Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Vol. 4: 1945 to 1970

• Blake Hobby, Patricia Gantt, "Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Vol. 4: 1945 to 1970"
• Facts on File | 2010 | ISBN: 0816060916 | 448 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB
• The five-volume Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers is the landmark new reference to the greatest writers in American literature, written specifically for high school students and correlated to the NCTE standards. Featuring more than 180 of the authors taught most often in the high school curriculum, this comprehensive set contains alphabetical entries, from 2,000 to 20,000 words each, divided into sections on the author's life and on the author's major works. An additional section in each entry pres topics for discussion and writing, many of which refer to other writers or works, helping students make connections between texts (a key component of language arts standards).
• The editors of this authoritative guide to American literature are experts both in literary criticism and in the teaching of literature to secondary school students, and the tone and content of this encyclopedia reflect this. A bibliography and chronology round out this helpful resource.
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Albert Einstein: And the Frontiers of Physics

• Jeremy Bernstein, "Albert Einstein: And the Frontiers of Physics"
• Oxford University Press, USA | 1996 | ISBN: 0195092759 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
• Albert Einstein did not impress his first teachers. They found him a dreamy child without an especially promising future. But some time in his early years he developed what he called "wonder" about the world. Later in life, he remembered two instances from his childhood--his fascination at age five with a compass and his introduction to the lucidity and certainty of geometry--that may have been the first signs of what was to come. From these ordinary beginnings, Einstein became one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. This illuminating biography describes in understandable language the experiments and revolutionary theories that flowed from Einstein's imagination and intellect--from his theory of relativity, which changed our conception of the universe and our place in it, to his search for a unified field theory that would explain all of the forces in the universe.
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Tony Magistrale - Stephen King: America's Storyteller

• Tony Magistrale - Stephen King: America's Storyteller
• Praeger | ISBN: 0313352283 | 2009-12-21 | PDF | 181 pages | 1.02 Mb
• Stephen King: America's Storyteller explores the particular American-ness of Stephen King’s work. It is the first major examination to follow this defining theme through King’s 40-year career, from his earliest writings to his most recent novels and films made from them.
• Stephen King begins by tracing Stephen King’s rise from his formative years to his status as a one of the most popular writers in publishing history. It then takes a close look at the major works from his canon, including The Shining, The Stand, It, Dolores Claiborne, and The Dark Tower. In these works and others, author Tony Magistrale focuses on King’s deep rooted sense of the American experience, exemplified by his clear-eyed presentation of our historical and cultural foibles and scars; his gallery of unlikely friendships that cross race, age, and class boundaries; and his transcendent portrayals of uniquely American survival instincts, fellowship, and acts of heroism from the least likely of sources.
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Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire

• Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire - TTC ~ Course No. 3390 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Kenneth
• Publisher: W. Harl Tulane University Ph.D., Yale University 2010 | Publisher:ISBN n/a | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/Variable | 265 MB
• With the exception of Jesus Christ, virtually no figure in antiquity is more renowned in the history of the West than Alexander the Great. His feats are the stuff of legend, inspiring medieval romances, painting and sculptures, and even blockbuster movies.
• And more than two millennia after the legendary ruler's death, Alexander's remarkable victory over the Persians in 331 B.C. still stands as an emblem for superlative military leadership. The young Julius Caesar compared his achievements to those of the Macedonian king—and found them lacking. Napoleon styled himself as a new Alexander, even invading Egypt in the shadow of his Macedonian predecessor. Even U.S. general Norman Schwarzkopf, when asked to comment on the U.S. victory in the Gulf War, cited a surprising inspiration: Alexander the Great.
• But the historical Alexander—the man behind the legend—is even more intriguing than the stories that have sprung up about him in the centuries since his death. Alexander was more than simply a battle lord or king; through his remarkable achievements, he changed the face of the ancient world and laid the foundation for the great traditions of the Roman Empire. And he did it all in fewer than 12 years.
• In Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire, go beyond the myth to learn about this great military leader and his world. In 36 spellbinding lectures, you'll enter the world of Alexander and witness the astonishing feats of military genius that made his name renowned for millennia after his death.
• Your guide into the life of this legendary leader is Professor Kenneth W. Harl of Tulane University. An expert on the classical world, Professor Harl presents Alexander within the context of his life and times. You'll see Alexander as the successor to great political and cultural traditions as well as an innovative military genius who forged a new world order. Through this detailed portrait, you'll go beyond the legends and the myths to truly understand what made Alexander great.
• Who Was Alexander?
• The story of Alexander starts generations before his birth, in the tumultuous conflicts that shook ancient Greece. Professor Harl takes you deep into this history, providing a context for understanding Alexander's daunting challenges and incredible achievements.
• The course begins with an overview of history in the Greek city-states in the centuries prior to Alexander's reign. You'll learn about the battles, alliances, and competing interests that shaped Alexander's world, from the clashes among Greek forces, to the earth-shattering conflict with the Persians, to the surprising rise of the Macedonians under Alexander's father, Philip II.
• Next, you'll witness Alexander's sudden ascendance to the throne of Macedon and trace his remarkable military career as he conquered the Balkans, Persia, central Asia, and Egypt and pushed the boundaries of the known world with his historic invasion of India. In the final section of the course, you'll consider Alexander's legacy, examining the struggles for power that arose after his death and exploring his influence on later history.
• Along the way, several Alexanders emerge: the military general, Macedonian king, Persian emperor, Egyptian pharaoh, and leader of the Hellenic League. You see all sides of Alexander and learn about the many aspects of this extraordinary individual—the passions that drove him, the extraordinary talents and insights he brought to the battlefield, and the intensive training that helped mold his character.
• Throughout, Professor Harl cites contemporary sources, including classical histories and eyewitness accounts, to reveal Alexander as he was seen in his own time. You'll weigh and balance these various accounts and learn how Alexander has been interpreted by both ancient and modern historians.
• On the Field of Battle
• Key to understanding Alexander's greatness is an appreciation of his genius on the battlefield. With Professor Harl's expert guidance, you'll learn how battles were fought and won in the ancient world as you survey some of the key battles that rocked the Mediterranean prior to Alexander's reign. From the historic clash of the Persian pretender, Cyrus, against his brother Artaxerxes to Philip's extraordinary victory over the Greeks, Professor Harl illuminates the brilliant battlefield tactics that would later inspire Alexander.
• Professor Harl elucidates Alexander's great martial achievements within this larger military history. You'll survey how Alexander continued the reorganization of the Macedonian army begun by his father and consider the methods he used to motivate his troops, inspire loyalty, and maintain discipline.
• You'll also head onto the battlefield, where you'll take a tactician's perspective on some of Alexander's greatest triumphs:
• The Battle of the Granicus River: Alexander waited to start the battle late in the day and employed audacious tactics to lure his Persian enemy off high ground and onto the river bank where the troops were most vulnerable.
• The Battle of Issus: Alexander conducted a spectacular strategic march to surprise the great King Darius on the banks of the Pinarus in late afternoon and smashed the Persian weak left wing with a furious cavalry assault.
• The Battle of Gaugamela: In his climactic clash with Darius, Alexander brilliantly manipulated his enemy's strategies, the local terrain, and the placement of his troops to deliver a staggering defeat that was his greatest martial masterpiece.
• The Battle of the Hydaspes River: After undertaking a perilous nighttime river crossing, Alexander launched a masterful cavalry battle against daunting Indian forces.
• Each battle is brought vividly to life through detailed lectures and schematic representations of Alexander's innovative troop maneuvers and tactics. Professor Harl provides a blow-by-blow account of each conflict, illustrating how this great general assessed the terrain, predicted the movements of his enemy, and moved his forces to win the day.
• How Alexander Changed the World
• Alexander's empire did not survive beyond his lifetime. After his untimely death at the age of 33, the vast empire he had so brilliantly united was divided among his various successors. And yet, despite the collapse of his empire, Alexander's legacy has cast a long shadow on the history of the West.
• Professor Harl traces the many ways that Alexander continued to shape the world of the Mediterranean, the Near East, and beyond. You'll consider, for example, how Alexander transformed the economy of the ancient world through his various military and civic projects. Drawing on his special expertise in the study of ancient coins, Professor Harl illuminates how Alexander's large-scale projects put into circulation wealth that had been locked away in royal treasuries, creating a new and robust commercial economy.
• You'll also examine the impact of Alexander's influence in other spheres:
• The spread of Greek culture: Although a Macedonian by birth, Alexander espoused many Greek traditions and exported these "Hellenistic" practices to the lands he conquered.
• The founding of new, Greek-style cities: Alexander founded a string of cities—his Alexandrias—throughout the Mediterranean world, the Near East, and central Asia.
• The image of military leadership: After Alexander, subsequent rulers modeled their appearance on the iconic image of the young Macedonian conqueror.
• The practice of religion: Alexander assimilated gods of his conquered lands to his system of Greek gods, and through his presumption of divine birth, laid the foundation for the veneration of later rulers.
• An Enduring Legacy
• As you examine Alexander's achievements, you'll see how, in Professor Harl's words, "a single individual can rapidly, fundamentally, and irrevocably change his world." From his dissemination of Hellenistic culture, which served to unify the Western world and lay the foundation for the Roman Empire, Alexander reshaped his world and left a legacy that is still felt today.
• With Professor Harl as your guide, you'll gain a uniquely comprehensive understanding of this legacy. A noted scholar, teacher, and researcher, Professor Harl shares the fascinating insights drawn from his expert knowledge of historic battles, ancient writings, and the latest archaeological excavations. He neither faults nor praises Alexander's strategies and decisions, but instead gives an unbiased, wholly factual account of this enduring figure's life and its resonating impact on the world.
• Join Professor Harl for this journey into the world of Alexander and see how the Western world—and, indeed, our world—still bear the marks of this legendary conqueror.
• About Your Professor
• Dr. Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history. He earned his B.A. from Trinity College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
• Recognized as an outstanding lecturer, Professor Harl has received numerous teaching awards at Tulane, including the coveted Sheldon H. Hackney Award. He has earned Tulane's annual Student Body Award for Excellence in Teaching nine times and is the recipient of Baylor University's nationwide Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers.
• In 2007, he was the Lewis P. Jones Visiting Professor in History at Wofford College. An expert on classical Anatolia, he has taken students with him into the field on excursions and to assist in excavations of Hellenistic and Roman sites in Turkey.
• Course Lecture Titles
• 1. Alexander the Great—Conqueror or Tyrant?
• 2. Greece in the Age of Hegemonies
• 3. Achaemenid Persia
• 4. The World of Early Macedon
• 5. Philip II and the Macedonian Way of War
• 6. The Third Sacred War
• 7. The Macedonian Conquest of Greece
• 8. The League of Corinth
• 9. Alexander, Heir Apparent
• 10. Securing the Inheritance, 336–335 B.C.
• 11. The Invasion of Asia
• 12. The Battle of the Granicus
• 13. The Turning Point—Issus and Tyre
• 14. Alexander, Pharaoh of Egypt
• 15. Heroes, Oracles, and the Gods
• 16. The Campaign of Gaugamela
• 17. The Conquest of Iran
• 18. Alexander on the Rim of the World
• 19. Governing and Taxing the Empire
• 20. Alexander and the Macedonian Opposition
• 21. The Invasion of India
• 22. The Battle of the Hydaspes
• 23. Mutiny and Withdrawal
• 24. The Gedrosian Desert and Voyage of Nearchus
• 25. Deification and Succession
• 26. Alexander and the Macedonians—Opis
• 27. Alexander and the Greeks—The Lamian War
• 28. The Diadochoi, 323–316 B.C.
• 29. The Partition of the Empire, 316–301 B.C.
• 30. The Hellenistic Concert of Powers
• 31. Macedonian Courts in the Near East
• 32. The Hellenization of the Near East
• 33. The Monetization of the Near East
• 34. Hellenization and the Gods
• 35. The Limits of Hellenization
• 36. Alexander the Great and the Shadow of Rome
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Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Vol. 2: 1830 to 1910

• Paul Crumbley, Patricia Gantt, "Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, Vol. 2: 1830 to 1910"
• Facts on File | 2010 | ISBN: 0816060894 | 448 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB
• The five-volume Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers is the landmark new reference to the greatest writers in American literature, written specifically for high school students and correlated to the NCTE standards. Featuring more than 180 of the authors taught most often in the high school curriculum, this comprehensive set contains alphabetical entries, from 2,000 to 20,000 words each, divided into sections on the author's life and on the author's major works. An additional section in each entry pres topics for discussion and writing, many of which refer to other writers or works, helping students make connections between texts (a key component of language arts standards).
• The editors of this authoritative guide to American literature are experts both in literary criticism and in the teaching of literature to secondary school students, and the tone and content of this encyclopedia reflect this. A bibliography and chronology round out this helpful resource.
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Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: Beginnings to 1830

• Andrea Tinnemeyer, Patricia Gantt , "Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: Beginnings to 1830"
• Facts on File | 2010 | ISBN: 0816060886 | 448 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB
• The five-volume Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers is the landmark new reference to the greatest writers in American literature, written specifically for high school students and correlated to the NCTE standards. Featuring more than 180 of the authors taught most often in the high school curriculum, this comprehensive set contains alphabetical entries, from 2,000 to 20,000 words each, divided into sections on the author's life and on the author's major works. An additional section in each entry pres topics for discussion and writing, many of which refer to other writers or works, helping students make connections between texts (a key component of language arts standards).
• The editors of this authoritative guide to American literature are experts both in literary criticism and in the teaching of literature to secondary school students, and the tone and content of this encyclopedia reflect this. A bibliography and chronology round out this helpful resource.
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Lips Unsealed: A Memoir

