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Free Download Amedeo Feniello, "Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia"
English | ISBN: 1590511034 | 2024 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families' power in the 14th century.

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English | ISBN: 1774077817 | 2020 | 237 pages | PDF | 20 MB
The sun is an ultimate source of clean energy which is available in abundance. One hour of solar energy retrieved from sunlight is equivalent to the world's total energy consumption in a complete year (i.e., 16 TW). The development of low cost and highly efficient photovoltaic technology is a vital scientific goal and researchers have been trying to achieve it in the past two decades. The novel synthesis technique for preparation of solar cells has attracted significant interest because of their smart features which include low-temperature synthesis, synthetic variability, and the probability of fabricating flexible, lightweight, and green photovoltaic cells. Nanotechnology is the technology of future. It has a wide ranging domain of applications in almost every field of human activity which include chemical engineering, materials science, medicine, electronics, energy sector, etc. Presently, the use of nanotechnology in manufacturing of solar cells is gaining a significant attention due to its ability to provide cost-efficient and eco-friendly green energy solutions. Each chapter of this book recapitulates the applications of nanotechnology for development of green energy solutions. Introductory chapters of the book also contain the applications of nanotechnology beyond photovoltaics, and the key fabrication techniques, followed illustration of particular nanostructure type produced by application of a certain synthesis technique. The book also examines the benefits of each nanotechnology technique with a stress on probable future avenues of research.

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Free Download Vinayak Nandshankar Mehta, "Nandshankar: A Portrait in Nineteenth-century Surat"
English | ISBN: 9354421431 | 9354421431 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Published in 1916, Nandshankar Jeevan Chitra, Vinayak Mehta's biography of his father Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta (1835-1905), Gujarat's first novelist and an eminent educationist and administrator, is the earliest modern father-son biography in Gujarati. Written at a time when the advent of English education had led to a turbulent new stream of reform, agitating the old world of Surat, the period 1860-1880 was also the high tide of creativity when the young Nandshankar, along with luminaries like Narmadashankar, Navalram and Mahipatram, dominated the Gujarat literary scene. Vinayak narrates Nandshankar's eclectic life against the backdrop of Surat, a vibrant cosmopolitan port, and its changing political fortunes between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He creates a composite picture of the rich cultural life of the period from fragments: remembered conversations, songs, poetry, witty anecdotes, and sketches of eccentric teachers, inept physicians and alcoholic judges. Vinayak presents facets of his father's life: his boyhood shaped by British schoolmasters, Nandshankar as administrator, and Nandshankar as author of the historical novel Karan Ghelo. Drawn against a vivid and colourful backdrop of a changing culture, Nandshankar is presented as a man who navigated the disruptive aspects of modernity with grace and integrity. The biography, the outcome of historiography and historical craft combined with Vinayak's literary and aesthetic sensibilities, reveals a work of astonishing eloquence, erudition and foresight. In her nuanced, scholarly and meticulously researched translation, Radhika Jayakar Herzberger traces a hundred years of Surat's social history, while carefully unravelling concerns important to the biographer and his times, and gently reading between the lines to uncover the hitherto unknown and untold story of his father's life.

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Free Download Simon Critchley, "Mysticism"
English | ISBN: 1681378248 | 2024 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.

