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 Jesse Pollack, "Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey" English | ISBN: 1540211088 | 2015 | 210 pages | EPUB | 4 MB As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police coverup ran rampant, and the case went unsolved along with the murders of several other young women. Now, four decades after Jeannette DePalma s tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of this shocking cold case.  James J. O'Hara, "Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0691606579, 0691635285 | PDF | pages: 220 | 10.6 mb Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies. O'Hara finds in these prophecies a persistent subtext that both stresses the human cost of Aeneas' mission and casts doubt on Jupiter's promise to Venus of an "endless empire" for the Romans. O'Hara considers the major prophecies that look confidently toward Augustus' Rome from the standpoint of Vergil's readers, who, like the characters within the poem, must struggle with the possibility that the optimism of the prophecies of Rome is undercut by darker material partially suppressed. The study shows that Vergil links the deception of his characters to the deceptiveness of Roman oratory, politics, and religion, and to the artifice of poetry itself. In response to recent debates about whether the Aeneid is optimistic or pessimistic, O'Hara argues that Vergil expresses both the Romans' hope for the peace of a Golden Age under Augustus and their fear that this hope might be illusory.  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Brendan Hemingway, Stephen Adams, "Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway" English | 2022 | ISBN: 1982196866 | 336 pages | EPUB | 6.2 MB An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.  Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 by Mary Elise Sarotte English | April 16, 2001 | ISBN: 0807825999, 0807849154 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 3.6/5.3 MB Using new archival sources-including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party-M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, as East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. In Dealing with the Devil, she explores the motives of the German Democratic Republic and its Soviet backers in responding to both the detente initiatives, or Ostpolitik, of West Germany and the foreign policy of the United States under President Nixon.
 David & Winston: How the Friendship Between Lloyd George and Churchill Changed the Course of History by Robert Lloyd George English | April 10, 2008 | ISBN: 1585679305 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 6.3 MB Both were outsiders. Neither attended university. Above all, both loved political sparring-often together, in the epic parliamentary battles of the start of the century. Theirs was a deeply personal friendship. Their real shared passion, however, was politics. For ten years between 1904 and 1914 they met together every day for a private discussion. Lloyd George profoundly influenced Churchill's political philosophy and played a formative role in his career.
 Daughter of Narcissus: A Family's Struggle to Survive Their Mother's Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Lady Colin Campbell English | October 27, 2009 | ISBN: 0955350735 | True EPUB | 640 pages | 10.3 MB Daughter of Narcissus is a stunning analysis by the author of the serious personality disorder of narcissism through her own dysfunctional family, positioned at the heart of international society from the middle of the 20th century to present day.  Darjeeling Reconsidered C: Histories, Politics, Environments By Townsend Middleton, Sara Shneiderman 2018 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0199483558 | PDF | 4 MB Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary. With its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air, Darjeeling was the consummate colonial hill-station. The romance with the "queen of the hills" lives on, as thousands of tourists (domestic and international) annually flock to the hills to taste its world-renowned tea, soak up the colonial nostalgia, and glimpse mighty Mount Kanchenjunga. Darjeeling's fame has now gone global and its legacy continues to fuel Hollywood and Bollywood fantasies. But this is only part of Darjeeling's story. Darjeeling Reconsidered provocatively rethinks Darjeeling's legendary status in the postcolonial imagination. Mobilizing diverse disciplinary approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this definitive collection of essays sheds fresh light on the region's past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. The historical analyses break with hackneyed colonial accounts to provide alternative readings of systems of governance, labour, and migration that shaped Darjeeling. The ethnographic chapters present cutting-edge accounts of dynamics that define life in 21st century Darjeeling: among them the realpolitik of subnationalism; Fair Trade tea; indigenous struggle; gendered inequality; ecological transformation; and resource scarcity. Through these eye-opening perspectives, Darjeeling Reconsidered figures Darjeeling as a vital site for South Asian and Postcolonial Studies-and calls for a timely re-examination of the legend and hard-realities of this oft-romanticized region and its people. The book seeks a place on the shelves of postcolonial theorists, on the syllabi of undergraduate and graduate courses on South Asia, and in the rucksacks of intellectually curious visitors from all over the world to Darjeeling.  Visceral Games, Electronic Arts, "Dante's Inferno Concept Art" English | 2010 | ASIN: N/A | 26 pages | PDF | 82.1 MB Concept Art of Dante's Inferno, a 2010 hack-and-slash video gaminspired by the epic "Divina Commedia", developed by Visceral Games (Dead Space series) and published by Electronic Arts featuring the works of concept artists Lawrence Mai, Wayne Barlowe, Chris Ocampo, Jehan Choo, Samuel Michlap.  Daily Life of Women in Medieval Europe by Belle S. Tuten English | August 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1440872341 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 7.4/10.98 MB Ordinary people are often hard to see in the historical record. This resource for students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, work, and power. Using up-to-date scholarship from both archeology and history, this book covers major daily concerns for medieval people, their understanding of the world, their relationships with others, and their place in society. It attempts to clarify what we know and what we do not know about women's daily lives in the Western European Middle Ages, between approximately 500 and 1500 CE.  Ellis Jones, "DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media " English | ISBN: 1501359649 | 2021 | 184 pages | PDF | 2 MB The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new "DIY" cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted? |
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