• Lips Unsealed: A Memoir By Belinda Carlisle
• Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (June 1, 2010) | ISBN-10: 0307463494 | 272 pages | PDF | 900 KB
• The Go-Go's lead singer who went on to a solo career recounts a remarkable early Cinderella story that morphs into a frank, though at times self-indulgent, story of drug abuse and failure. Hailing from a working-class section of Los Angeles, the eldest daughter of divorced parents, Carlisle struggled early on with shame over her mother's depression and her step-father's drinking problem; teased for her chubbiness, she sought escape from a difficult home and found it in the mid-'70s' burgeoning L.A. punk scene. Steeped in the brash music of Iggy Pop and Queen, crazy about the iconoclastic new look, she and her friends haunted Hollywood clubs while she worked as a hairdresser and secretary. In 1978 she, Jane Wiedlin, and Margot Olaverra came up with the idea of starting their own band, eventually adding Charlotte Caffey and Gina Shock, and within a short time the all-girl Go-Go's had moved from being a novelty to a super-cool pop band with their dance hit, We Got the Beat. Alongside dizzying stardom came the requisite drug-and-alcohol frenzy, and much of this memoir is a chronicle of one party after another and a list of celebrity who's who. Carlisle writes candidly, and her chronic fear of being exposed as a fake is heartfelt and winning. (June)
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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth By John Muir, Vernon Carstensen
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 1965 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0299036545 , 0299036502 | PDF | 8 MB
• Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849–1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution’s infancy.
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Alyn Shipton - Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie

• Alyn Shipton - Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2001-07-19 | ISBN: 0195144104 | PDF | 432 pages | 26.21 MB
• Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created the modern jazz trumpet-playing style and dazzled aficionados and popular audiences alike for over 50 years.
• In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory. Shipton also explores the dark side of Dizzy's mostly sunny personal life, his womanizing, the illegitimate daughter he fathered and supported--now a respected jazz singer in her own right--and his sometimes needless cruelty to others.
• For anyone interested in jazz and one of its most innovative and appealing figures, Groovin' High is essential reading.
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Ted McCormick - William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic

• Ted McCormick - William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2010-02-08 | ISBN: 0199547890 | PDF | 352 pages | 5.24 MB
• William Petty (1623-1687) was a key figure in the English colonization of Ireland, the institutionalization of experimental natural philosophy, and the creation of social science.
• Examining Petty's intellectual development and his invention of "political arithmetic" against the backdrop of the European scientific revolution and the political upheavals of Interregnum and Restoration England and Ireland, this book provides the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Petty based on a thorough examination not only of printed sources but also of Petty's extensive archive and pattern of manuscript circulation. It is also the first fully contextualized study of what political arithmetic--widely seen as an ancestor of modern social and economic analysis--was originally intended to do.
• Ted McCormick traces Petty's education among French Jesuits and Dutch Cartesians, his early work with the "Hartlib Circle" of Baconian natural philosophers, inventors, and reformers in England, his involvement in the Cromwellian conquest and settlement of Ireland, and his engagement with both science and the politics of religion in the Restoration. He argues that Petty's crowning achievement, political arithmetic, was less a new way of analyzing economy or society than a new "instrument of government" that applied elements of the new science--a mechanical worldview, a corpuscularian theory of matter, and a Baconian stress on empirical method and the transformative purposes of natural philosophy--to the creation of industrious and loyal populations. Finally, he examines the transformation Petty's program of social engineering, after his death, into an apparently apolitical form of statistical reasoning
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Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: World Leaders 2003 6 Volume set (Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations)

• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: World Leaders
• Publisher: Thomson Gale | ISBN: 0787673307 | edition 2003 | PDF | 3460 pages | 150 mb
• Compiled mostly by academics, the succinctly written articles contain much current information, some of it dating from as recently as August 2000. The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.
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Walking a Golden Mile: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

• Walking a Golden Mile: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) By William Regal, Neil Chandler
• Pocket Books (2005/5/3) | ISBN-10: 0743477812 | 336 pages | PDF | 40 MB
• Born Darren Matthews, by the age of 15 Regal was taking on allcomers in a Blackpool fairground wrestling booth. He travelled the world and fought the old-time favourites loved by millions of Brits: Giant Haystacks, Big Daddy and Kendo Nagasaki. Soon the glitzy world of US professional wrestling beckoned -- and that's where his life fell apart. By day he was wowing crowds with his encyclopaedic knowledge of the wrestler's art and a toff's act guaranteed to get fans hot under the collar. By night he was guzzling any kind of drug he could get his hands on -- and blotting out his problems with booze. In 2003 Regal suffered a heart attack which almost ended his life -- never mind his career. Yet autumn 2004 sees his triumphant return to the ring. With an unsentimental eye, he recalls just how he pulled himself back from the brink of destruction. He describes life on the road with World Wrestling Entertainment -- the biggest showbiz juggernaut this business has every known. And he reveals how he's battled back to become one of the best loved, and hated figures in the colourful world of sports entertainment. There's even a few juggling midgets thrown in for good measure.
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The Captain's Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917

• The Captain's Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 By Megan Shockley
• Publisher: NYU Press 2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0814783198 | PDF | 2 MB
• In 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within three years, Rebecca Burgess had crossed the equator eleven times and learned to navigate a vessel. In 1856, 22-year-old Rebecca saved the ship Challenger as her husband lay dying from dysentery. The widow returned to her family's home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where she refused all marriage proposals and died wealthy in 1917.
• This is the way Burgess recorded her story in her prodigious journals and registers, which she donated to the local historical society upon her death, but there is no other evidence that this dramatic event occurred exactly this way. In The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich, Megan Taylor Shockley examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own. Through careful analysis of myriad primary sources, Shockley also addresses how Burgess dealt with the conflicting gender roles of her life, reconciling her traditionally masculine adventures at sea and her independent lifestyle with the accepted ideals of the period’s “Victorian woman.”
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Walter Benjamin - The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

• Walter Benjamin - The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press | 1994-06-15 | ISBN: 0226042375 | PDF | 674 pages | 10.95 MB
• Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has emerged as one of the most compelling thinkers of our time as well, his work assuming a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was one of the most captivating facets of his nature," writes Gershom Scholem in his Foreword; and indeed, Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most powerful ideas. Published here in English for the first time, these letters offer an intimate picture of Benjamin himself and the times in which he lived. Written in a day when letters were an important vehicle for the presentation and development of intellectual matters, Benjamin's correspondence is rich in insight into the circumstances behind his often difficult work.
• Writing at length to Scholem and Theodor Adorno, and exchanging letters with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Arendt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Horkheimer, Max Brod, Bertolt Brecht, and Kafka's friend Felix Weltsch, Benjamin elaborates his ideas about metaphor and language. He reflects on literary figures from Kafka to Karl Kraus, the "Jewish Question" and anti-Semitism, Marxism and Zionism. And he expounds his personal attitudes toward such subjects as the role of quotations in criticism, history, and tradition; the meaning of being a "collector"; and French culture and the national character.
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IT'S TRUE! IT'S TRUE!

