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 Free Download Nick Waite, "Alone in a Silent World: The Story of the Stephensons and the Sheffield Deaf" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1785891375 | EPUB | pages: 300 | 5.2 mb For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, ignorance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as 'one of the most desperate of human calamities'. A few schools for deaf children had been founded from the 1780s but it was only in the early decades of the 19th century that philanthropists, evangelists and the deaf themselves began to create institutions to offer spiritual and temporal care for the deaf adults of the great cities of the industrial revolution. This classic example of Victorian charity has received little detailed research. Nick Waite discovered that his own great great grandparents Stephenson had neither hearing nor speech; in the accepted language of their day they were 'deaf and dumb'. His story brings together social, local and family history to show how care for Sheffield's profoundly deaf developed from the mid-19th century to the present day, together with the three generations of the family who ran the Sheffield Deaf and Dumb Institute from 1871 until it closed in 1960. As in many areas of social reform over the last two centuries, political involvement led to clashes of interest and values, and the Sheffield story illustrates perfectly the gradual and sometimes rocky progress from Victorian philanthropy to the Welfare State. Alone in a Silent World will appeal to those who are interested in the history of care for disadvantaged minorities, specifically the deaf, as well as those who are part of the deaf community, and those with an interest in local history.  Free Download Gary D. Rhodes, "Vampires in Silent Cinema" English | ISBN: 1399525743 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 22 MB Despite the enormous cultural impact of Nosferatu (1922) on modern entertainment, from cartoon parodies and collectible toys, the history of vampires in silent cinema is largely unknown.  Free Download Georgia Frank, "Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity" English | ISBN: 1512823953 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 963 KB What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They neither led a religious community nor did they live in entirely Christian settings. In this period, an age marked by "extraordinary" Christians―wonderworking saints, household ascetics, hermits, monks, nuns, pious aristocrats, pilgrims, and bishops―ordinary Christians went about their daily lives, in various occupations, raising families, sharing households, kitchens, and baths in religiously diverse cities. Occasionally they attended church liturgies, sought out local healers, and visited martyrs' shrines. Barely and rarely mentioned in ancient texts, common Christians remain nameless and undifferentiated.  Free Download Xinran, "China Witness: Voices From A Silent Generation" English | 2008 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 0307388530, 0375425470 | EPUB | 5,5 mb China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them.  Free Download Kenn Miller, "Six Silent Men, Book Two (101st LRP Rangers)" English | 1997 | ISBN: 0804115648 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.9 mb In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the division once again.  Free Download Reynel Martinez, "Six Silent Men: 101st LRP/Rangers" English | 1996 | ISBN: 0804115664 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 3.4 mb "No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men."[pg. 13]  Free Download Barbara Tepa Lupack, "The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts" English | ISBN: 1666913960 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 20 MB In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupackexplores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping depicted in early cinema, demonstrating how those stereotypes helped shape American attitudes and practices. Using social, cultural, literary, and cinema history as a focus, this book offers insights into issues of Othering, including discrimination, exclusion, and sexism, that are as timely today as they were a century ago. Lupack not only examines the ways that dominant cinema of the era imprinted indelible and pejorative images of women-including African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and New Women/Suffragists-but also reveals the ways in which a number of pioneering early filmmakers and performers attempted to counter those depictions by challenging the imagery, interrogating the stereotypes, and re-politicizing the familiar narratives. Scholars of film, gender, history, and race studies will find this book of particular interest.  Free Download Kim Philby, "My Silent War: the autobiography of a spy" English | 2003 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0099462362 | EPUB | 0,4 mb In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. 'Kim' Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16's liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War. Written from Moscow in 1967, "My Silent War" shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John Le Carre's Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history's most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing. |
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