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📮 Hopped Up by Jeffrey M. Pilcher (.ePUB) A lively history of beer and brewing traditions as globally connected commodities created through borrowing and exchange from precapitalist times to the present. Virtually every country has a bestselling or iconic national beer brand: from Budweiser in the United States and Corona in Mexico, to Tsingtao in China and Heineken in Holland. Yet, with the sole exception of Ireland's Guinness, every label represents the same style: light, crisp, clear, Pilsner lager. The global spread of lager can be told as a story of Western cultural imperialism: a European product travels through merchants, migrants, and imperialists to upend local patterns and transform faraway consumers' tastes. But this modern beer is just as much a product of globalization, invented and reinvented around the world. While distinctive craft beers such as London Porter, India Pale Ale, and Belgian sour ales have been revived by aficionados over the past half-century, they too have globalized through the same circuits of trade, migration, and knowledge that carried lager. Here eminent food historian Jeffrey M. Pilcher narrates the brewing traditions and contemporary production of beer across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America--from the fermented beverages of precapitalist societies to the present. Over the centuries, he shows, the exchange of technological advances in brewing contributed to regional divergences and convergences in beer varieties, but always in tandem with other social and cultural developments. Unique local products, often homebrewed by women, were transformed into homogenous global commodities as giant brewing factories exported their beers using new refrigeration technology, railroads, and steamships. Industrial food processing helped to recast strong flavors as a source of potential contamination, turning lager, with its clean, fresh taste, into a symbol of hygiene and civilization. Local elites demonstrated their modernity and sophistication by opting for chilled lagers over traditional beverages. These beers became so standardized that most consumers could not tell the difference between them, leading to cutthroat competition that bankrupted countless firms. Over the past half-century, the global concentration of the brewing industry has spawned a reaction among those seeking to return brewing to the local, artisanal, and communitarian roots of the premodern alehouse, but microbrewers have often been driven by the same capitalist quest for profit and expansion. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Jeffrey M. Pilcher Size 20.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Food & Drink File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/fkV5T5Eh0H81 https://devuploads.com/9k97k5k35rzv

📮 How to Quiet a Hurricane by Justin Kendrick (.ePUB) USA TODAY BESTSELLER - This practical guide to reigniting faith helps all of us who feel stuck in our faith journey find inner strength to navigate life’s challenges. The storms of life can leave you feeling exhausted and weak. In How to Quiet a Hurricane, pastor Justin Kendrick helps you develop a spiritual resilience that propels you past your weariness and anxiety and into lasting peace. You will discover: Why weakness is the starting point for spiritual strength. How lasting endurance comes from understanding the love of God. Ways to apply God’s promises to your daily life. A freeing perspective on what it really means to be secure. Why faith rooted in Jesus can bring you through any trial When your heart tells you that God is far away, remember that he is the God who enters in. He is the God who uses suffering to conquer suffering. He is the God who empowers you to move beyond survival and into a life of victory. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Justin Kendrick Size 5.2MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/KPI52PvDx4Of https://devuploads.com/vsjvx81fjpm2

📮 If Walls Could Talk by Sandee Jo Crocker, Ken Abraham (.ePUB) One woman's incredible true story as a survivor of partner abuse—and the shocking murder that ended it all. How could I have let this happen? This was the torturous question circling through Sandee Jo Schankweiler’s mind as flashing red and blue lights cast eerie images against the backdrop of trees surrounding her home in rural Tennessee. In disbelief, she watched as a police officer placed his hand on the top of her seventeen-year-old son’s head to guide him into the back seat of a patrol car. For years, Sandee Jo had lived on “Someday Isle.” Someday, she would escape her abusive husband, Tommy. Someday, her children would be safe. Someday, she would live free from fear. But now, her worst fears had come true. Her husband, Tommy, lay dead from a gunshot wound to the head. He would terrorize his family no longer, but their safety had come at an unimaginable price. Sandee Jo watched as the police cruiser drove away into the night, her gentle first-born son’s face expressionless through the window. How could this have happened? In this riveting memoir, Sandee Jo Crocker shares her story to empower those enduring partner abuse to break free, and to equip those who love them to advocate on their behalf, as she shares dark secrets which previously could only have been revealed . . . If walls could talk. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Sandee Jo Crocker, Ken Abraham Size 20.1MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/JRB1SHAP8yma https://devuploads.com/vqmzo8oceqw4