• IT'S TRUE! IT'S TRUE! By Kurt. Angle
• First (2001) | ISBN-10: 0007132425 | 320 pages | PDF | 33 MB
• In the tradition of the successful WWF autobiographies from Mankind and The Rock, comes the true story of Kurt Angle, Olympic gold medalist and WWF World Title holder. Angle followed in the footsteps of his four older brothers when he began his wrestling career over 23 years ago. To date, Angle has over 200 crushing pins under his belt and boasts a highly-decorated career. He won the Junior National Freestyle Championship in 1987 and went on to become Wrestler of the Year at Clarion College in 1990. In 1996, with many prestigious wrestling honors to his credit, Angle set his sights on the ultimate prize, an Olympic Gold medal. Angle's combination of discipline and confidence secured him his opportunity to compete on team USA during the Atlanta games. From the Olympics, Angle took his gold medal and dedication to the WWF. There he taught the other wrestlers and his audience about the three I's: integrity, intelligence, and intensity. His role at the WWF is "The Most Celebrated, First Real, Athlete in World Wrestling Federation History." Angle's unique combination of integrity, intelligence, and intensity set him on a winning streak which culminated in the capture of the Intercontinental Belt and the World Title.
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• Kurt Angle In 1996, Kurt Angle was the first American Olympic Gold Medallist ever to win the 220-pounds class. Angle has more than 23 years of wrestling experience with over 200 crushing pins under his belt. He has also won the 1995 'Worlds' and 1994 'US OPEN'. Angle now works with the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc., where his new role is "The Most Celebrated First Real Athlete in World Wrestling Federation History". In addition to being a new WWF super star, Angle is a spokesperson and marketing consultant for Protos Foods Inc., GNC and others sport nutrition companies.
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The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori

• The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori
• Publisher: Wiley | pages: 288 | 2003 | ISBN: 0471089702 | PDF | 10,5 mb
• Within the complicated chronology of the Tokugawa shogunate's fall and succession by a modernizing monarchy, the so-called Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 is clearly the definitive last stand of Japanese feudalism. For that reason, the life of Saigo Takamori, who headed that rebellion, has acquired a romantic aura that doesn't strictly withstand Ravina's historical scrutiny; nevertheless, what survives the author's inspection contributes to an interesting portrait of a samurai in interesting times. Saigo rose from the bottom tiers of the warrior class, eventually leading the armies supporting the emperor against those of the shogun. His ascent was hardly smooth, though, entailing two exiles, a suicide pact that he survived, and three marriages. Ravina recounts the tumults that resulted in Saigo's acquiescence in revolt, capturing the protagonist's struggle with loyalty and showing American readers the quality of enigmatic nobility that makes Saigo a well-known historical figure in Japan.
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Rey Mysterio: Behind the Mask (WWE)

• Rey Mysterio: Behind the Mask (WWE) By Jeremy Roberts
• World Wrestling Entertainment | 2009-11-03 | ISBN-10: 1416598960 | Pages: 368 | PDF | 33 MB
• He's called the human highlight reel of professional wrestling. His high-flying acrobatics have thrilled fans on every continent. He's been crowned champion of the world's greatest wrestling promotions, from Mexico to the U.S. But he's never revealed the inside story of who he is.
• Until now.
• Wrestling fans know him as Rey Mysterio, an American luchador of unparalleled talent, the ultimate proof that good things come in small packages. Now for the first time, Rey adds the personal side to the story:
• • How he had to fight to get a tryout in the ring
• • Who he was before Rey Misterio Jr. -- and even before Colibri, usually noted as his first identity
• • What it was like to wrestle in Mexico -- from the bullrings to the riots
• • How he fought plans for his unmasking in WCW -- and why he wishes he hadn't succeeded
• • The inside story of the 619, the West Coast Pop, and his other signature moves
• • The impact of Eddie Guerrero on his career in WWE
• • The personal struggle that cost him ring time in 2008 but ultimately made him a stronger man
• • His real passion in life as husband and father
• In Rey Mysterio: Behind the Mask, Rey talks candidly about his twenty-plus-year career, from the days of sneaking into bars as a fourteen-year-old to his most recent showdowns in WWE. He speaks of the emotional moments in the ring with his uncle Rey Misterio, and the dark days when he went under the knife to repair his damaged knee. Along the way, Mysterio introduces American audiences to the mysteries of lucha libre, the high-flying, anything-goes Mexican wrestling style that he has done so much to popularize in the U.S. He also talks about the debts he owes to wrestlers such as Konnan, known as the Mexican Hulk Hogan, and dishes some behind-the-scenes dirt on the collapse of WCW at the height of the Monday Night Wars. Mysterio talks tenderly -- but realistically -- of his friend Eddie Guerrero, providing a well-rounded picture of one of the most beloved wrestling figures of recent history. He also details his march toward the Heavyweight Championship, and his mastery of the WWE Triple Crown -- a feat that placed him in an elite group for all time.
• Behind the Mask is the intimate portrait of one of wrestling's all-time greats, a story wrestling fans of all ages won't want to miss.
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One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell

• One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell By Vince Bell
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press 2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1574412663 , 1574412671 | PDF | 1 MB
• Texas singer/songwriter Vince Bell's story begins in the 1970s. Following the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Bell and his contemporaries Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Lucinda Williams were on the rise. In December of 1982, Bell was on his way home from the studio (where he and hired guns Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson had just recorded three of Bell's songs) when a drunk driver broadsided him at 65 mph. Thrown over 60 feet from his car, Bell suffered multiple lacerations to his liver, embedded glass, broken ribs, a mangled right forearm, and a severe traumatic brain injury. Not only was his debut album waylaid for a dozen years, life as he'd known it would never be the same. In detailing his recovery from the accident and his round-about climb back on stage, Bell shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight. Bell's prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-on-you funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one's art.
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke. Volume 4: July 3, 1880-May 22,1881

• The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke. Volume 4: July 3, 1880-May 22,1881 By Charles M. Robinson III
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press 2009 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 1574412639 | PDF | 3 MB
• John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fourth volume (of a projected set of eight) chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook's Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the Indian Territory. An equally large portion concerns Bourke's ethnological work under official sanction from the army and the Bureau of Ethnology. Each volume in the series is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named in the volume.
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Ettore Majorana: Scientific Papers (English, Italian and German Edition)

• Ettore Majorana: Scientific Papers (English, Italian and German Edition)
• Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540480919 | edition 2007 | PDF | 320 pages | 19,8 mb
• With this volume the Italian Physical Society presents a collection of Ettore Majorana's scientific papers (note scientifiche) in the original language and, for the first time - with three exceptions - translated into English. Each paper is then followed by a comment (in English) of an expert in the scientific field. Contributors to the comments are Ennio Arimondo, Nicola Cabibbo, Massimo Inguscio, Luciano Maiani, Rosario Nunzio Mantegna, Francesco Minardi, Luigi Radicati di Brozolo and Antonio Sasso. A century after his birth Ettore Majorana is rightfully considered one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the last century. This volume will be of interest to the specialists of the History of Science and to the physicists concerned with problems related to Majorana's contributions.
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Derek J. Blundell, Andrew C. Scott - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Presen

• Derek J. Blundell, Andrew C. Scott - Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Presen
• Publisher: Geological Society of London | 1998-10 | ISBN: 1862390185 | PDF | 376 pages | 81.58 MB
• Distinguished historians of science give an appraisal of SirCharles Lyell's life and works, and his influence through histravels across Europe and North America. Leading geologistsassess Lyell's subsequent influence on climatology, sedimentology,stratigraphy, coal geology, regional tectonics, volcanologyand natural hazards. Modern geological research constructedupon Lyell's legacy illustrates its wealth, 200 years on fromhis birth.
• Part 1. The Life and Influence of Lyell
• Part 2. Lyell and the Development of Geological Science
• Part 3. The Legacy of Lyell
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Mercedes Padrino, Mercedes Padrino Anderson - Benazir Bhutto (Women in Politics)

