William H Brock, "The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry"
English | ISBN: 1849733244 | 2011 | 362 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1868, The Times reported that poisons contained in dyes were affecting the public's health. A doctor informed a London magistrate that brilliantly coloured socks had caused severe "constitutional and local complaint" to several of his patients. In one case, a patient's foot had become so swollen that his boots had to be cut off. Respected chemist, William Crookes, offered to identify the poison if doctors would send him samples of the deadly socks. The story of how he solved the mystery gives this book its title and forms the basis of the first chapter. Written by a respected science historian and established author, this collection of essays contains 42 tales of chemists and their discoveries from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other topics covered include: the quirky beliefs of American philanthropist, George Hodgkins; the development of the chemical laboratory since the 1830s, and the career of C.P. Snow before he became a novelist. Its broad coverage and modern approach makes it of interest to chemists, teachers, historians and laypeople with an interest in science. Written with a light style and presented in a series of unconnected vignettes the book is easy to dip into at leisure.

Louise Perry, "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution"
English | ISBN: 1509549986 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 1360 KB
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right?

The Byzantines By Guglielmo Cavallo (editor)
1997 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0226097927 | PDF | 8 MB
For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints-all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview.

The Brothers Grimm Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Fairy Tales (Literary Cookbooks) by Robert Tuesley Anderson
English | August 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 166720081X | 160 pages | True EPUB | 54.72 MB
This delicious collection of more than 50 recipes is inspired by the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.

S. Andrews, "The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution 1789-99"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0333738519, 1349409103 | 291 pages | True PDF | 1.7 MB
This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s; Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt's wartime government, which applied 'Jacobin' shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association. The author seeks to make the less strident but more persuasive contemporary voices again audible. He takes seriously those who questioned the necessity for Burke's crusade to destroy the French republic, and who deplored Britain's alliance with the partitioners of Poland.

Christopher Hibbert, "The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0547247818, 0151010331 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.7 mb
This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in-the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance-to life and is "simply unputdownable" (New York Times Book Review).

Peter Spier, "The Book of Jonah"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0385379099, 0375973370 | EPUB | pages: 40 | 15.8 mb
Two-time Caldecott illustrator Peter Spier's visual retelling of a favorite Bible story is back in print! In a tale full of action, adventure, and strife, Jonah is asked by God to tell the people of Nineveh to mend their wicked ways. Fleeing from this enormous task, Jonah sets sail and is thrown overboard and swallowed by a great fish. What follows is Jonah's journey to acceptance of God's love and grace.

Owen Gingerich, "The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus"
English | ISBN: 0802714153 | 2004 | 306 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
In the spring of 1543 as the celebrated astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, lay on his death bed, his fellow clerics brought him a long-awaited package: the final printed pages of the book he had worked on for many years: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). Though Copernicus would not live to hear of its extraordinary impact, his book, which first suggested that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe, is today recognized as one of the most influential scientific works of all time―thanks in part to astrophysicist Owen Gingerich.

The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy by John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Chris Tausanovitch
English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0691213453 | True EPUB/PDF | 400 pages | 11.8/5.5 MB
What an intensely divisive election portends for American politics

The Best Scandinavian Recipes You Can Make with Anyone: Unique Scandinavian Recipes You Cannot Resist by Ava Archer
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0951R4XWW | 76 pages | EPUB | 3.56 Mb
Do you want to create your special Scandinavian-inspired meals at home? Are you worried about how to go about it? You don't have to worry anymore because you are at the right place.