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 Nanci Adler, "The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System" English | ISBN: 0765805855 | 2004 | 303 pages | EPUB | 829 KB Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the Gulag victims to society opened questions about the nature, reality, and mentality of the system that remain contentious to this day.The Gulag Survivor is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the classic work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Based on extensive interviews, memoirs, official records, and recently opened archives, The Gulag Survivor describes what survivors experienced when they returned to society, how officials helped or hindered them, and how issues surrounding the existence of the returnees evolved from the fifties up to the present.Adler establishes the social and historical context of the first wave of returnees who were "liberated" into exile in Stalin's time. She reviews diverse aspects of return including camp culture, family reunion, and the psychological consequences of the Gulag. Adler then focuses on the enduring belief in the Communist Party among some survivors and the association between returnees and the growing dissident movement. She concludes by examining how issues surrounding the survivors reemerged in the eighties and nineties and the impact they had on the failing Soviet system. Written and researched while Russian archives were most available and while there were still survivors to tell their stories, The Gulag Survivor is a groundbreaking and essential work in modern Russian history. It will be read by historians, political scientists, Slavic scholars, and sociologists.
 Robert Fatton Jr., "The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States " English | ISBN: 197882131X | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 523 KB The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles.  The Grounded Goalie: A football book for boys aged 9-13 (The Football Boys) by Zac Marks English | March 14, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VLGR2VZ | 140 pages | EPUB | 0.34 Mb Every team needs a goalie. But what if he doesn't show?  Carole A. O'Reilly, "The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840-1939 " English | ISBN: 1032092440 | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of these valuable spaces in the early decades of the twentieth century. Encompassing themes such as social and political usage, parks as employers and the dangers posed by such freely accessible spaces, the book examines a range of parks in cities such as Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Leeds, Preston, Hull and Cardiff and challenges the prevailing myths about their meaning for their users. This study's timeframe spans almost 100 years of unprecedented social, cultural, political and economic changes and allows for the consideration of the expansion and commercialisation of leisure opportunities for the public. Urban parks played a significant role in this ― the book places parks firmly in the context of the evolving city and examines the importance of green space to the urban citizen during this most fascinating of historical periods.  The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria (New African Histories) by Judith A. Byfield 2021 | ISBN: 0821423975, 0821423983 | English | 334 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This social and intellectual history of women's political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria's colonial past and independent future.  Jonathan Sacks, "The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0805212507, 0805243011 | PDF | pages: 386 | 2.1 mb Impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned, The Great Partnershipargues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other-and that the world needs both.  The Grammar of Multiple Head-Movement by Branigan, Phil; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197677037 | 373 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.58 MB
 Karen Van Kampen, "The Golden Cell: gene therapy, stem cells and the quest for the next great medical breakthrough" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0006394981 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 1.5 mb  Fiona J Houston, "The Garden Cottage Diaries" English | ISBN: 1887354778 | 2010 | 224 pages | EPUB | 14 MB Challenged to prove her claim that an 18th-century diet was better than today's, for a full year Fiona J Houston recreated the lifestyle of her 1790's rural Scottish ancestors in a basic one-roomed cottage, cooking from her garden and the wild, often entertaining family and friends, and surviving on her own resources. She learned lost crafts and skills, making nettle string, quill pens and ink, as well as cheese and ale, lighting her fire from flints, and dressing in hand-sewn period clothing, with nothing but an old range stove and candles for warmth and light. This beautiful, quirky, illustrated title tells her extraordinary story and is packed with historical anecdotes, folklore, practical gardening info, seasonal menus, recipes, wildlife notes, and more. Includes linocuts, photos, and historic engravings.
 The Foreign Invaders of Ancient Egypt: The History of the Hyksos, Sea Peoples, Nubians, Babylonians, and Assyrians by Charles River Editors English | December 15, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01MU15JOL | 256 pages | EPUB | 5.79 Mb *Includes pictures |
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