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📮 Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell (.ePUB) How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. Addressing the ethical stakes involved in studying past lives, Stephen J. Campbell shows how this invented Leonardo has invited speculation from figures ranging from art dealers and curators to scholars, scientists, and biographers, many of whom have filled in the gaps of what can be known of Leonardo’s life with claims to decode secrets, reveal mysteries of a vanished past, or discover lost masterpieces of spectacular value. In this original and provocative book, Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo’s words and works, and the distinctive premodern world of artisans and thinkers from which he emerged. Far from being a solitary genius living ahead of his time, Leonardo inhabited a vibrant network of artistic, technological, and literary exchange. By investigating the politics and cultural tensions of the era as well as the most recent scholarship on Leonardo’s contemporaries, workshop, and writings, Campbell places Leonardo back into the milieu that shaped him and was shaped by him. He shows that it is in the gaps and contradictions of what we know of Leonardo’s life that a less familiar and far more historically significant figure appears. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Stephen J. Campbell Size 90.8MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ElydxvLoFPnH https://devuploads.com/a3v7w0en5vjr

📮 Matters of the Heart by Thema Bryant Ph.D. (.ePUB) A groundbreaking, heart-centered road map for everyone who seeks greater fulfillment in their relationships—with family, friends, romantic partners, and themselves As a psychologist and minister with more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Thema understands how challenging it can be to create and cultivate healthy relationships—and how critical it is for our well-being. Matters of the Heart draws on the wisdom of science, sacredness, and lived experience to help readers tend to the garden of their hearts and build their best relational lives. Love is not a level playing field, and improving your relationship with yourself, which includes healing trauma and setting boundaries, is often the first step toward leveling the field. Dr. Thema shares evidence-informed practices, traits, and skills that can enhance your relationships overall, as well as solutions to challenges within common relationship dynamics. With her wise and compassionate guidance, delve into: • hot topics such as control issues, emotional unavailability, and releasing someone who doesn’t love you • practical activation activities to apply what you learn from each chapter • case studies that illuminate the process of healing and growing your heart • how to shift your mindset and patterns around romance • and so much more One of the major predictors of wellness is the nature of our relationships. Our culture is in a mental health crisis, exacerbated by the loneliness of the digital age and realities of post-pandemic society. Whether you are trying to level up a happy relationship or rebuild trust after an unhappy one, Matters of the Heart will empower you to connect to yourself and to others, heal your heart, and thrive in all areas of your life. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Thema Bryant Ph.D. Size 1.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Self-help File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/e55ojvrQ4ATq https://devuploads.com/2917hsc3k7a5

📮 Integrating Rust by Abhishek Kumar (.ePUB) Integrating Rust shows you how to create fast, secure software while keeping full control. This book helps you with the knowledge to seamlessly integrate Rust into your existing development workflow, using its power for high-performance systems programming and beyond. This book is your go-to guide for bringing Rust into your tech stack to build secure, high-performance software. Designed for developers and tech leads, this book offers tools and insights for seamlessly adopting Rust in multi-language environments, modernizing workflows, and optimizing legacy systems. It explains Rust's type system and safety features while providing step-by-step examples for working with C, C++, databases, embedded systems, and WebAssembly. Learn to replace critical components, design efficient systems, and enhance web and cloud applications. This book contains practical tips to help you achieve scalability, reliability, and top-notch performance. By the end of this book, you will be well-equipped to integrate Rust into your projects, avoid common mistakes, and deliver efficient, secure software aligned with modern standards. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Abhishek Kumar Size 9MB Category Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/cLxdGyp2K65c https://devuploads.com/eom3daz6jyb9

