The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith
PublicAffairs | 2011 | ISBN: 1610390717 | English | 816 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 3 MB + 3.55 MB

First published in 2005, The Fate of Africa was hailed by reviewers as “A masterpiece. . . The nonfiction book of the year” (The New York Post); “a magnificent achievement” (Weekly Standard); “a joy,” (Wall Street Journal) and “one of the decade’s most important works on Africa” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Now Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments, including the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Robert Mugabe’s continued destructive rule in Zimbabwe, controversies over Western aid and exploitation of Africa’s resources, the growing importance and influence of China, and the democratic movement roiling the North African countries of Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan.

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Story of Lord Ayyappa

Story of Lord Ayyappa- Free ebook Download
Ayyappa, Almighty Ayyappan is idolized in a lot of ways  in temples all over India; at Kulatupuzha in Kerala he's worshiped as a child; at Achenkovil in concurrence with his consorts (wives), Pushkkala and Poorna; and at Sabarimala as brahmachari - a celibate meditating in solitude for the benefit of all mankind. The constitute "Ayyappan" is used as a respectful form of address in Malayalam, and the famous mantra Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa can be straight interpreted as afford me protection, Almighty Ayyappa! He's believed to be born out of the marriage 'tween Mohini, (Vishnu), and Siva. The most renowned Ayyappa Temple in Bharat is the 1 at Sabarimala on over fifty million devotees coming each year, and it is the 2d biggest pilgrimage in the world.

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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox By Richard Noll

American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox By Richard Noll
In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else?
In vivid detail, Richard Noll describes how the discovery of this mysterious disorder gave hope to the overworked asylum doctors that they could at last explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients surrounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how asylum physicians fought for their own respectability. If what they were observing was a disease, then this biological reality was amenable to scientific research. In the early twentieth century, dementia praecox was psychiatry’s key into an increasingly science-focused medical profession.
But for the moment, nothing could be done to help the sufferers. When the concept of schizophrenia offered a fresh understanding of this disorder, and hope for a cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dramatic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders.


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Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

 Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson
Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast.

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Churchill: A Life By Martin Gilbert

Churchill: A Life By Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert's highly-acclaimed Churchill: A Life is a story of adventure. It follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present, as are his tremendous qualities in peace and war, not least as an orator and as a man of vision. Gilbert gives us a vivid portrait, using Churchill's most personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, both friends and enemies, to go behind the scenes of some of the stormiest and most fascinating political events of our time, dominated by two world wars and culminating in the era of the Iron Curtain.

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A People's History of American Empire By Howard Zinn

A People's History of American Empire By Howard Zinn and Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form

Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the country, and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, A People’s History triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.


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Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery free ebook download

Author(s):     John Waller

Publisher:     Oxford University Press

Date:     2006-01   

Format:     pdf  

Language:     English   

ISBN10:     0198609396    

Pages:     308

ISBN13:     9780198609391











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The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' genetics. Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein's general relativity was only 'confirmed' in 1919 because an eminent British scientist cooked his figures. These are just some of the revelations explored in this book. Drawing on current history of science scholarship, "Fabulous Science" shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data and not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. It also reveals that the alleged revolutionaries of the history of science were often nothing of the sort. Prodigiously able they may have been, but the epithet of the 'man before his time' usually obscures vital contributions made their unsung contemporaries and the intrinsic merits of ideas they overturned. These distortions of the historical record mostly arise from our tendency to read the present back into the past. But in many cases, scientists owe their immortality to a combination of astonishing effrontery and their skills as self-promoters.



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The Titanic Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Peter F. Copeland - The Titanic Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Dover Publications | 1997 | ISBN: 048629756X | English | 31 pages | PDF | 3.5 MB

Impressive illustrations dramatically portray events leading up to and including the sinking of the "unsinkable" White Star liner. Descriptive captions accompany 29 realistic drawings of the Titanic at dock in Southhampton, England; passengers dining, strolling on deck, and relaxing in the elegant first class lounge; the ship striking the iceberg; more.


