Author: Grant Wahl
Narrator: Dr. Céline Gounder, Mark Mravic, Eric Wahl, Alexander Wolff
The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work-a masterclass in the art of sportswriting. After Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, collapsing in his press seat during a quarterfinal match, tributes to Wahl poured in from around the globe. Wahl was beloved for good reason-he was kind, generous, and unflinching in the face of injustice. He was also one of the best sports journalists of his generation. Spanning four decades of storytelling, World Class collects for the first time the finest writing of Grant Wahl, from op-eds for his college newspaper to twenty-five years of reporting at Sports Illustrated to his deeply personal work for Fútbol with Grant Wahl on Substack. Wahl was the multi-tool modern sportswriter: clear and direct; able to write long, short, or in between; cosmopolitan; socially aware.

Free Download A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune (Audiobook)
English | July 23, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMJPZ24X | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 46m | 208 MB
Authors: Noliwe Rooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Narrator: Danielle Lee James
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation
When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, and yet for most, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey toward a freer and more just nation.