📮 Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946–1953 by Czeslaw Milosz (.ePUB) A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czeslaw Milosz famously bore witness to its violence in his native Poland and in the war’s aftermath from exile in Europe and the United States. Immediately after the war, he lived in Washington, D.C., working as a diplomatic official, having left behind an old world stained by bloodshed and still in the throes of ideological conflict as he sought to find his bearings in a new world. Poet in the New World gathers the poems written during these years—for the first time in English translation—and is contextualized by the poetry that came directly before and after, from poems written in Warsaw in 1945, shortly before he departed for the United States, to others written in Europe from 1951 to 1953, after his significant time away. Capturing Milosz at his existential and stylistic best, Poet in the New World is attuned to the necessity of imagination and the duty of language and is filled with wonder and skepticism. Milosz grapples with the extraordinary violence he had witnessed in Warsaw and the strange postwar United States he has inhabited, all while pondering the enduring fate of his beloved Poland. In the poem “Warsaw,” the poet asks, “How can I live in this country/Where the foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin?” Equal parts affecting and illuminating, Poet in the New World is an essential addition to the Milosz canon, in a beautifully rendered translation by Robert Hass and David Frick, that reverberates with the questions of histories past, present, and future. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Czeslaw Milosz Size 1.4MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ppeiBp94YS1y https://devuploads.com/ivm7njp0q35m

📮 Mushrooms: Guide to Mushroom Identification by Roger Phillips (.ePUB) 'Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of River Cottage Veg Every Day! The culmination of over thirty years' work, Roger Phillips's authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with information and original photographs. The essential illustrated mycological encyclopedia, this book is also clear, user friendly and will appeal to a wide range of readers. Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and includes all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Roger Phillips Size 62MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/8adSSvBfoQY2 https://devuploads.com/lacbv3eazkj2

📮 Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery Series by Allison Montclair (.ePUB) Allison Montclair is the author of the Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries, beginning with The Right Sort of Man, the American Library Association Reading List Council's Best Mystery of 2019. Under her real name, she has written more mystery novels and a damn good werewolf book. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Allison Montclair Size 2.6MB Category Fiction > Mystery/Thriller File Type ePUB Book #6 - Murder at the White Palace Book #6 - Murder at the White Palace In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder. In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture—The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous—and never discussed—past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a genteel war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family. Looking to throw a New Year’s Eve soiree for their clients, Sparks and Bainbridge scout an empty building—only to find a body contained in the walls. What they initially assume is a victim of the recent Blitz is uncovered instead to be a murder victim—stabbed several times. To make matters worse, the owner of the building is Sparks’ beau, Archie Spelling, who has ties to a variety of enterprises on the right and wrong sides of the law, and the main investigator for the police is her ex-fiancée. Gwen, too, is dealing with her own complicated love life, as she tentatively steps back into the dating pool for the first time since her husband’s death. Murder is not something they want to add to their plates, but the murderer may be closer to home than is comfortable, and they must do all they can to protect their clients, their business and themselves. Book #7 - An Excellent Thing in a WomanBook #7 - An Excellent Thing in a Woman The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore 'Sally' Danielli is accused of murder! Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis - one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show - is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No:1. Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The Right Sort, desperately looking for a husband - any husband - to avoid having to return to Paris. As the plot thickens, Iris is pulled back into the clandestine circles she moved in during the war and it soon becomes apparent that to clear Sally's name, she and Gwen would need to go on the hunt for a killer once more! Those who enjoy reading Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries and Dorothy Sayers will adore this warm and witty historical mystery! 📥 Download Links: Book #6 - urder at the White Palace https://uploda.sh/Cwi9RzyNPdf5 https://devuploads.com/1edx6gyncjvc Book #7 - An Excellent Thing in a Woman https://uploda.sh/vgdhfI4fI8nh https://devuploads.com/fskv09grr893

📮 Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch (.ePUB) The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal. "I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and reverberate and release us from the tyranny of our mistakes, our traumas, and our confusions." Drawing on her background -- her father's abuse, her complicated dynamic with her disabled mother, the death of her child, her sexual relationships with men and women -- and her creative life as an author and teacher, Yuknavitch has come to understand that by using the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories, she can loosen the bonds that have enslaved her emotional growth. Armed with this insight, she allows herself to look with the eye of an artist at the wounds she suffered and come to understand the transformational power this has to restore her soul. By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Lidia Yuknavitch Size 2.9MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/sUPcmx4GIxcS https://devuploads.com/ayqc5pqrxjdt