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The Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts

Joseph B. Lumpkin, "The Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts"
Publisher: Fifth Estate | 2009 | ISBN: 1933580666 | PDF | 828 pages | 22.4 MB

The Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts -
Eighteen of the most sought after books available, which shed light on the evolution of our faith, our theology, and our church. Translations and commentary by the author of the best selling book, "The Lost Book of Enoch," Joseph B. Lumpkin.

- Section One: Lost Scriptures of the Old Testament-
First Book of Adam and Eve, Second Book of Adam and Eve, First Book of Enoch, Second Book of Enoch (Secrets of Enoch), Jubilees, Jasher, The Story of Ahikar

- Section Two: Apocalyptic Writings and the End of Days-
Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Thomas 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, War Scroll (Sons of Dark vs. Sons of Light)

- Section Three: Lost Scriptures of the New Testament-
Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Apocryphon of John, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Judas, Acts Chapter 29 


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Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations

Susana Carvalho, "Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations"
Publisher: P... M... | 2009 | ISBN: 0230218601 | PDF | 320 pages | 2.3 MB

This volume pinpoints the importance of history and its uses in the (re)formation of modern nations and national identities in a wide variety of countries, covering the five continents. It features contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field of nationalism such as Terence Ranger, Robert Gildea and John Breuilly.


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Twilight and History

Twilight and History
Wiley | 2010-04-12 | ISBN: 0470581786 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

The first look at the history behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight series, timed to release with the third movie, Eclipse The characters of the Twilight Saga carry a rich history that shapes their identities and actions over the course of the series. Edward, for instance, may look like a seventeen-year-old teen heartthrob, but was actually born in 1901 and died during the Spanish Influenza of 1918. His adopted sister, Alice, was imprisoned in an insane asylum in 1920 and treated so badly there that even becoming a vampire was a welcome escape. This book is the first to explore the history behind the Twilight Saga's characters and their stories. You’ll learn about what life might have been like for Jasper Whitlock Hale, the Confederate vampire who fought during the Civil War, Carlisle Cullen, the Puritan witch hunter-turned-vampire who participated in the witchcraft persecutions in Early Modern England, and the history of the Quileute culture that shaped Jacob and his people —and much more.

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The Korean War: A History

The Korean War: A History
Publisher: Modern Library | ISBN: 0679643575 | edition 2010 | PDF | 237 pages | 2 MB

This is not a conventional military history and anyone looking for a conventional military history will be disappointed. Cumings, a leading expert on modern Korean history, is primarily interested in debunking common American myths about the Korean war. The book is organized as a series of essays on aspects of the Korean war. Topics covered include the ultimate genesis of the war as a civil conflict between Korean clients of the Japanese imperium and anti-colonial insurgents, the essentially arbitrary post-WWII division of Korea, the nature of the American occupation and direct rule of Korea, the efforts of the US to rollback Communism in the Korean peninsula, the remarkably brutal nature of the conflict - including our use of saturation bombing, and the last consequences of the war for both Korea and the USA.

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Adolf Hitler Mein Jugendfreund

August Kubizek, "Adolf Hitler - mein Jugendfreund. Ein authentisches Dokument mit neuen Bildern".
Publisher: Stocker | english | ISBN: 370200971X | edition: 2002 | PDF | 296 Pages | 13.96 Mb


Get ahold of this book, whatever it takes. So much of what is today accepted as "fact" about Adolf Hitler is full of inconsistencies and assumption. It has been my experience that the public will readily swallow whatever they are fed about Hitler without giving so much as a second thought as to whether or not it is accurate. I wish I could be indifferent to this and take a neutral stance, but I cannot. I have dedicated six years of my life to studying that of Hitler, and it pains me to witness the widespread ignorance displayed by the majority whenever his name is mentioned.This is why this book is so important to me. It is by far the best ever written about his young adulthood and, in short, who he really was as a person, an individual; for in order to begin to grasp who Hitler was, one must look into his past.During the years the two spent together in Linz and later in Vienna, young Adolf was already developing into who he would later become. For getting a deeper perspective of the true nature of Adolf Hitler, August Kubizek is, in my humble opinion, the most reliable source for insight into this complicated human being. No one knew Hitler more intimately than he did. He was also reunited with his old friend three decades after their ways parted in Vienna, and thus gives valuable insight regarding "Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer". And, as Kubizek remarked, "Hitler didn't change."The words Kubizek uses to describe his young friend convey the image of a deep, passionate, gifted and serious young man who, due to his great obsession with changing the world around him, did not enjoy his youth in any traditional sense. Kubizek did his friend a great service by writing this book. It is required reading for all serious students of Hitler's incredible life, for it is an honest, first-hand account of the young starving artist, open and unbiased--unlike any other book ever to tackle the subject.

