Hilary A. Hallett, "Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 1631490699 | 2022 | EPUB | 464 pages | 71 MB
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English | ASIN: B09NP62J3Z | 2021 | 11 hours and 16 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 309 MB
Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This "fascinating history" chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame - followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply (Newsweek). The disaster, which killed at least 500 people, caused his repudiation by allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, Rivers in the Desert chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it.

English | 2019 |MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07QV9YKPQ | Duration: 5:55 h | 303 MB
Howard Reich / Narrated by James Anderson Foster

English | 2013 |MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00BK9NL4W | Duration: 6:25 h | 174 MB
Robert Yanover, Ellie Crowe / Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt

Fabio Lanza, "Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing"
English | 2010 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 0231152388 | PDF | 7,4 mb
On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese student protest, Fabio Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth movement, along with its rearticulation in subsequent protest. He ultimately explores the political category of the "student" and its making in the twentieth century.

Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore, "Inventing Transgender Children and Young People"
English | ISBN: 1527536386 | 2019 | 276 pages | PDF | 1 MB
The essays in this volume are written by clinicians, psychologists, sociologists, educators, parents and de-transitioners. Contributors demonstrate how transgender children and young people are invented in different medical, social and political contexts: from specialist gender identity development services to lobby groups and their school resources, gender guides and workbooks; from the world of the YouTube vlogger to the consulting rooms of psychiatrists; from the pharmaceutical industry to television documentaries; and from the developmental models of psychologists to the complexities of intersex medicine. Far from just investigating how they are invented the authors demonstrate the considerable psychological and physical harms perpetrated on children and young people by transgender ideology, and offer tangible examples of where and how adults should intervene to protect them.

Inventing the Future by Albert Cory | 771.62 KB
English | 404 Pages

Title: Inventing the Future
Author: Albert Cory
Year: 2021

English | 2021 | ISBN-10 : 148427279X | 149 pages | True (PDF,EPUB) | 7.74 MB
Apply the industrial engineering science of invention and assembly to how software is described, planned, and built, thus allowing you to be free to flex your practices according to your needs, putting principle over habit and rules.
Reading about Agile practices is like reading diet advice. Everything sounds unique and good; everything starts with good intentions. Then reality sets in. Organizations adapt their practices, but lose sight of grounding principles. A bias toward ceremonies, metrics, and recipes comes at the expense of efficiently getting the real work done. Managers and developers are incentivized to game the system. Organizational metrics become detached from the reality of what is being delivered and how.

Taking on Gravity: A Guide to Inventing the Impossible from the Man Who Learned to Fly by Richard Browning
English | May 6th, 2021 | ISBN: 1787630897, 0552175900 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 9.26 MB
**As seen on Top Gear**

Taking on Gravity - A Guide to Inventing the Impossible from the Man Who Learned to Fly | 9.26 MB
English | 226 Pages

Title: Taking on Gravity
Author: Richard Browning
Year: 2021