Heather Nicholson, "The Loving Stitch: A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand"
English | ISBN: 1869401883 | | 320 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
This is an engaging history of a subject never before explored but familiar to many New Zealanders. Knitting came to New Zealand with the missionaries, and Heather Nicholson constantly reminds us of the ancient European history of the craft. But her main focus is on a chronological picture of antipodean knitting which is also a history of the domestic lives of women, of their resourcefulness, their talent, their sociability. She follows the growth of pattern books, the role of knitting for the troops in two world wars, knitting in the Depression and the recent interest in art knitting. She also explores the different items produced by the skilled knitter, from jerseys and guernseys, to counterpanes, socks and stockings and the scarf that stretched right round Parliament Buildings.

The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean By Brendan O'Carroll
2020 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 1526777371 | EPUB | 17 MB
Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No 30 Commando. In support of 3,000 regulars in 234 Brigade, the LRDG landed covertly on Leros establishing observation posts, reporting movement of enemy shipping and aircraft.In October the LRDG were ordered to assault the island of Levitha losing forty highly skilled men killed or captured. The Germans invaded Leros with overwhelming force on 12 November 1943, five days later the battle was over. While many British troops were captured most of the LRDG and SBS escaped. Their individual stories make for enthralling reading.A measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that the LRDG lost more men in three months in the Aegean than in three years in the desert operating behind enemy lines.The author, an acknowledged expert on the LRDG uses official sources, both British and German, and individual accounts to piece together the full story of this dramatic, costly but little-known campaign. It is a valuable addition to the history of special forces in the Second World War.

Christina E. Bejarano, "The Latina Advantage: Gender, Race, and Political Success"
English | ISBN: 1477302085 | 2013 | 195 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet scholars have offered no clear explanations for this electoral phenomenon-until now.

Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin and the Nocona Boot Company "
English | ISBN: 1682830950 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
In the summer of 1925, Enid Justin-daughter of H. J. Justin, founder of legendary Justin Boots-announced to her family that she was going to start her own boot company in her hometown of Nocona, Texas. The announcement shocked her family, who prophesied failure and begged her to reconsider, but thirty-one-year-old Enid's mind was made up. What followed would be a multi-decade saga of tenacity, endurance, dedication, and entrepreneurial success.

The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108842615 | 761 Pages | PDF | 17.4 MB
Epilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifiably considered a window on brain function. And yet its story is more than simply a medical narrative, but one influenced also by scientific, societal and personal themes. Written for a medical and non-medical readership, this book describes the major developments in epilepsy between 1860-2020, a turbulent era in which science dominated as an explanatory model, medical theories and practices steered an erratic course, and societal attitudes and approaches to epilepsy fluctuated dramatically. In the middle of this maelstrom was the person with epilepsy at the mercy of social attitudes and legislation, and at times harmed as well as helped by medicine and science. So entangled is the history that intriguingly, as an entity, epilepsy may now be thought not even to exist.

Sir John Templeton, "The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God"
English | ISBN: 1890151173 | | 180 pages | EPUB | 450 KB
For generations it has been assumed that the discoveries of science, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tended to refute the beliefs of religious people and established religions, and challenged the very existence of God. Templeton makes a striking argument for just the opposite point of view. He goes to the writings of many of the world's leading scientific thinkers - as diverse in background as Albert Einstein and Teilhard de Chardin - and discovers them in awe of the universe, perceiving the hand of Divine mystery at work. Templeton believes that the best way to know God is through a reverential, open, humble approach. He presents this humble approach as the one that many of the most distinguished scientists have come to in their quest for knowledge and meaning.

Travis Linnemann, "The Horror of Police"
English | ISBN: 1517905923 | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1247 KB
Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police

Father Patrick Desbois, Paul A. Shapiro, "The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews"
English | 2009 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0230617573, 0230606172 | EPUB | 2,8 mb
The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews

The Great Panda Tale By Laura Buller
2014 | 32 Pages | ISBN: 1465417184 | PDF | 5 MB
Join Louise and the rest of the zoo crew as they eagerly await the arrival of a new baby panda. Get to know the zoo's current pandas and find out what they eat and how they grow. With longer sentences, increased vocabulary, information boxes, and a simple index, readers beginning to read alone will enjoy reading "The Great Panda Tale." Supports the Common Core State Standards.

The Grammar of Interactives
by Heine, Bernd;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0192871498 | 481 pages | True PDF | 8.85 MB