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 Francis Beaumont, "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1984220535 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.9 mb The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and first published in a quarto in 1613. It is the first whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to Don Quixote, and a parody of Thomas Heywood's The Four Prentices of London and Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. It breaks the fourth wall from its outset.
 The Kickass Coven: How to Create a Witchy Sisterhood to Empower Yourself and Change the World by Amelia Wood English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1250279542 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 15.94 MB Amelia Wood's The Kickass Coven will show you why every witch needs a sisterhood.  Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" English | ISBN: 0593185994 | 2022 | EPUB | 304 pages | 10 MB A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkers - with breakthrough insights into the power of diversity and our capacity to tackle climate change.  John Lowden, "The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: The Story of a Byzantine Book" English | 2009 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 0300148992 | PDF | 57,7 mb Until 2008 the Jaharis Lectionary was a hidden treasure: an illuminated Byzantine manuscript that was almost entirely unknown, even to scholars. Superbly preserved, it is arguably the most important Byzantine work to come to the Metropolitan Museum's renowned collection since the 1917 gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan. It represents the apogee of Constantinopolitan craftsmanship around the year 1100.  The Idea of Marathon: Battle and Culture by Sonya Nevin English | February 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1788314204, 1350157597 | 256 pages | PDF | 10,5 MB The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian Empire halted in its advance. What happened that day, why was the battle fought, and how did people make sense of it? This bold new history of the battle examines how the conflict unfolded and the ideas attached to it in antiquity and beyond. Many thought the battle offered lessons in how people should behave, with heroism to be emulated and faults to be avoided. While the battle itself was fought in one day, the battle for the idea of Marathon has lasted ever since. After immersing you in the battle, this work will help you to explore how the ancient Athenians used the battle in their relations between themselves and others, and how the battle continued to be used to express ideas about gods, empire, and morality in the age of Alexander and his successors, at Rome and in Greece under the Roman Empire, and in the ages after antiquity, even in our own era, in which Marathon plays a remarkable role in sport, film, and children's literature with each retelling a re-imagining of the battle and its meaning. A clash of weapons, gods, and principles, this is Marathon as you've never seen it before!
 The Human Phenomenon: A New Edition and Translation of Le phenomene humain by Sarah Appleton-Weber by Sarah Appleton-Webe English | July 1, 2003 | ISBN: 1902210301 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2.37 Mb Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a priest , paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication, LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN, attracted world-wide attention when it was first published. He wrote of the beginnings of our planet, the emergence of life, the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe. The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardin's vision. Sarah Appleton-Weber has based her new translation, which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation (Paris), on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text. Poet and scholar Appleton-Weber, who has closely studied Teilhard's essays, letters, and other writing, gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhard's book.
 The Healing Practices of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller: Plants, Charms, and Amulets of the Healers of the Crusades by Jon G. Hughes English | May 3rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1644113309 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 5.25 MB * Presents a traditional "cure-all" or leechbook of the ailments the Crusaders would have encountered and the remedies their mediciners would have employed, including recipes for many cures and instructions
 Marion Aldis, "The Happiest Days of Their Lives?: Nineteenth-century education through the eyes of those who were there" English | 2016 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1911105019 | EPUB | 11,4 mb What do you think of when you hear the phrase 'nineteenth-century schooling' The bullies of Tom Brown's Schooldays The cane-wielding headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby Or Latin lessons, writing slates, learning-by-rote and the smell of ink In this lively and engrossing book (with 95 black and white illustrations), Marion Aldis and Pam Inder separate the truth from the fiction by examining the diaries, letters and drawings of children and teachers from schools across the United Kingdom. The result is a vivid picture of what it was really like to be at school in the nineteenth century. Among the characters in this book are Ralphy, hopelessly unteachable but an avid collector of 'curiosities'; Miss Paraman, sadistic teacher in a Dame School; Ann, who became a bluestocking in spite of chaotic home-schooling; Gerald, who spent too much time at Harrow School on cricket and socialising; the Quaker school where both girls and boys studied algebra, chemistry and shorthand; Sarah Jane, enrolled in a lace school at the age of six; and the National Schools where children were absent during the harvest.  Julia Gaffield, "The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy " English | ISBN: 0813937876 | 2016 | 296 pages | PDF | 4 MB While the Age of Revolution has long been associated with the French and American Revolutions, increasing attention is being paid to the Haitian Revolution as the third great event in the making of the modern world. A product of the only successful slave revolution in history, Haiti's Declaration of Independence in 1804 stands at a major turning point in the trajectory of social, economic, and political relations in the modern world. This declaration created the second independent country in the Americas and certified a new genre of political writing. Despite Haiti's global significance, however, scholars are only now beginning to understand the context, content, and implications of the Haitian Declaration of Independence.  Thomas Harrison, "The Great Empires of the Ancient World" English | ISBN: 0500295883 | 2021 | EPUB | 256 pages | 24 MB A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and Babylonia; Achaemenid Persia; Athens; Alexander; Parthian and early Sasanian Persia; Rome; India; and Qin and Han China. Each chapter conveys the main narrative of events, their impact on ancient societies and the dominant rulers who shaped that history, from Ramesses II in Egypt to Chandragupta in India, from Romes Augustus to Chinas Shi-huangdi. |
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