Mark Kingwell, "Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1771960469 | PDF | pages: 353 | 36.2 mb
Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to imagine and achieve the society we want. The concept of "the gift" unites many of these essays: it is in this idea, Kingwell argues persuasively, in which we may be able to refashion the real world of democracy. "An activist, fugitive democracy. A living democracy that is no opaque demand but a real thing-a society. Democracy: the gift we keep on giving each other."

Maths - No Problem! Fractions: Ages 7-8 (Key Stage 2) (Master Maths At Home) by Maths - No Problem!
English | January 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 0241539242 | 50 pages | True PDF | 9.17 MB
PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need a pen and paper to complete the exercises

Master English for Lawyers: Master Legal English Writing in Use: Grammar & Punctuation for Law + 425 Expert Legal Documents & Templates by IDM Law
English | March 16, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VW7B55V | 82 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb
MasterEnglish for Lawyers:Master Legal English Writing in Use: Grammar & Punctuation for Law + 425 Expert Legal Documents & TemplatesThis book containskey grammar and language guidelinesto help yousignificantly improveyour legal communicationandavoid issues.Since English is the language used by many lawyers worldwide, this book aims to help those whosefirst language is not Englishandnative English speakerswho would just like to improve their professional communication skills.We arenot focusing on specialized legal vocabularyhere, butinstead, we are homing in onthelanguage structuresthat tend to cause the mostissues in real-world scenarios.We will alsofocus on practicing and perfecting the basic building blocks of clear, professional communicationwithin alegal contexttogaintheconfidenceyou deserve.You willlearn how to write clear, direct, and well-polished sentencesso that youmake a good impression in writingfrom the start.About This Legal English BookYour writing is often the first and last impression you will leave in a professional interaction. While mastering it can open doors and make your path to success smoother, ignoring it can close doors and ruin potential opportunities for you. Your writing is too important to mess up when discussing legal and business matters.

Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030919749 | 295 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
The first two sections discuss malpractice law and the litigation process; the litigation section mainly addresses some of the more emotionally charged issues, including do's and don'ts, how an attorney will be looking at the case, the defendant doctor's testifying at deposition and trial, and the stress of being sued. The subsequent three sections address specific topics that give rise to liability, with each section taking a different perspective such as risks in particular clinical, by practice site, and special issues, including practice in special situations such as the current pandemic. The final section discusses other forms of liability, such as complaints to medical boards or professional association ethics committees.

Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason (International Library of Historical Studies) by Francis Young
2017 | ISBN: 1788310217, 0755602757 | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.

KING ROSS, "Mad Enchantment"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1408861976, 1632860120 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 51.7 mb
Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists., By the outbreak of war in 1914, Monet, then in his mid-seventies, was one of the world's most famous and successful painters, with a large house in the country, a fleet of automobiles and a colossal reputation. However, he had virtually given up painting following the death of his wife Alice in 1911 and the onset of blindness a year later. Nonetheless, it was during this period of sorrow, ill health and creative uncertainty that - as the guns roared on the Western Front - he began the most demanding and innovative paintings he had ever attempted., Encouraged by close friends such as Georges Clemenceau, France's dauntless prime minister, Monet would work on these magnificent paintings throughout the war years and then for the rest of his life. So obsessed with his monumental task that the village barber was summoned to clip his hair as he worked beside his pond, he covered hundreds of yards of canvas with shimmering layers of pigment. As his ambitions expanded with his paintings, he began planning what he intended to be his legacy to the world: the `Musee Claude Monet' in the Orangerie in Paris., Drawing on letters and memoirs and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.

Live long and Healthy with Chinese Effective Methods by Starring Criss
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09S6CB9PP | 201 pages | EPUB | 0.26 Mb
In this book, reveals the secrets of youth and shares the recipes for longevity of the doctors of the Celestial Empire. The Chinese believe that food should be not only delicious, but also medicinal, which is why traditional Chinese medicine has been based on a balanced diet for three thousand years. Chinese doctors eliminate disorders that have arisen in the body at a very early stage and believe that in order to achieve longevity in health and joy, you need to learn how to relax. Taoist healers assure: if you want to be healthy, learn to "cleanse" your brain. Experts from the Middle Kingdom know how to quickly lose those extra pounds. In the most difficult cases, the Chinese doctor and astrologer solve the problem together.All Chinese remedies are aimed at the complete recovery of the body and increasing its vitality, so that there is maximum effectiveness in the treatment of any disease. All this suggests that this approach of Oriental medicine has a fundamentally important understanding that there is no separate disease as such.

Live Television: Time, Space and the Broadcast Event By Stephanie Marriott
2007 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 0761959092 | PDF | 1 MB
In this fascinating and accessible book, author Stephanie Marriott engages in a close and detailed analysis of the nature of live television. The book examines the transformations in our experience of time and space which are brought about by the capacity of broadcasting to bring us the world in the moment in which it is unfolding, situating the live television event in the context of an expanding and increasingly complex global communicative framework. Building her argument by means of a series of case studies of events as diverse as the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the 2005 London bombings, election night coverage and live sports coverage, the author provides a meticulous and articulate account of the way in which live television mediates the event for its audience.

Nukhbah Taj Langah, "Literary and Non-literary Responses Towards 9/11: South Asia and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 0815378440 | 2019 | 220 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents a range of analytical responses towards 9/11 through a critical review of literary, non-literary and cultural representations. The contributors examine the ways in which this event has shaped and complicated the relationship between various national and religious identities in contemporary world history. Unlike earlier studies on the topic, this work reconciles both eclectic and pragmatic approaches by analyzing the stereotypes of nationhood and identities while also questioning theoretical concepts in the context of the latest political developments.

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory By Susan Broadhurst
1999 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0304705861 | PDF | 12 MB
The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent times and describes a range of interdisciplinary, highly experimental, performative works in theatre and performance, film and music-performances which can be seen to prioritize the body, the technological and the primordial. Broadhurst argues that traditional and contemporary critical and aesthetic theories are ultimately deficient in interpreting liminal performance. This revolutionary work first surveys traditional aesthetics in the writings of Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger and juxtaposes them with contemporary aesthetics in the writings of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and Lyotard. A series of case studies follows and, Broadhurst concludes with a summary description of liminal performances as an emerging genre. Works discussed in detail include: Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, the innovative Theatre of Images of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, the controversial social sculptures of the Viennese Actionists, Peter Greenaway's painterly aesthetics, Derek Jarman's queer politics, digitized sampled music, and neo-gothic sound.