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Circles Fifty Round Trips Through History Technology Science Culture


Free Download James Burke, "Circles: Fifty Round Trips Through History Technology Science Culture"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0743249763, 074320008X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.2 mb
From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays all illustrate the surprisingly circular nature of change.

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Footnotes A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers [Audiobook]


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English | September 05, 2019 | ASIN: B07XD51BGF | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 55m | 251 MB
Author and Narrator: Peter Fiennes
Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of 12 inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.
The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens on the train that took him to his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. From the wilds of Skye and Snowdon, to a big night out in Birmingham with J. B. Priestley and Beryl Bainbridge, Footnotes is a series of evocative biographies, a lyrical foray into the past and a quest to understand Britain through the books, journals and diaries of some of our greatest writers.

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How Round Is Your Circle Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet


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English | January 23, 2008 | ISBN: 069113118X, 0691149925 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 11.3 MB
How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day-it’s challenging, hands-on, and fun.

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Diet and Heart Disease A round table of factors


Free Download Diet and Heart Disease: A round table of factors By Dr Margaret Ashwell OBE (auth.), Dr Margaret Ashwell OBE (eds.)
1997 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 9401065276 | PDF | 3 MB
Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western World and increasingly elsewhere. Although it is a multifactorial disorder, the integrated role of diet attracts enormous attention since it is the one component which can be modified by all and is strongly correlated to population behaviour. The second edition of this highly successful treatise, is an invaluable reference source for all those working within the professions of health, medicine and food science and for all those concerned with matters relating to health and social policy.

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The Lion of Round Top The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War [Audiobook]


Free Download The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVTYLZP | 2023 | 6 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 370 MB
Author: H. G. Myers, Dr. Frank P. Varney
Narrator: Al Kessel

The story of the true savior of Little Round Top at Gettysburg-a twenty-six-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendant of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband, father, brother. But his greatest contribution to history is as the savior of the Federal left on the second day at Gettysburg, when he and his men held Little Round Top against overwhelming Confederate numbers. Forgotten by history in favor of his subordinate, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Vincent has faded into relative obscurity in the decades since his death. This book restores Vincent to his rightful place among the heroes of the battle of Gettysburg: presenting his life story using new, never-before-published sources and archival material to bring the story of one of the most forgotten officers of the American Civil War back to the attention of listeners and historians.

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Kid Gloves A Voyage Round My Father


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English | 2015 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1846148758 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 When his widowed father – once a high court judge and always a formidable figure – drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself – and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns. The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the Moors Murderers, Jacqueline Bisset and Gilbert O’Sullivan, the singer-songwriter whose trademark look kept long shorts from their rightful place on the fashion pages for so many years.

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