📮 Faking It With the Single Dad by Nora Daniels (.ePUB) I'm fake dating my ex's grumpy brother. Running my quaint café as a single mom in Cedar Ridge keeps me busy. The last thing I need is Ryan Blackwood, my ex's billionaire brother, unexpectedly turning up at my café door. After my ex broke off our engagement and disappeared, leaving me embarrassed and struggling, Ryan was the only Blackwood who reached out. Initially raw with emotions, I pushed him away. Now, Ryan's in a bind with a land deal and a chilly reception from the town, prompting a surprising offer—a fake relationship. He'll fund my café, and I'll help soften his image. What begins as a business arrangement quickly deepens. Staged dates blur the line between pretense and affection, revealing the warmth beneath his gruff exterior. Watching him with his daughter touches something deep within me, reigniting feelings I thought were lost. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Nora Daniels Size 297KB Category Fiction > Romance File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/orumKE1h15iw https://devuploads.com/lo6sepxp01ua

📮 A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects by Robell Awake (.ePUB) Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker and scholar Robell Awake explores the stories behind ten cornerstones of Black craft, including: The celebrated wooden chairs of Richard Poynor, an enslaved craftsman who began a dynasty of Tennessee chairmakers. The elegant wrought-iron gates of Philip Simmons, seen to this day throughout Charleston, South Carolina, whose work features motifs from the Low Country. The inventive assemblage art and yard shows of Joe Minter, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, and others, who draw on African spiritual traditions to create large-scale improvisational art installations. From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the celebrated quilters of Gee's Bend, A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects illuminates the work of generations of Black craftspeople, foregrounding their enduring contributions to American craft. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Robell Awake Size 47.1MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/GpkEBnRSplr3 https://devuploads.com/atjij9dixfkj

📮 Go Lang in Depth by Bhagvan Kommadi (.ePUB) Go, a modern and efficient programming language, is rapidly gaining popularity for building robust and scalable applications. This book, Go Lang in Depth, instills you with the knowledge and skills to master Go, from its fundamental building blocks to advanced concepts. This Go programming book provides a detailed guide, starting from basic syntax and data structures to advanced concepts like concurrency and error handling. It teaches you how to build applications, including console apps, REST APIs, and web apps using popular frameworks like Gin and Beego. You will also explore creating real-world projects, such as a CRM system, and understand advanced topics like dependency injection, SOLID principles, and Docker containerization. The book covers performance optimization with profiling and benchmarking, ensures application security with authentication and cryptography, and explains design patterns and best practices for building scalable, secure web applications. By the end of this book, you will be equipped to write clean, concurrent, and performant Go code. You will understand how to design and implement complex functionalities, leverage Go's powerful features effectively, and tackle real-world programming challenges. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Bhagvan Kommadi Size 15MB Category Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/DNinVppFfgjW https://devuploads.com/nui3n8nl7lrr

📮 The Silicon Shrink by Daniel Oberhaus (.ePUB) Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm. AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can’t afford or can’t access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs. But the hype obscures an unnerving reality.In The Silicon Shrink, Daniel Oberhaus tells the inside story of how the quest to use AI in psychiatry has created the conditions to turn the world into an asylum. Most of these systems, he writes, have vanishingly little evidence that they improve patient outcomes, but the risks they pose have less to do with technological shortcomings than the application of deeply flawed psychiatric models of mental disorder at unprecedented scale. Oberhaus became interested in the subject of mental health after tragically losing his sister to suicide. In the book, he argues that these new, ostensibly therapeutic technologies already pose significant risks to vulnerable people, and they won’t stop there. These new breeds of AI systems are creating a psychiatric surveillance economy in which the emotions, behavior, and cognition of everyday people are subtly manipulated by psychologically savvy algorithms that have escaped the clinic. Oberhaus also introduces readers to the concept of “swipe psychology,” which is quickly establishing itself as the dominant mode of diagnosing and treating mental disorders. It is not too late to change course, but to do so means we must reckon with the nature of mental illness, the limits of technology, and what it means to be human. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Daniel Oberhaus Size 0.3MB Category Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/6pfcbe9GBl1L https://devuploads.com/het5u0m85fm4

