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 Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State By Bruce Lincoln 2014 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 022614092X | PDF | 2 MB All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding narratives invite revisionist retellings that modify details of the story in ways that undercut, ironize, and even ridicule the state's ideal self-representation. Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process.Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle-or not so subtle-modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and Description structure. Lincoln reveals a pattern whereby texts written in Iceland were more critical and infinitely more subtle than those produced in Norway, reflecting the fact that the former had a dual audience: not just the Norwegian court, but also Icelanders of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, whose ancestors had fled from Harald and founded the only non-monarchic, indeed anti-monarchic, state in medieval Europe.Between History and Myth will appeal not only to specialists in Scandinavian literature and history but also to anyone interested in memory and narrative.  Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 by Hector Berlioz, edited by Katherine Kolb, translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg English | March 11, 2015 | ISBN: 0199391955 | True EPUB | 324 pages | 0.7/4.6 MB The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has been no English-language anthology of his criticism available until now.  Lee Dr Mellor, "Behind The Horror" English | 2020 | ISBN: 0241409438 | EPUB | pages: 340 | 25.6 mb Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein?  Behind Enemy Lines by Nigel Cawthorne English | June 16, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B4DX4LK4 | 110 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb 'An interesting and detailed account of little known operations by British special forces behind enemy lines prior to D Day 1944'. Gordon Corrigan  Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration by Tom Beghin 2022 | ISBN: 0226818357 | English | 384 pages | PDF | 12 MB Using a replica of Beethoven's Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven's work.  Margaret A. Simons, "Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism" English | 2000 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0847692566, 0742512460 | EPUB | 1,4 mb In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her hand-written diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity.  Battle of Britain by Paul Corfield English | June 14, 2021 | ISBN: 1955459843 | 128 pages | EPUB | 3.32 Mb Another look at one of the battles during WW2, where Hitler thought he could invade and conquer during his reign of terror on the world. He decided to try and knock out the Royal Air Force of Britain. He was not expecting the resistance that the British Air Force and Navy were to give him in his quest for annihilation of Great Britain.  Basic yoga for seniors over 60: Gentle and Chair yoga for senior by Shirley Moreno English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B73DBNPG | 77 pages | EPUB | 0.69 Mb Yoga is each about connecting your body and mind through breathing and movements that relax the mind and increase the position of inflexibility and fitness in your body.  Basic Mathematics : Arithmetic and Algebra by Martin J. Velazquez English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09CY5Z73X | 235 pages | EPUB | 29 Mb This book has been written using colloquial language to explain clearly and simply all concepts seen here, with the purpose to aid students who start learning mathematics, students that have a previous knowledge and all those non-student readers but need mathematics as a tool to face everyday life situations.  Basic Electronic Circuits by P. M. Buckley, A. H. Hoskyns English | PDF | 1980 | 152 Pages | ISBN : 0419114203 | 10.7 MB In the past, the teaching of electricity and electronics has more often than not been carried out from a theoretical and often highly academic standpoint. Fundamentals and basic concepts have often been presented with no indication of their practical appli cations, and all too frequently they have been illustrated by artificially contrived laboratory experiments bearing little relationship to the outside world. |
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