Category: CV

Auther	: Arno Geiger
Section	: CV
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Number of Pages	: 392
book quality	: Excellent
Language	: German
Size of file	: 2.80MB
Department	: History

Author: Arno Geiger

About the Author: Arno Geiger is an Austrian novelist who grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis competition at Klagenfurt. In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first German Book Prize literature prize for his novel (we are good). translation of autobiographical The Old King in His Exile to English was First published in 2011 by arno geiger. The memoir has won literary prizes including the 2011 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, as well as prizes from medical societies in various countries, including the 2011 German Hospice and Palliative Care Association (DHPV) Award.

Es geht uns gut book pdf download By Arno Geiger

Philipp Erlach hat das Haus seiner Großmutter in der Wiener Vorstadt geerbt, und die Familiengeschichte, von der er definitiv nichts wissen will, sitzt ihm nun im Nacken. Arno Geiger erzählt sie, als sei sie gegenwärtig: Von Alma und Richard, die 1938 gerade Ingrid bekommen und nichts mit den Nazis zu tun haben wollen. Vom fünfzehnjährigen Peter, der 1945 mit den letzten Hitlerjungen durch die zerbombten Straßen läuft. Von Ingrid, die mit dem Studenten Peter eine eigene Familie gründen will, und von Philipp, dem Sohn der beiden. Arno Geiger gelingt es, ein trauriges und komisches Jahrhundert lebendig zu machen.

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Department	: History
Auther	: Andrew Ballantyne
Language	: English
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 2.92MB
Section	: CV
Number of Pages	: 254
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10

Author: Andrew Ballantyne

About the Author: Newcastle University | NCL · School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape PhD

John Ruskin book pdf download By Andrew Ballantyne

John Ruskin (1819–1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew Ballantyne rescues Ruskin from the dustbin of history’s trifles to reveal a deeply attuned thinker, one whose copious writings had tremendous influence on all classes of society, from roadmenders to royalty. Ballantyne examines a crucial aspect of Ruskin’s thinking: the notion that art and architecture have moral value. Telling the story of Ruskin’s childhood and enduring devotion to his parents—who fostered his career as a writer on art and architecture—he explores the circumstances that led to Ruskin’s greatest works, such as Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, and Unto This Last. He follows Ruskin through his altruistic ventures with the urban poor, to whom he taught drawing, motivated by a profound conviction that art held the key to living a worthwhile life. Ultimately, Ballantyne weaves Ruskin’s story into a larger one about Victorian society, a time when the first great industrial cities took shape and when art could finally reach beyond the wealthy elite and touch the lives of everyday people.

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book quality	: Excellent
Language	: English
Size of file	: 1.45MB
Department	: History
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Number of Pages	: 216
Section	: CV
Auther	: Lisa Jardine

Author: Lisa Jardine

About the Author: Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011 she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London. Since 2008 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] She was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, but resigned from that post in September 2009. On 1 September 2012, She relocated with her research centre and its staff to University College London (UCL) to become the first director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

Reading Shakespeare Historically book pdf download By Lisa Jardine

Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist’ approaches over the same period.

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Department	: History
Section	: CV
Language	: English
book quality	: Excellent
Auther	: Lisa Jardine
Number of Pages	: 232
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Size of file	: 15.4MB

Author: Lisa Jardine

About the Author: Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011 she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London. Since 2008 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] She was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, but resigned from that post in September 2009. On 1 September 2012, She relocated with her research centre and its staff to University College London (UCL) to become the first director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke book pdf download By Lisa Jardine

“Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this compelling and empathetic portrait, she succeeds in making a convincing case for his place in history. . . [as] a founding father in Europe’s scientific revolution.” — Los Angeles Times The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and inventor who worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666. He was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, and his engravings of natural phenomena seen under the new microscope appeared in his masterpiece, the acclaimed Micrographia, one of the most influential volumes of the day. But Hooke’s irascible temper and his passionate idealism proved fatal for his relationships with important political figures, most notably Sir Isaac Newton: their quarrel is legendary. As a result, historical greatness eluded Robert Hooke. Eminent historian Lisa Jardine does this original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination justice and allows him to take his place as a major figure in the seventeenth century intellectual and scientific revolution.

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Size of file	: 3.33MB
Language	: English
Department	: History
Section	: CV
Auther	: Mark Skousen
book quality	: Excellent
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-10
Number of Pages	: 524

Author: Mark Skousen

About the Author: Mark Andrew Skousen is an American economist and writer. He currently teaches at Chapman University, where he is a Presidential Fellow at The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics. He has previously taught at Columbia Business School, Mercy College, Barnard College, and Rollins College. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975.He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarian periodicals. He has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks, From 2008 to 2010 he was a weekly contributor on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News. Skousen is a proponent of Gross Output (GO), an economic concept used to measure total economic activity in the production of new goods and services in an accounting period. Skousen highlighted the concept in his work, The Structure of Production in 1990.