📮 In American Fashion by Natalie Nudell (.ePUB) In American Fashion is the first scholarly analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American fashion and creative industries between 1941 and 2014. Published by Ruth Finley for almost seven decades, the Calendar had an extensive impact on the development of the American fashion industry in the 20th century. Unlike European fashion capitals, the American fashion industry relied on an independent small publisher to manage the schedule of an ever-growing industry. In American Fashion shows how this independent position influenced the democratic approach reflected in the industry in the United States. Finley's unique contribution to the development of the time-system and culture of American fashion made her a key player during the ascendency of American fashion design. Natalie Nudell unveils the Fashion Calendar as a historical archive, and also looks at its development into an open-source digital humanities project. Through historical analysis and the upcoming digitization of the Ruth Finley Collection, this study unpacks the history and impact of the publication and the women behind it. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Natalie Nudell Size 4.8MB Category Non-Fiction > General File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/UB2omaqsSaDq https://devuploads.com/9x9hhl3oc5o7

📮 In Hot Water by Sridhar Deivasigamani (.ePUB) We are all interconnected, extrinsically and intrinsically. We all live on the same planet, breathing the air and drinking the same water. There is no doubt we are all affected by global events affecting our air and water— and each and every one of us is responsible for our collective fate. Climate change is not someone else’s problem. It is our problem. Unfortunately, our air and water are currently more contaminated than they have ever been. This overwhelming, globe-spanning, life-threatening crisis may seem like too enormous a problem to tackle—but hope should not be lost. Even the most seemingly insurmountable problems can be solved if many people all take small actions. All those individual choices made by individual people can add up into something huge. In this remarkable book, Sridhar Deivasigamani, CEO of Intellihot Green Technologies, shares his journey from rural India to the forefront of cutting edge of green technology, taking us through the series of seemingly unconnected events that led him to his true passion and calling: reinventing technology in our Built Environment starting with water heating, an industry that had not seen any major innovations in a hundred years. Creating an innovative new product in this industry was not a smooth and straightforward path. From experimenting in the basement, to building prototypes from scratch, to getting the product certified and bringing it to market, to finding customers and investors, to building a brand and figuring out how to successfully scale up production, Sridhar was always pivoting, always reinventing, and always repeating his mantra: How hard can it be? Here, he shares the countless lessons he learned on his path from inventor to entrepreneur to CEO of business bringing an innovative new technology to market and disrupting a stagnant industry—most important among them the lesson of always staying true to your passion, vision, and values. Sridhar also demonstrates that “going green” or adopting a sustainable lifestyle doesn’t always require spending more, changing behaviors or being saddled with complicated tasks. Intellihot has proven it, with products that cost less to own, cost less to operate, occupy less space, are more reliable and more efficient, and are safer and healthier. It’s a value proposition that is economically compelling—while also being vastly better for the environment. In Hot Water shows us the power of finding your purpose, the power of innovation and entrepreneurship—and the power every single one of us has to make a difference, to take small actions that can truly change the world. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Sridhar Deivasigamani Size 1.9MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational > Engineering File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/iq6fnrfmKzrf https://devuploads.com/k5i8s7s7htt6

📮 Inside the Tudor Home by Bethan Watts (.ePUB) Inside the Tudor Home sheds light on how people lived in the sixteenth century from plush royal palaces to wattle-and-daub cottages and everything in between. Power. Politics. Prosperity. Plague. Tudor England; a country replete with sprawling landscapes, dense forests and twisting urban labyrinths. This is a place of stagnation and of progress; of glorious cultural revolution, where the wheel of fortune is forever turning. From the plush royal palaces to the draughtiest of wattle-and-daub cottages, sixteenth-century England revolved around the people who formed the beating heart of Tudor society. These people celebrated scientific progress and lamented religious persecution; championed the rights of women and the underrepresented; fell in love with sweethearts, cared for pets and mourned the deaths of their loved ones. In her first book, Bethan Catherine Watts sheds light on the Tudor home and the everyday lives of those who lived there. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Bethan Watts Size 17.2MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/EJ5faAVyI3kj https://devuploads.com/nzf61bydubg3

