Tag: Visionaries

Remarkable Oregon Women Revolutionaries & Visionaries


Free Download Jennifer Chambers, "Remarkable Oregon Women: Revolutionaries & Visionaries"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1467118990, 1540203042 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 3.5 mb
Without the efforts of inspiring, brave women of the past, the progressive and individualistic Oregon we know today might not exist. From native tribes and Oregon Trail pioneers to Victorian suffragists and unlikely politicians, strong female leaders give profound meaning to the state motto, alis volat propriis-she flies with her own wings. Writer and activist Julia Ruuttila fought for the rights of the citizens of Vanport, the largely African American town lost to a disastrous flood in 1948. Others broke stereotypes to serve their communities, like women who helped build ships during World War II and the nation’s first female police officer, Portland’s own Lola Baldwin. Similarly, Laura Stockton Starcher unseated her husband as mayor of Umatilla. Author Jennifer Chambers tells these and many more stories of progressive, radical women who fought for change within their state.

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The Rise of Charleston Conversations with Visionaries, Luminaries & Emissaries of the Holy City


Free Download Former Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., "The Rise of Charleston: Conversations with Visionaries, Luminaries & Emissaries of the Holy City"
English | 2017 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1625858590, 1540216225 | EPUB | 5,1 mb
Since its 1670 founding, Charleston has experienced the devastation of wars, economic hardships and natural disasters. And yet, Charlestonians and their city have prevailed through it all. It is in this current generational surge that the Holy City has experienced meteoric success and taken its place on the world stage. This thematic weave of essays drawn from interviews explores those essential personalities who have lifted Charleston to its new perch as a must-see destination-one that is known as the most welcoming and the most recommended in America. Join engaging local author W. Thomas McQueeney in this updated edition as he relays stories of the 1950s, "60s and "70s through the eyes of those who have witnessed Charleston’s evolution to become the charming city it is today.

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The Visionaries Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times [Audiobook]


Free Download The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP575N82 | 2023 | 12 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
Narrator: Hannah Curtis

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author, Wolfram Eilenberger. The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century-at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another. Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century.

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Conquering the Electron The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age [Audiobook]


Free Download Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B084RWVJRV | 2020 | 14 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 395 MB
Author: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern-day technologies. Exploring the combination of genius, infighting, and luck that powered the creation of today’s electronic age, Conquering the Electron debunks the hero worship so often plaguing the stories of great advances. Want to know how AT&T’s Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology – and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work – and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.

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