Andrew Peterson, "The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom"
English | ISBN: 1087736951 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
There's a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They're both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it's easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It's hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking.

Howell Woltz, Joanna Marie, "The Global Warming Description: its roots and ramifications for a cooling world"
English | ASIN : B0977K654N | 2021 | 203 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Global temperatures dropped more in just two years (2016-18) than in a century-yet you didn't hear about it, even though NASA was the source.

Christine Kandic Torres, "The Girls in Queens: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0063216779 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB
A MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ FROM HARPER'S BAZAAR, BUSTLE, NYLON, THE MILLIONS, MS. MAGAZINE, and THE SKIMM

Chetan Bhagat, "The Girl in Room 105"
English | 2018 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1542040469 | EPUB | 2,0 mb
Hi, I'm Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful Zara. Zara is from Kashmir. She is a Muslim. And did I tell you my family is a bit, well, traditional? Anyway, leave that.

Gabe Oppenheim, "The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century"
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09RH55TX3 | 262 pages | EPUB | 3.2 MB
For more than half a century, Olivier Creed, heir to a French fashion empire but out to conquer an adjacent field by himself, created the most compelling and costly perfumes in the world - scents so successful - artistically and commercially - that the world's largest asset manager bought his small olfactory enterprise for nearly $1 billion in 2020.

Helen Humphreys, "The Frozen Thames"
English | ISBN: 0771041454 | 2008 | 192 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
A groundbreaking, genre-bending new work from one of Canada's most respected writers.

The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico edited by Kevin Trerraciano, Jeanette Peterson
English | September 10, 2019 | ISBN: 1477318402 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 186 MB
In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575-1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas.

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought By William R. Everdell
1998 | 509 Pages | ISBN: 0226224813 | PDF | 29 MB
A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age."This exceptionally wide-ranging history is chock-a-block with anecdotes, factoids, odd juxtapositions, and useful insights. Most impressive. . . . For anyone interested in learning about late 19th- and early 20th- century imaginative thought, this engagingly written book is a good place to start."-Washington Post Book World"The First Moderns brilliantly maps the beginning of a path at whose end loom as many diasporas as there are men."-Frederic Morton, The Los Angeles Times Book Review"In this truly exciting study of the origins of modernist thought, poet and teacher Everdell roams freely across disciplinary lines. . . . A brilliant book that will prove useful to scholars and generalists for years to come; enthusiastically recommended."-Library Journal, starred review"Everdell has performed a rare service for his readers. Dispelling much of the current nonsense about 'postmodernism,' this book belongs on the very short list of profound works of cultural analysis."-Booklist"Innovative and impressive . . . [Everdell] has written a marvelous, erudite, and readable study."-Mark Bevir, Spectator"A richly eclectic history of the dawn of a new era in painting, music, literature, mathematics, physics, genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy."-Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist"[Everdell] has himself recombined the parts of our era's intellectual history in new and startling ways, shedding light for which the reader of The First Moderns will be eternally grateful."-Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review"Everdell shows how the idea of "modernity" arose before the First World War by telling the stories of heroes such as T. S. Eliot, Max Planck, and Georges Serault with such a lively eye for detail, irony, and ambiance that you feel as if you're reliving those miraculous years."-Jon Spayde, Utne Reader

Laurence Fleming, "The Entokil Man: The Life of Harold Maxwell-Lefroy"
English | 2015 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1903660173 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, the founder of Rentokil, was a maverick and a man of enormous drive and energy. From an early age he was fascinated with the insect world, and his thorough understanding of species' life cycles and habits, in its practical application, was to change the face of agriculture in several parts of the world. He was among the first really to apply the scientific method to dealing with insect pests, and the agriculture of the Caribbean and India still owes him an enormous debt. His book Indian Insect Pests is still in print, an invaluable resource to Indian agriculturalists. In the Caribbean he saved the sugar crop which had been ravaged by pests, and was then sent to India as the official entomologist. Here his energy and drive led to an education programme for Indian farmers that for the first time showed them that the devastating consequences of insect pests were avoidable, along with the destruction of livelihoods that had always been an occupational hazard. He became the first Professor of Entomology at Imperial College and developed patented anti-pest chemical treatments that led him to create Rentokil towards the end of his life - trademark rules barred him from calling it Entokil, as he had wanted to. He went on to save the roof of Westminster Hall from the death-watch-beetle infestation that would certainly have led to its collapse. But he was also an inveterate risk-taker, who drove without regard for his own safety, and applied the same principles to his scientific practice. He died at the young age of 48, overcome by the poisonous gases he was developing - without the proper breathing equipment. Rentokil is his most tangible legacy, but it all began with one man's single-minded dedication to the application of science.

Philip G. Schrag, "The End of Asylum"
English | ISBN: 1647121078 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1394 KB
The Trump administration's war on asylum and what Congress and the Biden administration can do about it