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Free Download Alexander McKinley, "Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka"
English | ISBN: 0231210612 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 45 MB
At the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri Lankan state, for its part, often uses the Peak as a prop to convey a harmonious image of religious pluralism, despite increasing Buddhist hegemony. How should the diversity of this place be understood historically and managed practically?

Free Download Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World"
English | ISBN: 067429162X | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB
"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures." ―Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

Free Download The World of Work to 2030: A practical guide to future-proofing your business and your career by Russell Beck
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 139941271X | 240 pages | MOBI | 1.70 Mb
A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.

Free Download G. E. R. Lloyd, "The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China "
English | ISBN: 0521894611 | 2002 | 200 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In The Ambitions of Curiosity, G.E.R. Lloyd explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. It asks such questions as what factors stimulated or inhibited this development? Whose interests were served? Who set the agenda? What was the role of the state in sponsoring, supporting or blocking research, in such areas as historiography, natural philosophy, medical research, astronomy, technology in all those fields. How were each of those fields defined and developed in different ancient societies? How did truly innovative thinkers persuade their own contemporaries to accept their work? Three of the main themes elaborated are, first, the different routes those developments took in China, Greece and Mesopotamia; second, the unexpected results of many research efforts; and third, the tensions between state control and individual innovation and the different ways they were resolved-problems that remain in scientific research today. G.E.R. Lloyd is Chair of the East Asian History of Science Trust and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge. He has authored and edited numerous books including Greek Thought (Harvard, 2000) and Hippocratic Writings (Viking, 1984). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Art and Sciences.

Free Download Joyce A. Quinn, "Desert Biomes (Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World)"
English | 2008 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0313340161 | PDF | 4,9 mb
This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World focuses on deserts, the seemingly desolate―but actually quite lively―regions that are home to some of the most interesting and beautiful flora and fauna in the world. Desert Biomes examines three different types of biomes: warm/hot deserts (such as the Mojave and Sahara deserts), cold deserts (such as Patagonia in South America), and the West Coast Fog Desert biomes, which occur on certain regions of the western edge of major continents. The volumes examines how these biomes are unique in terms of their vegetation, geographical distribution, soil, challenges posed by the environment, adaptation of the plants and animals to the environment, and conservation efforts. Maps, photos, diagrams, drawings, and tables accompany the text, as do sidebars that highlight habitats, species, and ecological relationships. The volume includes a bibliography of accessible resources for further research.

Free Download Francis C. W Fung, "China’s Harmony Renaissance: What the World must know"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1424327407 | PDF | pages: 146 | 2.0 mb
FOREWORD Unilateralism and cultural conflicts in the beginning of the 21st Century seem to be unstoppable in view of extremism between conflicting parties and the overwhelming U.S. media dominance around the globe. Even though the Western media may have all the good intentions of spreading democracy worldwide, to those who yearn for diversity of culture and international opinion in the United States, the American domination of world media and world government policies have been stifling indeed. The recent rediscovery of ancient Chinese philosophies of balance and harmony in China cannot be timelier. The U.S. is badly in need of a dose of the gentle, tolerant and accepting Eastern philosophy that is the essence of Chinese wisdom. This can be particularly inviting for those who are truly interested in Chinese language, culture and world harmony. This primer on ancient Chinese harmony teaching can hopefully bring a glimmer of light to those hopeful that The World of Harmony Will Surely Come . China during the last one hundred and fifty years, ever since the Opium War, has been searching for its identity. The present Peoples Republic of China, rising from the plunder of Western and Japanese Imperialism, is only fifty seven years old. It is relatively young and short in terms of China s glorious five thousand years of ancient history. For 2500 years China has benefited from the long tradition handed down from Laotze and Confucius which emphasized its rich cultural value in harmony teachings. It is this harmony culture that enabled China to survive changes in power, foreign invasions, internal strife, other struggles throughout its long history. Today, China has rediscovered its ancient heritage in the teachings of harmony, and, in doing so, China rediscovered itself. This is not unlike Europe s rediscovery of ancient Greek democracy during the European Renaissance period after the Dark Ages that led to the Enlightenment and the sp

Free Download Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature (Medieval Lives) by Irven M. Resnick, Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
English | October 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 1789145139 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 27.09 MB
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century.

Free Download World War I and II for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the First and Second World War: Making the Past Come Alive by Captivating History, Jay Herbert
English | January 05, 2024 | ISBN: B0CRHZH478 | 2 hours and 39 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 71 Mb
Two manuscripts in one audiobook:World War 1 for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the First World WarWorld War 2 for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Second World WarIn the first part of this audiobook, you will discover:How it all started because of just one manWhy soldiers spent most of their time sitting around in wet, muddy ditchesThe new inventions that changed the face of war foreverHow dogs, horses, pigeons, and even goldfish helped in the warSoldiers-poets that didn’t know itWhy you could go to jail if you refused to fightBoy Scout and Girl Guide spies?The longest, biggest, and bloodiest battlesOnly twelve years old and going to war!How the "war to end all wars" may have actually caused the Second World WarIn the second part of this audiobook, you will discover:Why were children in Britain sent to live hundreds of miles away with strangers?Could you budget and enjoy your favorite foods on wartime rations?Why the first atomic bomb was used and how it ended the war for good.How one fifteen-year-old girl’s diary won a Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 30 million copies.Why some people had no choice but to fight, even if they didn’t want to.Being a dictator wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s first choice of career. What do you think he first tried (and failed) to be?Why you couldn’t say "hamburger" in the United States during WWII.Could you make a great escape from a prison camp?Thirty years later-the soldiers who refused to believe the war was over!Girl power! How women helped the war effort.

Free Download World Class: Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness on and off the Field (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPKHY1QX | 2024 | 12 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 361 MB
Author: Grant Wahl
Narrator: Dr. Céline Gounder, Mark Mravic, Eric Wahl, Alexander Wolff
The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work-a masterclass in the art of sportswriting. After Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, collapsing in his press seat during a quarterfinal match, tributes to Wahl poured in from around the globe. Wahl was beloved for good reason-he was kind, generous, and unflinching in the face of injustice. He was also one of the best sports journalists of his generation. Spanning four decades of storytelling, World Class collects for the first time the finest writing of Grant Wahl, from op-eds for his college newspaper to twenty-five years of reporting at Sports Illustrated to his deeply personal work for Fútbol with Grant Wahl on Substack. Wahl was the multi-tool modern sportswriter: clear and direct; able to write long, short, or in between; cosmopolitan; socially aware.

Free Download What’s Her Name?: A History of the World in 70 Lost Women (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QMH5TH | 2024 | 11 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Dr. Katie Nelson, Olivia Meikle
Narrator: Caroline Lennon
What if some of the most iconic lives in human history were, for centuries, forgotten? From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women – leaders, artists, warriors, scientists and more – have been ignored, forgotten, or actively suppressed. You’ve probably not encountered the likes of Fatima al-Fihri (an Islamic World visionary who founded the world’s first university), Ching Shih (the most successful pirate in history), or Huda Sha’arawi (a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragette, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union), but that’s about to change.