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 Live E.P.I.C.: Embracing 7 Everyday Virtues to Increase Happiness and Personal Success by Kristin Noto English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1510773371 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 0.91 MB A modern spin on the timeless moral virtues, presenting a blueprint for using ethics to build a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life.
 Listening to the French New Wave: The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema) By Orlene Denice McMahon 2014 | 295 Pages | ISBN: 3034317506 | PDF | 10 MB As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of music in New Wave films is one of the most striking. Listening to the French New Wave offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, arguing for the need to re-hear and thus reassess this important period in film history. Combining an ethnographic approach with textual and score-based analysis, the author challenges the idea of the New Wave as revolutionary in all its facets by revealing traditional approaches to music in many canonical New Wave films. However, musical innovation does have its place in the New Wave, particularly in the films of the marginalised Left Bank group. The author ultimately brings to light those few collaborations that engaged with the ideology of adopting contemporary music practices for a contemporary medium. Drawing on archival material and interviews with New Wave composers, this book re-tells the story of the French New Wave from the perspective of its music.  Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1479812862 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.75 MB Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film  Rinker Buck, "Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure" English | ISBN: 1501106376 | 2022 | EPUB | 416 pages | 27 MB The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand "flatboat era" of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier.  Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori, "Life Ceremony: Stories" English | 2022 | ISBN: 0802159583 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.9 MB The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence  Pabst Adrian, "Liberal World Order and Its Critics " English | ISBN: 0367788128 | 2021 | 106 pages | EPUB | 236 KB Liberals blame the retreat of the liberal world order on populists at home and authoritarian leaders abroad. Only liberalism, so they claim, can defend the rules-based international system against demagogy, corruption and nationalism. This provocative book contends that the liberal world order is illiberal and undemocratic - intolerant about the cultural values of ordinary people in the West and elsewhere while concentrating power in the hands of unaccountable Western elites and Western-dominated institutions.  Letters of Basil Bunting selected and edited by Alex Niven English | July 28, 2022 | ISBN: 0198754817 | True PDF | 496 pages | 2.3 MB An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985).  Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky English | March 28, 2017 | ISBN: 1608467384 | True EPUB | 126 pages | 0.8 MB In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the Bolshevik Party in leading Russian workers to victory.  D Veeraraghavan, "Left Word Publishers The Making Of The Madras Working Class" English | 2013 | pages: 439 | ISBN: 9380118163 | PDF | 3,9 mb About the book: the making of the madras working class the madras labour union, founded in april 1918, is the first organized labour union in india may day was first celebrated in india in napiers park, madras, in 1923 these are well-attested facts in the histories of the labour movement in india there was,however, no coherent account of the labour movement in madras until d veeraraghavans seminal study, the making of the madras working class covering the period 1918-1939, this work is based on an exhaustive study of the voluminous documents in the colonial archive lodged in the tamilnadu archives, chennai, supplemented by research in the national archives of india the author also makes extensive use of contemporary news papers he unearthed the swadharma, the first periodical exclusively devoted to labour issues in india, and exploited to the full his access to leading labour and communist leaders including g selvapathy chetty, cssubramanyam, p ramamurthy, vp chintan, k murugesan, gajapathy,and others this book is an indispensable record of their experiencesthe present study surveys the industrial development in the city, and examines the origins of the working class, its structure, and the working and living conditions of the workers it describes some of the forms of protest and resistance during the early phases of industrialization and discusses struggles that took place prior to the founding of the madras labour union in 1918 the contributions of the leaders of the home rule and non-cooperation movements are analyzed, as well as the disunity and unrest in the ranks of the workers the period from 1922 through 1933 was one of ebb and quiescence for the labour movement a revival of trade union activity took place after 1924, stimulated by the enactment of the indian trade union act and under the impact of the great depression during 1933-1937, the left forces were strengthened by the merging of three streams of radicalism in madras, namely, th  Robert Steinberg, "Lectures on Chevalley Groups" English | 2016 | ISBN: 147043105X | PDF | pages: 175 | 9.6 mb Robert Steinberg's Lectures on Chevalley Groups were delivered and written during the author's sabbatical visit to Yale University in the 1967-1968 academic year. The work presents the status of the theory of Chevalley groups as it was in the mid-1960s. Much of this material was instrumental in many areas of mathematics, in particular in the theory of algebraic groups and in the subsequent classification of finite groups. This posthumous edition incorporates additions and corrections prepared by the author during his retirement, including a new introductory chapter. A bibliography and editorial notes have also been added. |
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