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Free Download Zachary Rodriguez, "My Mexican Favorites: 60 Easy, From-Scratch Recipes with Authentic Flavor"
English | ASIN : B0CW1ZL56K | 2025 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 33 MB
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Free Download Tomi Komoly, "My Granny's Gift: 55 Delicious Austro-Hungarian Dessert Recipes"
English | ISBN: 1503383210 | 2014 | 124 pages | AZW3 | 33 MB
The people of Budapest and Vienna love to indulge in desserts, and usually accompany this with a coffee latte or a murderously strong espresso. This gave rise to a huge number of coffee houses and patisseries, where Tomi first acquired his taste for both. This collection. however, is largely based on the home cook's recipes which aim at satisfying the family's desire to have these glorious tastes available without the trouble and expense of going out, and it is also extended to include some simple and popular rising dough and pasta based dishes that you would never find in a patisserie. It is not intended to compete with those of the famous and well-known chefs, only to lead you to appreciate the sophistication and variation as well as the amazing range of sweet food available, largely outside of the Anglo-Saxon experience. Some years ago, Tomi remembered that among the items he inherited, there was a set of recipe books from his grandmother. Looking at these brought up many memories of favourite tastes, the secrets of the housewives of those days. He decided to start experimenting with baking, and was reasonably successful. Starting with practically no baking skills, but remembering how these cakes looked, after reading the first one he vividly recalled watching his Granny in their kitchen in Budapest preparing for the weekend. The kitchen was the one and only place when he came home from school to sit down and do homework, and occasionally Granny would ask him to 'do a little stirring' for one of her cakes, while she was getting on with other chores. This book would like to encourage you to try to generate these desserts, without concern about your level of expertise or how it is going to look in the end. To assist your attempts, the pages are sprinkled liberally with photos taken during the 'experiments', and expand on some of the techniques when they first arise. The photos mentioned are Tomi's own, taken at a time when he was elbow-deep sometimes in flour and butter, or rushing between kitchen table and oven. They're not intended to compete with the professional variety, but show the various stages of progress so that you can check for yourself how you are doing. Many of his childhood memories came back to him while going through these recipes about a by-gone age in a little known country. You will find, interspersed with the recipes, some snippets he gathered during his Granny's afternoon knitting, darning and gossiping sessions regularly held at their home. There are also included some illustrations of the environment at a typical Budapest home, and in the coffee houses, to entertain you during your enterprise. Enjoy the process and the final results!

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Free Download Horst Von Der Goltz, "My Adventures as a German Secret Agent"
English | ISBN: 1025242432 | 2025 | 220 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
Dive into the shadowy world of World War I espionage with "My adventures as a German secret agent," the captivating firsthand account by Horst von der Goltz. This remarkable wartime memoir offers an unparalleled glimpse into the clandestine operations and high-stakes intelligence missions that defined the conflict. Von der Goltz, a pivotal figure in Germany's secret service, recounts his daring exploits across battlefields and behind enemy lines, revealing the intricate web of deceit, intrigue, and sabotage that shaped the war.

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Free Download Peter Neville, "Mussolini "
English | ISBN: 041573410X | 2014 | 266 pages | EPUB | 637 KB
This new edition of Peter Neville's Mussolini traces and analyses the life of one of the most fascinating twentieth century European dictators, Benito Mussolini, while placing his life in its historic Italian context. Engaging and accessible, the Duce's career is traced from his roots as a journalist and socialist to his capture and execution in 1945, addressing crucial issues throughout: was Mussolini really a far right ideologist, or simply a political opportunist? How successful was he at communicating his core beliefs to the Italian people?

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Free Download Elmira Akhmetova, "Muslim Women in Science, Past and Present "
English | ISBN: 1009539426 | 2025 | 70 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element examines issues related to Muslim women's engagement in science and scholarship both past and present. The first two parts discuss the contributions made by Muslim women to scholarly, scientific, and technological advancements. The third part discusses the factors that have contributed to a decline in Muslim women's scholarly involvement in Islamic civilisation, the veracity of historical accounts, and the constraints in original knowledge production in contemporary Muslim societies. It finds that there are no religious restrictions rooted in the Qur'an that forbid women from pursuing a profession in science, whether as learners or practitioners. Yet some economic and political circumstances, cultural influences, and outdated interpretations of Islam produce discrimination against women in Muslim societies, and lead to their underrepresentation in scientific research and academia.

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Free Download Gianmario Borio, "Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction "
English | ISBN: 0367879719 | 2019 | 430 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and repeated at any time and in any space. Moreover, among the more striking social phenomena ushered in by the technological revolution, one cannot fail to mention music's current status as a commodity and popular music's unprecedented global reach. In response to these new social and perceptual conditions, the act of listening has diversified into a wide range of patterns of behaviour which seem to resist any attempt at unification. Concentrated listening, the form of musical reception fostered by Western art music, now appears to be but one of the many ways in which audiences respond to organized sound. Cinema, for example, has developed specific ways of combining images and sounds; and, more recently, digital technology has redefined the standard forms of mass communication. Information is aestheticized, and music in turn is incorporated into pre-existing symbolic fields. This volume - the first in the series Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century - offers a wide-ranging exploration of the relations between sound, technology and listening practices, considered from the complementary perspectives of art music and popular music, music theatre and multimedia, composition and performance, ethnographic and anthropological research.

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