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 Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate" by Hans Bernhard Moeller and George L Lellis English | August 30, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0809324512 | 384 pages | PDF | 10.4 MB Volker Schlöndorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the "Movie-Appropriate" examines the work of major postwar German director Volker Schlöndorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. Incorporating a film-by-film, twenty-eight chapter study, Hans-Bernhard Moeller & George Lellis reveal a complexity and formal ambitiousness of Schlöndorff that is comparable to that found in Wenders, Herzog, and Fassbinder. In spite of Schlöndorff's successes with films like The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum and The Tin Drum, as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men and The Handmaid's Tale, this is the first in-depth critical study of the filmmaker's career.  True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey Toobin English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 0385536739 | 496 pages | PDF | 2.86 Mb From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in several crimes-and why they failed.  Timurids in Transition (Brill's Inner Asian Library) by Subtelny and M.E. English | 2007 | ISBN: 9004160310 | PDF | 424 pages | 7,2 MB Applying the Weberian concept of the routinization of charisma, the book examines the transformation of the nomadic empire of Tamerlane into a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model by focusing on the reign of the last Timurid ruler Suln-usain Bayqara in fifteenth-century Iran.  The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Pierre Bourdieu et al. and Susan Emanuel English | July 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0804726272 | 432 pages | PDF | 5.8 Mb Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world's leading social theorists.  The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition by Oxford University Press English | May 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0198743122 | 400 pages | PDF | 31 Mb The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans. A fourth, Russia, was in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century.  The Nikon Guide To Landscape Photography: Master Your Photography And Image-Editing Skills, And Maximize Your Artistic Talen by Mounir Mounir English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08JQR6BFM | 316 pages | PDF | 28 Mb Build your photography skills step-by-step with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Packed with advice and stunning images, this guide will help you master your photography and image-editing skills, and maximize your artistic talent .  The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl English | ISBN-10: 0060563397 | October 4, 2005 | PDF | 319 pages | 8.4 mb Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Muslims and terrorists are synonymous.  The Great Encyclopedia Of Islam: Accurate Information About Islam And Muslims by Mounir Mounir English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08LHC9RD1 | 1551 pages | PDF | 13 Mb Among the world's religions, few have attained the historical, cultural, and civilizational stature and diversity that Islam has. Since the seventh century, when it first emerged in the western region of the Arabian Peninsula known as the Hijaz, it has been continuously adapted and carried forth by its adherents, who call themselves Muslims, to new lands and peoples in the wider Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and, more recently, to the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. Indeed, the new religio-historical syntheses brought about  The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 2020 | ISBN: 0674244249 | English | 312 pages | PDF | 8 MB Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation.  Terminology and Language Planning: An alternative framework of practice and discourse (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice) by Prof. Dr. Bassey Antia English | March 2000 | ISBN-10: 1556197713 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 Mb Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of "glocalization", among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and putting language planning on the map. |
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