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 The Byzantines By Guglielmo Cavallo (editor) 1997 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0226097927 | PDF | 8 MB For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints-all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview.
 The Brothers Grimm Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Fairy Tales (Literary Cookbooks) by Robert Tuesley Anderson English | August 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 166720081X | 160 pages | True EPUB | 54.72 MB This delicious collection of more than 50 recipes is inspired by the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.  S. Andrews, "The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution 1789-99" English | 2021 | ISBN: 0333738519, 1349409103 | 291 pages | True PDF | 1.7 MB This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s; Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt's wartime government, which applied 'Jacobin' shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association. The author seeks to make the less strident but more persuasive contemporary voices again audible. He takes seriously those who questioned the necessity for Burke's crusade to destroy the French republic, and who deplored Britain's alliance with the partitioners of Poland.  Christopher Hibbert, "The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0547247818, 0151010331 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.7 mb This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in-the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance-to life and is "simply unputdownable" (New York Times Book Review).  Peter Spier, "The Book of Jonah" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0385379099, 0375973370 | EPUB | pages: 40 | 15.8 mb Two-time Caldecott illustrator Peter Spier's visual retelling of a favorite Bible story is back in print! In a tale full of action, adventure, and strife, Jonah is asked by God to tell the people of Nineveh to mend their wicked ways. Fleeing from this enormous task, Jonah sets sail and is thrown overboard and swallowed by a great fish. What follows is Jonah's journey to acceptance of God's love and grace.  Owen Gingerich, "The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus" English | ISBN: 0802714153 | 2004 | 306 pages | EPUB | 10 MB In the spring of 1543 as the celebrated astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, lay on his death bed, his fellow clerics brought him a long-awaited package: the final printed pages of the book he had worked on for many years: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). Though Copernicus would not live to hear of its extraordinary impact, his book, which first suggested that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe, is today recognized as one of the most influential scientific works of all time―thanks in part to astrophysicist Owen Gingerich.
 The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy by John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Chris Tausanovitch English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0691213453 | True EPUB/PDF | 400 pages | 11.8/5.5 MB What an intensely divisive election portends for American politics
 The Best Scandinavian Recipes You Can Make with Anyone: Unique Scandinavian Recipes You Cannot Resist by Ava Archer English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0951R4XWW | 76 pages | EPUB | 3.56 Mb Do you want to create your special Scandinavian-inspired meals at home? Are you worried about how to go about it? You don't have to worry anymore because you are at the right place.  A. R. P. Rau, "The Beauty of Physics: Patterns, Principles, and Perspectives" English | 2014 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 0198709919 | PDF | 114,7 mb The beauty of physics lies in its coherence in terms of a few fundamental concepts and principles. Even physicists have occasion to marvel at the overarching reach of basic principles and their ability to account for features stretching from the microscopic sub-atomic world to the cosmological expanses of the Universe. While mathematics is its natural language, physics is mostly about patterns, connections, and relations between objects and phenomena, and it is this aspect that is emphasized in this book.
 The Beardsley Industry: The Critical Reception in England and France 1893 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals) By Jane Haville Desmarais 2019 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 1138341134 | EPUB | 9 MB First published in 1998, this is the first book to examine the critical reception accorded to Beardsley's work.For most of his short working life fierce debate raged in Britain over the merit of Aubrey Beardsley's black and white drawings. Applauded for their technical skill, they were as often deplored for their 'slimy nastiness', their fin-de-siècle decadence and their foreign styles. There are 'tainted whiffs from across the channel which lodge the Gallic germs in our lungs. Our Beardsleys have identical symptoms with Verlaine, Degas, Le Grand, Forain, and might quite well be sick from infection' stormed Margaret Armour in the Magazine of Art.Jane Haville Desmarais opens with an account of the English response, exploring the fascinating interplay between Beardsley's exploitation of the new media to shape his public persona and promote his work and the critics' use of his life and art to articulate the fears and anxieties of the English fin de siècle. The second half of the book moves to France and deals with a different set of preoccupation. The French perceived Beardsley as the natural inheritor of the mantle of Pre-Raphaelitism. His work remained current largely through the interest of the Symbolists and, in particular, Robert de Montesquiou who celebrated Beardsley's picturing of the fantasy realms of desire. The intriguing study of two very different critical traditions casts light on key issues of art history and literary studies, in particular the relationship between critical response and social perception.With 21 black and white illustrations, the book also has invaluable appendices which include a bibliography of criticism and comment on the work of Aubrey Beardsley between 1893 and 1914. |
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