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 E. H. Gombrich, "A Little History of the World: Illustrated Edition" English | ISBN: 0300197187 | 2013 | 364 pages | MOBI | 16 MB A special edition of the international bestseller that is "sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it's even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with no children in sight." (Philip Kennicott, Washington Post)  Brian Fagan, "A Little History of Archaeology" English | ISBN: 0300243219 | 2019 | 288 pages | MOBI | 6 MB A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure-with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe-for readers of all ages  A Ladies Guide on How to Prevent Your Fanny Smelling Like Cod: Seventy Brutal Rules for Staying Fresh and Avoiding Fishy Disasters by Matthew Mcmillan English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GJQVXHCN | 73 Pages | PDF | 14 MB  Michael K. Bergman, "A Knowledge Representation Practionary: Guidelines Based on Charles Sanders Peirce" English | ISBN: 3319980912 | 2018 | 479 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB This major work on knowledge representation is based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce, a logician, scientist, and philosopher of the first rank at the beginning of the 20th century. This book follows Peirce's practical guidelines and universal categories in a structured approach to knowledge representation that captures differences in events, entities, relations, attributes, types, and concepts. Besides the ability to capture meaning and context, the Peircean approach is also well-suited to machine learning and knowledge-based artificial intelligence. Peirce is a founder of pragmatism, the uniquely American philosophy.  Fahim Fahim, "A King in Hiding: How a child refugee became a world chess champion" English | ISBN: 1848318286 | 2015 | 227 pages | MOBI | 281 KB Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight year-old chess prodigy Fahim arrived in Paris with his father. Refused asylum, as illegal immigrants they spiralled downwards into homelessness and desperation.  Claudia Soares, "A Home from Home?: Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920" English | ISBN: 0192897470 | 2023 | 256 pages | MOBI | 5 MB A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision. Departing from narratives of reform and discipline which have dominated scholarship, and drawing on material culture and social history approaches, as well as the extensive archives of the Waifs and Strays Society, Claudia Soares provides a new type of study of social care by offering a 'bottom-up' study of children's welfare, and studying the significance of specific types of care practices that held particular cultural and ideological meaning. At its core, the book uses unique first-hand accounts, individual case records, and personal correspondence of children in care in Britain to locate the voices and subjectivities of institutionalised children and their families within the voluntary welfare system between 1870 and 1920. In doing so, it uncovers the real lives, experiences, and attitudes of the children and their families, and offers a timely new approach to understanding the history of children's social care.  Steven Runciman, "A History of the Crusades 3 Volume Paperback Set" English | ISBN: 052135997X | 1987 | 1248 pages | MOBI | 3 MB Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. Volume I deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume II describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin, and in the final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom from the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven themes of the book include: Christiandom, the replacement of the cultured Ayubites by the less sympathetic Mameluks as leader of the Moslem world, and the coming of the Mongols. Runciman includes a chapter on architecture and the arts, and an epilogue on the last manifestations of the Crusading spirit.  Jesper Lützen, "A History of Mathematical Impossibility" English | ISBN: 0192867393 | 2023 | 298 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB Many of the most famous results in mathematics are impossibility theorems stating that something cannot be done. Good examples include the quadrature of the circle by ruler and compass, the solution of the quintic equation by radicals, Fermat's last theorem, and the impossibility of proving the parallel postulate from the other axioms of Euclidean geometry. This book tells the history of these and many other impossibility theorems starting with the ancient Greek proof of the incommensurability of the side and the diagonal in a square.  Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit" English | ISBN: 0253029724 | 2017 | 288 pages | MOBI | 571 KB In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain's history that pointed to this moment? In A History of Britain: 1945 to the Brexit, award-winning historian Jeremy Black reexamines modern British history, considering the social changes, economic strains, and cultural and political upheavals that brought Britain to Brexit. This sweeping and engaging book traces Britain's path through the destruction left behind by World War II, Thatcherism, the threats of the IRA, the Scottish referendum, and on to the impact of waves of immigration from the European Union. Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain's past.  William B. Irvine, "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" English | ISBN: 0195374614 | 2008 | 336 pages | MOBI | 392 KB One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. |
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