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Free Download The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly, David Kanosh
English | April 15, 2025 | ISBN: 177840197X | 456 pages | EPUB | 7.72 Mb
This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of the gene that makes us human. For readers of The Dawn of Everything and Sapiens.

Free Download Carolyn Hirsh, "Politics, Death and Addiction: A Powerful Story of a Mother’s Reaction to Her Daughter’s Suicide"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1922175455 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.0 mb
Politics, Death and Addiction tells how an active Member of Parliament, psychologist and mother became addicted to alcohol and ‘pokies’, while rearing her granddaughter and working as a Member of Parliament, following her daughter’s suicide. Grounded in the reality of Labor Party politics and public policy making, it exposes the impact on Carolyn Hirsh’s public life of unacknowledged grief and undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. The book offers insight for others suffering from similar challenges, by providing a professional self-analysis. Through blending current dilemmas with childhood flashbacks, the reader gets a real sense of why Hirsh reacted as she did to the humiliation of being told to resign from the Labor Party over her misdemeanours. Politics, Death and Addiction is much more than a political who, what and when: Hirsh shines an unforgiving light on people and processes during her time in the media spotlight and beyond. The manuscript was shortlisted for the Finch Memoir Prize, 2013.

Free Download Steven Nadler, "The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil"
English | ISBN: 0374229988 | 2008 | 320 pages | PDF | 16 MB
In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city’s intellectual and cultural riches. He benefited, above all, from his friendships with France’s two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The interactions of these three men would prove of great consequence not only for Leibniz’s own philosophy but for the development of modern philosophical and religious thought.

Free Download Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing by Ben Hunt
English | November 19, 2024 | ISBN: 0063411911 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 44.5 MB
Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula One’s most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.

Free Download Forging Australia Story: The Birth and Growth of Australia by Verity Press
English | March 29, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CWC2XKP7 | 367 pages | EPUB | 0.51 Mb
"Forging Australia Story: The Birth and Growth of Australia" delves into the rich tapestry of Australia’s history, from the ancient footsteps of Indigenous Australians to the bustling multicultural society of today.

Free Download Forged in Fire: An Australian commando’s story of life and death on the frontline by Scott Ryder
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1761471414 | 432 pages | EPUB | 7.95 Mb
Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos.

Free Download Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza
by Samah Sabawi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1761344978 | 332 Pages | True ePUB | 2.41 MB

Free Download Dominique Valbelle, "The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 1568582269 | PDF | pages: 214 | 46.9 mb
In July 1799, a French officer serving in Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition unearthed a granite block bearing text in three different scripts €" Greek, demotic Egyptian, and hieroglyphics. Following the discovery, a remarkable competition ensued for possession of the stone as well as for decoding its inscription. Using all the elements of a detective thriller, the authors, a well-known novelist and a leading Egyptologist, tell the story of international intrigue surrounding the intellectual quest to crack the stone’s code €" the key to reading ancient Egyptian texts for the first time in 14 centuries. Also included are reproductions of the stone and its inscriptions as well as portraits of the key figures involved in its translation.

Free Download Neil Compton, "The Battle for the Buffalo River: The Story of America’s First National River"
English | ISBN: 1557289352 | 2010 | 496 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton’s lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.