📮 The Jewelers of the Ummah by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (.ePUB) A deeply personal exploration of family, empire, art and identity - from the author of Potential History Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines the disruption of Jewish Muslim life in Algeria and broadly in the Maghreb and the Middle East by two colonial projects: French rule and the Zionist colonization of Palestine, which provoked the departure of Jews from these areas. Jewelry making was a profession that marked the Algerian Jews’ place in the world they shared in the ummah, the borderless community of Muslims. The objects they crafted continue to unsettle the clear-cut separation of Jews from Muslims and of Jews from Algeria. In this jewelry, and in the history of those who made, wore, and sold it, Azoulay finds a path to reviving the lost wisdom of her ancestors. Emptying Africa of its Jews is a tragedy which Azoulay refuses to accept. In these letters, she reintroduces Muslim Jews to the violence of colonization and traces anticolonial pathways to rebuild the rich world of the jewelers of the ummah. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Size 21.2MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/wF37NwGoL4s6 https://devuploads.com/w1tbuvdocved

📮 Life in Flux by Michaela O'Donnell PhD, Lisa Pratt Slayton (.ePUB) If it seems like the world is in a constant state of flux, that's because it is. Our work, our families, our friendships, and our society are always changing, which can leave us feeling disoriented and discouraged. And while lots of people offer "tips and tricks" or "life hacks" to help us cope, the real secret to feeling like we're standing on solid ground is deeper--and we can't do it alone. In Life in Flux,leadership, career, and vocation experts Michaela O'Donnell and Lisa Pratt Slayton teach the practical skills needed in order to navigate constant change. They show you how to · face the pain and longings that come with change · do the inner work of waking up and letting go · embrace the unknown with confidence · listen to God's guiding voice · get to know yourself, really · find and keep friends for the journey · stay attuned to your rhythms and values moving forward When you feel truly at home in your world and with yourself, you can do hard things with great courage. Life in Flux can get you there. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Michaela O'Donnell Phd, Lisa Pratt Slayton Size 3.5MB Category Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Self-help File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/jLBcRVD5OPf0 https://devuploads.com/hqm1op4u5wde

📮 Making Space for Indigenous Feminism by Gina Starblanket (.ePUB) The third edition of the iconic collection Making Space for Indigenous Feminism features feminist, queer and two-spirit voices from across generations and locations. Feminism has much to offer Indigenous women, and all Indigenous Peoples, in their struggles against oppression. Indigenous feminists in the first edition fought for feminism to be considered a valid and essential intellectual and activist position. The second edition animated Indigenous feminisms through real-world applications. This third edition, curated by award-wining scholar Gina Starblanket, reflects and celebrates Indigenous feminism’s intergenerational longevity through the changing landscape of anti-colonial struggle and theory. Diverse contributors examine Indigenous feminism’s ongoing relevance to contemporary contexts and debates, including queer and two-spirit approaches to decolonization, gendered and sexualized violence, storytelling and narrative, digital and land-based presence, Black and Indigenous relationalities and more. This book bridges generations of powerful Indigenous feminist thinking to demonstrate the movement’s cruciality for today. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Gina Starblanket Size 2.9MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/tqcJkYavp3T0 https://devuploads.com/dmkw6ppm4r6q

📮 Paperless Builders by Hamzah Shanbari (.ePUB) Paperless Builders: The Why, What, and How of Construction Technology is a transformative guide for design and construction companies seeking to modernize their operations and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving industry. Written by Hamzah Shanbari, this book delves deep into the core challenges plaguing the construction sector today. It provides a clear and insightful exploration of how traditional practices, such as reliance on paper, hinder progress in safety, communication, progress tracking, and risk management. In this essential read, Shanbari introduces readers to cutting-edge technology solutions designed to tackle these problems head-on. From digital documentation and design visualization to reality capture, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI), each chapter unpacks the potential of these technologies to revolutionize construction practices. At the heart of the book is Shanbari's proprietary BUILDER(S) framework. This strategic model equips readers with the tools they need to assess, implement, and maximize the benefits of construction technologies within their own organizations. By following the BUILDER(S) framework, executives can lead their companies through a successful digital transformation, ensuring they remain at the forefront of the industry. Paperless Builders is more than just a technology manual; it is a roadmap for innovation. Through engaging narratives and practical insights, Shanbari shares stories from his own digital transformation journey, offering readers a unique blend of inspiration and actionable advice. Whether you are looking to enhance operational efficiency, improve safety standards, or gain a competitive edge, this book is your comprehensive guide to navigating the future of construction. Embrace the digital revolution and transform your business with Paperless Builders. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Hamzah Shanbari Size 5.2MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational > Engineering File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/gVnDbeGAHsOQ https://devuploads.com/t950vh8oe3i1

