Tag: Tumultuous

Free Download James I’s Tumultuous First Year as King: Plague, Conspiracy and Catholicism by Ben Norman
English | January 28, 2024 | ISBN: 1399057162 | 224 pages | EPUB | 5.42 Mb
This is the story of a crucial year in the history of England, brimming with great political and social upheaval: the year 1603.

Free Download Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0062206125 | 624 Pages | EPUB | 4.0 MB
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators-her father, Josef Stalin.

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 We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, Chloe Cannon, Hachette Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07H5Q5JGS | Format: MP3 / 16 hours and 22 minutes + EPUB | 370 Mb
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly popular, often misunderstood website that has changed the culture of the internet.
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet". It’s the third-most visited website in the United States-and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is.
We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold-case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House. We Are the Nerds is a gripping start-up narrative: the story of how Reddit’s founders, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, rose up from their suburban childhoods to become millionaires and create an icon of the digital age-before seeing the site engulfed in controversies and nearly losing control of it for good.

Free Download Modern: Genius, Madness, and One Tumultuous Decade That Changed Art Forever (Audiobook)
English | May 17, 2022 | ASIN: B09ZYRP4R3 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 31m | 736 MB
Author: Philip Hook | Narrator: David Vickery
Modern begins on a specific day-March 22, 1905-at a specific place: the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, where works of art we recognize as modern were first exhibited. Drawing on his forty five-year fine art career, author Philip Hook illuminates how this new art came to be-and how truly shocking it was.
We witness movement upon movement that burst forth in dizzying succession: Fauvism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Symbolism, Cubism, Futurism, and Abstract art. His vivid accounts breathe new life into the work and times of nearly two hundred artists, and whose collective genius was understood and appreciated by few at the time.