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 Turtle Bunbury, "The Glorious Madness - Tales of the Irish and the Great War: First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War" English | 2014 | ASIN: B00OLI861W | EPUB | pages: 352 | 43.4 mb From tragic generals to nuns on the run - the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you've never heard before
 The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700-1949: A Microhistory of the Caterpillar Fungus English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031247221 | 428 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth century and later assimilated into Chinese materia medica from the eighteenth century onwards. Tracing the transmission of the caterpillar fungus from China to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, the book investigates the tensions that existed between prevailing Chinese knowledge and new European ideas about the caterpillar fungus. Emerging in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, these ideas eventually reached communities of scientists, physicians and other intellectuals in Japan and China. Seeking to examine why the caterpillar fungus engaged the attention of so many scientific communities across the globe, the author offers a transnational perspective on the making of modern European natural history and Chinese materia medica.  Stephen Mullen, "The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838 " English | ISBN: 1909646776 | 2022 | 340 pages | PDF | 20 MB The wealth generated both directly and indirectly by Caribbean slavery had a major impact on Glasgow and Scotland. Glasgow's Sugar Aristocracy is the first book to directly assess the size, nature and effects of this. West India merchants and plantation owners based in Glasgow made nationally significant fortunes, some of which boosted Scottish capitalism, as well as the temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands. This book adds much needed nuance to the argument in a Scottish context; revealing methods of repatriating wealth from the Caribbean as well as mercantile investments in industry, banking and land and philanthropic initiatives.  David Goldblatt, "The Games: A Global History of the Olympics" English | ISBN: 144729887X | 2018 | pages | PDF | 29 MB From Athens in 1896 to the controversial aftermath of Rio in 2016, this history of the modern Olympics traces how the Games have grown into a festival of cosmopolitan humanity but also highlights how much they have been influenced by politics.  The Future of E-Commerce by Kumar, Vikas; English | 2022 | ISBN: 9798886973358 | 234 pages | True PDF | 8.84 MB  Lara Monticelli, "The Future is Now " English | ISBN: 152921565X | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 34 MB The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the present. Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.  Christiana Figueres, "The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis" English | 2020 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0525658351, 0593080939 | EPUB | 0,6 mb A cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac-who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015.  Walter Crane, "The Frog Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)" English | 2007 | ISBN: 1406585904 | EPUB | pages: 48 | 1.9 mb Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of Sixpenny Toy-Books of Nursery Rhymes in Three Colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of long visit to Italy following on his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.  The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 (St Antony's Series) by Katerina Lagos 2023 | ISBN: 3031205324 | English | 284 pages | PDF | 6 MB Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War. Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology. However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the interwar period.  The Fault-Tolerant Control of Induction Motors by Zagirnyak, Mykhaylo V.; English | 2022 | ISBN: 979-8886972238 | 300 pages | True PDF | 18.9 MB |
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