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The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed (Repost)

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The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed (Repost)

The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed by Dengjian Jin
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 316 Pages | ISBN : 1137527935 | 2.6 MB

This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions forcing the transcendence of limitations.

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
English | April 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1250325374 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 20.44 MB

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.

Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter, UK Edition

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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter, UK Edition

Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter, UK Edition by Ian Mortimer
English | February 23rd, 2023 | ISBN: 1529920809 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 6.48 MB

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

The Nature of Alexander

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The Nature of Alexander

Mary Renault, "The Nature of Alexander"
English | 1979 | ISBN: 039473825X, 0394491130 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2.8 MB

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

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Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 by Gavin Stamp
English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1800817398 | 592 pages | True EPUB | 51.93 MB

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War.

Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation

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Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation

Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation by Eleanor Barnett
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 180328157X | 384 pages | True EPUB | 36.81 MB

A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day.

The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)

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The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)

The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) by DK
English | March 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 0744091977 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 238.03 MB

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars."

The Battle of Bong Son: Operation Masher/White Wing, 1966

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The Battle of Bong Son: Operation Masher/White Wing, 1966

The Battle of Bong Son: Operation Masher/White Wing, 1966 by Kenneth P. White
English | February 29th, 2024 | ISBN: 1636244017 | 250 pages | True PDF | 16.33 MB

The first full account of this significant battle, based on first-hand accounts and historical documents.

Geordie Torr - Great Rivers

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Geordie Torr - Great Rivers

Geordie Torr - Great Rivers: An Illustrated History of the Waterways that Shaped Civilizations
2024 | ISBN: 1398830267 | English | 256 pages | True EPUB | 51.08 MB

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

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Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era by Alwyn Turner
English | February 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1800815301 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 4.92 MB

When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Britain's dominance stretched across seven continents and its ruling classes were wealthier than ever before. Many later remembered the decade or so that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians themselves were acutely aware that the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.

Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age

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Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age

Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
English | November 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 0231209398 | 324 pages | True PDF | 37.28 MB

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world.

The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Alan Barenberg
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0197548229 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 2.43 MB

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime. it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. From its creation in 1930 to its partial dismantling in the mid-1950s, approximately 25 million people passed through the Gulag.

Nicaragua, 1961–1990: Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War)

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Nicaragua, 1961–1990: Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War)

Nicaragua, 1961–1990: Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship (Latin America at War) by David Francois
English | January 4th, 2019 | ISBN: 1911628216 | 72 pages | True EPUB | 13.75 MB

A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.

Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

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Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer
English | November 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 0300272669 | 544 pages | True EPUB | 7.75 MB

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism

Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay

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Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay

Mentchu-Hotep and the Spirit of the Medjay by Mfundishi Jhutyms Hassan Salim
English | ISBN: 1643679007 | 210 pages | EPUB | 2018 | 2 Mb