📮 Parole by Rob McKeon (.ePUB) Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole. …You don’t know what you don’t know. How can you predict the future when you don’t know what you don’t know? Rob McKeon is a member of Britain’s parole board, making tough, life-changing decisions about whether a prisoner is safe to return to society; impacting not only prisoners and their victims, but also the general public. This vital work has been the subject of a BBC television documentary, Parole. For 12 years, Rob has been handling sensitive and high-profile cases, dealing with the social, moral, and emotional pressures that come with this difficult job. This book provides unique insight into his work, with a compelling behind-the-scenes look at parole hearings. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Rob Mckeon Size 1.5MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/sot9FHslyp1m https://devuploads.com/5ywo86u5ovry

📮 Planet Drag by Courtney Conquers, Brooke Lynn Hytes (.ePUB) Travel to Planet Drag and explore the styles, influences, artists, and events that have made the art of drag so outrageously popular in 15 countries around the world. Exquisitely styled by top drag artists, and with a foreword by Canada’s Drag Race judge Brooke Lynn Hytes, this is the ultimate guide to drag—a glittering, feathered foray into the past and present of this much-loved art form. Gloriously embellished with historical photos along with stylish contemporary shots of some of the world's biggest drag stars, this is a deep dive into drag’s meteoric rise to the mainstream. The carnival court of drag has exploded and it now holds a fierce place in popular culture. And while Rupaul's Drag Race does highlight some nuanced differences between national drag styles, there’s a lot more to the story that you don’t know… In this extravagant exploration across Planet Drag, we’ll stop at: The UK, where pantomime culture gave us a wicked comic attitude that still prevails. Germany, home to tuntes who don’t see themselves as impersonating women at all. The USA, a unique melting pot of drag culture. France, where Joan of Arc is considered by some to be the very first drag king. Australia, the country that birthed blockbuster film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which saw drag reach a whole new audience. Plus, 10 more countries that have altered and expanded the art of drag in ways you might not expect. This is drag unashamed, unneutered, unapologetic... and world-conquering. A must-have for any drag fan. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Courtney Conquers, Brooke Lynn Hytes Size 22.6MB Category Non-Fiction > General File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/IhxEscIoqXXv https://devuploads.com/fp1s45f0v1tq

📮 Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures by Justin M. Jacobs (.ePUB) A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums’ treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. The account reexamines the allegedly immoral provenance of Western collections, advocating for a nuanced understanding of how artifacts reached Western shores. Jacobs examines the perspectives of Chinese, Egyptian, and other participants in the global antiquities trade over the past two and a half centuries, revealing that Western collectors were often willingly embraced by locals. This collaborative dynamic, largely ignored by contemporary museum critics, unfolds a narrative of hope and promise for a brighter, more equitable future—a compelling reassessment of one of the institutional pillars of the Enlightenment. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Justin M. Jacobs Size 5.6MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/IahnulXTXUe3 https://devuploads.com/8kl0eyn18dqq

📮 The Politics of Gen Z by Melissa Deckman (.ePUB) Progressive activism today is increasingly spearheaded by the nation’s youngest voters. Gen Z―those born between 1997 and 2012―has come of age in a decade of upheavals. They have witnessed the election of Donald Trump, the murder of George Floyd, and the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, and they have lived under the constant threats of mass shootings and climate change. In response, left-leaning Zoomers, particularly women and LGBTQ people, have banded together to take action. This book tells the story of Gen Z’s growing political participation―and why it is poised to drive U.S. politics leftward. Bringing together original data and compelling narrative―including nearly one hundred interviews with Gen Z activists and several national surveys―political scientist Melissa Deckman explores the world of youth-led progressive organizing, highlighting the crucial importance of gender and sexuality. She reveals why women and LGBTQ Zoomers are participating in politics at higher levels than their straight male peers, creating a historic “reverse gender gap.” Deckman takes readers inside Gen Z’s fight for a more inclusive and just future, sharing stories of their efforts to defend reproductive rights, prevent gun violence, stem climate change, and win political office. A deep dive into the politics of Gen Z, this book sheds new light on how young voters view politics and why their commitment to progressive values may transform the country in the years ahead. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Melissa Deckman Size 3.1MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/oHRFyyp2qu9P https://devuploads.com/2k9wh4g0bk5s