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Free Historical Novel: Perusia

Historical novel “Perusia” by N.J. Matthews is free for 60 days until 7/21/2011 with coupon codeME45V. Download it in multiple formats from SmashWords.

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Perusia is a novel of historical fiction that follows the experience of 5 boys in Rome and Perusia in the time just after the assassination of Julius Ceasar. Two families are disrupted when the parents of the boys are arrested as a result of corrupt actions by the Senate. Their homes are expropriated and the parents thrown in prison. A Black Prince and a Blind Prophet offer to help.

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Number of pages: 196

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Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

A.Lynn Martin “Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" 
Palgrave Macmillan | 2001 | ISBN: 0333922425 | 216 pages | PDF | 1 Mb

This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to 1700. While alcohol causes physiological changes that are scientifically verifiable, the work of anthropologists reveals that much of what passes for drinking behavior and drunken comportment varies from one society to the next. In traditional Europe, as in modern Western societies, drinking led to increased sexual activity for both men and women, and it inclined men to commit acts of violence. Despite male fears of female sexuality and despite patriarchal restraints, women still consumed alcoholic beverages, sometimes in gargantuan amounts. This widespread consumption of wine, ale, or beer illustrates the importance of alcohol in traditional Europe. Alcohol was the ubiquitous social lubricant, and alcoholic beverages formed an important part of most people's diets.


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Ancient Rome

"Ancient Rome" by Peter Chrisp
D K | 96 pages | English | 2007 | ISBN: 1405313323 | PDF | 50,2 MB

Some 2,000 years ago, the Romans created one of the biggest and bestorganized empires the world has ever seen. Throughout their lands, they built towns and roads, and spread their way of life. In far corners of the empire, people dressed in Roman clothes, used the same coins, and worshipped Roman gods.

One of the reasons why their empire was so successful was that, unlike other ancient states, the empire welcomed outsiders. Foreigners could become Roman citizens. At first this was given as a reward for loyalty or for service in the Roman army, but under Emperor Caracalla, who ruled ad 211–217, citizenship was granted to
every free inhabitant of the empire. From the north of Britain to Egypt’s River Nile, everyone apart from slaves could now call themselves “Romans".

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A Social History of England, 1200-1500

Rosemary Horrox, "A Social History of England, 1200-1500"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0521783453 | PDF | 528 pages | 3 MB

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of later medieval society, including the social hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and forms of individual and collective identity. Clustered around these themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding of other important social and cultural features of the period, including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable both as an introduction for students and as a resource for specialists. 


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A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema

Paul Monaco, "A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema"
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0810874334 | PDF | 368 pages | 1.3 MB

A History of American Movies provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute. 


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Fractured Europe: 1600 - 1721 (Blackwell History of Europe)

D. J. Sturdy, "Fractured Europe: 1600 - 1721 (Blackwell History of Europe)"
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | 2002 | ISBN: 0631205136 | PDF | 496 pages | 44.7 MB

This book presents a narrative history of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, from the end of the sixteenth century to the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721.


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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (World History)

Don Nardo, "Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (World History)"
Publisher: Lucent Books | 2010 | ISBN: 142050326X | PDF | 100 pages | 10.1 MB

Each book in the comprehensive World History series offers a clearly written and visually enhanced overview of an important historical event or period. The series is designed both to acquaint readers with the basics of history and to make them aware that their lives and their own historical era are an intimate part of the ongoing human saga.


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