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 What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, UK Edition by Ian Stewart English | August 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1781259410, 1788168070 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 5.24 MB Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year - that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.  Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary By Thomas Elsaesser 2000 | 485 Pages | ISBN: 1135078599 | PDF | 11 MB German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, which having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated nation, still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history permanently intertwined.Weimar Cinema and After offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating the arguments which view genres and movements such as 'films of the fantastic', 'Nazi Cinema', 'film noir' and 'New German Cinema' as typically German contributions to twentieth century visual culture. Thomas Elsaesser questions conventional readings which link these genres to romanticism and expressionism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national cinema in an advanced 'culture industry' and in a Germany constantly reinventing itself both geographically and politically.Elsaesser argues that German cinema's significance lies less in its ability to promote democracy or predict fascism than in its contribution to the creation of a community sharing a 'historical imaginary' rather than a 'national identity'. In this respect, he argues, German cinema anticipated some of the problems facing contemporary nations in reconstituting their identities by means of media images, memory, and invented traditions.  Wealth and Poverty in Close Personal Relationships: Money Matters By Susan Millns, Simone Wong (eds.) 2017 | 205 Pages | ISBN: 1317000064 | PDF | 4 MB [center]  Van Gogh: A Power Seething By Julian Bell 2015 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0544343735 | EPUB | 1 MB "I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and-of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain." His prediction would come true. In his brief and explosively creative life-he committed suicide a few years later at the age of thirty-seven-Van Gogh made us see the world in a new way. His shining landscapes of Provence and somber portraits of workers shattered the relationship between light and dark, and his hallucinatory visions were so bright they nearly blinded the world.He was a great writer as well. In his six hundred-plus letters to Theo he chronicled with heartbreaking urgency his mental breakdowns, acrimonious family relations, and struggles with art dealers, who largely ignored him until the last years of his life. Shading this dark story is the artist's acquaintance with prostitutes and penury, stormy scenes with his friend Paul Gauguin, and dissipated Parisian nights with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.Julian Bell's passion for his subject brings the painter to life. Bell writes with slashing intensity, at once scholarly and defiantly partisan. "I have written this book out of my love for Vincent van Gogh, the uniquely exciting painter, and Vincent van Gogh, the letter writer of heart-piercing eloquence," he declares. For Bell, Van Gogh was an artistic genius and more: he was a wonder of the world.
 Value Investing For Beginners: The Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to Learn the Realms of Value Investing From A-Z by Kevin Bailey English | August 18, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09CRNPV4G | 126 pages | EPUB | 0.97 Mb Do you want to learn to invest? Does the idea of breaking into the stock market intimidate you? Are you a beginner, feeling overwhelmed by the resources, advice, and information out there that is not marketed for you?  Urban Cultures of/in the United States: Interdisciplinary Perspectives By Andrea Carosso (ed.) 2010 | 185 Pages | ISBN: 3034300824 | PDF | 1 MB [center]  US Youth Films and Popular Music: Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency By Tim McNelis 2017 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 1317367391 | PDF | 2 MB This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of 'musical agency', a term he uses to discuss the relationship between film music and character agency, also examining the music characters listen to and discuss, as well as musical performances by the characters themselves  Kyle Lacy, "Twitter Marketing For Dummies" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0470561726 | 312 pages | PDF | 11.1 MB An introductory guide to effectively using Twitter to grow your business!  Michael Griffis, "Trading for Canadians for Dummies" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0470677449 | 387 pages | True PDF | 4.4 MB Trading For Canadians For Dummies stresses the practice of position trading, conducting technical analysis on a company and its performance, and research methods that enable the trader to strategically select both an entry and exit point before a stock is even purchased. Adapted for Canadian readers, this edition discusses the Toronto Stock Exchange, brokerage options in Canada, and how Canadians can become certified traders. With Canadian examples and resources, this is the only guide to trading tailor-made for Canadians.
 Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In: Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences By Robert Forte (ed.) 1999 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0892817860 | PDF | 75 MB A memorial volume to one of this century's most colorful and pioneering figures in the consciousness movement* A wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life provides a comprehensive view of the man and his impact on American cultureOne of the most influential and controversial people of the 20th century, Timothy Leary inspired profound feelings--both pro and con--from everyone with whom he came into contact. He was extravagant, grandiose, enthusiastic, erratic, and an unrelenting proponent of expanding consciousness and challenging authority. His experiments with psilocybin and LSD at Harvard University and Millbrook, New York, were instrumental in propelling the nation into the psychedelic era of the 1960s. From the 1980s until his death in 1996 he fully embraced the possibilities of freedom offered by the developments in computer technology and the instant communication made possible by the Internet.The essence of Leary's life has often been reduced to the celebrated formula of "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out." The wider implications of this esoteric call to communion have been lost, just as the multifaceted nature of Leary's personality was obscured by the superficial spin put on his life and ideas. In this book a wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life, friends and foes alike, provide a more complete view of the man and his impact on American culture.It is still too early to know how posterity will judge the man and his ideas, butTimothy Leary: Outside Looking Inshows that Leary was often so far ahead of his time that few could follow the extensive range of his thought.by Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, Allen Ginsberg, Winona Ryder, William Burroughs, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Terence McKenna, Ken Kesey, Huston Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, an... |
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