The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Volume Two, 1757-1790 book pdf download By Mark Skousen

Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time&mdahs;but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was fifty–one. He lived another thirty–three eventful years, serving as America’s advocate in London, Pennsylvania’s representative in the Continental Congress, and America’s wartime ambassador to France. Here is the rest of the story, in Franklin’s own words. One of the most fascinating of our founding fathers, Franklin was a polymath, a practical statesman, and an incomparable cynic and wit. The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, faithfully compiled and edited from Franklin’s papers, reveals why he became a spokesman for American independence as well as his views on the Constitution, such fellow patriots as Adams and Jefferson, on French women, and more. Mark Skousen is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin through Franklin’s grandson Louis Bache.

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Date of Coming	: 2022-08-30
Section	: CV
Language	: English
Number of Pages	: 551
book quality	: Excellent
Department	: History
Auther	: Ashlee Vance
Size of file	: 3.69MB

Author: Ashlee Vance

About the Author: Ashlee Vance in born 1977, he is an American business columnist and author. His biography of Elon Musk, titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, was released on May 19, 2015. He lives with his two kids Bowie and Tucker, and his wife Melinda.

About the Author: Vance covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.

About the Author: In 2007, Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of Silicon Valley. His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, The Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and CNET.

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future book pdf download By Ashlee Vance

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley’s most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur’s journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world. Vance spent over 40 hours in conversation with Musk and interviewed close to 300 people to tell the tumultuous stories of Musk’s world-changing companies: PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity, and to characterize a man who has renewed American industry and sparked new levels of innovation while making plenty of enemies along the way.

        Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our time: can the nation of inventors and creators which led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk–one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history–is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.

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Language	: German
Department	: History
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-30
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 3.90MB
Section	: CV
Auther	: Ashlee Vance
Number of Pages	: 515

Author: Ashlee Vance

About the Author: Ashlee Vance in born 1977, he is an American business columnist and author. His biography of Elon Musk, titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, was released on May 19, 2015. He lives with his two kids Bowie and Tucker, and his wife Melinda.

About the Author: Vance covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.

About the Author: In 2007, Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of Silicon Valley. His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, The Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and CNET.

Elon Musk: Wie Elon Musk die Welt verändert – Die Biografie book pdf download By Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk ist der da Vinci des 21. Jahrhunderts. Seine Firmengründungen lesen sich wie das Who’s who der zukunftsträchtigsten Unternehmen der Welt. Alles, was dieser Mann anfasst, scheint zu Gold zu werden. Mit PayPal revolutionierte er das Zahlen im Internet, mit Tesla schreckte die Autoindustrie auf und sein Raumfahrtunternehmen SpaceX ist aktuell das weltweit einzige Unternehmen, das ein Raumschiff mit großer Nutzlast wieder auf die Erde zurückbringen kann.

Dies ist die persönliche Geschichte hinter einem der größten Unternehmer seit Thomas Edison, Henry Ford oder Howard Hughes. Das Buch erzählt seinen kometenhaften Aufstieg von seiner Flucht aus Südafrika mit 17 Jahren bis heute. Elon Musk gilt als der »Real Iron Man« – in Anlehnung an einen der erfolgreichsten Comichelden der Welt. Es ist die gleichsam inspirierende, persönliche und spannende Geschichte eines der erfolgreichsten Querdenker der Welt. In einem Umfang wie noch kein Journalist zuvor hatte Ashlee Vance für diese Biografi e exklusiven und direkten Zugang zu Elon Musk, seinem familiären Umfeld und persönlichen Freunden.

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book quality	: Good
Language	: Italian
Number of Pages	: 441
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-30
Auther	: Ashlee Vance
Size of file	: 2.38MB
Department	: History
Section	: CV

Author: Ashlee Vance

About the Author: Ashlee Vance in born 1977, he is an American business columnist and author. His biography of Elon Musk, titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, was released on May 19, 2015. He lives with his two kids Bowie and Tucker, and his wife Melinda.

About the Author: Vance covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.

About the Author: In 2007, Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of Silicon Valley. His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, The Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and CNET.