📮 Star Circle by Davis Bunn (.ePUB) The Rowan community is in hiding, but another seismic event is about to restore their powers - and unlock the mystery behind the rowan tree's supernatural forces in this enthralling sci-fi novel. The CIA's devastating attack on the rowan tree and its growing global community has left its members in survival mode. The loss of their unique abilities was a huge blow, and they have been in hiding for the past eleven months. Sensing another huge, transformational event involving the rowan's supernatural forces is about to happen, journalist Valentina Garnier travels to England where a stunning event occurs at an ancient circle of stones close to Stonehenge - one which will finally reveal the truth behind the rowan tree's mysterious power. Is it really an existential threat to humanity, or a cry for help from an alien life force? This page-turning novel with magical and mysterious supernatural forces at its heart is perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Ben Aaronovitch. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Davis Bunn Size 0.9MB Category Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/HuBpK1fCQoLa https://devuploads.com/pzl2my6f2rr0

📮 The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce (.ePUB) From celebrated scholar Dr. Yolanda Pierce comes this indelible meditation on Black faith, suffering, hope, and the healing possibilities of justice, written in the venerable tradition of James Cone and Kelly Brown Douglas. What do we do with wounds--our own, others', and a nation's? We can turn away, avert our gaze. We can make a spectacle of suffering. Or like the doubting disciple who longed to touch Jesus's side, we can acquaint ourselves with the wounds: both the story they tell and the healing they prefigure. In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of In My Grandmother's House, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously. They testify to both the pain and the faith of a people. With the lyrical eye of a poet and the moral precision of a preacher, Pierce casts readers into the astounding story of God's healing. From the curative powers of a spiderweb to the work of justice in history, politics, medicine, higher education, and the Black church, Pierce asks: Where are the remedies for the battered and broken? What does accountability look like? Is there any cure? Healing takes time, Pierce writes, and even the wounds of the risen Christ do not immediately close. When the wounds become the witness, we find a faith reimagined and a hope transfigured. They tell the truth: about the extent of the injury and the extraordinary work of healing. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Yolanda Pierce Size 1.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/GoirquZCWYQM https://devuploads.com/ecqinz4ot4i8

📮 Mushrooms: A Comprehensive Guide by Roger Phillips (.ePUB)+ Unsurpassed in both illustrative and descriptive detail, Mushrooms contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and includes all the latest botanical and common names as well as current ecological information on endangered species. 'Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of River Cottage Veg Every Day! The culmination of over thirty years' work, Roger Phillips's authoritative and superbly illustrated reference work is packed with information and original photographs. The essential illustrated mycological encyclopaedia, this book is also clear, user friendly and will appeal to a wide range of readers. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Roger Phillips Size 60.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Food & Drink > Mushrooms > Nature > Reference > Guide File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ijq9CmpIHJJF https://devuploads.com/f028je9gcwot

📮 Between Dusk and Dawn by Vee Taylor (.ePUB) Each day a different mask. Walsh Solis is a golden boy with a black heart. Behind his straight-A smile, he’s in training to become a Mafia commander — and his father’s replacement. For Walsh this means duty, obligation, and playing the game. And girls like Madison don’t fit the mold. Madison Ryan is used to hiding her scars. Good girls don’t come from families like hers, no matter how hard they try. But that one secret night with Walsh — the one his girlfriend didn’t know about — gave her a taste of hope. Against his better judgement, Walsh finds himself intrigued by Madison’s sad, dark allure. But when his girlfriend gets caught in the deadly crossfire, Walsh and Madison get caught up in a game of who can ruin each other’s lives more. And this time, Walsh has no way to hide his obsession with her...for better or worse. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Vee Taylor Size 516KB Category Fiction > Romance File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/uMdBQSdkrPfq https://devuploads.com/hj8imbdabpww

