Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows, UK Edition by Ruth Scurr
English | May 6th, 2021 | ISBN: 1784741000, 1784704032 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 24.30 MB
'Glorious . . . Scurr has achieved something remarkable: a completely original book on a completely unoriginal subject. But then she is herself a truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times
My First Guitar: Learn To Play: Kids by Ben Parker
English | January 30, 2013 | ISBN: 1908707135 | 48 pages | EPUB | 1.07 Mb
New - from Amazon #1 best-selling music author Ben Parker !
Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry (SOAS Studies in Music) by Ioannis Tsioulakis
2020 | ISBN: 1138615447 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Musicians in Crisis is a music ethnography of contemporary Athens, before and during the infamous economic and political crisis. It spans two contrasting periods in Greece: the last few years of relative economic prosperity and social cohesion (2005-2009) and the following period of austerity and socio-political turmoil (2010-2017). Based on the author's participation and professional involvement in the local music scenes since 2005, the monograph untangles a web of creative practices, economic strategies and social ideologies through the previously unheard voices of Athenian music professionals. The book follows the life stories of freelance musicians of different genders, ages, educational backgrounds and musical genres, while they 'work' and 'play' in Athenian venues, recording studios and classrooms. Adding to the growing literature on precarity and resistance in the creative industries, it traces the effects of unprecedented socioeconomic circumstances on musicians' everyday experience, as well as the actions and solidarities that help them to navigate personal and collective devastation. Through rich and evocative testimonies from the labourers of an industrious popular music scene, Musicians in Crisis contests popular narratives of the Greek predicament as they are reported by political and financial elites through international media. In this process, the book tells a story about how popular music is made in the liminal spaces between East and West, affuence and poverty, harmony and turmoil.
Caitlin Vandertop, "Modernism in the Metrocolony: Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature"
English | ISBN: 1108835627 | 2020 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium By Lucy Inglis
2018 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1447285778 | EPUB | 26 MB
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain-and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand.No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it.InMilk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.
Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to the Period of Reunification and the Egyptian Pharaohs Who Ruled by Captivating History
English | August 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1637164270 | 57 pages | EPUB | 0.84 Mb
Read about the exciting things that happened during the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Did you know that in this period, Osiris became the main god of the popular religion?
Mexican Lunch Cookbook 2: Delicious and Easy Mexican Recipes for Lunch by BookSumo Press
English | September 24, 2016 | ISBN: 1539047903 | 130 pages | EPUB | 0.26 Mb
How AboutMexicanfor Lunch?
Susannah Radstone, "Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates"
English | ISBN: 0823232603 | 2010 | 500 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research.
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace By Ricardo Semler
1995 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0446670553 | PDF | 34 MB
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Laurent Schwartz, "Mathematics for the Physical Sciences "
English | ISBN: 0486466620 | 2008 | 368 pages | DJVU | 3 MB
This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.