• Mercedes Padrino, Mercedes Padrino Anderson - Benazir Bhutto (Women in Politics)
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications | 2004-03 | ISBN: 0791077322 | PDF | 117 pages | 5.37 MB
• The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), founded by Benazir Bhutto’s father, earned more votes in the 1988 election than any other party. As leader of the PPP, Bhutto expected to become Pakistan’s prime minister—but President Ishaq Khan blocked her. She responded by forming a coalition between the PPP and another party that gave the PPP a clear majority in the National Assembly. Nevertheless, two long weeks passed before President Ishaq Khan recognized the victory and Bhutto became the youngest chief executive in the world.
• Benazir Bhutto emerged from her studies in the United States and Great Britain with a belief in democratic values. Soon after her return to Pakistan, though, she saw the harsher realities of Pakistani politics. Her father was overthrown in 1977, and during his two years in prison his family toured the country to speak on his behalf. Benazir traveled and spoke, too, despite her discomfort—but all their efforts were in vain. When her father was executed, Bhutto resolved to continue his work for a more democratic Pakistan.
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Lu Ann Faylor Snyder, Phillip A. Snyder - Post-Manifesto Polygamy

• Lu Ann Faylor Snyder, Phillip A. Snyder - Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899 to 1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen and Avery Woodruff
• Publisher: Utah State University Press | 2009-04-30 | ISBN: 0874217393 | PDF | 280 pages | 5.84 MB
• These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship. Abraham “Owen” Woodruff was a young Mormon apostle, the son of President Wilford Woodruff, remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, which called for the divinely inspired termination of plural marriage. It eased a systematic federal judicial assault on Mormons and made Utah statehood possible. It did not end polygamy in the church. Some leaders continued to encourage and perform such marriages. Owen Woodruff himself contracted a secretive, second marriage to Avery Clark. Pressure on the LDS church revived with hearings regarding Reed Smoot’s seat in the U. S. Senate. After church president Joseph F. Smith issued the so-called Second Manifesto in 1904, polygamy and its more prominent advocates were mostly expunged from mainstream Mormonism. Owen Woodruff was not excommunicated, as a couple of his apostolic colleagues were. He and his first wife, Helen May Winters, had died suddenly that same year after contracting smallpox in Mexico. Owen Woodruff had often been “on the underground,” moving frequently, traveling under secret identities, and using code names in his letters to his wives, while still carrying out his administrative duties, which, in particular, involved supervision of the nascent Mormon colonies in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.
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Shelley Seale - The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India

• Shelley Seale - The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India
• Publisher: Dog's Eye View Media | 2009-06-15 | ISBN: 0980232376 | PDF | 334 pages | 5.47 MB
• `The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India' is a non-fiction narrative that gives a strong and hopeful voice to India's most vulnerable citizens.
• Shelley Seale's book follows the lives of just such children as those brought to life in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. The Weight of Silence depicts Seale's journey into orphanages and through the streets and slums of India where millions of innocent children live without families. During her three years of writing The Weight of Silence, Seale has befriended and told the stories of many such children - and has born witness to their struggles first hand.
• "Their hope and resilience amazed me time and time again; the ability of their spirits to overcome crippling challenges inspired me. Even in the most deprived circumstances they are still kids - they laugh and play, perhaps far less frequently than others; they develop strong bonds and relationships to create family where none exists; and most of all they have an enormous amount of love to give." - Shelley Seale
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Hans H Penner - Rediscovering the Buddha: The Legends and Their Interpretations

• Hans H Penner - Rediscovering the Buddha: The Legends and Their Interpretations
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-10-15 | ISBN: 0195385829 | PDF | 272 pages | 5.12 MB
• Hans Penner takes a new look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. In the first part of the book, he presents a full account of these stories, drawn from various texts of Theravada Buddhism, the Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia. Penner allots one chapter to each of the major milestones in Buddha's life, with titles such as: Birth and Early Life, Flight from the Palace, Enlightenment and Liberation, Last Watch and Funeral. In the process, he brings to the fore dimensions of the myth that have been largely ignored by western scholarship. In Part II, Penner offers his own original interpretations of the legends. He takes issue with Max Weber's assertion that "Buddhism is an other-worldly ascetic religion," a point of view that remains dominant in the received tradition and in most contemporary studies of Buddhism. His central thesis is that the "householder" is a necessary element in Buddhism and that the giving of gifts, which creates merit and presupposes the doctrine of karma, mediates the relation between the householder and the monk. Penner argues that the omission of the householder - in his view one-half of what constitutes Buddhism as a religion - is fatal for any understanding of Buddha's life or of the Buddhist tradition. This boldly revisionist and deeply learned work will be of interest to a wide range of scholarly and lay readers.
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The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

• Harold Bloom, "The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)"
• Chelsea House Publications | ISBN: 1604138858 | July 2010 | PDF | 1.4 MB
• Reading level: Ages 9-12
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The Diary of Geza Csath

• Geza Csath, "The Diary of Geza Csath"
• Angelusz & Gold Publishing | ISBN: 9632066537 | August 10, 2004 | 178 pages | PDF | 11.2 MB
• Angelusz & Gold announces the publication of The Diary of Geza Csath. (1887-1919), with an introduction by Arthur Phillips. An acclaimed neurologist widely viewed as Hungary's first contemporary author, Csath was also a morphine addict who shot and killed his wife before doing away with himself. The Diary begins as a clinically graphic depiction of Csath's conquest of dozens of women â€" from chambermaids to aristocrats â€" during his tenure as a doctor at a Slovakian health spa in 1912. All the while, he is engaged to Olga Jonas, a Jewish girl he places above all other women in sensuality but considers "entirely without moral taste". Csath regularly injects morphine and opium to increase his enjoyment of certain events and lessen the discomfort of others. The second half of the diary is his harrowing descent into hopeless narcotic addiction. The effect is heightened by Csath's unsparing honesty and acute powers of self-observation. The Diary of Geza! Csath is introduced by Arthur Phillips and includes an essay by Dezso Kosztolanyi, summarizing Csath's strange, unfinished life.
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Laurie Collier Hillstrom - Jay-Z (People in the News)

• Laurie Collier Hillstrom - Jay-Z (People in the News)
• Publisher: Lucent Books | 2009-10-16 | ISBN: 1420501585 | PDF | 96 pages | 10.44 MB
• Profiles the rapper who rose from a childhood of poverty to become a Grammy Award winner, company CEO, and multimillionaire.
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American Writers: Supplement XII

• Leonard Unger, Jay Parini, "American Writers: Supplement XII"
• Charles Scribners & Sons | ISBN: 0684312328 | November 18, 2002 | 624 pages | PDF | 4.9 MB
• Amazon Price: $200
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Peter Reich - Book of Dreams

• Peter Reich - Book of Dreams
• Publisher: Dutton Obelisk | 1989-04-28 | ISBN: 0525484159 | PDF | 172 pages | 54.29 MB
• The author projects a series of images of his father, Wilhelm Reich, and illuminates the impact of his father's death on his life and perception of reality
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Warwick Lister - Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti

• Warwick Lister - Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-07-23 | ISBN: 0195372409 | PDF | 544 pages | 51.40 MB
• Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his style continues to pervade to the present day. The last great representative of the Italian tradition that Corelli began, Viotti is often considered the founder of the modern or 19th-century French school of violin playing. In Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti, author Warwick Lister provides the first complete biography in English of this continuously significant violinist. Much of the documentary material Lister cites is previously unknown or not translated. Lister's biography takes the reader on a fascinating journey over the European continent and into the musical culture of the late 18th century. Born one year prior to Mozart and dying three years before Beethoven's death, Viotti rose from the humble origins of a blacksmith's son in a village near Turin, Italy, to international fame. His multifarious career as a concert performer, composer, teacher, opera theater director, and impresario was played out against the backdrop of a dramatically changing world - he served as a court musician for no less a figure than Marie Antoinette before founding an opera house in Paris. Viotti also knew tragedy as well as success: he was forced to flee the French Revolution, he was exiled from England for an extended period based on suspicions of certain Jacobin tendencies, his attempt to establish himself in business met with failure, and he died heavily in debt. Lister concludes Amico by coming to grips with the very things that account for Viotti's greatness and influence: the technical aspects of his violin playing and compositions. With its extensive documentary research and the inclusion of translations of various archival documents, this is the essential English-language biography of Viotti, a significant addition to the libraries of students and scholars of 18th and early 19th century music, as well as violin performers, students, and instructors.
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

• My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
• Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470192739 | edition 2007 | PDF | 292 pages | 3 Mb
• In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets.
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Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia

• Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia
  By Sanna Turoma
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition | 2010 | 2806 Pages | ISBN: 029923634X | PDF | 1.72 MB

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  Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and honored with the Nobel Prize fifteen years later, poet Joseph Brodsky in many ways fit the grand tradition of exiled writer. But Brodsky’s years of exile did not render him immobile: though he never returned to his beloved Leningrad, he was free to travel the world and write about it. In Brodsky Abroad, Sanna Turoma discusses Brodsky’s poems and essays about Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, and Venice. Challenging traditional conceptions behind Brodsky’s status as a leading émigré poet and major descendant of Russian and Euro-American modernism, she relocates the analysis of his travel texts in the diverse context of contemporary travel and its critique. Turoma views Brodsky’s travel writing as a response not only to his exile but also to the postmodern and postcolonial landscape that initially shaped the writing of these texts. In his Latin American encounters, Brodsky exhibits disdain for third-world politics and invokes the elegiac genre to reject Mexico’s postcolonial reality and to ironically embrace the romanticism of an earlier Russian and European imperial age. In an essay on Istanbul he assumes Russia’s ambiguous position between East and West as his own to negotiate a distinct, and controversial, interpretation of Orientalism. And, Venice, the emblematic tourist city, becomes the site for a reinvention of his lyric self as more fluid, hybrid, and cosmopolitan. Brodsky Abroad reveals the poet’s previously uncharted trajectory from alienated dissident to celebrated man of letters and offers new perspectives on the geopolitical, philosophical, and linguistic premises of his poetic imagination.

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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

• Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
• Publisher: Vintage (2 Oct 2003) | ISBN: 0099466066 | 432 pages | PDF | Size: 3.69 MB
• Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in "Understanding Power", Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions - published here for the first time - Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as US foreign and domestic policy, "Understanding Power" is definitive Chomsky.
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Alexander the Great (repost)

• R. Stoneman, "Alexander the Great"
• Routledge | 2004 | ISBN: 0415319323 | 136 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
• 'Alexander the Great' provides a concise introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. Richard Stoneman uses primary and modern sources, together with archaeological and numismatic evidence to shed light on this influential figure. Key topics discussed include:
• *The Macedonian background
• *Alexander's education and beliefs
• *Alexander's conquests overseas
• *How far Alexander's aims differed from his achievements
• *Alexander's influence in antiquity
• The second edition has been updated throughout to take into consideration recent research and the current state of research on the Persian Empire. Also included is an expanded bibliography and a new new Index.
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Sidney Hook - Convictions

• Sidney Hook - Convictions
• Publisher: Prometheus Books | 1990-05 | ISBN: 0879754737 | PDF | 310 pages | 17.60 MB
• This book challenges liberals and conservatives alike. Hook pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behaviour from religious belief.
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Linda M. Hasselstrom - No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life

• Linda M. Hasselstrom - No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press | 2009-09-30 | ISBN: 0874177960 | PDF | 211 pages | 5.04 MB
• In "No Place Like Home", Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Hasselstrom's ruminations are both intensely personal and universal. The book defines her idea of how a true community should work, and the kind of place she wants to live in. For anyone curious about the state of the contemporary West, Hasselstrom offers a report from the front, where nature and human aspirations are often at odds, and where the concepts of community and mutual responsibility are being redefined.
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Corbin Harney - The Nature Way

• Corbin Harney - The Nature Way
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press | 2009-09-09 | ISBN: 087417788X | PDF | 136 pages | 5.62 MB
• Corbin Harney's long life encompassed remarkable changes in the lives of Native Americans and in the technological and political development of the world. He was born into an impoverished Western Shosone family on the Nevada-Idaho border. As an adult, Harney found his calling as a traditional healer and spiritual leader. Soon he became involved in the Shoshone struggle for civil rights, including their efforts to protect and heal their traditional lands. He also became a leader of the international antinuclear movement. "The Nature Way" is a rich compendium of Corbin Harney's experience and wisdom. His voice is one of the clearest expressions yet of the values, concerns, and spirituality of contemporary Native America.
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Jim Andersen - Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir

• Jim Andersen - Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press | 2009-09-15 | ISBN: 0874177871 | PDF | 152 pages | 5.43 MB
• "Lost in Austin" is fascinating reading for anyone who cherishes nostalgic memories of living in a small town, or who contemplates moving to one. It offers an engaging portrait of a Nevada that exists far from the glitz and glitter of Las Vegas and Reno, 'a happy Bermuda Triangle' where rugged individualism and community spirit flourish amidst sagebrush and vast open spaces.
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Paul D. Molnar - Thomas F. Torrance (Great Theologians)

• Paul D. Molnar - Thomas F. Torrance (Great Theologians)
• Publisher: Ashgate | 2009-10-01 | ISBN: 0754652297 | PDF | 382 pages | 5.08 MB
• This book provides an important study of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, who is generally considered to have been one of the most significant theologians writing in English during the twentieth century, with a view toward showing how his theological method and all his major doctrinal views were shaped by his understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. Torrance pursued a theology that was realist because he attempted to think in accordance with the unique nature of the object that is known. In holding to such a methodology, he drew an analogy between theology and natural science. This book demonstrates how, for Torrance, God relates with humanity within time and space so that creation finds its meaning in relation to God and not in itself; this enabled him to avoid many theological pitfalls such as agnosticism, subjectivism and dualism while explaining the positive implications of various Christian doctrines in a penetrating and compelling manner. This book offers an important resource for students of theology and for scholars who are interested in seeing how serious dogmatic theology shapes and should shape our understanding of the Christian life.
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Mr. Toyin Omoyeni Falola - A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir

• Mr. Toyin Omoyeni Falola - A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
• University of Michigan Press | ISBN: 0472114018 | 2004-07-01 | PDF | 288 pages | 1.16 Mb
• A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria.
• Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola miraculously weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century. This is truly a literary memoir, told in language rich with proverbs, poetry, song, and humor.
• Falola's memoir is far more than the story of one man's childhood experiences; rather, he presents us with the riches of an entire culture and community-its history, traditions, pleasures, mysteries, household arrangements, forms of power, struggles, and transformations.
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Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)

• Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
  By Milly S. Barranger
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press | 2004 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0472113909 | PDF | 1.24 MB

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  Those who delight in the workings of the theater -- the greasepaint, the crowds, and the stars -- will be engrossed by Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater, author Milly Barranger's backstage account of the life of pioneering director Margaret Webster (1905-72). Barranger offers here the first book-length biography of Webster, a groundbreaking twentieth-century stage and opera director whose career challenged not only stage tradition but also mainstream attitudes toward professional women. Often credited with first having brought Shakespeare to Broadway, and renowned for her bold casting of an African American (Paul Robeson) in the role of Othello, Webster was a creative force in modern American and British theater. Her story reveals the independent-minded artist undeterred by stage tradition and unmindful of rules about a woman's place in the professional theater. In addition to providing fascinating glimpses into Webster's personal and family life, Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater also offers a who's-who list of the biggest names in New York and London theater of the time, as well as Hollywood: John Gielgud, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Uta Hagen, Sybil Thorndike, and John Barrymore, among others, all of whom crossed paths with Webster. Capping Webster's amazing story is her investigation and questioning by Senator Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, which left her unable to work for a year and from which she never fully recovered. Milly S. Barranger is Alumni Distinguished Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was formerly Chairman of the Department of Dramatic Arts and Producing Director of the PlayMakers Repertory Company at The University of North Carolina.

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Ozzy Osbourne - I Am Ozzy

• Ozzy Osbourne - I Am Ozzy
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing | 2010-01-25 | ISBN: 0446569895 | PDF | 416 pages | 5.64 MB
• "They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I've killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night.
• It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I've been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour.
• People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.
• A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."
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Henry Chadwick - Augustine of Hippo: A Life

• Henry Chadwick - Augustine of Hippo: A Life
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-09-21 | ISBN: 0199568308 | PDF | 208 pages | 5.69 MB
• Augustine (354-430) had a profound impact on the development of the Christian Church, sparking controversy and influencing the ideas of theologians for over fifteen centuries. His words are still frequently quoted in devotions today and his key themes retain a striking contemporary relevance--what is the place of the Church in the world? What is the relation between nature and grace? In Augustine of Hippo, the late Henry Chadwick--a renowned authority on Augustine--describes with clarity and warmth the intellectual development of this key Father of the Church. In his characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic style, Chadwick traces Augustine's intellectual journey from schoolboy and student to Bishop and champion of Christendom in a period of intense political upheaval, providing valuable insight into the progression of Augustine's ideas. With a foreword reflecting on Chadwick's distinctive approach to Augustine by Peter Brown, and a further reading list on Augustine compiled by Gillian Clark, this volume is both an essential assessment of Augustine and a final tribute to one of the great church historians of the twentieth century.
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American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams

• American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
  By Peter Richardson
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press | 2005 | 358 Pages | ISBN: 0472115243 | PDF | 1.09 MB

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  A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet will introduce Carey McWilliams to a new generation of readers. Peter Richardson's absorbing and elegantly paced book reveals a figure thoroughly engaged with the issues of his time. Deftly interweaving correspondence, diary notes, published writings, and McWilliams's own and others' observations on a colorful and influential cast of characters from Hollywood, New York, Washington, DC, and the American West, Richardson maps the evolution of McWilliams's personal and professional life. Among those making an appearance are H. L. Mencken (McWilliams's mentor and role model), Louis Adamic, John Fante, Robert Towne, Richard Nixon, Studs Terkel, J. Edgar Hoover, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Joseph McCarthy. American Prophet illustrates the arc of McWilliams's life and career from his early literary journalism through his legal and political activism, his stint in state government, and his two decades as editor of the Nation. This book makes the case for McWilliams's place in the Olympian realm of our most influential and prescient political writers. Peter Richardson is the editorial director at PoliPointPress in Sausalito, California. He is the author or editor of numerous works on language, literature, and California public policy. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California Berkeley.

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S. Akhtar Ehtisham - Through a Pakistani's Eyes: Life on Three Continents

• S. Akhtar Ehtisham - Through a Pakistani's Eyes: Life on Three Continents
• Publisher: Algora Publishing | 2008-10 | ISBN: 0875866352 | PDF | 203 pages | 10.58 MB
• An introduction to the history of Pakistan is set within the life story of a young man who became a doctor, moved to the US, and later went back to build a hospital for his countrymen. The discussion of politics, government policies, and popular movements is set within the drama of a young man going off to seek his fortune, start a family, and build a meaningful life in a fast-changing world.
• The book will also interest expatriates from the Indian sub-continent who have passed through and witnessed the events described, and their children and grandchildren who want to know more about their family history.
• Family and feelings infuse the book while illustrating anecdotally the impact of conservative government models versus those offering a social safety net.
• A medical doctor and political activist, the author traces his life from India at partition to postgraduate work and practice in the UK, Canada and America, comparing health standards, economic well-being, race relations, and the political atmosphere on three continents during the socially-conscious 1960s and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. He weaves in a brief synopsis of Pakistan s tumultuous history, including the role played by superpowers with an interest in the region.
• Part biography and part history and social commentary, this sweeping narrative sketches the political and economic realities of the past fifty years while tracing an eventful life spread across three continents, a life rich in personal relationships, politics, and practice as a medical doctor. The warm-hearted Dr. Ehtisham shares his story while outlining the passions and the political maneuvers that led to Pakistan s formation in 1947 and its ongoing struggle to forge a modern society while being hammered by repressive religious extremists on the one hand and abusive capitalist extremists on the other, riven by factions within as well as undermined by foreign influences seeking to control strategic terrain and a large population.
• He narrates his early days as a medical student who helped organize Pakistan s progressive student movement. In the early 1950s they demonstrated against government promotion of right-wing groups which were the ideological forerunners of the Al-Qaida and Taliban. In 1961 they launched a campaign against General Ayub and the first military dictatorship in Pakistan, and wound up in jail.
• Then, through his later experiences in the UK, Canada and the US, he compares the advanced social safety net state of the post-war UK with regimes that are determined to see people stand on their own two feet even when the system has already cut them off at the knees and shows the effect on the public when that state support was withdrawn. During his years in North America he saw the reductions in Disability and other benefits offered by the government to the poor and injured and he illustrates the impact on the population.
• In later years he returned to Karachi and, despite the corruption and chaos of the business environment, founded a hospital there before completing his career and retiring in New York State.
• Dr. Ehtisham shows how nations as well as individual lives are shaped by historical events, economic changes, religious fundamentalism, class systems and racial divides.
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Donald T. Garate - Juan Bautista De Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740