📮 The Black Fantastic by André M. Carrington (.ePUB) A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction—from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning Black authors 20 mind-blowing, horror-strewn, weird, and woke tales celebrate Black identity, community, and imagination Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their careers, is conjuring up a very real renaissance. Edited by SF-expert andré carrington, and including Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners alongside emerging and experimental voices, The Black Fantastic showcases the artistry of these breakout literary stars and celebrates the diversity of their talents. Including Afrofuturist science fiction, weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more, here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading and rereading now and far into futurity. Reclaiming histories of racism and oppression and seizing the day, these writers are forging kaleidoscopic new senses of Black identity, community, and imaginative freedom. ♻️ Book's Info: Author André M. Carrington Size 0.9MB Category Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy File Type ePUB Herbal by Nalo HopkinsonAll That Touches the Air by An OwomoyelaBludgeon by Thaddeus HowzeA Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i by Alaya Dawn JohnsonSanford and Sun by Dawolu Jabari AndersonA Song for You by Jennifer Marie BrissettTender by Sofia SamatarThe Malady of Need by Kiini Ibura SalaamThe Venus Effect by Violet AllenThe Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí ClarkThe Hospital Where by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahThe Ones Who Stay and Fight by N. K. JemisinThe Final Flight of the Unicorn Girl by Alex SmithCalendar Girls by Justina IrelandShape-ups at Delilah’s by Rion Amilcar ScottHabibi by Tochi OnyebuchiSpyder Threads by Craig Laurance GidneyThe Orb by Tara CampbellWe Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValleRuler of the Rear Guard by Maurice BroaddusHerbal by Nalo Hopkinson All That Touches the Air by An Owomoyela Bludgeon by Thaddeus Howze A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i by Alaya Dawn Johnson Sanford and Sun by Dawolu Jabari Anderson A Song for You by Jennifer Marie Brissett Tender by Sofia Samatar The Malady of Need by Kiini Ibura Salaam The Venus Effect by Violet Allen The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí Clark The Hospital Where by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N. K. Jemisin The Final Flight of the Unicorn Girl by Alex Smith Calendar Girls by Justina Ireland Shape-ups at Delilah’s by Rion Amilcar Scott Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi Spyder Threads by Craig Laurance Gidney The Orb by Tara Campbell We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle Ruler of the Rear Guard by Maurice Broaddus 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/6MdhgaNPVFs8 https://devuploads.com/c0sedj7tov4g

📮 Honey Hunger: A Novel by Zahran Alqasmi (.ePUB) A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her and her honey-colored eyes. Across the breathtaking vistas of Oman’s remote mountains and plains, Azzan’s troubled past and present unfold. A disappointment to his family, he turns to drink, and ultimately discovers the healing power of his beekeeping, before an accident in which he loses all. Zahran Alqasmi’s masterful novel thrums forward with a subtle momentum. His lucid, poetic writing conveys a visceral sense of time and place, of the fragile ecologies inhabited by both bees and humans alike, in this intense and compelling novel of loss and hope. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Zahran Alqasmi Size 1.0MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/aOHvPTheTnrf https://devuploads.com/za2sy4em9w2w

