Category: Educational

Download BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age by Jean-baptiste Gouyon (.ePUB)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture) by Jean-baptiste Gouyon
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 460 KB
Overview: This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain. It revolves around the role of David Attenborough, whose career as a broadcaster and natural history filmmaker has shaped British wildlife television. The book discusses aspects of Attenborough’s professional biography and also explores elements of the institutional history of the BBC—from the early 1960s, when it was at its most powerful, to the 2000s, when its future is uncertain. It focuses primarily on the wildlife ‘making-of’ documentary genre, which is used to trace how television progressively became a participant in the production of knowledge about nature.

With the inclusion of analysis of television programmes, first-hand accounts, BBC archival material and, most notably, interviews with David Attenborough, this volume follows the development of the professional culture of wildlife broadcasting as it has been portrayed in public. It will be of interest to wildlife television amateurs, historians of British television and students in science communication.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5BkcO

http://gestyy.com/w5BkcF

Download Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee +(.ePUB)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.1 MB
Overview: Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.

Figuring out how to deal with today’s critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.

Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change—these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there—what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.

In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5Bkxj

http://gestyy.com/w5Bkxc

Download Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds by Ian Wright (.PDF)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World by Ian Wright
Requirements: .PDF reader, 131 MB
Overview: A singular atlas of 100 infographic maps from thought-provoking to flat-out fun

Publisher’s note: Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds was published in the UK under the title Brilliant Maps.

Which countries don’t have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California’s? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You’ll learn answers to these questions and many more in Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds. This one-of-a-kind atlas is packed with eye-opening analysis (Which nations have had female leaders?), whimsical insight (Where can’t you find a McDonald’s?), and surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics.

Each of these 100 maps will change the way you see the world—and your place in it.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5BfNe
http://gestyy.com/w5BfNi
http://gestyy.com/w5BfNd

Download Generation F by Virginia Trioli (.ePUB)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Generation F: Why we still struggle with sex and power by Virginia Trioli
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.8 MB
Overview: Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power.

The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault after complaints by two female students. Helen Garner’s bestselling book about the case, The First Stone, polarised readers over whether the students had been right to take their allegations to the law. Was the feminist movement poisoning gender relations?

In Generation F, the young award-winning journalist Virginia Trioli offered a vigorous, incisive and compelling argument for the ongoing need for feminism, while exploring her own bewilderment and anger. She described the real state of sexual harassment, violence, the workplace and the law in Australia: how most women just copped it, but those who felt able to confront it needed all the support they could get.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5Bdd6
http://gestyy.com/w5Bdfq
http://gestyy.com/w5Bdfy

Download Newton and the Origin of Civilization by Jed Z. Buchwald+(.PDF)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Newton and the Origin of Civilization by Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold
Requirements: .PDF reader, 14 MB
Overview: Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man’s death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt’s by a millennium. Newton and the Origin of Civilization tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe’s learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond.

Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton’s earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton’s unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5BaMd

http://gestyy.com/w5BaMk

Download Nail Your Novel (Volume 2) by Roz Morris (.ePUB)(.MOBI)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Writing Characters Who’ll Keep Readers Captivated: Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris
Requirements: .ePUB, .MOBI reader, 480kb
Overview: How do you create characters who keep readers hooked? How do you write the opposite sex? Teenagers? Believable relationships? Historical characters? Enigmatic characters? Plausible antagonists and chilling villains? How do you understand a character whose life is totally unlike your own? How do you write characters for dystopias? How do you make dialogue sing? When can you let the reader intuit what the characters are feeling and when should you spell it out?
Roz Morris is a bestselling ghostwriter and book doctor, and a literary author in her own right. She teaches creative writing masterclasses for The Guardian newspaper in London. Her fiction for high-profile authors has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. She has mined 20 years’ worth of writing, editing and critiquing experience to create this book. It contains all the pitfalls and sticky points for writers, laid out as a set of discussions that are easy to dip into. And it wouldn’t be a Nail Your Novel book without a good dose of games, exercises and questionnaires to help you populate a novel from scratch.
Whether you write a straightforward story-based genre or literary fiction, this book will show you how to create people who enthrall readers – and make you want to tell stories.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational , Langauge, Writing

