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 Twelve Views of Manet's Bar (Princeton Series in 19th Century Art, Culture, and Society) edited by Bradford R. Collins English | April 1, 1996 | ISBN: 069103690X, 0691036918 | EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 42.97/69.9 MB Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now available to art historians. Focusing on Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, each contributor applies to it a different methodology, ranging from the more traditional to the newer, including feminism, Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and semiotics.  Toss & Go!: Featuring Quick & Easy Pressure Cooker & Slow Cooker Recipes by Eric Theiss English | ISBN: 1642937428 | 192 pages | EPUB | January 12, 2021 | 19 Mb Toss & Go!™ is your new go-to method for a super fast, easy, and tasty way of cooking-just toss the ingredients into the pot and go!  Jane Chance, "Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (The New Middle Ages)" English | ISBN: 1137398957, 1349679860 | 2016 | EPUB | 290 pages | 1 MB This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien's life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized―namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy.  Sheila Heti, "Ticknor: A Novel" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0312426631, 0887841910 | 728 pages | EPUB | 0.355 MB On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifetime of guilt and insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party-a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer, Ticknor is a witty, fantastical study of resentment; and a biting history of a one-sided friendship.
 Beau Wise, Tom Sileo, "Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor" English | ISBN: 1250253446 | 2021 | EPUB | 304 pages | 26 MB From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat-becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan.
 They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disneys Early RenaissanceThe 1970s and 1980s by Didier Ghez English | August 6, 2019 | ISBN: 1452178704 | 208 pages | EPUB | 34 Mb In the 1970s and 1980s, the Disney animation studio redefined its creative vision in the wake of Walt Disney's death. This latest volume from renowned Disney historian Didier Ghez profiles Ken Anderson and Mel Shaw, whose work defined beloved classic Disney characters from films like The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, and The Rescuers. With vivid descriptions of passages from the artists' autobiographies and interviews, accompanied by never-before-seen images of their art and process, this visually rich collection offers a rare view of the Disney leg¬ends whose work helped shape the nature of character and story development for generations to come.
 The Young Hitler I Knew: A Boyhood Friend Recounts Growing Up with the Future Fuhrer of the Third Reich by August Kubizek English | January 12th, 2021 | ISBN: 1510762639 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 10.64 MB August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they competed for standing room at the opera. Kubizek describes a reticent young man, painfully shy, yet capable of bursting into hysterical fits of anger if anyone disagreed with him. But they grew close, often talking for hours on end. In 1908, they began sharing an apartment in Vienna. After being rejected twice from art school, Hitler found himself sinking into an unkind world of "constant unappeasable hunger." Kubizek did not meet his friend again until he congratulated him on becoming Chancellor of Germany. The Young Hitler I Knew tells the story of an extraordinary friendship, and gives fascinating insight into Hitler's character during these formative years.  K. Mukund, "The World of the Tamil Merchant: Pioneers of International Trade" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0143424734, 0670085219 | PDF | pages: 244 | 43.9 mb How did the Tamil merchant become India's first link to the outside world? The tale of the Tamil merchant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commerce in the ancient and early medieval periods in India. The early medieval period saw an economic structure dominated by the rise of powerful Tamil empires under the Pallava and Chola dynasties. This book marks the many significant ways in which the Tamil merchants impacted the political and economic development of south India.  The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept by Matthew Kaiser English | December 7, 2011 | ISBN: 0804776083 | EPUB | 216 pages | 0.5 MB Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future.  The Welsh Language and the 1891 Census By Mari A. Williams, Gwenfair Parry 1999 | 503 Pages | ISBN: 0708315364 | PDF | 3 MB The 1891 census was the first to collect information about the language spoken by the people of Wales, and is therefore a particularly reliable source for historians analyzing the socio-economic structure of Weslh- and English-language ability and the process of language change in Wales at the end of the 19th century. This study concentrates on 20 communities, chosen for their geographical, economic and linguistic characteristics which in 1891, accounted for about 5 per cent of the total population of Wales. For each of the selected areas, a detailed picture of the socio-economic pattern of language use has been constructed by examining a range of social variables, such as age, sex, relation to head of household, place of birth and occupation, in relation to the language spoken. Intergenerational language shift, the linguistic influence of extra-family members, and the effects of mixed marriages on language change are investigated, and particular consideration is given to migration streams and the presence of incoming strangers and returning kin. |
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