📮 A Race to the Bottom of Crazy by Richard Grant (.ePUB) The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona. When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in breathtaking mountain ranges that rise out of the desert like islands in the sky. Interspersed with these adventures are recollections of his previous stint in the state, including his friendship with cult writer Charles Bowden and years living off the grid with smugglers, dope farmers, and outlaws on the Mexican border. Ultimately, Grant arrives at the conclusion that Arizona has always been a scattershot improvisation, with bizarre and extreme behavior in its DNA. This book is an entertaining, illuminating, and essential guide to understanding modern America at its most overheated. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Richard Grant Size 4.7MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/zm73kMYoLUkN https://devuploads.com/f1ejru6l1ija

📮 Rednecks and Barbarians by Houria Bouteldja, Rachel Valinsky (.ePUB) In Europe and North America, the white working class is increasingly tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem to reap the fruits of social unrest everywhere. With her usual thought-provoking and unyielding insights, Houria Bouteldja shows how the history of the left explains this conundrum and how we can overcome it. Drawing from Black radical and decolonial Marxism, she shows that by privileging white constituencies, unions and left parties laid the foundations for a racial contract that binds workers and the poor to the state. However, there may still be a way out of this trap. Uniting “rednecks” (the white working class) and “barbarians” (the racially oppressed), requires a project of popular sovereignty, where national identity is transformed through revolutionary love. Looking to the future, Bouteldja imagines antiracism as a redemptive struggle aimed not only at rehabilitating marginalized communities but also at redefining white dignity. Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer. She served as spokesperson for the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic until 2020. She is the author of Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Houria Bouteldja, Rachel Valinsky Size 0.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/djTiFT7ZkZno https://devuploads.com/rdfi9ywyw1dr

📮 Resolute Japan by Jusuke J.J. Ikegami, Harbir Singh (.ePUB) Discover how Japan’s new leadership model has transformed its top companies and created a new paradigm for business success In Resolute Japan, Waseda University’s Jusuke J. J. Ikegami and the Wharton School’s Harbir Singh and Michael Useem reveal a new leadership model that has led Japan’s corporations to make a stunning comeback. In the process, they share what they have learned from interviews with more than 100 CEOs and top executives of Japan’s largest and most influential companies, including Hitachi, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, NTT, and Panasonic. In this book, you will discover: + How Japan’s new leadership model has led to superior performance in the stock market and beyond; + The core principles and practices that characterize Japan’s new leadership model and how they differ from the old models; + How Japan’s new leadership model enables companies to balance multiple and often conflicting objectives, such as shareholder value and social responsibility, short-term results and long-term growth, and agility and stability; + How Japan’s new leadership model fosters innovation, resilience, and competitiveness in a rapidly changing global environment; + Why, even in an environment of macroeconomic stagnation due to economic policies at the national level, individual companies can achieve sustainable development through this new leadership model; and + How Japan’s new leadership model can inspire and inform business leaders in the West and elsewhere who are facing similar challenges and opportunities. Resolute Japan offers a rare and insightful perspective on the new corporate fabric of Japan, one that is sure to both challenge and enlighten leaders around the world. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Jusuke J.J. Ikegami, Harbir Singh Size 5.9MB Category Non-Fiction > General > Business File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/CaXeWoZEZi6G https://devuploads.com/042wm8ykodeh

📮 Retromania by Simon Reynolds (.ePUB) We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point, and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own? ♻️ Book's Info: Author Simon Reynolds Size 1.1MB Category Non-Fiction > General File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/8Sy8tW5N4niN https://devuploads.com/5uo0gjlyjsef

