Paul Crompton - The Art of Tai Chi: A Practical Guide
Element Books | 1993 | ISBN: 1852304308 | English | 117 pages | PDF | 8.72 MB
A practical guide to Tai Chi. Detailed explanations of the sequence of movements. Includes warm ups and basic stances, history and philosophy of Tai Chi, and the theory of Chi Kung - how to cultivate the vital energy which can maintain health.
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (Pelican Books) by Pelican
English | March 28, 2019 | ISBN: 0241398630 | 448 pages | PDF | 9.30 Mb
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever.
Shira Wolosky, "The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem"
English | ISBN: 0195138708, 0195371186 | 2001 | EPUB | 240 pages | 401 KB
In The Art of Poetry, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay, and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms.
The Art Of Penis Operating: Not Only For Men by John Zager
English | March 19, 2019 | ISBN: 1796746290 | 35 pages | EPUB | 0.16 Mb
IMPROVE YOUR SEXUAL LIFEYour step-by-step guide.
The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age: A Globalising World c.1100-600 BCE by Tamar Hodos
2020 | ISBN: 0521148065, 0521199573 | English | 336 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos
English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 1982114738, 1982159308 | 336 pages | EPUB | 57.78 MB
A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem-including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires-in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari's Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky's Salt.
The Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History
English | December 7, 2016 | ISBN: 1540742814 | 46 pages | PDF | 0.45 Mb
Age of EnlightenmentFrom its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable.
Troels Myrup Kristensen, Lea Stirling, "The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture: Late Antique Responses and Practices"
English | ISBN: 0472119699 | 2016 | EPUB | 432 pages | 12 MB
For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape. Further, changing religious practices cast pagan sculpture in a threatening light. Statuary production ceased, and extant statuary was either harvested for use in construction or abandoned in place.
Bruce Wilson, Richard Stott, Ben Sherwood, Simon Brown, "The 7 Secrets of Money: The Insider's Guide to Personal Investment Success "
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1909116025 | 200 pages | EPUB | 0.973 MB
The 7 Secrets of Money exposes the hidden truths around money that the financial establishment has for too long kept to itself. Written by four well-respected finance professionals, it gives you a clear path to build your investments and meet your life goals. The approach is simple: focus your energies on things you can control - such as saving, spending, costs, taxes and sound financial planning, only taking risks that you know will be rewarded. This places you, the investor, firmly in control of your financial future. The 7 Secrets of Money is the inside track for personal investment success.
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader By Murray Forman, Mark Anthony Neal
2004 | 628 Pages | ISBN: 0415969190 | PDF | 4 MB
That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader brings together the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings to today. Spanning nearly 25 years of scholarship, criticism, and journalism, this unprecedented anthology showcases the evolution and continuing influence of one of the most creative and contested elements of global popular culture since its advent in the late 1970s. Think of it as ''Hip-Hop 101.'' Assembled with great care by Mark Anthony Neal, hailed as ''one of the most brilliant cultural critics of his generation'' (Chicago Sun Times), and fellow hip-hop scholar Murray Forman, That's the Joint is the first to attempt to present the most important hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the ''hip-hop nation,'' debates of ''street authenticity,'' gender, revolutionary politics, aesthetics, technologies of production, hip-hop as a cultural industry, and much more. The articles presented here display a diverse array of concerns, illuminating hip-hop in its broadest conception as both a musical and cultural practice. Among the more than forty texts collected in the volume, you will find critiques of groundbreaking recordings like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's ''The Message'' and Public Enemy's ''It Takes a Nation to Hold Us Back,'' some of the earliest commentary on B-Boys break dancing and DJs sampling, and serious responses to key moments and controversies from the 2 Live Crew obscenity trial to gangsta rap to the movement of hip-hop into commercial and academic spheres. That's the Joint is essential reading for fans and scholars alike, and rewarding for anyone who seeks to understand the profound impact of hip-hop as an intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural movement.