History & Philosophy
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The CIA World Factbook 2024-2025
The ultimate, comprehensive guide to official country data and statistics, from the world’s most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organization.From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2024-2025 offers complete and up-to-date information on the world’s nations. This comprehensive guide is packed with data on countries’ politics, populations, economics, and environment for 2024 and looks ahead to 2025.
The CIA World Factbook 2024-2025 includes the following for each country:
- Updated geopolitical maps
- Population statistics, with details on languages, religions, literacy rates, age structure, HIV prevalence, and much more
- Up-to-date data on military expenditures and capabilities
- Geography information, including climate and natural hazards
- Details on prominent political figures and parties
- Contact information for diplomatic missions
- Facts on transportation, trade, and communication infrastructure
Also included are appendices with useful abbreviations, international environmental agreements, international organizations and groups, terror organizations, and more. Originally intended for use by government officials and policymakers as well as the broader intelligence community, this is a must-have resource for students, travelers, journalists, and anyone with a desire to know more about their world.
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
‘[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism … Morus’s account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.’ – DUNCAN BELL, NEW STATESMAN
‘[How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon] rattles thrillingly through such developments as the Transatlantic telegraph cable, the steam locomotive and electric power and recalls the excitable predictions of the fiction of the time.’ KATY GUEST, THE GUARDIAN
‘Excellent … A terrific insight into why the Victorian era was a golden age of engineering.’ – NICK SMITH, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE
By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future.
To get us to this future, the Victorians created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilisation of the resources of Empire – and they revolutionised science in the process.
In this rich and absorbing book, distinguished historian of science Iwan Rhys Morus tells the story of how this future was made. From Charles Babbage’s dream of mechanising mathematics to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s tunnel beneath the Thames, from George Cayley’s fantasies of powered flight to Nikola Tesla’s visions of an electrical world, this is a story of towering personalities, clashing ambitions, furious rivalries and conflicting cultures – a vibrant tapestry of remarkable lives that transformed the world and ultimately took us to the Moon.
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88 Life-Changing High School Hacks (A Sur-Thrival Guide): Optimize the Teen Years, Upgrade Your Life Skills FAST, and Master Adulting Before You Graduate (Teen Sur-Thrival)
The perfect holiday read (if you like books by humans. Sorry, no AI here)!You can master adulthood before you get there or wait for it to master you. Which will you choose?
We all love a good hack. That one piece of advice that cuts straight to the heart of a problem and shows you how to handle it with ease. But don’t let the title fool you – reducing this wisdom to mere “hacks” would be a massive disservice.
You’re about to uncover a treasure trove of insight: 88 of the best tips, tricks, and techniques to launch you from teendom to adulthood with resounding success. And don’t worry – you won’t lose yourself along the way. You won’t have to trade your joy, curiosity, or spark. You won’t have to become “boring” – or bored. You’ll simply be one step ahead of the game.
There are no worn-out clichés here – no recycled information you’ve read in a thousand blog posts that don’t tell you anything you didn’t already know. Here you’ll find an inspired and well-researched collection of advice you can turn to repeatedly as you pave your distinct path into the future.
Inside this unique resource, you’ll discover:
- 88 game-changing life hacks, numbered and arranged by category so you can come back to them time and time again
- How to save time and energy at school while taking control of your environment and gaining all the benefits of your education (without ending the week exhausted)
- Why you should ‘eat the frog’ (and how you don’t have to chow down on a single amphibian to do this)
- The secret to building and maintaining good relationships – and why this will be important throughout your whole life
- Fresh and unique kitchen tips, regardless of experience level
- Multiple ways to improve your memory (even while you sleep)
- How money is energy (and how to use that to your advantage) – complete with essential financial literacy skills you’ll never learn in school
- Why you should ‘be more buffalo’ – what this means, and how to come out the other side of any challenge quicker than most people
- The mind hacks that will set the stage for a lifetime of growth and self-realization
- Everything you didn’t know you needed to know about cars and driving
- Timeless principles to take forward into the working world (no matter how much it changes before you get there)
And much more.
One day you’re in high school, and the next, you’re navigating the adult world without a map. The good news is, with these hacks in your toolbox, you won’t need one.
This isn’t the advice you’re used to from parents and teachers. This is the stuff you need to ace the game of life. And you’re just one click away from unlocking it…
Hack your way to success one nugget of wisdom at a time: Scroll up, and click ‘Add to Cart’ right now!
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How to Survive Your Teens: Embrace Change, Make Friends, Set Goals, Find a Job, Manage Money, and Navigate All the Challenges Ahead!
The Perfect Gift for Teens!
Being a teenager is a challenging time in your life, but it’s also an opportunity to discover more about yourself and set goals for the future. As you grow older, you’ll gain independence and more control over your life than you did as a child. Earning more freedom to do things like drive or apply for a part-time job can be exciting, but you’ll also have to put in quite a bit of work along the way to set yourself up for success.
But with so much to learn, where is the best place to start?
This book was designed in easy-to-digest, bite-sized chunks to help teens navigate the many challenges on their way to adulthood.
How to Survive Your Teens covers:
- How to navigate puberty.
- Make friends.
- Handle emotions.
- Balancing responsibilities.
- Accepting others.
- Your first jobs.
- Setting goals.
- And so much more!
Having fun should be a priority at any age, but it’s especially true when you’re a teenager. As you gain new freedoms, you’ll begin to envision what your life might look like after high school. This is an incredible time of exploration and growth as you find the path that will carry you forward into a new stage of life.
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: The Little Red Book
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is comprised of statements from speeches and writings of Mao Tse-Tung, the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1943 to 1976. The book was originally printed in small sizes and bound in bright red covers, becoming commonly known as The Little Red Book.The contents cover a wide swath of Mao’s interpretations of Marxist-Leninist thought and how it should be applied to the Chinese people and culture.Read more
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.
Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible: indeed it introduced the very concept of ‘discovery’, and opened the way to the invention of science.
The first crucial discovery was Tycho Brahe’s nova of 1572: proof that there could be change in the heavens. The telescope (1610) rendered the old astronomy obsolete. Torricelli’s experiment with the vacuum (1643) led directly to the triumph of the experimental method in the Royal Society of Boyle and Newton. By 1750 Newtonianism was being celebrated throughout Europe.
The new science did not consist simply of new discoveries, or new methods. It relied on a new understanding of what knowledge might be, and with this came a new language: discovery, progress, facts, experiments, hypotheses, theories, laws of nature – almost all these terms existed before 1492, but their meanings were radically transformed so they became tools with which to think scientifically. We all now speak this language of science, which was invented during the Scientific Revolution.
The new culture had its martyrs (Bruno, Galileo), its heroes (Kepler, Boyle), its propagandists (Voltaire, Diderot), and its patient labourers (Gilbert, Hooke). It led to a new rationalism, killing off alchemy, astrology, and belief in witchcraft. It led to the invention of the steam engine and to the first Industrial Revolution. David Wootton’s landmark book changes our understanding of how this great transformation came about, and of what science is.
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