Anne F. Broadbridge, "Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire "
English | ISBN: 1108424899 | 2018 | 362 pages | PDF | 17 MB
How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s.
Herbert I. Weisberg, "Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0470890444 | 210 pages | EPUB | 1.6 MB
An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods
Alba Arikha, "Where to Find Me"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1846884489, 1444841157 | 288 pages | EPUB | 0.88 MB
Hannah Karalis, a teenager living with her family in 1980s Notting Hill, becomes fascinated by her neighbour, Flora Dobbs, an enigmatic elderly woman who has clearly had an interesting past - but the improbable friendship that the two strike up is abruptly cut short by Flora's sudden departure from the neighbourhood. Eighteen years later, Hannah is astonished to receive a black notebook, which sets her on a quest to discover the truth and to confront the ghosts of an unresolved past.
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, UK Edition by Ian Stewart
English | August 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1781259410, 1788168070 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.24 MB
Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year - that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.
Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary By Thomas Elsaesser
2000 | 485 Pages | ISBN: 1135078599 | PDF | 11 MB
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, which having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation, still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history permanently intertwined.Weimar Cinema and After offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating the arguments which view genres and movements such as 'films of the fantastic', 'Nazi Cinema', 'film noir' and 'New German Cinema' as typically German contributions to twentieth century visual culture. Thomas Elsaesser questions conventional readings which link these genres to romanticism and expressionism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national cinema in an advanced 'culture industry' and in a Germany constantly reinventing itself both geographically and politically.Elsaesser argues that German cinema's significance lies less in its ability to promote democracy or predict fascism than in its contribution to the creation of a community sharing a 'historical imaginary' rather than a 'national identity'. In this respect, he argues, German cinema anticipated some of the problems facing contemporary nations in reconstituting their identities by means of media images, memory, and invented traditions.
Wealth and Poverty in Close Personal Relationships: Money Matters By Susan Millns, Simone Wong (eds.)
2017 | 205 Pages | ISBN: 1317000064 | PDF | 4 MB
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Van Gogh: A Power Seething By Julian Bell
2015 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0544343735 | EPUB | 1 MB
"I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and-of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain." His prediction would come true. In his brief and explosively creative life-he committed suicide a few years later at the age of thirty-seven-Van Gogh made us see the world in a new way. His shining landscapes of Provence and somber portraits of workers shattered the relationship between light and dark, and his hallucinatory visions were so bright they nearly blinded the world.He was a great writer as well. In his six hundred-plus letters to Theo he chronicled with heartbreaking urgency his mental breakdowns, acrimonious family relations, and struggles with art dealers, who largely ignored him until the last years of his life. Shading this dark story is the artist's acquaintance with prostitutes and penury, stormy scenes with his friend Paul Gauguin, and dissipated Parisian nights with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.Julian Bell's passion for his subject brings the painter to life. Bell writes with slashing intensity, at once scholarly and defiantly partisan. "I have written this book out of my love for Vincent van Gogh, the uniquely exciting painter, and Vincent van Gogh, the letter writer of heart-piercing eloquence," he declares. For Bell, Van Gogh was an artistic genius and more: he was a wonder of the world.
Value Investing For Beginners: The Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to Learn the Realms of Value Investing From A-Z by Kevin Bailey
English | August 18, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09CRNPV4G | 126 pages | EPUB | 0.97 Mb
Do you want to learn to invest? Does the idea of breaking into the stock market intimidate you? Are you a beginner, feeling overwhelmed by the resources, advice, and information out there that is not marketed for you?
Urban Cultures of/in the United States: Interdisciplinary Perspectives By Andrea Carosso (ed.)
2010 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 3034300824 | PDF | 1 MB
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US Youth Films and Popular Music: Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency By Tim McNelis
2017 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 1317367391 | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of 'musical agency', a term he uses to discuss the relationship between film music and character agency, also examining the music characters listen to and discuss, as well as musical performances by the characters themselves