• Donald T. Garate - Juan Bautista De Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press | 2003-07 | ISBN: 0874175054 | PDF | 384 pages | 13.57 MB
• The name of Juan Bautista de Anza the younger is a fairly familiar one in the contemporary Southwest because of the various streets, schools, and other places that bear his name. Few people, however, are familiar with his father, the elder Juan Bautista de Anza, whose activities were crucial to the survival of the tenuous and far-flung settlements of Spain's northernmost colonial frontier. For this first comprehensive biography of the elder Anza, Donald T. Garate spent more than ten years researching archives in Spain and the Americas. The result is a lively, vividly drawn picture of the Spanish borderlands and the hardy, ambitious colonists who peopled them. Anza was born in the Basque Country in 1693, a poor boy in a typical Basque village. Like so many of his contemporaries, he made his way as a young man to America, where he joined many of his Basque compatriots as part of Spain's colonial establishment. After working for a few years as a miner in Sonora, he became a soldier and spent the rest of his life protecting a vast and turbulent territory covering much of present-day Sonora and Arizona, as well as parts of Chihuahua, Texas, and New Mexico, struggling to maintain order among the settlers, establish trade routes, and pacify the numerous hostile Indian peoples. Anza's career exemplifies the vital role played by Basques in the settlement of Spanish America. Upon arrival in Mexico, he became part of a vast ethnic network of Basques who were finding in the colonies the opportunities for professional and economic advancement denied them in their crowded and poverty-riddled homeland. Anza's brief but eventful career was part of this Basque contribution to the settlement of the Americas, and represented the adventurous life of an authentic frontier hero.
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, 3 Edition (repost)

• John Daintith, "Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, 3 Edition"
• Taylor & Francis | 2008 | ISBN: 1420072714 | PDF | 896 pages | 5,3 MB
• This new edition of the highly regarded Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists focuses on the achievements of 2400 scientists, explaining the nature and importance of those achievements. The book covers traditional science, including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and earth science, along with mathematics, engineering, technology, and computer science. It also includes key figures from anthropology, psychology, and the philosophy of science. This fully updated edition features pronunciation guidelines, quotations, website links, and suggestions for further reading. Each cross-referenced entry includes chronology, institution, publication, and discipline.
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William Schuman: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)

• William Schuman: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
  By K. Gary Adams
• Publisher: Greenwood | 1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0313273596 | PDF | 11.73 MB

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  A reference guide to William Schumana's composer, educator, arts administrator, and first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1943.

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Cardiovascular Medicine" Third Edition

• "Cardiovascular Medicine" Third Edition
• By James T. Willerson, Jay N. Cohn, Hein J.J. Wellens, and David R. Holmes
• Springer | 2007 | ISBN: 9781846281884 | 2,928 pages | PDF | 118,5 MB
• Cardiovascular Medicine, Third Edition offers up-to-date, user-friendly guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment of heart and vascular disease.
• The book is relevant to the practice of every cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, vascular surgeon, diabetologist, and cardiac radiologist, as well as every physician who manages cardiac patients.
• The book and accompanying DVD package provide comprehensive coverage of every aspect of cardiovascular medicine from cardiac signs and symptoms and the full range of cardiac imaging techniques through management of peripheral vascular disease and the genetic basis for cardiovascular disease to preventive cardiology.
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Wiesel and Delahay , "Essentials Of Orthopedic Surgery,3rd edition"

• Wiesel and Delahay , "Essentials Of Orthopedic Surgery,3rd edition"
• Springer | 2006 | ISBN: 9780387321653 | 622 pages | PDF | 12,5 MB
• The third edition of the Essentials of Orthopedic Surgery provides a concise overview of orthopedic surgery directed toward third- and fourth year medical etudents. In this edition, physical diagnosis is a subsection in each chapter, which we believe gives better continuity. Additionally, at the end of each chapter we have created a number of multiple-choice questions considered appropriate for medical students to be able to answer.
• Each chapter has been revised to reflect updated material and, as in previous editions, we have kept to a standardized format as much as possible. The topics are presented from a straightforward practical point-ofview, with the material being condensed to its most salient features. Algorithms are at the heart of each chapter, with the decision points being based on practice standards and guidelines. This format allows the student, when confronted with a specifi c clinical problem, to formulate both a diagnostic plan and a treatment plan. Also, we have enjoyed working with our new publisher-Springer-and with Robert Albano as well as Sadie Forrester, who have guided this text to publication. Finally, and most importantly, it has been again a very exciting and stimulating experience to work with all the members of the Department of Orthopaedics of Georgetown University Medical Center. Since the last edition we have welcomed seven new members to the faculty, each a subspecialist. Everyone has given very generously of their time. We are most appreciative of each contribution and are proud of the final text.
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Sybil Rosen - Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley

• Sybil Rosen - Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley
• University of North Texas Press | ISBN: 1574412507 | 2008-09-02 | PDF | 288 pages | 1.43 Mb
• Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949-1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, "If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Foley's transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer/songwriter who would live and die outside society's rules. While Foley's own performances are only recently being released, his songs have been covered by Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine. When he first encountered "If I Could Only Fly," Merle Haggard called it "the best country song I've heard in fifteen years."
• In a work that is part-memoir, part-biography, Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foley's myth and her role in its creation. Her tracing of his impact on her life navigates a lovers' roadmap along the permeable boundary between life and death. A must-read for all Blaze Foley and Texas music fans, as well as romantics of all ages, Living in the Woods in a Tree is an honest and compassionate portrait of the troubled artist and his reluctant muse.
• "Living in the Woods in a Tree comes at a time when music fans are hungry to know more about Blaze Foley. There are no books that compete with Rosen's, and it's quite unlikely that any ever will. Rosen's time with him (and her deft telling of that time) reveals so much about the man and the music."--Peter Cooper, The Tennessean
• "Poetic and gripping, this beautifully written book ends up being about Blaze, the author, the times, and the creative journey. This book will appeal to anyone who enjoys strong writing and great story telling, who is interested in Blaze Foley or Texas music. An impressive work in every way!"--Louis Black, editor, Austin Chronicle and executive producer of Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
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Vince Bell - One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell

• There are some people who devote their existence to music. "One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell" tells the story of a man who loves music and has dedicated himself to its pursuit with much success. He's created five folk and country albums appreciated by critics, and he's also stepped into other venues such as ballet and Broadway. In the process he has overcome much tragedy in his life to do what he loves. "One Man's Music" is well worth the read for those who want to know more about the men behind today's music.
• Texas singer/songwriter Vince Bell's story begins in the 1970s. Following the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Bell and his contemporaries Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Lucinda Williams were on the rise. In December of 1982, Bell was on his way home from the studio (where he and hired guns Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson had just recorded three of Bell's songs) when a drunk driver broadsided him at 65 mph. Thrown over 60 feet from his car, Bell suffered multiple lacerations to his liver, embedded glass, broken ribs, a mangled right forearm, and a severe traumatic brain injury. Not only was his debut album waylaid for a dozen years, life as he'd known it would never be the same. In detailing his recovery from the accident and his round-about climb back on stage, Bell shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight. Bell's prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-on-you funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one's art.
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