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 Ben Goldacre, "Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks" English | ISBN: 0865479186 | 2010 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention to and what's, well, just more bullshit?  Julie Bruton-Seal, "Backyard Medicine Updated & Expanded Second Edition: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies" English | ISBN: 1510748059 | 2019 | 224 pages | MOBI | 29 MB An Updated and Expanded New Edition of Backyard Medicine!  Abigail Gehring, "Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills " English | ISBN: 1629143693 | 2014 | 456 pages | MOBI | 32 MB Over 200,000 copies sold-fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.  R. F. Kuang, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution―An Historic Fantasy of Dark" English | ISBN: 0063021420 | 2022 | 560 pages | MOBI | 4 MB Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War  Lara Honos-Webb PhD, "BRAIN HACKS: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning" English | ISBN: 1641521600 | 2018 | 152 pages | MOBI | 744 KB Filled with actionable strategies proven to improve focus, increase productivity, and promote well-being, Brain Hacks will help you transform the way you work, live, and feel by tapping into the power of your executive functioning skills.  Lisa Jervis, "BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine" English | ISBN: 0374113432 | 2006 | 400 pages | MOBI | 662 KB In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women's lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today it stands as a touchstone of hip, young feminist thought, looking with both wit and irreverence at the way pop culture informs feminism―and vice versa―and encouraging readers to think critically about the messages lurking behind our favorite television shows, movies, music, books, blogs, and the like. BITCHFest offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from the magazine's first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for the collection. Smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous, and clear-eyed, the anthology covers everything from a 1996 celebration of pre-scandal Martha Stewart to a more recent critical look at the "gayby boom"; from a time line of black women on sitcoms to an analysis of fat suits as the new blackface; from an attempt to fashion a feminist vulgarity to a reclamation of female virginity. It's a recent history of feminist pop-culture critique and an arrow toward feminism's future.  Stephen R. Platt, "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War" English | ISBN: 0307271730 | 2012 | 512 pages | MOBI | 2 MB A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles-a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.  Primo Levi, "Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986" English | ISBN: 1509513361 | 2017 | 220 pages | PDF | 10 MB In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of Levi's life-long work as writer, analyst and witness.  Erik Kenyon, "Augustine and the Dialogue" English | ISBN: 110842290X | 2018 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Augustine and the Dialogue argues that Augustine's dialogues, with their inconclusive debates and dramatic shifts in focus, betray a sophisticated pedagogical method which combines strategies for 'un-learning' and self-reflection with a willingness to proceed via provisional answers. By shifting the focus from doctrinal content to questions of method, Kenyon seeks to reframe scholarly discussions of Augustine's earliest surviving body of works. This approach shows the young Augustine not refuting so much as appropriating Academic skeptical practices. It also shows that the dialogues' few scriptural references, e.g. Wisdom 11:20's 'measure, number, weight', come at key structural points. This helps articulate the dialogues' larger project of cultivating virtue and their approach to philosophy as a form of purification. Augustine is shown to be at home with pluralistic approaches, and Kenyon holds up his methodology as an attractive model for thinking through problems of the liberal academy today.  Meghan Friedlander, "Audrey Hepburn in Paris: A Candid Reflection of The Iconic Hollywood Actress and her Time in France" English | ISBN: 0063135523 | 2024 | 208 pages | MOBI | 74 MB Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli |
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