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Free Download Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World: The Stoke Newington Edition by Daniel Defoe, edited by Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, Manuel Schonhorn
English | April 22, 2022 | ISBN: 1684483301 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 8.9 MB
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character.

Free Download The measure of Manhattan the tumultuous career and surprising legacy of John Randel Jr., cartographer, surveyor, inventor By Holloway, Marguerite;Randel, John
2014 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 0393071251 | EPUB | 13 MB
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill."-Steve Weinberg, USA TodayJohn Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking.Charged with "gridding" what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the Enlightenment, in which math and science promised dominion over nature. The result was a series of maps, astonishing in their detail and precision, which undergird our knowledge about the island today. During his varied career Randel created surveying…

Free Download Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 0593299574 | 304 pages | PDF | 2.81 Mb
"A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor." ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post

Free Download Vilem Flusser, Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, Chagrin, "The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication (Metaflux // Vilém Flusser)"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0993327257 | PDF | pages: 168 | 0.5 mb
Originally written in both English and French, The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication is a series of twelve essays that Vilém Flusser delivered as lectures in Aix-en-Provence, France, on several subjects ranging from communication media, memory, symbols, meaning, models, art, cybernetics, the Bible, and Brigitte Bardot.

Free Download Amazing Oceans: The Surprising World of Our Incredible Seas (DK Amazing Earth) by Annie Roth
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0744085101 | 178 pages | True EPUB | 115.07 MB
An underwater adventure to discover our oceans’ most fascinating places, plants, and animals

Free Download One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America (Audiobook)
English | June 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09MR5QV7Y | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 25m | 317.78 MB
Author: Nick Seabrook
Narrator: Reynaldo Piniella
A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment-from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts-and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for citizens, politicians, journalists, activists, and voters.

Free Download Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQDC94TQ | 2023 | 4 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Heather Wolf
Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
A trove of 111 ingenious tips for seeing more birds wherever you are-from crowd favorites (hummingbirds, owls, eagles) to species you’ve never spotted before. Seeing more birds than you ever imagined and witnessing exciting avian drama is possible-whether you’re on the go or in your own neighborhood, local park, or backyard. As Heather Wolf explains, it all comes down to how you tune in to the show happening around you, the one in which birds-highly skilled at staying under the radar-are the stars. In Find More Birds, Heather shares her very best tactics. Plus, special tips point the way to crowd favorites such as hummingbirds, owls, and eagles-and can’t-miss bird behaviors. As your senses sharpen and "noticing" becomes second nature, Find More Birds will turn your daily routines into bird-finding adventures. Whether you’re strolling down the block or parking your car, you never know what will surprise you next!

Free Download The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08WHY7YZ9 | 2023 | 9 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
Narrator: Dan Senor
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies? Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of "deaths of despair" from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline? Dan Senor and Saul Singer, the writers behind the international bestseller Start-Up Nation, have long been students of the global innovation race. But as they spent time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Tel Aviv techies, and Israeli Arabs, they realized that they had missed what really sets Israel apart.

Free Download How to Meditate with Surprising Ease
Duration: 1h 42m | Video: .MP4, 1280×720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 kHz, 2ch | Size: 827 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Everything you need to meditate confidently & enjoy the inner peace, stress relief & many other benefits of meditation.
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Free Download The Genius of Israel
by Dan Senor, Saul Singer
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1982115769 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 7.23 MB