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Free Download Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology By Robert Gilmore
2003 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 1441930590 | PDF | 14 MB
"Once upon a time there was no Universe," began the Storyteller. . . ."First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she’s not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, the physicist and fabulist who brought us the classic "Alice in Quantumland."Whether he’s recasting such classic tales as "Jack and the Quarkstalk," "Waking Beauty," or "Cinderenda and the Death of Stars," Gilmore shows us that there’s more than one way to shed light on the strange profundities of modern physics and cosmology, and what they have to tell us about the nature of time and space and motion. Black holes, dying stars, traveling backward through time to the Big Bang – they’re all here in accessible, instructive, and charmingly illustrated retellings.Robert Gilmore has published three previous books with Copernicus, "Alice in Quantumland," "Scrooge’s Cryptic Carol," and "The Wizard of Quarks." He is a Visiting Research Fellow, with a special focus on the public understanding of science, at Bristol University in England. He has also worked in particle physics at Brookhaven, Stanford, and CERN in Geneva.

Free Download Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?: Rethinking Education for the Digital Age By Aharon Aviram, Janice Richardson (auth.), Aharon Aviram, Janice Richardson (eds.)
2005 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1402027982 | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings together the reflections of independent researchers from around the world. Sixteen authors from fourteen countries present their views on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, offering valuable insights through the examination of current issues relevant to the future of education. What will education be in tomorrow’s world? How can ICT be used without rendering education a purely technical process? How can we succeed the renovation of educational subjects without transforming them into technical objects? The introductory chapter of this publication guides us into the essays through a classification organized by the editors to illustrate different attitudes to technologies: * The ‘Globalizers’ see the integration of ICT and education as a means of enhancing the competitiveness of their society in a global economy; * The ‘Reformists’ see it as a means of bringing about significant change in didactics in the various disciplines, and even in the ‘basics’ of education; * The ‘Humanists’ consider technologies as possible catalysts for changing the aims and values of education from learni- oriented to humanistic; * The ‘Heretic’ sees values and aims as being determined exclusively by technology, and economy and culture as s- products of the technology-guided process. He therefore does not see any sense in interrogations as to which aims should guide us in integrating technology with education. Obviously, some arguments stretch across all four categories without completely matching any so-called type.

Free Download The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills
English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1616964146 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.5 MB
In this gripping debut novel from acclaimed Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus Award-winning author Samantha Mills, a disgraced soldier fights to make sense of her world and the gods who abandoned it. The Wings Upon Her Back is an action-packed, devastating exploration of the brutal costs of zealous loyalty.

Free Download Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter
English | September 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1839830301 | 620 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year

Free Download J.Randy Taraborelli, "Once upon a Time : The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family"
English | 2004 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 0330418327 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage. After a series of relationships with married co-stars she was exhausted by the showbusiness lifestyle. If she married Rainier she would be more than just a movie star, she would be Her Serene Highness Princess Grace. Trapped in a fairytale of her own making, Grace was forced to make sacrifices that cut deeply into the core of who she was as a woman, surrendering her desires and ambitions for her spouse and her children. Grace and Rainier may have been royalty but they were also husband and wife, and parents – and, as such, just as vulnerable to the conflicts that can contaminate any household.

Free Download Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath By Mimi Alford
2012 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1400069106 | EPUB | 3 MB
In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country-and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a lifetime. Although she started as a lowly intern, Mimi made an impression on Kennedy’s inner circle and, after just three days at the White House, she was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months. In an era when women in the workplace were still considered "girls," Mimi was literally a girl herself-naïve, innocent, emotionally unprepared for the thrill that came when the President’s charisma and power were turned on her full-force. She was also unprepared for the feelings of isolation that would follow as she fell into the double life of a college student who was also the secret lover of the most powerful man in the world. Then, after the President’s tragic death in Dallas, she grieved in private, locked her secret away, and tried to start her life anew, only to find that her past would cast a long shadow-and ultimately destroy her relationship with the man she married. In 2003, a Kennedy biographer mentioned "a tall, slender, beautiful nineteen-year-old college sophomore and White House intern, who worked in the press office" in reference to one of the President’s affairs. The disclosure set off a tabloid frenzy and soon exposed Mimi and the secret that she had kept for forty-one years. Because her past had been revealed in such a shocking, public way, she was forced, for the first time, to examine the choices she’d made. She came to understand that shutting down one part of her life so completely had closed her off from so much more. No longer defined by silence or shame, Mimi Alford has finally unburdened herself with this searingly honest account of her life and her extremely private moments with a very public man. Once Upon a Secret offers a new and personal depiction of one of our most iconic leaders and a powerful, moving story of a woman coming to terms with her past and moving out of the shadows to reclaim the truth.

Free Download Philip Levy, "George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape"
English | ISBN: 1940425891 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.

Free Download Once upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWY7P7C | 2024 | 14 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 408 MB
Author: Elizabeth Beller
Narrator: Emily Tremaine
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty. Amidst today’s cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, Elizabeth Beller explores the real person behind the tabloid headlines and media frenzy. When she began dating America’s prince, Carolyn was increasingly thrust into an overwhelming spotlight filled with relentless paparazzi who reacted to her reserve with a campaign of harassment and vilification. To this day, she is still depicted as a privileged princess-icy, vapid, and drug-addicted.

Free Download To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0593722248 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 10.4 MB
She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one?

Free Download The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon & Oxford by Rough Guides
English | March 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1839059729 | 256 pages | MOBI | 49 Mb
This Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon & Oxford guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon & Oxford travel guidebook is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet the FSC’s strict environmental and social standards.