Elon Musk. Tesla, SpaceX e la sfida per un futuro fantastico book pdf download By Ashlee Vance

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX e la ricerca di un futuro fantastico, la giornalista tecnologica veterana Ashlee Vance fornisce il primo sguardo all’interno della vita e dei tempi straordinari dell’imprenditore più audace della Silicon Valley. Scritto con accesso esclusivo a Musk, alla sua famiglia e ai suoi amici, il libro ripercorre il viaggio dell’imprenditore da una dura educazione in Sud Africa all’apice del mondo degli affari globali. Vance ha trascorso oltre 40 ore in conversazione con Musk e ha intervistato quasi 300 persone per raccontare le storie tumultuose delle aziende di Musk che stanno cambiando il mondo: PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX e SolarCity, e per caratterizzare un uomo che ha rinnovato l’industria americana e ha acceso nuovi livelli di innovazione facendosi molti nemici lungo la strada.

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Number of Pages	: 513
Department	: History
Auther	: Ashlee Vance
Language	: Portuguese
Size of file	: 2.07MB
Date of Coming	: 2022-08-30
book quality	: Good
Section	: CV

Author: Ashlee Vance

About the Author: Ashlee Vance in born 1977, he is an American business columnist and author. His biography of Elon Musk, titled Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, was released on May 19, 2015. He lives with his two kids Bowie and Tucker, and his wife Melinda.

About the Author: Vance covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.

About the Author: In 2007, Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of Silicon Valley. His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, The Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and CNET.

Elon Musk: Como o CEO bilionário da SpaceX e da Tesla está moldando o nosso futuro book pdf download By Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk e o empreendedor mais ousado de nosso tempo. Poucos nomes de nossa historia se equiparam a sua visao engenhosa e ao seu dinamismo incansavel. Uma mistura de Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes e Steve Jobs, Musk e o homem por tras do PayPal, da Tesla Motors, da SpaceX e da Solar- City, todas companhias responsaveis por verdadeiras revolucoes na industria e no meio corporativo americanos. Mais do que qualquer outro empresario da atualidade, ele tem investido sua energia e sua fortuna na missao de criar um futuro ao mesmo tempo magnifico e tao longe de ser alcancado quanto uma fantasia de ficcao cientifica, como a colonizacao de Marte. Nesse livro, o experiente jornalista especializado em tecnologia Ashlee Vance traz um olhar inedito sobre a vida e as agruras inacreditaveis do homem mais audacioso do Vale do Silicio. O autor teve mais de cinquenta horas de conversas com Musk e entrevistou mais de trezentas pessoas ligadas a ele para contar em detalhes as historias controversas envolvendo suas empresas revolucionarias e tracar o retrato do personagem complexo que renovou a industria americana e tem trazido a tona uma serie de inovacoes tudo isso causando muita polemica e angariando varios inimigos pelo caminho. Elon Musk chegou aos Estados Unidos em 1992 disposto a realizar grandes feitos e concretizar seus sonhos mais ousados. Desde entao, sua vida tem sido uma montanha-russa de decepcoes e sucessos estrondosos. Depois de ser deposto do cargo de CEO do PayPal, quase sucumbir a malaria e perder um filho pequeno, Musk trocou o Vale do Silicio por Los Angeles. Ali, passou anos assustando os amigos ao falar dos planos de investir toda a fortuna em foguetes e carros eletricos. Ate que, em 2012, operou uma das ressureicoes empresariais mais espantosas da historia: a Tesla, a SpaceX e a SolarCity alcancaram um sucesso incomparavel e o patrimonio liquido de Musk hoje ultrapassa os 5 bilhoes de dolares. Ao destacar Elon Musk como um dos raros empresarios com d

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Date of Coming	: 2022-09-07
Number of Pages	: 323
Auther	: Dalai Lama
Language	: English
Section	: CV
book quality	: Excellent
Size of file	: 44.1MB
Department	: History

Author: Dalai Lama

About the Author: The Dalai Lama is the supreme religious leader of Tibetan Buddhists and until 1959 AD, the Dalai Lama represented the spiritual and worldly leadership in Tibet.
He is, of course, a Buddhist monk of the Gelugpa group, which was founded by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419).
The title of King of Tibet and the successor of Buddha in the eyes of his followers. The last to hold this title was the 14th Dalai Lama, born in Shanghai in 1935, when he was four years old when a group of lamas considered him to be the successor to the 13th Dalai Lama. It was then erected in Lhasa in 1940 and came to be considered a “living Buddha”.
He was a pacifist. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his peaceful struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He has consistently advocated nonviolent policies, even in the face of extreme aggression. He also became the first Nobel Prize winner to be honored for his interest in global environmental problems.

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In this astonishingly frank autobiography, the Dalai Lama reveals the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism and the brutal realities of Chinese Communism.

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