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English | ISBN: 1785316621 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Mike Brearley was one of England's greatest captains, thrice winning the Ashes, including the memorable series of 1981. He also led Middlesex to four county championships and two Gillette Cup wins. In this first-ever biography of Brearley, Mark Peel assesses the many facets of his complex personality to explain his phenomenal success as a leader.

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English | 2010 | pages: 656 | ISBN: 1439187509, 0671228110 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
The bestselling biography of the author of In Cold Blood​ and basis for the award-winning film Capote, Gerald Clarke provides insight into the life of Truman Capote like no one before.

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English | 2013 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1621570401 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
He was a carpenter. A visionary. A governor. A prophet. A pioneer. A preacher. A businessman. A temple-builder.

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English | 2012 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0810128306, 1400044375 | EPUB | 6,2 mb
A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents-musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist-John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage's childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage's unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. Silverman concurrently follows Cage's rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong personal and professional partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as his friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers.

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English | ISBN: 1644698722 | 2022 | 436 pages | PDF | 67 MB
This book tells the story of Holocaust survivor and prominent banker Marcel Goldman, born in Krakow in 1926. Goldman started his studies in economics in Krakow and completed them in Israel, where he became a respected banker. In telling his story, this book analyzes Israel's social and economic development, its causes and circumstances. Following Goldman as our main character, we take a close look at the birth of the private banking sector and the building of modern economy in Israel. The book also describes the life of Polish Jews in Israel in general, the way in which they settled there, and built the prosperity of the state. The story of Marcel Goldman is an example of how Israel's success is the sum of its citizens' successes.

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English | 2014 | ISBN: 0786495995 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 2.1 mb
Victor Vaughan's career at the University of Michigan spanned more than four decades, beginning with his graduate studies in physiological chemistry during the 1870s and ending in 1921 with his retirement after three decades as dean of the medical school. Not only was he instrumental in modernizing medical training at Michigan, his work in areas of hygiene, epidemiology and the study of toxins and infectious disease was highly regarded on the national scene. Twice he was called upon to serve his country in times of crisis. During the Spanish-American War he was a key member of the Typhoid Commission which investigated the outbreak of the life-threatening fever among army recruits in southern camps. During World War I, he was a member of the medical board within the Council of National Defense which contended with an unprecedented influenza outbreak. Vaughan's professional work included more than 250 published papers and some 17 books, many that outlined laboratory techniques which modernized the newly evolving field of bacteriology.

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English | 2017 | ISBN: 935277034X | EPUB | pages: 202 | 6.3 mb
Soumendu Roy today is widely known for his long association with Satyajit Ray. He was Ray's cinematographer for a generation of films that is celebrated the world around even now. Witness to a great genius, Roy also carved a niche for himself in his own right, working with other stalwarts of Bengali cinema like Tapan Sinha and Buddhadeb Dasgupta, among others. Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the finest cameramen India has known, his childhood experiences, his love of the 'moving picture', the many intricacies of film-making, and the painstaking toil and unexpected turn of luck that are required in equal measure to succeed. This book is a must-read for all film aficionados.

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English | August 22nd, 2023 | ISBN: 9358561971 | 35 pages | True EPUB | 48.96 MB
Prolific inventor Thomas Edison brightened the world with the invention of the light bulb. His invention revolutionized the sciences. This beautifully illustrated book retells the life of this brilliant scientist and his inventions. Boosting an extensive glossary, the book is easy to read, has simplified fun facts, and a lot more for budding minds to explore and learn.

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English | 2011 | ASIN: B00550N7JG | EPUB | pages: 452 | 2.8 mb
The adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, and humble revolutionary

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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476668183 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 6.8 mb
Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrorist group by both the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center-despite the ALF's official stance of nonviolence.