📮 House of Fury by Evelio Rosero (.ePUB) A lyrical yet unforgettably intense portrait of Colombian society by one of the country’s most renowned novelists. Taking place entirely on a single evening—Friday, April 10, 1970—in a large Bogotá mansion, House of Fury tells a hair-raising story. Nacho Caiciedo, a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, lives with his wife Alma and their six grown daughters. The Caiciedos have planned an enormous celebration in their home. But before the party has even started, the family is shocked by two pieces of news: their teenage daughter Italia is pregnant, and Alma’s prodigal brother Jesús is expected at any moment. Guests from all levels of Bogotá society arrive, two earthquakes strike, and the party descends into debauchery; Nacho, out in the city streets, searching for Italia, is kidnapped by a ragtag militia, and its troops eventually invade the party and bring more chaos. House of Fury begins as a black comedy and unravels into a grim portent of the conflict that would rage across Colombia for fifty years. As in Rosero’s previous novels, House of Fury is an indelible, fantastical work that with its unforgettable characters and unflinching, poetic, and humane voice, brings to light Colombia’s violent history. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Evelio Rosero Size 1.6MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/1tzsvjLLTFZh https://devuploads.com/k29dhdri9p65

📮 Britain and the Regency of Tripoli by Sara M. ElGaddari (.PDF) By the early 1820s, British policy in the Eastern Mediterranean was at a crossroads. Historically shaped by the rivalry with France, the course of Britain's future role in the region was increasingly affected by concern about the future of the Ottoman Empire and fears over Russia's ambitions in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Regency of Tripoli was at this time establishing a new era in foreign and commercial relations with Europe and the United States. Among the most important of these relationships was that with Britain. Using the National Archive records of correspondence of the British consuls and diplomats from 1795 to 1832, and within the context of the wider Eastern Question, this book reconstructs the the Anglo-Tripolitanian relationship and argues that the Regency played a vital role in Britain's imperial strategy during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Including the perspective of Tripolitanian notables and British diplomats, it contends that the activities of British consuls in Tripoli, and the networks they fostered around themselves, reshaped the nature and extent of British imperial activity in the region. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Sara M. Elgaddari Size 33MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/SJcDHUHUieYu https://devuploads.com/l3vj7m07rjo8

📮 How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying by Lara Marlowe (.ePUB) Publishing on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine: The gripping, heartrending story, told in her own words, of a formidable 29-year-old woman serving as a commander on the front lines of the War in Ukraine — and an intimate, hair-raising look at modern warfare . . . Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies her country's resistance to the Russian invasion. When her father self-immolated on Maidan Square in central Kyiv in an act of protest, she held a press conference to explain to journalists that he acted “in sound mind.” Later, in battle on the front line, she would learn via radio-phone that her husband had been killed nearby. In 2023, veteran war correspondent Lara Marlowe met Mykytenko while covering the war, and found her to be “one of the most extraordinary people I have interviewed in 42 years of journalism.” From their months of conversations, Marlowe stitched together Mykytenko’s accounts into a riveting revelation of what modern warfare is really like. Told entirely in Mykytenko's first person voice, it is a story of cluster bombs and ballistic missiles. Mykytenko has most recently commanded a drone unit, and the scenes of launching drone attacks, and of being attacked by drones, are electrifying and harrowing. At the same time there are vestiges of WWII: trench warfare, no-man’s lands seeded with mines, even chemical weapons. The result is an urgent story of a besieged nation, a vivid look at the changing face of warfare, and the stirring tale of an inspirational woman fighting for her country's survival. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Lara Marlowe Size 0.9MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/sis79dHZMRZN https://devuploads.com/czbjszso1i95

📮 How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy by Julian Baggini (.ePUB) From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world—and a proposal for a global philosophy of food. How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is under threat in a crowded planet, or Western societies whose food is farmed or bred in vast intensive enterprises. And most of us now rely on a complex global food web of production, distribution, consumption and disposal, which is now contending with unprecedented challenges. The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. In this wide-ranging and definitive book, philosopher Julian Baggini expertly delves into the best and worst food practises in a huge array of different societies, past and present. His exploration takes him from cutting-edge technologies, such as new farming methods, cultured meat, GM and astronaut food, to the ethics and health of ultra processed food and aquaculture, as he takes a forensic look at the effectiveness of our food governance, the difficulties of food wastage and the effects of commodification. Extracting essential principles to guide how we eat in the future, How the World Eats is a thought-provoking and illuminating call for a pluralistic, humane, resourceful and equitable global food philosophy that will guide us towards a food system fit for the twenty-first century and beyond. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Julian Baggini Size 3.8MB Category Non-Fiction > Food & Drink File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/bYNoJGXFVWvW https://devuploads.com/nxw8fsrk1ism