📮 Rust Belt Reporter: A Memoir by John Gallagher (.ePUB) Reflecting on his life's work as a reporter, including thirty-two years with the Detroit Free Press, journalist John Gallagher merges memoir with an insider's account of the challenges facing Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, as well as the tensions inside local newsrooms throughout the country. Beginning with Gallagher's first job in 1974 in Chicago, with subsequent stops in Rochester and Syracuse, New York, this witty and exciting chronicle details his experiences behind the scenes, breaking major news stories over the decades that followed. From the early days when reporters called in stories on pay phones to today's revenue-generating affiliate commissions, his memoir serves as a documentary of this turbulent journalistic era. Gallagher's career intersected many notable events, including the troubled Kilpatrick administration, newspaper strikes, the federal bailout of automotive companies, the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the exceptional Grand Bargain struck to save the city―all while noting the increasingly important roles nonprofits and private companies play in city politics and newsrooms, for better and for worse. Alongside sage insight into the difficulties and decline of traditional media, Gallagher's experience and advice inspire hope, often underscoring and celebrating the surprising and happy reinvention of heartland cities like Detroit. ♻️ Book's Info: Author John Gallagher Size 0.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/Y6o9tA3HCbIS https://devuploads.com/d0ere8gqlkbs

📮 The Seven Deadly Stupidities by George Pillari, Guy Kawasaki (.ePUB) Crisis manager George Pillari takes the reader through a series of real-life case studies to show us that decision making in tense situations is a skill to be learned and perfected. Different from most business books that talk about recipes for success (improve your habits, be more productive, etc.), Stupidities highlights what you need to avoid in order to be successful. In his foreword to the book, Guy Kawasaki sums it up: “80% of success is avoiding stupidity.” We learn from the success and failures of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Holmes, Google X, JP Morgan, the New York Yankees, the Titan Sub, Thomas Edison, Taylor Swift, and others. The Seven Deadly Stupidities: Going for the Moonshot. Surrendering to FOMO. Relying on Family and Friends. Being Blinded by the Upside. Trusting the Media. Using Quick and Dirty Thinking. Neglecting to Measure Twice There is the amazing story of Soviet General Petrov, who avoided all seven of the stupidities and prevented a global thermonuclear war. The chapter-by-chapter format lets the reader thumb through and pick the order to read the book. The summary of each stupidity includes lessons learned and advice on how to avoid the stupidity and “be smarter.” We are twice as likely to respond to negative events than positive ones. Pillari uses this behavioral sciences insight to guide the reader through how to learn from the failures of others and become a better decision-maker. ♻️ Book's Info: Author George Pillari, Guy Kawasaki Size 0.3MB Category Non-Fiction > General > Business File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/2D2QQGuN7Fv4 https://devuploads.com/bq4f71dk7ewv

📮 A Sharp Compassion by Chase Replogle (.ePUB) According to Google, the phrase “I’m offended” has increased in usage by more than 5,600% in just the past century. Humans have always taken offense, but never have we been so obsessed with it. Offense stunts our conversations and divides our relationships. It infects our families, politics, entertainment, and churches. Yet few seem to be asking why or what it might be costing us. If you trace the offense deep enough, you’ll find a culture and our individual lives drowning in insecurity. For all our self-help, self-affirming, and self-esteem rhetoric, we can’t seem to overcome it. Just beneath our awareness, our insecurities distort our desires, poison our relationships, and leave us increasingly sensitive to offense. But there is a worse consequence. Offense makes it harder to hear the truth. It can even prevent you from hearing Jesus’s good, but sometimes hard, words. A Sharp Compassion offers readers a closer look at some of Jesus’ most challenging words. Through a careful study of the conversations in which Jesus offended, you will discover a savior willing to risk offending you to heal you from your deepest insecurities. Because his love is great, his truths are often hard, and his compassion sharp. But perhaps it’s Jesus’ hard words we need most right now. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Chase Replogle Size 0.2MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/1YFxEkRyxd2F https://devuploads.com/pizon2gf0wlq

📮 Sinead O’Connor's Universal Mother by Adele Bertei (.ePUB) With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix. Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 (Saturday Night Live, Madison Square Garden). The sadistic blowback she faced for publicly outing the child abuse of the Catholic Church and its cover-up would have destroyed most. Where Sinead might go next, or if she'd ever record again, was the question. It's a testament to her integrity and extraordinary courage that she was able to resurrect with this extraordinary album. The album takes us on a deeply personal, yet universal journey of womanhood, from the archetypal bad mother to the good and the kind. A feminist statement from Germaine Greer sets the tone, followed by O'Connor letting loose a storm of rage against her abusive mother in “Fire on Bablyon”-a salvo so explosive, it need not be repeated. Other than a song called “Red Football” and a call-out of the truth behind the Irish potato famine, O'Connor is not interested in rage or revenge. With Universal Mother, she offers us a tender, evocative collection of grief and empathy in song. Her miraculous voice is the vessel-the broken, sacred voice of Mother Ireland. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Adele Bertei Size 0.3MB Category Non-Fiction > General > Music File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/l5qPwSwYxjNQ https://devuploads.com/26iro3ni4goh

