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Free Download Gardeners’ World: 101 Ideas for a Wildlife-friendly Garden by Mick Lavelle
English | 26 Mar. 2009 | ISBN: 1846077303 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 76.4 MB
If you yearn to watch blackbirds feeding their young, and butterflies flitting amongst the flowers but you don’t have the space for a meadow or want to give your whole garden over to nature, don’t despair: with just a few clever tricks you can bring the countryside and its residents to your garden, even in the most urban of locations.

Free Download Zoë Tousignant, "Gabor Szilasi: The Art World in Montreal, 1960-1980"
English | ISBN: 1895615399 | 2019 | 160 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Born in Hungary in 1928, Gabor Szilasi is one of Quebec’s best-known living photographers. Soon after settling in Montreal in 1959, Szilasi began photographing the many art openings that he regularly attended with his wife, artist Doreen Lindsay. Over the next two decades he produced an extensive photographic record of the individuals who comprised Montreal’s visual arts community, a number of whom would shape the history of art in Canada. Expanding on a solo exhibition of Szilasi’s photographs that took place at the McCord Museum in 2017, the book features three essays, an interview, and over one hundred images that capture, with characteristic candour, perspicacity, and wit, some of the radical changes that affected Montreal’s art world throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Szilasi’s significant body of work – totalling approximately 3,600 negatives – provides a rare look at the social lives of Canadian artists during a time of great effervescence and creative possibility. Gabor Szilasi: The Art World in Montreal invites reflection on what has since been lost and gained. Brought to light over fifty years after they were taken, the images featured in this book reveal the centrality of one of Canada’s leading photographers to the milieu he calls home.

Free Download From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire by Sarah Jaffe
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1541703499 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 3.19 MB
From a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving what we’ve lost in order to move towards a hopeful future.

Free Download Environmental Risk and Resilience in the Changing World:
Integrated Geospatial AI and Multidimensional Approach
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031624416 | 326 Pages | PDF (True) | 32 MB

Free Download Tony Holmes – Dogfight: The Greatest Air Duels of World War II (Osprey General Aviation)
Osprey Publishing / Chartwell Books | 2013 | ISBN: 0785830286 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 246.74 MB
Written by Tony Holmes, an aerospace editor and leading expert on aviation history, Dogfight covers four air forces, three theaters, and ten iconic fighters. This book is the complete story of head to head aerial combat in World War II. In the skies above a world at war, individual skill, technical edge, and superior tactics all determined which pilot would emerge victorious from an aerial duel.

Free Download Philip Ball, "Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier"
English | ISBN: 0691000581 | | 376 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change color while you wear them. They have fashioned metals from plastics, drugs from crude oil, and have pinpointed the chemical pollutants affecting our atmosphere and are now searching for remedies for the imperiled planet. Philip Ball, an editor for the prestigious magazine Nature, lets the lay reader into the world of modern chemistry. Here, for example, chemists find new uses for the improbable buckminsterfullerene molecules-60-atom carbon soccerballs, dubbed "buckyballs"-which seem to have applications for everything from lubrication to medicine to electronics.

Free Download Confucius: And the World He Created by Michael Schuman
English | March 3, 2015 | ISBN: 046502551X | True PDF | 320 pages | 3.3 MB
Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius’s influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius’s doctrine has endured as the foundation of East Asian culture. It is impossible to understand East Asia, journalist Michael Schuman demonstrates, without first engaging with Confucius and his vast legacy.

Free Download Clark Kerr’s World of Higher Education Reaches the 21st Century: Chapters in a Special History By Sheldon Rothblatt (auth.), Sheldon Rothblatt (eds.)
2012 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 9400742576 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume consists of original essays by academic leaders and scholars connected to Clark Kerr’s life and work. He was arguably America’s most significant higher education thinker and public policy analyst in the last 50 years of the 20th century and renowned globally. However, little thoughtful attention has been devoted to assessing the whole of his work. Some commentators misunderstand the man as well as his ideas. The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 was one of his famous undertakings, as was his part in shaping the multi-campus University of California towards global eminence. He coined the word "multiversity" to describe what he called the "uses" of the university, but began to think it had become much too "multi". Some of his most important work was as director of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, which laid the foundation for sophisticated policy-making. The contributors honor the achievements of a remarkable man and provide portraits of him, but of equal importance are their critical discussions of the sources of his thinking, his attempts to balance access and merit in mass higher education circumstances, the policy issues that he confronted and the success of their resolution. For many of the contributors, Kerr’s work is the starting point for understanding policy issues in varying regional and national contexts. Often thought to be a social scientist eager to keep abreast of trends, Kerr was actually au fond a moralist and surprisingly old-fashioned in his personal values.

Free Download Burmese Days (Oxford World’s Classics) by George Orwell, edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
English | March 1, 2021 | ISBN: 019885370X | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.9 MB
‘…after all, natives were natives – interesting, no doubt, but finally … an inferior people’

Free Download Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing, "Building a World Federation: The Key to Resolving Our Global Crises"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0990943720 | EPUB | pages: 126 | 0.3 mb
Humanity has been passing through stages of collective growth towards integration and unity. Our current collective crises-climate change, financial upheavals, proliferation of nuclear weapons, gross human rights atrocities, mismanagement of critical natural resources-manifest our passage through a turbulent adolescence. This book analyzes why and how humanity can take the next step towards maturity by establishing collective decision-making institutions that can evolve into a world federation of nation-states. Only then will we have a truly peaceful world.