The Engineering Revolution: How the Modern World was Changed by Technology by Pen and Sword History
English | April 19, 2019 | ISBN: 1473899087 | 236 pages | PDF | 7.70 Mb
Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and do things creatively to ensure their survival. From the beginning, therefore, they have been defined by their technology, and the history of technology is the history of the species. For most of this period, the development of human technical skills has been extremely slow and repetitive, limited to basic tools and weapons and the ability to control fire. The utilization of animal power and the invention of the means of harnessing the power of wind and falling water added gradually to their technical skills, but it was the discovery of ways of using power from heat engines a mere three hundred years ago that accelerated this process into a prodigious expansion of technical power that fundamentally transformed human societies . It is this development which deserves to be to be called 'The Engineering Revolution' and provides the primary focus of this book.

The Electric Guitar Technique Workout: A Complete Course in Modern Technique -Alternate, Sweep Picking, Legato -138 Patterns & licks for Increasing Speed, Accuracy, Coordination & Shred -All levels by Yiannis Papadopoulos
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07QLB6P4N | 80 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
UNLOCK YOUR TECHNIQUE POTENTIAL & SHRED LIKE A PRO

Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas, Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, "The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1628729864, 1628727187 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 0.9 mb
"A must-read for a 'behind the scenes' look at new drug development." -Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, NBC News Health Editor. The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.

Israel M Kirzner, "The Driving Force of the Market: Essays in Austrian Economics"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0415228239 | PDF | pages: 308 | 1.7 mb
This book offers a unique insight into the character of Austrian economics. This work also collects the recent work of the leading authorities in this area, and will be an indispensible tool for all those interested in the implications of Austrian approach on economics. The author also examines

The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers By Rose Eichenbaum, Aron Hirt-Manheimer
2008 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 0819568805 | PDF | 8 MB
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life-from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging. Most of all, this book is about the courage, commitment, love, and passion of these performers in their quest for artistic excellence. The reader will quickly realize that "the dancer within" is a metaphor of the human spirit.

The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education, 1900-1995 By Elizabeth McPherson
2008 | 179 Pages | ISBN: 0773451226 | PDF | 8 MB
Looks at the life of Martha Hill, the prominent educator and founding director of three pivotal degree-granting college dance programs or departments and two summer festivals. This book provide perspectives on Hill's life and legacy.

The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre By Laurence Senelick
2000 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 041510078X | PDF | 16 MB
The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender.

The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople by Sarah Bassett
English | May 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1108498183, 110870557X | 434 pages | PDF | 14 MB
From its foundation in the fourth century, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, 'Constantinople' not only identified a geographical location, but also summoned an idea. On the one hand, there was the fact of Constantinople, the city of brick and mortar that rose to preeminence as the capital of the Roman Empire on a hilly peninsula jutting into the waters at the confluence of the Sea of Marmora, the Golden Horn, and the Bosporos. On the other hand, there was the city of the imagination, the Constantinople that conjured a vision of wealth and splendor unrivalled by any of the great medieval cities, east or west. This Companion explores Constantinople from Late Antiquity until the early modern period. Examining its urban infrastructure and the administrative, social, religious, and cultural institutions that gave the city life, it also considers visitors' encounters with both its urban reality and its place in imagination.

Richard Bennett, "The Black and Tans"
English | 2011 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 1848843844 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki rousers, black belts and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County Limerick - The Black and Tans.

David Engel, "The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Sholem Schwarzbard 1926-1927: A Selection of Documents"
English | 2016 | pages: 482 | ISBN: 3525310277 | PDF | 2,5 mb
English summary: In May 1926, in Paris, a Jewish emigré watchmaker from Ukraine named Scholem Schwarzbard shot and killed the former president of the Ukrainian National Republic, Symon Petliura. Seventeen months later Schwarzbard was exonerated by a Paris court, even though he confessed to the crime and pleaded no mitigating circumstances. The assassination and trial, in which the murders of many thousands of Jews in Ukraine in 1919 became a central issue, riveted public attention in France and around the world and sent the relations between Jews and Ukrainians, Europe's two largest stateless national minorities, into highly fraught new directions.