📮 Soda Science by Susan Greenhalgh (.ePUB) Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened beverages—and threaten the revenues of the giant soda companies. Soda Science tells the story of how industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept. Anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh discovers a hidden world of science-making—with distinctive organizations, social networks, knowledge-making practices, and ethical claims—dedicated to creating industry-friendly science and keeping it under wraps. By tracing the birth, maturation, death, and afterlife of the science they made, Greenhalgh shows how corporate science has managed to gain such a hold over our lives. Spanning twenty years, her investigation takes her from the US, where the science was made, to China, a key market for sugary soda. In the US, soda science was a critical force in the making of today’s society of step-counting, fitness-tracking, weight-obsessed citizens. In China, this distorted science has left its mark not just on national obesity policies but on the apparatus for managing chronic disease generally. By following the scientists and their ambitious schemes to make the world safe for Coke, Greenhalgh offers an account that is more global—and yet more human—than the story that dominates public understanding today. Coke’s research isn’t fake science, Greenhalgh argues; it was real science, conducted by real and eminent scientists, but distorted by its aim. Her gripping book raises crucial questions about conflicts of interest in scientific research, the funding behind familiar messages about health, and the cunning ways giant corporations come to shape our diets, lifestyles, and health to their own needs. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Susan Greenhalgh Size 1.6MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics & Social Sciences File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ZE8wKlRfIU95 https://devuploads.com/p0zcux24q6ge

📮 South Side Impresarios by Samantha Ege (.ePUB) Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making. Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within an expansive cultural flowering. Overcoming racism and sexism, Black women practitioners instilled others with the skill and passion to make classical music while Race women like Maude Roberts George, Estella Bonds, Neota McCurdy Dyett, and Beulah Mitchell Hill built and fostered institutions central to the community. Ege takes readers inside the backgrounds, social lives, and female-led networks of the participants while shining a light on the scene’s audiences, supporters, and training grounds. What emerges is a history of Black women and classical music in Chicago and the still-vital influence of the world they created. A riveting counter to a history of silence, South Side Impresarios gives voice to an overlooked facet of the Black Chicago Renaissance. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Samantha Ege Size 10.6MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/eK56Fkxf9ZzI https://devuploads.com/v2uxonyc8v6q

📮 Strange, Spooky and Supernatural by Mike Browne (.ePUB) The creator of the Dark Poutine podcast—and bestselling author of Murder, Madness and Mayhem—is back with a new collection of stories for those who are curious about the paranormal, the mysterious and the unexplained Strange, Spooky and Supernatural is divided into three sections and recounts stories of unusual and enigmatic people, places and things. The first section explores strange people in history, including the death of escape artist and occult debunker Harry Houdini; BC resident Granger Taylor, who left a note saying he was leaving on a spaceship and disappeared; and a man known only as Jerome, who was discovered on a Nova Scotia beach in 1863 and was unable to communicate anything about his past. The second section, about strange places, embarks on a journey around the world, touching down in locations cloaked in mystery and steeped in spine-chilling stories of hauntings, unexplained deaths and lost civilizations. This chapter includes stories about the Borley Rectory, which has been labelled the most haunted house in England; Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories, which is referred to by many as “the Valley of Headless Men”; and the unexplained occurrences at Old MacDonald’s Farm in Caledonia Mills, Nova Scotia. In the final section, Browne explores mysterious things including the Van Meter Visitor, an unidentified nocturnal creature that terrorized citizens of the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, in 1903; the Vampire of Highgate Cemetery, an entity that allegedly haunted the famous cemetery in London during the 1970s; and the Philip Experiment, a 1970s-era parapsychological experiment conducted in Toronto. Strange, Spooky and Supernatural includes a foreword by paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen, who is also a co-host of the podcast Supernatural Circumstances. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Mike Browne Size 2.3MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy > Occult File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/1VCqV3WIJKus https://devuploads.com/61u0nxkrjb8m