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 The Spanish Empire in the Americas: The History of Spain's Colonization across Central America and South America by Charles River Editors English | November 25, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BNCZPHKN | 276 pages | EPUB | 6.41 Mb By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold. As the common story goes, Columbus, en route back to Spain from his first journey, called in at Lisbon as a courtesy to brief the Portuguese King John II of his discovery of the New World. King John subsequently protested that according to the 1479 Treaty of Alcбзovas, which divided the Atlantic Ocean between Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, the newly discovered lands rightly belonged to Portugal. To make clear the point, a Portuguese fleet was authorized and dispatched west from the Tagus to lay claim to the "Indies," which prompted a flurry of diplomatic activity in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. At the time, Spain lacked the naval power to prevent Portugal from acting on this threat, and the result was the hugely influential 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.  The Sky at Night by Hunter, Tim; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0816548129 | 209 pages | True PDF | 9.84 MB  The Sims 2: Open for Business By Greg Kramer 2006 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0761553207 | PDF | 9 MB Business is Booming!·Information to help you choose the right business for your Sims(TM).·Strategies for understanding what customers want, from pricing to environment.·Make your showrooms sparkle with elevators and other build mode tools.·Talent Badges secrets to help you train employees to be more efficient.·New objects and socials catalogued for easy reference.·Remote Management details so you can grow your business from small shop to huge chain!  The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint by Francesca Fiorani English | November 17, 2020 | ISBN: 0374261962 | 333 pages | PDF | 15 Mb "[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus―the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best." ―Parul Sehgal, The New York Times | Editors' Choice  David Renwick Grant, "The Seven Year Hitch : A Family Odyssey" English | 2000 | pages: 444 | ISBN: 0671022113, 0684858029 | PDF | 586,9 mb Of all the attempts to circumnavigate the globe, the tale of the Grant family's epic seven year journey by horse-drawn caravan must be one of the most extraordinary. This is a look at family life in a pressure cooker environment, and an account of how fireside dreams can be turned into reality.  The Seed Detective by Alexander, Adam; English | 2022 | ISBN: B0BLCM2THL | 330 pages | True EPUB | 6.87 MB  The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection By Pei-kai Cheng (editor), Michael Lestz (editor), Jonathan Spence (editor) 1999 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0393973727 | PDF | 13 MB This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture. Informative headnotes accompany the selections, helping readers with unfamiliar names, places, and events. With a chapter organization mirroring that of The Search for Modern China, this collection is the perfect supplement, providing a first-hand look at the modern Chinese society.
 Spice: Understand the Science of Spice, Create Exciting New Blends, and Revolutionize Your Cooking by Stuart Farrimond English | 2018 | ISBN: 1465475575 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 74.27 MB  The Science of Nanomaterials by Suresh C. Ameta English | 2022 | ISBN: 1774910721 | 401 pages | True PDF | 21.23 MB  The Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction By Agata Bielik-Robson 2011 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0810127288 | PDF | 2 MB Harold Bloom is our greatest living literary critic. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism (The Visionary Company), explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another (Agon, The Anxiety of Influence), wrestled with the idea of a literary canon (The Western Canon), introduced Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to America (Deconstruction and Criticism), and explored the relationship between religion, especially Judaism, and literature (Kabbalah and Criticism, The Book of J).Bloom is indeed a party of one, a truly strong poet of his own mode of religious-literary criticism, who, in a typically Emersonian manner, makes his own circumstances and sheds influences by incorporating them into his idiosyncratic theory.In this unprecedented full-length study on Harold Bloom, Agata Bielik-Robson explores the many facets of Bloom's critical writings and career. In his work, she argues, Bloom draws on a variety of disparate traditions-Judaism, gnosis, Romanticism, American pragmatism, and Freudianism, but also, especially recently, Victorian aestheticism-that comprise a dialectical, difficult whole in a constant quarrel with itself. Yet, this is precisely the image of "life-in-antithesis," which constitutes Bloom's highest speculative achievement, she observes. The Saving Lie brings all these "Blooms" together and, despite their own tendencies toward dissociation, lets them speak unisono: in one almost harmonious voice that will clearly utter the principles of a new speculative position-Bloom's antithetical vitalism. This study of Bloom and his contributions will not soon be surpassed. |
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