Tag: Rise

Free Download Keir Martin, "The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain"
English | 2015 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1785330322, 0857458728 | PDF | 2,1 mb
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

Free Download Tarek Osman, "Egypt on the Brink: From the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak"
English | 2011 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 0300177267, 0300198698 | PDF | 19,9 mb
Tarek Osman’s lively account of Egypt, its recent history, and myriad internal conflicts and frustrations, was published in November 2010 to immediate acclaim. Within months, the Egyptian people had risen in protest against the regime and President Mubarak was forced to resign. In this fully revised and updated edition, Osman tells the extraordinary story of the February 2011 protests, and discusses their implications for Egypt and the rest of the world.

Free Download Jeffrey W. Hargis, "Against the Christians: The Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic"
English | 1999 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 0820441562, 0820457418 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics’ objection to Christian exclusivism as its starting point. The evolution in the polemic, from a rhetoric of radical distinction to one of rhetorical assimilation, reveals a sophisticated attempt to expose contradictions and inconsistencies within Christianity, while at the same time reflecting the process of fusion between Christianity and the culture of late antiquity.

Free Download The Rise of E-Commerce
by James Roper;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399063324 | 322 pages | True PDF EPUB | 38.1 MB
The amazing and authoritative story of e-commerce: its origins, evolution and astonishing ascendence.

Free Download Empire of the Sum
by Keith Houston
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0393882144 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 12.83 MB
The hidden history of the pocket calculator-a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon-and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life.

Free Download Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRTLM7H | 2023 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Narrator: Anderson Cooper

Free Download 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR – Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny by David Pietrusza, David Stifel, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07QM32V7Q | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 19 hours and 3 minutes + EPUB | 261 Mb
Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president – ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests – doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate-monger Adolf Hitler.
The outcome seemed foreordained – unstoppable forces advancing upon crumbled, disoriented societies. A merciless Great Depression brought greater – perhaps hopeful, perhaps deadly – transformation: FDR’s New Deal and Hitler’s Third Reich.

Free Download Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV3869B5 | 2023 | 6 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB
Author: Billy Busch
Narrator: Billy Busch
The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written-for the first time-by a Busch heir. As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America’s oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 150 years ago, the Busch family, their beer, the famous Clydesdales in their advertising, and even their style of business have become a symbol of the American dream-that not-so-outdated belief that hard work, grit, and a positive can-do attitude make anything possible. Growing up on the family’s ancestral estate as a prince to the King of Beers, Billy lived a life only kids could dream up-living in an amusement park, traveling by private rail car and yacht, and playing with his pet elephant, Tessie.