📮 Short History of Etruscans (Short Histories) by Corinna Riva (.PDF) Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct evidence for studying them and for understanding their culture is the archaeological, and to a much lesser extent, epigraphic record. The Etruscans must therefore be approached as if they were a prehistoric people; and the enormous wealth of Etruscan visual and material culture must speak for them. Yet they offer glimpses, in the record left by Greek and Roman authors, that they were literate and far from primordial: indeed, that their written histories were greatly admired by the Romans themselves. Applying fresh archaeological discoveries and new insights, Corinna Riva engagingly conducts the reader through the birth, growth and demise of this fascinating and enigmatic ancient people, whose nemesis was the growing power of Rome. Exploring the 'discovery' of the Etruscans from the Renaissance onwards, she discusses the mysterious Etruscan language, which long remained wholly indecipherable; the Etruscan landscape; the 6th-century growth of Etruscan cities and Mediterranean trade; religion and ritual; sanctuaries and monumental grave sites; and the fatal incorporation of Etruria into Rome's political orbit. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Corinna Riva Size 33MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/QkhtXeJuutE3 https://devuploads.com/dtgzwwlqjl9e

📮 I.R.L. (IRL) by Jenny Goebel (.ePUB) A spooky tale of virtual school gone very, very wrong... Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. Being the new kid is hard enough -- how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone in person?! Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really welcoming. While chatting on zoom, they ask Lucy lots of questions about living in the big city, some of which strike Lucy as a little odd but she just chalks it up to the fact that her new classmates have spent their whole lives in a VERY small town. As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person! But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front -- a sign that reads White Pine Secondary School. There's nothing else in sight... except a tiny cemetery with snow-dusted headstones poking out of the frozen ground. Headstones will some very familiar names on them . . . Lucy doesn’t know what to believe. Are her new “friends” pulling an elaborate prank? Or is truth far, far more horrifying? ♻️ Book's Info: Author Jenny Goebel Size 9.9MB Category Fiction > Children/Young Adult File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/adJmilUw25I5 https://devuploads.com/jfud9v1g9ajk

📮 Last Seen by Judith Giesberg (.ePUB) Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery. Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again. As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot. Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers, their families, and their enslavers. With this critical context, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements, the loved ones they tried to find, and the outcome of their quests to reunite. This story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Judith Giesberg Size 11.5MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/FARlXiZAFtTQ https://devuploads.com/egj1uyav8d6n

📮 The Prison of Time by Elisa Pezzotta (.PDF) We are imprisoned in circadian rhythms, as well as in our life reviews that follow chronological and causal links. For the majority of us our lives are vectors directed toward aims that we strive to reach and delimited by our birth and death. Nevertheless, we can still experience fleeting moments during which we forget the past and the future, as well as the very flow of time. During these intense emotions, we burst out laughing or crying, or we scream with pleasure, or we are mesmerized by a work of art or just by eyes staring at us. Similarly, when we watch a film, the screening time has a well defined beginning and end, and screening and diegetic time and their relations, together with narrative and stylistic techniques, determine a time within the time of our life with its own rules and exceptions. Through the close analysis of Stanley Kubrick's, Adrian Lyne's, Michael Bay's and Quentin Tarantino's oeuvres, this book discusses the overall 'dominating' time of their films and the moments during which this 'ruling' time is disrupted and we momentarily forget the run toward the diegetic future – suspense – or the past – curiosity and surprise. It is in these very moments, as well as in our own lives, that the prison of time, through which the film is constructed and that is constructed by the film itself, crumbles displaying our role as spectators, our deepest relations with the film. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Elisa Pezzotta Size 28MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/dlVy41oGJTEX https://devuploads.com/cp6uht0i48aq