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5VMXs
http://gestyy.com/w5VMXj

Download The Vital Question by Nick Lane (.ePUB)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? by Nick Lane
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MB
Overview: To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes.
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. InThe Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.
For two and a half billion years, from the very origins of life, single-celled organisms such as bacteria evolved without changing their basic form. Then, on just one occasion in four billion years, they made the jump to complexity. All complex life, from mushrooms to man, shares puzzling features, such as sex, which are unknown in bacteria. How and why did this radical transformation happen?
The answer, Lane argues, lies in energy: all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a lightning bolt. Building on the pillars of evolutionary theory, Lane’s hypothesis draws on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and cell biology, in order to deliver a compelling account of evolution from the very origins of life to the emergence of multicellular organisms, while offering deep insights into our own lives and deaths.
Both rigorous and enchanting, The Vital Question provides a solution to life’s vital question: why are we as we are, and indeed, why are we here at all?
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5VWKV
http://gestyy.com/w5VWK2

Download Comets and the Origin of Life by Janaki Wickramasinghe+ (.PDF)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Comets and the Origin of Life by Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe, William Napier
Requirements: .PDF reader, 8.5 Mb
Overview: The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life has become very strong, and mechanisms have now been identified whereby comets may incubate and transfer microbial life from one cosmic habitat to another in the Galaxy. The latter process cometary panspermia was pioneered by the late Sir Fred Hoyle and one of the present authors in the early 1980’s. A theory that was once controversial is slowly gaining scientific respectability and support.The recent surge of interest in astrobiology has led to a spate of books in astrobiology — combining astronomy and biology — but in most of these, cometary panspermia is dealt with only cursorily. The present book sets out the case for cometary panspermia in a cogent way, combining evidence from space science, celestial mechanics, geology and microbiology. It should be an essential part of any university course on astrobiology, and also serve as a reference textbook for researchers in the field.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5VveN

http://gestyy.com/w5Vve4

http://gestyy.com/w5Vve9

Download Just Another Ape? by Helene Guldberg (.ePUB)

itzAmrit Leave a comment

Just Another Ape? by Helene Guldberg
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 415 KB
Overview: Today, the belief that human beings are special is distinctly out of fashion. Almost every day we are presented with new revelations about how animals are so much more like us than we ever imagined. The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to our closest living relatives – the great apes. This book argues that whatever first impressions might tell us, apes are really not ‘just like us’. Science has provided strong evidence that the boundaries between us and other species are vast.

Unless we hold on to the belief in our exceptional abilities we will never be able to envision or build a better future – in which case, we might as well be monkeys.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5VxZd

http://gestyy.com/w5VxZk

Download Art of Systems Architecting by Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan (.ePUB)+

itzAmrit Leave a comment

The Art of Systems Architecting: The Pleasures of Mathematics by Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
Requirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 3.3 Mb
Overview: Today’s architecting must handle systems of types unknown until very recently. New domains, including personal computers, intersatellite networks, health services, and joint service command and control are calling for new architectures-and for architects specializing in those domains. Since the original publication, of this bestselling text, these new and emerging fields have contributed architectural concepts and tools of their own to the relatively new formalism-and evolving profession-called Systems Architecting.The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition restates and extends into the future the classical architecting paradigm, incorporating the most broadly applicable of these contributions. It remains the most innovative, insightful treatment available to the discipline, providing both the academic and the industrial communities with the up-to-date tools, concepts, and techniques needed to conceive and build complex systems.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

Image

Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/w5VzD4

http://gestyy.com/w5VzFr

http://gestyy.com/w5VzFo